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Which MCU Hero Are You? Take the Marvel Personality Quiz

A Marvel personality quiz invites readers to answer ten questions to discover which MCU hero aligns with their temperament and values. Six heroes are offered as outcomes: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Iron Man, Punisher, Thor, and Captain America. The questions probe motivations and habits — examples include what drives you to do what&

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‘Euphoria’ creator says Zendaya had 'very emotional reaction' to Rue's death

Sam Levinson said Zendaya had "a very emotional reaction" when he told her that her character Rue Bennett would die in the Season 3 finale. He called Zendaya "a gifted actor" and said Rue "wouldn't be as charming and lovable and humorous"

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Blood Message preview shows action on par with God of War

Blood Message, developed by 24 Entertainment Lin'an and published by NetEase, is a single-player, story-driven action game set in 9th-century China. The game follows messenger Pei Changguan as he travels 1,000 miles through enemy territory to deliver a message to the Tang capital, and a Summer Game

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Spielberg's Disclosure Day Has a Stark Line About Empathy

Steven Spielberg has given cinema some of its most memorable quotes, from "You're gonna need a bigger boat" to "Life finds a way." Disclosure Day adds a new, more somber entry. Forty-nine years after Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Roy Neary'

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Near-Perfect British Sci‑Fi Comedy 'Timewasters' Almost Got a U.S. Remake

Timewasters takes a different tack on time travel. Created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and broadcast on ITV2 from 2017 to 2019, the two-season British comedy follows four struggling musicians from South London who discover a time-traveling lift in their building. Stranded first in 1926, they spend their adventures trying to

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Ronnie Schell, ‘America's Slowest Rising Comedian,’ dead at 94

Ronnie Schell, who played Pvt. Duke Slater on the 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., died Friday. He was 94 and died of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Publicist Harlan Boll, who spoke to Schell’s son Gregory, said Schell had been hospitalized after a

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Hairpin bends and bears: readers' favourite European road trips

Readers shared road trips across Europe, from Romania’s mountain highways to island loops and coastal fjords. Contributions ranged from wild northern coasts to themed routes through Bavaria and lonely stretches of Iceland’s ring road. One reader recalled driving Romania’s Transfăgărășan, a route of hairpin bends and climbs

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Ocarina of Time remake faces music and voice-acting challenge

Most attention around the Ocarina of Time remake has focused on art style and design: how a modern, graphically rich treatment will look and which visual tradition it will follow. The trailer offers a partial answer, favoring a glossy, richly textured, CG-animated movie look, while questions about movement, camera and

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I Hate What Stranger Than Heaven Is Doing With Tupac

The developers at Yakuza studio Ryu Ga Gotoku have repeatedly explained why Tupac appears in their next game, Stranger Than Heaven: it was Snoop Dogg’s idea, Tupac’s family and rights holders were involved, and no generative AI was used for his voice or likeness. In a Game Informer

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The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder

On the bare brick wall backing Jen McGinley’s set – half courtroom, half saloon – there is a faded poster of The Searchers. The whisky-swilling hard men who haunt the clubs and dives of The Long Drop imagine themselves as cowboys: double dealers and grandstanders, full of bluff and bluster; sometimes

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Chris Sanders Confirmed to Direct Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch 2'

Disney is moving forward with development on a live-action Lilo & Stitch 2, the sequel to the 2025 Lilo & Stitch remake. Chris Sanders will direct the sequel, taking over the job from Dean Fleischer Camp. Sanders is best known for co-directing and co-writing the original animated Lilo & Stitch

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Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner?

An action-hero quiz asks readers to choose between five legends — Rambo, James Bond, Indiana Jones, John McClane and Ethan Hunt — and promises to reveal which one would be the best partner in a crisis. Five different approaches to surviving danger are offered: style, muscle, charm, luck or an improbably intricate

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Madison LeCroy backs Kérastase 8H Magic Night Serum for smoother hair

Madison LeCroy shared one of her hair-care secrets on Amazon Live while going through her summer glow-up essentials. When a fan asked about heat protection and treating damaged ends, the Southern Charm star recommended Kérastase Nutritive 8H Magic Night Serum. The product is made for all hair types and is

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Berserk returns with chapter Miura wrestled with for 20 years

Berserk is back: chapter 384 released today in Japan’s Young Animal magazine and the team behind the series calls it a milestone Miura had been wrestling with for the better part of two decades. After Kentaro Miura’s passing in 2021, Kouji Mori and the apprentices at Studio Gaga

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All of the God of War Games, Ranked

God of War is about to do something it hasn’t done before: center someone other than Kratos. Before the series heads into the Everywhen as Faye with God of War Laufey, this look back ranks more than 20 years of god‑slaying and Kratos’ dysfunctional family tree from worst

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Ben Schwartz Joins Sam Mendes' Beatles Quadrilogy

Sam Mendes is directing a four-film project that spotlights each member of the Beatles, titled The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event. The movies are planned for a simultaneous release in 2028, though no specific timeframe has been confirmed. Leading the quartet are Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as

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Senator Mark Kelly Names His Top Three Space Movies

Senator Mark Kelly, a veteran of four space missions, posted his three favorite space movies on Twitter. He put Ridley Scott's The Martian at the top, calling it "really a movie about how you use science and engineering to solve hard problems." Kelly said it was

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Alana Haim made Taylor Swift's 'Stevie Knicks' shirt with a Cricut

At Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Taylor Swift and the Haim sisters drew attention with matching 'knickname' T-shirts — including a 'Stevie Knicks' shirt Alana Haim says she made after buying a Cricut when she returned from her last tour. Cricut machines, with prices starting under

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Erosion preview: a time-jumping roguelike that leans into emergent stories

Nearly six years after Hades reworked how roguelikes told stories, Plot Twist’s Erosion looks poised to push the genre in a different direction. The developer behind The Last Case of Benedict Fox has built a system that ties player choices and repeated deaths to a shifting world, letting emergent

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Cocktail of the week: the Red Lion & Sun’s kimchi bloody mary – recipe

This sour-spicy twist on the classic brunch drink is very easy to recreate at home. Kimchi bloody mary Serves 1 For the kimchi mix (for four serves) 45g Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce 45g fresh lime juice 18g kimchi – use your favourite; ours is Kim Kong 5g Tabasco 10g gochujang

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Matt Reeves Shares First Shot as The Batman Part II Begins Filming

Matt Reeves' sequel, The Batman Part II, has officially entered production. Reeves announced the start of filming on X using the hashtag "First Shot." He first introduced this iteration of the Caped Crusader in 2022; that film was a box office success and has been widely regarded

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

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. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting

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‘Failure was my thing’: Virginia Evans on her long journey to success

Just as the interview begins at a drizzly party in a leafy London square, someone interrupts to congratulate Virginia Evans — it is Richard Curtis. Her prize-winning novel, The Correspondent, a warm-hearted weepy with gentle humour, already has a film in the pipeline with Jane Fonda lined up to play 73-year-old

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Disclosure Day's ending satisfies but doesn't soar like Close Encounters

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day invites comparison with his earlier films about extraterrestrials. It holds up in many ways: like War of the Worlds it's a high-stakes chase, and some animal scenes echo E.T.'s sense of wonder. The closest touchpoint is Close Encounters of

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Sepideh Moafi Confirms Changed Involvement in The Pitt Season 3

Sepideh Moafi said she will not appear in the season premiere of The Pitt's third season and that characters will make staggered entrances as the story unfolds over a single 15-hour day. She added that filming will start in a week and that the new storyline is set