Climeworks’ Icelandic plant captures CO2 direct from the atmosphere
It could be a scene from science fiction. Towering over dark, mossy lava fields are stacks of noisy machines the size of shipping containers, domes, and zig-zagging silver pipes.
Found 30km (19 miles) southwest of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, this is the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) facility.
Called Mammoth, it has been developed by Swiss firm Climeworks.
It has been running for two months, sucking global-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air, then storing it deep underground where it turns to stone.
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Twelve collector containers are now installed, but in the coming months 72 of them will circle the large processing hall.
“That will enable us to capture 36,000 tons of CO2 every year,” Climeworks’ chief commercial officer, Douglas Chan, tells the BBC.
The idea is to reverse emissions that have already been pumped into the atmosphere.
Each collector unit has a dozen powerful fans, which, every 40 seconds, can suck up enough air to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
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“The technology relies on sucking in lots and lots of air, slowing it down so that the filter can capture it, and then venting the air back out the end,” says Mr Chan.
CO2-laden water is pumped underground where it turns to rock
CO2 only makes up a tiny proportion of the atmosphere (0.04%), so capturing it requires a lot of electricity.
For Mammoth that electricity comes from a neighbouring geothermal power plant, so, while operating, the plant is emissions free.
Once full, the collection chambers are flushed out with hot steam, which is piped into the processing hall.
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Inside the hall, Mr Chan points out two enormous balloons overhead, which together hold a single tonne of CO2.
That captured CO2 is then mixed with fresh water, in an adjacent tower.
“It’s almost like a shower,” explains Dr Martin Voigt, from Icelandic firm Carbfix, which has developed a process to turn CO2 into stone.
“From the top, water trickles down. The CO2 is coming up, and we dissolve the CO2.”
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Hidden inside two white, igloo-like domes nearby are injection wells, where the CO2-laden water is pumped more than 700m underground.
The suspended container can hold around half a tonne of CO2
“This is a fresh basalt here,” says Dr Voight, showing me a lump of black rock taken from a recent volcanic eruption, and riddled with tiny holes. “You can see there’s a lot of porosity.”
Iceland has an abundance of volcanic basalt, and this bedrock acts like a storage reservoir. When the carbon meets other elements found in the basalt, a reaction kicks off and it solidifies, locking it away as carbonate minerals.
“Here you can see a lot of these pores are now filled with whitish specks,” says Dr Voight, handling a sample of drilled out rock.
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“Some of these are carbonate minerals. They contain the mineralised CO2.”
The process is quick, claims Dr Voight enthusiastically. “We’re not talking about millions of years.”
“Around 95% of the CO2 was mineralised within two years in the pilot project. This is incredibly fast. On geological timescales at least.”
Iceland’s bedrock is well suited for storing CO2
Capable of removing 36,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, an amount similar to taking 8,000 petrol cars off the road, Mammoth is almost 10 times larger than Climeworks’ first commercial plant called Orca.
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It costs Climeworks almost $1,000 (£774) to capture and store a tonne of CO2. To make money it sells carbon offsets to clients.
“Mammoth has already sold close to a third of its lifetime capacity,” states Mr Chan, who believes technological improvements and scaling up, will drive down future costs.
“By the end of the decade, we want to be at a cost of capture of between $300 and $400.”
Among its customers are Microsoft, H&M, JP Morgan Chase, Shopify and Lego; as well as over 20,000 individuals who subscribe on Climeworks’ website.
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“We’re following the science,” Microsoft’s senior director of energy and carbon removal, Brian Marrs, previously told the BBC.
“Carbon removal has to be part of the equation. You can’t reduce emissions that are already in the atmosphere, you have to remove them.”
Eventually Mammoth will be dwarfed by US-based Project Cypress, which breaks ground in 2026, and which Climeworks hopes will remove up to a million tonnes of CO2 annually, using new technology which it claims will be cheaper and more energy efficient.
Douglas Chan says it costs almost $1,000 to capture a tonne of carbon
DAC technology is, however, not without critics who think its over-hyped, pointing to high costs, high energy consumption and limited scale.
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Those critics would argue that capturing CO2 where it is emitted would be far more efficient.
“It’s much easier to remove the carbon dioxide directly from smokestacks,” says Dr Edvard Júlíus Sólnes, a professor at the University of Iceland and former Icelandic Environment Minister.
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Despite repeated calls to curb emissions, a record amount of planet-heating CO2 was churned out last year.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that emissions must be urgently slashed, but that still won’t be enough to prevent harmful global warming.
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Many climate scientists agree that carbon removal will also be necessary but this also divides opinion. Multiple methods have emerged, and some caution against reliance on so-called techno-fixes, which might discourage polluters from changing their ways.
Currently no carbon removal is taking place at anywhere near the scale that would be needed.
“We release about 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, so this [DAC] won’t make a dent in the big problem,” says Dr Sólnes.
“We need to divest from fossil fuels and find other sources of energy,” he asserts. “But I think we should use all methods to fight this problem.”
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More DAC projects are getting off the ground. According to the International Energy Agency, 27 plants have been commissioned worldwide, but only four of them capture more than 1,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.
Plans for further 130 facilities are also on the drawing board, and around $3.5bn has also been earmarked by the US government to kickstart three large-scale hubs aimed at eventually removing a mega-tonne of CO2, per year.
However, Doug Chan is convinced that DAC can help battle global warming. “I really do believe direct air capture and other engineered solutions are going to get us to the point that we need to help fight climate change.”
We’re still enjoying the Tensor G4 on the Pixel 9 series, but there’s talk about the Tensor G6 for the Pixel 11 already. And according to the latest report from Android Authority, the Tensor G6 could have a pretty big downgrade. Why? Google wants to fix battery life and the thermals of the Pixel series. Something that they had already done a good job with, for the Pixel 9.
Google is also looking to cut the costs of the Tensor chipset, along with increasing battery life. According to the documents that Android Authority has looked over, the goal for Tensor is to get the target to around $65, to make it viable. Qualcomm’s most recent flagship chips are rumored to cost about $150.
Google’s heard consumers complaints about Tensor
Google is aware of the problems with Tensor, and is looking to solve them. Internally, Google has acknowledged that the number one reason for Pixel returns is overheating. About 28% of returns mention thermals being a problem. They also know that battery life needs to be improved. Stating that “Good battery life attracts user & drives loyalty with higher satisfaction”.
The search giant is looking for ways to improve the situation by reducing the temperature in high-power use cases. Part of this comes by way of the new “Cinematic Rendering Engine” which will reduce the power consumption of video recording with blur by around 40%, which means that it generate considerably less heart.
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So what does this mean for Tensor G6? Well, Googleis looking to reduce the die area, without regressing on features compared to the Tensor G5. Currently, the Tensor G5 is about 121 mm2, while the Apple A18 Pro is about 105 mm2, and both are using the same node process.
Tensor G6 is looking to hit that 105 mm2 die area, including 4% area saving from TSMC’s new N3P process node. In order to do this, some sacrifices had to be made, including getting rid of ray tracing and GPU virtualization. Google is also looking to ditch the little cluster on Tensor G6, providing one prime core that’s the ARM Cortex-A930, and then six performance cores that are the ARM Cortex-X730.
It appears that Google is still in the process of actually building this chip, so things could change. After all, the Tensor G4 just came out less than three months ago, and this chip is set for 2026.
You can soon the battery of a Volvo at more than 17,800 Tesla Supercharger stations across the US and Canada. That should make it much easier for Volvo drivers to find a place to charge, even though they already had access to tens of thousands of fast charge points.
Starting November 18, drivers can locate Tesla Superchargers via the Volvo Cars app or built-in Google Maps. It’s possible to pay for charging sessions via the Volvo Cars app as well.
There’s one teensy catch, however, especially if you have had a Volvo EV for a while: to access Tesla Superchargers and other North American Charging Standard (NACS) chargers, you’ll need an adapter. This costs $230 ($310 CAD) and can be ordered from authorized Volvo retailers. The automaker will start shipping them to retailers on November 18, but adapters for the EX30 will be available at a later date. That said, Volvo is including the adapter with purchases of the new EX90 flagship SUV, EX40 or EC40 starting with model year 2025.
Volvo in June 2023 that it would support Tesla Superchargers and the NCAS. It’s one of many automakers that have backed a more standardized approach to EV charging in North America.
2024 has been a stressful year. Other people might pick more relaxing ways to de-stress — a spa day, a nice cocktail, or maybe a social media detox. Not me, baby. I’ve decided to cope the same way I always do: ramping up training instead of stress eating my weight in mini-muffins. Except it’s unreasonable to abandon my desk and run a 5K every time the news cycle spikes my anxiety. Which is why, for the last three months, I’ve taken to logging miles on a desk treadmill. Specifically, the $240 Mobvoi Home Walking Treadmill.
As an overly self-quantified wearables reviewer, I picked Mobvoi’s walking treadmill for one reason and one reason only: it pairs with a smartwatch so all your steps are properly counted.
My beef with treadmills — especially ones you stick under a standing desk — is that you can walk 500 miles on them but your smartwatch will record maybe 100 steps. Your legs could be working overtime, but smartwatches rely on arm swings to count steps. I know because anytime I write and walk at the same time, my Apple Watch says I’ve done diddly squat. And that’s even when I record an indoor walking session. No one needs to record every little step, but it helps me keep track of my workout volume and intensity.
I chose Mobvoi’s desk treadmill because it connects with smartwatches.
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Many folks get around that by strapping a smartwatch to their ankle. I refuse. Not only because I’ve tried it and found it uncomfortable but also because fitness tracking algorithms and sensors are all programmed and tested for your arm. Treadmill walk data becomes useless to me, a wearables reviewer, if I can’t trust that data to be accurate.
That’s where Mobvoi’s treadmill comes in. You can download the Mobvoi Treadmill app from the Google Play Store onto any Android smartwatch. (I used it with Mobvoi’s TicWatch Atlas and Samsung’s Galaxy Watches.) It connects to the walking pad when you turn it on. And voila. Your metrics are right there on your wrist — even if your arms are limp as you’re typing an email. It’s pretty accurate, too! There aren’t any extra sensors, but once connected to the app, it allows the device to share data with your watch. I noticed that meant my Android watches would correctly register my subtler movements as steps. My Oura Ring and Apple Watch didn’t.
Problem solved! Or, it would’ve been if I were a devoted Mobvoi user. But alas, even this simple walking pad can’t escape gadget ecosystems.
But since you can also view stats on this display… technically you don’t need the smartwatch bit.
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For whatever reason, Apple Watch users are out of luck, as the Mobvoi Treadmill app isn’t available in Apple’s App Store. To view your live stats via the wrist, you must have an Android smartwatch. I don’t love that, and it’s a little baffling considering all this does is connect the walking pad and your watch over Bluetooth. Fortunately, I spend a good chunk of the year testing Wear OS watches and don’t care about having two phones and wearing two smartwatches at all times. But that’s not most people, and for regular iPhone users, this is a nonstarter. I asked Mobvoi if an iOS version would ever arrive but didn’t hear back.
Somehow, getting your phone to actually save that data is even more of a headache. If you have a Mobvoi watch, there’s no problem. Workouts recorded in the Mobvoi Treadmill app automatically pop up in the separate Mobvoi Health app on your phone. But the Mobvoi Health app only works with Mobvoi watches. If you use any other kind of Android smartwatch, you can’t actually log the treadmill data into whatever health app you keep on your phone. The data is just stuck on your wrist.
Things like this are why people pick one ecosystem and stick with it. During testing, I fixated on how to get all my walking pad data onto my iPhone — the device where most of my health data is stored. Thinking through all the ways to get my data off Android and into Apple’s Health and Fitness apps was so exhausting, it made me not want to use the walking pad at all. There were weeks when I let it collect dust in my office because I didn’t want to use it if I wasn’t getting credit for it. And getting that credit was too much work.
This is my preferred turtle speed for walking while working.
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At this point, I had to take a good hard look in the mirror. The whole point was to use this device to relieve stress. Instead, all I’d done was overcomplicate a walking pad. I ended up anxious and dreading my imperfect, messy metrics. I was so concerned about doing something “the right way” that I ended up not doing it at all. Looking back, I’ll be the first person to tell you that’s absurd. And yet, I’ve also been part of enough running and fitness communities to know that this is a common trap that even the best of us fall into.
My experience improved once I chucked the smartwatches into a drawer. I accepted my step counts wouldn’t be accurate and that my training algorithms across a dozen wearable platforms would be slightly off. I actually stopped recording my walks on every single platform altogether. As a result, my mental health improved, and I take far more walks now. My life isn’t any less stressful — I just have more endorphins, but that’s enough to make me more resilient.
Once I stopped caring about the data, I was free to figure out how to use the walking pad meaningfully. A lifelong overachiever, I started out trying to walk and work at 2.5mph to make it “worth it.” Imagine my surprised Pikachu face learning it’s quite difficult to walk at a brisk pace and write emails or even read because you’re bobbing up and down. And sweaty. Eventually, I accepted that my desk walks don’t have to be fast and found a turtle-like speed that works. (I’ve written most of this review at a 0.6mph pace.)
Turns out, ignoring the smart features and tracking helped me walk more.
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On mornings when the caffeine just isn’t hitting, a 20-minute walk usually jogs my shriveled brain cells while I catch up on the news. When something just isn’t working in a draft, walking while reading my sentences helps enormously. I’ve also noticed how my body becomes so stiff when I’m frustrated, anxious, angry, or full of dread. Hopping on a walking pad for a ploddingly slow 10 minutes is always enough to loosen me up — even if my step count isn’t impressive.
I highly recommend a walking pad if you, too, often experience existential dread and anxiety. Just maybe not this exact one. It’s funny. I picked Mobvoi’s treadmill precisely because it had the bells and whistles. But at the end of the day, all the extra connectivity, the data, and the “smarts” got in my way. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is remember why you’re doing something, zero in on it, and cut out the extra noise.
Agree to Continue: Mobvoi Home Walking Treadmill
Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. It’s impossible for us to read and analyze every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exactly how many times you have to hit “agree” to use devices when we review them, since these are agreements most people don’t read and definitely can’t negotiate.
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You could just use the Mobvoi Home Walking Treadmill sans any smart features. In that case, you only agree to the terms and conditions of buying the actual product. However, if you use it with an Android smartwatch, you’re agreeing to the terms and policies of that device plus those of the Android phone it’s paired to. Optionally, you agree to any third-party services or apps you integrate with.
Used with a Mobvoi smartwatch, you’re agreeing to:
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Strands expert
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Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #252) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Nice fit
NYT Strands today (game #252) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
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TILL
HILL
BILL
DUST
THERE
WELL
NYT Strands today (game #252) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Fits the bill
NYT Strands today (game #252) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First: left, 5th row
Last: right, 4th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #252) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Strands, game #252, are…
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JUMP
CIVIL
STRONG
BUSINESS
BIRTHDAY
LEISURE
SPANGRAM: WELLSUITED
My rating: Moderate
My score: 2 hints
I find myself disagreeing with the NYT’s choice of theme hint fairly often. This is possibly unfair, because as I know from experience it can be a very tricky thing to think of a clue that is helpful without giving the game away. But even bearing that in mind, the choice of ‘Nice fit’ here seems slightly misleading. After all, ‘nice fit’ works perfectly well for the spangram, WELLSUITED, and for some of today’s answers – for instance LEISURE and JUMP. But it doesn’t work for CIVIL or BIRTHDAY at all; these are types of suit, yes, but they aren’t a ‘nice fit’ in any way. STRONG can be – if something is your strong suit, it is a good fit for you. But CIVIL in particular… no, it needed a different clue here.
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That set me on the wrong path here, and I needed two hints to establish that yes, all of the answers were types of suit. Once I knew that it was pretty easy to find the others. And maybe that’s why it’s best that the hint did throw me off the scent – because without that I’d have probably had yet another perfect game, and that gets boring after a while…
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Saturday, 9 November, game #251)
BLUR
OASIS
PAVEMENT
TOOL
NIRVANA
SUBLIME
SPANGRAM: NINETIESBANDS
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Once again, Peacock has reshuffled its movie lineup. Many of the films that were around in October are gone in November. It is honestly kind of annoying because we prefer the streamers to have consistent lineups. Stability may not be Peacock’s strong suit, but it will gain another summer blockbuster this month with Twisters on November 15.
This month, we’re also throwing the spotlight on Peacock’s other recent arrivals, including Die Hard, Ted, and the 2005 remake of King Kong. For younger fans, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the Harry Potter films are still around, too. You can find these flicks and more in our complete roundup of the best movies on Peacock below. Remember: some films are only available to Peacock subscribers on the two premium tiers.
Twistersdoes not have any major characters in common with the 1996 film that spawned the franchise, but it rode its flashy tornado special effects to summer box office gold in 2024. The story follows Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a woman whose dream to make tornadoes weaker goes horribly wrong and costs her the lives of most of her team and her boyfriend. Years later, Javi (Anthony Ramos) offers Kate a chance to earn some redemption by working alongside him on a research project.
Out in the field, Kate and Javi encounter a rival storm chaser, Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), who is a tornado social media influencer. Despite being initially repulsed by Tyler, Kate finds him to have deeper motivations than she suspected. But just as romantic sparks start to fly, both teams are endangered by a massive storm.
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Rotten Tomatoes: 75% Genre: Disaster Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney Director: Lee Isaac Chung Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 122 minutes
It must be Peacock’s turn to have John McClane (Bruce Willis) over for the holidays. Willis established himself as a movie star in Die Hard, even though John was anything but a typical action hero. The only reason John came to Los Angeles was to reconcile with his wife, Holly Gennaro-McClane (Bonnie Bedelia), at the holiday party for her company at Nakatomi Plaza.
Before John knows it, the entire building has been seized by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his team of terrorists. With Holly among the hostages, John has to take on this group of killers by himself and alert the LAPD to what’s really happening inside the building. That would have been a lot easier if John still had his shoes, but he always finds a way to survive.
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Genre: Action, Thriller Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman. William Atherton, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson Director: John McTiernan Rating: R Runtime: 132 minutes
Through a fluke or some kind of miracle, a teddy bear named Ted (Seth MacFarlane) came to life when John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) was a child. The title character ofTed is the biggest reason why John has never really grown up, despite the wishes of his long-term girlfriend, Lori Collins (Mila Kunis).
When Ted finally goes too far, Lori makes John kick him out of their apartment. John just can’t quit being Ted’s best friend, even when it derails his life and threatens to ruin his romance with Lori by driving her to John’s rival, Rex (Joel McHale).
Rotten Tomatoes: 69% Genre: Comedy Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi Director: Seth MacFarlane Rating: R Runtime: 106 minutes
Peter Jackson fulfilled his ambition to remake King Kong thanks to the success of the Lord of the Rings movies. Jackson wisely kept the time period in 1933, the same year the original film came out. Naomi Watts has a charming turn as Ann Darrow, a struggling actress who accepts a job with filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his expedition to Skull Island because she has no other prospects.
Ann and Carl’s screenwriter, Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), fall in love during the trip, but they face the first real test of their relationship on Skull Island. Kong (Andy Serkis in a motion-captured performance) isn’t the only threat waiting for them there. And Carl is determined to capture it all on film, even if it kills them all.
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Genre: Action, Adventure Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks Director: Peter Jackson Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 167 minutes
It took a few decades, but Nintendo finally got a film that recaptured the spirit of the games that inspired it. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a massive success, both in theaters and on Netflix. Now that it’s back on Peacock, it’s bound to remain a perennial hit. The story mashes up several of the Nintendo games while introducing Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day), a pair of ordinary plumbers from Brooklyn who find themselves transported to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Luigi is quickly captured by Bowser (Jack Black), a villain who wants to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom and marry its ruler, Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy). But Peach isn’t feeling that romantic pairing, so she teams up with Mario and her subject, Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), to find new allies and rescue Luigi.
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Rotten Tomatoes: 59% Genre: Fantasy, Comedy Stars: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic Rating: PG Runtime: 92 minutes
The Harry Potter movies are back on Peacock, and the third film, The Prisoner of Azkaban, is widely recognized as the best in the series. It’s the third year in Hogwarts for Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), and this trio are growing up fast even as the danger around them grows more intense.
Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) is the titular prisoner who has escaped from Azkaban. Word among the wizards is Sirius betrayed Harry’s late parents and he intends to finish the job by killing Harry. Young Harry thinks he’s ready for a fight with Black, but he’s unaware that someone has been pulling the strings the entire time.
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Genre: Fantasy Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon Director: Alfonso Cuarón Rating: PG Runtime: 131 minutes
Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho is an unusual ghost story, as a young fashion student, Eloise “Ellie” Turner (Thomasin McKenzie), somehow finds her dreaming hours to be filled with vivid visions of a woman named Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy), who wanted to be a singer in the ’60s. Ellie is so enthralled by Sandie that she models herself after her and takes inspiration from her fashions.
However, Ellie’s visions take a darker turn when she sees Sandie’s lover, Jack (Matt Smith), apparently murder her in the past. Ellie becomes obsessed with finding Jack and avenging Sandie, even as reality breaks down around her. There’s more than one ghost, which may drive Ellie completely out of her mind.
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% Genre: Horror Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao Director: Edgar Wright Rating: R Runtime: 116 minutes
Coming off of his Oscar-nominated turn in Barbie, Ryan Gosling headlines The Fall Guy as Colt Seavers, a worn-down Hollywood stuntman who is ready to leave showbiz behind after suffering a severe injury. But he gets one last shot when his ex-girlfriend, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), needs his help on her directorial debut.
Jody doesn’t really want Colt around on her set, and more pressingly, her leading man, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), has gone missing. If Colt can’t track down Tom, Jody’s career as a director will be over before it begins. Yet there’s more to Tom’s disappearance than either Colt or Jody suspects. And it’s going to be a wild ride to get him back.
The Bikeriders raced through theaters like the law was on the trail of the titular motorcycle gang. That may not have been what Johnny Davis (Tom Hardy) intended when he formed The Vandals as a motorcycle club in the ’60s. Johnny assembles like-minded bikers including Benny (Austin Butler), who soon courts and marries Kathy (Jodie Comer).
Through the eyes of Kathy and photographer Danny Lyon (Mike Faist), we see the rise and fall of The Vandals. At times, Johnny’s creation threatens to spiral out of his control. And it’s going to take more than just words for Johnny to hold on to his authority over the gang.
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Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Genre: Drama Stars: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Norman Reedus Director: Jeff Nichols Rating: R Runtime: 116 minutes
Marry Me is based on an independent comic by Bobby Crosby that features Jennifer Lopez playing a very J.Lo-like pop star, Katalina “Kat” Valdez. With three failed marriages under her belt, Kat is ready to tie the knot again at one of her concerts to the latest love of her life, Bastian (Maluma). But when Kat discovers that Bastian was unfaithful before the ceremony on stage, she makes an impromptu decision to wed a man in the crowd who was holding a “Marry Me” sign.
The man in question is Charlie Gilbert (Owen Wilson), an unassuming teacher whose life is turned upside down when he accepts Kat’s offer to marry him. Rather than breaking off things quickly, they agree to stay together for a while. And without the glare of the media on them, Kat and Charlie start developing real feelings for each other, even if no one expects them to last.
Rotten Tomatoes: 61% Genre: Romance, Comedy Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Chloe Coleman Director: Kat Coiro Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 112 minutes
Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective, Philip Marlowe, isn’t exactly in vogue anymore. But the classics never truly go out of style. In the 1975 adaptation of Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely, Robert Mitchum steps into the role of Philip as he finds himself in the midst of two difficult cases that may be related.
In the first, a bank robber named Moose Malloy (Jack O’Halloran) hires Phillip to find his missing girlfriend, Velma (Charlotte Rampling). In the second case, Phillip is helpless to prevent the murder of his client, Lindsay Marriott (John O’Leary). Not even police intimidation can keep Phillip from finding answers and solving the mystery.
Rotten Tomatoes: 76% Genre: Mystery, Suspense Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe Director: Dick Richards Rating: R Runtime: 95 minutes
The Google Pixel 9 is without a doubt one of this year’s best smartphones, and Amazon is offering a really good limited-time deal on it right now that you do not want to miss out on. Normally, the 256GB Google Pixel 9 would end up costing you $899. However, Amazon has it on sale right now for only $749, and that’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen this phone since it launched just a couple of months ago. This is also the all-time low price from Amazon according to price tracking from Camel Camel Camel.
While there are lots of things to love about the Pixel 9, one of its best features is the longer battery life. Compared to past Pixel devices like the Pixel 8, the Pixel 9 has noticeably longer battery life. Google says it will last for 24+ hours, and we found that to be more than true. With a decent amount of screen-on time. The Pixel 9 is also packed with Gemini AI integration. And that’s on top of the already available AI features from last year’s phones.
And of course, it has one of the best smartphone cameras available on the market. The Pixel 9 has a 6.3-inch Actua display and it comes unlocked which means you can use it on most US carriers. This includes AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Metro, Mint Mobile, Cricket, Google Fi, and many others.
While all of that stuff is nice, the best feature of the Pixel 9 is unquestionably its long update support. Google will support this device with OS version and security updates for seven whole years. So you can buy this phone in 2024, and it’ll get updates all the way until 2031. Which means you won’t have to upgrade for quite a long time if all you’re worried about is new software.
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