Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called out US President Joe Biden in two campaign speeches this week, citing the $40 billion in military aid Washington has pledged to Ukraine. Lula is polling far ahead of the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in the upcoming presidential election. “Biden, who has never …
Read More »Runner dies during half marathon
A 30-year-old man died on Saturday after collapsing at the Brooklyn Half Marathon’s finish line, according to officials. Local police say that the runner was taken to nearby Coney Island Hospital and pronounced dead, as six others also required medical assistance with non-life-threatening and minor injuries. Later on, New York …
Read More »Oscar-winning ‘Blade Runner’ composer dies
Vangelis, the iconic Greek composer of electronic soundtracks whose work spanned decades, passed away earlier this week at the age of 79, his representatives announced on Thursday. He had been undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a hospital in France. Born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou in Thessaly in 1943, he became known …
Read More »And the third runner-up is… Russia ranks among world’s largest bitcoin miners
Russia’s share in bitcoin mining grew by nearly 30% from last year’s figures. The United States is still in the lead with 35.4%, and second place is held by Kazakhstan with 18.1%. While the media embraced and paraded the news of the US becoming the globe’s leading mining hub, Russia’s ascendance …
Read More »Transgender runner’s manager vows they will compete on world stage after being ruled out of US Olympic trials over hormone levels
CeCe Telfer will not be able to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles due to World Athletics guidelines which set requirements for athletes to be eligible for the summer Olympics, according to the Associated Press. In 2019, the organization closed international women’s events from 400 meters to a mile to any …
Read More »Amazing special effects “blade Runner 2049” (VIDEO)
Clearly, in this big, beautiful sci-Fi movie like Blade Runner 2049 must be a lot of visual effects, but about the real number of them you hardly knew existed. For many such moments are virtually invisible and indistinguishable from reality. This is ironic, don’t you think? A picture, a story …
Read More »A new trailer for the MAZE RUNNER: the DEATH CURE
“Mad Max” for the minimum salary. But it looks quite cheerful! 20th Century Fox Russia tonight has posted a new trailer for Russian youth blockbuster “the maze Runner: the death Cure” (The Maze Runner: The Death Cure). I think this video consists entirely of borrowing, but you borrow something from …
Read More »Denis Villeneuve on the box-office failure of “blade Runner 2049”
The first Blade Runner at the time, collapsed at the box office. The sequel repeated his fate. This is the way to cult movie? Actually, strictly speaking, in order sweeping meditative art-house, which we saw on the screen, “blade Runner 2049” has collected a very decent cash. More than $ …
Read More »“Blade runner 2049”: how to create scenery for the film. Photo
It is very hard work. We used many special effects in modern movies are made on the computer, but in some movies there are exceptions, like in the movie “blade Runner 2049”, where he built a miniature city, in order to convey the dark atmosphere of the near future. These …
Read More »The tragedy in Kiev: during the marathon runner died
Died 54-year-old man from Ternopil region.In Kiev during the marathon Wizz Air Kyiv City Marathon 2017 the man died. The man became ill on the street Lavra. Arriving medics to save him failed. It is known that the deceased was born in 1963. The cause of death of men is …
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