Month: October 2022

The Chromecast with Google TV is getting a major update and SkyShowtime isalmost coming to the Netherlands. This and more in this week’s Android NewsFeed.

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Download: Chromecast with Google TV gets the Android 12 update

The Android 12 update for the Chromecast with Google TV has been a long timecoming, but has now been officially released. The new software is availablefor the 4K version of the Chromecast, which was released two years ago.

The differences between Android 10 and 12 are not large on the Chromecast, butthere are of course a number of innovations. For example, a handy privacyfunction has been added, so that you see a dot in the picture when themicrophone of the remote control is used.

→ Android 12 update for the Chromecast with Google TV

‘Specs Samsung Galaxy S23 on the street, show little innovation’

The innovations in Samsung’s S-line have been sparse lately. Leakedspecifications of the Samsung Galaxy S23 suggest that that will not changenext year. The by smartphone insider Yogesh Brar Shared information showsthat the device is very similar to the Galaxy S22.

The S23 again gets a 6.1-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 2340 by 1080pixels. The refresh rate is 120Hz. Fortunately, the S23 does get a slightlylarger battery. The capacity would be 3900 mAh. The S22 only had 3700 mAh onboard. The charging speed remains the same: 25 Watts.

→ These are the leaked specifications of the Samsung Galaxy S23

This will cost streaming service SkyShowtime in the Netherlands

The new streaming service SkyShowtime, which will be available in theNetherlands from next Tuesday (25 October), will cost 6.99 euros per month.The service announced this in a press release. SkyShowtime revealed to come tothe Netherlands a while ago.

It is unknown whether there is still a promotion at launch. HBO Max, which hasalso been active in the Netherlands since this year, gave customers a’lifetime’ discount of 50 percent in the first few weeks. SkyShowtime may havea similar promotion in store for the Dutch release, but nothing is known aboutthis (yet).

→ Price of SkyShowtime is known → SkyShowtime: 5 questions about the streaming service answered

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Android 13 Go official: these 5 things you need to know

Google has announced Android 13 Go. The new software is equipped with amodified design, based on Material You. That was introduced with Android 12and is now coming to the light version of the well-known operating system.

This means, among other things, that accent colors are based on the setbackground. You can see those colors in the quick settings menu, notificationsand in other places. As an Android Go user, you are limited to choosing fourcolor profiles, where in Android 13 there are now 16.

→ This is the new Android 13 Go

This is the Nokia Streaming Stick 800: competitor for the Chromecast

The Nokia Streaming Stick 800 resembles recent Chromecasts in many ways, runson Android TV and comes with a remote control. In addition to the usualcontrol buttons, the remote also has buttons to start YouTube, Netflix, AmazonPrime Video and Disney Plus.

There is also a Google Assistant button to activate the digital assistant andyou can go to the Play Store with one press. There you will find the appsavailable for Android TV. A nice detail is that the buttons of the remotecontrol are illuminated. If you like to watch movies and series in the dark,then the Nokia Streaming Stick 800 is easier to operate.

→ Read more about the Nokia Streaming Stick 800

The French court drama Saint Omer by Alice Diop was awarded the Grand Prixfor best film at Film Fest Gent. The Ukrainian Klondike and the Costa Rican-Belgian co-production Tengo suenos electricos receive an honorable mention,while the Swiss Three Winter receives the Georges Delerue Award for bestmusic.

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Six years ago, French director Alice Diop attended the trial of FabienneKabou, a young woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old baby in 2013. Up tothat point, Diop had only made documentaries, but the Kabou case provided theinspiration for her first fiction film, Saint Omer. It was awarded the GrandPrix for best film on Friday evening at the 49th edition of Film Fest Gent.This price is linked to a distribution premium of 10,000 euros and a mediacampaign of 12,000 euros, of which 5,000 euros in cash The morning. Afterthe documentary Petite fille and the dementia drama Vortex it is the thirdFrench film in a row to win the top prize in Ghent.

Saint Omer mainly takes place in court, where writer Rama (Kayije Kagame)follows the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga): a young woman fromSenegal who studies philosophy in France and becomes pregnant by an elderlyFrenchman. She hides the pregnancy and the birth, and deliberately lets thebaby drown in the sea. During her trial, she claims she was bewitched andcursed.

Guslagie Malanga in director Alice Diop’s ‘Saint Omer’.Image Film Fest Gent

The strength of Saint Omer is that Diop gradually merges her two maincharacters. Both Rama and Laurence have a troubled relationship with theirmother and with their own role as a mother – Rama also hides her pregnancyduring the process – and feel like an outsider in France. Diop follows thelawsuit in a measured, almost distant style: the shots are held for so longand the camera is so still that you, as a viewer, get the feeling that you arestaring at the characters uncomfortably.

The jury was “captured by the rigueur and the modesty in both the directingand the performances in this exceptional film. The question of what we haveinherited from the previous generation and what we pass on to the nextresonates on many levels and is intelligently woven into a drama that gripsthe throat and resonates for a long time to come.”

Saint Omer previously won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, whereDiop also won the Best Debut award. The film is the French Oscar entry forbest foreign film, so it has to compete with Lukas Dhonts close , but alsowith many other films from the competition at Film Fest Gent. TheAnachronistic Sissi Drama Corsage is the Austrian entry, the current one_Klondike_ set against the backdrop of pro-Russian unrest in the Donbas regionin 2014, is the Ukrainian candidate. Klondike by director Maryna Er Gorbach,received an honorable mention from the jury at Film Fest Gent, just like the__ coming of age movie Tengo suenos electricos a Costa Rican-Belgian co-production by Valentina Maurel.

Finally, there is the Swiss Oscar entry, Three Winter by Michael Koch: aquirky directed drama set in a mountain village. That film, with a score byTobias Koch and Jannik Giger, was awarded the Georges Delerue Award for bestmusic in Ghent. In that score, the sacred choral singing stands out the most.”The performances and the framing of the singers, as if they were telling aGreek tragedy, fascinated us and the music is perfectly attuned to the whole”,the jury found.

This year’s jury consisted of filmmaker and former Grand Prix winner ClioBarnard, actor Welket Bungué, director Alexandre Koberidze, editor NicoLeunen, composer Daniel Hart and filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén.

The choir in Michael Koch’s ‘Drii Winter’.Image Film Fest Gent.

Saint Omer hits theaters on November 30.

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Lately it seemed like AppleTV+ could only make great TV shows. After a lessimpressive start in 2019 with the messy but nevertheless quite popular TheMorning Show , the streamer hits almost every time this year. With theoppressive psychological thriller Severance the fun spy series Slow Horses_and the beautiful Korean family epic _pachinko as highlights.

Shantaram , which, like the last two titles, is based on a worldwidebestseller, has everything on paper to be added effortlessly to that growinglist of impressive series. A well-known actor in the lead role (CharlieHunnam, known for Sons of Anarchy ), a huge budget and the ability to tell alayered story in multiple countries.

Shantaram is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel by GregoryDavid Roberts, which was published in 2003 and has already sold 6 millioncopies. Like the book, the series tells the story of Australian bank robberDale Conti (Hunnam) who escapes from prison in broad daylight in the early1980s and flees to India with a false passport. In Mumbai, at that time stillBombay, he becomes Lindsay Ford (the name in the passport) and tries todisappear into the chaos of the metropolis.

Something that he does very badly. Not even halfway through the first episode,he ends up – at the invitation of a mysterious but beautiful expat – in a cafethat he describes in the voice-over as a place where hookers, dealers,gamblers and gangsters sit side by side. Dangerous people who “could kill eachother at any time,” Linsday said. Yet he willingly associates with thesepeople, despite his own drug history that led him to rob banks, and theenormous guilt he carries with him for the latter. It doesn’t take long beforehe has to run again.

Two failed attempts

This time he ends up in the slums of Bombay, in the hut of his local guidePrabhu (Shubham Saraf). There he decides to use his medical knowledge (beforehe robbed banks, he was an ambulance worker in Australia) to help the poorresidents. A twist in the story that could quickly have gone wrong – white man’rescues’ poor residents of the slum. Fortunately, it is approached a littlemore nuanced, although the storyline does feel a bit cliché. A feeling thatthe series evokes on several occasions.

Ever since the book came out in 2003, attempts have been made Shantaram toget to the screen. After two expensive but failed attempts to make it into amovie, the rights were sold to AppleTV+ in 2018. But there too the filming ofthe book, which has nine hundred pages, did not run smoothly. After shootingthe first two episodes, production was halted in 2020 because the path takenwas too dark. A new showrunner, Steve Lightfoot ( Behind Her Eyes ), evenhad to be put on. Lightfoot claims to have started writing the script fromscratch.

The series that debuted on AppleTV+ last week does indeed feel fairly light,despite the heavier topics. Even though Lightfoot didn’t quite manage to keepthe twelve hours really interesting. After only three episodes, there aresimply too many characters and not all equally interesting storylines to holdthe attention. Even the fact that the muscular Hunnam – who really doesn’tshow bad acting here often takes his shirt off – can’t save things.

The series looks beautiful, as we are used to from AppleTV+. But it never gets

There is something fundamentally different about the latest film aboutchildren’s character Winnie the Pooh: this time his honey jar is filled withthe blood of his victims. the horror movie _Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey_is certainly not intended for minors. And Disney really has nothing more tosay about that.

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Until a few years ago, the specter that director Rhys Frake-Waterfield nowportrays of Pooh was impossible. A large company such as Disney has strictcopyright rules. That means that not everyone can just make productions withthe popular Disney characters.

So Frake-Waterfield does, and how: in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey wesee a Winnie à la Leatherface in Chain Saw Massacre. The bloodthirsty andhaggard Winnie the Pooh and Piglet in the film are out for revenge on theirfriend Christoffer Robinson, who abandoned them.

There are plenty of killings and scenes where it’s not clear whether Pooh’smouth is dripping with honey or with bodily fluids. How did it get this far?

The popular teddy bear is public property

Winnie the Pooh was conceived in 1926 by author Alan Alexander Milne andillustrator Ernest Shepard. Disney bought the bear’s exclusive licensingrights some forty years later. So Winnie the Pooh has been copyrighted fordecades. But these rights have expired since the beginning of this year.

United States copyright law dictates that a work may be held for ‘only’ abouta hundred years before it becomes part of the public domain again. The popularteddy bear is now public property.

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Piglet is clubbing people with a sledgehammer

That does not mean that everyone can do everything with the character. Disneystill owns the rights to its own version of Winnie the Pooh, as most peopleknow the bear.

That is the version with the yellow bearskin and the red T-shirt, which wasonly created in 1966. Any remakes should therefore not be too similar to theDisney variant. In Frake-Waterfield’s case, it isn’t either: the lovely,gullible bear is nowhere to be seen.

For his version of Winnie, Frake-Waterfield based himself on the Pooh from1926. The mask has kept the honey yellow color, but there is something offbalance. Pooh has aged. He has wrinkles and his facial expression is no longersmiley, but dead.

Piglet isn’t doing too well either: the previously shy piglet is now clubbingsomeone in the pool with a sledgehammer. He looks a lot more terrifying with afew extra tusks, but “it’s definitely Pooh and Piglet,” says Frake-Waterfield.Dread Central.

Winnie’s other animal friends, such as Tigger, cannot be seen in this film.Not yet. The copyright rule still applies to characters such as Tigger,because this character was only created later. But his license will alsoexpire on January 1, 2024.

Piglet helps Winnie the Pooh kill people in revenge.

Photo: BrunoPress

Disney can and will not say anything

Disney does not want to go too deeply into questions from NU.nl about thestriking developments surrounding Pooh. “The rights of Winnie the Pooh arefree. We wish the distributor good luck with the release.” The film studioalso emphasizes that it is not a Disney film.

The greedy and somewhat silly bear can now take on all kinds of forms. “Wehave a lot of quirky ideas,” Frake-Waterfield tells Dread Central. “Thereare other characters in this universe, but I can’t touch them. I don’t want tostep on anyone’s toes either. I’ve tried to stay as far away from the Disneyside as possible. And I hope, because I I’ve done a good job, I can now make a

It’s the weekend again and we are only too happy to delve into all the beautythat the streaming services have in store for us. From movies and series toe-books and music on Spotify, New This Week has it all. Here you will discoverthe best new films, series, music and e-books.

Netflix

Notre Dame, part du feu (S01)

As the Parisian firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in thecathedral, the show also follows characters who are put through the wringer asthey will have to fight, love, run into each other, hate each other, smile ator help each other – so they eventually get a chance to start all over again.

→ Notre-Dame, watch the part du feu

Descendant

Descendants of the enslaved Africans on an illegal ship that arrived inAlabama in 1860 seek justice and healing when the ship’s remains arediscovered.

→ Watch Descendant

HBO Max

Selena + Chef (S04)

In this unscripted cooking show, artist, actress, producer and philanthropistSelena Gomez tries something new: make delicious meals while quarantined athome. She is helped from a distance by a master chef.

→ Watch Selena + Chef

Amazon Prime Video

The Peripheral (S01E01)

The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to keepthe pieces of her broken family together in a forgotten corner of America.Flynne is smart, ambitious and doomed to fail. She has no future until thefuture comes for her. The Peripheral is one of master storyteller WilliamGibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory look at the fate of humanity and beyond.

→ Watch The Peripheral

Disney+

Lesson Amateurs (S01)

The quiet lives of two dorks Vincent Piquet and Alban Burne are turned upsidedown when they stumble upon a conspiracy after a misunderstanding and becomeentangled in the world of organized crime. It’s the start of a crazy andchaotic journey full of danger and intrigue. But even as they desperately tryto save themselves, they never stop bickering.

→ Watch Amateurs lesson

Video country

Villa Orange (S02)

With the European Championship just around the corner, Wesley Sneijder, DirkKuyt, Mark van Bommel and John Heitinga look back, but also ahead. Togetherwith Frank Evenblij, they look back on their impressive careers in VillaOranje and look ahead to the upcoming European Championship. Personal andcandid stories, summer games and live music.

→ Watch Villa Oranje

André Hazes (S01)

No more endless rumours, this is the story of André Hazes. For two years,André was followed by documentary maker Cheeru Mampaey during perhaps the mostdifficult period of his life. He stands at a crossroads, wrestling with fearsand demons. André enters into a battle, especially with himself, which isaccompanied by some rigorous decisions.

Documentary maker Cheeru Mampaey: “The original intention of the documentarywas to tell the story of André Hazes’ start-up during Corona towards his “Theevening of your life” in Ahoy 2021. Yet life was just that little bitdifferent. I had the opportunity to follow André very closely, also during hisburnout and struggle with addictions. This ensures an honest, intimate andunique document where the viewer gets to see an André they don’t know yet.”

In the series, a self-reflective and critical André is visible, looking at thefirst images filmed for his documentary. During this time, his addictionsplayed a major role in his daily life and that of his loved ones. Byreflecting on these harrowing images, it becomes clear how he actually felt atthe time and what André’s life has really been like over the past two years.

→ André Hazes (S01) watching

Ziggo

Klangor (S01)

A teenager suddenly disappears on the border of Poland. His disappearance islinked to the guards of a local prison who are involved in drug trafficking.

→ watch Klangor (S01)

Pathé Home

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!

A mysterious new enemy seeks revenge on Mystery, Inc. Now they must team upwith their nemesis – the evil mastermind behind every costume in Scooby-Doohistory – to solve this mystery.

→ Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! to look

CineMember

L’evenement

France, 1963. Anne is an intelligent student with a bright future ahead ofher. But the dream of finishing her studies and freeing herself from hersocial background shatters when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. As herfinal exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands eventhough it risks ending up in jail.

→ Watch L’événement

Spotify

Waylon – Just Willem

→ Waylon – Just listen to Willem

More new this week!

We have already given you a nice selection of the new range of streamingservices, but there is of course much more New This Week. Are you looking forother new movies, series and music on these streaming networks? On our sistersite Nieuw Deze Week you will find everything that is new on Netflix, Film1,Videoland, Ziggo, Kobo Plus, Pathé Thuis and Spotify! Our Belgian readers canvisit Nieuw DezeWeek.be for the latest films and series on Netflix.

In a behind-the-scenes TikTok video posted by “The Daily Show,” host TrevorNoah shut down an audience member who asked him why he is beefing with KanyeWest. An alleged beef between the two took place earlier this year after Noahcondemned West for his incessant trolling of ex-wife Kim Kardashian on socialmedia. West responded by directing a racial slur at Noah on Instagram, whichled to West being temporarily banned on the platform for a day.

“Why am I beefing with Kanye? That’s an interesting way to phrase it because abeef has to go both ways,” Noah told the audience member. “Genuinely it does.In my limited understanding of the world, beef has always been something thatgenerally will happen between two hip hop artists. I’ve never beefed withKanye West. I was concerned about Kanye West.”

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West has courted controversy over the last few weeks for making racist andantisemitic comments in various interviews. West has said during pastcontroversial media blitzes that he struggles with mental illness, which hasled to people defending West this time around regarding his antisemiticcomments. Noah did not specifically address West’s latest comments, but he didquestion why the media is continuing to give West a platform when it’s knownthat he has mental health issues.

“If somebody says to me that they have a mental health issue,” Noah said, “andthey say to everyone that when they don’t take their medication they’re unableto control themselves, and then everyone ignores when that person is having anepisode and they haven’t taken the medication, and then they platform theperson and then they put them up…I sometimes think it’s a little shitty, to behonest with you.”

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“My grandfather was bipolar,” Noah continued. “I’m not saying Kanye is. I’mjust saying my grandfather was bipolar, and one thing we knew was when he washaving one of his episodes. He could act in a certain way and could do certainthings…but our job was to support him. It would be weird if I was there going,’Oh, my grandfather’s having an episode again. I’m going viral tonight!’ Ithink it’s a little bit strange.”

“I don’t have beef with a human being who has expressed openly that they’redealing with a mental health issue. I don’t have beef with that human being,”Noah said. “What I have beef with is us as society not coming together aroundthe person and going like, ‘Hey, maybe this is not the moment to put amicrophone in your face so that you just go off saying everything.’ If this iswhat you want to say when you’re on your medication, then that’s a differentstory. But because you’ve told us that, I’m not going to sit by and say that.”

Noah concluded by saying he has “never had beef” with Kanye West, adding, “I’mstill playing ‘College Dropout.’ I’m still playing the music. I still love theman that I think he is. And I understand that he’s gone through a lot, youknow, and I don’t take that for granted. But I’ve promised myself I’ll neverbe the person who just sits by and gleefully says things about people that Icare about and then also joins the group of mourners afterwards and acts likeI wasn’t part of it. Too many people like to mourn you when you’re dead andthey don’t say anything to you when you’re alive. So I don’t know where toend. But that’s it.”

The TikTok below is not the first time Noah has addressed his relationshipwith West. During an August 2022 interview on Varieties Awards CircuitPodcast, the host spoke about why he decided to make public comments aboutWest’s behavior in the first place.

“I’ve just become more comfortable speaking my mind in situations where I feellike the mob forgets that we’re dealing with human beings,” Noah said at thetime. “It’s easy to stand on the sidelines, see a train crash coming and saynothing about it. And then after the train crashes off the tracks, we say,’Oh, I saw that coming!’ Well, then why didn’t you say anything? Especially ifyou have some sort of platform, you have some sort of obligation to speak atruth. You know, see something and say some thing.”

Noah’s latest comments followed Howard Stern’s viral reaction to West’santisemitic comments. Stern compared West to Hitler and criticized West’sdefenders who say the rapper has mental health issues.

“Fuck this mental illness, self defense thing that he’s into,” Stern said.“You know, like, ‘Oh yeah, he’s just mentally ill. Don’t worry about it…’ Ifhe’s so mentally ill, why don’t they appoint a conservator over his money likethey did with the poor Britney Spears?”

Watch “The Daily Show” TikTok in the video below.

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SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses several major plot elements throughout“Black Adam,” now playing in theaters.

Dwayne Johnson has long promised that “the hierarchy of power in the DCUniverse is about to change” with his movie “Black Adam.” Now that it’sfinally released in theaters…will it change anything?

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The post-credits scene certainly hopes so. Fans had long been clamoring forJohnson’s super-strong villain to face off against another all-powerful DChero: Henry Cavill’s Superman. Johnson himself had been teasing the showdownat this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and on the “Black Adam” world premiere redcarpet. Much to the fans’ delight, Johnson and the “Black Adam” team listenedto their request.

Cavill’s Superman does appear in the post-credits scene, and there seems tobe some hostility between him and Black Adam. But first, the scene starts outwith Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller (who’s been pulling the strings behind theSuicide Squad in not one, but two movies) sending over a drone to talk withBlack Adam. Waller isn’t too happy with Black Adam after he escaped from herunderwater prison — which was run by “Peacemaker” character Emilia Harcourt(Jennifer Holland) in a fun cameo.

peacemaker

Waller tells Black Adam that he has her attention, and she’ll let him go freeas long as he doesn’t step foot outside his home country, Kahndaq. Black Adamsmirks, saying, “There’s nobody on this planet who can stop me,” which promptsWaller reply that there’s someone not from this world who can help her. Sureenough, Superman, the last son of Krypton, crashes down from above in a cloudof dust. As the Man of Steel emerges from the smoke, he tells Black Adam, “Weshould talk.” And then the movie cuts to black.

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Does this mean we’re getting a Black Adam-Superman fight in a prospectivesequel? As with most things in the DC Universe right now, it’s unclear. Whilemany of the upcoming movies on DC’s slate — “Shazam: Fury of the Gods,” “TheFlash,” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” — do exist in the same cinematicuniverse, these movies are largely unconnected, and the chances of anothercameo from Cavill or Johnson in them seem pretty slim. There have beenunconfirmed reports about a second Superman movie with Cavill, but nothing hasbeen announced, let alone greenlit.

Man of Steel

“Black Adam” producer Hiram Garcia has said that a Superman battle wouldn’tjust be a one-off movie, however. “It’s never been about a one-off or justabout a fight,” he recently told CinemaBlend. “No, it’s about so much morethan that. We really want to craft a long-form of storytelling and show thatthese two characters exist in the same universe and are going to have to dealwith each other often, either on the same or opposite sides. Hopefully they’regoing to clash at some point, but it’s not just about a ‘one fight’ situation.That was never our dream. That does not reward the fans. Fans want to feel ajourney between these guys knowing that these guys exist in the sameuniverse.”

Outside of Superman, “Black Adam” has a few more Easter Eggs up its sleeves.The Justice Society of America heroes, made of Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), DoctorFate (Pierce Brosnan), Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo) and Cyclone (QuintessaSwindell), make their big-screen debuts and have some comic-book nods.

Black Adam Justice Society

Atom Smasher explains that his suit allows him to change the structure of hisatoms and grow to a gigantic size. As we’re introduced to him, he gets aFaceTime call from his uncle Al Pratt, who was the older hero Atom in the DCComics and passed down his suit. In a hilarious cameo, the Fonz himself, HenryWinkler, plays Pratt.

Hawkman, the leader of the Justice Society, has a comic-accurate costume,complete with wings and a hawk helmet. He mentions that his spaceship is madefrom Nth metal, the precious alloy from the planet Thanagar that’s also usedin his mace.

In the comics, Cyclone is the granddaughter of Abigail Mathilda “Ma” Hunkel,who was the first superhero to go by Red Tornado. As a child, Cyclone waskidnapped by the mad scientist TO Morrow, who also created an android namedRed Tornado, and has nanobytes injected within her, which are the source ofher elemental powers. In “Black Adam,” Cyclone briefly mentions her past,particularly the nanobytes, to Atom Smasher, who’s shocked by her originstory.

Though he sadly dies, Doctor Fate puts up a fight against Marwan Kenzari’svillain Ishmael, who turns into the demonic monster Sabbac. When Doctor Fatedons his gold helmet and uses his magical powers, his voice is deeper andotherworldly. That could be because his powers come from an ancient, cosmicbeing named Nabu, who grants the mystical abilities to whoever wears theDoctor Fate helmet. With Brosnan’s Doctor Fate dead, there may be someone elseto take up the mantle in a second, like the current DC character KhalidNassour.

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Presenter Natasja Gibbs was in last night Kamp of Koningsbrugge for aphysical and mental test. Her fears and self-image got the better of her.Gibbs talked about her childhood trauma and the impact it has on her. Viewerspraise her participation and willpower.

Gibbs has previously been acclaimed by the viewing public for herperseverance. Because of her physical condition she did not have it during herparticipation. At the start of last night’s episode, the team spirit is stillgood among the participants. Gibbs still speaks out loud that she is proud ofher fellow comrades and herself.

But it turns out that a mental struggle is taking place in Gibbs’ head. “It’sreally the way I was raised. I don’t really know anything other than that Idon’t always meet certain standards and that it’s never good enough.” Achildhood trauma appears to be very deep in the presenter. “I had a prettyviolent upbringing as a child and that shapes you enormously. That ensuresthat you are always on the lookout. Deep in my heart I understand where thatuncertainty and everything comes from.”

Natasja Gibbs is afraid of the dark due to childhood trauma

The familiar faces must make a journey through the dark on their own in thisepisode. Where Gibbs soon confesses that she is afraid of the dark and stillsleeps with a nightlight on. “Because you can’t predict what will happen.” Sheexplains that she was very anxious during her childhood. “And I was afraidthat the next day would come.”

Former commando Ray tries to give Gibbs some courage before she starts herjourney. A terrified Gibbs braves the dark. Finally she arrives at the endpoint and that triggers a lot of emotion in her.

Overweight physically and mentally

Later in the morning there will be a commando training. Gibbs does notparticipate, because according to commando duo Ray and Dai, this training isphysically and mentally too heavy for her. Much to the disappointment of Gibbshimself. “I want to get rid of that shit, I don’t want this anymore. My ownshit. I said, I’m the one who’s getting in my way and I want to get rid ofthat. I am constantly fighting with myself.” After which one of the commandoscompliments her for her perseverance. “I also don’t want to cry so much allthe time.” But she emphasizes that she is “very angry” at herself.

“Would it be smart to continue with this? Will it get better?” Commander Rayasks Gibbs. And the commando duo conclude that the problem with Gibbs is toodeep and they are in it Kamp of Koningsbrugge not going to get out. Afterwhich they ask if Gbibs wants to stop the program. She tears off her badgefrom her uniform and gets a hug from the commandos.

Viewers praise Natasja Gibbs’s participation in Kamp van Koningsbrugge

“I’ve been fighting this fight all my life. I’ve been programmed that waysince I was a kid. It’s so ingrained in me. I’ve always been told I’m notworth things or not good enough,” Gibbs said. She wonders if she will ever getover this mental struggle. But she wouldn’t have wanted to miss the program”for a cent.” Viewers also praise her willpower in the program. The reactionsto her participation and eventual departure are therefore heartwarming.

Nick Kroll is sharing his thoughts on the buzz surrounding Don ‘t WorryDarling.

Kroll, 44, portrayed Dean, the husband of Olivia Wilde’s character Bunny inthe film released last month. Harry Styles, 28, and Florence Pugh, 26, alsostarred in the movie, which Wilde directed.

speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Friday, Krollopened up about receiving backlash after sitting on a panel for the TV series_cavemen_ at the Television Critics Association — and what it took away fromthat experience.

The show aired for one season in 2007 and was inspired by Geico commercials.However, accusations that the series was “racist” was an unexpected topicduring the panel discussion.

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“I learned so much going through that, like how you can’t predict howsomething’s going to be received. You can’t predict any of it. And I was youngenough then where I was like, ‘I’m funny, I ‘ll be funny about this.’ But ifthat happened today, I would not be doing bits around it. I’d be as quiet andboring as possible,” Kroll said of the moment.

Asked if that experience “prepared” him for Don ‘t Worry Darling‘s talked-about press tour, Kroll said, “It prepared me to be part of something thateveryone was interested in, but here’s the difference: The Don ‘t WorryDarling trailer came out, and people were excited about it. People have beenthinking about this movie for a while.”

He explained, “Then all of the mishegas happens, the drama around the moviestarted to take hold, and I was not a part of any of that. I’m not distancingmyself at all, I just wasn’t doing press at that point.”

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The actor said he first witnessed how the movie was being received during theVenice Film Festival, adding, “Ohhhh, I think people might be interested inthis.” Laughing, he added, “And I was right.”

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During the movie’s premiere at the festival, Styles was accused of spitting oncostar Chris Pine, 41.

A representative for Pine quickly shut down the rumor, and Wilde eventuallyaddressed what she called “spitgate” during an appearance on the Late Showwith Stephen Colbert.

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Speaking to host Stephen Colbert last month, Wilde confidently stated thatStyles “did not” spit on Pine, adding, “But I think it’s a perfect example oflike: people will look for drama anywhere they can.”

When Colbert, 58, joked “only time will tell” if the rumors are actually true,she reiterated, “No, he really didn’t!”

Forty members of the Don ‘t Worry Darling crew and production team alsodenied any drama on set after Vulture reported that Pugh and Wilde got intoa “screaming match,” citing an unnamed insider who reportedly spent”significant time” behind the scenes of the film.

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In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE last month, personnel who worked on Don’t Worry Darling said that any rumors of onset tensions “are completelyfalse.”

“As a crew, we’ve avoided addressing the absurd gossip surrounding the moviewe’re so proud of, but feel the need to correct the anonymous ‘sources’ quotedin a recent article,” the statement read at the time. “Any allegations aboutunprofessional behavior on the set of Don ‘t Worry Darling are completely

[BLOG] Something you ‘ve been hearing for years and perhaps experiencingyourself is that Dutch radio is dying. Almost nothing happens that stillappeals to the imagination, everyone neatly finishes his or her playlist, if aradio producer is already in the news, it is because he wants to sleep in anextra day a week. What a poverty, you often hear. With a few exceptions, theDutch radio stations are all the nicest boy in the class, nothing reallystands out in the field of entertainment, noise, craftsmanship or excitingmatters. Veronica who are going to broadcast from a train, is that what wehave to do with in 2022? Fortunately, there is still Eddy Keur, on both NPORadio 2 and 3FM!

Let’s take a professional look at what makes the Keurbaas, on Friday afternoonon 3FM and last week as a replacement for Ruud ‘hakkel en lispel’ de Wild, sounique that other (young) jocks could take an example from. Just compare ashow by Ruud de Wild to that of Eddy Keur, what a difference and what asadness that amateur painter brings every afternoon. Give that important timeto your replacement if you clearly don’t feel like it anymore Ruud.

Eddie dares If you hear Keur in conversation with a fellow jock, file reader or listener,he doesn’t shy away from turning something boring like traffic information ora crosstalk with Gijs Staverman into something fun. By a little joke, acomment, a sound effect, whatever. Good radio is entertainment, you are notthere just to have fun with your colleagues, you are there to entertain thelistener and Eddy understands that like no other.

Eddie is standing Keur, unlike his lazy sidekicks, newscaster or fellow jocks who insist onsitting, stands on his radio shows. He knows that things should be asenergetic as possible and partly because of that, he swings the pan, the wholethree hours. Does not poop, breathes better and can therefore make longersentences.

Eddie makes contact Have you ever noticed how few jocks actually connect with their listener, evenwhen they have someone like that on the phone? The aforementioned Stavermanalso has such a hand. Talking a little autistic over the listener’s head, evenwhen you’re talking to him or her on the phone. My God how embarrassing tohear that is always the case. Eddy listens, feels like a listener, gives himjust enough space and ensures that they once again turn it into entertainmenttogether. And he doesn’t even need the voxpro for that, he does it all live.

Eddy knows the difference is in the details design. One uses it to promote themselves all the time, the other to give theshow that extra sauce. Because it is not a SHOW for nothing. I heard that Keurhad been busy collecting the right jingles, beds, sweepers and sound effectsfor that one new Friday afternoon show months in advance. And that pays off.What energy and what cohesion. This is what radio was invented for. Nothingold-fashioned, the people who treat the medium so cowardly and dare nothing,that’s only back to the 1970s.

Eddie is herself It’s always easier said than done: being yourself on the radio. But Keur isreally EXACTLY the same in real life when you see him on the radio. Iinterviewed him once and was a guest on his NH radio show: he doesn’t play apersonality, he IS a personality. On air and off air.

Eddy has a large vocabulary I’ll translate that word: Eddy has a large vocabulary. You won’t hear himboringly read a message, he tells it in his own words. For example, I recentlyheard the word ‘ejaculate’ on him on the show, in connection with a fin whale.Think again about the average jock, who would have just read the message andthen start the TV tune of Flipper. Keur understands that language is the mostimportant tool with which you bring radio to life!

Eddie makes everything of himself Big tip from the better radio books in America: ‘make it your own’. Make ityours. Eddy approaches everything he does in his shows the Eddy way. Don’t beput off by the format, the obligatory songs, actions, etc. This keeps italways sounding fresh and new.

Eddie is preparing well The best radio shows sound like they’re being pulled out of the box, butthey’re prepared down to the last detail. Keur puts in the necessary time itsounds like, but not too much. He stands like a conductor in the orchestra pitwith his fellow musicians making it a vibrant whole.

Eddie has timing Keur moves along with really everything that can be heard. Whether it’s anintro, a bed, a disaster or a backsell. His voice, timing and pronunciationmatch what you hear in the background. It coincides. Listen to 538 for a dayand you will regularly hear jocks talking in a LOW voice over a HYPER bed. Orjust keep talking staccato in the intro to a song by Maan as by David Guetta.It doesn’t mix, it doesn’t sauce, doesn’t sound and that’s why it quicklybecomes irritating. Not to mention what De Wild is doing there everyafternoon, that trick has now really been worked out in 2022.

And so on And so I can go on sticking feathers up Keur’s ass for a while. It’s nice tosee (and hear) how much he stirs up with the average jock and listener. Tocritics I would say let’s not turn things around, this is not ‘old fashioned’,this is what radio is for. First dare to make a radio show so energetic,creative, involved and enthusiastic, only then can you criticize those fewjocks who can and dare to make it like this. What they do go wrong with 3FM,by the way, is to immediately launch a gigantic advertising campaign for thosenew guys in the morning with ‘listen the best morning show’. The listenerdecides for himself, what is nice and what is not, you don’t get that forcedon them.

Patrick Kicken

Check out Eddy’s own YouTube channel, where he regularly posts compilations ofhis radio shows. Can you judge for yourself whether what I write above istrue. And if De Wild is smart, he doesn’t see Eddy as a competitor, but itwakes him up to rediscover the love for our beautiful medium.