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If MoviePass sounded too good to be true when it offered unlimited movie tickets for $50 per month back in 2011, it really sounded dodgy when the service announced on Tuesday that it had lowered its price to $9.99.

Ten bucks! For unlimited movies?

Now the largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is getting cranky — and calling bullshit.

AMC Theatres issued a strongly worded statement Tuesday afternoon, saying that MoviePass is “not welcome here” and that they were exploring ways to opt out. Which is going to be a challenge, because the way MoviePass works, it technically still is welcome at AMC theaters — and just about any chain that does online ticketing. Read more…

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A mama black bear was caught on camera charging a Siberian husky at a campground in Alaska. 

The recently released clip, from a campground in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, shows a bear and her three cubs approaching a trailer from the woods on July 5. When the bear spots the dog it delivers a bluff charge, and the bear and husky get into a brief fight off camera.

A woman can then be heard yelling at the bear, which returns to its cubs and runs away. 

Tom Henderson, who uploaded the video earlier this month, said in an email that his wife is the person heard yelling in the clip. Fortunately, the dog was unharmed in the scuffle, despite its screams. Read more…

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President Donald Trump may not know whether or not he considers what happened to Heather Heyer in Charlottesville an act of terrorism. But he does know one thing: “A lot about Charlottesville.” 

Why’s that? He’s got a winery there!

The topic came up at the close of Tuesday’s unhinged presser, in which the president discussed infrastructure, defended white supremacists and then, naturally, brought up Trump Winery.

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On Friday, some of America’s most racist trolls hatched from their egg avatars to wave Home Depot tiki torches and chant their fave Nazi, KKK, and white supremacist slogans in Charlottesville.  

Yet some were nonetheless caught off guard when their very public displays of hate were made, well, public. 

Twitter account @YesYoureRacist enjoined users to circulate photos of the Charlottesville marchers in hopes of identifying them over the weekend. It didn’t take long for the account’s popularity to surge and for the messages to flood in.

On Saturday morning, the account had close to 60,000 followers. By Tuesday afternoon, that had soared to 372,000. Read more…

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One of the best movies of 2017 and an all-time classic run from Mark Millar, Logan and Old Man Logan actually share very little. But of all the differences, which one actually matters most?

Visit CineFix on YouTube for more episodes and movie-related content. Read more…

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Los Angeles wants to join forces with businesses to fight cyber crime.

It announced the first collective regional cybersecurity defense effort in the United States on Tuesday, called the Los Angeles Cyber Lab. 

The goal is to disseminate knowledge gained from analyzing “one billion security-related events and over four million attempted intrusions into city networks per day” to businesses across the city, according to a press release put out by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. 

“The lab will alert small and medium-sized business partners to attacks as they occur, and larger businesses can receive automated updates to their own cyber defense systems,” wrote the authors of the press release. “Over time, the platform will evolve into a mutual exchange of threat information with private sector partners, further fortifying L.A.’s capacity to thwart cyber criminals.” Read more…

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It’s hard to say whether President Donald Trump hit a new low Tuesday afternoon, when the floor has actually turned out to be a bottomless abyss. 

Still, Trump successfully managed to deeply disturb some commentators over at Fox News, one of whom called his comments during a press conference that homed in on the Charlottesville protests “disgusting” and one of the “biggest messes” she’s ever seen.

Turns out, defending Nazis isn’t a politically popular position to take.

From Fox News host Kat Timpf:

“He’s not measured in his criticism. He goes after people as soon as he has the inkling. For him to take 48 hours?” Timpf said. “That is something he’s never done before. And yeah, it shouldn’t be a bold statement to say that yes, a gathering full of white supremacist Nazis doesn’t have good people in it.” Read more…

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A phone survived a fall from an airplane, and managed to record the whole thing. 

Blake Henderson was flying in what looks like a biplane at an altitude of over 1,000 feet near Bowling Green, Kentucky, when sudden turbulence caused him to drop his phone. But the phone was recording video when he dropped it, and continued to record even after it hit the ground

(We reached out to Ryan for additional information, and we will upload this post if we hear back.) 

Somehow, the Galaxy S5 managed to remain intact, and the video shows it landing in a yard, much to the surprise of the residents of the home. Moments after the phone drops, a man can be seen trimming some bushes nearby.  Read more…

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Now that Game of Thrones is picking up the pace of plot development, there’s a lot to process. One thing we’ve barely had time to deal with is the brutal death by dragonfire of Randyll and Dickon Tarly, father and brother of our good friend Samwell.

The Tarlys were executed by Daenerys in episode 5 for refusing to bend the knee after that loot train massacre. Back in Oldtown, Sam was blissfully unaware of the news; the Archmaester apparently didn’t have the heart to tell him. 

Some fans — and actor John Bradley — have suggested this gruesome development has a silver lining for Sam. “He’s now technically head of House Tarly, whether he knows it or not, but I don’t know if that would register with him,” Bradley said in an HBO production diary. “That’s a previous Sam who doesn’t really exist anymore.” Read more…

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