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The return of an unbelievable TV hoax

The surprise hit Jury Duty first shocked viewers by convincing one man, Ronald Gladden, he was taking part in an LA courtroom documentary while every other participant was an actor. The stunt played out as warm, kind and genuinely funny, ending with a verdict and a Peabody award for showing

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Free Yourself From The Pressure Of Playing Pokémon Pokopia Wrong

Games like Animal Crossing and the newly released Pokémon Pokopia are meant to be relaxing, but some people play them as if they were competitive esports. Pokopia has been out for less than two weeks, and every day brings another impressive engineering feat while my own Pokémon live in makeshift

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'The Terror' Season 3 Reveals Cast & Release Date

After seven years away, AMC's The Terror returns on May 7. Season 3, titled The Terror: Devil in Silver, stars Dan Stevens. The new season centers on a man imprisoned in a psychiatric facility who must confront both real-world and supernatural forces. The series previously mixed history and

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10 Perfect Classic Rock Albums That Nobody Remembers

That title is hyperbole: if something were truly remembered by no one, it simply wouldn’t be here. The idea of being completely forgotten is bleak, but these albums remain enjoyable and merit another listen. None of the artists listed are massive household names — though even legends such as David

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Ryan Gosling's first role shows him as an alien-abducted child

Ryan Gosling's new movie Project Hail Mary opens March 20. During his March 18 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host and producers showed a clip of his first acting role on the Canadian TV series Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. He described the show

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Taylor Frankie Paul throws chair at Dakota Mortensen in video

Footage released Thursday and obtained by TMZ shows Taylor Frankie Paul hurling multiple chairs at Dakota Mortensen during a 2023 altercation. The clip begins with the "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star attempting to put her ex in a headlock while Mortensen called her actions "physical abuse&

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Jamie Lee Curtis Says She Joined Halloween Without Knowing It Was a Trilogy

Jamie Lee Curtis has been synonymous with Halloween since the franchise began in 1978. She returned as Laurie Strode in Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), and took executive producer credits on all three — her first time in the role since 2002's Halloween: Resurrection. Curtis

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Gerard Butler's 700-Year Thriller In The Hand Of Dante Heads to Netflix

Gerard Butler endured a rough start to the year with Greenland 2: Migration. The Lionsgate sequel cost about $90 million to make but returned roughly $44 million at the box office, marking it as one of the bigger sci‑fi flops of recent memory. He still has several projects lined

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Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked

Dianne Wiest’s film work ranges from baffling curiosities to quietly devastating turns, collected here across 20 roles. The list moves through early supporting parts, comic heights and more somber, quietly rendered performances without losing sight of her knack for finding nuance. Some entries are oddities, like Merci Docteur Rey,

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All battle pass skins in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2's battle pass asks players to choose between Team Foundation or Team Ice King. The pass ties into a new Battle Royale system: pick a side, face rivals and earn credits to spend on in-game items. Otherwise the battle pass works much like last

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Overwatch was once pitched as 'Monetized Shooter', says Jeff Kaplan

Many players have felt conflicted about Overwatch since the hero shooter rebranded to Overwatch 2, then re-rebranded to Overwatch, and after the introduction of the eye-wateringly adorable Jetpack Cat, who also gets banned all the time for being too powerful. It could have been an even bigger mess: ex-Blizzard vice

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Anthony Mackie's $150M Desert Warrior Faces Rocky Release

Anthony Mackie headlines Desert Warrior, a $150 million historical action epic set in seventh-century Arabia. He plays Hanzala opposite Ben Kingsley, Aiysha Hart, Numan Acar and Sharlto Copley in a story about Princess Hind fleeing Emperor Kisra and uniting tribes for the Battle of Ze Qar. The film is directed

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Pretty Lethal review: five ballerinas fight for survival

From writer Kate Freund and director Vicky Jewson, Pretty Lethal opens with a striking image: ballerinas who keep dancing even as bones crunch and blood stains their shoes. The film quickly establishes a mix of beauty and brutality that could give noted ballet skeptic Timothée Chalamet cold sweats. The story

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Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have a bowling date night and more star snaps

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have a date night at Lucky Strike in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively cuddle up in a rare snap while at Wrexham, Wales. Ryan Gosling waves to the cameras while arriving at the “Project Hail Mary” premiere in NYC. Kathryn Newton looks

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Marathon’s storytelling feels straight out of Armored Core 6

An entire civilization vanished seemingly overnight somewhere far away, and in Marathon you’re sent in as a mercenary to find out what happened — not as a hero, but because you’re expendable. Almost everything the game reveals comes through the people paying you: contracts, comms, and corporate middlemen drip-feed

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The Most Chaotic Thriller Movies of All Time

Unpredictability is at the heart of many great thrillers, and some films push that quality to the brink. With breakneck plots and a deluge of complex ideas, these chaotic entries overwhelm disbelief and transport viewers into strange, often unsettling mental landscapes. Decades-old titles still feel as wild as ever, and

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Fort Pierce: A quiet Florida beach town I keep returning to

In 1974 my grandma bought a home in Fort Pierce, where she raised three children and lived for the rest of her life. Her house faced the Indian River, welcoming manatees, pelicans, and other wildlife, and became a second home for my siblings and me after my parents divorced. When

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Whitney Leavitt's secret to strong hair is 25% off on Amazon

Whitney Leavitt, fresh off her reality TV rise and now lighting up the stage as Roxie Hart in "Chicago," credits the Aveda Botanical Repair Strengthening Leave-In Treatment with keeping her hair healthy through it all. The product is currently 25% off on Amazon, and in a YouTube Short

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Marathon fans racing to kill 500 million robots to unlock Cryo Archive

Marathon's upcoming Cryo Archive map is confirmed but its release date remains unclear. The end-game “pinnacle” activity is meant to be tougher than anything players have faced on Tau Ceti IV, and the new location is locked behind an ARG that includes a community task to kill a

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There’s more to Mexican spirits than tequila

Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote that he and his soldiers felt as if they were dreaming when they first beheld the Aztec empire; I felt a similar vertigo confronting the wall of agave spirits at the long-since-closed Los Angeles mezcalería Petty Cash. Agave spirits are distilled from the fermented heart,

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Best Movies About Cleopatra, Ranked

Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt in the 1st Century BC, has inspired countless creative works, from a Shakespeare play to dozens of Hollywood films. The silent era produced a boom in Cleopatra pictures beginning with 1912 and continuing into 1917, shaping the polished look that endures in popular imagination. This

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Ridley Scott Returns With The Terror: Devil in Silver

Ridley Scott’s horror anthology returns with a new season titled The Terror: Devil in Silver. AMC+ and Shudder will premiere it Thursday, May 7, with new episodes released weekly, and the six-episode season will also air on AMC later this year. Scott remains an executive producer, while Chris Cantwell

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Tubi launches Creatorverse Incubator with TikTok creators

Fox-owned streaming service Tubi launched its "Creatorverse Incubator" in partnership with TikTok, offering creators promotions and potential funding to produce original shows exclusively for the platform. The initiative is aimed at younger viewers and at bringing new series to Tubi’s more than 100 million monthly active users.

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Pokémon TCG Pocket adds Mega Shine booster pack in March

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket will get a new booster pack, Mega Shine, on March 25. The set introduces Mega shiny Pokémon to the game for the first time, with Mega Charizard X and Mega Gengar as its headline cards. Shiny Pokémon were added to the app last March and

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Dune 3 show why trailer rollouts shouldn't change

There is something intangibly magic and community-focused about a great movie trailer. In an industry marked by rising ticket prices, endless box office chatter, and ever-more elaborate popcorn buckets, picking apart a new teaser frame-by-frame and sharing the hype with millions still feels special. The rollout for Spider-Man: Brand New