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Sleepless in Seattle Leaving Prime Video on March 31

Sleepless in Seattle is streaming on Prime Video but is scheduled to leave the service on March 31. Decades after its 1993 release, Nora Ephron’s romantic comedy still reads as a blueprint for the big-hearted studio rom-com. The film stars Tom Hanks as Sam, a widower whose young son

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Judith Light shares her simple, affordable beauty routine

At The Wrap’s Power Women New York breakfast, Judith Light, 77, said her nightly skincare is surprisingly basic: “Castor oil, Vaseline and coconut oil.” She added, “I swear to God,” and laughed that she sounds like she’s “grooming a horse!” Light said she does use high-end products such

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The Wheel of Time to get animated show, animated film and PC/mobile game

Iwot Studios is developing multiple new Wheel of Time projects: a PC and mobile game, an animated feature film and an animated series. The company is working with Initiate Entertainment and Arcane producer Thomas Vu, and the projects draw from Robert Jordan's novels. These efforts sit alongside an

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Are we ready for a Joss Whedon comeback?

It has been a complicated week for fans of Joss Whedon’s work. Sarah Michelle Gellar announced a planned Buffy sequel for Hulu was no longer moving forward, and details emerged about what went wrong behind the scenes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale. A much‑hyped Firefly announcement

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How to make the perfect cheese khachapuri

The first time I tried khachapuri was at Little Georgia on Broadway Market, and the menu description—“traditional cheesebread … baked to order”—understated the reality: a golden round of soft, buttery bread spilling hot, salty cheese. Georgian cooks make many regional versions, but this piece focuses on imeruli khachapuri from

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Buffy stars pay tribute to Nicholas Brendon after his death

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom has endured recent losses. Series veteran Michelle Trachtenberg died from complications of diabetes in February 2025, and Nicholas Brendon unexpectedly died in his sleep after being diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in 2023. Brendon appeared in all but one episode of Buffy and

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Chris Pratt's Controversial Sci‑Fi Film Sees Streaming Resurgence

Chris Pratt’s 2016 sci-fi film Passengers has spiked on Hulu’s domestic streaming chart, with FlixPatrol showing a recent jump in viewership. Directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts, the film pairs Pratt with Jennifer Lawrence as deep‑space travelers — one wakes years early, and Pratt’s

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Quentin Tarantino & Sylvester Stallone Team Up for 1930s Gangster Series

Quentin Tarantino is writing a 1930s-set gangster show that he will share directing duties on with Sylvester Stallone. The project is described as a limited six-part series featuring gangsters, showgirls, boxing and music, and it is planned to be filmed in black and white, reportedly using cameras from the 1930s

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Every Star Wars Hallway Fight Scene, Ranked

Hallway fight scenes have become a staple of modern action, and Star Wars contains seven standout examples. This ranking runs through each of those corridor confrontations, from the franchise's earliest skirmish to its most famous rampages. At the low end sits Han Solo's quirky moment in

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Crimson Desert mimics Breath of the Wild’s systems but lacks its world

Crimson Desert invites near-constant comparison with other big open-world games: its map design echoes Red Dead Redemption 2, its combat and detail call to mind Assassin’s Creed, and within minutes the influence of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is unmistakable. The game borrows many of the

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Saturday Night Live UK review: it didn’t fail and could improve

In the end it’s a feeling: the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live UK did work. Eleven actors and a 20-strong writing team drawn from more than 1,200 applicants gave a show that began with George Fouracres’s Keir Starmer cold open and ran into a guest monologue

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Showrunner on Daredevil and Kingpin's Rivalry in Born Again Season 2

Charlie Cox returns as Daredevil for a second season of Daredevil: Born Again, reunited with Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk and other MCU veterans. The story picks up almost directly where Season 1 left off, with Matt on the run from Mayor Fisk and his Anti-Vigilante Task

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Alan Ritchson’s War Machine Falls to Bob Odenkirk’s Nobody 2 on Netflix

Bob Odenkirk’s sequel Nobody 2 has climbed to the top of Netflix’s charts after an earlier run on Peacock, placing Alan Ritchson’s new sci-fi action film War Machine in second. War Machine is described as a Predator-esque tale of a man’s fight to survive against an

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Eleanor Abbott and the creation of Candy Land

Eleanor Abbott contracted polio around age 38 while working repairing watches and recuperating in a San Diego hospital. Polio had swept the United States in the 1940s; by 1948 it was a full-on epidemic, producing 42,173 cases and 2,720 deaths in 1949 alone. Abbott was struck by how

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Baldur's Gate 3 writer: 'I wish I could have done more' for Wyll

Wyll has become one of Baldur's Gate 3's more criticized companions, with many players feeling he lacks content compared with other party members. He still has a compelling storyline — Mizora and all — but his romance options and overall arc come across as thinner, and Larian Studios

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Lost Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode Uploaded After 37 Years

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has 230 episodes and has hopped between KTMA, Comedy Central, Sci‑Fi (now Syfy), and Netflix over nearly 40 years. The series’ focus on robots riffing on feature‑length B movies has made long‑term rights complicated, and some early episodes ended up without home release

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This 10/10 'Office' Quote Was Completely Improvised by Steve Carell

More than a decade after the series ended, The Office still circulates countless iconic lines, and not all the best laughs came from the writers. Steve Carell supplied many of Michael Scott’s most memorable moments with on-the-spot choices that fit the character perfectly. One subtle example comes in the

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Property Brothers offer 4 homebuying tips for a tough market

Drew and Jonathan Scott, known as the Property Brothers, guide buyers on their HGTV series "Property Brothers: Under Pressure." After renovating more than 1,000 homes and making over 600 TV episodes, they say today's buyers arrive with tighter budgets and fewer nonnegotiables. First, think about

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Crimson Desert developer to patch awkward control scheme

Crimson Desert has drawn criticism for an unintuitive control scheme, and Pearl Abyss says it is "currently preparing a patch" to address player complaints. "Since launch, we have been listening closely to your feedback and doing our best to make improvements to the game," the developer

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Chris Stuckmann's 'Shelby Oaks' Finally Sets Streaming Release Date

Five months after its theatrical debut, Shelby Oaks will arrive on Hulu beginning Apr. 17. Released last October by Neon, much of the film's $1 million-plus production budget was secured through Kickstarter by writer-director Chris Stuckmann, who is best known for his YouTube channel with more than 2

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Hulu’s The Dropout hits harder on a 2026 rewatch

The Dropout, Hulu’s eight-part American crime drama, grows more compelling on a 2026 rewatch. It digs into the Theranos scandal and features an all-time great performance by Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes while asking probing questions about the flaws in the American healthcare system that let a manipulative influencer

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Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord casts Maul as 'a bad guy fighting worse guys'

We're just a few weeks out from the return of former Sith lord Maul — he ditched the "Darth" bit a while back — to our screens in a new animated show. Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord is a 10-episode series that puts the sinister Zabrak front and

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Nathan Fillion Won't Continue Firefly Past Serenity

Nathan Fillion is developing an animated revival of the cult sci-fi western Firefly. He clarified that it won’t be a continuation of the existing story and takes place before the 2005 feature film Serenity rather than picking up where the movie left off. "It's called the

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The Count of Monte Cristo Review: Near-Perfect Eight-Part Remake

This English-language French–Italian limited series, overseen by Danish director Bille August and filmed in France, Malta, and Italy, reunites Sam Claflin and Jeremy Irons in an eight-hour adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic. The long-form format allows the production to breathe, and its location-based naturalism gives the drama a

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Invincible showrunners promise surprises and strong emotions in Season 4

Season 3 of Invincible closed on a high note: the finale was, at the time of the interview, the seventh-highest rated television episode of all time. Mark/Invincible (Steven Yeun) defeated Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Eve (Gillian Jacobs) reached her full potential, and a credit scene was left open to