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Ryan Gosling's quieter, more powerful space film: First Man

Before Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling reunited with Damien Chazelle for First Man, a docudrama about Neil Armstrong’s path to the 1969 moon landing. The film stages technical problems and professional problem-solving much like the Andy Weir adaptations, but it also dwells on the unsolvable, emotionally charged moments the

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Writers reframed Lae'zel and Shadowheart's romance by finding common ground

Lae'zel and Shadowheart begin Baldur's Gate 3 with a noticeably strained relationship, but writers Kevin VanOrd and John Corcoran say those tensions were shaped deliberately. VanOrd recalls sitting down with Corcoran early in development to compare the characters and set some narrative limits. Both companions struggle

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Everyone’s Falling In Love With Picking Up Cats In Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert divides players, but one feature has earned near-universal affection: the ability to pick up cats. The game lets you pet dogs, sure, but it also gives felines center stage, answering the long-standing question of whether games will let you fuss over kitties as well as pooches. Gruff ol’

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Yellowstone's Jamie Adoption Retcon Undermines the Dutton Feud

Just when Yellowstone seemed headed for a Shakespearean family tragedy, a Season 3 reveal changed the rules. In Episode 7, "The Beating," Jamie Dutton learns he was adopted at three months and that his biological father murdered his mother. The twist reframed months of mounting tension between Jamie

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10 Years Later, Anya Taylor-Joy’s Best Psychological Thriller Still Holds Up

Ten years after its release, Split is finding a new audience on streaming and has reappeared in Apple TV’s global VOD top 10 in multiple countries. The M. Night Shyamalan thriller has continued to attract viewers who revisit it or discover it for the first time. Made for just

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Lamb shanks with orzo and rhubarb galette: Anna Tobias' Easter recipes

Easter immediately brings to mind two things for the writer: cracking dyed red eggs together in the Serbian-style conker game played each year, and lamb. The lamb shank here is a straightforward, moreish take on a popular Greek recipe, and rhubarb makes a seasonally pretty pudding. To make the shanks,

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A Pokémon FireRed failure that could only happen in 2026

Autosave has dulled my instinct to hit the save button, and eight hours into the newly ported Pokémon FireRed on Nintendo Switch I lost my progress because I never saved. I paid $19.99 for a nostalgic return to Kanto and spent several evenings catching bugs, picked up an early

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Nicole Kidman seen holding hands with Simon Baker after premiere

Nicole Kidman was seen holding hands with her Scarpetta co-star Simon Baker on the red carpet in New York City on March 3. They were later photographed close at the afterparty, with observers saying their chemistry "clearly wasn't faked" and that they "stayed close all

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Best New Games of 2026 (So Far)

Another year begins, and it’s time to start a Game of the Year watch. We round up titles that have resonated as we look for the year’s best. 2026 has already produced notable releases in its first three months, and this list will be updated periodically through December.

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Ridley Scott's The Man in the High Castle Feels More Urgent in 2026

Frank Spotnitz created The Man in the High Castle, with Ridley Scott as executive producer; the series ran four seasons on Prime Video between 2015 and 2019. Based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel, it imagines a parallel world where Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan emerge

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Martin Scorsese’s Scene-Stealing Role Keeps Shark Tale a Streaming Hit

The 2000s were a big decade for Martin Scorsese: he began a creative partnership with Leonardo DiCaprio and directed The Departed, the film that finally won him the Best Director Oscar. He also took an acting turn in 2004, voicing a character whose distinctive delivery made him instantly recognizable by

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Kendra Duggar's mugshot released after Arkansas arrest

Kendra Duggar’s mugshot was released after her arrest on child endangerment charges. The 27-year-old mother of four appeared disheveled in the jail photo, staring blankly into the camera while wearing a brown shirt and with her hair down tucked behind her ears. Kendra and her husband Joseph face four

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Final Fantasy Type-0 should have been the future of Final Fantasy

Long before Final Fantasy 16 launched to middling reviews, there has been ongoing talk about the future of Final Fantasy. I keep wondering why that future seems so uncertain when Square Enix came close to getting it right back in 2011. Final Fantasy Type-0, a spinoff set in the world

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Invincible VS director wants players to feel like a fucking superhero

Invincible VS director Dave Hall says the team aimed to make players feel like a superhero — ‘‘a fucking superhero,’’ he said — with fights that literally tear the world apart. Arenas destroy themselves in the background as outfits get ripped, blood drips down faces and characters drop into fatigued stances while

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The Best Movies Set in the 80s

A wave of 1980s nostalgia has reshaped recent film and television, reaching a peak with the runaway success of the Netflix series Stranger Things, which brims with homages to the era and echoes of Joe Dante, John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg. The decade's influence also turned up in

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Best supermarket frozen peas, tasted and rated

The sweetness of a pea signals how recently it was picked: as sugars convert to starch the flavour fades and the texture becomes more fibrous. Top-quality frozen peas are picked, blanched and frozen quickly — usually within two and a half hours — though soil, seed quality, transport and a stable freezer

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Charithra Chandran on How Vivi Will Influence Luffy in One Piece Season 3

Charithra Chandran made a strong impression in Season 2, transitioning from a Baroque Works agent to the Princess of Alabasta and finding her place with the Straw Hats as Vivi. She visited the Ladies Night studio to reflect on that journey and some of Vivi’s key scenes. One standout

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Why Zendaya keeps teasing marriage rumors about Tom Holland

Zendaya has not confirmed whether she and Tom Holland are married, and her public appearances have leaned into wedding imagery as she promotes the film The Drama. In that movie, out April 3, she and Robert Pattinson play an engaged couple whose relationship unravels one week before their nuptials, and

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How many games can you identify just from a screenshot of their open world?

Open worlds remain among gaming's most impressive sights; there's still something special about a landscape stretching to the horizon and waiting to be explored. This week's quiz puts those virtual realms to the test: 15 screenshots of open worlds, and you must identify which

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Dragon Age: Veilguard Almost Included a Solas Debrief

In the final moments of Dragon Age: The Veilguard the player binds Solas, the elven trickster god, to the Veil by brute force, trickery, or redemption. Regardless of the method, the day is saved, Rook and Solas part ways as allies or enemies, and the game moves to a celebratory

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Where to Start Reading The Lord of the Rings

If you’ve worn out the Peter Jackson films, the simplest next step is the books. J.R.R. Tolkien built a vast, linguistically rich world with deep history and sprawling lore; the matter of authorship adds another layer, since many later volumes were prepared for publication by his son,

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Cillian Murphy’s Netflix Comeback Tops Charts With Peaky Blinders Film

Following his Best Actor Oscar, Cillian Murphy has had three post-award releases. Only Small Things Like These received a traditional theatrical run and made little impact. Two others went straight to Netflix: Steve underperformed, but Murphy’s second Netflix release has drawn a much larger audience. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal

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Amy Sedaris keeps beauty staples at her fingertips

Amy Sedaris says she always has her favorite beauty items “at her fingertips,” stashing oils, special water sprays, a gua sha tool and Vaseline on the little tables around her living room. She also carries costume rings to hand out to kids, asking, “You want a superpower ring?” Among her

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Space Marine 2 voice pack refunded and made free

Just under a month ago Saber Interactive released a free update for Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 alongside a $5 Chapter Voice Pack that promised about 450 new lines and new dialogue for several characters. The pack was sold as a standalone DLC rather than part of the season passes,

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Daredevil: Born Again showrunners explain media's role in season 2

Marvel is fast approaching the release of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, its second live-action Disney+ show of 2026. The season returns Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, picking up after Season 1 with Fisk enacting martial law and sending his Anti-Vigilante Task