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Shia LaBeouf returns to Mardi Gras after jail release

Shia LaBeouf returned to Mardi Gras celebrations immediately after his recent arrest, leaving jail by Tuesday morning after being charged with two counts of simple battery following a brawl. Shortly after his release he ripped off a wristband, told a paparazzo "leave me alone, bro" and broke into

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Steam Next Fest hasn't begun, but Titanium Court's demo is already out

I spent roughly 90 minutes with Titanium Court on a Steam Deck and came away surprised at how quickly it grabbed me. The match-three core pulls you in, but the game keeps revealing layers that push it beyond a simple puzzler. The Low Tide phase has you spending resources to

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Fish locations in Heartopia

Fishing in Heartopia is a lucrative hobby: you can sell the fish you catch or cook them first for greater profit. As you raise your fishing level, more species appear around the island and new passive abilities become available. To fish, approach a fish-shaped shadow, cast your line onto it,

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Netflix casts Mckenna Grace as Daphne in live-action Scooby-Doo

Mckenna Grace has been cast as Daphne Blake in Netflix's live-action Scooby-Doo series, an eight-episode reimagining of the Mystery Inc. origin aimed at a young adult audience. Announced in early 2025, the project comes from producers of Riverdale and is the first casting revealed; the rest of Mystery

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Ari Aster’s Eddington Finds Streaming Audience After Box Office Flop

Eddington, written and directed by Ari Aster, is a contemporary Western starring Pedro Pascal alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. Set in May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film centers on a standoff between a small-town sheriff and a mayor that sparks a powder keg. A24

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Witcher story lead says surprise ending was 'a mistake'

Artur Ganszyniec, the lead story designer of the original Witcher RPG, recently completed a full playthrough of the game he helped create nearly 20 years ago, documented across 26 separate episodes on YouTube. At the end of it all, he revealed that the game's epic, out-of-nowhere ending wasn&

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Player sleeps 1,000 years in Stardew Valley, breaks Switch

Stardew Valley opens with a letter from your grandfather and a ranch meant to reconnect you with nature. One player took a different approach: over three weeks they left their Nintendo Switch running to see what would happen if the protagonist slept for 1,000 in-game years. Redditor Holozard started

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Apple TV's Severance Expansion Plan Could Undermine the Show

Apple has acquired the rights to Severance, the series it has hosted since its 2022 premiere. The first two seasons were produced in partnership with indie studio Fifth Season, and the acquisition cost Apple around $70 million. Fifth Season will remain on board as executive producers. Season 3 is still

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Clint Eastwood in the WWII Epic Where Eagles Dare

Clint Eastwood’s long career includes a striking turn in Brian G. Hutton’s 1968 World War II adventure Where Eagles Dare, in which he plays Lieutenant Morris Schaffer, a terse, menacing American serving on a British commando led by Major Jonathan Smith (Richard Burton). The squad is tasked with

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Swim, soak and switch off at an off-grid cabin in the Scottish Borders

The tiny off-grid cabin, built of repurposed oak, sits beside a private lochan with a separate cedar sauna, a cold outdoor shower, a sunken hot tub and a jetty fitted with two hammocks and paddleboards. It felt more like Finland or Sweden than a sheep and deer farm in the

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How Baelor's Death Rewrites the Targaryen Line

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms keeps its focus on character, but the fifth episode, "In the Name of the Mother," stages a moment with far-reaching consequences: Prince Baelor Targaryen, Hand of the King and heir to the Iron Throne, is killed defending Ser Duncan the Tall during

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The Owl House Returns as a New Graphic Novel

Fans of the Disney Channel fantasy whose third season was compressed into a three-part event are getting more: an original graphic novel that expands the world rather than just serving as commemorative merchandise. On X (formerly Twitter), creator Dana Terrace shared new art and called the announcement something the team

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Klay Thompson gifts Megan Thee Stallion a $200K baby-blue Bentley

Klay Thompson celebrated Megan Thee Stallion’s 31st birthday by gifting her a baby-blue Bentley. A Bentley dealership — not the one Thompson purchased the vehicle from — identified the car as a Mulsanne model with a price tag of around $200,000. Bentley stopped making the Mulsanne in 2020, when original

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Haley McGee on her global hit Age Is a Feeling

In the summer of 2024 Haley McGee was performing Age Is a Feeling at a Toronto festival when a baby’s cry changed the evening. Newly pregnant, she found herself imagining the newborn and its family as the audience for her monologue about life, death and getting older, later picturing

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Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 Tops 317,900,000 Viewing Hours

Netflix's latest figures show Season 4, Part 1 of Bridgerton was watched for more than 300 million hours in just three weeks, totaling roughly 317,900,000 hours worldwide. Only four episodes of the latest season are available so far. The show was the second-most-popular TV title last

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Dwayne Johnson Wraps Production on Next Jumanji Film

Dwayne Johnson confirmed on Instagram that production on the next Jumanji movie has officially wrapped. He helped relaunch the franchise in 2017 with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which grossed $960 million against a $90 million budget, and returned for a sequel two years later that cost $35 million more

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Jason Priestley tumbles through SNL's 'Figure Skating Cold Open'

When Jason Priestley hosted Saturday Night Live on February 15, 1992, he took the ice as Brian Demming, a young skater competing at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. The sketch opens with commentators Verne Lundquist (Phil Hartman) and Scott Hamilton (Dana Carvey) setting high expectations for Demming's

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Tommy Lee Jones' daughter Victoria's cause of death revealed

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in San Francisco ruled Victoria Jones' death an accident, listing the cause as the toxic effects of cocaine. She was found unresponsive on the 14th floor of the Fairmont San Francisco Hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day. A

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Mewgenics sells 1 million copies in one week; creators 'blindsided'

Just one week after release, Mewgenics has sold more than one million copies. Tyler Glaiel announced the milestone on X with a fan-made image by artist Whom, and co-creator Edmund McMillen retweeted the post. Glaiel shared some context on wishlists and sales, saying the game had roughly 400,000 wishlists

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The 10 Greatest Heist Thrillers of the 21st Century, Ranked

The heist thriller remains one of cinema’s enduring pleasures: a blend of precision, timing, misdirection and the intoxicating fantasy of outsmarting the system. In the best examples, stealing is rarely the point; what matters is how the theft reframes power—who plans, who improvises and who realizes too late

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Readers Respond: 11 More Transcendent Beatles Covers by Black Musicians

Last week a 13-track playlist of favorite Beatles covers by Black musicians prompted readers to write in with their own desert-island picks. The responses were so numerous and passionate that a sequel playlist was assembled entirely from readers’ recommendations, accompanied by short notes explaining why each choice resonated. The selections

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Shia LaBeouf Charged With Battery in New Orleans

Shia LaBeouf was charged with two counts of simple battery in New Orleans on Tuesday after reportedly assaulting two people, the police said. Around 12:45 a.m., authorities were called to Royal Street in the French Quarter following reports of an assault. Investigators said LaBeouf, 39, had caused a

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Robert Duvall Didn’t Mind Clashing With Directors

Robert Duvall, who died on Sunday at 95, believed a less-is-more approach to directing and often said, 'Get out of my way.' He argued that the best directors direct least so actors can bring their own temperament to a role. 'Actors draw on what they know,'

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TV, It’s Not Just for Humans Anymore

Videos made for pets have become a noticeable part of the online landscape. In one household the most-watched clip is footage of a strand of yarn being dragged across the screen by TV BINI, an hourlong video scored with birdsong that the author's cat Goose returns to repeatedly.

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10 Thriller Movie Masterpieces With Great Acting, Ranked

I always return to thrillers when I want to feel something real — not loud excitement, but a quiet tension where danger sits inside the characters and every pause or avoided answer matters. Over time I noticed the thrillers that linger are those carried almost entirely by performances: the moments actors