Culture

Lena Dunham’s romcom Too Much convinced me to propose on the spot

I have been with my partner Martin for 10 years and he has always said he doesn’t want to get married, seeing the institution as state control and inherently patriarchal. I, meanwhile, had my whole wedding day mapped out since I was seven: when other children played Pokémon I

Culture

Which Oscar Best Picture Matches Your Taste?

A ten-question quiz matches your cinematic instincts to one of five Best Picture winners: Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Birdman, or No Country for Old Men. Questions ask about tone, pacing, form, and the kinds of moral and emotional stakes that most engage you. Parasite appeals to readers

Culture

Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner?

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn't work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back. The first few seconds tell you everything

Culture

Which Taylor Sheridan World Do You Belong In?

Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were

Culture

Russell Crowe Calls Gladiator II a "Failure"

Speaking at the Taormina Film Festival via Variety, Russell Crowe described Gladiator II as a failure, saying the sequel barely matched the original box office despite grossing $172.4 million domestically and $462.2 million worldwide. He argued that when accounting for changes in the value of a dollar, the

Politics

China arrests US academic Min Zin on suspicion of espionage

China has arrested a US scholar, Min Zin, on suspicion of spying. The ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson, Lin Jian, said Min Zin was suspected of "engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security." Arrests of US citizens on national security grounds are uncommon. The case

Culture

Which Horror Villain Could You Survive?

A horror survival quiz asks, "Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?" It matches five killers — Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and Chucky — to your instincts, using eight questions to calculate your odds. The questions probe first instincts and setting: leave immediately,

Culture

Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz: Which Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?

A new quiz invites readers to find which Taylor Sheridan world fits them best: Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, or Mayor of Kingstown. It frames Sheridan’s settings as brutal and complicated, built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Ten questions probe where your power comes from, who you

Culture

Say Goodbye to Ridley Scott's Cult-Classic Historical Epic on Streaming

Ridley Scott's cult-classic historical epic is set to leave streaming. The film will no longer be available to stream on the service where it currently appears. Viewers who want to revisit the movie or see it for the first time should watch it while it remains available on

Sports

Scotland aim to break World Cup group-stage barrier against Haiti

Scotland arrive at their long-awaited return to the World Cup hoping to escape a wider pattern of failure on football’s biggest stage. From 23 games at the finals the side have won only four, and the tournament’s expansion should help a team that now regards mere qualification as

Culture

Taylor Sheridan’s Funniest Series Is Officially Taking Over the World Again

Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were

Culture

Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

Sci‑Fi Personality Quiz: Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Five iconic heroes — Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley, and Max Rockatansky — offer five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. Eight questions will tell you which one. The quiz asks about how you lead

Culture

The Sorting Hat Awaits: Which Hogwarts House Are You?

The Sorting Hat awaits. Four houses. One destiny. It has considered thousands of students — now it's your turn: answer honestly and discover where you truly belong at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The quiz asks what quality you value most, how you'd respond when a

Culture

10 ways David Hockney changed art

David Hockney emerged as a synthesist, blending minimalism and abstraction with portrait traditions and the pop and conceptual innovations of the 1960s. He folded those influences into work that felt immediate, simple and approachable. Born in Bradford, he also upended expectations about who attended art school, committing to a relentless

Culture

X-Men '97 Season 2 Trailer Spotlights 25 Mutant Characters

Marvel released a new trailer for X-Men '97 titled "Roll Call" as Season 2 prepares to debut on Disney+ on July 1. The season follows the X-Men battling Apocalypse, with the team split through time: one half in Ancient Egypt at the rise of Apocalypse's

Culture

Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?

Five Oscar Best Picture winners offer five very different visions of what cinema can do. A ten-question quiz guides you to the one film that matches how your mind works, weighing tone, form, and the kind of final note you prefer. Parasite rewards close attention, starting in one genre and

Culture

X-Men '97 season 2 returns July 1 — what to remember

X-Men ‘97, which continued X-Men: The Animated Series when it launched on Disney Plus in 2024, returns for season 2 on July 1. The first season closed on a jarring cliffhanger that scattered the team and set up a sprawling time- and space-spanning story. Early in season 1, Professor Xavier

Culture

Spielberg's Close Encounters and Disclosure Day Aren't the Same Genre

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Disclosure Day occupy different territories, even as both put the director's fascination with alien life into a more timely story. Disclosure Day was not an official sequel to Close Encounters, but it is a spiritual sequel in

Culture

Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner?

An Action Hero Quiz asks, "Which action hero would be your perfect partner?" Ten questions are designed to reveal which hero was built to have your back. The quiz runs through scenarios: being dropped into danger, how you travel to a mission, what a partner does when you’

Sports

Cody Gakpo seeks Anfield exit amid transfer scramble

Cody Gakpo has informed Liverpool he wants to leave Anfield this summer after a turbulent season for the squad. The campaign was marked by the tragic passing of teammate Diogo Jota in 2025, a loss that deeply affected the club’s psychological state. On the field, a drop in performances

Culture

North West, 12, makes first solo music festival appearance

North West rocked the crowd at Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash 2026 in her first solo music festival performance. Videos shared on Instagram and reshared by her parents showed the 12-year-old performing as the crowd sang along. She wore a long blue wig styled half-up with two ponytails, a black

Tech

Erenshor's biggest update adds raids, NPC guild managers and transmog

Single-player RPG and simulated MMO Erenshor, made by solo developer Burgee Media, is preparing its biggest update yet: The Planar March. The summer update adds raids with tiered bosses and transmog-able loot, and has been in testing for about a month, matching a May teaser. The Planar March introduces four

Business

Jessie J’s China return highlights lucrative market for Western pop stars

One week after announcing she was "cancer free", Jessie J travelled thousands of miles to perform for an audience of more than a billion people on Singer, a hugely popular Chinese singing competition. On 29 May she delivered a stage-rattling rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way and

Tech

Solitaire Deck — Solitaire for PC gaming handhelds

Solitaire Deck is a solitaire game that runs beautifully on PC gaming handhelds, where every win builds your Museum of card history. Play Solitaire Deck on any device with controller, mouse, keyboard or touch. No tricks. Just solitaire done right. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com. solitaire deck, solitaire,

Culture

His & Hers: A 6-Part Netflix Thriller That Rewards a Second Watch

His & Hers is a six-episode Netflix thriller and the most-watched series of 2026. Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal play Anna and Jack, a formerly married couple pulled back together when Anna returns to her hometown of Dahlonega, Georgia; she is a TV news anchor covering a death and he