‘Rising Wolf’ (Ascendant) Review: An Unwieldy Mix of Hostage Drama and YA-style Fantasy

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorPadma Lakshmi is teaming up with Stella Artois to celebrate the reopening of restaurants. The host of “Top Chef” and “Taste the Nation” stars in the new campaign, “Your Table Is Ready,” which offers diners their first Stella Chalice drink for free when dining out at participating venues.

A major option for cancelled Fox drama series Prodigal Son is no longer on the table. I hear HBO Max has passed on the opportunity to pick up the series killer drama starring Michael Sheen and Tom Payne.

While we’re likely going to have to wait a little longer before Warner Bros. gives us their “Green Lantern Corps.” movie, however, there is a “Green Lantern” series in the works at HBO Max that will cover a bulk of the other human heroes that joined the group of cosmic cops.

Duran Duran have announced ‘Future Past’, their first album in six years.Set for release on October 22, the latest LP is previewed by new single ‘Invisible’, which you can listen to in full below.According to the band’s official online store, the standard version of ‘Future Past’ has 12 tracks and features appearances from the likes of Blur’s Graham Coxon, long-time Bowie pianist Mike Garson and guest vocals from Lykke Li.A deluxe edition of the record is set to contain three bonus tracks, while

Here’s your first look at 50 Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan in The Tourist, the mystery thriller limited series from Fleabag production company Two Brothers Pictures.

Final Fantasy XIV composer Masayoshi Soken revealed that he had been battling with cancer since last year.In a sobering close to the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival, where he had also performed with his band The Primals, Soken opened up that he was diagnosed in March 2020.“Until about October last year, I spent approximately six to seven months in a hospital room,” he said, via his translator and fellow Primals bandmate Michael Christopher Koji-Fox.“So thinking about how to use that time,

Duran Duran are set to perform with Blur‘s Graham Coxon at this year’s Billboard Music Awards.The band will appear as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations and will premiere a new single at the awards event, which takes place on May 23.

hackers who may have ties to the Russian government held an oil company that runs a critical oil pipeline hostage with ransomware. This forced the pipeline to shut down while the company dealt with the situation, causing slowdowns in fuel distribution affecting much of the eastern United States.

Griff has spoken to NME at today’s BRIT Awards about new music, her touring plans and wanting to collaborate with Taylor Swift. You can watch the full interview in the video above.Ahead of receiving her Rising Star award at this year’s BRIT’s, Griff said she was “really nervous” before reflecting on her achievements over the last year.“This is all a bit surreal.

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios has optioned the feature film rights to the Reeves Wiedeman New York Magazine article The Big Hack, which depicts what experts describe as a plausible doomsday disaster scenario caused by a wide-scale cyber-attack on New York City. The recent Colonial pipeline hack purportedly executed by a Russian ransomware group that is spiking gas prices on the East Coast makes the cautionary tale The Big Hack timely.

Paul Van Doren was an entrepreneur who co-founded Vans, the iconic skateboarding shoe company.Van Doren was working at a rubber company in Boston when he and his brother, James Van Doren, decided to go to Southern California and start a business together. Along with two friends, they opened the Van Doren Rubber Company, later shortened simply to Vans.

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Coldplay released a new song this week that was… meh. Throughly disappointing! Surprising because they worked with pop god Max Martin on it.

Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier has now started.Announced earlier this year following Sony Interactive Entertainment’s digital showcase, The First Soldier is a battle royale game set in the Final Fantasy VII universe. Players will take part in large multiplayer battles, fighting it out to be the last one standing.Set 30 years before the events of Final Fantasy VII, The First Soldier follows industrial enterprise Shinra and its SOLDIER experiments.

Coincidences are a hell of a thing. Anthony Mandler’s indie drama “Monster” is a film that premiered at Sundance in 2018, but it only made its way on to Netflix now, the week of May 7.

The Unmasked Singer has revealed its Top 5!

Andrei Tarkovsky was the name on Barry Jenkins‘ lips as the main influence for his television adaptation of “The Underground Railroad.” Not the first name to think of when considering the enormity of Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel. The story: a combination of the distressing tribulations of an escapee slave girl with a hefty volume of magical realism, doesn’t immediately describe the Russian auteur.