Month: January 2021

January 26, 2021, 2:30pm Drop your buffs! The reality TV show contestant Stephen Fishbach, most well-known as the strategically gifted runner-up of Survivor: Tocantins and slightly less well-known as one of People’s hottest bachelors of 2009, is now a full-time fiction writer, completing a low-residency MFA at NYU; taking workshops with Nathan Englander and Garth
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Disney+’s Pinocchio film adds Luke Evans as The Coachman After already helping bring the iconic Disney villain Gaston to life in the House of Mouse’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Luke Evans is ready for another chilling antagonist as he’s joining Tom Hanks in the Robert Zemeckis-helmed Pinocchio as Pleasure Island owner and operator The Coachman,
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January 26 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s January 26 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!  New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD Batman: Soul of the DragonFaced with a deadly menace from his past, Bruce
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Social media platform Twitter, famous for the measured and conciliatory attitude of its users, wants to let them annotate each other’s posts. The new moderation system is called Birdwatch. “People come to Twitter to stay informed,” wrote Twitter VP of Product Keith Coleman, choosing to overlook the state of perpetual conflict between many of its
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Roxane Gay: “Hypnotize,” by the Notorious B.I.G. It’s just a great song—great lyric, great beat. You know, I’m a Gen X-er, and so ’90s hip-hop is really my wheelhouse. And so even though I wasn’t necessarily having a great life back then, I still think very fondly of the music. And I know all of
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Prepare for a Freaky take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse, makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge franchise, could bring: a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer! From the deliciously debased mind of writer-director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, the Paranormal Activity franchise) and prolific horror producer Jason Blum
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TODAY: In 1784, in a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expresses his unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. Also on Lit Hub: A brief history of the death penalty in America • Danielle Gellar traces her mother’s footsteps through artifacts left behind • Read an excerpt from Tove Ditlevsen’s newly translated
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(CNN) — The only surviving prototype of this unusual plane now sits dilapidated in a field near Moscow, but it was once the hope of the Soviet Union against US submarine attacks. The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 — the letters are an acronym for “vertical take-off amphibious aircraft” and 14 was the number of engines —
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