The poster and first images for The Equalizer 2 were released today, and Denzel Washington has his eyes on you. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, 2014’s The Equalizer stars Washington as Robert “Bob” McCall, a retired Black Ops agent and widower who’s not ready to call it quits. When he discovers that a young friend works as a prostitute for the Russian mafia, McCall seeks justice, and he’s less than forgiving with his enemies....
Jack Finney’s 1954 sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers has been adapted into four different movies, and here’s how they rank, from worst to best. While it’s become quite common in recent decades for any movie that’s popular enough to get remade, it’s not very often that the same story gets told in more than two films, barring public domain items like the works of Shakespeare and books like Dracula and Frankenstein....
One of the biggest deviations between the new The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Netflix series and the original 1990s Sabrina the Teenage Witch show is its darkness. Most witches in the new series are proudly evil, ready and willing to serve the Dark Lord even if it means literally being eaten in his name. It stands to reason that the witches and warlocks in this series are going to be much more disturbing than those in the 90s series....
In the world of animated feature films, no studio has pushed boundaries more than that of Pixar. Time and time again the animation team has proven that they are the leaders of the imaginative, the creative and the unique. They seamlessly blend dazzling animation with superbly crafted stories in every title they’ve created, not to mention the wonderfully built ensemble voice casting they have by their side. Pixar has been releasing feature-length movies for more than 20 years now, a fact that might be hard to believe to some of our older readers....
Back in November, Sal Soghoian shared publicly that his role at Apple was eliminated after almost 20 years leading AppleScript, Automator, and automation efforts at the company. Now Soghoian has resurfaced online with a new guest series covering automation at MacStories. In his first entry, Soghoian argues in favor of continued automation services on the Mac versus relying on app extensions that work across iOS and macOS. Blogging as an advocate for automation on the Mac isn’t totally new for Soghoian who published at macosxautomation....
Extensify is a highly anticipated app release from developers Majd Alfhaily and Kevin Ko that’s been in the works for quite some time. This weekend it will finally be launched as a part of a limited rollout. Extensify is best described as a tweak store that allows you to change the properties of App Store apps. Unlike tweaks that require your iPhone to be jailbroken, Extensify works without needing a jailbreak....
If you’re a Facebook user, you’re definitely familiar with the Notifications tab in the company’s iOS app. Although it has barely evolved from being a simple stream of your notifications since its introduction many years ago, Facebook has today come out to outline some changes on the way to make it more useful and personalized. Assumably since most of us rarely use or view notifications that are more than a day old, Facebook has decided to use the space in the Notifications tab in other, more useful, ways....
From 9to5Toys.com: . Mac bundle season continues with a big one from StackSocial. Dubbed the Mac Utility Bundle, they’ve managed to knock $20 off the price of Parallels ($79 regular price) alone and added 4 more helpful utilities to boot. Great way to start off any Mac purchase you may be doing this holiday season. Details below or on StackSocial. Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac downloads for $46 MacLegion 11-App Holiday Bundle for Mac downloads for $50: djay, iRip, more Parallels 8 updated with USB 3....
In addition to the introduction of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and AirPods 3, Apple also unveiled a rather interesting product this week – its own Polishing Cloth. However, if you are looking for one, it might be difficult to find it in stores. The shipping estimate for the Apple-branded Polishing Cloth has already slipped to late November. As seen on Apple’s website, the shipping estimate for the new Polishing Cloth is already 4-5 weeks just 24 hours after its introduction....
This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of James Cameron’s Aliens and it’s an exciting time for the sci-fi movie franchise that begin with Ridley Scott’s original Alien. Scott’s already at work on another series installment tiled Alien: Covenant for 2017 release but there’s much more than that to look forward to. Alien and Aliens are returning to select theaters in major cities across the nation on April 26th which is now known as ALIEN DAY, and for comics readers like ourselves, a brand new ongoing series from Dark Horse Comics tiled Aliens: Defiance launches at the end of the month as well....
An exclusive sneak peek at the release of TNT’s The Last Ship complete series on Blu-ray and DVD reveals a closer look at how the massive action sequence from the final episode came together. The military thriller came to a close on cable in November of 2018 with the end of season 5, seeing the crew of the fabled USS Nathan James putting their lives on the line to save the world one final time, and bringing the show’s story, as well as that of its captain, Tom Chandler (Eric Dane), full circle with an action-packed episode that included a spectacular D-Day sequence....
The #deletefacebook tag may have been trending in the light of various privacy concerns, but the evidence is that Facebook addiction is stronger than some like to admit. Back in September of last year, some 26% of Facebook users polled claimed to have deleted the app from their phones – but analytics data showed otherwise … A new study shows just how hard it is to give up Facebook: on average, a user would need to be paid well over than $1,000 a year to do so....
Facebook announced today that it’s testing a new way to promote more informed sharing of new articles. With a similar approach to what Twitter did, Facebook will start suggesting the user read an article before sharing it. This feature comes a few months after Twitter did the same thing. The funny thing is that Facebook announced this new pop-up on Twitter, and without a link to its blog, which means you don’t have to read an article before retweeting it....
New Insights to Help You Optimize Your Social Strategy A plethora of new data is available in the Twitter Profiles Report to help businesses better understand the real impact of a Tweet. Sprout customers get a more holistic look into how content performed with new metrics. These metrics, provided directly from Twitter, include impressions, engagements and clicks, and are only available to Twitter’s data partners. We also added metrics to help our customers better understand their audience and how followers are interacting with content....
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How do ETFs and managed funds differ and what are the key features of both? Which one is right for you? Keep on reading to understand the ETF vs managed fund difference better, so you can choose the best investment option for you. Are ETFs the Same as Managed Funds? According to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ETFs are managed funds. A managed fund is a trust where the investor’s funds are pooled....
Warning: SPOILERS for Shazam! Here’s every (bad) codename Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer) calls the superhero played by Zachary Levi in Shazam! Director David F. Sandberg’s DCEU film has a lot of fun with what it’s like for 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) to unexpectedly receive the magical powers of an ancient wizard (Djimon Hounsou) and become a mighty superhero, but one of Billy’s challenges is coming up with a worthy superhero name....
The Toy Story franchise has featured some of animation’s most compelling villains, and they’ve all got some very good points to make. Over the course of four films, the Toy Story series has helped redefine animated movies in Hollywood. On a purely business level, they’ve broken multiple box office records, with worldwide grosses totaling $2.2 billion (so far) and every movie having a Rotten Tomatoes score of 98% or higher. The franchise has received 10 Academy Award nominations and won three, and some critics have even argued that the first three films are the greatest movie trilogy of all time....
What happens when one of your favorite superheroes comes to life from the pages of a comic book? In Olympia by Curt Pires, Tony Pires, Alex Diotto, and Dee Cunniffe that’s exactly what occurred. Unfortunately, the comic book hero, Olympian, wasn’t the only thing to come to life and appear in the real world. Olympia was created by the father/son duo Curt and Tony Pires. The two worked on the project as Tony went through cancer treatments....
Warning: SPOILERS for Metal Men #1 The Metal Men have returned to the DC Universe once again, but the dark secret of their existence is more sinister than fans ever expected. Which is why it makes perfect sense that their tortured creator is looking for answers… in the Dark Multiverse. The first issue from Dan DiDio and Shane Davis wasted no time diving into the darkness, revealing the creator and leader of the Metal Men, Dr....
