When nature fights back.

Beast from Universal Studios stars Idris Elba as a single Dad, Dr. Nate Samuels, raising pre-teen and teenager daughters who takes a family vacay to Africa, the province where his late wife came from.

Catching up with a longtime friend and anti-poacher Martin Battles on what should have been a family and spiritual experience, which turns in to a nightmare they will never forget.

A rogue male lion is on a deadly and destructive path for revenge, having been hunted and seen its own pride being taken out by poachers.

The ‘Beast’ is taking back his pride lands one village, one human at a time.

Beast offers up for the most part a family drama with climatic and visceral wild animal vs. human carnage.

It does try to tell a tale of morals and places the spotlight on what poaching is doing to Africa’s wildlife and the endangered animals that call the land home.

One can’t help but notice the inspiration taken from Jurassic Park (1993).

A mix of real world wildlife with CGI. And the CGI is flawless. Perfect.

Beast is an entertaining watch but it is a film you’re likely to see only once and then move on.

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Kingston FURY, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, has released details on the release of Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB memory.

The Kingston FURY Beast family boasts the first DDR5 module used to hit 10,004MT/s, this latest addition to the portfolio features enhanced RGB lighting effects with a new heat spreader design that provides bright and smooth illumination.

Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB is the perfect solution to customize the style of next-generation DDR5 systems. Intel XMP 3.0-Ready and Certified, and qualified by the world’s leading motherboard manufacturers, Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB lets users build with confidence.

With Kingston FURY CTRL2 software, users can choose from a library of preset patterns and effects. Alternatively, users can customize the smooth and vibrant RGB effects to make their system completely unique. All Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB modules feature the patented Kingston FURY Infrared Sync Technology, which keeps the lighting effects in perfect lockstep.

Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB starts at 4800MT/s, which features Kingston’s unique Plug N Play technology that automatically overclocks without having to select a profile. On modules 5200MT/s and faster, Intel XMP 3.0 profiles are enabled to lock in the speed, timings, and voltage. Whether you’re a veteran gamer or beginner enthusiast, Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB allows you to maximize your gaming.

“We’re happy to add Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB to our memory lineup,” said Kingston. “Now those who want the power of DDR5 along with the fun look of RGB can enjoy both. Plus, with the personal touch of customizing the lighting effects users can really take the full gaming experience into their own hands.”

Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 RGB is available in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB single modules and kits of 2 up to 64GB, with speeds up to 6000MT/s.

Backed by a limited lifetime warranty and legendary Kingston reliability.

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Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.

Idris Elba (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) stars in a pulse-pounding new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator.

Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, Russian Doll series, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.

Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries (Rel series, Empire series) plays his 13-year-old, Norah.

From visceral, experiential filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of Everest and Universal Pictures’ 2 Guns and Contraband, Beast is produced by Will Packer, the blockbuster producer of Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, and ten movies that have opened No. 1 at the U.S. box office, including Night School, No Good Deed and Think Like a Man, by James Lopez, president of Will Packer Productions, and by Baltasar Kormákur. The film is written by Ryan Engle (Rampage, Non-Stop) from an original story by Jaime Primak Sullivan and is executive produced by Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew.

BEAST release to cinema on the 25th of August 2022.

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Intel’s NUC is a small and compact powerhouse designed for PC gamers to get a near Rig performance with a minimal desktop footprint.

They are small but super mighty.

Now Intel have unleashed the Beast.

Larger than the traditional NUC this RGB LED emblazoned in an extended black and stealthy looking casing packed with superior gaming grunt that would make even the biggest Rig cower in fear.

The Intel Beast Canyon NUC has more ports at its back than you’ll ever likely need.

A generous six USB 3.0 ports (also two at the front), two USB-C, two HDMI, a single ethernet port and three display ports.

Powering the Beast on for the first time when I received it was an eye candy treat. The NUC Skull logo centred with underside LED lighting – all customizable of course.

The goodness inside also didn’t disappoint.

32GBs of DDR4 RAM coupled with an array of Intel’s i7 11th gen processors crunching the data at 3.20GHz (not overclocked).

A Samsung 1TB SSD is your singular storage. Given that it is solely designed for gaming I actually expected to see at least an other additional SSD in there to really max your games storage.

Still the SSD that came preinstalled was top class.

Built by Playtech who also added included an NVIDIA GeForce 3070Ti dual port graphics card that has GDDR6X memory.

The NUC’s are a kitset PC, pretty much like any PC. Having one of these does not limit you to what is installed hardware wise. You can add and swap out bits, but just be mindful of any warranties if you’re going to do it yourself.

Needless to say the Intel Beast Canyon NUC was able to play anything. Call of Duty Vanguard, Forza Horizon 5, VR streaming and a current fav of mine Tiny Tina’s Wonderland were flawless.

Nothing needed to be dulled down playing at full 60fps – even Sony’s port to PC of God of War ran super smooth (this is usually a resource gobbler).

If you’re also in to content creation, on the more professional and heavier side the Beast is going to render your 4-8K videos and 3D models in no time.

Small and mighty the Intel Beast Canyon NUC is its namesake – a Beast.

A powerful gaming PC that’s not going to dominate your desk while you dominate the battlefield.

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Working together for their latest track, ‘Beast’, Purari and MAKJ have teamed up to create an intensely head-turning track with a powerful drive and momentum.

Purari has already released ‘Break Your Back’ featuring Waka Flocka on Laidback Luke’s label, Mixmash, and had his tracks played at Tomorrowland, EDC and Ultra Music Festival. Meanwhile, MAKJ has appeared at iconic festival slots across the country; playing at Ultra Miami in 2013 and 2014 and performing at the inaugural 2013 TomorrowWorld event in Georgia.

The track begins with high-pitched jabs that gather momentum and increase adrenaline, whilst a voice states: “you have five seconds to terminate this tape”. ‘Beast’ then activates, with fierce beats and synths dominating, before a tempo change slows the tune and transforms it momentarily. Nurturing placid synths, it still follows the same melody and hook but with a delicate approach. The track is extremely dynamic; adding anthemic synth into the mix then used to speed up the tempo once more before we’re receiving another taste of ‘Beast’.

With an impressive roster of support behind MAKJ, his edits, bootlegs and remixes have earned massive praise from the likes of Afrojack, Chuckie, Avicii, Nicky Romero, David Guetta and many more. His track with Hardwell, ‘Countdown’ that was released in 2013, also soared to the top spot on the Beatport charts just days after its release, now amassing over 11 million plays.

Purari and MAKJ are showing no signs of slowing down; not even a beast could stop them in their tracks. Grab your copy of ‘Beast’ from Revealed Recordings on the 5th of June 2019.

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