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Hellboy star David K. Harbour is describing the upcoming movie reboot featuring Mike Mignola’s comic book creation as a “dark and scary” monster movie. Harbour, no doubt, had a big year, most recently reprising his role of Chief Hopper among a gifted ensemble cast for season 2 of the critically acclaimed Netflix series Stranger Things. But it was surprising announcement by Mignola in May that put Harbour’s name up front and center when the comic book scribe said that Hellboy was getting an R-rated reboot with the imposing and charismatic actor in the title role....

With the new iPhone came a new operating system. iOS 16 introduced new safety features, along with cool updates like the ability to unsend texts and lock screen switching. The new OS enhanced two iPhone tools: Live Text and Visual Lookup. You can now do much more with the objects, people and texts found in your photos, videos and images from the web. Use Live Text to copy, look up or translate text from photos and videos Live Text was introduced with iOS 15, allowing you to capture the text in pictures and copy it as easily as text from a message, web page, note or document....

Late last year Square released its updated Square Reader for accepting contactless and chip payment methods on iPhones and iPads, which means small businesses and pop up shops can take Apple Pay payments from iPhones and Apple Watches without expensive terminal systems. The new Square Reader goes for $49 with transaction fees set at 2.75% so you keep $97.25 out of every $100 sent through Square. Square’s app lets you create mobilized businesses on iPhones and iPads, and we’ve tested the new Apple Pay-ready reader to see just how easy it all is....

Smart doorbells have eluded the HomeKit community since its inception, continuously promised but never delivered. At CES 2019, Netatmo may finally be ready to offer a solution. We took a hands-on look at what the company is calling the world’s first HomeKit-compatible doorbell. The Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell has a compact, modern design with a sturdy build and clean lines. The device is small and inconspicuous enough to work well on the exterior of most homes....

[Update: A voluntary recall for this product is now active. Customers can receive a refund for returning. Details here.] Last year Hyper launched the world’s smallest 100W USB-C charger thanks to its implementation of GaN technology. Now the company is back with an even more compact and functional way to power up your devices with the HyperJuice GaN Stackable Charger. Follow along for a hands-on look as well as how to get 50% off this innovative new modular charger....

Neville Longbottom might have the most inspiring, dramatic and interesting personality change of any character in the Harry Potter franchise, and that includes Katie Bell, who literally got a new face. In the 2001 film, The Philosopher’s Stone, Neville was a short, confused and unintelligent boy who had been raised by his grandmother after a scarring experience as a child in which he had lost his parents. Take a look at what he ended up turning into....

Harry Potter is such a popular franchise that fans have made hundreds and thousands of memes about their favorite books, movies, characters, themes, locations, spells, creatures, and more. You name it and someone in the fandom has created a meme for it and it’s probably caught on and made the rounds on social media. Even individual Hogwarts houses have their own various memes. We decided to focus specifically on some of the most hilarious Slytherin memes available on the internet because Slytherins often get shafted as one of the darker or “evil” houses when in reality, most of them are as silly and over the top as anyone else....

When it comes to sorting students into the different houses in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it’s kind of two sides of the same coin in a strange way. Each house has particular characteristics that they value over everything else, but a student can be chosen for that house because they already fulfill those characteristics or they can be chosen because their personality is in direct opposition to those traits and they need an education in that particular house to bring those traits out in them....

Within the wizarding world of Harry Potter, there seem to be some near-universal truths. Voldemort is one of the most powerful but one of the worst wizard who ever lived. Albus Dumbledore is the greatest of all time. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the best magical education in the world. And no one wants to be in house Slytherin unless they’re the bad guys or proud, arrogant purebloods....

In the Harry Potter series, Hermione is seen as one of the smartest characters in the books. Given her age, she’s often talked about as the smartest witch in her grade and viewed as being much smarter than her peers. While it’s true that Hermione often was a lot smarter than her classmates, there were also times where this wasn’t the case. Hermione was great at things like logic and many kinds of magic, and she also was extremely studious....

For Harry Potter fans, choosing a favorite Weasley could be as difficult as choosing a favorite child… especially if you throw in Weasleys from prequels or sequels, like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, or those who’ve married into the clan, like Fleur Delacour or Hermione Granger. Even sticking to the Weasleys we’ve met in the original Harry Potter works presents a difficult challenge. It’s much easier to rank them in terms of who they are as people, including contributions they’ve made to the wizarding world, their general importance and how they’ve treated everyone from family to friends....

Henry Cavill is finally breaking his silence over the CGI removal of his mustache in Justice League. As fans know, the DC Extended Universe superhero extravaganza had a rough road to the big screen this past November, beginning with the personal tragedy that led to director Zack Snyder stepping down and former Marvel helmer Joss Whedon taking his place. Adding insult to injury, the film was a costly miss for Warner Bros....

As we noted in a prior post, Apple has updated its Apple TV Remote app to version 1.1. This latest version, which comes on the same day as tvOS 10.2 and iOS 10.3, brings long-awaited iPad support to the table. Along with support for the iPad, the updated Apple TV Remote app features an enhanced Now Playing interface complete with support for lyrics and Up Next playlists for music, along with several other notable features....

A new report suggests the Harley Quinn movie Birds of Prey could film as early as 2019, and may feature an all-female crew. It’s been difficult to keep up with all of the DC films that are currently in some stage of development, especially as few of them have even been confirmed by Warner Bros. themselves. But what’s clear is that Margot Robbie will return as Harley Quinn in some sort of spinoff from the Suicide Squad franchise....

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is not only a magical film, but it is a staple of our youth. We all remember how much that movie changed everything for us in 2001, back when we’d bring Harry Potter flavored jellybeans to school and play “witches and wizards” on the playground during recess. It is all because of that single film directed by Chris Columbus that caused our imaginations to run wild....

Darkstar Pictures has released a trailer for the upcoming prison break drama Heartlock, starring Alexander Dreymon, Lesley-Ann Brandt, and Erik LaRay Harvey. All three of the film’s stars are probably best known for their work on the small screen over the years. Dreymon played a recurring role on American Horror Story: Coven and has starred in all three seasons of The Last Kingdom (where he plays the Uhtred of Bebbanburg) so far....

For $1799, the entry-level 5K iMac is a very good deal for anyone looking for a powerful machine that can be upgraded to some extent. Of course, when it comes to an all-in-one machine like the iMac, the term “upgrade” is used loosely, but it’s still fairly remarkable how much headroom you can garner from Apple’s entry-level 27-inch 5K machine. In this hands-on post and video walkthrough, we’ll consider several reasons why the base-model 5K iMac is such a compelling proposition for those in need of a new Mac....

NVMe SSDs can be a nice alternative to more traditional external storage options and we’ve been testing out Orico’s recently released SSD enclosure that offers a fun, transparent design, up to 10 Gbps speeds over USB-C, tool-free use, affordable price, and more. In addition to a neat design, this new NVMe SSD enclosure offers easy swapping of storage without requiring tools. Read on for our full hands-on look. Orico Transparent NVMe SSD Enclosure Specs 1 x USB-C port USB 3....

In a revelation that should shock absolutely no one considering what we now know about Jed Wyatt, Hannah Brown’s engagement on The Bachelorette was messy even before she learned about Wyatt’s girlfriend. Once the cameras stopped rolling, the couple was forced to confront reality after reality television, and - not surprisingly - it wasn’t the same. It’s often the case for the lead on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to have a pretty good sense of who they want to see themselves engaged to at the end of the show before the cast is whittled down to the final two....

Imagine yourself in the Hufflepuff common room. The Hufflepuff common room is the only Hogwarts common room not to make an appearance in the Harry Potter books or movies, so imagining is key. Everything is a sunny shade of yellow. Think about being in the basement, near the kitchens, on the poofiest couches and some yellow beanbag chairs. There are definitely plants scattered around, and a rung, and a lot of snacks....