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Sir John Hurt, two-time Oscar nominated star of the Elephant Man, Harry Potter, and Alien, passes away. Hurt was an acclaimed character actor and voice man whose career spanned six decades. Over the years different generations would identify him across different roles and genre's; ranging from films like 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' and 'Midnight Express,' TV like 'The Naked Civil Servant,' and 'Doctor Who,' and even his voice in 'V for Vendetta,' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' On Wednesday, January 25th Hurt passed away at his home in Norfolk after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77.

Sir John Hurt, two-time Oscar nominated star of the Elephant Man, Harry Potter, and Alien, passes away. Hurt was an acclaimed character actor and voice man whose career spanned six decades. Over the years different generations would identify him across different roles and genre's; ranging from films like 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' and 'Midnight Express,' TV like 'The Naked Civil Servant,' and 'Doctor Who,' and even his voice in 'V for Vendetta,' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' On Wednesday, January 25th Hurt passed away at his home in Norfolk after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77.

The Boston FIG Talks is a series of discussions about independant game development. Introduced in 2016, the FIG Talks are “aimed at designers and developers, and for people who are interested in getting started creating games of their own”.

The Boston FIG Talks is a series of discussions about independant game development. Introduced in 2016, the FIG Talks are “aimed at designers and developers, and for people who are interested in getting started creating games of their own”.

We TRIED to keep a straight face... Founder of WorldStarHipHop dies at San Diego massage parlor. Lee O’Denat (aka Q), founded WorldStar in 2005 and made the site into a more curated form of YouTube, centering on music, police videos, and most infamously - clips of fights and public sex. On January 23rd, he was at a business identified by police as a massage parlor — when he became unresponsive. Paramedics arrived but later pronounced him dead, from a combination of heart disease and obesity.

We TRIED to keep a straight face... Founder of WorldStarHipHop dies at San Diego massage parlor. Lee O’Denat (aka Q), founded WorldStar in 2005 and made the site into a more curated form of YouTube, centering on music, police videos, and most infamously - clips of fights and public sex. On January 23rd, he was at a business identified by police as a massage parlor — when he became unresponsive. Paramedics arrived but later pronounced him dead, from a combination of heart disease and obesity.

The return of Frankenstein and some good old-fashioned dystopia, Tom Hardy gets savage with sophistication in ‘Taboo’, and the skies stop being so friendly when Red Barton comes to town. All this and pillbox hats!

The return of Frankenstein and some good old-fashioned dystopia, Tom Hardy gets savage with sophistication in ‘Taboo’, and the skies stop being so friendly when Red Barton comes to town. All this and pillbox hats!

Hardcore film aficionados Adam, Amy, and Pat checked out a sequel to a classic - Death Race 2050, the indirect sequel to the cult classic Death Race 2000. In the year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a "Death Race." Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.

Hardcore film aficionados Adam, Amy, and Pat checked out a sequel to a classic - Death Race 2050, the indirect sequel to the cult classic Death Race 2000. In the year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a "Death Race." Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.