The 10 best Christmas action movies It’s that time of the season again in which the age-old argument once again arrives: is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Well we’re not only here to confirm that yes, it is, but it lives in a special subgenre of Christmas action movies, stories set on or around the December holiday
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Five dissed movie sequels that deserve reappraisal Look, no matter one’s opinions on specific follow-ups, we can all agree that crafting a worthwhile sequel to a great original film, or films, is hard to do, especially for rampant fan bases with high expectations, but sometimes there are sequels so bad it lets audiences forgive what
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IPX fraud represents a key source of revenue loss for mobile operators. The latest threats exploit international connections between modern ultra-connected networks where multiple generations of technology co-exist, combined with inadequate security mechanisms built into signalling protocols. Apart from revenue loss, IPX fraud also impacts operators through reputational damage, customer loss, extra pressure placed on
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The story of Echo and Narcissus is one of the most famous in all of classical mythology. But really, what we’re dealing with is a case of several different myths being put together. Narcissus has become synonymous with self-love, with the adjective ‘narcissistic’ and the noun ‘narcissism’ being coined to describe the sort of behaviour
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For other filmmakers, the tradition is to drop hints and clues, also known as Easter eggs, from their previous movies in their later works. In true time-bending fashion, filmmaker Christopher Nolan has revealed that an Easter egg for his latest movie Tenet actually showed up in one of his earliest films, 2000’s Memento. “I had
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December 16, 2020, 11:11am Deadline announced this morning that Kate Atkinson’s bestselling, award-winning 2014 novel Life After Life is getting the prestige television treatment with the BBC green-lighting a four-part series miniseries adaptation. House Productions have assembled an impressive creative team to bring the project to life, including Brooklyn director John Crowley and playwright/Outlaw King
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(CNN) — Summer flings have long been a happy, occasional perk of travel. But the Thai tourism authority is partnering with dating app Tinder to offer tour packages specifically for matchmaking purposes. Though Thailand‘s borders are technically open to foreign tourists — at least those who are willing to quarantine in a hotel room for
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Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst, Light Counting, and Oliver Korfmacher, VP Strategy, Telecom BU, Enea, offer some top tips for operators jumping on the 5G bandwagon. If you thought a pandemic would stop 5G in its tracks,
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When Michael Mann’s Heat arrived in the waning days of 1995, audiences came for a showdown between two acting titans and walked away having watched a reinvention of the heist genre. Bigger, more sprawling, and more ambitious than the competition, Heat layered multiple subplots and fringe characters into its tale of a master thief hunted
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