Skip to Content

Month: August 2021

‘I Am Legend’ screenwriter reacts to vaccine conspiracy theories, pointing out the plot is fiction

By Scottie Andrew, CNN The post-apocalyptic thriller “I Am Legend” is bubbling up in conversation among the vaccine-hesitant crowd, prompting the film’s screenwriter to emphasize that the plot is entirely fictional. Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film starring Will Smith, clarified that “I Am Legend” is pure fantasy after an unnamed

Continue Reading

‘What If…?’ brings infinite possibilities to the Marvel multi-verse on Disney+

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “What If…?” might be the most Marvel Comics thing that Marvel Studios has done, translating the what-might-have-happened-if comic-book concept from page to screen, with all its geekiness intact. The highly stylized animation and access to key actors enhances the fun, creating an extremely logical Disney+ add-on to an increasingly packed

Continue Reading

Vicente Fernández está “grave” pero “estable”, dice en su cuenta de Instagram

CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El cantante mexicano Vicente Fernández, quien permanece hospitalizado en Guadalajara, México después de sufrir una caída en su rancho, se encuentra en estado “grave” pero “estable”, según el reporte que fue publicado este lunes por la noche en la cuenta de Instagram del artista. De acuerdo a lo publicado en

Continue Reading

AMC is playing to the Reddit crowd

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business If there was ever any doubt that individual investors are a powerful new force on Wall Street, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron may just have silenced the skeptics. The latest: On the company’s earnings call Monday, Aron made it very clear through his choice of words — and downright flattery

Continue Reading

Meaningful ways individuals can put pressure on corporations to solve the climate crisis

By Rachel Ramirez and Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business The climate crisis is accelerating at unprecedented pace, according to a new United Nations state-of-the-science report. It is “a code red for humanity,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres — and given that the report concludes the entirety of the warming is due to human greenhouse gas emissions,

Continue Reading

Fact-checking claims that migrants on the Southern border are to blame for Covid surge

By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN While Covid-19 continues to spike across the country and in southern states with lower vaccination rates, Republicans have tried pinning blame for the rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths on illegal immigration and President Joe Biden’s policies at the southern border. During an August 4 press conference, Florida

Continue Reading

Dallas County judge asks for temporary restraining order against governor’s mask mandate ban

By Keith Allen, CNN Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins asked a Texas court Monday for a temporary restraining order seeking to hold portions of Gov. Greg Abbott’s July executive order involving mask mandates “unenforceable,” according to a statement from the judge’s office. Abbott last month issued an executive order that combined many of his earlier

Continue Reading