She’s tasked with stopping Ava “Ghost” Starr (Hannah John-Kamen) from breaking into a top secret location. During her mission, she’s attacked by John “US Agent” Walker (Wyatt Russell), who is in turn attacked by Antonia “Taskmaster” Dreykov (Olga Kurylenko). After a brief fight ...
Things haven’t exactly gone according to plan for Marvel since the astronomical success of their last few Avengers films. When Avengers: Endgame (2019) broke every conceivable box office record in it’s opening that summer, it seemed like everything Marvel touched turned to gold. But not to...
Dominique Thorne made her live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Riri Williams in 2022's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and left us wanting an "Ironheart" series right there and then. What with everything we know about "Ironheart," the show should prove to be worth the wait, to...
The goal of the game is simple: avoid the opposite colour to stay alive. Fortunately, Astrogon is dead simple to understand thanks to its two-button gameplay, but that doesn’t stop the game from being challenging. In Astrogon’s Solo mode, there are a number of levels to get through...
2 ” But the researchers found that having a grandmother still alive was a definite plus. “Families with grandmothers alive were larger by about two and survival of these grandchildren to age 15 was much improved.” This suggests that grandmothers help by playing an active role in their grandc...
In the summer of 1948 on the Daugava river Uncle Aron taught me how to row. However I could never show any success in adroitness, besides, starting from the second school year, I wore glasses for nearsightedness. Their strength in diopters grew every year, which allowed me in the ...
A brief primer of Afrofuturism, the artistic philosophy guiding Marvel's Black Panther – from Sun Ra to Jay-Z, Ava DuVernay, and beyond.
Around the time I’m done playing piano, my daughters, Dalita and Ava (ages four and two) wake up. Sometimes we read a chapter of a book and I make them masala chai (they call it “special tea”); other times we’re simply playful and play hide and seek. Then I shower and sit...
Created by Ava DuVernay (“Queen Sugar” and “The Red Line”) and based on a true story of the Central Park Five, this legal drama follows five teens in Harlem who are falsely accused, andeventually exonerated, of the violent rape of a 28-year-old woman. The story can be difficult ...