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Review: HBOs The Nevers may be touched by greatness HBOs new series has a lot going for it, but some major questions linger Tom Long The first part of that sentence is far more important than the second. But… A fantasy fest set in Victorian England, “The Nevers” can most easily be described as X-Men in hoop skirts. A mysterious vessel floated over London one day and suddenly some people, overwhelmingly female, possessed special powers.  One might be able to freeze things, another can thr...

What I learned from 15 years of investing in small companies Max King spent 15 years managing funds in the small-companies sector. Here he reveals the secrets of long-term investment success 2 Apr 2021 In early March, Spirax-Sarco Engineering’s results for 2020 caused the share price to rise by 380p. What made this catch my eye was not the size of the jump – less than 3.5% from £110 – but that 380p was far more than I remember paying for shares in the group, which makes steam-management ...

The Dry. Director Robert Connolly’s crime drama has taken an impressive $20.4 million at the box office to become the 13th highest grossing Australian film in this country ... closing in on Red Dog and The top earner for 35 years now is still Crocodile Dundee, which took $47.7 million in 1986. But these types of achievements always ignore the impact of inflation. They raise the question: what would be the most successful Australian films in today’s dollars? This masthead took Numero’s ...

The 100 Best Movies Written by Women Welcome to our guide of the best movies written by women: These are highly Certified Fresh films (nothing on the list falls below 94%) whose screenplay credit goes in part or fully to women. The journey begins nearly a century ago with 1925’s Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova, inspired by her own participation in Soviet uprisings. Just two years later, Metropolis, cinema’s first sci-fi feature masterpiece, emerged out of Germany, written...

Susan Stark, longtime Detroit film critic, dies at 80 Susan Stark, a longtime Detroit film critic who "loved being in that world between the artists and the average person," died Friday at a New York hospital beside her daughters. She was 80 years old. Ms. Stark died from cancer a week after checking into a New York hospital. She was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer 20 years ago and had a clean bill of health until recently, her friends and family said. "She had not been feeling we...

Review: Darkness lurks behind light in surprising Ginny & Georgia Netflix series asks several what if? questions, and the answers are surprising Tom Long What if Meadow Soprano had been half-Black? What if all those kids on “Euphoria” were just a bit less naked and drugged? These kind of questions can pop up while watching “Ginny & Georgia,” the decidedly offbeat new Netflix dramedy. The show often has the teen sheen of a classic WB series — high school romantic triangles, the hot bad...

Race Car Driver Coaching Racers360 Josef Newgarden Champions Course Announced Racers360 announced a broad ranging partnership with IndyCar Champion Josef Newgarden. Together they have published an in-depth race car driver coaching video series called the Champions Course. Berkeley, United States, Feb. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Racers360 announces a broad ranging partnership with 2-time IndyCar Champion and Penske Racing Driver Josef Newgarden, focused on the Blayze motorsports coaching pla...

Energy Transfer LP (ET) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript Motley Fool Transcribing © The Motley Fool Logo of jester cap with thought bubble. Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Operator Greetings. Welcome to the Energy Transfer fourth-quarter earnings call. [Operator instructions] Please note, this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Tom Long. You may begin. Co-Chief Executive Officer Thank you, operator. Good after...

Pipeline giant Energy Transfer made quite a splash yesterday during its 4Q and full-year 2020 update by announcing the company has cut a deal to buy Enable Midstream for $7.2 billion. That deal, while important, has nothing to do with the M-U region. We were interested in talk about the company's Mariner East (ME) pipeline system and Marcus Hook terminal--and there was plenty of talk about those important assets too. Co-CEO Tom Long said he expects the last pieces of ME to finally be done i...

Dive Brief: The California Public Utilities Commissions (CPUC) wildfire safety division last week issued a 2020 safety certification for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), despite raising multiple concerns about the utilitys operations and fire mitigation processes. These concerns include problems identified during field inspections, reports from PG&Es court-appointed federal monitor, as well as the investigation into the utilitys potential role in sparking last Septembers Zogg Fire, which led to f...