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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

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The Last Man on Earth: A Four-Season Post-Apocalyptic Sitcom

The Last Man on Earth is a FOX sitcom that ran from 2015 to 2018 and is now available to stream on Hulu. The series spans four seasons and 67 episodes, centering on Phil Miller (Will Forte), who appears to be the lone survivor after a deadly virus leaves the

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What links Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and Kate Bush? The Saturday quiz

The Saturday quiz asked 15 questions, including: What is Ikea’s all-time bestselling item of furniture; which country had a mosque on its national flag until 2021; which sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them; and which fortified wine is an ingredient of tiramisu. Answers to questions 1–

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Stunt doubles: Hollywood's behind-the-scenes safety superstars

From blockbuster movies to television shows, stunt performers create many of the most thrilling moments on screen. They take on dangerous action — car chases, high-speed fights and rooftop leaps — while adding a layer of safety by using expertise to prevent set accidents. For example, though Pedro Pascal voices the title

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Death Wish 2.0 adds a fourth episode and expands a classic Blood mod

It is a good time to be a fan of the ye-olde FPS Blood. After Nightdive released its second overhaul of Monolith's debut, the studio has been updating the remaster with enhanced versions of some of the shooter's best mods. The first of those updates arrived

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Crimson Desert's clumsy controls led to 13 accidental misdeeds

Crimson Desert's controls feel awkward, and the game's convoluted systems and quirky physics only compound the problem. It took me several hours to get used to the inputs; until then I kept doing things I didn't intend. A few were harmless, but most landed

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We have no desire to be a media empire, says Palworld publishing head

John 'Bucky' Buckley, Pocketpair's head of publishing and communications, said the company isn't trying to turn Palworld into a "media empire." He framed the game's fledgling spinoffs as responses to player demand. Speaking at GDC 2026, Buckley pushed back on

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Blade and Its Sequels Move to Peacock After 1998 Hit

Marvel’s first live-action attempt, Howard the Duck (1986), was a critical and commercial flop. Twelve years later the studio scored its first successful live-action picture with Blade, and that film has now found a new streaming home. Released August 21, 1998, Blade was a techno-horror starring Wesley Snipes and

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8 Game-Changing Crime TV Shows That Totally Rewrite Genre Rules

Crime drama once offered warm, simple tales of heroic policing and moral certainty, but contemporary series focus on more piercing and profound themes. That shift unfolded over decades through a series of shows that pushed boundaries, from pioneering cop dramas of the 1980s and 1990s to defining highlights of the

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Crimson Desert bounties and how to catch each

Bounties are scattered across Hernand in Crimson Desert, sending you after individual wrongdoers even as larger forces roam the land. Posters begin appearing in Hernand once you reach Chapter 2; picking one up marks the target's last known location on the map. A short quest in north Hernand

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Max Burkholder says Kingdom Hearts was therapy during his child acting career

For Max Burkholder, Kingdom Hearts 2 isn’t just nostalgia — it’s closer to survival. The 28-year-old actor, best known as the star of Peacock’s Ted, says his childhood was defined as much by save files as by call sheets. Working steadily from a young age taught him that

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Adriana Lima's signature scent can be yours for under $25

Adriana Lima says her go-to fragrance is an unusually simple mix: Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Body Oil layered with Avon Skin So Soft Bath Oil. She told the interview she loves body oils and keeps a “big bottle” of the latter $21 product, which has been on the market for

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Critical Role's Schemers table reshapes the D&D adventuring party

Critical Role Campaign 4 has moved into Dol-Makjar and introduced a table that feels fundamentally different from the Soldiers and Seekers. The season adopted a West Marches–inspired format that splits the 13-player cast into three tables, and the Schemers have been described as focused on "intrigue, espionage, skulduggery,

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Best thing I ever ate? My first In-N-Out burger in LA

Cheeseburgers live in the deep wiring of my childhood: the ketchup, mustard and pickles on molten cheese sit alongside the scent of my father’s aftershave and the warmth of my mother’s hug. Moving to Los Angeles for college, I thought I knew burgers, but my first visit to

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They Will Kill You review: Zazie Beetz leads bloody action thriller

They Will Kill You feels like an adrenaline shot to the chest; it's a little messy, but that mess makes it feel made by a person rather than a committee. Writer-director Kirill Sokolov's third feature — his first in English — is a delightfully deranged, blood-soaked genre mash-up

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Stranger Things Star's Love Letter to Blockbuster Finally Hits Streaming

Videoheaven, a 172-minute documentary by Alex Ross Perry narrated by Maya Hawke, is now streaming on The Criterion Channel in the U.S. The film is compiled entirely from archival news footage and clips of movies and television that feature video stores, delivering a concentrated dose of rental-shop nostalgia. Perry