Smriti Mandhana Among Four Nominees for ICC Women's Cricketer of Year Award

Mandhana was also nominated for Women's T20 Player of the Year on Thursday. Mandhana was shortlisted for the top award along with Tammy Beaumont of England, Lizelle Lee of South Africa and Gaby Lewis of Ireland.

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‘The Last Duel’ gets reappraised after people actually watch it

Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel found itself in the headlines on several occasions after releasing in theaters on October 15, but the reasons were hardly of the positive variety.

The $100 million historical epic flopped spectacularly at the box office, recouping just over $30 million, although it did go on to find instant success on streaming. Scott then found himself getting roasted online after claiming the reason the movie bombed was because millennials couldn’t tear themselves away from their phones long enough to make the trip to their local multiplex, before he caused another firestorm when a clip of him telling a journalist to go f*ck themselves after questioning The Last Duel‘s historical accuracy went viral.

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Zendaya wanted a different ending for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Fans were blown away by almost every aspect of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which somehow managed to deliver on the impossible expectations people had built up in their heads.

Of course, it helps when the multiversal superhero epic roped in a cavalcade of returning favorites to bring audiences fan service on a previously unimaginable scale, but the movie never lost sight of the emotional throughline, either.

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‘The Matrix’ trilogy explodes in popularity on streaming

If you weren’t around at the time, then it’s hard to overstate just how much of a paradigm shift The Matrix was when it first exploded into theaters back in 1999. By now you’ll have witnessed countless imitations, parodies and ripoffs, and we’ve long since passed the point where people that haven’t even seen the movie are fully aware of its major narrative, visual and dialogue beats.

Four years later, the world was gripped by Matrix fever all over again when it was announced sequels Reloaded and Revolutions would be releasing just six months apart. The former did massive business at the box office and was fairly well-received, but the closing chapter saw takings drop by over $300 million, before being roundly criticized as a disappointing conclusion to a potential all-timer of a series.

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Nicolas Cage says he left his own body shooting iconic ‘Face/Off’ scene

It goes without saying that John Woo’s action classic Face/Off is a masterclass in overacting, with stars Nicolas Cage and John Travolta not just chewing on the scenery, but completely inhaling it.

The two A-listers go for broke with their respective dual performances, with Cage as Cage playing Castor Troy one of the most deliriously unhinged turns you’re ever likely to see in a big budget studio blockbuster. As it turns out, the Academy Award winner is of the belief that he came close to full-blown astral projection during the prison sequence.

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Alfred Molina breaks down his ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ return

The earliest promotional and marketing materials for Spider-Man: No Way Home largely revolved around Tom Holland’s Peter Parker doing battle with Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus, to the extent that fans started to grow weary of seeing footage from the bridge scene long before the movie was released.

Part of the reason for that may have been down to the fact Molina was the first veteran from franchises past to confirm his involvement, coming right out in an interview earlier in the year and admitting that he was strapping the tentacles back on, much to the chagrin of Kevin Feige.

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Rohit, Ashwin Among Four Indians Included in Cricket Australia XI of 2021

Besides Rohit and Ashwin, the other two Indians in the team were swashbuckling keeperbatter Rishabh Pant and leftarm spinner Axar Patel.

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‘Encanto’ scores bigger Disney Plus viewership than ‘Shang-Chi’

Streaming viewership is a contentious issue, when Netflix is the only one of the major platforms that releases data in any sort of official capacity, having recently pivoted away from the 28-day model of households reached in favor of weekly film and television rankings that count total hours streamed.

HBO Max, Disney Plus and Prime Video have never been interested in sharing the cold, hard data with the public, and they’re under no obligation to do so. However, third-party aggregator Samba TV has done a sterling job in filling the gaps, revealing how many televisions equipped with the company’s software have been checking out the latest major on-demand titles.

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Centurion Win Notwithstanding, India Can’t Take a First-ever Series win in South Africa for Granted

India’s successes overseas in the past 5-6 years have been built around the efforts of the bowlers – pacemen to a large extent –who have almost unfailingly taken 20 wickets to put the side in positions from where victory is possible.

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Tom Holland shares his thoughts on ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ ending

Tom Holland recently poured cold water on the rumors claiming he had no interest in playing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man once he turns 30, insisting his words were misinterpreted by the press. That’s just as well, because it looks as though we’ve still got at least another three solo movies to go.

Even though Kevin Feige confirmed that Holland’s fourth standalone outing is in the earliest stages of development, No Way Home writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers admitted that they wrote the ending of the smash hit blockbuster to be as definitive as possible, in the event that it marked the end of the road for this version of the web-slinger.

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Watch: Ashwin, Pujara, Siraj Dance After India's Historic Test Win in Centurion

Virat Kohli-led team has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series and Ravichandran Ashwin shared a video on Instagram giving fans a glimpse of how the cricketers are celebrating their historic win.

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'Who Had a Problem with My Presence?' Harbhajan Singh Reveals How He Was Sidelined from Indian Team

A veteran of 103 Tests, ‘Bhajji’ said he could have had 100 Test wickets with time on his side being just 31.

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'Viable Alternative': Mike Atherton Suggests England Allrounder Could Succeed Joe Root as Test Captain

Joe Root, who has not won any of his three Ashes series in charge, was reluctant to discuss the long-term future of his captaincy after England lost by an innings and 14 runs in the third test in Melbourne.

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Watch: Virat Kohli Waves to Daughter Vamika After Win Over South Africa

India captain Virat Kohli's wife Anushka Sharma and their daughter Vamika were cheering for the tourists from the stands.

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