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(Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest, day two. In this diary entry: a deranged stop-motion allegory, an unpredictable thriller from the writer of Let the Right One In, a new horror movie from The […]
NBA The Phoenix Suns beat the Memphis Grizzliers, 99-97, on a buzzer-beating alley-oop. The play came on an inbounds pass from Dragen Bender to Tyson Chandler with 0.6 seconds to go. The announcer even called the lob pass. The Phoenix Suns won a thriller at the buzzer against the Memphis Grizzlies and the announcer even […]
Published time: 10 Oct, 2017 08:21 Just ahead of a highly anticipated speech in which the Catalan leader is expected to declare the region’s independence from Spain, the Spanish ruling party has resorted to making threatening allusions to a previous independence bid. “History should not be repeated. Let’s hope that nothing is declared tomorrow because […]
Published time: 27 Sep, 2017 19:09 Thousands of black-clad Iranians have filled the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of 25-year-old Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Hojaji who was captured and killed by Islamic State in Syria last month. [embedded content] The crowd carried black flags for mourning, red flags symbolizing martyrdom as well as photos […]
The highly anticipated boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather turned out to be much more entertaining than most people expected. However, in the end, the result — a tenth-round TKO by Mayweather — was as expected as Mayweather executed his plan perfectly. One of the most fundamental differences between boxing and MMA is the […]
– The future is here, and it’s not lower, not wider, not sleeker, and not faster, and it wears ridiculous taillights. Look past its robot Donkey Kong styling and the 2018 Toyota C-HR is the vehicular embodiment of lazy conventional wisdom as the second decade of the 21st century dissolves away. It’s not bad, but […]
Fierce fighting between government forces and jihadist militants has spread to the streets of the southern island city of Marawi in the Philippines. Amid the ongoing offensive, locals of various religions have been helping each other survive and flee for their lives. More than 160 people, nearly 50 children among them, were rescued from Marawi […]
Just before his execution in Arkansas on April 24, Jack Jones ate a final meal of fried chicken, potato logs with tarter sauce, beef jerky bites, three candy bars, a chocolate milkshake, and fruit punch—or at least that’s what was reported in the news. But it’s not true. According to the only person who sat […]
Royal Marine Commando Alex Blackman was at ‘breaking point’ when he executed a wounded, unarmed insurgent with a single shot to the chest while quoting Shakespeare, an appeal court has heard. Blackman is currently serving a life sentence for the 2011 battlefield execution, which was caught on camera. His second appeal began Tuesday and is […]
