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Amazon has released a new update for the Kindle Scribe that brings a handful of features, both for the Pen and the e-reader. The Kindle Scribe is the most expensive model in the Kindle lineup and the only one with support for a stylus. With the Kindle Scribe, Amazon is taking on e-ink tablets such as the reMarkable, Lenovo Smart Paper, and Huawei MatePad Paper, as well as rival e-readers with a stylus such as the Kobo Sage.

When the Kindle Scribe was announced in September 2022, Amazon promised that new features would come to the e-reader to improve the overall experience. Late last year, it listed some of the key features that would be added in a future update.The update has finally begun rolling out, and it brings new writing tools and organizational features for notebooks.

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The Amazon Kindle comes with much less storage than a smartphone, but how many books can be stored on the models with 8Gb of storage? Amazon has various Kindles catered to different budgets and use cases. There's the entry-level Kindle, the mid-range Paperwhite and Paperwhite Signature Edition, and the premium Oasis and Scribe. Depending on the model, Kindles are available in 8Gb, 16Gb, 32Gb, and 64Gb capacities, and some buyers may be wondering if they can save a few bucks and get by with the smallest-capacity model.

According to Amazon, an 8Gb Kindle can store "thousands" of books or over 35 Audible audiobooks, while the 32Gb version can store more than four times as much content, including over 160 audiobooks. The exact number depends on the size of each e-book and the amount of free space in the Kindle. An 8Gb Kindle typically has around 6.8Gb of free storage space after accounting...

Broken is the Golden Bowl: Kruithof Rips at the Red Tape in Character Driven Political Drama

It’s not so much politics as usual in Les promesses, the sophomore film from director Thomas Kruithof, whose 2016 debut The Eavesdropper tackled more ominous and clandestine angles of a similar realm. A sobering melodrama about ripple effects activated by maneuvering between government and city officials who lean surreptitiously into selfishness rather than civil duty, as its title indicates, promises are merely placeholders for inevitable disappointment and dismay. Recruiting the imperious Isabelle Huppert to star as a suburban Mayor at the end of her second term, and wooed by dangling carrots of her own, Kruithof surprises with his ability to channel warmth through both an actor and a subject matter most closely associated with iciness and rigidity.…...

Now this is some Great casting: Gillian Anderson has joined the cast of Hulu’s historical comedy The Great as Catherine the Great’s mother, TVLine has learned.

Anderson will appear in two episodes in the upcoming Season 2 as Catherine’s mom Joanna, a glamorous German socialite who’s “known as the ‘maestro of marriage’ for her abilities to arrange high-profile partnerships for her daughters. She has heard rumors of her daughter’s coup and come to Russia to see it for herself.” The official description also hints at Joanna’s “sinister intentions.”

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I’ve likely still got some ringing in my ears and dust in my eyes after that episode-ending bombing, so fellow Handmaid’s Tale viewers, please help me confirm what I think I saw at the close of this week’s hour: Is June maybe sorta kinda going to get rescued? And could it really be so perfect that Moira is the person who saves her from Gilead?

Blessed be, it certainly feels like we’re edging ever closer to the type of payoffs the show’s executive producers teaser at the start of the season. So let’s not...

Whoa… Lily James has come a long way since Downton Abbey.

The actress goes into blonde bombshell mode to transform into Pamela Anderson for the new Hulu limited series Pam & Tommy, as you can see in the first-look photos released on Friday. James stars as Anderson, alongside The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s Sebastian Stan as her new husband Tommy Lee, in a comical look at the true story behind the illicit release of Anderson and Lee’s honeymoon sex tape.

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Following Deadline’s exclusive report this morning that Mark Millar’s The Magic Order is back on course as a Netflix series, the Jupiter’s Legacy creator has now announced a plethora of new projects and updates.

One day before the intergenerational superhero series launches on the streamer, Millar put up a blog post Thursday on Jupiter’s Legacy, The Magic Order, and the premiere of the animated Super Crooks next month at the Annecy Festival in France – Read Millar’s post in full below

Among other shiny baubles dropped this morning, the Millarworld boss also revealed he has been cookin’ up a new live-action six-episode spy series. “The writer is someone I’ve been a massive fan of for two decades, and he was the only person I approached,” Millar said. “This has the potential to be one of the biggest franchises I’ve ever created. I’m so excited and I hope you will.

Producer was longtime BAFTA LA board member.

Paul Heller, the US producer whose credits included Withnail & I and Enter The Dragon and My Left Foot as executive producer, died on December 28 in Los Angeles. He was 93.

Heller, a longtime board member of BAFTA LA, was born in New York on September 25, 1927, and spent many years in England producing some of his most acclaimed films.

His first feature, the 1962 mental health drama David And Lisa directed by Frank Perry, earned two Oscar nominations for directing and for Eleanor Perry’s adapted screenplay.

Encouraged to pursue his career with gusto, Heller...

Fireman drama has drawn 1m spectators at the French box office since release late November release.

WTFilms is reporting strong buyer interest in French director Fréderic Tellier’s breakout hit Through The Fire (Sauver ou Périr), starring Pierre Niney as a hero fireman who is badly disfigured while rescuing colleagues from a burning building.

The film has sold to China (Lemon Tree), Canada (A-z Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Hong Kong (Edko), Taiwan (MovieCloud), Korea (EnterMode), Belgium (Athena Films) and Greece (Odeon). Encore has picked it up for airlines.

Paris-based sales company WTFilms is expecting to seal further deals at...

MaryAnn’s quick take… More plot holes than plot, this overly convoluted, deeply stupid Fast and Furious wannabe is crammed with clichés and memorable only when it’s laughable. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Kinda like how John Woo always has doves in his movies, and Steven Spielberg always has lens flare, so shall Colombian director Antonio Negret be known for exploding cars flipping through the air. It’s not a particularly unique visual twitch to embrace, this is true, but he’s not a particularly distinctive sort of filmmaker. His latest, Overdrive, is barely distinguishable from his previous film, 2012’s almost hilariously terrible Transit. Sadly, though, Overdrive is quite distinguishable from the movies it would like to be seen as akin to, the very early Fast and Furious movies (like, the first two...

MaryAnn’s quick take… This would-be faux-70s paranoid thriller piles on too-obvious intrigue and embarrassing clichés, and lacks suspense, thrills, and a protagonist to care about. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Unemployed accountant Duval (François Cluzet) takes a mysterious job with mysterious Clément (Denis Podalydès) that comes about after a mysterious late-night phone call and a mysterious Saturday-morning job interview (in a completely unmysteriously deserted Parisian business district, because it’s the weekend, but there’s nothing odd about that, nosirree). The job — transcribing recordings of conversations from tapped phones — comes with mysterious strict instructions about confidentiality and secrecy and mysteriously bizarre instructions about (among other things) the appropriate timing of the opening and closing of the blinds in the near-empty apartment he’ll be working in.

Such mysterious. Many intrigue.

Scribe piles on too-obvious intrigue,...

Author: Competitions

To mark the release of Scribe on 21st July, we’ve been given a bundle of French thrillers and TV series to give away. The bundle includes The Bureau Season 1, The Bureau Season 2, State Affairs, Braquo season 1, Jo Season one, Love Crime, and Witnesses season 1

From first time feature director Thomas Kruithof, Scribe stars François Cluzet (Untouchable, Tell No One, Little White Lies) as the middle aged and financially struggling man who is looking for work two years after suffering a burn-out. He gets hired by a mysterious employer to transcribe phone tapped conversations, which propels him into the heart of a large-scale political plot and gets him trapped in the French secret services underworld.

A paranoid thriller in the spirit of ’70s pics such as Marathon Man and The Conversation, Scribe was originally inspired by the 1983-1984 Lebanon hostage crisis, in which three French people were kidnapped...

Author: Daniel Goodwin

Writer/director Thomas Kruithof’s French, forceful debut feature recalls classic conspiracy thrillers such as The Parallax View, All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man, while standing matchless amongst its predecessors due to inherent timeless qualities; stark realism, bleak cinematography and an ability to efficiently subvert/meld several sub-genre styles and components. Mostly resembling Coppola’s The Conversation due to the nature of protagonist Duval (comfortably alone, introvert), similar to Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul, along with his comparable occupation and the central story of a Government surveyor/transcriber in over his head. Scribe also incorporates traits from 90s political thrillers with conspiratorial sub-plots about corrupt officials with ulterior motives. Meanwhile the subtle suggestion of grittier, higher octane latter Bond and Bourne films slightly informs its style, augmented by a lo/sci-fi edge and embellished by the score.

François Cluzet plays Duval, a recovering alcoholic, ex-office clerk,...