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Everyone needs a hero to look up to, and what better examples are the ones from comic books? Superhero movies have a long line of inspiring protagonists from Batman to Spider-Man. With wholesome morals, these heroes are ones that always do the right thing, fighting for truth, justice and the American way. But being a hero is just one side of a double-edge sword. If you just alter your perception, put yourself in the shoes of someone else, than a hero with good intentions can suddenly turn into a villain with a hidden agenda....

Sustainable living is much more than just a trend. Our planet is reacting to our impact and becoming far less hospitable. Living in harmony with our planet has become a topic of avid study. The ways we live and how we think about resources needs to change in order for us to go on. When it comes to things like where our food comes from, where our trash goes, and how we travel, every person is faced with daily choices....

1. App Store’s Free App of the Week: Warhammer: Snotling Fling Snotling Fling is like a medieval Angry Birds mixed with other medieval stuff. You fling, you destroy stuff, trolls scream, monsters laugh, it’s all jolly good fun. 2. TechPP’s Game of the Week: Hue Ball Hue Ball is a a minimal paintball style shooter game. 3. BuzzFeed News Yup, we’re talking about BuzzFeed. From the makers of “17 GIFs of cats doing cat things you wouldn’t believe cats could do” – Sponsored by Cat Services, comes a compelling app about journalism and breaking news....

Home Alone is a Christmas classic. Released in 1990, it was directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes, and stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McAllister, a young boy who accidentally gets left home alone at Christmas. The film has festive spirit and slapstick comedy and is guaranteed to get anybody in the mood for Christmas. Other classics similar to Home Alone are also perfect for film fans looking to get into the Christmas spirit....

As other shows airing right now are changing with the times, Family Guy struggles to shake off the shackles it’s worn since 1999. After all, the series was founded on shock value satire and intentionally offensive jokes, and a whole generation was raised on this humor. Just earlier this year, the showrunners claimed they would “phase out” homophobic jokes. It remains to be seen whether or not that’s true. While the show’s tried to rectify past errors, it’s only after accumulating twenty years worth of objectionable jokes....

After A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master did well at the box office and with critics, New Line Cinema tried to fast-track the next sequel. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child was released on August 11, 1989 but, unfortunately, it didn’t get as good of reviews as Part 4. The story brings back Lisa Wilcox as Alice and Robert Englund as Freddy, who is this time trying to regain power by using Alice’s unborn child....

How I Met Your Mother is not your average sitcom. It’s not even filmed in front of an audience. It’s one big, giant romantic comedy, and it’s made for everyone. Most romcoms are geared towards people that aren’t interested in seeing the next Marvel movie or high-concept action movie. But HIMYM has friends being friends while living in Manhattan. Since it’s technically centered on Ted’s grand quest to meet the woman of his dreams, there’s bound to be some heartache mixed in with the goofiness the show provides....

Though it was shut out at this year’s Oscars, Uncut Gems was still one of the most talked-about films of the year as well as one of the most acclaimed. From the Safdie Brothers, the movie stars Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a New York City jeweler and compulsive gambler working on his next big score. The movie is an intense and anxiety-inducing journey through this destructive man’s various misadventures. Sandler gives a powerhouse performance, showing off both his comedic and dramatic chops....

Applications that allow you to remove watermark on Android, services for measuring temperature, etc. – there are a considerable number of applications for smartphones. All of them are designed to make our lives easier. When it comes to Google apps, most of us know the ones that come standard with almost every Android phone. In addition to Chrome, Gmail, Maps, and YouTube, Google has developed quite a few useful applications that many users don’t know....

Quentin Tarantino’s darkly comic World War II epic Inglourious Basterds made a big splash with both critics and fans when it hit theaters a decade ago. The script spent years in development, went through several different casting changes, and looked nothing like it did in the first draft when it finally made it to screens. The director considered it to be his masterpiece, saying as much in the final moments of the movie itself, and so he was very excited to share it with the world back in 2009....

Python is the de facto language for data scientists, statisticians, machine learning experts, and web enthusiasts. There is a plethora of learning material available for Python and selection once could be difficult. Are you interested in learning the Python language and looking for some excellent book that will help you skyrocket your Python expertise? Then you have come to the right place. Here is a curated list of the best books to learn Python for beginners....

In this article let us look at 12 useful examples of using wget utility. wget Command Examples ​Downloading a file from web $ wget This command will download the specified file in the URL to the current directory. The below screenshot captures downloading of Apache HTTP server source code (compressed file) from the URL: http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.32.tar.gz. wget output contains the following details: The name of the file being downloadedA progress bar showing percentage downloadedThe size of the file that has been downloadedCurrent download speedThe estimated time to complete the download...

Yes, that’s right. Only about 80% of emails are delivered to the intended inboxes and even then, there’s no guarantee that they will be opened or read. Given the number of emails that people receive on a daily basis, it is tough for any marketer to get their emails noticed. But, don’t worry! There are certain best practices that you can follow to improve your chances and be successful at email marketing....

Even though there are original movies coming out all the time, a lot of contemporary hits have been heavily inspired by films that were released decades ago, if not being direct continuations of them like in the case of the unkillable James Bond franchise. Movies are a form of media that have a huge impact on pop culture in general, however, and the 1960s was a decade that saw a huge turn in the way people lived their lives and what was considered acceptable in terms of media....

The native Instagram app does not provide easy ways to manage your followers and keep track of who follows and unfollows you. As a result, developers have created many apps to provide an enhanced interface to assist with managing your followers. Many of these Instagram followers trackers have similar names and almost identical capabilities. Some focus more on Instagram statistics. We have previously looked in more detail at those apps that provide insight into your Instagram analytics....

Paramount+ has an extensive library of horror movies, from various periods of Hollywood history. From the original zombie apocalypse movie to one of 2022’s biggest horror hits, these films have enough scary moments to frighten even the most hardened horror fan. Scream (1996) All the Scream movies are available to stream on Paramount+ and any horror fan who has never experienced the original is certainly missing out. Wes Craven’s satirical love letter to the kind of slasher films that he helped to create remains one of the best jump scare movies of all time....

With dozens of Christmas movies released every year, Hallmark has made a tradition around their carefully crafted holiday films. Acquiring a steady cult following over the years, there are many viewers that don’t feel like Christmas can really begin until they’ve settled onto the couch with a warm cup of hot cocoa and played one of them. Even for those less enthused, they still offer a welcome break from the holiday shopping grind....

While the popular Netlix program The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which is based on a comic book, may not seem as it if has much to do with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the two have much in common. There are several parallels between the series, from the fact that they both tackle subject matter like good versus evil with teen witches and wizards, or warlocks, and that they also handle popular universal themes like coming of age....

If you think of horror from the UK and Ireland then you’ll most likely conjure up images of slow-burning, relatively-genteel, ghost stories in big empty manor houses. And you wouldn’t be wrong for doing so. Both countries produce a lot of movies like that and they’re often the best in the world. But don’t think that’s all that the region has to offer up on the subject of horror. No matter how much you learn, there’s always a wider world of movies out there and we’re always interested in spreading underseen greats to more people who might love them....

Horror shows are on the rise of popularity, and we can thank hit shows like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story for that. Maybe it is that – as a society – we are becoming more jaded. Or maybe we just need more horror on our TV in order to help us digest the horrors in our own lives. Whatever the case may be, horror shows are here to stay and that’s good news for anyone feeling like staying up all night on Halloween....