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2022 - 8 - 12

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From Nope to She-Hulk: a complete guide to this week's entertainment (The Guardian)

Whether you're jonesing for Jordan Peele's next team-up with Daniel Kaluuya or Tatiana Maslany's big green legal machine, our critics have you covered.

Browse tomes on electronic music, the legacy of Amazon’s commercial monopoly and more niches. Spearheading the movement towards open-access research, MIT has launched a new platform making thousands of its academic monographs available for free download. In a big week for collabs, Brian Burton and rapper Tarik Trotter team up for this guest-heavy hip-hop workout. Both Jealousy and Reason to Live come on like lost Avril Lavigne singles, while the acoustic The Hard Way shows off frontwoman Heather Baron-Gracie’s fragile vocals. Horgan’s new Dublin- and London-set comedy-thriller revolves round the tight-knit Garvey clan (Anne-Marie Duff and Eve Hewson among them), who have pledged to look after each other following the deaths of their parents. This outdoor art event designed by the science-minded artist Oliver Jeffers tries to help adults and children alike visualise the scale of the solar system and where we stand in it. Davie, who died in his 90s in 2014, carved out a unique path in postwar British art, rejecting figuration and pop alike in his gnarled and savage abstract art. When the west-coast bandleader’s multi-stylistic odyssey, The Epic, appeared in 2015, fans of all persuasions hailed a jazz renaissance. The annual shindig returns with a typically eclectic lineup. With five albums under their belt, Scott now has music for all “new normal” moods. Mackenzie Scott has two new albums of material to tour. They go on to to enter the Olympics of wine-tasting in France, representing Zimbabwe on the oenophile world stage.

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Jordan Peele's Nope addresses the fight for Black legacy in Hollywood (digitalspy.com)

When we're first introduced to OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer), a brother and sister team who work as animal wranglers, we're told by ...

It's a notable reference to the genre where, traditionally, Black characters are not seen as the protagonists – their roles only rise to the ranks of sidekick or comic relief. The triumph is taking ownership of it, imposing a value which ensures its protection from erasure. It is a move that today would be heavily scrutinised for the continued marginalisation of diverse characters. Nope has just crossed $100 million at the US box office, marking the third time (out of three) he's hit that milestone. Despite being an industry worth over $92 billion, conversations still persist on the value of Black art. Ever since the invention of cinema, Hollywood has built itself on privilege and elitism.

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Nope: Jordan Peele Reacts to His Old Tweet About Chimp Attack (Comicbook.com)

Spoilers for Jordan Peele's latest movie will follow! After the release of Nope, many fans of Jordan Peele were stunned to find a tweet from the filmmaker ...

#bruh." If you read that tweet and then saw Nope, you'd likely know exactly where Peele got the idea for Gordy the chimp and his infamous attack scene. Tweeted on November 30, 2014, Peele wrote: "Dreamt that a baby chimp attacked some people then ran to me and hugged me all scared. "I'll just go ahead and spoil it, there is an animal attack at the center of this film," Peele told Empire. "It's funny because someone just recently retweeted something, a tweet of mine in 2014, where I was citing a dream that was very similar to this scene.

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Nope: Could UFOs really exist and how would they fly? (BBC Science Focus Magazine)

Think of an alien spaceship and it's likely that the first image to come to your mind is a flying saucer, possibly darting across the sky in grainy footage, ...

It also isn’t a coincidence that the sightings mostly come in countries that have developed militaries, or that the rough size of a UFO is about the same size to fit a human inside. Instead, I think you would need two systems: a kind of cruiser, or rocket, that would transport the flying saucers into the solar system, and then you could manoeuvre down into the Earth's atmosphere.” And part of the reason they could do that was that the gravity of these two asteroids was quite small, but part of it was that the craft was nimble because it had an ion drive. So if you’re trying to go through the air, you need to put your propulsion in a very small area around the rim. “It’s not as aerodynamic a shape as say, your classic fighter jet with the point at the front that’s tearing through the air,” says Stuart. “You see a lot of flying saucers in fiction where the propulsion seems to be underneath the ship. In reality, however, various iterations of the Avrocar struggled to get more than a few feet off the ground, and couldn’t fly faster than 35 MPH. Its central jet engine was also monstrously loud and subjected the pilot to intense temperatures.

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