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The Golden Age Hollywood icon who made the tuxedo a unisex symbol

Marlene Dietrich made the tux luxe for all. Born in Berlin as Marie Magdalene Dietrich, she became a star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. The image she’s best remembered is her turn in a man’s tux with top hat and white tie in Josef von Sternberg’s 1930 film Morocco. Google is remembering Marlene Dietrich’s 116th birthday—and her gender-defying tuxedo—with today’s (Dec. 27) doodle. Her boundary-pushing performance—Dietrich, playing a cabaret singer, kisses a woman […]

todayDecember 27, 2017

Entertainment

The True Story Behind The Post

The feverishly debated decision behind The Washington Post‘s 1971 publication of top-secret information in the Pentagon Papers comes to life in the new movie The Post, in which Meryl Streep plays legendary publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks takes on the role of the gruff but brilliant executive editor Ben Bradlee. As Graham, Streep plays a leader who decides to publish the incendiary information about the Vietnam War amid great pressure, in […]

todayDecember 27, 2017

Entertainment

Our 10 most anticipated films of 2018

A look at the release calendar teases heists, horrors, hijinks – and, yet again, more superheroes than you can shake a stick at. There are extravagant blockbusters and shoestring indies, oddball discoveries and cozy comforts, and we are here for all of it. Well – most of it. Some of it we're more here for than others. Below, a list of our ten most highly anticipated films of the next […]

todayDecember 26, 2017

Entertainment

Star Wars: The Last Jedi scene causes movie theaters to post warning

Warning: This story contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. Rian Johnson made several fresh, unconventional choices in his helming of the divisive Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but one scene in particular has forced some movie theaters to intervene. The scene in question features what Star Wars VFX supervisor Ben Morris has called a franchise first. Deciding to sacrifice herself to save the Resistance, Holdo (Laura Dern) crashes her ship at light-speed directly into a First […]

todayDecember 26, 2017

Music

Watch the Dap-Kings Remember Sharon Jones’ Last Album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=OHujZuWDTsU Neal Sugarman, Cochemea Gastelum and Binky Griptite of Sharon Jones' backing band the Dap-Kings, reflect on writing and recording "Sail On!" in the latest installment of Rolling Stone series, "Levels." The song appears on Jones' final album, Soul of a Woman, which was released in November, one year after the beloved soul singer died of cancer. Gastelum, Sugarman and Griptite give a detailed musical explanation of "Sail On," describing […]

todayDecember 22, 2017

Technology

The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2017

This year, a lot of things sucked. But a lot of things were also unexpectedly good! Let’s celebrate those latter things with a big list. As we do every year at Kotaku, it’s time to take a look back on the highs and lows of the last 12 months. (See: the biggest surprises of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.) We’ll post the biggest disappointments of 2017 later this week. For now, it’s time for happiness! Unexpected joy! Lots […]

todayDecember 22, 2017

Entertainment

The western springs back to life with ‘Hostiles,’ a brutal tale of moral survival

Once feared dead but found instead only sleeping, the western has sprung back to strong and compelling life with the intense, involving "Hostiles" being the latest case in point. Written and directed by Scott Cooper and powered by a dynamic trio of interwoven performances by Christian Bale, Wes Studi and Rosamund Pike, "Hostiles" grabs you by the throat and holds on for the duration. Like the year's previous tip-top examples of the genre, the […]

todayDecember 21, 2017

Entertainment

‘The Post’ Review: Steven Spielberg’s Journalistic Thriller Could Not Be More Timely

The first thing to know about The Post, aside from the fact that it's one of best and tick-tock timeliest movies of the year, is that it's a love story. That's right. Steven Spielberg's tense, terrific new drama celebrates the passionate bond between a free press and every thinking human being, however diminished the species in Trump's America. The film is set in 1971, when Washington Postpublisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor […]

todayDecember 20, 2017

Technology

How to Use Facebook’s Messenger Ads to Grow Your Business

There's no doubting the power social media has to help businesses expand their reach, and so far, no social media platform can compete with Facebook. One survey revealed that as of June 2017, Mark Zuckerberg's creation has more than two billion monthly users. Facebook's closest competitor is YouTube at 1.5 billion. Meanwhile, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger each boast 1.2 billion users. While Facebook is a virtual goldmine of prospects, using […]

todayDecember 20, 2017

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