In case you were worried we were doomed to several more months of “Is Ben Affleck Still Playing Batman?,” don’t be. A representative insists the Justice League star will “continue to be Batman as long as the studio will have him.” The clarification comes after Casey Affleck renewed doubt about his older brother’s future in the DC Extended Universe while promoting his supernatural drama A Ghost Story. Asked about […]
Kesha teamed with the Roots for an acoustic spin on the rock standard "House of the Rising Sun," which the tandem recorded backstage when the Rainbow singer visited The Tonight Show the previous week. Kesha's bluesy take on the Animals' classic is further proof of the singer's revived confidence in her own voice, which Kesha talked about when discussing her new album. While recording "Rainbow" at Los Angeles' famed Capitol Studios, "Ben [Folds] wanted me to feel […]
If you're looking for a video using Google's mobile search app, thumbnails will most likely come up, but you can't be sure which among them is the correct one, so you either select them one by one until you get to the right one or choose a random video and hope you get lucky. Google has now changed that. Google Rolls Out Video Previews For Android Google has begun slowly rolling out […]
There are no standard “ratings” for Netflix. But “Marvel’s The Defenders,” the streamer’s newest original series in the street-hero franchise, could be one of its biggest hits ever, independent research indicates. The four preceding Marvel series leading up to “Defenders” — “Daredevil” season 2, “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage” and “Iron Fist” — were among the top five most-viewed recently released Netflix originals in the first 30 days after their premieres, according […]
After stumbling out of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” an insanely violent live-action cartoon starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, I found myself asking the kind of question the critic is occasionally forced to ponder after too many years steeped in Hollywood movies. No, not, “Why didn’t I take off the month of August?”or “Why don’t fights like that ever break out at my local hardware store?” A question of a more technical nature: Is it […]
All the Apple hype is building toward the release of a new, expensive, redesigned iPhone this fall, but that's far from the only thing Apple is putting out. The latest version of the iPhone's operating system—iOS 11—is also on the horizon, and currently in beta testing. Those who have been messing around with that beta have uncovered a new, upcoming feature that will make iPhones everywhere safer and more secure: the […]
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stephen Daldry is in early talks for the film, which would center on the Jedi master who has been played by both Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor. Stephen Daldry is Star Wars’ newest hope.The Oscar-nominated director behind Billy Elliot and The Hours is in early talks to direct a Star Wars stand-alone movie centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Hollywood Reporterhas learned.Sources say talks are at the earliest of stages and that the project has no script. […]
HBO really, really can’t catch a break. After enduring a massive hackthat unleashed Game of Thrones scripts and early episodes of series including Curb Your Enthusiasm—and a mistake by European HBO platforms that gave fans an early glimpse of this Sunday’s Thrones—the network has endured yet another hack, this time of its Twitter and Facebook pages. Variety reports that hackers took over the accounts on Wednesday night, sending out a message just to show they had managed to get in. These […]
Despite concerns and speculation surrounding the iPhone 8 release date, a new research note from reputed analyst Ming Chi-Kuo claims that the iPhone 8 will, in fact, launch alongside the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus later this fall. In a note obtained by AppleInsider, Kuo writes that Apple, as in years past, will introduce its 2017 iPhone lineup at a special media event in early September. Not too long after, all […]
