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The Secret Agent to Mitski: this week’s best reviews

Highlights across TV, film, books and music include a Newsnight interview with Gisèle Pelicot, Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, Michael Pollan’s exploration of consciousness and a new album from Mitski. If you only watch one, make it Gisèle Pelicot: The Newsnight Interview. Summed up in a sentence: “A

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Neil Flynn, Christa Miller Set to Reprise 'Scrubs' Roles for Season 10

ABC is set to release Scrubs Season 10, the first new episodes of the comedy since 2010. The revival picks up after Season 8 and ignores Season 9, bringing the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital back into action. Neil Flynn and Christa Miller will return to the series. Flynn reprises

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10 Animated Movies That No One Remembers but Are Worth Rediscovering

It’s staggering how many films have been made since the dawn of cinema, and many animated features still fly under the radar. Some are lost to time through disasters or simply go unnoticed at release, yet animation’s timelessness means these movies can be picked up years later and

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Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis tour Upper East Side apartment

Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis were pictured touring an apartment on the Upper East Side on Friday. The Park Avenue co-op was built in 1925 and has 16 stories, a doorman, a basketball court, wine cellars and a concierge. Aniston wore a black coat, gray scarf, baggy jeans and glasses,

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Ubisoft made an Avatar game the world has forgotten

Avatar: The Game arrived on the cusp of Ubisoft's imperial phase, not long after Far Cry 2 and Assassin's Creed II. It feels like a holdover from an earlier era when licensed movie tie-ins were produced on tight budgets and Hollywood schedules. The contrast shows: Ryder&

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Ify Nwadiwe wants Henry Cavill to nerd out about Warhammer on Um, Actually

Over more than ten seasons, Dropout’s trivia show Um, Actually has welcomed a steady stream of high-profile nerds. Host Ify Nwadiwe says he’s still hunting for more familiar faces, from a Meltdown couch featuring Emily Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, and Jonah Ray to longtime friend Ron Funches, whose schedule

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Ready or Not 2 directors say sequel brought more pressure than Scream

Taking over the Scream franchise after creator Wes Craven's passing might seem like the scarier task, but directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin say returning to the Ready or Not franchise was far more nerve‑wracking than making Scream 5 or 6. "We love the first movie.

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Mindhunter: Fincher’s two-season crime drama still stands out

David Fincher has long been drawn to the study of criminal behavior, with films such as Se7en, Zodiac, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl offering stark portraits of killers. He helped establish Netflix’s early prestige television with House of Cards, and four years later created Mindhunter,

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‘The Dreadful’ Review: A Knight in Frightening Armor

Natasha Kermani’s The Dreadful reunites Sophie Turner and Kit Harington after Game of Thrones and faintly tugs at one strand of an interesting idea: the hard fact of hunger. The film is a deeply silly horror fable haunted by an ominous knight. Marcia Gay Harden plays Morwen, a dour,

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Hilary Duff responds to Ashley Tisdale's 'toxic mom group' essay

Hilary Duff spoke about Ashley Tisdale’s viral essay in which Tisdale wrote that she left a mom friend group after it became toxic. Duff said the scrutiny is familiar: “I mean, this is not new for me. I’ve had this since I was maybe 15 and starting to

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Balatro creator reflected on dropping out to make games

Even two years after release, Balatro remains one of the biggest and best roguelikes, and its creator LocalThunk has kept a low profile despite the game selling millions of copies and scoring crossover after crossover. In an anniversary blog post titled "Bad Grades," LocalThunk looked back on his

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‘Shoresy’ Review: Heated (Brotherly) Rivalry

The fifth season of the oddball Canadian comedy "Shoresy" has its U.S. premiere on Saturday on Hulu. The show has an intimate relationship with "Heated Rivalry": both series originated on the Canadian service Crave, and Jacob Tierney, who created "Heated Rivalry," is a

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Pokemon Poke-nade lets you pet Pikachu - still Japan-only

Takara Tomy and Pokémon released the Poke-nade Monster Ball in Japan in October 2025. Unlike most Tamagotchi-style toys that show a pixelated creature on a tiny screen, this device lets you simulate petting Pikachu by rubbing the top of its Poke Ball exterior. It remains available only in Japan, though

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The ’90s Sci‑Fi Hit The Fifth Element Returns to Theaters

When George Lucas had not yet returned with the prequel trilogy, Hollywood’s sci‑fi landscape left room for another big hit. Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element arrived in the mid‑1990s and quickly became one of the most controversial — and talked‑about — sci‑fi films of its era,

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Neuromancer: Apple TV+ Brings Gibson's Cyberpunk to Life

Apple TV+ is adapting William Gibson’s Neuromancer, with J.D. Dillard directing and Graham Roland showrunning. The series stars Callum Turner and Briana Middleton, with Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard among the cast. Filming began in January 2025 to mark the novel’s 41st anniversary, and production spans Tokyo,

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23 Years Later, Dwayne Johnson’s Cult Buddy Comedy Is Moving to a New Streamer

The Rundown, a 2003 buddy action comedy starring Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson, will begin streaming on Starz in the U.S. on March 1, 2026. Critics gave the film a 69% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site saying, "The Rundown doesn'

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Kate Walsh mourns 'Grey's Anatomy' co-star Eric Dane

Kate Walsh penned a tribute on Instagram after the death of her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Eric Dane, writing, “I’m at a loss for words to try to express the sadness around Eric’s passing.” She said she was thinking first and foremost of his girls and Rebecca and

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Balatro's long-awaited 1.1 update is still in the works

LocalThunk, the mostly solo developer behind Balatro, says he is still working on the game's long-awaited 1.1 release — a major gameplay update. He confirms this in a new blog post mainly dedicated to his game dev origins, which he closes with: "Happy 2nd birthday, Balatro. P.

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Marcus Mumford: ‘Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife’

Born in California, Marcus Mumford, 39, formed the band Mumford & Sons in 2007. Two years later they released the Brit award-winning debut Sigh No More, which included the song Little Lion Man. In 2013, Babel won album of the year at the Grammys, and in 2025 the band had

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Predator: Badlands Director Used 2009 Star Trek as His 'North Star'

Predator: Badlands has topped streaming charts and recently became available to stream on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ in international markets. Director Dan Trachtenberg said the 2009 Star Trek movie was a major influence on his approach to the film. “The opening sequence of Trek 09 is absolutely

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Margot Robbie's 180-Minute Breakout The Wolf of Wall Street Arrives on Starz

Martin Scorsese's three-hour The Wolf of Wall Street arrives on Starz from March 1. The 180-minute crime epic holds a 79% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics' consensus reads, "Funny, self-referential, and irreverent to a fault, The Wolf of Wall Street finds Martin Scorsese and

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Zelda’s 40th anniversary highlights four decades of reinvention

An artist can’t possibly know the long-term impact their work will have when they first unveil it. On Feb. 21, 1986, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda in Japan, and now, as the series marks its 40th anniversary, that early gamble has become a defining story in video games.

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Arc Raiders devs embrace self-described sheriffs in PvP

Embark Studios says Arc Raiders has cultivated a variety of roleplaying communities, among them self-described sheriffs who dispense what they call justice in online lobbies. Design director Virgil Watkins told PC Gamer about a roaming group of Stella Montis sheriffs who pounce on suspected PvP aggressors. They do not always

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Glen Powell's Breakout Role in Scream Queens

In recent years Glen Powell has felt inescapable, whether holding his own with Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, sparking chemistry with Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You, or standing out in Twisters. On the small screen, the Netflix movie Hit Man and the Hulu series Chad Powers helped reinforce

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Netflix’s 6-Part Spy Thriller Is the Streaming Hit Nobody Predicted

Netflix’s six-episode spy thriller Unfamiliar has emerged as an unexpected streaming success, finding a spot on the platform’s global charts despite heavy competition from other espionage shows. Tom Hiddleston returned after a decade to star in the second season of The Night Manager for Prime Video, Emilia Clarke