Fresh off his Oscar win for “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro is set to make his animated feature film directing debut. Del Toro has received the green light from Netflix to film “Pinocchio,” a stop motion musical version of the classic children’s tale about a puppet who wants to be a real live boy. He will write and produce the film in addition to directing it. The film […]
HISTORY just dropped a new teaser ahead of the season 5b return of their drama series Vikings, and it’s pretty freaking epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xewPXOrfqQ When we last saw the denizens of Kattegat and beyond, things weren’t going so well. There were battles, familial breaks, and something that affected Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) so badly during a skirmish that her hair turned white. The SDCC 2018 trailer for the upcoming season was the stuff […]
Tom Holland's new Spider-Suit continues a tradition for superheroes to change costumes with every movie. Tom Holland has revealed the new-look Spider-Man costume for 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, and it's … perfectly serviceable, as these things go. It's also the third costume Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has worn in four movies, which is a sign of how much things have changed when it comes to superhero movies, or superheroes in general, as it […]
Three unheard versions of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, regarded by many as George Harrison’s greatest contribution to the Beatles, have been released online. The song was written by Harrison in 1968, after he had studied transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. There are two completely unheard versions: The Esher Demo is an acoustic version, complete with beautiful multitracked vocals, recorded at Harrison’s house in Surrey, in May 1968, […]
The overhaul of Google Maps is continuing, this time with ETA sharing. After first introducing the feature in 2017, Google is giving users the ability to share their location and route in real-time with others on both Android and iOS devices—and through third-party messaging apps. Google Maps users will be able to show others their location by using the "Share trip progress" feature. It allows you to send your contacts a live look at […]
Nicole Kidman is almost unrecognizable as a damaged Los Angeles Police Department detective in the first trailer for Annapurna’s “Destroyer.” The footage, released Wednesday, shows Kidman’s character, Erin Bell, haunted by the memory of an undercover operation with a gang in the California desert that ended with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she has to confront her own history. “I’m mad,” she says. “I’m […]
He’s gotten into spiritual matters, gets the same enjoyment from baseball that he used to get from music and almost didn’t let The Sopranos use ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.” It’s a punishingly hot August day and Steve Perry is tucked into a corner table at a Lower Manhattan Italian spot taking a quick breather between a long round of radio interviews promoting Traces, his new comeback album that he spent the last five years […]
It's the end of an era on Sesame Street: The man who has given voice and life to Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years is hanging up his big orange legs. Caroll Spinney, 84, has performed the roles since the show's very first episode in 1969. He had met Jim Henson at a puppetry festival in 1962, and Henson invited him to be a part of this […]
Google has taken the idea of Rock Band and Guitar Hero and pushed it one step further, creating an intelligent controller that lets you improvise on the piano and makes it sound like you actually know what you're doing, no matter how unskilled you are. The controller is called Piano Genie, and it comes from Google's Magenta research project. Powered by a neural network trained on classical piano music, Piano Genie translates what you tap out on […]
