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Joey Flechas, The Boston Globe Email, LinkedIn, and more Angel Benitez saw so much sports betting among his fellow high schoolers that he thought it was worth doing a survey as a class project. The 17-year-old senior and his friends asked 90 students at Fenway High if they knew someone their age who had gambled, though it’s illegal in Massachusetts for those under 21. Eighty-two of them said yes. “Gambling ads are everywhere, which promotes and gives motivation to teenagers like me to get into gambling,” Benitez told a joint committee of House and Senate members during a hearing Thursday on Beacon Hill. The youth was one of many to testify in favor of more restrictions on sports betting and the advertising of such platforms. Source link

John Ford is an almost mythic figure from Hollywood's "Golden Age," and here are his best movies currently streaming on Prime Video. The John Ford/John Wayne collaborations remain some of the most acclaimed works in either man's filmography, with The Searchers being considered one of the best Westerns ever produced. Outside of Ford's work with Wayne, he explored a wide range of genres throughout his career. There are John Ford war movies (They Were Expendable), award-winning dramas (The Grapes of Wrath), romantic comedies (The Quiet Man), and just about everything in between. Ford also nabbed four Academy Awards for Best Director during his career. Ford was also a workhorse, with rarely a year going by without the director having a new movie coming out. Like Wayne, Ford started out m...

Who’s ready to get loud tonight? Team De Los is back in Vegas to cover the 26th annual Latin Grammys, which is only the biggest night in Latin music.This year’s class of Latin Grammys contenders is one of the mightiest in recent years. During the preshow Premiere Ceremony, the zany Argentine duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso claimed the lead for most Latin Grammy wins so far, clocking five trophies in the following categories: alternative music album (for “Papota”), alternative song (for “#tetas”), best pop song (for “El Día del Amigo”), short-form music video (for “#tetas”) and best long-form music video (for “Papota”). Tonight they are the second-most nominated act behind Bad Bunny, who is nominated for 12 awards total. So far he has won the Latin Grammys for urban music performance (for “D...

Belgian martial artist turned box office gold leading man Jean-Claude Van Damme worked hard to put himself in the league of other A-list action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and the like. From his earliest lead star vehicle, Bloodsport, Van Damme hasn’t just acted, he’s also served as editor on occasion as well as fight director and choreographer. And throughout his 1988 to 1999 theatrical film career, he starred in quite a few substantial box office hits. And, unfortunately, some of his better efforts within that period seem to have been somewhat forgotten to time. Those are the movies of his that follow, Van Damme vehicles that deserve a bit more love and respect. So, none of his heavy hitters, such as Bloodsport, Timecop, Kickboxer, Street Fighter,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - History was made this week after an artificial intelligence-generated song reached the top of a Billboard music chart.“Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust clinched the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales ranking. It has led to mixed reactions from local artists and industry experts. “I feel it for all of us artists that put our stories, our pain, our struggles, in our music, and you see somebody that’s not even real get this high accolades. It’s discouraging, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it, it is discouraging,” country music artist 2LiveBre said.The song has gotten more than three million streams on Spotify in less than a month. Industry experts say AI has been used for years to help write songs. It’s a tool country music reporter Marcus K Dowling expects to...

17 years ago today, Assassin’s Creed debuted and became a massive success for Ubisoft. Focusing on the eternal war between the Order of Assassins and the Templar Knights, the franchise has consisted of 31 games across over a dozen platforms. It’s become one of the signature gaming franchises of the 21st century, with everything good and bad that entails. With a global fan base and hundreds of millions in profits, Assassin’s Creed stands tall as one of the ten most successful franchises in gaming history. This makes the history of the game all the more intriguing, as it was all originally meant as a spin-off of another video game franchise. In the years since, however, Assassin’s Creed has dwarfed the original in terms of pop-culture impact and overall success. Here’s how Assassin’s Cr...

You could almost call it the Rise of Solo. Or maybe A New New Hope. Weeks after it was revealed that the Walt Disney Company had squashed the idea of a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spinoff centered on Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo played by Adam Driver, the idea refuses to die amongst fans of the galaxy far far away. A plane with the banner “Shareholders Want The Hunt for Ben Solo,” the latter part being the hoped-for movie’s title, flew over Disney’s Burbank-based headquarters in the 11 a.m. hour Thursday, just hours after the company had its earnings call. It’s the latest banner-flying move (fans hired a plane with a banner reading “Save the Hunt for Ben Solo” in late October) and comes the same week as flyers showed up in Los Angeles’ mid-Wilshire area on lam...

“South Pacific pocket soul meets Motown revival” is one of the ways Stephen Henderson describes his music. The singer-songwriter hails from Hāna, Maui, and brings a perspective to his music informed by family, love and grief.Henderson is one of the artists featured in HPR’s Live From the Atherton Celebrate808 concert series, which kicks off this weekend and runs through November. The Conversation spoke with Henderson after he performed a new song, “Where’s the water flowing?” ...

Deep Rock Galactic developer Ghost Ship Games is hard at work on its next game, Rogue Core, which is coming out next year. Based on the enduring popularity of Deep Rock, it'll probably be a hit—but that's not a guarantee in a multiplayer space increasingly squeezed between new games and perennial favorites that have managed to hold onto players for many years now."Competition is fierce," Ghost Ship Games director Mikkel Martin Pedersen says. "When we started out making Deep Rock Galactic, I think there were a handful of successful co-op focused games on Steam. Today there are a lot more games there. We definitely feel that there are some really, really good co-op games out there right now. Helldivers 2, obviously, and lately we've seen Arc Raiders do extremely well."It's getting harder to ...

More and more video game adaptations come out every year, and they are going to get better and more popular every time. With films like A Minecraft Movie and shows like Fallout, live-action adaptations are the next biggest trend. However, that only proves how influential and popular video games are, and if fans search for them, they can even find cinematic masterpieces while playing games. Most players play games because of their immersive gameplay, sense of agency, and direction, but cinematics, narrative, and cutscenes are becoming all the more important as gamers want more story in their games. That is why this list will feature video games with the best cutscenes in the medium and compare them to films, highlighting what is so great about them based on visuals, story, writing, dialo...