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‘Widow’s Bay’ Cinematographer Christian Sprenger on How ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Shining’ Influenced the Show’s Visual Style
Cinematographer Christian Sprenger says Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay” was designed to balance comedy and horror without revealing its tone too early. Drawing on the visual language of 1970s films such as “Jaws” and “The Shining”, the team aimed for a nostalgic, realistic look in which tension comes from pacing and anticipation rather than heavily shadowed…
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PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
Nine PBS, a public television station in St Louis, is seeking court-ordered access to around 50TB of archived material after its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage, apparently ceased operating and stopped responding. The case matters because much of the collection, spanning roughly 70 years, is said to be unique and irreplaceable, including local historical…
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As Avengers: Doomsday Tickets Go on Sale, Marvel Releases New Poster and Makes an Interesting Change to the YouTube Countdown
Marvel has widened ticket sales for Avengers: Doomsday and released a new Doctor Doom poster as it promotes the film during D23. The updates matter because they offer fresh official hints about the villain and the film’s wider cast ahead of its December release. Tickets are now available generally after initially being limited to INFINITY…
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Ghostemane – “Zero Day”
Ghostemane has returned with a new single, “Zero Day”, after several years of relative absence and no album release since 2020’s Anti-Icon. The track marks a stronger move towards late-1990s rap-metal, foregrounding a style that had previously been only one element of his hybrid sound. “Zero Day” was recorded with producer Kenneth Blume, formerly known…
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Trump looks to Supreme Court for ballroom lifeline
🍗🧇Plus: Chick-fil-A adds chicken & waffles {beacon} Happy Friday! Have you noticed that *everything* is pickle-flavored now? Well, The Wall Street Journal sure noticed and says we should all blame Gen Z for that. Question for you: What is the weirdest pickle-flavored food or drink you’ve come across? Please let me know what…
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Trump looks to Supreme Court for ballroom lifeline
🍗🧇Plus: Chick-fil-A adds chicken & waffles {beacon} Happy Friday! Have you noticed that *everything* is pickle-flavored now? Well, The Wall Street Journal sure noticed and says we should all blame Gen Z for that. Question for you: What is the weirdest pickle-flavored food or drink you’ve come across? Please let me know what…
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The “weird” 1972 song Mick Jagger could never understand: “I had a whole other set of lyrics”
Tunes that never made any sense. The post The “weird” 1972 song Mick Jagger could never understand: “I had a whole other set of lyrics” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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‘Lanterns’ Review: ‘Watchmen’ Meets ‘Yellowstone’ in HBO’s Brilliant New Sci-Fi Show
HBO’s Lanterns is presented as an ambitious eight-episode superhero detective drama that combines Green Lantern mythology with a rural crime mystery. The review praises its focus on the contrasting fears and traumas of Hal Jordan and John Stewart, whose uneasy partnership drives an investigation into a mass shooting with possible extraterrestrial links in Nebraska. Hal,…
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Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre Are Great ‘Lanterns’, But HBO’s DC Drama Is Overshadowed by Its Influences: TV Review
HBO’s “Lanterns” is praised for the performances of Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre, but the review argues that the DC drama is too visibly shaped by earlier HBO series to establish a strong identity of its own. Its attempt to give the fantastical Green Lantern mythology a gritty, prestige-drama treatment is seen as an unusual…
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“They brought glamour to a nation descending into gloom”: Roxy Music and the invention of sci-fi rock, just when it was needed most
Roxy Music are portrayed as pioneers of sci-fi rock, bringing theatrical glamour and experimental sound to the unsettled cultural climate of the 1970s. The article revisits five of their most progressive tracks, selected in 2012 for a career-spanning box set covering 1972 to 1979. – ‘The BoB (Medley)’ (1972): An unsettling debut-album piece blending Brian…