After waiting three years since its inital announcement in 2020, AEW’s first home console game has arrived, one of the first viable alternatives to WWE’s long-running 2K series in quite some time. The good news is that the gameplay is excellent, harkening back to the Nintendo 64 era of wrestling games. The bad news is …
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In Alfred Hitchcock’s great film Vertigo, filmed in San Francisco in 1957, the protagonist, Scottie, played by James Stewart, becomes obsessed with Madeleine, played by Kim Novak. Scottie, a retired detective, suffers from a disabling case of acrophobia, which becomes a critical if tenuous plot point. Bernard Herrmann’s brilliant score depicts both the passion of …
The two cards for next weekend's Impact Down Under events in Australia continued to get filled out Thursday. The company will make their Australia debut next Friday and Saturday at the Equex Center in Wagga Wagga, NSW, available live on FITE as pay-per-views. The Friday, June 30th event saw two title matches added as X-Division Champion …
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This is the 100th and—surprise!—final edition of Music in the Round. MitR began in mid-2003, shortly after SACD and DVD-A discs made high-quality multichannel music convenient and widely available. At the time, I was convinced that multichannel reproduction was superior to stereo because it was able to reproduce the full sound of the performance—not just …
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UFC action is back on network television as the Octagon heads to the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida for UFC On ABC 5: Emmett vs. Topuria, headlined by an exciting featherweight battle. Featherweight sluggers Josh Emmett and Ilia Topuria square off in the five-round main event. Emmett is coming off a loss in …
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I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to Scottish audio in 2016, but here’s what I know: The new owners of Scottish loudspeaker company Tannoy at first threatened to move production to China, but ended up opening a new factory in Scotland instead. That would seem to be a positive outcome, but along the way, …
AEW's new Collision series won't have a hard roster split. Ahead of the show debuting this Saturday, Khan was a guest on the Barstool Rasslin' podcast. Khan was asked if Collision will have exclusive talent or if Dynamite and Collision will work hand in hand. Khan said he hasn't "drawn any hard lines" between the …
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I’ve known DeVore Fidelity’s John DeVore a long time. Luxman America President Jeff Sigmund, too. I’ve reviewed a few of their products—DeVore and Luxman. These guys are salt of the earth. They’ve got tradition, they love music, they have a desire to create, a desire to serve. Not to get all lofty here, but it’s …
Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Jason Schwartzman et Jake Ryan nous présentent "Asteroid City", nouveau film de Wes Anderson passé par la Compétition du dernier Festival de Cannes. Les premières images ne trompent pas : entre le casting et les décors à l’artificialité assumée, ou quelques plans symétriques, tout indique qu’Asteroid City est bien un film …