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A new Marvel video game has been announced via a teaser trailer that was revealed during Disney's D23 Expo, which is happening as we speak. While the game may be largely a mystery, as it doesn't even have a title yet, this trailer is sure to raise some eyebrows and generate a whole lot of curiosity. For one, it takes place during World War II rather than a modern-day setting. 

Naturally, that's a great place for Captain America to show up -- and he's certainly here! But he's not alone, as some other heroes are joining in on the action as well. Who will be taking on Hydra in the shadows with Cap? Black Panther, for one, but that's not T'Challa! We're actually looking at his grandfather, Azzuri, according to the official synopsis:

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British singer Vera Lynn died on at age 103 last Thursday morning. Lynn rose to fame during World War II when she became known as “The Forces Sweetheart” as she performed for U.K. troops around the world. She became best known for her songs “The White Cliffs of Dover” and “We’ll Meet Again.” British Prime […]

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British singer Vera Lynn died last week at the incredible age of 103. Her career spanned seven decades, but it was her World War II–era songs like “We’ll Meet Again” and “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover” that made her a cultural icon by providing strength and comfort to soldiers during the conflict. “My songs reminded the boys what they were really fighting for,” she once said. “Precious personal things rather than ideologies.”

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Legendary British singer Vera Lynn died Thursday. She was 103.

“We are devastated that we have lost our President, Dame Vera Lynn, who passed away peacefully, aged 103, surrounded by her close family,” read a statement published on the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity website.

A resident of Ditchling, East Sussex, England, Lynn was best known for her songs “We’ll Meet Again” and “The White Cliffs of Dover,” which were recorded during World War II and became popular ballads with the Allied forces. Her songs have been used across films and TV shows in the decades since, with one notable example being Stephen Colbert picking “We’ll Meet Again” for his big signoff number at the end of “The Colbert Report” finale in 2014.

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Lynn was a hit in both her native United Kingdom and the United States,...

Song : We’ll Meet AgainSinger : Dame Vera LynnWriters : Hugh Charles, Ross Parker Song Lyrics : “We’ll Meet Again” We’ll meet again,Don’t know where,Don’t know whenBut I know we’ll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through,Just like you always do‘Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away So will you please […]...

Dame Vera Lynn, the British singer and actress who was known as the “forces’ sweetheart,” has died at the age of 103.

Her family confirmed her death on Thursday, saying they were “deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers.”

Lynn is best known for performing the song We’ll Meet Again, which was made famous during World War II for boosting the morale of British troops and was recently evoked by Queen Elizabeth II to rally the nation in an address on the coronavirus crisis.

The song has appeared in countless movie and TV soundtracks, including Hellboy, Stranger Things and The Singing Detective. Lynn also featured in three films in the 1940s, including One Exciting Night and We’ll Meet Again, and presented BBC variety show Vera Lynn Presents in the 1960s.

BBC director general Tony Hall said: “She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times.

Exclusive: Baz Luhrmann has recorded “Sunscreen,” a new pandemic-relevant version of “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen),” his 1998 spoken-word song that featured a common sense essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech with advice on how to live a happy, healthy life. Luhrmann this time sets to music mostly to the inspiring speech given recently by Queen Elizabeth II, which gave the pandemic a historical perspective on overcoming crises going back to WWII.

Luhrmann was struck by that speech and felt it was an exception to the lack of straight-shooting words of comfort in these times. He got together with his music team over Zoom last weekend and made the remix with the Queen’s speech and Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again.” If enough people from all walks of life send Luhrmann a video of themselves singing to it — the place to send is sunscreen@bazmark.com — the Moulin Rouge...

When it was announced that Grimmy the Grim Reaper would be Stephen Colbert's final guest on The Colbert Report, fans speculated whether the future Late Show host was killing off his satirical character. Instead, Colbert's Colbert became immortal, and he closed out his nine-year Comedy Central run with a performance for the ages.

The host ended his Report with an all-star performance of Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again," featuring "We Are the World"-style appearances by an incredible cast of singers, actors, politicians and pundits. First out to...

We've been preemptively mourning this moment for a while, but on Thursday night, it finally arrived: Stephen Colbert gave his last sign-off on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. The good news is he didn't have to do it alone. In a farewell to top all farewells, a classy Colbert sang Ross Parker and Hughie Charles's "We'll Meet Again," inviting Jon Stewart, Randy Newman, Bryan Cranston, Patrick Stewart, Michael Stipe, James Franco, Samantha Power, Big Bird, and many, many other famous friends to stand by his side and help. Roll the clip below to catch a seemingly endless number of cameos, and then check back with Vulture tomorrow morning for a full take on Colbert's final Report.

London, March 20: Dame Vera Lynn has announced plans for a new album on her 97th birthday.

The album called 'Vera Lynn: National Treasure - The Ultimate Collection' will feature a selection of unreleased recordings, and will also include singer's best known songs 'We'll Meet Again' and 'The White Cliffs Of Dover', the BBC reported.

The year marks the veteran singer's 90th year in show business and the release date is set for June 2, which marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings which occurs four days later.

Lynn said in a statement that she thinks it's wonderful that her songs are still enjoyed, especially.

World War Z's tumultuous production may have generated plenty of column inches and online doom-mongering, but the movie itself was a bona fide box office success and more Brad Pitt zombie blockbusters will be on the way if Paramount get their wish.

Director Marc Forster recently detailed the original plans for the film's ending (so long laboratory in Wales, hello huge-scale 'Battle of Moscow'), and it's just the latest in a long line of movies that changed course right at the last minute.

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The ending you know: Brad Pitt's Mills fills John Doe with lead to finish the seven deadly sins and become 'Wrath'. The film closes out with Morgan Freeman's Somerset quoting Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Andreas from Pussy Goes Grrr here, to talk about one of the most infamously ironic song choices out there. And spoiler alert -- if you care about such things for 47 year old movies -- it's all about the ending.

As Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb reaches its bleakly absurd denouement, everyone is plotting for an imagined future. The Soviet ambassador is snapping photos of the "Big Board," the hawkish General Turgidson is predicting a post-apocalyptic "mineshaft gap," and even the title character, an eccentric ex-Nazi, is rising from his wheelchair and crying out, "Sir! I have a plan!" before adding, "Mein Führer! I can walk!" All of their paranoid schemes are self-evidently ridiculous, and ultimately futile, because that's right when the world ends.

But it doesn't end with a whimper, or with a bang: it ends with British songstress...

Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to screen Stanley Kubrick's black comedy opus Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) for a class of UCLA undergraduates. From time to time, in my FTV106A course, I screen the trailer for the film and the laughter I hope it will inspire is nearly always absent. I've always been a bit confused by this. Is the film, as was worried at the time of its release, simply not funny because it deals with nuclear holocaust or is it not funny because my students are so temporally removed from the Cuban missile crisis that it lacks any resonance? My money has always gone on the latter option, as I would assume that the irony and arsenic tone of Kubrick's film would more than gel with a movie audience raised on Fight Club (1999), Office Space (1999), and Hot Fuzz...

In Ernest Hemmingway's short story "The Killers," the reader is presented with a character, Ole Anderson, who knows he is to be killed by two hit men yet goes gently into that good night. The story, which was directly adapted into two American film noirs, once by Robert Siodmak (1946) and once by Don Siegel (1964), unnerves because of its existential nature: The protagonist acknowledges that it is meaningless to flee, as he will ultimately die at one time or another. How can you escape the inevitable? Why not cut to the chase and meet it head on? Siodmak's adaptation follows an insurance investigator who essentially wants to discover the reason why Ole was killed. Siegel's adaptation follows the hit men (Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager), one of whom is startled by and becomes obsessed with his target's resignation towards life. Essentially, Siodmak's adaptation takes the form of a mystery while Siegel's...

This George Romero zombie remake is good in an attractively downbeat style

George Romero now devotes his time to comparatively expensive remakes of the cheap, cheekily subversive horror movies with which he made his name. This one, reworking his 1973 homage to Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is set in rural Iowa, where the water of a small community is contaminated by a negligent department of defence, turning its inhabitants into homicidal zombies. Of its deliberately downbeat kind, it's rather good and is attractively book-ended by performances of We'll Meet Again and Give Me Sunshine, sung not by Vera Lynn or Morecambe and Wise but Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.

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Devon rock trio Muse have notched up their third UK number one album. The Resistance debuts at the top of the UK albums chart this week after outselling the next three releases combined. Muse also reached the summit with 2006's Black Holes and Revelations and 2003's Absolution. Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again compilation slips to two, while Peter Andre's Revelation lands at three - his highest position on the chart since 1996. Meanwhile, Jay-z scores his first ever UK top ten album after bowing at four with The Blueprint 3, home to his recent number one single 'Run This Town'. Pixie Lott also enters the top ten this week, landing at six (more)...

Dame Vera Lynn and The Beatles have both broken chart records this week. Lynn, 92, becomes the oldest living artist to score a number one album after her We'll Meet Again compilation climbs to the top spot. "I am extremely surprised and delighted - and a big 'thank you' to all my fans for putting me there," she told the Official Charts Company. Meanwhile, The Beatles place four of their remastered albums in the top ten, breaking the record for most albums simultaneously in the top ten by a group. The previous record was held by The Monkees, who occupied three spots in the top ten in 1967. Seven other remastered Beatles albums chart between positions 11 and 40, giving the group a total of 11 entries in the Top 40. Elsewhere on the chart, Jamie T lands at two with second album (more)...