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When it comes to audio quality, many of us are living in ignorant bliss. We get so used to listening to music on our laptops or watching movies with our TV’s built-in speakers that we forget how good audio can sound. While a cheap speaker can still blast your favorite song, you’re missing out on a richer listening experience, and maybe even doing a disservice to your favorite artist. Once you listen to something on truly high quality speakers that were properly installed, it’s very hard to go back....

The 2021 Oscars were supposed to be the global promo blast. “We used that timing strategically, thinking back then that we would be far out of the pandemic in April,” said Academy museum Director Bill Kramer. “Obviously, that’s not going to be. We will still have a presence on the Oscars. And we will lean into virtual programming options between April and September around museum content, to make our presence and content known....

“The Amazing Spider-Man” comic has gone through a few different incarnations since its original launch as a monthly periodical back in 1963. Within three years Marvel introduced “Peter Parker, the Superior Spider-Man,” while the flagship series continued until 1995 before relaunching (with numbers added to each edition) in 1999, and switched back to the original numbering in 2003. About a decade later Marvel unveiled “the Superior Spider-Man” comic book series that ran until 2019....

The documentary’s synopsis reads: “The Dissident” is an edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline-filled thriller that plays out at the highest levels of power, exposing the labyrinth of deceit behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi was a principled reformer who sought to create a more open society in his homeland, and who was ultimately murdered for his vocal opposition to the Saudi government. The film, which does not have a specific release date, will feature new surveillance footage and a variety of “damning information” that was previously unavailable to the public....

Producer Adam McKay is serving up a sinister take on generational wealth in “The Menu.” Following Oscar-nominated “Don’t Look Up,” the mega-producer mocks the elite culinary world with the dark comedy “The Menu,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult as Margot and Tyler, a wealthy young couple who feast on surprising delicacies curated by a famed chef, played by Ralph Fiennes, on a remote island. “Succession” director and executive producer Mark Mylod helms the film, which is set to be released in theaters November 18 from Searchlight Pictures, positioning “The Menu” with a prime seat at the 2023 awards season table....

By the time the Soviet Red Army swept through the area in 1945, Haft had won 76 of the life-or-death boxing matches staged for the Nazi guards’ amusement, and upon arriving in New York he naturally parlayed his gifts as a pugilist into something of a career. The war was over, and yet he kept fighting. On the one hand, Haft (then re-dubbed Harry) wanted to become famous enough that news of his feats might, in the unlikely event that she was also still alive, reach the girlfriend from whom he’d been separated by the Gestapo....

Leading the cast are Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in this darkly comic and energetic tale of Balram Halwai (Gourav), a young man whose low social stature in the Indian class system belies his sharp entrepreneurial eye. Journeying to Delhi, Balram becomes a driver for the affluent Ashok (Rao), and Balram’s entry into the world of the higher classes pulls back the curtain on an underbelly of corruption from which he must break free....