Andrew Williams

6 days ago | forbes.com | Andrew Williams

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series will throw out series convention and switch to using a softened rectangular casing rather than a round one. This is depicted in images Android Authority discovered while rummaging around in Samsung’s One UI 8 software. Such a move would bring the entire Samsung Galaxy Watch family design closer to that of the current Galaxy Watch Ultra. There are differing reports on whether that particular strand of the family will be updated this year.

6 days ago | shortlist.com | Andrew Williams

The director of Thunderbolts, Jake Schreier, is in line to direct an upcoming X-Men movie. According to Deadline, Schreier is in “early talks” with Marvel about taking the director’s chair. It’s not hard to understand why. Thunderbolts received the best reviews for a Marvel movie in years. It achieved a Metacritic score of 68%, just one per cent off the 69% of the original Avengers film. And miles better than the 42% of Captain America: Brave New World from earlier this year.

6 days ago | shortlist.com | Andrew Williams

Lorde has confirmed her upcoming tour dates for later in the year, and they include a night at London’s O2 Arena. The first UK gig is on November 15th, when Lorde will play Manchester’s AO Arena. She’ll play in London the day after, November 16th. Both of these shows will feature support from Jim-E Stack, but where Manchester’s crowd will also get Blood Orange, the London show will feature Nilufer Yana.

6 days ago | shortlist.com | Andrew Williams

If you’re out and about in London this weekend, consider dropping by the Tate Modern, which is holding a 25th birthday celebration party, from May 9th to May 12th. The biggest present given to the public as part of the birthday bash is free access to the temporary exhibitions, for this weekend only. There’s one catch: you need to be aged 16-25. Sign up for the Tate Collective to get access.

6 days ago | shortlist.com | Andrew Williams

The last few days have been packed with rumours about a rather eye-opening story, that Alex Garland is set to direct a movie adaptation of Elden Ring. Huge pinches of salt here, but enough smoke around this potential bonfire to make it worth investigating... Garland most recently directed Warfare, a powerful $20 million war film some have called the most realistic ever made. He may not seem the obvious fit to direct a movie version of one of the biggest games of recent years.