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Scotsman
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Neil Cowley Trio, Glasgow Jazz Festival review: 'full-on piano'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Neil Cowley Trio, St Luke's, Glasgow ★★★★ Following a seven-year hiatus after their wonderful Spacebound Apes album, the Neil Cowley Trio have a new album and are back on the road – with a vengeance, as manifested by their take-no-prisoners set on the opening night of Glasgow Jazz Festival. Neil Cowley Trio | Contributed The new album's title, Entity, certainly hints at the tightly organic interplay between Cowley on piano, double-bassist Rex Horan and drummer Evan Jenkins, right from their opener, Marble, the piano's stately ringing escorted by thrumming bass and drum mallets. The subsequent scampering keyboard hook of Lemon Meringue worked up a mighty groove, not least through Horan's bass reverberating through our seats. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Cowley had forsaken the ethereal electronica which can shimmer around his studio playing; instead this was full-on piano, as in the unremitting batter of Sharks of Competition, Jenkins cutting loose on drums, at times making you wonder whether they were being egged on by the toy T-Rex perched above Cowley's keyboard. In contrast, Cowley spelled out the spare, lyrical melody of Father Daughter, while numbers such as the title track from the new album, Entity, created expansively rippling arpeggios that the trio could whip into yet another bass and drums storm. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They closed with a trio of tunes that opened with the beautifully meditative Grace, before cranking up yet more intense drive – jazz piano trio as rock band.
Geek Tyrant
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING Considered Killing Off Ethan Hunt — GeekTyrant
When the final Mission: Impossible film was retitled The Final Reckoning , fans started theorizing that maybe Ethan Hunt was going to die. After all, what better way to close out a decades-long franchise than to sacrifice its legendary lead? Turns out, that was actually very much on the table. In a new interview with Empire, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie revealed that he seriously considered ending Ethan's journey for good. He said: 'Everything is on the table. There was a moment in the editing of the final sequence of the movie where Ethan goes spinning into that cloud bank where I thought, 'If you cut to his grave right now, you'd feel the sacrifice was sufficient. Wow, that's very, very effective.'' So yeah, there was almost a version of this movie where Ethan Hunt didn't make it out alive. But McQuarrie ultimately pulled back from that ledge. He explained that ending Ethan's story with death wasn't quite the point. 'The idea of a conclusion of a story being the death of that character… they are not one and the same. When you fully tie off the story, the story ceases to be. And that's not life. Stories go on, whether or not the movies do.' Ethan Hunt's entire mission has always been about survival against impossible odds. Killing him off might have felt like closure, but McQuarrie clearly saw it as a disservice to the story's ongoing momentum. And just like Ethan, the film's main villain, the Entity, a rogue AI, also survives. That wasn't accidental either. While Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro apparently pitched the idea that the Entity should scream as it was destroyed, McQuarrie opted for something more unsettling: let it live. 'You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Really experienced experts in this field, who have been with it since its infancy, were telling me the only way that you'll ever be able to now combat AI is with AI. It's never going to go away.' So instead of some grand, explosive finale, The Final Reckoning ends with the Entity merely contained. It's still out there, unbeaten and undestroyed. 'Destroying the Entity was actually kind of a hollow and empty idea…. [Destroying the Entity is] not going to stop somebody else from making an Entity, and so the idea of Ethan keeping the Entity at the end was fully antithetical to everything we believed—and yet, there it was emotionally in the movie, and that's how the ending came to be.' McQuarrie didn't want to pretend the mission was ever really over, and while he says he's probably done with Mission: Impossible , he left just enough ambiguity to keep the door cracked. 'Do I think [Mission] is in my rear-view mirror? I want to say yes. Tom Cruise is a force of nature, and a very, very tricky one.' My question is, if Ethan Hunt would have died, would Tom Cruise have pulled off the ultimate stunt and died for real!? That may be the real reason they decided to change it.
Gizmodo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Ethan Hunt Doesn't Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,' But They Considered It
When the eighth Mission: Impossible film changed its title to 'The Final Reckoning,' we all had the same thought: Tom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, was going to die. It would have been the most obvious way to add some real finality to the franchise, but we now know that doesn't happen. Instead, Ethan lives, as does his sworn enemy, the Entity. And, in a new interview, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie discussed those crucial decisions and many more. In an extended, spoiler-filled conversation with Empire, McQuarrie admitted he toyed with the idea of killing his main character and even had an idea of how to do it. 'Everything is on the table,' McQuarrie said. 'There was a moment in the editing of the final sequence of the movie where Ethan goes spinning into that cloud bank where I thought, 'If you cut to his grave right now, you'd feel the sacrifice was sufficient. Wow, that's very, very effective'.' Ultimately, though, he didn't think killing Ethan would've served the story in the right way. 'The idea of a conclusion of a story being the death of that character… they are not one and the same,' McQuarrie said. 'When you fully tie off the story, the story ceases to be. And that's not life. Stories go on, whether or not the movies do.' Which, of course, leaves the door open for more Mission movies. 'Do I think [Mission] is in my rear-view mirror? I want to say yes,' McQuarrie said, adding the caveat that 'Tom Cruise is a force of nature, and a very, very tricky one.' And so, the director admits, he could one day return to the franchise, but only 'if it was the movie I desperately wanted to make.' Another fascinating decision made by McQuarrie at the end of Final Reckoning was the one to not defeat the unstoppable AI, the Entity. Fellow Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro said he wanted the Entity to scream when it was defeated (another revelation from the interview) but McQuarrie chose not to do that and chose not to kill it at all. Instead, it's merely contained, a decision McQuarrie made as a commentary on AI at large 'You can't put the genie back in the bottle,' McQuarrie said about AI. 'Really experienced experts in this field, who have been with it since its infancy, were telling me the only way that you'll ever be able to now combat AI is with AI. It's never going to go away. Destroying the Entity was actually kind of a hollow and empty idea…. [Destroying the Entity is] not going to stop somebody else from making an Entity. And so the idea of Ethan keeping the Entity at the end was fully antithetical to everything we believed—and yet, there it was emotionally in the movie, and that's how the ending came to be.' Whether or not you agree with McQuarrie's thought process here—and we mostly do—it's refreshing to hear him explain why the decision was made. These are things he and his team clearly thought about at length, and no decision was made lightly. Read more from McQuarrie over at Empire and listen to the full discussion at this link. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is now in theaters.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IPSEN - Buy-back programme - Art 5 of MAR - Week 23
Aggregated presentation by day and by market Statement of transactions in own shares from June 2nd to June 6th 2025 Name of the issuer Identity code of the issuer (Legal Entity Identifier) Day of the transaction Identity code of the financial instrument Total daily volume (in number of shares) Daily weighted average purchase price of the shares Market (MIC Code) IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 02/06/2025 FR0010259150 294 102,63197 AQEU IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 02/06/2025 FR0010259150 929 102,90904 CCXE IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 02/06/2025 FR0010259150 288 102,59167 TQEX IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 02/06/2025 FR0010259150 3 069 103,02822 XPAR IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 03/06/2025 FR0010259150 294 103,98571 AQEU IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 03/06/2025 FR0010259150 929 104,26491 CCXE IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 03/06/2025 FR0010259150 288 104,0691 TQEX IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 03/06/2025 FR0010259150 2 427 103,81108 XPAR IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 04/06/2025 FR0010259150 504 103,79246 AQEU IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 04/06/2025 FR0010259150 1 186 103,48668 CCXE IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 04/06/2025 FR0010259150 354 103,62825 TQEX IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 04/06/2025 FR0010259150 3 306 103,68297 XPAR IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 05/06/2025 FR0010259150 300 104,26667 AQEU IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 05/06/2025 FR0010259150 750 104,04667 CCXE IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 05/06/2025 FR0010259150 250 103,94 TQEX IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 05/06/2025 FR0010259150 2 794 104,08021 XPAR IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 06/06/2025 FR0010259150 200 103,82 AQEU IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 06/06/2025 FR0010259150 400 103,825 CCXE IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 06/06/2025 FR0010259150 200 103,875 TQEX IPSEN 549300M6SGDPB4Z94P11 06/06/2025 FR0010259150 4 250 103,90626 XPAR TOTAL 23 012 103,6915 Attachment EN_IPSEN - Buy-back programme - Art 5 of MAR - Week 23_2025Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
19 Years Later, 'Final Reckoning' Retcons an Underrated 'Mission: Impossible' Sequel
Ethan Hunt's world-saving reign has finally come to a conclusion with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (now in cinemas), which concludes the story established in 2023's Dead Reckoning and wraps up 29 years of franchise lore all at once. The Final Reckoning ties back to the seven previous Mission installments in a number of ways. Still, the most notable aspect is how it retcons a key aspect of J.J. Abrams's Mission: Impossible 3 (2006). Here's everything you need to know about how The Final Reckoning ties back to M:I Final Reckoning picks up several months after the events of Dead Reckoning. In the meantime, the nefarious artificial intelligence known as the Entity has grown exponentially in power, taking control of cyberspace and the entire world's nuclear arsenal. To destroy the Entity, Ethan must locate its source code, which is stored on the sunken Sevastopol submarine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. "In Dead Reckoning, you got the sense that the whole thing that made the Entity scary was that it could manipulate information, and basically erase truth," our review noted. "But in The Final Reckoning, it's just a mad computer program with the keys to all the nukes on planet Earth."M:I 3 found Ethan Hunt pursuing ruthless arms dealer Owen Davian (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), who possessed a device known as 'the Rabbit's Foot,' an unspecified piece of technology which threatened to bring an end to mankind. After Davian is captured and subsequently freed, he kidnaps Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). Ethan then delivers the Rabbit's Foot to Davian to secure Julia's release. It's revealed that IMF Director of Operations John Musgrave (Billy Crudup) was working with Davian to secure the Rabbit's Foot so that the IMF would have cause to attack Middle East countries in a bid to 'stop the terrorists overseas and spread democracy,' a particularly 2006 The Final Reckoning's marathon 24-minute cold open, Ethan and Grace (Hayley Atwell) are kidnapped by arch villain Gabriel (Esai Morales), who holds them hostage and monologues his evil motivation. In Dead Reckoning, Gabriel acted as the Entity's human emissary. But in the intervening months, the Entity has decided it doesn't need Gabriel's help to take over the world. Gabriel explains that the Rabbit's Foot was the core module which 'contained a malicious code' --or 'a primordial digital ooze,' if you will--which was used to build The Entity, 'a weapon that the West never could have made on its own.' Davian had previously wanted to harness the power of the code within the Rabbit's Foot, similar to Gabriel's role in Dead Reckoning as the Entity's human emissary. In the ensuing years, as The Entity became more self-aware, it realized it could dominate the world of its own accord and didn't need any puny humans. There was only one thing that could plausibly stop the Entity from achieving its goals: the Rabbit's Foot, then located on the Sevastopol submarine. So the Entity sank the Sevastopol, dooming its source code to a watery the events of M:I 3, the Rabbit's Foot was confiscated by the U.S. government, where it quickly fell into the hands of Director of National Intelligence Denlinger (Cary Elwes), whom Gabriel killed on the train car in Dead Reckoning. Denlinger hoped to use the Rabbit's Foot to eliminate foreign technology deemed a threat to the U.S. When he deployed its use on the Sevastopol, circa 2012, the Rabbit's Foot gained sentience and birthed the Entity. It then sank the Sevastopol. In the ensuing decade, the Entity operated covertly, gaining intelligence from world governments and taking full advantage of its human mouthpieces, greedy also-rans like Davian and Gabriel who hoped to harvest its power but were no match for the Entity the most interesting and least dwelt-upon detail in The Final Reckoning is that Ethan helped to create the Entity by giving Davian the Rabbit's Foot in exchange for Julia's life at the end of M:I 3. In the cold open, Gabriel tells Ethan and Grace that it was clear Julia was Ethan's only weakness, and his eagerness to see Julia freed resulted in his handing over to Davian. After Ethan killed Davian, he returned the device to the IMF, where Delinger got his hands on Impossible 3 never stated outright what the Entity was, but the implication was that it was a weapon of mass destruction. At one point in that film, Benji (Simon Pegg) refers to it as an 'anti-god.' But considering The Final Reckoning's reveal, the only way to make sense of M:I 3 would be to assume the characters themselves didn't know what the Rabbit's Foot was at the time. Abrams's 2006 sequel would suggest the characters were smarter than the audience, with no need to explain the central MacGuffin as it's so incredibly obvious to everyone at the IMF. But if that were the case, why didn't Davian's possession of the Rabbit's Foot raise more governmental alarms? Similarly, how did Denlinger's covert use of the device go undetected for so long? It's a pretty silly plot device, one which undermines the proficiency of the IMF and Ethan Hunt himself, but it goes to show no one saw the possibilities of AI back in 2006.19 Years Later, 'Final Reckoning' Retcons an Underrated 'Mission: Impossible' Sequel first appeared on Men's Journal on May 24, 2025
