The first four episodes of the second season of Wednesday are now streaming on Netflix, and the review embargo lifted early this morning. For the most part, the critical reception has been positive, although some feel that the second season is a step down in quality from the first. The entire cast – Jenna Ortega is, once again, said to be a …
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Topline Ice Cube’s new movie “War of the Worlds” is the No. 1 film on Amazon Prime Video—but it is going viral for the wrong reasons and facing brutal mockery by social media users and critics, who have called it “tragic” and “cheap-looking,” slapping it with a rare 0% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Ice Cube stars in the …
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Ice Cube‘s latest movie is off to a slow start on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. According to 15 critics (and counting), War of the Worlds so far has a zero percent rating on the Tomatometer scale, while thousands of moviegoers have given it at 14 percent rating on the Popcornmeter. One review in particular, from Variety‘s Peter Debruge knocked the …
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With Noah Hawley in charge, fans have long expected Alien: Earth to offer a vastly different take on the long-running sci-fi franchise. Still, if the first wave of reviews is anything to go by, the Fargo and Legion showrunner has indeed put a bold new spin on the iconic property. Boasting a story focusing on synthetics over the expected slaughter of …
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The Keanu Reeves-led action series John Wick fully redefined the revenge-action genre, and many tried to replicate its formula. Netflix has now joined the game with the perfect replacement for John Wick fans. The South Korean Netflix series Trigger just premiered on the platform on Jul. 25. After just 10 episodes, the series received praise and immediately became a hit. …
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We always love a good sci-fi series, and given that it’s mainly just Apple making those right now, it’s nice to have one head to Netflix that isn’t a Stranger Things season every three years. That show is The Lazarus Project, a sci-fi series that originally aired in 2023 on Sky, but has now ported over its two seasons to …
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There are many high profile video game adaptations these day, from The Last of Us to Fallout in live-action, from Arcane to Cyberpunk Edgerunners in the animated world, but you might have overlooked one show in particular: Twisted Metal. If you even knew that this show existed, you can find it on Peacock, and it’s just entered its second season. …
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Meet the potato’s unexpected ancestor: the tomato. That’s right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don’t look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago. “We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from,” corresponding author Sanwen …
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Random mating between wild tomato plants and potato-like species 8 million to 9 million years ago may have given rise to one of our favorite carbs: the potato. Together with 107 extant, wild potato species, the cultivated potatoes we know today (Solanum tuberosum) belong to the lineage Petota. New research suggests that this lineage, or group of closely related species, …
Read More »Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently. The Washington Post ‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find The Guardian Scientists finally know where potatoes come from—and the answer is very weird National Geographic Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes. Live Science Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes? The Atlantic …
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