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While metro areas across the nation struggled with stagnant economies caused by the pandemic, Pueblo was vaulting its way up the list of 2021 Best Performing Cities. Released by the Milken Institute Center for Regional Economics, the list saw Pueblo ranking higher through a combination of increased connectivity, innovation, planning and business support.  The Milken Institute’s annual index ranks economic vitality in 200 large metropolitan areas and 201 small metro areas, measuring j...

The low-end version of the battle royale game PUBG called Lite is officially closing down on April 29. PUBG Lite was introduced in 2019 for entry-level mobile devices. The Indian government banned both PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite on September 2 last year. The news of PUBG Lites shut down was confirmed by the developers Krafton via a message on its official website. "We are deeply grateful for the passion and support from the astounding number of PUBG Lite fans that have been with us. Du...

While we here at The A.V. Club news desk—whose jobs can, if you’re feeling grandiose, be loosely described as an ongoing and losing effort to discern what’s even fucking real any more in the roiling information soup of the day to day internet—have, as a rule, a pretty low tolerance for April 1, a.k.a. The Funny Lying Day, we do have to give some begrudging admiration to Adult Swim’s annual efforts. If nothing else, the network’s yearly pranks show a hell of a lot of effort, even so...

Made For Love stars Cristin Milioti and Billy Magnussen (Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO Max) Graphic: Natalie Peeples HBO Max’s new dark comedy Made For Love is a blend of advanced science-fiction and a classic love story gone wrong. Girl meets rich boy, boy sweeps her off her feet, and then implants a tracking chip in her brain without consent. At least that’s what happens to Hazel Green-Gogol (Cristin Milioti), who marries tech genius and billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen). After 10 y...

Advertisement A good Catholic horror movie does more than exploit the dread of the devout. Like the most gifted of fire-and-brimstone evangelists, it makes that fear persuasive, sending a chill of religious terror up the aisles and down the spines of even the staunchest atheists. It makes believers out of nonbelievers, if only for a couple pea-soup-drenched hours. The Unholy, which arrives this Easter weekend to tempt the most god-fearing and least virus-fearing back into theaters, plainly as...

Photo: RLJE Films Roe Vs. Wade (select and virtual theaters 4/2), a.k.a. the anti-abortion movie so controversially odious that Kevin Sorbo dropped out of it, is finally here to preach to its choir. Those seeking some corporate schadenfreude should queue up the start-up meltdown documentary WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A $47 Million Unicorn (Hulu 4/2). Katherine Waterston is among the cast of Amundsen (virtual theaters and VOD 4/2), a biodrama about the supposed first man to reach th...

Welcome to the Resistance, British police dog Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) These are trying times, and as such, alliances must be forged in unlikely places. Just such a surprise partnership occurred in Britain during public demonstrations over the weekend against a new law many claim will severely curtail citizens’ right to peaceful protest. Advertisement is definitely appears to be a group of four U.K. police officers violently grabbing and pulling an individual over a concrete stree...

Student films from the Colorado Springs-based Youth Documentary Academy’s summer youth film training academy have been selected for two noted film festivals. “Students are recruited from a wide variety of schools and communities and are selected through a competitive application process to reflect a wide diversity of ethnic, economic and educational backgrounds as well as to showcase unique and fresh stories through the lens of young people,” according to a news release.  Six ...

War Magician, which will be directed by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow. Cumberbatch plays Jasper Maskelyne, a real life British magician who reportedly used his illusions to help fight the Nazis during World War II. The film is written by Nicholas Mariani and based on a book by David Fisher. Deadline broke the news. According to that report, War Magician follows not just Maskelyne, but also an “international ‘magic gang’ from Africa, Europe, and the Middle East who conspired with Ma...

It’s hard to beat Superman in a fight. And not just a physical one, but a moral one too. As Lois points out when Clark fails to show up to support her at a town vote on whether Morgan Edge should take over the Smallville mine, Clark always has the most valid of reasons for his absences. When he misses an event, it’s because he’s literally off saving lives. Logically, it’s hard to begrudge that. But, emotionally, it’s hard not to be made to feel small when your everyday human problems...