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From Sundance Director to Head of Film Forum

Tabitha Jackson, 55, took over as the new director of Film Forum in Manhattan on Monday. She first fell in love with movies as a girl in a village in rural England, and her film career later led her to run the Sundance Film Festival from 2020 to 2022, guiding

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Travel writer says Puerto Vallarta is more than its worst moments

Travel writer Meagan Drillinger has made Puerto Vallarta her home base for the last five years. After cartel violence in Jalisco this week, videos of burning cars and buildings, shuttered storefronts, canceled flights into Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, and orders to shelter in place left residents and tourists frightened. From

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The Miniature Wife: Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen Lead Peacock Series

Peacock will premiere The Miniature Wife this spring. Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen star in the new Peacock Original dramedy, which is based on the short story by Manuel Gonzales and comes from Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner (Goliath, Boardwalk Empire). The series follows married couple Lindy and Les after

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Savannah Guthrie offers $1M reward as search for her mother enters day 24

Savannah Guthrie and her family are offering up to $1 million for information that leads to the safe return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who has been missing for 24 days in a suspected kidnapping. The family said the reward is intended to “help stimulate or further incentivize” a lead

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Reggie Dinkins Is Not Based on a Real Person

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, executive produced by Tina Fey and co-created by Robert Carlock and Sam Means, stars Tracy Morgan as the disgraced former NFL star. The mockumentary-style sitcom also features Daniel Radcliffe, Erika Alexander and Bobby Moynihan, and follows Reggie after he is caught gambling on

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Brooks Nader celebrates her birthday in daring dress made of miles of sparkly string

Brooks Nader hosted her friends and family for a birthday trip to St. Barts this past week. The Sports Illustrated model rang in her 29th birthday and posted a slideshow of images from her trip on Instagram, chronicling the festive week away. The collection began with a bang: Nader wore

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Arc Raiders patch makes Rocketeers key to crafting Wolfpacks

A single line in the Shrouded Sky update changes how players obtain the Wolfpack: "Wolfpack - Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting cost." The Wolfpack is Arc Raiders' most valuable grenade—a get-out-of-trouble-now ripcord that one-shots or cripples the most troublesome Arc, has good range, and locks

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Mike Flanagan's 'Midnight Club' set Guinness World Record for jump scares

The Midnight Club is a 10-episode Netflix horror series created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong. Its first episode, "The Final Chapter," directed by Flanagan, runs 58 minutes and contains 21 jump scares, the most in a single television episode and enough to earn a Guinness World Record.

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Any of These 10 Movies Could Be the Best Musical Film

Nothing says Hollywood quite like the movie musical. The arrival of sound in film sparked an explosion of musicals, with the genre peaking in the 1930s and 1940s; among hundreds of entries, a handful endure for their catchy numbers, originality, emotional weight, and place in cinema history. Miloš Forman’s

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Trash Pokémon deserve love, too

I like the trash Pokémon. Not the dippy grinning ice cream cone or the Bread Dog. I mean the actual trash Pokémon, the ones made of sludge and refuse and municipal negligence. They include Grimer, Muk, Trubbish, Garbodor, Koffing and Weezing. A look at their Pokedex entries shows how different

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Today Is the Perfect Day to Revisit Twin Peaks

The pilot of Twin Peaks opens with local fisherman Pete Martell finding the wrapped body of Laura Palmer on a beach, a discovery that pulls FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper into a small Washington town on Feb. 24. Now streaming on Paramount+, the series mixes murder mystery, neo-noir and surrealist

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10 Most Unsettling Movies of All Time, Ranked

The topic here is unsettling movies. A film can be unsettling without necessarily being a horror movie — examples like Whiplash or Uncut Gems demonstrate that — but the most unsettling entries tend to be works of horror. This list ranks ten films that get under the skin in different ways. Some

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Louvre Director Resigns After Crown Jewels Heist

Laurence des Cars, the Louvre’s first female president, resigned on Tuesday, less than five months after a high-profile theft raised questions about the museum’s security. She submitted her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, who appointed her in 2021; the president’s office said he accepted it as “an

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One Detail That Makes Hereditary Even More Terrifying

Hereditary is often called one of the most frightening horror films of the last decade, thanks to its disturbing visuals, dark themes and powerful performances that marked Ari Aster's debut. Beneath those elements lies a darker thread: the Graham family’s lack of agency and the way they

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Connor Storrie to Host SNL After Breakout Role in Heated Rivalry

Saturday Night Live returns to New York on February 28, 2026, with Connor Storrie making his hosting debut. He has not publicly performed comedy before, and this will be his first time headlining the live show. Storrie shot to prominence four months after the premiere of the Canadian hockey drama

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Martin Short's daughter, Katherine, dead by apparent suicide at 42

Katherine Hartley Short, 42, died Monday in an apparent suicide, a representative for her father confirmed Tuesday. "It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short," the statement said. "The Short family is devastated by this loss, and asks for privacy at

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Beyond the Woods expands from D&D 5e to Legend in the Mist

Last year, Old Oak Games founder Emmet Byrne raised $200,000 on Kickstarter to produce Beyond the Woods, a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition setting that draws on Irish folklore and the fallen world of Elden Ring. The digital version will be released next month, and Byrne has already begun

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Rebel artist Rose Wylie at 91: still painting till 3am

The Royal Academy is billing Rose Wylie as a "rebel artist" and, at 91, she still finds plenty to rebel against. Astonishingly, hers is the first solo show by a British woman to occupy all the academy's main galleries. Her giant canvases — bold colours, painted texts

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‘The Madison’ Trailer Reveals Taylor Sheridan Series Starring Kurt Russell

Taylor Sheridan is offering what he calls his most "intimate" work yet with The Madison, a six-part drama starring Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer that arrives on streaming next month. Paramount+ has released the official trailer for the standalone Yellowstone follow-up and will premiere the first three episodes

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Win Tickets to an Early L.A. Screening of Protector with Milla Jovovich Q&A

Magenta Light Studios is offering Los Angeles an early screening of Protector, with Milla Jovovich appearing for an onstage Q&A after the film. The advanced screening takes place Tuesday, March 3 at the Lanmark Sunset Theatre, with the movie beginning at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Adrian

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10 Greatest Movie Masterpieces of 1979, Ranked

1979 marked the end of what the piece calls the greatest decade in Hollywood history and laid the groundwork for the industry’s obsession with blockbusters in the ’80s. Many releases that year reflected that shift; films such as Moonraker, Rocky II, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Black

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Reba McEntire Shares Adorable Baby Photo for Son Shelby's 36th Birthday

Reba McEntire marked her son Shelby Blackstock's 36th birthday on February 23 by posting four Instagram photos, including a never-before-seen picture of her holding him as a baby. She wrote, "Seems like yesterday when our journey started together. Happy Birthday, Shelby! Love you with all my heart.

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Margot Robbie wears this $6 lip tint in 'Wuthering Heights'

Margot Robbie sported flushed cheeks and a rosy lip look in most scenes from "Wuthering Heights." The film's head makeup artist, Siân Miller, relied on the $6 Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm on set to avoid noticeable lip lines. The hydrating, "your lips

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Arc Raiders players report huge UFOs soaring across the sky

The Shrouded Sky update has arrived in Arc Raiders. Embark added a hurricane map condition, two new Arc enemies and a number of balancing changes—and some players are spotting a UFO in the shrouded skies: a broad aircraft with a W-shaped silhouette that emits a pair of blue energy

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New Evangelion Series to Be Written by Nier Director Yoko Taro

A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series was announced during the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and Yoko Taro, the director of the Nier series, will write the script. Details are scarce: nothing is known about whether the story will take place before, during, or after the original series. The Rebuild films