Deciding between a beach holiday and a city break need not be a compromise: Athens, Barcelona and Miami each pair lively urban culture with easy access to sand and sea. Each destination offers its own mix of architecture, food and shoreline life, so the choice comes down to what kind

JoAnna Garcia Swisher's guest turn on Happy's Place packs a few clever Reba Easter eggs for longtime viewers. Melissa Peterman, who plays Gabby the bartender opposite Reba McEntire's tavern owner Bobbie, called Swisher's appearance "very funny" and teased a line

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir teased their Traitors co-stars Maura Higgins and Rob Rausch by showing off matching, rare Hermès Birkin bags on a recent episode of “Chicks in the Office.” They explained that Weir persuaded Lipinski to make the purchase years before the Peacock cast members exchanged Birkins. Weir

Brainshell sets its world in 1963, where computers have been replaced with human brains. The nuclear arms race has reached a point of no return, and the state uses propaganda, brainwashing and body modification to produce a conscious nuclear missile. I decided to try the demo. Development is credited to

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy set out to refresh the franchise by following young adults at Starfleet Academy. After an exposition-heavy pilot, showrunners found a strong device in using classes to frame character stories, but the back half of the season slid in quality. Episode 6’s shift to the schemes

Jujutsu Kaisen's Culling Game, on paper, should be a home run. Battle royale with sorcerers in Japan, complete with plenty of peril and powerful foes, is a killer premise. But those who watched Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution or Jujutsu Kaisen season 3's first two episodes may have

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for Thrash, a survival thriller led by Phoebe Dynevor. The film is set to stream on Apr. 10. The story follows a coastal town after it is struck by a Category 5 hurricane. The storm creates conditions that allow sharks to roam freely and

Jensen Ackles rarely shares life updates on social media, so his recent post drew attention: he posted a "Thank You" video as filming wrapped on the first season of the WWII-era prequel Vought Rising. While waiting for a team of five to help him get into his tight

Saber Interactive blends its World War Z and MudRunner experience in John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, a cooperative zombie-killing game that pairs gunplay with muddy vehicle traversal. The game can be clunky and chaotic and lacks the elegance of peers like Left 4 Dead, but it’s a surprisingly fun

This best picture race is full of ambitious ideas and big swings: a Trump-baiting sanctuary city saga, a continent-crossing Jewish picaresque fantasy, a Brazilian B-movie-tinged paranoid period thriller, a loopy alien-invasion conspiracy headtrip, a giant roaring motorsport epic, monsters, vampires, railroad-building, Shakespeare — and a drama about an actor’s daddy

A few years ago at GDC I played an early Mina the Hollower demo and came away frustrated: clumsy controls, opaque objectives and punishing difficulty made it feel like nostalgia run thin. This year’s demo on Nintendo Switch 2, guided by a Yacht Club developer, felt like a different

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller began in animation with 2009's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and have returned to the medium repeatedly. Their most ambitious recent work is the Spider-Verse franchise, a visual feast that combines different animation styles to convey multiple alternate universes and versions of

Carolina Reyes, known online as Carol the Warrior, has died at 23 after battling cancer. Her family announced her passing in an Instagram statement: "It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our warrior. She was a warrior, a brilliant person and a human being who

A24’s Undertone centers on a mysterious set of audio files that pull podcasters Evy (Nina Kiri) and Justin (Adam DiMarco) into contact with a predatory paranormal force. The film layers familiar creepypasta elements—a creepy doll, a cursed viral video, unnerving stick-figure drawings and an eerie figurine that appears