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News Tomb Raider Sophie Turner Looks Likely to Play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider Series By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on November 14, 2024 Credit: Helen Sloan/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Helen Sloan/HBO Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s live-action Tomb Raider series is close to casting its Lara Croft. According to Deadline, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner is in negotiations to play the starring role. Turner, of course, is widely known for playing Sansa Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones (pictured above). Her other credits include playing Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Dark Phoenix and, most recently, the lead in the British limited crime series, Joan. In a 2023 interview, Waller-Bridge shared her take on Croft, a character previously played by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in film adaptations of the popular video game franchise. “Having worked on Bond and having worked as an actor on Indy, I feel like I’ve been building up to this,” she said. “What if I could take the reins on an action franchise, with everything I’ve learned, with a character I adore, and also just bring back some of that ’90s vibe?” The showrunner also added that she was excited by the idea of the show being a “Trojan Horse,” where she could do “something really quite dangerous” and exciting by having a built-in audience of fans who will, she hopes, be pleased and surprised by what she brings to the series. How Turner’s potential portrayal of Lara Croft plays into that remains to be seen, and I’m curious to see her take on the character. No news yet on when the series will go into production or make its way to Prime Video. I should also note that Turner’s casting still has yet to be officially confirmed by Amazon MGM Studios, most likely because negotiations are ongoing. If those talks go smoothly, however, it’s very likely we’ll see Turner take on the Tomb Raider banner in the near future. [end-mark] The post Sophie Turner Looks Likely to Play Lara Croft in <i>Tomb Raider</i> Series appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts Young Adult Read an Excerpt From Lyndall Clipstone’s Tenderly, I Am Devoured A moody, monstrously Gothic romantasy in which a young woman must bind herself to a dangerous chthonic demon… By Lyndall Clipstone | Published on November 14, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Tenderly, I Am Devoured, a young adult gothic romantasy novel by Lyndall Clipstone, out from Henry Holt & Co. on July 1st, 2025. Expelled from her prestigious boarding school following a violent incident, eighteen-year-old Lacrimosa Arriscane returns home in disgrace to discover her family on the point of financial ruin. Desperate to save them, she accepts a marriage of convenience… to Therion, the chthonic god worshipped by Lark’s isolated coastal hometown.But when her betrothal goes horribly wrong, Lark begins to vanish from the mortal realm. Her only hope is to seek help from Alastair Felimath: the brilliant, arrogant boy who was her first heartbreak, and his alluring older sister, Camille. As the trio delve into the folklore of gods, Lark falls under the spell of the Felimath siblings.Ensnared by a fervent romance, they perform a bacchanalia with hopes the hedonistic ritual will repair the connection between Lark and her bridegroom. Instead, they draw the ire of something much darker, which seeks to destroy Therion—and Lark as well. The words echo through my mind like the ringing of the iron Saltswan bell. I feel as though I’m hallucinating again. I wait for the rush of pounding darkness, but this is strikingly, terribly real. My hands begin to shake; I close the book and press it to my chest. Thinking of smoke and chants and howls. The chamber at the bottom of the mine, the toppled brazier, spilled liquor, an echoing silence. Alastair gently takes the book from me and sets it aside. “Did you know there’s a pivotal moment in The Neriad where Naiius—the hero—rages at the gods?” I shake my head. “I only know the scene where Naiius goes into the forest; there was a Caedmon sketch of it in the gallery. It was an alternate panel for The Dusk of the Gods, but he never used it in the final version.” Camille looks between us, her mouth twisted in amusement. “I can’t believe it,” she says to me with a teasing grin. “You’re almost as much of an embarrassing nerd as Alastair.” But I’m trembling, my blood has become ice. “What does this phrase mean?” “It’s an ancient idiom, and Naiius uses it in that scene. He condemns the gods to be gone—not just from the mortal world, but the chthonic realm as well. The Salt Priest at your betrothal has done the same to Therion. You can’t speak with him. He’s been banished. Permanently.” Buy the Book Tenderly, I Am Devoured Lyndall Clipstone Buy Book Tenderly, I Am Devoured Lyndall Clipstone Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget I stare at Alastair, wishing hopelessly for a way to dismiss his conclusion. Even Camille looks stunned, the teasing smile wiped from her face. I knot my hands into the too-long sleeves of my brother’s shirt, thinking of the visions I’ve seen—Therion, trying to reach out to me. If he is truly gone, how could that be? “I don’t believe you, Alastair. I have to try to speak with him again. I have to know—” Shakily, I pick up the obsidian mirror. I’ll take it to the altar in the grotto caves, sip from the chthonic liquor there, call to Therion just as I did on the day I promised to marry him. If that doesn’t work, I’ll go to the mine. My fingers close around the handle of the mirror. The polished surface is flat and opaque, featureless as a becalmed sea. But when I touch it, the glass begins to ripple. A slow hum starts up within me, echoing against my bones. I clasp a hand to my mouth. My fingers come away stained with indigo. Noise fills the room, a buzzing static. Pain spikes at my temples. It’s the same way I felt at the entrance to the mine when I touched the new salt. And I can’t let go of the mirror. I can’t move. I sit as still as carved marble. The light around me darkens piece by piece. Alastair tries to take the mirror from me. I tighten my hold, the motion involuntary. He clutches my wrist as he tries to work my fingers loose from the silver handle. “Lacrimosa,” he says, choked. His head bows forward. His eyes shutter closed. When he looks at me again, his irises are bright as amber. Like the eyes of a swan. Like the eyes of a god. “Lark.” The world seems to speed and slow all at once. His features shift—boy to swan to god—the planed lines of Therion’s mortal guise slipping back and forth into Alastair’s features. Distantly, I hear Camille crying out—but it’s as though she’s far away, back at Saltswan, calling our names from the library window. The space around me begins to soften. Like the world is melting away. With a sound like an indrawn breath, water cascades into the room. It pours down the walls and covers the floor, rising and rising. I struggle, trying to stand up, but tangling strands of kelp are around my chest, my waist, my throat, trapping me in place. Alastair leans over me. Everything is blurred and brushstroked, like we are in the heart of an oil painting. His teeth are clenched, his eyes bright as flames. In Therion’s voice, he says, “You are mine, Lacrimosa. I refuse to let you go.” Excerpted from Tenderly, I Am Devoured, copyright © 2024 by Lyndall Clipstone. The post Read an Excerpt From Lyndall Clipstone’s <i>Tenderly, I Am Devoured</i> appeared first on Reactor.

The life of celebrities has its own special kind of appeal. Celebrity weddings, well, that's a whole other level of special. These photos of celebrity couples on their wedding day from the '70s and '80s have us feeling nostalgic. See the likes of Princess Diana, Emma Thompson, and Audrey Hepburn in full wedding attire. Did you know that Emma Thompson was married to Kenneth Branagh? They couldn' Source

Latinos left the Democratic Party in a mass exodus last week, costing Vice President Kamala Harris the presidency. The 13-point Latino shift toward President-elect Donald Trump noticed along the Rio Grande indicates Harris’ campaign failed to make Latinos forget the peril caused by her and President Joe Biden’s open border. The Latino red wave surfaced in South Texas. Trump won 11 out of 13 Texas border counties. The Rio Grande Valley, with a 91% Hispanic population, flipped, creating a Republican majority for the first time in a century. The Latino base showed up for Trump, with Hispanic men ranked as the second-largest demographic group to vote red, according to NBC exit polls. America’s Latino voting bloc was previously unpredictable by political analysts until the chaos along the southern border became an issue that could no longer be ignored. The Biden-Harris administration created an invasion along the Rio Grande, which burdened communities across the nation. The unsecure border drastically increased Latino susceptibility toward transnational human trafficking for commercial sex purposes, drug trafficking, and exploitation of cheap labor. Hispanics know those tragic matters affect their community, which explains why 74% of Hispanics polled earlier this year stated the Biden-Harris administration did a bad job dealing with the immigration crisis. Instead of addressing this top concern among Latinos, Harris released a campaign promise, “Opportunity Agenda for Latino Men,” which avoided promising stricter border policies, an aspect Latino men searched for in a presidential candidate. Harris’ address to Latinos also failed to account for more than 300,000 unaccompanied alien children lost by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered over half a million illegal-alien minors, 98% of whom were of Latin American origin. The Biden-Harris administration endangered Latino children from the start when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly stated that unaccompanied alien children who crossed the border illegally would not be turned away. Cartels capitalized on this, often smuggling the same children through ports of entry multiple times in an endless cycle for trafficking profit. An estimated 60% of Latin American children who attempt to cross the southern border illegally, unaccompanied or with a smuggler, are abused by cartel operatives for sex or drug trafficking. Where are these children? HHS guarantees minors are placed with a sponsor. Still, the American people have no way of knowing where so many of them are because HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has treated the children like widgets on an assembly line, demanding faster processing out the door. There are corporations in the shadows who benefit from the illegal immigration crisis because of large-scale government contracts with HHS and DHS.? MVM Inc. is a company that contracts with the federal government, receiving large sums of money in exchange for providing alien-relocation services. Under the Biden-Harris administration, DHS gave the company $824.13 million, while HHS provided an additional $582.77 million to transport immigrants here illegally from fiscal years 2021 to 2024. MVM transports illegal aliens en masse, including a significant portion of unaccompanied alien children. Illegal alien minors are often subjected to placement with dangerous sponsors due to lax vetting during the rushed process and volume of placements, according to reporting from Muckraker. Neither HHS nor MVM has provided transparency on how prospective sponsors are vetted to ensure the safety of unaccompanied alien children, despite requests by House committees. Ultimately, Harris fell short of assuring Latinos that a Harris-Walz presidency would benefit them. The Left’s management of the southern border created discord throughout America and led to a nationwide plea for a safe and secure border. That plea was heard in the 2024 presidential election, with some of its loudest voices coming from the Latino community. Originally published by The Washington Times The post Why Latinos Deported Harris From the White House appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ordered the outgoing Biden-Harris administration to preserve documents related to its censorship collusion with Big Tech, among other ominous federal activities. Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers wrote to Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su on Nov. 12, cautioning against any coverup of the current administration’s potentially illegal actions. Johnson touched on the Department of Labor’s alleged effort “to suppress free speech.” MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider spoke highly of Johnson’s defense of free speech before it was announced that he had been elected Speaker of the House again today. Johnson’s letter directed at the Biden-Harris administration is yet more evidence to back up that point. “No Speaker in American history has fought harder to defend the First Amendment and free speech rights than @SpeakerJohnson,” wrote Schneider in an X post Nov. 12. “I hope he is re-elected. He would be an excellent partner with Pres Trump.” Johnson began the brief but pointed letter, co-signed by 255 other lawmakers, by writing, “As we begin preparation for a new Trump Administration and new Congress, we fully expect your cooperation in a smooth transition of power. To that end, it is imperative that during the transition you comply with all statutory record retention requirements, including but not limited to the Federal Records Act.” The federal agency must preserve the documents, Johnson added.  The speaker highlighted the previous congressional committees’ oversight on issues they will continue to investigate, including “the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies, tragic Afghanistan withdrawal, collusion with social media companies to suppress free speech, and weaponization of federal agencies against its political opponents, as well as the antisemitism at our nation’s universities enabled by leading Democrats.” Indeed, before Johnson’s letter was issued, the Twitter Files, the Facebook Files and the landmark Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit all revealed evidence indicating the Biden administration coordinated with and pressured Big Tech to crush Americans’ free speech. MRC has recorded thousands of cases of Big Tech censorship in its unique CensorTrack database. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

The “social justice” keyboard warriors are waging war on their latest target: A forthcoming biblical drama. Why? Because its Jewish main character is being played by… a Jew. Shocker! Netflix just released its trailer for the new series, “Mary,” depicting the Virgin Mary’s “journey to give birth to Jesus.” This has set off the Jew-hating Left, which is campaigning to “cancel” the show because the mother of Jesus is being played by an Israeli actress, Noa Cohen.    First trailer for ‘MARY’, a coming-of-age biblical story about Mary’s conception of Jesus. Releasing December 6 on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/pc4C5vdTkZ — DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 12, 2024   “Played by an Israeli actress lmao go f*ck yourself,” screeched one self-identified “lesbian” in a post that received over 117 thousand likes on X. 118,000 likes for a tweet that's furious about the concept of a Jewish woman playing a Jewish historical figure. I'm just sorry that reality offends you all. pic.twitter.com/NztqCAIXV6 — Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) November 13, 2024 Another unhinged user took a page out of the Hamas rulebook and went straight for execution as punishment for the casting choice. “If you make a movie about mary and she’s played by an israeli you deserve to be shot in the head,” posted this keyboard warrior. The self-identified “Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation” also chimed in. “Half the cast is Israeli, including Noa Cohen who plays Mary,” the user whined. “Looks like shit anyway, but needless to say avoid this like the plague,” the post instructed followers that garnered 80 thousand likes and 15 thousand shares. Half the cast is Israeli, including Noa Cohen who plays Mary. Looks like shit anyway, but needless to say avoid this like the plague https://t.co/bRVNm72Ek6 — Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation (@karaokecomputer) November 13, 2024 “F*ck this movie, and fuck anyone who watches it,” seethed another butthurt account, brandashing the “transgender” cult flag on it’s profile, next to both the “Palestinian” and Lebanese flags. “I’m not joking, if I see anyone talking about seeing it, I’m blocking,” announced the page.  Wow. The seething dumbness on display here. pic.twitter.com/dyIDdu0JRf — Kosher?? (@koshercockney) November 13, 2024 Then came the hilarious historical inversion and biblical rewrites. “Jesus is a Palestinian man,” insisted members of the social media mob. In fact, Mother Mary wasn’t actually “Mary,” she was Mother Mariam! “Jesus is a Palestinian man” ?? pic.twitter.com/QpwKZFYYIU — Kosher?? (@koshercockney) November 13, 2024 Because she and Jesus were Muslims, of course! They are still going pic.twitter.com/yFtsaB0ERa — Kosher?? (@koshercockney) November 14, 2024 Disregard the fact that Islam didn’t exist until around 600 years after Mary birthed Jesus… Or that the New Testament describes her as a devout Jewish woman who presented her son at the Temple in Jerusalem (Luke 2:22). To be a true “decolonial” progressive means ignoring the fact that “Jew” comes from Judea, a land colonized and renamed “Syria-Palestinia” by the Roman empire out of spite. In fact, the name “Palestine” is derived from the Hebrew root, “Palash” which means “to invade.”  What does ‘Palestinian’ ACTUALLY mean? I explain here ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/qamF5W6ibS — Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) October 17, 2023 But to recognize those minor details means recognizing Jews are native to the land of Israel, which would destroy the narrative of the Keffiyeh-wearing brats on college campuses and online. Instead, the hypocritical DEI mob will continue to erase Jews from their historic depictions while demanding every movie remake casts a "person of color."

On her Wednesday show, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell spread misinformation by suggesting Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth opposes the existence of female military pilots, thereby disrespecting those women who have suffered greatly in service to their country. On Thursday, instead of issuing a correction, Mitchell doubled down and repeated the claim. Speaking with former NATO commander and retired Admiral James Stavridis, Mitchell declared, “So, one of the things that they call woke is women, Donald Trump hasn't, but certainly Pete Hegseth has, women in combat, I referenced earlier, I was thinking earlier of, you know, Tammy Duckworth, the senator from Illinois who suffered so grievously after serving in Iraq, the women pilots, women have contributed a lot to this to this military.”     Earlier in their conversation, Stavridis was level-headed enough to praise Hegseth’s service and skills as a communicator, claiming “that is a significant part of the role of Secretary of Defense.” Unfortunately, Stavridis didn’t push back this time, “Enormously, and just two weeks ago in the Navy, we lost two young naval aviators, flying one of our most advanced jets, F/A-18 Growler, we call it, they were lost in those kind of high-intensity operations.” Not only did Stavridis not correct the record, he then threw in another suggestion that has no basis in fact, “I have served as captain of a ship that had about 20 percent of my crew were women, it was an exceptional combat ship, Andrea, and it also won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet, couldn't have done it without the women who were part of the crew.” Stavridis comes from a world where everyone aboard a ship is equally vulnerable during combat, but there is nothing to suggest that Hegseth would remove women from sea duty because he was talking about roles “where strength is a differentiator.” As for Mitchell’s second round of fake news about pilots, it was true on Wednesday, and it was still true on Thursday that Hegseth has explicitly said, “Gimme a female pilot all day long. I have no issues with that.” This bit of fake news has appeared elsewhere, with CNN's Kaitlan Collins bringing on Duckworth herself to shame Hegseth based on a complete strawman, "you're also someone whose helicopter was hit by an RPG. You lost your legs and partial use of your right arm, because of it. What was -- what did go through your mind, as a woman, who has served, when you heard him saying that women should not be in combat roles?" — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 14, 2024 Here is a transcript for the November 14 show: MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports 11/14/2024 12:54 PM ET ANDREA MITCHELL: So, one of the things that they call woke is women, Donald Trump hasn't, but certainly Pete Hegseth has, women in combat, I referenced earlier, I was thinking earlier of, you know, Tammy Duckworth, the senator from Illinois who suffered so grievously after serving in Iraq, the women pilots, women have contributed a lot to this to this military. JAMES STAVRIDIS: Enormously, and just two weeks ago in the Navy, we lost two young naval aviators, flying one of our most advanced jets, F/A-18 Growler, we call it, they were lost in those kind of high-intensity operations. I have served as captain of a ship that had about 20 percent of my crew were women, it was an exceptional combat ship, Andrea, and it also won the Battenberg Cup as the top ship in the Atlantic Fleet, couldn't have done it without the women who were part of the crew.