Top 10 Disappointing Blockbusters

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  154 words  |  Martina Birk

EverettDirector: Pitof Year Released: 2004 Cast: Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy Get This MovieReleased: July 23, 2004 Estimated Budget: $100 million Domestic Opening Weekend: $16,728,411 Domestic Gross:$40,202,379 This 2004 comic-to-film adaptation was so forgettable that an IMDb search of the title Catwoman brings up a link to Angelina Jolie’s page before the movie. The cast featured such stars as Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt and Sharon Stone, but producers spent far too much to get them. [Read More]

Trump Requests $844,600 for Fundraiser Seat at Conference

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  380 words  |  Patria Henriques

Donald Trump is inviting supporters in the cryptocurrency industry to a private fund-raising effort in Nashville on July 27, including an asking price of $844,600 for a seat at a round table.  Donors have also been offered an opportunity to snap a photo with the presidential candidate for $60,000 per person — slightly less than the current price of one Bitcoin — or $100,000 per couple, according to an invitation to the event. [Read More]

Veteran Nigerian singer and actress Onyeka Onwenu has died at 72

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  276 words  |  Patria Henriques

The Niche newspaper reports that she reportedly slumped following a performance at Stella Okoli's birthday party on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. She was rushed to Reddington Hospital in Lagos. Unfortunately, she didn't make it. An eyewitness at the party who confirmed the tragic event to the paper said, "It is very sad. Onyeka Onwenu just performed at the birthday of Mrs Stella Okoli today, and after performing, she slumped. [Read More]

Vietnam War History: Read the TIME Essay That Supported the War

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  488 words  |  Kelle Repass

It’s easy to forget now, 40 years after the Fall of Saigon and freshly removed from the prospect of Iraq and Afghanistan lapsing into “another Vietnam,” that there was a time when many believed that escalation in Vietnam was the right thing to do. Among the prominent voices who felt that way were the editors of TIME who, 50 years ago today, on May 14, 1965, published an influential essay backing the President’s decision to step up the ground campaign in Asia. [Read More]

Watch: BBC Releases Orphan Black Season Four Teaser

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  622 words  |  Patria Henriques

Courtesy of BBC America BBC America released an eerie new trailer for “Orphan Black” season four Wednesday. The teaser shows Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) as she sets off to track down a mysterious ally tied to Beth Childs, the clone who started it all. [Read More]

Where Y'all Eating Meme Makes Cafeteria Lunch Table Viral

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  236 words  |  Billy Koelling

August 8, 2019 2:00 PM EDT In case you want to revisit the dilemma of which lunch table to sit at in a school cafeteria, there’s now a meme for that. Meet the “Where y’all sitting?” meme, which asks you to consider table you would want to sit at, according to its labels. Like school, there’s an element of a popularity contest here. Unlike school, however, the tables aren’t separated by jocks or nerds. [Read More]

Why Gift-Giving Makes You Anxious

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  848 words  |  Martina Birk

How could anyone dislike giving and receiving gifts? A good gift can be totally life-changing. For example, the toy basketball hoop that LeBron James received for Christmas in 1987 arguably changed the course of NBA history. Likewise, a lovely commercial from John Lewis & Partners, a chain of high-end department stores in the UK, has convinced me that a Christmas time piano is what launched Elton John’s career. (Some fact-checkers have raised questions about that sequence of events, but I’m not here for that kind of “Bah! [Read More]

Why the Myth that Vikings Discovered America Is Problematic

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1028 words  |  Martina Birk

Who discovered America? The common-sense answer is that the continent was discovered by the remote ancestors of today’s Native Americans. Americans of European descent have traditionally phrased the question in terms of identifying the first Europeans to have crossed the Atlantic and visited what is now the United States. But who those Europeans were is not such a simple question—and, since the earliest days of American nationhood, its answer has been repeatedly used and misused for political purposes. [Read More]

'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Poster Shows Tyrion and Dragon

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  97 words  |  Kelle Repass

The new season of Game of Thrones promises to bring about a meeting of two worlds. That’s the message carried across by the poster for season 5, in which a ship carrying Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) comes up against one of Daenerys’s three dragons. It’s a sinister image, and one that is true to the action of the series so far: Tyrion, in exile, is fleeing to a domain that the Mother of Dragons controls. [Read More]

'Star Wars' Toys Brought in $700 Million in 2015

 Posted on August 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  186 words  |  Billy Koelling

January 20, 2016 7:59 PM EST Star Wars toys were the hottest property in the toy industry last year, generating hundreds of millions of dollars of sales, according to new data. Toys based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens reaped $700 million in the United States, retail research firm NPD Group announced Wednesday, Reuters reports. While the newest Star Wars installment was released on Dec. 18, toy sales from the franchise started early with Disney promoting “Force Friday” on Sept. [Read More]