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In a marked departure from her usual goofy comedies, Rebel Wilson has spread her wings in a drama about the fortitude of partners slogging through the slow hell of watching loved ones disappear due to memory loss. She co-stars with Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Almond and the Seahorse, playing against type with a host of prestige creative talent. She’s miles away from Pitch Perfect.

Here’s the official synopsis:

“Based on the play by Kaite O’Reilly, The Almond and the Seahorse is the directorial debut of both notable actor and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Celyn Jones; and Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated cinematographer Tom Stern. Sarah (Rebel Wilson) is an archaeologist who loves her husband Joe (Celyn Jones) but after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) their love is trapped in the past. Toni (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is an architect and loves her partner Gwen (Trine Dyrholm) but after a TBI they have been imprisoned in a fifteen-year loop. Love is the only thing that keeps them all going but something has changed, and both Sarah and Toni are determined to not let it all unravel as they face their fears of being forgotten by the people they love most.”

First of all, it’s wonderful that, even in a prestige drama, the characters still have rom-com jobs. Second of all, Wilson looks strong but subdued here. She’s spoken publicly about discovering her own trouble having children, relating it to her character in the film who is desperate to be a mom, so it’s easy to imagine that shining through. Meanwhile, Gainsbourg never falters, and the subject matter here is rich.

The Almond and the Seahorse hits theaters on December 16th.

Reviews for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are enthusiastically positive, with our own Mike Ryan calling it “a bit of a miracle,” so it’s no surprise that Marvel boss Kevin Feige wants more. When asked by Variety for an update for a third Black Panther installment that has, as of yet, not been publicly announced by Marvel, Feige was resolute in exploring more with Ryan Coogler.

“I go back to what I said when we decided to make Wakanda Forever after losing Chad,” Feige said. “This mythology and this ensemble and these characters deserve to continue and will continue after all of us are gone, I hope, and will continue forever in movies the way it has in comics for 50-plus years.”

Feige added that doing them without Coogler “wouldn’t be the preference.”

It makes sense that they haven’t formally announced a third film, both because they’re waiting on Wakanda Forever‘s box office performance in a new era of varying levels of success for Marvel hits and because the slate is already jam-packed. That includes Ironheart, the series coming in 2023 with Dominique Thorn playing Riri Williams — a character who makes her first appearance in a major role in Wakanda Forever. The ripples have already started, so it’s just a matter of time before we find out when we’ll travel back to Wakanda.

(via Variety)

Since Larry David thinks that every season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is going to be its last, consider this the beginning of the end. Until the next season. The whole team has officially started filming another roller coaster ride of awkward social situations and good deli meats.

Despite not following through on killing Larry off in its 11th season, the timeless sitcom will have another shot at murdering him as it films its 12th. JB Smoove took to Instagram to tell fans about his upcoming Physical Therapy Tour with David, Susie Essman, and Jeff Garlin hanging out in the background. Fortunately, everyone was very supportive of his efforts, and there was nothing but positivity!

“I’m currently on set acting a fool with the incredible cast of @CurbYourEnthusiasm as we film season 12!!!” Smoove grammed.

It’s like they’re trying to beat Jonah Hill’s Wolf of Wall Street record on F-bombs over here. Friendship! It’s obviously the glue that keeps this show together. This right here is the perfect amuse bouche for a season of delightful depravity where absolute legends are at the top of their game. This season — which will be the show’s last unless it isn’t — is due some time in 2023 over on HBO.

The Minnesota Timberwolves expected to take a leap forward this season coming off of the team’s first trip to the playoffs in five years and adding Rudy Gobert in a blockbuster, all-in trade this summer.

However, through 11 games the Wolves have been unable to get out of their own way, struggling to a 5-6 record (that was expected to be one of the softest early schedules in the league) including some blowout losses and inconsistencies on both ends of the floor. While growing pains are expected for new arrivals, the Wolves’ struggles have gone far beyond just a team trying to get acclimated to a new star on the roster. They have looked wholly disinterested times, but that got taken to a new level on Wednesday night against the Suns.

In the midst of a run in the second quarter as they chipped away at a 14-point first quarter deficit, Minnesota played a full defensive possession (including a Phoenix offensive rebound to reset) 4-on-5 because D’Angelo Russell didn’t realize he had been subbed in during the Wolves’ free throws on the other end and just stood at the scorers table watching as his team tried in vain to get a stop, ultimately giving up a three on the second attempt after Russell ran on the court well too late to help.

It’s something of a microcosm to the start of the season for Minnesota, as the Timberwolves have just not executed much of anything well at all, with a number of mental lapses and disjointed play as the culprit for their sluggish start. They trailed by 18 at halftime, as the 5-on-5 defense wasn’t an awful lot better than the 4-on-5 effort, and look like they are headed for their fifth loss in six games.

Usually the midterm elections are a sensation for whichever party is not in power. Republicans lost control of the House (but retained the Senate) in 2018, under Trump. In 2014, during Obama’s second term, a “red wave” gave Republicans control of the Senate when they already had the House. A “red wave” was supposed to happen this year. It did not. Fox News’ Jesse Watters was one of many in the GOP who thought it would. And now that it hasn’t, he’s having a meltdown trying to understand why.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Five, Watters threw a fit, wondering out loud about one issue whose explanation should be obvious: single women voted Democrat by almost 40 points. Gee, what could be driving single women away from the party that went all-in on banning abortion before realizing that was wildly unpopular? But women weren’t the only demographics Watters couldn’t believe didn’t like them.

“And urban America, they’re cleaning out clocks in the cities. Cleaning our clocks! I’m not saying anything nefarious is going on, but they are cleaning our clocks in the cities,” he ranted. “And we’re giving it away.” Perhaps Watters forgot Republicans are always trashing cities, that their last president teargassed its denizens, that one GOP senator even advocated for the National Guard being sent to New York City during the Black Lives Matter protests, which could have led to dead protesters.

Then Watters came for Gen Z. “And the fact that these youth voters are coming in so strong on an off year is very concerning,” he said. He then came up with his own theory, putting the blame on — you guessed it — single women. “This new generation is totally brainwashed, because a lot of these single women who are voting 37 spreads for Democrats are teaching all of our younger generation in these schools, and they’re polluting their minds. And then they grow up and they’re in their 20s, and then they vote for leftists.”

Watters had another baffling take, this time about why voters didn’t turn en masse against the sitting president. “There’s just not the hatred for Joe Biden that there is for Barack Obama and for the Clintons,” he said about a nation whose Republican outposts are awash in “F*ck Biden” flags. “There’s not a ‘hate Biden’ vote that’s out there,” he added. “People just don’t feel the same passion against the guy that they also feel for other people.”

Well, at least Watters didn’t blame Trump, as others have, for hand-picking a sea of underperforming or tanking candidates.

It’s been nearly two months since Saraya was a surprise debut at Dynamite Grand Slam, with a cloud of uncertainty over what exactly her role would be in AEW.

On Wednesday night’s Dynamite, she left no doubt on how active she’ll be, announcing that she is fully cleared for her in-ring return in a showdown with Britt Baker.

Baker then chastised Saraya for running from WWE, saying she “left your house and walked into mine.”

Saraya responded with saying Baker doesn’t know what it takes to make it in this business, reflecting on her 17-year career as a professional wrestler and taking her through the challenges she’s overcome, from battling drug addiction publicly to getting hit by a car and wrestling the same day. After talking about giving her career and her neck for the business, Saraya announced at Full Gear on Saturday, November 19, it will be her comeback story and the biggest match of Baker’s career when they face off in a one-on-one match.

After retiring from the wrestling ring in 2018 due to neck injuries, former WWE star Paige has hinted numerous times about interest in a return to the ring. Saraya’s last televised match came on Monday Night Raw at the end of 2017, when she teamed with Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville to earn a win over Bayley, Mickie James, and Sasha Banks.

It’s a little weird to think about thinking. But when you have a thought, is it a visualization, a string of words, a vague notion that carries meaning or a combination of all three? Did you know that some people can’t do all three?

A TikTok user named Colleen Carswell has a unique condition called aphantasia. According to WebMD, people with aphantasia lack a “mind’s eye,” which is caused by problems in the visual cortex. It can lead to memory problems, fewer dreams and the inability to imagine hypothetical events.

In a video posted to TikTok, Carswell admitted her mind was blown when she realized her husband can hear words in his head when he thinks. “From what I’m gathering, people can hear in their mind,” Colleen said, adding they can hear “inside their head,” “internally” and in their “own voice.”

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“That blew my mind because, again, I have thoughts and I thought all along that’s what an inner monologue was until very recently,” she said. But when she learned that other people hear voices—of themselves, others or characters in a book—she didn’t get it. “I am just so confused,” she admitted.

Colleen asked her husband if he could hear voices in his head and there was no doubt. “Oh yeah, I can hear. I can hear my mom’s voice. I can hear your voice. I can hear the kids’ voices. I can hear Kevin Hart’s voice. Really any voice I want to hear, I can just hear it,” he said.

This new information made Colleen wonder if she even has an internal monologue at all. So she asked her TikTok audience where they fall on the internal-voice spectrum and they left some intriguing comments.

One follower was completely floored by the revelation. “If you can’t hear in your mind, how do you have your thoughts?” Perri Madison asked. “I think by talking to myself in my head literally all day.” Lee Bee explained how it works, “I’m the same as her,” she wrote, “I have no images in my head and can’t hear anything. But you can still think but there is no sound…does that make sense?”

Then, Karazk dropped some knowledge. “For me, the thoughts just ARE. No ‘voice’ or feeling of anything auditory.”

Throughout history, people have assumed that everyone has an inner voice that uses words, but this was challenged in the late ’90s by Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His studies found that some people think like “there’s a radio in their head” while some people have no inner speech at all.

Colleen’s TikTok video encouraged a conversation where people had to seriously consider the idea that everyone thinks a little bit differently. It gave them an opportunity to try to think using someone else’s brain for a moment to consider what it’s like. These exercises are a great way to build empathy for others by helping us realize that everyone’s mind is a little bit different and that’s totally fine.

Blackpink are having a massive year, if that isn’t obvious. Fans had high hopes for their album Born Pink, and let’s just say the group delivered, at least according to the widespread appreciation of the record. Even before the LP came out, their single “Pink Venom” had the biggest YouTube premiere of 2022 and the platform’s third biggest ever by hitting a colossal 90.4 million views in the first 24 hours of its release.

So it’s safe to say that their tour for Born Pink is no casual affair. It kicked off at the end of October in Dallas, Texas, and it’ll be going all the way to Europe, ending in Amsterdam in The Netherlands at the end of December. They’ll be bringing a lot of new songs but even some old material as well.

Check out the full average setlist below.

1. “How You Like That”
2. “Pretty Savage”
3. “Whistle”
4. “Don’t Know What To Do”
5. “Lovesick Girls
6. “Kill This Love”
7. “Crazy Over You”
8. “Playing with Fire”
9. “Tally”
10. “Pink Venom”
11. “Liar” (Camila Cabello cover)
12. “Hard To Love”
13. “On The Ground” (ROSÉ song)
14. “LALISA” (LISA song)
15. “MONEY” (LISA song)
16. “Shut Down”
17. “Typa Girl”
18. “DDU-DU DDU-DU”
19. “Forever Young”
20. “Stay”

Encore:
21. “Yeah Yeah Yeah”
22. As If It’s Your Last”

Chlöe introduced herself as a solo artist with “Have Mercy” in September 2021, but she’s merciless on Twitter. She tweeted a cheeky photo of herself alongside “you can have this for the night or for your life,” lyrics from hers and Latto’s October single “For The Night.” One user decided to try and insult her by tweeting, “You got the sex appeal of a PlayStation 2,” whatever that means, and Chlöe sat him right back down.

“Like you would have a chance,” the actress and musical powerhouse fired back, complete with an laugh-cry emoji.

As Uproxx’s August cover star, Chlöe explained how difficult it can be to lead a public life at such a young age and undeservingly become a target for increased scrutiny. “It’s a weird place to be in because as a human being it does hurt sometimes hearing certain things,” she said. “But at the same time, this is my job. So, it’s really up to me to create those boundaries in my mental state and be like, ‘Okay, this is what’s important to me,’ prioritizing that, and tuning out the rest of the noise.”

In the same vein, Chlöe recently told Variety that she wants to portray Storm in an X-Men adaptation because “she doesn’t take any sh*t.” It would appear she’s already in character.

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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. The last two months are traditionally quiet times in the world of sneakers, but this week is bucking that trend with a series of fire drops — mostly out of Nike. Save for Salehe Bembury’s latest Crocs collaboration, this entire list could’ve gone to Nike as the Swoosh brand doesn’t seem to be letting up and resting on its laurels. That’s great news for sneakerheads, bad news for our bank accounts. There are just too many great sneakers out there right now, and they’re all sure to put a dent in your savings, which is problematic as we slip into the holiday season.

So what should you do? Add these pairs to your Christmas wish list or bite the bullet and pick ’em up yourself? Considering they’re all guaranteed to sell out, our money is on the self-pickup. Looks like the family and friends are getting budget gifts this year!

Here are the eight best sneakers dropping this week and where to buy ’em.

Air Jordan 7 x Trophy Room True Red and Obsidian

Trophy Room’s Jordan collaborations always have an opulent quality to them and this week’s True Red and Obsidian Jordan 7 continues that trend. Featuring metallic gold accents, embroidered details, gold emblems at the heel, and a multi-colored heel-tab with a red leather upper and off-white panels, this Jordan 7 is meant to celebrate the ’92 Summer Olympics basketball team, specifically what is known as “the greatest game never seen.”

The game in question isn’t an Olympic match, but a practice scrimmage between Team USA that saw Jordan leading one half and Magic Johnson leading the other.

The Air Jordan 7 x Trophy Room True Red and Obsidian is set to drop on November 9th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT or Flight Club.

Women’s Air More Uptempo Dark Russet

The Uptempo has been getting a lot of love this year and we love to see it. While this sneaker is known for its loud and busy designs, there is something understated about the Dark Russet. It keeps things simple, just a white leather upper with big brown ‘Air’ lettering. It’s about as understated as this silhouette can be!

The sneaker is dropping as a women’s size exclusive but just for reference, if you’re looking to cop a pair but are cursed with big feet, subtract 1.5 from the size number to get the Men’s size (Women’s 12 is a men’s 10.5).

The Women’s Air More Uptempo Dark Russet is set to drop On November 9th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Penny 2 x Social Status Cobalt Pulse and White

2022 brought back a lot of retired silhouettes from almost all the big brands, but the best of that lot is definitely the Air Penny 2, which was returned to the public thanks to Charlotte retailer Social Status.

The Air Penny 2 features a premium leather upper in a mix of sail, white, and university blue with 3M reflective detailing across the sneaker’s signature wavy design.

The Nike Air Penny 2 x Social Status Cobalt Pulse and White is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $200. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Force 1 Gorge Green

What if the Nike Air Force 1 was an Adidas Stan Smith? That’s what you get with this week’s Gorge Green AF-1. The sneaker’s mix of green over crisp white leather recalls one of Adidas’ best and simplest silhouettes, but Nike elevates it a bit with an aged midsole, faded graphics, and off-white laces, giving the sneaker a sort of aged vintage look.

The Nike Air Force 1 Gorge Green is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

ACG Zoom Gaiadome GORE-TEX

As we slowly slip into winter you’re going to be seeing a lot of functional weather-appropriate sneakers and first up is the GORE-TEX equipped ACG Zoom Gaiadome. Featuring a full water-proof upper with Zoom Air cushioning, the Zoom Gaiadome sports a Trailframe underfoot and large lugs for added stability on tough terrain.

The ACG Zoom Gaiadome GORE-TEX is set to drop on November 10th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $230. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Max 97 Silver Bullet

Despite this week’s roundup being jam-packed with dope sneakers, November and December are generally pretty quiet months for sneaker drops. At this time of the year most big brands don’t take any chances, choosing instead to release sneakers that are guaranteed to sell, like this week’s Silver Bullet Air Max 97.

This is probably the most beloved colorway of the ’97, it’s the BRED of the Air Max world. The sneaker features an airy mesh upper in metallic silver with crimson red accents. The ’97 was inspired by Japanese Bullet Trains and no colorway realizes that concept quite like the Silver Bullet.

The Nike Air Max 97 is set to drop on Men’s and Women’s sizes on November 11th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Women’s Air Jordan 11 Midnight Navy

The Midnight Navy Air Jordan 11 is hands down the best-looking sneaker to drop this week. Featuring a monochromatic navy blue upper, this sneaker sports velvet detailing, metallic silver accents, and an emblem Jumpman logo.

The sneaker is dropping in women’s exclusive sizing, so if you have big feet, looks like you’ve got another L.

The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 11 Midnight Navy is set to drop on November 11th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $225. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like Flight Club.

Salehe Bembury x Crocs Pollex Clog Sasquatch

Salehe Bembury’s Crocs collaboration is probably the strangest sneaker collaboration of the last two years, but it’s clearly proving to be incredibly popular as well considering Bembury keeps dropping brand-new colorways every few months. This week brings the stealthy all-black makeup, dubbed ‘Sasquatch,’ which gives the swirling finger-print inspired design a sort of militaristic edge.

It’ll be interesting to see whether or not the Pollex Clog gets even more popular now that most sneakerheads wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of Yeezy Foam RNNRS.

The Salehe Bembury x Crocs Pollex Clog Sasquatch is set to drop on November 10th for a retail price of $85. Pick up a pair via Spunge.