The 1980s produced many classics that remain well known, but the decade also yielded quieter films that have slipped from the public memory. Some of these were critically — and in a few cases commercially — successful at the time, and many sit alongside better-remembered works by major filmmakers. My Dinner with

Friday’s box office offered a reminder that audiences still turn out for romance. The Colleen Hoover adaptation "Reminders of Him" took the No. 1 spot, raking in $8 million on its opening night, Box Office Mojo shows. The film follows Maika Monroe as Kenna, a mother trying

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting a new extraction-style mode that takes players out of the game's usual shadowy, industrial interiors and into a wide-open map. Roaming patrols of enemies will require a different approach to the close-quarters horde combat the game is known for, and radiation and

Double features began as a marketing gimmick—two tickets for the price of one—but curating them has become an art. A good pairing can feel like a playlist or a wine match: films that complement one another or contrast to bring out new shades in each. These ten pairings

In the middle of the night I feel the warm breath of a creature stirring my hair. It's too dark to see anything, but I know from experience that the dog is standing by the bed, chin resting on the mattress next to my head, gently exhaling into

Fantasy series often demand a major time commitment, with sprawling mythologies, large ensembles, and seasons that stretch for years. Yet some shows deliver immersive, emotionally satisfying stories without asking for months of viewing. There are plenty of compact fantasies—supernatural mysteries, gothic dramas, whimsical comedies, and striking animations—that prove

In the middle of the whirlwind of premieres, packed panels and late-night concerts at South by Southwest, some of the festival’s biggest personalities paused long enough to strike a pose. Photographer Benjamin Trivett captured portraits of Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer, Gaten Matarazzo and Finn Wolfhard, Danny DeVito, Barbie

Pretty Lethal sets a troupe of teen ballerinas in a rundown Hungarian bar where they must fight a vicious mob boss to survive. The cast includes Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, Avantika, Iris Apatow, Maddie Ziegler and Uma Thurman, and the film wears its exploitation-movie inspirations on its sleeve — yet it

Costume designer Jean-Pierre Dorléac named several stars he described as difficult, singling out Kirstie Alley, Shannen Doherty and Patrick Macnee. He called Alley "very crude and very brassy and coarse, irresponsible, never on time, a mess, a constant mess," and said she sweated because she drank while playing

Dev Patel headlines Hotel Mumbai, a dramatization of the November 26, 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel that follows both staff and guests as the siege unfolds. The ensemble cast also includes Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Jason Isaacs and Natasha Liu Bordizzo. An Australian production, the

Sam Prebble, the creator known for Turbo Overkill, has remade his long-running Total Chaos Doom mod as a premium first-person game. Rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5 and released on Steam in November, the project expands the original with several new chapters while preserving the mod’s grungy survival-horror core. The

Misfits takes science fiction to an unexpected place: a London council estate populated by a group of rowdy teenagers. That unlikely mix of setting and tone turned the show into one of the most memorable genre offerings of the late 2000s, and it makes for an easy weekend binge. After

John Cena is one of the few wrestlers who has successfully made the jump to Hollywood. Like most wrestlers-turned-actors, his first role was the military thriller The Marine, which is now available to stream for free on Tubi. Cena stars as former U.S. Marine John Triton, who is struggling

Oprah Winfrey said her so-called "90-year-old walk" at Paris Fashion Week was simply because she couldn’t see. She recalled people online mocking her and Gayle King, and added, "I didn’t know where I was walking, I could not see." She said she told security,

I've been craving a good open-city game like the ones that arrived so often in the Xbox 360 era. Grand Theft Auto 6 is due later this year, but I'm after something more arcadey and knockabout—think Watch Dogs or Sleeping Dogs. I hoped MindsEye would

Picking between Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's two endings is gut-wrenching for players, and for lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen it's akin to choosing "my favorite child." When asked if she had a preferred ending in an interview at the Game Developers Conference 2026, Svedberg-Yen joked