A sort of reboot/sequel, The Grudge is directed and written by Nicolas Pesce, who has created a buzz on the horror scene with his first two features, The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and Piercing (2018). Pesce’s take on The Grudge is the first of the movies to be set in America — upstate New York, to be exact, and while it takes place in 2004 (the same year as the first American film), it goes back and forth in time as it focuses on three family units that all come into contact with the title terror....

First deployed in the early 20th century, rotoscoping is an animation technique in which artists paint over live-action footage to make the movement of animated characters appear more realistic. Deployed strategically and sparingly in films like Cinderella and Mary Poppins, director Richard Linklater revolutionized the concept in the modern era with fully digital rotoscoped feature films like Waking Life in 2001 and A Scanner Darkly in 2006. Per Prime Video, Undone is first TV series to fully utilize the technique, so naturally you’d want to ask about it when stars Rosa Salazar, Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie; creator Kate Purdy; and director Hisko Hulsings sit down at Den of Geek video studio during SXSW to discuss the upcoming second season of the show....

For those who don’t know, the Nemesis System is a unique mechanic that essentially relies on a military-like hierarchy of NPCs that can remember player actions. That system serves the plots of the Shadow games, but it’s best known for enhancing the thrill of those games’ open-world encounters by introducing the possibility that even the lowliest grunt could eventually become a “boss” who remembers their previous battle against you. Unfortunately, Warner Bros....

Judging by the new trailer for the holiday epic, Spielberg and 20th Century Studios think they have a blockbuster on their hands. Relying on much of the same visual iconography as seen in Robert Wise’s original West Side Story adaptation from 60 years ago, Spielberg is leaning into the nostalgia older generations likely have for this classic tale of love, tragedy, and Romeo and Juliet melodrama in mid-20th century Manhattan....

In Black Widow, we catch up with Natasha on the run from the US government and reliant on a host of Russian connections from her past – spies and assassins she can only trust in varying degrees – to finally complete a mission she started a long time ago. The stakes are high but the peril is low because we know that Natasha makes it through the events of the film alive and in one piece, but it’s still a hugely effective action blockbuster that feels a bit more brutal than most MCU efforts....

Microsoft made the announcement on Twitter and in a blog post this morning: Players will also be able to pay for the next-gen console in 24 monthly installments through an Xbox All Access subscription, which will also grant you access to 24 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (now including EA Play) for $34.99 a month. First unveiled during the 2019 Game Awards, the Xbox Series X is touted as Microsoft’s most powerful console to date....

Nonetheless, it’s still good to be back in those old familiar places, as well as to have an ever expanding list of options to discover on streaming. Compared to last year, 2021 feels like a sunny balm, particularly now that the heaviest hitters and biggest surprises of July and the dog days of summer have landed. It’s why we typically save our “mid-year” ranking for that deep breath between the end of summer escapism and the awards season push that begins in September....

In fact, Giphy, the most popular GIF sharing site, receives over 300 million users every day. It’s insane and shows the amount of craze there is for GIFs. I don’t know about you, but I share GIFs on social media platforms literally every day, and it’s more fun than traditional emojis, probably because they’re more visually expressive. No matter what you’re feeling like, there’s a GIF to express that accurately....

In addition to the various stage and book adaptations Baum’s Oz has inspired — we’d be remiss not to mention Gregory Maguire’s Wicked and the subsequent beloved musical adaptation — The Wizard of Oz has been a staple of cinema (and, later, TV) history from the form’s very inception. We’re taking some time to look back at some of the on-screen Oz incarnations that have defined the story’s legacy and the legacy of film and television....

Meditation is a magical practice that can change your life positively. While adults can lookout for ways to deal with the stress, kids cannot. Being a child is not easy anymore. Kids have to go through various challenges and academic pressures, which create a lot of stress in their life. Meditation, if introduced into the daily routine at an early age, can improve the mindfulness of your little one. Here are the benefits of inculcating meditation in your kid’s life at an early age and the challenges it will help to cope with:...

It may also be possible that you cannot find out where the problem is, whether it is the hardware creating the problem or the software. All these things can be identified with the help of a perfect keyboard testing tool. A keyboard testing tool helps in testing the keyboard effectively. It enables you to find out whether the keys of your keyboard are working fine or not. There are a large number of tools available for testing a keyboard....

Even though Allen didn’t direct all of The Poseidon Adventure (he only handled the disaster scenes, while Ronald Neame dealt with the talky bits), Allen’s larger-than-life personality, elaborately woven hair and reputation as a producer soon established him as cinema’s “master of disaster” – and the results were both critically and financial smashes. Then along came 1978’s The Swarm, and Allen’s fortunes took a bit of a nose-dive. Where The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno made fortunes, The Swarm lost money, taking less than half of its $21m budget....

With proper resource management, you can efficiently manage the resources and deliver the project with reduced cost and within budget. The resource management tool can help allocate the right resources to the right task or project to get the job done on budget and on time, and without major problems or escalation in the project. What is the importance of Resource Management? In resource management, one of the most important criteria for resource compliance is the correct allocation of resources....

Analyzing logs can give you real insights into what’s happening within your IT environment. Some of the real-time examples: Capacity planningEarly problem detectionActionable reportingAvailability managementEvents monitoring If you have a few MB of logs file, then it’s possible to review them manually; however, when you are working for a Medium to Enterprise business where logs are available in GB, then manual log analysis is a nightmare. If you are looking for a solution to monitor and analyze your web application logs, including infrastructure, then you may consider the following cloud-based log management....

User authentication is a powerful way to provide rightful access to your digital properties like your website or application. And it obviously adds to the security and a customized user experience. When implementing this, a typical business owner often faces this roadblock: Why 3rd-Party User Authentication? If you’re a big company with the necessary infrastructure to ensure data security and compliance, then you probably don’t need a 3rd-party solution. But it’s quite the opposite if:...

In addition to shorter software development cycles, smaller teams, and flexible programming language options, it allows you to scale or troubleshoot certain functions or services without interfering with the other components. Generally, the microservices allow breaking up large monogamous applications into independently deployable distinct services. However, these smaller independent services increase the number of components hence the complexity and difficulty in securing them. Usually, a typical microservices deployment will have the hardware, service or application, communication, cloud, virtualization, and orchestration layers....

Granted, back in the ‘80s, we were happy if a game just kind of looked like its box art. While the NES is still beloved for the massive steps forward it took from earlier consoles, and for introducing the world to the likes of Super Mario Bros., Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda, it’s also known for a large library that varied widely in terms of visual quality. There are reasons why you might not think of the NES when you think of the absolute best graphics gaming has ever offered....

Yes, while so many of us spent our years with the Game Boy line playing classics like Tetris and Pokémon, those who ventured off the beaten path may have discovered a few oddities that defied logic. Whether those games got you through long car rides and waiting rooms is something only you can answer. What I can tell you is that anyone who played some of the wildest and weirdest Game Boy games likely never forgot them....

JavaScript is a synchronous single-threaded language. It is the most widely used programming language for software and application development. Many frameworks like Reactjs, Angularjs, Vuejs, Expressjs, and Node.js have been developed with their base language, JavaScript. Many developers face issues while coding in JavaScript because of various complex concepts like promises, eventloop, callbacks, hoisting, closures, etc. To make development in JavaScript easier, many Node.js packages are available that help in handling errors, formatting code, deleting files, debugging code, ensuring security, etc....

This article is brought to you by Warner Archive. As we once again enter the Halloween season, there are more services than ever that cater to scary season programming. In fact, there are almost too many macabre programming blocks to choose from. While there are many available streams out there—and a true horror savant will utilize multiple services to consumer as much content as possible—the ever-growing Warner Archive offers up a robust lineup of material....