Graphic by James Bareham / The Verge The UK government says it plans to make the sharing of non-consensual pornographic deepfakes illegal, with offenders facing “potential time behind bars.” The new offense is set to be added to the long-awaited and controversial Online Safety Bill, a mammoth piece of legislation that will rewrite the UK’s…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The Last of Us is getting a big budget HBO TV show, the Metal Gear Solid movie is still in development, and now Ubisoft’s long-dormant stealth series Splinter Cell is getting an eight part radio adaptation. The BBC has just announced Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Firewall, an adaptation of the Splinter Cell novel of the…
SAVE OVER £280: The De’Longhi Specialista Prestigio is on sale for £508.99 this Black Friday, saving you 35% on list price. If you like your coffee black, and your prices Black Friday-flavoured, there are definitely some tasty deals for you on Amazon this week. Take the De’Longhi Specialista Prestigio, a barista pump espresso machine, which…
“Rob Zombie named a song after it; how bad could it be?” I joked as my boyfriend selected Jean Rollin’s The Living Dead Girl from Criterion’s menu for that evening’s delectation. I was mostly joking — I’m a cinephile after all, so I knew we were in for at least some tasteful French bosoms, if…
Who doesn’t love a good ol’ cliffhanger? Wednesday’s feast of mystery leaves viewers with a perfect aftertaste thanks to its lovely little garnish in the show’s final moments. The suspense of it all is very much killing me. The dizzying whodunit sees Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) solving a monster mystery plaguing her school, Nevermore Academy,…
Horror movies have been having a killer year at the box office. From huge smashes like Smile and Halloween Ends to indie successes like Terrifier 2 and Pearl, the genre has dragged audiences to the theaters despite all those real-world anxieties out there, offering us an escape via people on-screen who are almost always having…
It’s a story of girl meets boy, but with a bloody bite. Director Luca Guadagnino’s critically heralded coming-of-age romance Bones and All adapts author Camille DeAngelis’s young adult cannibal novel of the same name. Along the journey to translate the story from the page to the screen, some major changes were made. Mashable spoke to…
The first time I saw Medium Build play I thought of David Letterman. There’s this famous 2014 performance by the band Future Islands on Letterman’s Late Show. The lead singer belts the song “Seasons” while dancing, staring down the camera, and beating his chest. He alternates between smooth crooning and guttural wails. At the end…
From Ursula to Elsa to Luca, Disney has done the very least in LGBTQ representation for years. They’ve given us queer-coded villains, background characters that may be lesbians, minor characters who have easy-to-cut lines declaring their orientation, or some main characters who seem subtextually queer but won’t dare declare. Incredibly, in the same year just-deposed…
TL;DR: Through Nov. 27, you can get the MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station for just $39.99 instead of $69.99 — that’s a 42% discount. Don’t wait any longer to load up with awesome gear just in time for the next round of holiday traveling. Skip the carry-on cable clutter and get a wireless charger…