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J.K. Rowling’s Agent Slams Trans Rights Protest at ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ in London: It Put ‘Others at Risk’
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‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ Review: Kal Penn and Abbie Cornish Star in a Minor Sidebar to the Anna Nicole Smith Story
Andy Warhol famously said that in the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. “Trust Me, I’m A Doctor” expands that tally to an hour and 51 minutes for Sandeep Kapoor, the physician who treated Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and was implicated in her death from a prescription drug overdose in 2007. That’s […]
Eurogamer
The Blood of Dawnwalker Update 1.1 adds an easier Story mode, a respec potion and animal petting
Update 1.1 for The Blood of Dawnwalker will add a new Story mode with additional combat assist, a potion that lets you forget your abilities and master new ones, and the ability to pet dogs and cats. Read more
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Taylor Swift Heroine Clara Bow’s Breakout Movie ‘It’ Leads Carlotta Films, Artcraft Pictures French Distribution Deal of Hollywood Classics
LYON, France — “It,” the 1927 breakout movie of silent film star Clara Bow, to whom Taylor Swift paid tribute in a song named after her in “The Tortured Poets Department,” leads a deal between French classic film distributor Carlotta Films and U.S. restoration company Artcraft Pictures. Under the terms of the deal, Carlotta will […]
PC Gamer
Funcom is laying off yet more developers as it pivots to supporting Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles
CEO Rui Casais to depart the company at the end of the year.
Variety
Coen Brothers Bring Laughs to Lumière Award Ceremony as Javier Bardem Recalls ‘No Country for Old Men’: ‘They Gave Me One Masterpiece’
To the sound of the Gipsy Kings’ Spanish-language rendition of “Hotel California,” Joel and Ethan Coen took the stage at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival on Friday evening to receive the Lumière Award, celebrating four decades of filmmaking with a characteristically irreverent tribute to the inventors of cinema. “Thank you to the Lumières for inventing the […]
Eurogamer
Art of Rally follow-up Over the Hill's biggest success is finding a way to be a driving game that asks you to take it slow
I'd nearly forgotten Over the Hill's predecessor, Art of Rally , was a racing game. But that's not meant as a slight. It's just that, for all the happy hours I poured into it, I don't recall doing a single race. Instead, it was the aimless meandering, the soothing rhythms of exploration and absent-minded collectible hunting in its free-roam mode that held me transfixed. So the fact Over the Hill completely jettisons the racing stuff and leans entirely into the meditative bit - it even starts with a golden Buddha statue running you through the basics, which probably tells you everything you need to know - is exactly my kind of thing. Read more