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Geri Halliwell as Barbarella in Soulla Petrou’s early shoot

Soulla Petrou trained in fashion before switching to photography, and in 1994 she turned her attention to music and people. A commission from the music magazine Touch to photograph drum’n’bass DJ General Levy ended up on the cover and led to work with DJ Mag; she also photographed

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How John Lennon's 'More Popular Than Jesus' Remark Upended the Beatles

In March 1966 John Lennon set off one of rock’s most shocking controversies with his remark, “We're more popular than Jesus now,” made during an interview Maureen Cleave wrote for the Evening Standard. The piece, published on March 4, 1966, carried the title "On a hill

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Tom Hanks' 20-Part World War II Series Sets Memorial Day Premiere

Tom Hanks, who has spent more than two decades telling World War II stories, is returning with a new 20-episode documentary series titled World War II with Tom Hanks. The History Channel will launch the series globally in 200 territories and 40 languages, and it will premiere on Memorial Day.

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Barbra Streisand lined up for emotional Oscars performance to pay tribute to old friend

Barbra Streisand is in talks to appear at the Oscars to sing a tribute to Robert Redford. The pair costarred in the 1973 film The Way We Were; Redford died on Sept. 16 at age 89. She would likely perform the film’s title song, which won an Oscar at

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See-Saw Films to Reimagine Ian McShane’s 'Lovejoy'

Premiering in 2022, Apple TV’s Slow Horses has become a streaming standout. Based on Mick Herron’s novels, the series stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the cynical head of Slough House for disgraced MI5 agents, and has tallied five seasons, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a 97% score

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Ryan Gosling Is the Emo Triplet in SNL's 'The Fliplets' Sketch

In Season 43 of Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling stars as Tristan, the odd third member of a triplet in the sketch "The Fliplets." Tristan's brothers Pete (Mikey Day) and Zeke (Alex Moffat) are expert house flippers, while Tristan — who went to live with their dad

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Why Bethenny Frankel refuses to join 'Golden Life' Housewives show

Bethenny Frankel says she is "protecting [her] peace" by staying off E!'s Real Housewives of New York City reboot, Golden Life. She told her Instagram followers that joining the series would not "be good for business," noting it used to help when promoting her

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Control Resonant is more RPG than expected

From its first announcement trailer it was clear Control Resonant wasn't a safe sequel: a new protagonist, a new setting, and a shift from gunplay to melee. A recent behind-the-scenes look revealed another surprise — the game leans heavily into RPG systems. Developers showed The Gap, a surreal space

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Inside the Casting of Sleepers for Its 4K UHD Release

Directed by Barry Levinson and released in the mid-1990s, Sleepers is a based-on-a-true-story crime drama that assembled an ensemble including Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman. Set over a 20-year span from the 1960s to the 1980s, the film follows a group of young boys sent

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From MTV Cribs to The Bachelor Mansion: what reality TV homes reveal about viewers

Houses have long been central to reality TV. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous set a domestic stage in the 1980s that paved the way for MTV Cribs, which a critic called “the most popular architectural media ever.” Cribs’ unhinged house tours — the Ozzy Osbourne episode spun off into The

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Annabel Schofield said she wasn't 'out of the woods' in final Instagram post

Annabel Schofield revealed she wasn’t “out of the woods” with her cancer battle in a heartbreaking Instagram post on Jan. 20, a month before her death. She wrote that after a recent surgery she was “very wobbly and now waiting to find out if I need more chemo or

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Arc Raiders players can ride new Fireflies, but it sends you away

Embark's Shrouded Sky update added new flying enemies to Arc Raiders, and players soon found one in particular can be ridden — a combat drone known as a Firefly. Jumping on top lets you fly around and, in theory, attack from high ground. In practice, at least one player

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Sarah Michelle Gellar's Wolf Pack deserved more than one season

Sarah Michelle Gellar returned to the supernatural with 2023's Wolf Pack, an eight-episode streaming series that built an engaging mystery and left viewers wanting more. The show marked a notable genre revisit for Gellar, who had largely avoided supernatural roles since her brief Angel appearance after Buffy the

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Maya Hawke and Christian Lee Hutson make first outing since wedding

Maya Hawke and Christian Lee Hutson made their first public appearance since becoming husband and wife at the Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert in New York City, where the couple performed together and were photographed cuddling on a backstage couch. Hutson, 35, wore an all-black outfit for the performance,

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Nick Apostolides, Leon Kennedy's voice actor, grew up a Resident Evil superfan

Nick Apostolides says he became a die-hard Resident Evil fan in 1998, after sneaking off to a friend’s house to play the sequel his mother wouldn’t allow. That childhood obsession eventually led him from small horror films and a Hunger Games fan project to the motion-capture and voice

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Pokopia includes a Minecraft-like Redstone mechanic, fans react

Pokopia, the new Pokémon spin-off noted for cozy gameplay, includes a building mechanic that echoes Minecraft's Redstone. During the developer island tour, director Takuto Edagawa showed a creation he said he spent the latter half of 2025 on and demonstrated: "If you step on this, the lights

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The Dark Rites of Arkham: A New Lovecraftian Point-and-Click Adventure

It’s 1932, strange cult activity and ancient gods are whispered about, and Detective Jack Foster finds a decapitated corpse in a locked room. José María Meléndez, working as Postmodern Adventures, has released a third point-and-click after 2022’s Nightmare Frames and 2024’s An English Haunting, continuing his interest

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Christian Bale’s Public Enemies Role Explains Why Heat 2 Makes Sense

The long-running mystery around Heat 2 appears to have narrowed: Christian Bale confirmed that shooting will begin soon, and the project is shaping up as a showdown between Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio, echoing the original film’s pairing of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Bale previously worked with Michael

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Jones Road's mini Miracle Balms are now permanent and arrive in new shades

Jones Road is adding mini Miracle Balms to the permanent collection. As of today, you can buy the minis in 15 colors, including two previously limited-edition shades that are now permanent: Cheeky and Chic. The minis are available individually ($20) or in sets of three ($57) or six ($108). The

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Warner Bros developing Game of Thrones prequel film

Warner Bros is developing a Game of Thrones prequel film set in the world of Westeros. House of Cards showrunner and Andor writer Beau Willimon has been recruited to write the script, adapting George RR Martin’s fantasy series. The project is described as a "Dune-sized feature film"

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Brad Pitt at His Most Terrifying in Kalifornia

Kalifornia emerged from the '90s resurgence of horror and neo-noir as a dark, low-budget thriller that lets Brad Pitt shed his heartthrob image. Directed by Dominic Sena, the film pairs Pitt and Juliette Lewis as a violent couple who upend the cross-country trip of a city-living pair played by

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Annabel Schofield, supermodel and Dallas star, dies at 62

Annabel Schofield, the Welsh-born model and actress, has died at 62. She passed away on Feb. 28 in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer and had graced the covers of Vogue and fronted campaigns for brands such as Yves Saint Laurent. Schofield shared details of her illness on GoFundMe,

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Life is Strange finds perfect actors for Max and Chloe

Prime Video's Life is Strange TV adaptation has cast Tatum Grace Hopkins (Queen of Versailles) as Max Caulfield and Maisy Stella (My Old Ass) as Chloe Price. Hopkins marked the announcement on Instagram, wearing a shirt that many fans instantly recognized as a reference. The series adapts Dontnod&

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'The Matrix 5' Still in the Works, Director Drew Goddard Confirms

A sequel to The Matrix announced in 2024 has been quiet since its debut, but director Drew Goddard says the project is real and currently being written. "[The Matrix 5 is] still in the works. I'm in my writing cave writing. I don't know how

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10 Horror Movies More Disturbing Than 'Hereditary'

Hereditary upended expectations when it arrived, staking a claim as one of the decade’s most unsettling films and helping define the so‑called “elevated” horror trend that followed The Witch and other A24‑adjacent pictures. Its reputation for relentless grief and shock is well earned, but several other horror