Emmy voters like reruns. Sure, new names pop up from year to year, but when it comes time to handing out the trophies, a good many old habits are hard to break. So if you want a preview of this year’s ceremony, look up the 2015 show online. Because as you can see from the following final predictions, I’m guessing the makers of “Game of Thrones” and “Veep,” along with […]
Quite a few of you were looking for ideal Olympic-watching foods in our Free Range chat on Wednesday. Looking to the flavors of Brazil for inspiration — think papaya, passion fruit, coconut and dulce de leche — we pulled together a slew of ideas from the Recipe Finder. International Salsa. It’s an international competition, so serve a dip with flavors found around the world. This one is a crowd pleaser — […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr7AcjcE0BQ#action=share There’s no way to talk about the Xbox One S without talking about the console it’s replacing, the Xbox One. So I will just start by saying the really obvious thing: the Xbox One S is what the original Xbox One should have been. That assessment is both totally fair and wildly unfair. It’s unfair because it’s been three years since Microsoft first announced theoriginal Xbox One — and […]
Voltage Pictures, the company behind 'The Hurt Locker' and 'Dallas Buyers Club,' is backing the film about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. After nearly two decades, Mel Gibson is finally ready to bring the best seller The Professor and the Madman to the big screen and has enlisted Sean Penn in the effort. Gibson, who acquired the film rights back to the Simon Winchester book back in 1998, […]
A new hotel has opened in Paris. It might be more appropriate to say it's been launched, since the Off Paris Seine isn't a structure built on dry land, but a floating barge anchored in the middle of Paris' River Seine. That might sound anxiety-inducing — the exact opposite of what you want in your Paris vacation. But not to worry — the boat never undocks from its 13th-arrondissement neighborhood, and it's packed […]
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge aren’t just the company’s best-ever phones — they’re also the phones that have turned around the fortunes of its mobile division after two years of slipping profits. The S7 and S7 Edge’s strong sales were instrumental in shoring up the mobile unit, according to the second-quarter earnings released last week, and Samsung plans to keep up the momentum at the high end. Tomorrow Samsung […]
Disney provided some new info about its theatrical schedule stretching through 2019. In addition to an ambitious movie plan announced last fall, the studio has called dibs on a few more weekends with untitled projects, including more fairy-tale adventures. With the recent enormous success of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," and the even more surprising staying power of "Zootopia" and "The Jungle Book," Disney really looks like the studio to beat. […]
Don’t you know what’s out there in the world? Some streaming network must shield you from the world! Enter Netflix, which has a predictable buffet of goodies premiering this August—though as always, a few old dishes must be cleared away in order to make room for them. We’ve combed Netflix’s latest list to bring you the best of what to expect from its movie and TV offerings next month—as well […]
It’s over. “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling said the boy wizard’s story is finally complete. “Harry is done now,” she told the media in London at the premiere of the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” according to Reuters. “He goes on a very big journey during these two plays and then, yeah, I think we’re done,” she was quoted as saying. “This is the next generation, you know.” The […]
