IFA 2019 isn’t typically a show for smartphones but there with so many new great models coming out, I felt it was appropriate to round up the best ones announced at the show. Over the last few days I’ve seen the rise of more than a few budget smartphones in response to users shying away from over $1,000 handsets and gotten our hands on some of the most elite mobile devices coming out soon.
Without further ado, these are the best smartphones from IFA 2019:
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The final installment in Hitman 2’s 2019 roadmap is bringing players to the tropical south Asian islands of the Maldives, along with a smattering of new and returning contracts that long-time Hitman players will remember.
Hitman 2 developer IO Interactive posted a video detailing September’s roadmap. Here’s a breakdown of everything we can expect this month.
Stephen King is no stranger to cameoing in adaptations of his novels, yet it still was a bit of a surprise to see him pop up in IT Chapter Two as the shopkeeper at the Second Hand Rose, where adult Bill (James McAvoy) reunites with his bike Silver. This is a cameo that director Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman have been dreaming up for a while, though King was initially cautious to say “yes” to the role.
“With Stephen King, my hero — I grew up reading him, so he’s one of my life heroes — and I got to know him. I discovered a very loving and funny guy, and I wanted him in the movie, so I offered him a cameo,” said Muschietti at the IT Chapter Two press conference. “The first thing he said is, ‘Well, you have to consider that I’m a jinx. Every movie that I’m in, it bombs.’ So I said, I guess we should give it a try. I think we’re going to be fine.”
This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Parasite opens in limited release in the US on Oct. 11 and in the UK on Feb. 7, 2020.
Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer was the futuristic tale of a train transporting the last inhabitants of Earth around an icy globe, the rich living in the lap of luxury at the front, and the poor toiling in squalor at the back. Inequality is clearly an issue close to the writer-director’s heart, as Parasite explores similar territory, but in a contemporary setting and initially in humorous fashion. But as with Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother and Okja, Joon-ho’s film straddles multiple genres, with comedy rubbing shoulders alongside drama, thriller, and eventually horror to tell a story that’s as entertaining as it is socially incendiary.
With a little less than a month to go before it debuts in theaters for the public, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker movie has already become a critical success, snagging the top award at the Venice Film Festival, according to Variety.
Joker took the Golden Lion award at the festival, beating out controversial director Roman Polanski’s “An Officer and a Spy.” Joker is directed by Todd Phillips, who previously directed the Hangover trilogy and produced 2018’s A Star is Born.
We’ve seen a wide variety of laptops at IFA 2019 from ultra-lightweight Ultrabooks to 300Hz gaming laptops and obscenely powerful machines meant for creatives. With almost too much to see at the biggest tech conference in Europe, we’ve picked out the best newly announced laptops you should keep an eye out for in the coming months.
Razer Blade Stealth
Release date: By the end of September 2019
Pricing: $1,499 base, $1,799 with Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics
