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Sci-Fi Personality Quiz: Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. The quiz matches your instincts and values to one of five figures — Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley or Max Rockatansky — using eight focused questions. Questions probe how you lead under pressure, your greatest strength in

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Widow's Bay renewed for season 2 on Apple TV

Apple TV has confirmed that the horror-comedy Widow’s Bay will return for a second season ahead of its June 17 finale. The series premiered on April 29 to a glowing critical reception, earning praise for balancing folk horror and humor. Widow’s Bay follows Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys), the

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Timberline Studio bundles Beastro and The Red Lantern for $10

Timberline Studio has bundled its new "cozy culinary adventure" Beastro with its 2021 dog-sledding survival game The Red Lantern on Steam for $10. Beastro casts you as Panko, a cat who runs a local eatery and feeds the heroes who fight monsters beyond the town's walls.

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Lawman: Bass Reeves Hits 20 Million Hours in First Week on Netflix

At the start of June, Taylor Sheridan’s western Lawman: Bass Reeves arrived on Netflix and quickly found a new audience. Three years after its 2023 debut on Paramount+ and the Paramount Network, the series climbed Netflix’s global streaming charts and briefly appeared on the weekly Top 10 in

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Obsession's On-Set Controversy Highlights a Wider Hollywood Problem

One of 2026’s breakout hits, Obsession, has earned $229 million worldwide on a $750,000 budget, but celebration has been tempered by an Instagram post from the film’s art director, Sally Choi. She described low pay and harsh working conditions, a post that drew both applause for calling

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Katia and Marielle Labèque: 55 — a handsome three-disc tribute

In 1969 two teenage students at the Paris Conservatoire recorded Olivier Messiaen’s formidable Visions de l’Amen under the composer’s nerve-racking supervision; it was released in 1970. Fifty-five years later, Katia and Marielle Labèque’s musical curiosity is undimmed, as this handsome three-disc tribute set demonstrates. A mix

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Jordyn Woods' 'lucky' Knicks bag boosts her fashion brand

Jordyn Woods has made a $125 tux clutch mini from her Woods by Jordyn line a courtside fixture, carrying it through a 13-game Knicks winning streak after it first appeared in the postseason on April 18. A Madison Square Garden no-bag policy tied to Donald Trump's attendance kept

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Does Disclosure Day Have a Post-Credit Scene?

Steven Spielberg has released a new sci‑fi film, Disclosure Day, which is now playing in theaters. It marks his first release since The Fabelmans (2022), and in a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning he said, "The movie for me is a summation of my life in science

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A crab has the third-highest player kill count in Path of Exile 2

Playing Path of Exile 2 on hardcore difficulty means one death permanently ends your character. Streamer Zizaran lost a hardcore character in a mundane combat encounter, and during a recent interview the game's co-directors revealed the culprit was an accidentally deadly crab. Co-game director Jonathan Rogers said the

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The Death of Robin Hood: Hugh Jackman Excels in A24's Grim Reimagining

Michael Sarnoski takes the Robin Hood legend far from swashbuckling myth, recasting the archer as a barbaric, bloodthirsty butcher who commits acts as brutal as stabbing a teenage girl in the neck and shooting an arrow through a boy’s eye. The film frames that savagery within a cycle of

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Sci-Fi Personality Quiz: Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

Sci‑Fi Personality Quiz: Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one. Choices include

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Drake Milligan on Shania Twain duet, Elvis comparisons and touring

Drake Milligan stopped by to answer burning questions from the Confession Cube, reflecting on his journey from America's Got Talent finalist to headlining his own Tumbleweed World Tour. He shared stories from the road and the making of his album "Tumbleweed," opened up about collaborating with

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Fable's reputation system can be bought with enough gold

A 30-minute gameplay demo of the Fable reboot showed a word-cloud style reputation system that shapes how more than 1,000 NPCs react to the player. Actions leave adjective-based labels — sparing someone can register you as "merciful," negotiating as "shrewd," buying fine clothes as "rich,

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Greg Davies and Alex Horne say Taskmaster 'feels a lot more fun now'

Taskmaster has just wrapped its 21st season over the course of 11 years, amassing over 200 episodes while keeping the show's format largely unchanged. The budget has grown, apparent in higher-profile guests and more elaborate tasks, but the core approach was set early on. In a remote interview,

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The Furious review: brutal martial-arts thriller with top-tier action

The Furious follows an intrepid reporter, Matia, as she hunts a string of missing children in an unnamed Asian city, while a mute handyman, Wei, and a grieving man named Navin wage their own desperate searches after loved ones vanish. A precocious girl, Rainy, and the injuries that leave Wei

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Report: Baldur's Gate 2 Remake Reportedly in Development

Larian Studios has moved on from the franchise after Baldur's Gate 3, but Wizards of the Coast continues to expand the setting. HBO is developing a live-action television adaptation continuing the story of Baldur's Gate 3, and Penguin Random House has begun a new line of

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Colman Domingo's SNL Sketch Finds the Silly Side of Space Travel

Saturday Night Live turned the aftermath of the Artemis II mission into a comedy skit the day after the crew returned. On April 11 host Colman Domingo played an astronaut recording a Day 9 video log who wants to offer a heartfelt, inspiring message — but his shipmates keep barging into

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Rumer Willis granted primary custody of daughter Louetta

Rumer Willis was granted primary physical custody of her daughter Louetta, and she and ex Derek Richard Thomas agreed to joint custody and a custody evaluation. Thomas received a visitation schedule beginning June 20: supervised visits every other weekend with one of Willis’s nannies present, with overnight visits to

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Doctor Doom Commander deck reprints $20 Black Market Connections

Wizards of the Coast revealed the full Doom Prevails decklist via The Asian Avenger YouTube channel. The Grixis (blue-black-red) Commander is a Villain-typal build that leans on sacrificing life for benefits, forcing discards, and connive; almost all of the 32 creature cards are new Marvel legendaries. Alongside the flavor pieces,

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Fable ditches horns and halos for a subjective, multifaceted reputation system

The upcoming Fable replaces the series' straight good-versus-evil binary with regional reputations, so settlements will react to a character's wealth, shrewdness or murderous tendencies rather than rewarding horns or halos. Playground Games' decision to drop Lionhead's morality-based character morphing has drawn some controversy, and

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Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple is actually good

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Water Temple has long been seen as the epitome of an agonizing, obnoxious dungeon: winding and confusing, with doors spread across three different water levels, a clunky required-item mechanic, and a Small Key that’s annoyingly hard to find. The remake conversation

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Jason Fuchs to Write New Transformers Movie

The Transformers franchise has had a turbulent run in theaters. Michael Bay directed five entries before stepping away, and his films remain the most widely known iteration of the Hasbro toy line, cumulatively earning $4.8 billion. Paramount continued producing movies without Bay with mixed results. Travis Knight’s 2018

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9 Years Later, Netflix’s Grittiest Crime Series Is a Massive Hit on Disney+

You've been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What's left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief. You don't ask for forgiveness, and you don't expect gratitude. You see a corrupt,

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Tayriska Is Back After Mariska Hargitay and Taylor Swift Reunite at Knicks Game

Mariska Hargitay and Taylor Swift were courtside as the New York Knicks erased a 29-point third-quarter deficit — the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history — to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-106 in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden. Hargitay, in her usual courtside seat cheering on her friend Jalen Brunson,

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Japan backlash grows over Trump’s use of Naruto, Pokémon and anime icons

U.S. President Donald Trump’s use of characters from Naruto, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dragon Ball has drawn growing criticism in Japan. A petition titled 'Protect Japanese Manga' has gathered more than 23,800 signatures after posts began appearing in March 2026. The White House's official