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'The Vampire Lestat' Lands Rare Rotten Tomatoes Score Ahead of Premiere

AMC rebranded Interview With the Vampire as The Vampire Lestat and, ahead of its Jun. 7 debut, the series has landed a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 early reviews. That continues a rare franchise streak: the first season scored 98% and the second settled at 94%. The

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It's Officially the End of an Era for Taylor Sheridan's 'Tulsa King' After a Major Change

Your Fate Has Been Calculated. You'd Survive In… Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. The Matrix: You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help

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How to turn spent coffee grounds into barbecue sauce

My cooking rests on three pillars — pleasure, people and planet — and I try to balance all three to create meals that are both delicious and nourishing. That idea gives the title to my book Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet. Today’s recipe comes from one of the tastiest in

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50 Years Later, the 'Rocky' Franchise Is Streaming on Netflix

Netflix has added the entire Rocky franchise to its June update. All nine films are now available: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023). Fifty years after the original, the series

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Sheridan Has Spoken: You Belong In…

A ten-question quiz places you in one of four Taylor Sheridan worlds — Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, or Mayor of Kingstown — described as "brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival." Questions probe where your power comes from, who you put first, how you respond

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Twins in a spin at the great British seaside: Sophie Green’s best photograph

The British seaside has a distinctive look: bingo halls, buckets and spades, pinwheels and the vivid colours of funfairs. Sophie Green calls these places visually super‑charged and maximalist, and links them to childhood memory—her grandpa lived in Pembrokeshire, and visits as a child gave the beach a sense

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Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis reimagines the original with new surprises

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a complete remake of Lara Croft's first adventure and is due to arrive in February 2027. Michael Lovan, global head of content and community at Amazon Game Studios, says: "This is the adventure fans remember: reimagined in ways that weren’t

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God Of War Laufey May Answer One Of The Series’ Strangest Mysteries

God of War Laufey is the next entry in Santa Monica Studio’s series, but this time you play as Kratos’ late wife Faye. The story runs alongside the 2018 reboot, sending Faye through an Everwhen afterlife of gods from different mythologies as she tries to aid her husband and

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Anya Taylor-Joy Flees the Law in Trailer for Apple TV Series Lucky

Apple TV has released a new trailer for Lucky, a crime thriller led by Anya Taylor-Joy. She plays Lucky Armstrong, an accomplished con artist forced to flee after a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways. The series is based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel and premieres with its first two episodes

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A24’s New Horror Hit Crosses $100 Million in Just 5 Days

Backrooms, the new horror film backed by A24, reached $100 million at the domestic box office just five days after its release. The movie was released May 27, 2026, runs 110 minutes, and lists Kane Parsons as director, with Clark, Renate Reinsve, Mary Phil, Finn Bennett and Bobby among the

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Marilyn Monroe items fetch £1.86M at auction, Dior suit sets record

An auction of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia brought in £1.86 million on what would have been the icon’s 100th birthday. Drawn from the estate of her close friends Norman and Hedda Rosten, the June 1 sale presented personal items, letters and keepsakes that offered a rare glimpse into her

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Ubisoft calls Rayman and GTA timing a coincidence

Rayman Legends Retold's team says it is a coincidence that the remake is launching around the same time as a new GTA and the return of Assassin's Creed Black Flag. In 2013 Rayman Legends arrived a few weeks before the then-new GTA, and in 2026 Rayman

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HBO's Harry Potter Plans to Outpace Percy Jackson

HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series is aiming to avoid the long gaps between seasons that have affected other fantasy shows. Set for viewers to unwrap this Christmas, the adaptation carries a reported production cost of $100 million per episode. By comparison, the Hulu/Disney+ Percy Jackson and the

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Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

A sci‑fi personality quiz pairs you with one of five iconic heroes by probing instincts, values and how you face impossible situations. Eight questions guide the result. The possible matches are Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley and Max Rockatansky. The quiz asks about leadership under pressure,

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God of War Laufey won't replace Kratos, Barlog says

God of War Laufey shifts the series' spotlight away from Kratos to his dead wife Laufey, or Faye, as she navigates a perilous afterlife run by power‑hungry deities. The 20 minutes of footage shown at PlayStation State of Play in June 2026 highlighted a more luminous aesthetic, with

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Tom Holland Accused of Spoiling Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Ending

A viral post on X claims Tom Holland revealed roughly a nine-minute sequence from the end of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The short clip, taken from a GQ interview, was said to have been removed online, though the full interview remains available. The allegation spread quickly, and many

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Which MCU Hero Are You? Marvel Personality Quiz

Which MCU hero are you? Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. The quiz asks about motivations and everyday choices: "What drives you to do what's right?", "It's 2

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Insomniac's hairy Wolverine prompts debate over body hair

PlayStation's State of Play opened with a 10-minute deep dive into Marvel's Wolverine, which launches Sept. 15. The footage showed the gruff anti-hero fighting alongside Jean Grey to rescue young mutants captured on the orders of Bolivar Trask, and made clear Insomniac’s investment in its

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‘It’s a relief … I’m irrelevant!’: Rufus Norris on life after the National Theatre

There were several big endings for Rufus Norris in 2025, all crammed into the same few seismic months. The close of his tenure as director of the National Theatre after a decade at the helm collided with the loss of his mother, who died three weeks before he left the

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Wolverine reveal's violence feels unearned

I enjoy grisly work—Braindead is my favorite zombie movie, The Fly one of my all-time films, and I’ve been delighted and horrified by season four of From—so I’m not squeamish. Even so, after watching Insomniac’s lengthy Wolverine reveal I came away exhausted and disappointed by

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Cape Fear review: Javier Bardem terrifies in Apple TV reboot

Apple TV’s Cape Fear reimagines the story that inspired the 1991 film and the 1962 original, with creator Nick Antosca delivering a modern, episodic retelling. The series is not a direct remake but pays clear homage, with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg credited among its executive producers and a

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Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?

Horror survival quiz: Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Eight questions will figure out which one. Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A season 12 lifts all Pokémon restrictions

Pokémon Legends: Z-A didn't get quite the same reception as its prequel, Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The city setting highlighted some of the visual and technical limitations in the subseries, and as a result it went down as a decent entry rather than a standout. Still, its multiplayer battling

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Jason Momoa Debuts as Lobo in New Supergirl Image

A new image for Supergirl offers the clearest look yet at Jason Momoa as Lobo. He sits astride his cosmic motorcycle, cigar clamped between his teeth, riding away from a landscape on fire — the 1990s comic-book Lobo intact with chalk-white skin, red eyes and a particular kind of swagger. Director

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Coppola Calls Shia LaBeouf His Most Difficult Actor

It takes a certain level of creative madness to create something like Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating film that finally saw its release in 2024 after his script sat on the shelves for over 40 years. The director fully realized his passion project with a self-financed, freewheeling portrait