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LPN has been uploading videos highlighting touch of death sequences in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition. These videos showcase how to deal insane amounts of damage with Gill, Rose and Ibuki.

Keep in mind that these touch of death sequences actually consist of two combos, but the first combo will always provide a mix up opportunity to allow the second combo. As expected, the opponent gets stunned part way through the second combo, which enables the touch of death sequence to happen.

The first character highlighted by LPN is Gill. Though Gill is sometimes referred to as being one of Street Fighter 5's weaker characters, his Retribution system enables unique juggles. LPN takes advantage of the Retribution system to get the most out of punishing Akuma for his EX reversal attempt.

Rose gets access to powerful juggles from her EX Soul Spark. While a bar of meter is burned at the start of the first combo, Rose is able to build up enough meter during the first and second combo to regain that bar. In the end, Rose uses three bars of meter, but gains one back throughout this touch of death sequence.

Finally, LPN demonstrates how Ibuki can delete the opponent's life bar thanks to the buffed V-Trigger 1 bombs thrown bombs cause hitstun now. This setup by be a little bit impractical as Ibuki needs time during the opponent's stun animation to recollect the needed kunai. Still, it's a pretty flashy combo to watch.

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As health and wellness facilities across Alamance County scrambled to support their clientele in the wake of COVID-19 shutdowns last year, Feel Better Yoga in Burlington was one of the first to start offering services online.

More than a year later, the hot yoga studio is still embracing the changes brought on by the pandemic, offering online-only memberships and changing up the studio space to meet practitioners needs.

The studio closed down about a week beforeGov. Roy Coopermandated it and started uploading pre-recorded class videos to Vimeo. The content was free and sharable.

According to owner Shelley Roupas, this tactic kept many long-time studio members engaged.

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They were able to continue their practice at home and I think they just felt that it was a needed response for them because it happened so fast, and then the more we added videos, it was like then they were able to see, 'Like, OK, we can do yoga at home. We prefer to be in the studio, but you know we can do it at home and it's OK,' Roupas said. I feel like it was a really good move on our part for them.

The free videos also brought in some new yogis.

We have people from all over the country doing our videos because … a lot of places were sharing yoga videos but you had to pay for them. So we found that a lot of people were just sharing them … with, you know, their mom in a different city or their college roommate in a different city or whatever, Roupas said.

Seeing the success of the videos, Roupas started thinking about charging for them, but said that idea just didnt sit right with her.

Our mission has always been to share yoga because we believe in it so muchand ... it just seemed like the right thing to do is to just keep that free, she said. I believe in the power of reciprocity, where what you give, you get.

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Instead of charging for videos, the studio has started offering an online-only monthly membership for $39. This option allows clients to continue their yoga practice at home in live classes held over Zoom if theyre not yet ready to return to the studio.

The live classes have the element of presence and community and connection because it's a live class so there are actually people in the class and on Zoom. Every class we teach now is in person, and on Zoom, Roupas explained.

The response to the online offering has been positive, with Roupas saying many long-time, in-person members have started taking advantage of it.

We get a lot of people that are just continuing to do the (online classes). They might have elderly parents and so they just don't want to take a chance or they don't have their second vaccine yet and they want to keep up their practice ...for their mental health, so they just keep doing it at home, she said.

Free pre-recorded videos will continue to be uploaded on top of the online live classes. The studio is also offering a buy-one, give-one special, where clients can nominate a friend or family member to receive a free online membership.

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The adaptations spurred on by the pandemic dont stop there.

Oh my gosh, I mean everything is different, Roupas said.

In addition to the online classes, the in-studio experience has also changed. Pre-COVID, the studio held up to 75 people at a time. Now, Roupas said FBY has cut class sizes down to 34 to give clients more space for their practice.

A blessing of all this is ... I don't think that then I would have ever just said, 'Hey let's just cut our space availability down by, you know, 70% because that doesn't really make sense financially.' However, people love it. They love all the space they get, and so I don't think we're going to shift from this for a while, she said.

Roupas said the changes made during the pandemic were unexpected, but essential in keeping the studio and its members going through unprecedented times.

It showed us that ...to survive, you have to be willing to take risks and you have to be willing to not just talk about doing the thing, you have to actually do the thing. So that means you offer free yoga or ... create this new model of sharing yoga, and it's just taught me more than ever that you got to be willing to actually do it and not just think about it, she said.

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I think over the past year we've seen very clearly that people need yoga and yoga is about seeing the stories and the stress and the anxiety that is very real, but we make it way bigger than it is with what we tell ourselves ... in our mind. … Over the past year, our team has needed yoga, we've seen that people really need a way to deal with stress and anxiety and what-ifs, she added.

In an effort to continue providing space for that practice, Roupas said the online classes and additional space in the studio will stick around for quite a while.

Really that is the practice of yoga," she said. "It's about figuring out life as life is happening."

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Senior Sinn Fin TD Eoin Broin has said he is hopeful the party will be able to use its Ab voter database for the upcoming Dublin Bay South byelection.

He said its a good system and it helps us win elections.

The database has been at the centre of controversy after reports that party members are encouraged to add information on voters including their perceived level of support for the party.

Sinn Fin has denied that it uses data-mining from social media to update the database.

The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has raised questions about the database and is engaging with Sinn Fin.

In recent weeks, party leader Mary Lou McDonald said that when the database was set up the party had a data compliance officer but not a data protection officer and it has since employed one.

Mr Broin was asked about the database by reporters on Tuesday and said he uses it during elections and when he is out canvassing.

Asked if the database will be used for the upcoming Dublin Bay South byelection he replied: I can see no reason why not, other than if there are any other issues which the Data Protection Commissioner asks us to address we will obviously have to address those because thats the appropriate course of action.

But I would be quite hopeful that well be able to use the system.

Its a good system. I dont believe it is in serious contravention of data protection regulations and it helps us win elections.

Asked if canvassers in the constituency will be able to mark the Ab system with whether households support Sinn Fin or other parties, he said: Thats what all political parties do with their canvass returns whether they keep them with paper on individual constituency databases or a facility like ours.

So well do what weve always done in elections. But again, I just want to emphasise, if the DPC has any other concerns, we will respond to those fully and as quickly as is required.

Sinn Fin has yet to announce a candidate for the byelection. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald confirmed in recent weeks that Sinn Fin had appointment a data protection officer after its engagement with the DPC.

It previously had a data compliance officer. The party is also now carrying out a data protection risk assessment.

Mr Broin had previously said that he believed the party was complaint with data protection regulations though he said that he also noted that if the DPC raised issues it would respond immediately.

On Tuesday he said: The issue of the data protection officer and the audit, they were serious oversights.

The Data Protection Commissioner has brought them to our attention and weve rectified them. And keep in mind were continuing to engage with the DPC and if she brings other matters to our attention well address that.

He insisted that Sinn Fin didnt think it was above the law, adding: We feel that the core of the system is compliant.

Mr Broin said that the central contention that some people are making... that we have been taking information surreptitiously from social media sources, uploading it onto an online system... isnt true.

He said that a party training manual that suggested this is what was happening is really, really badly worded.

Asked how he knew people were not doing this, given that the training manual told them to do it Mr Broin said: because the system doesnt allow it.

I use the system during elections. I was the director of election for Mark Ward during the byelection. I know what the system can do and cant do.

And I firmly believe, when the Data Protection Commissioner concludes her work, that the core allegations being made against our party will be proven to be not the case because I know its not possible in the system.

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IT'S the election tradition that unites voters from all parties and none dogs at polling stations.

Social medial users taking their pets to the polls have been uploading cute snaps for years using the hashtag #dogsatpollingstations and 2021 is no exception.

Candidates also got in on the act in what's become a much-loved part of election day for many of us.

Cartoonist Neil Slorance was out with his family dog Molly.

While Highlands and Islands independent candidate Andy Wightman shared this snap of a black and white pal.

Border terrier Roky Boyd cut a dash in a Saltire scarf.

And there was no guessing who this Musselburgh pupper was pulling for.

Meanwhile, Ruth Davidson took her Conservative canine Wilson out with her.

Humza Yousaf of the SNP didn't have a dog of his own with him, but he managed to borrow one and get in on the action anyway.

And Labour's Monica Lennon, seeking votes in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse,got to hang out with German Shepherd Loki.

Of course, this is no ordinary election and there are more postal voters than ever before.

With that in mind, Amy Callaghan MP came up with a plan to get the pups of postal voters involved.

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Dodie is a very modern kind of famous: a megastar to some, a nobody to others. The singer-songwriter first began uploading her music to YouTube in 2011 when she was 16; her ukulele covers, short self-written songs tackling big, taboo topics, everyday messing about and easy familiarity had Gen Z subscribing in their droves.

On YouTube, where she goes by doddleoddle, 1.95 million people subscribe to her channel. On Instagram, she has 1.1 million followers. Looking through celebrity accounts often feels like your eye is up against a grimy keyhole through which you can see an oasis of privilege and beauty, but younger stars who have grown up filming their every move tend to have accounts that are an extension of themselves.

Dodie has used her platform to come out as bisexual (in song), share bouts of poor mental health, answer fans questions some searingly personal and generally lark about. But having been so open for a decade I just didnt have any boundaries she is starting to reckon with what she wants to keep private, for herself.

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Dodie whose full name is Dorothy Clarke grew up just outside London and now lives with two musicians in a flat in west London. She began experimenting with YouTube with a friend, and her early songs are either quiet and emotional or bedroom beats finding silliness in the mundane a 40-second track on her first EP is called I have a hole in my tooth (and the dentist is closed).

As she has grown older, dealing with the lineation between the self and the screen has become an ongoing project. Aged 25 when she wrote her first album Build a Problem, which is out on Friday, she was dealing with a lot: family issues, her diagnosis of dissociative disorder (an unsettling condition that leaves you feeling not quite present in your body) and just being a young woman finding her way in the world.

She worried she had shared too much of herself and wasnt sure what was left behind. She worried about her trauma being turned into something someone might mindlessly whistle as they walk down a hallway. Now, she says, when we meet over video chat, she has let it go.

Having sat on it for a while, Ive realised that Im further away from where I was when I wrote it. Thats a bit of protection.

She is 26 now; she geared herself up for release early this year, but the album was pushed back, then pushed back again, by vinyl manufacturing delays. It was tough.

I felt like I couldnt really move on from that time. It ties me to the past when Im so used to trying to give something love and blowing it away.

Build a Problem is a gorgeous album. Full of sweeping orchestral arrangements and intimately sung confessions, in places it feels almost primal. It is staggeringly accomplished for a woman who has previously been thought of as a YouTuber with a ukelele.

Pizzicato strings meld with swooning violins to create a kind of distant storm effect, and deep harmonies contrast with Dodies quiet, conversational vocals.

She wrote and conducted the string sections herself sometimes through tears, as the sheer magnitude of what was coming together in front of her was overwhelming.

That was one of those moments in life where I was like, Damn, Im on the right path here. Like, I dont know how this happened but Im so glad and grateful that I managed to get here, because this is exactly what I want to be doing.

It is easy to get wrapped up in adoration when you receive it daily endless social media likes and a million-strong community with its own in-jokes and buzzwords built around you just being you. We all get an addictive dopamine hit every time someone interacts with us online; imagine receiving admiring messages from millions of people you dont know.

In Taylor Swifts Netflix documentary Miss Americana, she talks about how she measured her self-worth in terms of applause and adoration and how ultimately that became a very unhealthy way to live. It is something to which Dodie can relate.

So much of my mental health is entwined with what people think of me, she says. And thats not great when that number [of people] is so big. And I think, with every number comes everyones life and baggage and opinion. Its just impossible to carry. Ive had to sort of ignore that for a while and work on myself.

A lot of Build a Problem delves deep into her psyche via tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments. Hate Myself unravels an argument over nothing that spirals into something major. One folds their arms, the other tries to fill the silences and makes things worse. A night out gone wrong, and her constant tripping up of her own relationships are frequent subjects: she was going through a bit of a crisis when she wrote it.

There is a devastating trio of tracks in the middle of the record two instrumentals named after punctuation marks that sandwich a song called Four Tequilas Down, on which she sings hauntingly about drinking too much and making bad and hurtful choices in her relationships. She feels particularly nervous about sharing it now.

Talking about it, she explains, gives her a rumble of apprehension. That is the danger of being a songwriter in 2021: you want to explore a moment in your life, then everyone who hears the song wants to dissect it, too.

Sometimes, it feels like my life is looked at through a magnifying glass, she says.

I dont think I want to look at it like that: I just want to present the songs and walk on by.

It all sounds very serious and heavy, but Dodie has a lightness to her that finds the absurd in her trauma. Never seeming to be watching herself or worrying about what her hair is doing, she has a light, conspiratorial air that I imagine turns most acquaintances into confidantes with little effort, like the girl you meet in the toilets a few drinks in, who instantly becomes your bestfriend.

Her songs arent all doom. In fact, many are upbeat (not least the irresistibly catchy single Hate Myself) and lyrics are littered with jokes and asides. She is someone who is seeking out the weirdness in life after our call, she says, she is going to make a video where she and her housemates harmonise with their electric toothbrushes.

The next round of Dodie songs might be stressful to release in a very different way. After a long year of lockdown, there is one topic stalking her current work: God, all my songs now are so horny! Theyre all about wanking or people I miss, touchy-feelystuff. Im clearly just very lonely, because its coming out subconsciously in my writing. You can always tell what is bubbling in your subconscious, because it will just sort of rumble up in your dreams and your songs.

She likens writing in lockdown to the delightful image of a cat shitting: you have to let it happen naturally. If you focus too closely on it, it just wont go.

Although Build a Problem has built its own problems in Dodies mind, it is fulfilling in a way that her earlier works havent quite been. She mentions that she wishes she could have called this album Human, a title she already used on her last EP, in 2019, an accomplished album that felt quite safe both musically and thematically.

I think this is the first time Im really going to put something out there and be like: this is me. It feels truly like, me, and my life and my music.

The problems may not all have been solved lockdown has been tough to weather, mentally and she may still have work to do on herself and her relationships, but when I ask whether shes happy, she thinks for a moment and says: Right now, Ill say yes. I feel very proud of myself. And Im happy with who I am. But then ask me again in two days and Ill be like, oh goddammit!

If she is looking for a marker of normality, I think she might have just found it.

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Well say this with cautious optimism: the summer movie season isback? After the coronavirus pandemic upended the 2020 release calendar, pushing back some of the years most hyped films and inspiring new avenues of distribution for others, the summer of 2021 is shaping up as platform for blockbusters (from the latest Fast and Furious to the post-apocalyptic survival of the A Quiet Place installment all the way through a seventhConjuring film) and rife with discoveries (including some festival hits that date all the way back to 2019).

Of course, the distribution landscape has changed radically over the past year, and not every anticipated summer movie will simply head to the multiplex. This seasons lineup includes a wide variety of viewing options that go beyond the brick and mortar theater. Its a summer defined by options not only in terms of what you see, but how you choose to see it.

This list includes only films that have confirmed release dates from May through August, though many of IndieWires most-anticipated 2021 films from reliable distributors have yet to announce their release plans. These include Neons Pig, Titane, Memoria, and The First Wave, along with Netflixs daring Fear Street trilogy. As spring and summer festivals begin in earnest, we expect a fresh round of new films to be excited about that just might sneak in their own summer release plans after bowing across the circuit.

That all means that everything remains in flux, and as plans continue to change, this list will be updated. Whether that includes changing release dates, the method of a films release, or adding in some of those anticipated titles that have locked in an official date in 2021, this preview remains particularly fluid. For now, however, these are the films we are most excited to see in the coming months.

Eric Kohn, Christian Blauvelt, Zack Sharf, David Ehrlich, Ryan Lattanzio, Jude Dry, Tambay Obsenson, and Chris Lindahl contributed to this article.

American Zoetrope

Combining the ultra-cool gauziness of her aunt Sofias films with a nuance and sensitivity all her own, Gia Coppola did the family name proud with her 2014 debut Palo Alto, which holds up as one of this centurys best movies about being young in America. Coppolas long-awaited second feature finds her re-teaming with key collaborators (like musician Dev Hynes and cinematographer Autumn Durald) for a major change of pace: An original film that marries the snowballing narcissism of Elia Kazans A Face in the Crowd with the self-affirmation of the social media era.

Maya Hawke, in her first leading role, stars as an orphaned LA bartender named Frankie whose insular life is turned upside down when she crosses paths with a mysterious drifter named Link (Andrew Garfield in one of the years first you have to see it to believe it performances). Introduced wearing a giant rat costume and ranting at blinkered mall shoppers about how people need to look up from their phones and eat the art around them in real life, Link has some loftily righteous takes about the content-ification of the human experience, and its only a matter of time before he becomes a viral sensation unto himself once Frankie starts uploading his speeches to YouTube. Little does she know that shes creating a monster.

What ensues from there is a heightened, aggressive, love-it-or-hate-it satire of a very online world that cant stop rubber-necking at its own wreckage, and Garfields spectacular, loathsome performance is burning bright in the center of it all as the part of ourselves that we just cant seem to extinguish. DE

Guy Ritchie bounced back from the lows of 2017s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword with back-to-back box office hits Aladdin (2019) and The Gentlemen (2020). Can Ritchie make it three hits in a row? Enter Wrath of Man, which should be an easy attraction for action movie fans hungry for a rock-em-sock-em theater experience, as it reunites the filmmaker with his longtime star Jason Statham. The action movie veteran first teamed with Ritchie on the filmmakers cult 1998 hit Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, then reunited with him for the films Snatch and Revolver.

In Wrath of Man, a reimagining of Nicolas Boukhriefs 2004 French heist thriller Le Convoyeur, Statham stars as a truck security guard who surprises his co-workers during a heist in which he unleashes unexpected precision skills. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksmans ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score. The film also stars Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Hartnett, Scott Eastwood, Raul Castillo, and Post Malone. ZS

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Best-selling author Kelly Oxford goes behind the camera for her long-in-the-making debut, which premiered at SXSW in 2020 and will debut on MTV (commercial-free!), where the accomplished first feature should reach its ideal audience. The charming and insightful 90s-set coming-of-age dramedy stars Jessica Barden as Winona who, just as Oxford did in suburban Calgary, struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of college and moving back in with her parents. The films supporting cast includes rising stars Rosa Salazar, Odeya Rush, Lewis Pullman, and Devon Bostick, in addition to household names like Michael McKean, Marcia Gay Harden, Henry Winkler, and Mary J. Blige.

Pink Skies Ahead got its start as an essay that chronicles Oxfords own diagnosis, No Real Danger, which appeared in the anthology When You Find Out the World Is Against You. It was a moment of fresh anxiety that pushed Oxford to turn it into a script, just as she was grappling with the fallout of her 2016 divorce and trying to determine what was next for both her family and her career. The resulting film is funny, sad, and deeply honest, the kind of debut feature that makes it clear that Oxfords newly minted filmmaking career is one to watch. KE

Over the last two decades, prolific French horror director Alexandre Aja has delivered a gorier take on Wes Cravens The Hills Have Eyes, crafted a funny and gratuitous B-movie homage with Piranha 3D, and delighted critics and audiences with disaster thriller Crawl. For his ninth effort, Aja is trying his hand at sci-fi horror with Oxygen, which stars Mlanie Laurent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. As shes running out of oxygen, she must figure out who she is and how she ended up in the potentially fatal predicament.

Best known to American audiences for her work in Inglorious Basterds, the Cesar-winning Laurent has a wide canvas to showcase her skills given the claustrophobic setting. Such a performance, coupled with a cerebral script and a director known for his transgressive instincts, could deliver a truly terrifying and thought-provoking survival drama. CL

With a movie called The Killing of Two Lovers, one might know what to expect from the start, but Robert Machoians gripping thriller plays off the prediction of its title at every riveting moment. David (a disheveled Clayne Crawford) is already at wits end when the movie begins, hovering over his estranged wife (Spideh Moafi) and her new boyfriend as they sleep in their small-town Utah home. A gun sits in his sweaty hand, but he has yet to pull the trigger.

From that unnerving start, the movie drifts through Davids fragile existence, as he makes repeated attempts to reconnect with the love of his life and their four children, juggling his simmering rage with the semblance of sanity still percolating in his head. This material could turn melodramatic at any moment, but Crawfords jittery performance and Machoians naturalistic style joins forces with an ominous sound design that brings the fragility of its protagonists mindset to life. The result is a fresh and bracing new look at the dissolution of a nuclear family that redefines edge-of-your-seat filmmaking through the sheer talent on display at every moment. EK

Lionsgate

The Saw horror franchise is coming back for a ninth go-round on the big screen with the upcoming Spiral, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson. Rock came up with the idea himself for this reimagining, which looks like it has more in common with David Finchers Seven than with any previous installment in the long-running horror franchise. Rock stars as a detective working in the shadow of his esteemed police veteran father (Jackson) who gets drawn into a serial killers morbid game that somehow connects to the Jigsaw killer.

While Rock and Jacksons involvement is sure to draw viewers, diehard Saw fans know Spiral is not one to miss as it marks the return of filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman to the horror franchise. Bousman wrote and directed 2005s Saw II and helmed sequels Saw III and Saw IV before departing the franchise. Bousmans return signals that Rocks idea was worthy of the Saw legacy. Horror fans will be keeping a close eye on this one this summer. ZS

Focus Features

The best and most harrowing addition to the emerging sub-genre of movies that take place entirely within the space of a computer screen,Timur Bekmambetovs Profile brings a new and much-needed dimension to its conceit by using it in the service of a semi-realistic story. Thats almost uncharted territory for a type of filmmaking born out of shlock (though Bekmambetov, who produced Searching and Unfriended, has been pushing for more projects with this approach, which he calls Screenlife). Very loosely based on a true story about a French journalist who essentially catfished an ISIS recruiter for a story, Bekmambetovs latest isnt going to be confused for a documentary, but theres nevertheless a gripping verisimilitude to watching desperate freelancer Amy (Valene Kane) flirt with and develop feelings for a Syrian jihadist (Shazad Latif) via Skype.

As broad as it is unnerving, Profile is one of the only films of this upcoming semi-pandemic summer that might actually be a better experienced when streamed at home on a computer monitor rather than seen on a movie screen. Watch this thing on a laptop and it inspires you to instinctively click on Amys Skype windows, as though the movie is being shared on your screen in real-time. Thats a terrifying, immediate sensation, and one that points to a new kind of interactive storytelling in which a guy like Bekmambetov might be able to physically meld with audiences in a way that the worst of his previous work (Wanted, Ben-Hur) has always wished that it could. In other words, this is the rare Netflix acquisition where everyonewins. DE

Netflix

With Justice League behind him, Zack Snyder is jumping from Warner Bros. to Netflix to kick off what could be another massive new franchise with Army of the Dead. The film marks the directors return to the zombie genre after he made the jump to features from music videos with his 2004 debut Dawn of the Dead. Starring Dave Bautista, Theo Rossi, Tig Notaro, Garrett Dillahunt, Ral Castillo, Omari Hardwick, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Ella Purnell, Army of the Dead follows a group of mercenaries who plot a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak.

With smarter zombies (Snyder imagines the undead here as capable of forming groups and being organized) and a zombie tiger, Army of the Dead promises the kind of R-rated violent mayhem that tends to connect in the summer season. And thats just the beginning, as Snyder is producing a German-language prequel and an animated sequel that explains the origins of the universes zombies. ZS

There Is No Evil spends 30 minutes establishing its premise, and another two hours taking it in surprising new directions. Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulofs brilliant anthology feature unfolds across four stories about military men tasked with executions as they grapple with their options, contend with the fallout, and witness the impact it has on the people closest to them. It starts with tragedy and builds to a remarkable series of last-minute escapes and morality plays. The deserving winner of the Golden Bear at last years Berlinale, There Is No Evil is the perfect opportunity for Rasolouf to expand his audience (and will satisfy anyone who has appreciated his taut storytelling before).

The filmmaker, who has been barred from leaving his country since 2017, has made an absorbing ride defined by the paradoxes of its people. Nobody in There Is No Evil has it easy: Theres no simple moral code when every possible option leads to a point of no return. EK

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However good or bad The Woman in the Window turns out to be, it is surely destined to be one of the buzziest summer offerings from Netflix. Directed by Joe Wright and adapted from A.J. Finns bestseller, the film stars Amy Adams as agoraphobic woman who believes she saw her new friend murdered in the apartment across the street. Will anyone believe her?

Featuring a star-studded cast that includes Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anthony Mackie, Bryan Tyree Henry, and Wyatt Russell, The Woman in the Window has had a notorious road to release plagued by delays due to the Disney-Fox merger and poor test screenings. Some will watch The Woman in the Window because of its star-studded pedigree. Others will watch to see if its the train wreck that reports out of test screenings suggest. Either way, The Woman in the Window is going to be a Netflix hit that will have social media buzzing this summer movie season. ZS

Taylor Sheridan returns to feature directing for the first time since 2017s indie sleeper Wind River with Those Who Wish Me Dead, a neo-Western set amid a forest fire blazing in middle-of-nowhere Montana. Written by Sheridan with crime writer Michael Koryta (adapting his own novel), along with Blood Diamond scribe Charles Leavitt, the film features Angelina Jolie leading an impressive ensemble.

Also starring are Nicholas Hoult, Tyler Perry, and Jon Bernthal in this story of a 14-year-old murder witness on the run from twin assassins. Sheridan brings his deep pedigree for suspenseful Westerns grappling with a depressed America, as he earned an Oscar nomination for writing 2016s Hell or High Water, and serves as the co-creator, as well as writer, director, and producer, on TVs hit series Yellowstone. Sheridans crowning achievement remains the taut script for Denis Villeneuves Sicario, another film about a deadly chase through a dark corner of the world. RL

Actress-turned-filmmaker Natalie Morales is on a roll: Earlier this year, she premiered her co-directing debut Language Lessons at Berlin and SXSW, a pandemic-era charmer she made alongside Mark Duplass that made an early claim for this particular writers most tear-soaked film ending of the year. Now, Morales is rolling out her next offering: her solo directing debut, a teenage quest comedy entitled Plan B.

Written by Prathi Srinivasan and Joshua Levy, per its official synopsis, the Hulu original picks up after a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student (Kuhoo Verma) and her slacker best friend (Victoria Moroles) have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in Americas heartland. The film sounds like the perfect next entry into the burgeoning andnecessary genre of girl-centric coming-of-age tales with very big, very real issues on their mind, from Booksmart to Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Unpregnant. Just two films into her career, it seems as Morales can do just about anything she sets her mind to.KE

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Nearly 30 years after The Crying Game depicted a mans revulsion at discovering his partner was trans, Port Authority sets the record straight. When Paul (Fionn Whitehead) learns that ballroom dancer Wye (Lenya Bloom) is a femme girl soon after their romance has blossomed, he doesnt retch or try to flee. The nature of Wyes gender identity should be obvious to anyone paying attention to her surroundings, so the truth only comes as a twist for Paul; for most audiences, the suspense of the movies first half stems from watching him confront that fact and just deal with it. And then: They have in a levelheaded debate about the ethics of communication, and he more or less gets over it so the rest of the movie can go on.

Director Danielle Lessovitzs gentle debut utilizes the template for a gritty, naturalistic New York City love story about inner-city troublemakers with a keen eye for the authentic and touching two-hander at its center. At the same time, it doesnt negate the edginess of its metropolitan backdrop. (Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, it may as well take place in his expanded universe.) As this scrappy little movie to strike a quietly progressive note, it suggests a happy medium between Kids and Paris is Burning, building to a rousing finish right on schedule. EK

Jia Zhangkewas able to premiere his latest documentary, Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, at Berlin last February, just before the coronavirus shut down most of the world, and the film will finally be released to wide audiences more than a year later. The doc finds acclaimed writers Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua and Liang Hong discussing the evolution of their craft and how it emerged from changes to the society as a whole.

I respect them the most because theyre very, very honest and brave not only in terms of how they write, but how they express themselves, Jia told IndieWire last year. Through the making of this film, I absorbed a lot of the strength of these authors. Over the decades of making films, the difficulties Ive experienced have made me feel discouraged at times. The changes are so slow and sometimes the situation gets worse. Through my collaboration with these three authors, I felt that changes are possible if we just keep doing what we can not only individually but as a society. EK

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John Krasinskis much-hyped followup to his smash hit A Quiet Place was one of the first major 2020 tentpoles to get pushed back during the first days of the coronavirus pandemic. But Krasinski and co. remained set on their desire to open the film in theaters, and while it took over a year for that to happen, the sequel should serve as a major attraction for moviegoers looking to get back into the multiplex swing of things.

While Krasinski, who also co-starred in the first film, is not back on the screen (spoiler alert to anyone who didnt see the original back in 2018), the rest of his stars are, including his real-life wife Emily Blunt and teen breakouts Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. The trio are joined by Cillian Murphy, here cast as another survivor of the alien invasion that effectively ended the world and set the stage for the first film.

The sequel was already screening by the time it was delayed, and strong first reactions continue to pump up enthusiasm for a film thats actually worth the wait: a worthy, world-expanding followup that builds on the original and finds its own thrills and emotional stakes in the process. Audiences should still be banned from eating crunchy snacks during any and all screenings. KE

With seven installments and a worldwide gross nearing $2 billion, few horror franchises can compare to the impact of The Conjuring universe. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It marks the third direct sequel to the original 2013 movie and once again follows paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). The movie tracks their involvement in a 1980s Connecticut exorcism and subsequent murder trial known as the Devil Made Me Do It case.

This will mark the first of the sequels without horror maestro James Wan in the directors chair; that job goes to The Curse of La Llorona director Michael Chaves in his sophomore effort. While La Llorona was far from a standout in the franchise, a story-by credit for Wan and a script from The Conjuring 2 scribe David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick suggests The Devil Made Me Do It could live up to the high expectations set by the first two Conjuring movies. CL

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Shape of Water fans dying for another nymph-human love story, get ready: Christian Petzold has you covered. The German auteur behind Phoenix, Barbara, and Transit excels at taut, surreal thrillers about clandestine identities. Here, he follows Berlin tour guide Undine (Paula Beer) as her relationship collapses with her unfaithful partner and she falls for a curious industrial diver.

But as Undine maintains an eerie fixation on her breakup, the movie takes on a series of dreamlike twists as Petzold builds up his usual Hitchcockian suspense throughout. Undine may be losing her grip on reality, but reality has a few surprises in store for her as well right down to a stunning fantastical ending that will keep people talking, and which further confirms that Petzold is one of the most exciting European directors working today. EK

All Light Everywhere winds its way through fragmentary observations about modern surveillance society, unearthing a wide range of amorphous connections about its subject. However, Theo Anthonys ambitious documentary unearths one brilliant connection a fascinating lineage between the camera and the gun and roots it in historical fact.For that reason alone, the filmmakers strange and alluring rumination on the ways technology exerts control over human life is a worthy follow-up to his 2016 debut Rat Film, which used Baltimores rodent infestation as a savvy metaphor for gentrification.

All Light Everywhere investigates how little we see about the way the world looks back at us, careening from a warehouse that develops tasers and police body cameras, to training sessions for officers who wear the devices, the machinations of a spy plane entrepreneur, and the history of camera pigeons in WWI.In the most compelling passages, Anthony journeys back to the late 19th century, unearthing the little-known history of astrophotography and mug shots, finding a remarkable set of connections between camera technology and weapons of war. All of that comes full circle in a climactic confrontation about the nature of privacy in a world governed by corporate power, as the film coheres into a compelling riff on the ominous forces governing everyday life thats both alarming and awe-inspiring at once. EK

If ever there were a movie that could reignite the box office after such a down year, its a new musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda. Long before Hamilton, the hit-making multi-hyphenate wrote a more traditional musical set much closer to home: Washington Heights, the majority Puerto Rican neighborhood where he was born and raised.

In the Heights won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score after premiering on Broadway in 2008, and just a few bars of the opening number will have audiences humming all the way to the box office. The movie version, directed by Jon M. Chu (himself no stranger to movie musical magic thanks to the Step Up franchise) stars Hamilton star Anthony Ramos as charmer protagonist Usnavi, and a host of established as well as up-and-coming names fill out his closely connected community. With Mirandas name recognition, as well as a catchy and upbeat score that rivals Hamilton in melody and lyrical flow, In the Heights is way overdue to give the Latino community their huge Hollywood hit. JD

Franois Ozons sexy, melancholic coming-of-age romance Summer of 85 sizzles against the banks of a seaside resort in Normandy. Its also got a killer soundtrack including The Cure and Bananarama, pop-colored cinematography, enough Breton shirts to outfit a French New Wave movie, and a cast of easy-on-the-eyes French cinema favorites. It channels the talky, beach-set films of ric Rohmer but with a rebellious edge, hinging on the stolen-hours love affair between introverted teen Alex (Lefebvre) and the slightly older but hardly wiser David (Voisin), the square-jawed Adonis who cuts a raffish figure on a motorcycle. The highs and lows of their summer fling collide in a sudden and mysterious tragedy foregrounded in the movies opening scenes, which makes their evolving connection, ignited by the actors volcanic chemistry, all the more suspenseful.

Adapting Aidan Chambers 1982 novel Dance on My Grave, Ozon captures the intoxicating pull of first love, and the loss of control that can make a formative erotic bond so dangerous and addictive. The evocative filmmaking is matched by the charms of its leads, who, in case you needed another selling point, enact one of the hottest guy-on-guy kisses ever thrown onscreen.RL

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A straightforward but delightful and unusually spirited love letter to the least straightforward (but spirited) art pop duo in the history of British-sounding American music, Edgar Wrights 135-minute Sparks documentary The Sparks Brothers is a beat-for-beat celebration of the bands deathless creative odyssey, an irresistible invitation to join their small but devoted cult of diehard fans, and a beautifully wrapped gift to anyone whos ever had angst in their pants about Ron and Russell Mael before.

Wrights love-in of a film is particularly enamored by the Maels Prestige-like commitment to their art, and even the most accomplished of the films 80 interview subjects exude an authentic sense of awe. Beck, Jane Wiedlin, Jason Schwartzman, Andy Bell, half of New Order, and Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino represent just a tiny fraction of the famous and civilian fans that Wright gathers here, and every single one of these people including the bands frequent collaborators seems giddily mystified by the force of nature that is Sparks.

If Wrights documentary is so rigidly structured along chronological lines that it cant hope to embody the same zigzag genius that shaped the bands career, the one-album-at-a-time approach reflects the relentlessness of Sparks output, as well as the sheer tenacity required to weather so many cultural sea changes over the years. Fans of the band will feel like theyve died and gone to heaven. As for everyone else well, by the time The Sparks Brothers is over, theyll be fans of the band, too. DE

Historical documentaries pose a unique challenge when it comes to dramatizing lives rarely captured on film. When it comes to literary figures, theres no shortage of written records whether by them or about them to communicate the essence of a writers life. In the case of the new documentary Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland utilizes correspondence between the two monumental figures as well as public comments each made about the other to weave her tale.

Described in its opening shots as an encounter between those lifelong friends in their own words, Truman & Tennessee charts the parallel careers of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, contemporaries with similar backgrounds who faced many of the same personal and professional struggles. The film plays like a kind of live reading of both writers diaries, except Vreeland highlights particularly poetic bits of wisdom and framing them around a uniting theme. The visuals consist mostly of still photos and talk-show footage, which arent used creatively enough to justify a cinematic treatment. Framing the narrative around their relationship is a slightly more inspired choice, and if the film illuminates new sides of both authors, it has served a purpose. JD

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Pixars 24th feature film Luca hatches from the mind of Italian storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa, making his directorial debut with this summery, coming-of-age buddy movie located in the irresistibly sultry Italian Riviera. But the catch is that the friendship in play is between a pair of real boys who also happening to be seas monsters disgusting themselves in human form.

Thirteen-year-old Luca is voiced by Jacob Tremblay, making his Pixar debut, opposite We Are Who We Are breakout Jack Dylan Grazer, who voices his new pal Alberto. Scooter rides, Mediterranean swims, endless pasta, and gelato abound in this seaside adventure also featuring voice work from Maya Rudolph, Emma Berman, Marco Barricelli, and Jim Gaffigan. Hot off an Oscar win for Soul, Pixar is sure to deliver another delightful family favorite. RL

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Lauded documentary filmmaker Heidi Ewing made a bold leap into narrative filmmaking with a star-crossed romance based on a true story. The result is a timely romance that blends fiction and non-fiction to enact the poignant story of two undocumented Mexican immigrants in love. The film, which debuted at Sundance in 2020 before kicking off a robust run of festival screenings, revolves around aspiring chefwhose burgeoning romance with another man threatens to affect visitation rights with his young son. When he decides to cross the border to the U.S., he encounters a host of new challenges.

Arresting in its specificity and real-life themes, I Carry You with Me lays bare the painful reality for many undocumented immigrants in the U.S. through a tender human lens. JD

Its a Fast and Furious film that adds John Cena and brings back Sung Kang (justice for Han!). What more do you want to know? Okay, how about this: they go to space.KE

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Broad City scribe Ilana Glazer takes a page out of fellow comedian Jordan Peeles book, making her mark on the socially conscious horror genre popularized by Get Out. Written by Glazer with director John Lee, False Positive centers around a couple (played by Glazer and Justin Theroux) undergoing fertility treatments at the hands of sinisterly handsome doctor (Pierce Brosnan). After getting pregnant, they realize their dream-come-true isnt as perfect as it seems. Produced by A24 and with a Tribeca premiere already on the books, Glazer is coming out guns blazing with the first feature film shes written and produced. JD

If the evolution of creativity in the 21st century means that Twitter feeds can fuel feature-length adaptations, Zola is a terrific place to start. Director Janicza Bravos zany road trip comedy about a pair of strippers on a rambunctious 48-hour Florida adventure embodies its ludicrous source while jazzing it up with relentless cinematic beats.

Bravo, who co-wrote the movie with Slave Play breakout Jeremy O. Harris, applies the surreal and edgy sensibilities of her unsettling dark comic short Gregory Go Boom and the similarly outr Lemon to another jittery look at anxious people driven to self-destructive extremes. This time, their antics result in a rambunctious crowdpleaser made all the more compelling because its truekinda. In October 2015, Detroit-based stripper Aziah Zola King unleashed 144 tweets chronicling her madcap journey with new pal Jessica, who invited her on a quick jaunt down south to hit the clubs.

Now, that has become the template for a bawdy road trip adventure starring a terrific Taylour Page and Riley Keough as they fall in and out of their friendship over the course of a dark comic journey. The men in this movie arent exactly great people, but theyre fun to watch: Succession breakout Nicholas Braun plays a hilarious goofball boyfriend while the extraordinary Colman Domingo proves quite the menacing pimp. You wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? the real-life Zola tweeted. Its kind of long but full of suspense. Bravos raucous movie does that tease justice and then some. EK

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Tyler has turned to MTVs Catfish: The TV Show for help, in a bid to hopefully find out who Stefany really is. Lets get to know him

It is a series like no other, which sees dating researchers Kamie and Nev help people get down to the real truth of who their online friend is.

Known as a porn star kind-of catfish, MTVs latest project follows the journey of Tyler and Stefany, who met on a porn site two years ago.

So, who is Tyler? And what happened next for him and Stefany? We done some digging to find out how their online relationship played out.

Tyler is a 26-year-old coffee shop worker from Monroe, USA.

He also has a side job as a Massachusetts-based porn star which he started doing to make an extra income.

The Catfish: The TV Show star initially began making home videos and uploading them on video porn site PornHub.

After becoming successful on the site, he started doing it professionally, which led to him making money and meeting Stefanny.

Have yall found Tylers videos yet?!? Im tryna see something! #Catfish

Tyler and Stefany have been speaking to each other online for two years.

After chatting on PornHub, Tyler revealed he fell in love with Stefany Dunngar, who he shared every detail about his life with.

After his last relationship, Tyler is not ready to have his heart broken again, especially if he finds out that Stefany isnt who she says she is.

Both of them used to speak on the phone for hours, but Tyler had a slight doubt in his mind that their connection was all a lie.

But Kamie and Nev found there was a woman called Stefany Dunngar, aged 35, living in Florida, whose photos she had sent Tyler were on several porn sites with some dating back to 2014.

She agreed to video call Tyler, but appeared to look completely different from the photos she had sent, which were copied from a Facebook profile.

Tyler has been through so much heartbreak already #Catfish

After it was shockingly discovered that Stefanny appears to be married, fans started to feel for Tyler, who was clearly heartbroken.

He was devastated that she had lied to him about her appearance for two years, and said he would need time to think if he wanted to stay in touch.

Although Stefany gave him the space he wanted, it was later revealed that he decided to end things with her due to the lies she told him.

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If the videos hes been uploading to his Hot Freaks subscription service are any indication, Robert Pollard has been spending much of the Covid-19 pandemic listening to his massive record collection in his pajamas. Perhaps consequently, his omnivorous musical taste has never been on more effective display than on Guided by Voices Earth Man Blues, which could be the bands best album since 1995s Alien Lanes.

While that might seem like a lofty claim especially with a discography as expansive as GBVs Earth Man Blue squarely hits all the marks that make Guided By Voices great again and again and again. A collage of previously unfinished or rejected songs resurrected and forged into a rock opera about Pollards childhood, this is GBV as pure id: bonkers lyrics, aural experimentation, and hooks for days. Just try to get Sunshine Girl a sweet little rocker that sounds like the Monkees on downers out of your head. Pollard and his race car mind are now a permanent part of your hippocampus.

Although the record purports to have a narrative of sorts, its really more of a suggestion like watching a movie on hallucinogenics, the story being told and the story being perceived are likely two disparate things. The band goes full Tommy on tracks like Dirty Kid School, only to skitter over to rocker Trust Them Now, which kicks off with a guitar riff reminiscent of Blink-182s All the Small Things. (Dont worry, the song doesnt wander too far down the garden path of pop-punk, instead swerving right at the last moment into melodic gorgeousness.) The heavy guitars that kick off Lights Out in Memphis Egypt propel you squarely into Black Sabbath territory, though, complete with spooky voiceovers. Then its on to Free Agents, a solid GBV-brand track with a chorus that just goes off the rails in the best possible way.

The firehose of influences spews on with the previously mentioned Sunshine Girl, the Sparks-esque Ant Repellent, and then back to class again with the middle school dance trauma ballad Margaret Middle School. Swoon and sway a bit to I Bet Hippy and How Can a Plumb Be Perfected, before shaking it all out to the riff-replete Childs Play. Put this record on and see how long it takes to utter your first joyful expletive.

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For accessibility-minded TikTok creators, gone are the days of the finicky text tool and third-party captioning apps. The beloved social media platform now does it all for you.

Almost a month after the app's official announcement, more users (and accessibility advocates themselves) are getting the chance to use the new automatically-generated closed-captioning services, the latest of TikTok's in-app accessibility features that are (fortunately) pretty easy to use.

The month-long rollout is part of a series of new features focused on making the "visual nature" of the app more accessible to all, according to TikTok. This includes adjustments to animated thumbnails, text-to-speech services, and epilepsy warnings. The auto captions were created under the guidance of The Deaf Collective, an organization supporting Deaf and hard-of-hearing creators that advocates for captioning across all platforms.

Here's how to use the new accessibility features:

The responsibility of captioning is mainly on video creators, who have to allow captions on every video they post.

If you want to check if captions are available on a specific video, click on the share icon (an arrow on the bottom right side of the screen). A "captions" option should be visible on the bottom row, in between "use this effect" and "duet."

App users can choose to turn on auto captions from their For You Page, as long as creators have enabled the feature.

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If the captions option isn't available yet, just be patient! The app has slowly added the feature for more and more users.

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Click on the captions button to turn the auto-generated feature on and off, or switch between various languages if they're added by the creator. That's it!

TikTok plans to add more language options in the future.

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Heads up, though: TikTok's new captions are only available to app users who have their languages set to English or Japanese (for now). You can find this under your profile's settings and privacy tab, which can be located on your TikTok profile by clicking on the three dots in the top right corner.

If you are adding captions to your own videos, start first by recording your own video with sound. Captions only apply to original sounds uploaded by creators, so you can't add captions to popular songs or other creator's sounds right now.

Record your video and press the red check mark to move to the video editing space. You can find the "captions" button on the right side of the screen (press the bottom arrow to expand the features if needed). Click on the captions symbol (a small box with lines) and the app will prompt creators to turn on auto captions. This will automatically add captions to the video you just made and allows other users to utilize auto captions on the videos as they watch.

Creators have to allow captioning services on user-uploaded audio clips.

Creators can then edit the captions manually in real time. The app will automatically take creators to a captions-editing screen after enabling the feature on their in-progress video. Keep in mind, creators can't edit captions after uploading videos.

Creators can choose to add or edit their captions after uploading.

After editing the captions (and adding the obligatory cool transitions, effects, or TikTok filters), simply save and upload the video. Viewers will have the option to enable the auto captions themselves. You've now made your content more accessible to all app users!

While you're at it, check to see if you can use any of TikTok's other accessibility features, like adding photosensitive epilepsy warnings or text-to-speech options for blind users.

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Do you know what happens to your email accounts, social media profiles, photos, videos, online bank accounts, documents and more when you pass away? A recent segment on CBS This morning sat down with Army National Guard Veteran Jennifer Sardam to talk aboutGoodTrust, an online digital-legacy service.

Sardam, who served with the 29th Mobile Public Affairs Department and who joined the Army National Guard in 2006, once lost all of her childhood photo memories during a devastating house fire. This heart-breaking loss, coupled with her parental instinct to plan ahead, got her thinking about better protecting her digital legacy.

Thats when Sardam turned to GoodTrust, an online digital-legacy service that gives you control over what happens to your digital accounts and memories when you pass. Think of it as a virtual safety-deposit box or a will for your digital accounts, photos, financial accounts, documents, last goodbyes and more. For her and countless others, it represents a peace of mind in todays connected world.

I have at least 13,000 photos on my phone and probably a few hundred videos, Sardam told CBS. It just feels really good and I want to be able to share that and keep it alive even long after Im gone.

Just as we arrange life insurance or wills for our physical possessions, we need to also plan for the post-life experience with our digital stuff. In todays connected world, managing what happens to your digital stuff in the afterlife is often as important as deciding what happens to your physical assets when you die.

The GoodTrust digital-legacy platform gives you control over what happens to your digital assets and reputation when you pass away. Think of it like a virtual safety-deposit box for your digital accounts and information.

GoodTrust also now offers innovative ways to create your digital legacy, like bringing photos to life with AI and facial-recognition technology to animate them. Its called GoodTrust Memories and only involves uploading a photo and clicking a button to see the magic in action. It works well with both historic and current photos, which can then be shared with loved ones or on social media. Its just the beginning of how technology with GoodTrust can help preserve anyones memories and stories in new and meaningful ways.

Lets be honest no one likes thinking about death. But the reality, of course, is that its all around us, through popular culture and life events and perhaps never more so in recent memory than with the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its also something never far from the minds of our military service people as they devote their lives to protect the country.

GoodTrust would like to extend two special cost-free offers to all Veterans to help preserve their digital legacy.

Digital Legacy e-book

To help you get started, the new book Digital Legacy: Take Control of Your Online Afterlife will empower you with whats important about your online afterlife and ensure that your important digital assets are treated according to your wishes. Given that the average person spends close to seven hours per day online, its an essential read for everyone.

For a limited time all Veterans will at no cost receive the GoodTrust Premium service plan for one year (value $70) when you create an account at MyGoodTrust.com/partner/GoodTrustVeteran(if you already have a free account then just follow that link and log in).

In addition, all Veteran families will receive a 50% discount on the GoodTrust service fee when helping to manage the digital accounts of a Veteran who has passed away. Just register as a free GoodTrust member through that link, click on For Someone Else, and redeem the discount code GoodTrustVeteran at checkout.

The first 100 Veterans who register in April will also get the new e-book Digital Legacy: Take Control Of Your Online Afterlife. Instructions on how to download the Digital Legacy e-book from Amazon.com will be emailed to you.

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Once youve signed-up on http://www.MyGoodTrust.com, youll go through two simple steps:

From there, its up to you to choose your digital legacy; GoodTrust keeps your data safe by using industry-leading security and two-factor authentication.

The time is now. Dont let your digital legacy be lost; ensure that your family and friends find your accounts, documents and priceless photo memories. Its the digital story of you.

The sharing of any non-VA information does not constitute an endorsement of products and services on part of VA.

Rikard Steiber is the founder and CEO of GoodTrust.

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