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Toy Story 5 posts biggest opening weekend of 2026

Toy Story 5 has posted the biggest opening weekend of 2026, earning $160 million in the United States over its first three days. That total tops The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which opened to $130.9 million. Pixar’s latest also outgrossed the opening weekends of Toy Story 3 and

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Princess Charlotte, 11, looks grown up in new Father's Day photo with Prince William

Princess Charlotte looked noticeably grown up in a new Father’s Day photo with her father, the Prince of Wales. The 11-year-old and Prince William beamed and hugged in a never-before-seen picture taken outdoors at Kensington Palace, shared Sunday; the image appears to have been taken after the Trooping the

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Hiro Murai on Wiley: a mirror, not a mystery

One of Atlanta’s most elusive figures appears in season 3, episode 5, “Cancer Attack,” when Alfred Miles, aka Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), loses his phone during a Budapest performance. The episode pivots away from the search and toward a soft-spoken, guitar-playing stranger named Wiley (Alien Earth’s Samuel

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RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says designers 'go overboard in removing friction'

Obsidian Entertainment's Josh Sawyer, the director behind Fallout: New Vegas and Pentiment, says developers sometimes smooth games so much they end up “removing friction.” He recalled trying to find that balance while working on Neverwinter Nights 2. The comment came during a YouTube Q&A about the

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Prime Video Cancels Aubrey Plaza's Animated Sitcom 'Kevin'

Amazon Prime Video has canceled Kevin, an adult animated sitcom about a neurotic tuxedo cat voiced by Jason Schwartzman. After the human couple who cared for him split, the cat moves out and ends up living in a pet rescue in Astoria, Queens with other misfit animals. The series featured

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The Sorting Hat Awaits: Which Hogwarts House Are You?

The Sorting Hat awaits: Which Hogwarts House Are You? Gryffindor · Slytherin · Hufflepuff · Ravenclaw. Four houses. One destiny. Gryffindor: You have nerve. Not the reckless kind, but the deep, quiet courage that shows up even when you're terrified — especially then. You stand up for people when it would be

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Father's Day 2026: Beckham, Markle, Osbourne and more celebrate

Father’s Day Weekend 2026 brought heartfelt tributes and family photos from stars who celebrated the dads in their lives. A gallery shows how famous dads and their families marked the special occasion. David and Victoria Beckham shared a carousel of images of their children, including their estranged son Brooklyn,

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Why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4 — unexpected cameo

Chris Spargo's video uses SimCity 4 as a case study to explain why a SimCity set in the United Kingdom wouldn't behave like the familiar, Americentric versions of the game. The piece is worth watching for its analysis, and also for an unexpectedly startling appearance at

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The wait for Winds of Winter just passed a surprising milestone

The wait for The Winds of Winter has now outlasted the time George R.R. Martin took to publish the first five A Song of Ice and Fire books. Culture Crave recently pointed out on X that the gap between A Dance With Dragons and The Winds of Winter has

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Looking For My Father In Blue Prince’s Spiral of Stars

Blue Prince refuses a tidy ending. The game offers many stopping points—finding Room 46, uncovering the Baroness Auravei’s secret will—yet it still leaves questions: What is the Spiral of Stars? Where is the eighth red envelope? What does SWNSNG mean? A silent protagonist, Simon, wanders a manor

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Dark Matter Season 2 Brings an Original Chapter to the Multiverse

Apple TV has scheduled Dark Matter Season 2 to premiere on Friday, August 28, 2026. The new run will comprise 10 episodes, one more than Season 1, and arrives a little over two years after the first season concluded in June 2024. The series adapts Blake Crouch's 2016

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Oscar Best Picture Quiz: Which Is Your Perfect Movie?

Collider offers a ten-question Oscar Best Picture quiz that pairs readers with one of five Best Picture winners. The questions probe the film experience you want — tone, narrative form, antagonist, ending, setting, craft, protagonist type, and pace. Each answer points toward a central obsession that shapes how a story feels

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Try tiny experiments instead of chasing fixed life goals

Every January millions of people set new goals only to abandon most of them by March, then repeat the cycle with each fresh season. Goals work well when the destination and path are clear, but many of life’s big questions—career direction, parenting styles, what “healthy” looks like—shift

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Mark Wahlberg's Deepwater Horizon Leaves Netflix July 1

Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, Dylan O'Brien and Kate Hudson, will leave Netflix on July 1. Released in 2016, the film holds an 82% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and is tied with Friday Night Lights as Berg&

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Which horror villain could you survive?

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 chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one. The quiz

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David and Victoria Beckham use Father's Day to reach estranged son Brooklyn

David and Victoria Beckham extended another olive branch to their estranged son Brooklyn as the couple marked Father's Day. Victoria posted a carousel on Instagram and wrote, "David you truly are the best daddy. Your greatest achievement has always been our beautiful children and we love you

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Dishonored review (2012)

Dishonored is a gorgeous, complex assassination sim set in the crumbling, steampunk-tinged city of Dunwall. It lets you play a supernatural assassin however you like: stealth and precise teleportation via the Blink power make infiltration rewarding, while first-person swordfights remain surprisingly fun and survivable when fights break out. Missions unfold

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Don’t Let It Starve puts a retro horror spin on Balatro-style roguelikes

Don’t Let It Starve is a bento-box builder roguelike that mixes Tetris-like puzzles with a retro, creepy aesthetic. You play in a sort of purgatory, slotting food pieces — a T-shaped cut of meat, a square block of rice — into boxes to feed an endlessly hungry creature. Each turn offers

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TV Medicine Quiz: Which Fictional Hospital Suits You?

A TV medicine quiz asks which fictional hospital you would work in, offering five options — The Pitt, ER, Grey's Anatomy, House, and Scrubs. Eight questions probe how you react under pressure and what you want from a career in medicine. Questions cover handling a critical patient, why you

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I took my 30-year-old son to Hawaii and we set ground rules

I live in New York City and my 30-year-old son, Alec, lives in Southern California. We both have busy lives, so when I suggested a mother-son vacation I made clear we needed ground rules: approach the trip as equals and share expenses. I gifted his plane ticket with miles and

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Grand Theft Auto 4 mod Heartland replaces Liberty City with rural Wisconsin

Heartland is a work-in-progress total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto 4 that swaps Liberty City for a slice of rural Midwestern America. The mod favors quiet backroads and an eerie, liminal calm that recalls Fargo and Twin Peaks more than the city's bright lights, letting subdued suburban

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Square Enix's HD-2D aesthetic revives retro RPGs with striking consistency

Square Enix first used the term HD-2D for the 2018 role-playing game Octopath Traveler and has since developed it into a recognizable style and release strategy. The latest entry in that catalog is the ninth official HD-2D title, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, which continues a line of

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Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most?

Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your

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Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun turn fling into serious romance

After the Knicks beat the Spurs to clinch the NBA Championship, Scooter Braun gushed about Sydney Sweeney aboard a private jet and used the L-word: “Syd, I love you and your family so much,” in a video shared by pal Steven Rifkind. He also called her “the greatest good luck

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Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong In?

A Universe Personality Quiz uses eight questions to identify which iconic fictional world matches your instincts, values and the way you see the world. The quiz asks what gives life meaning and what kind of companions, power and moral architecture suit you best. Questions cover the world you most want