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New to stream: 28 Years Later, Good Fortune, and more

It’s a very bloody weekend on streaming. Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple offers the second entry in the planned post-apocalyptic trilogy, with a twisted cult leader who believes he’s the son of Satan proving more dangerous than the infected. Spike is forced to join

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Why Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Is 2026’s Most Anticipated Sci‑Film

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is an original idea from the director, with a screenplay by longtime collaborator David Koepp, that explores humanity's discovery that we're not alone. The film's title was revealed in December 2025 ahead of the first teaser; Universal Pictures

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Braveheart Available on Netflix Only Through February

Mel Gibson’s sweeping medieval drama Braveheart premiered in 1995 and went on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Its mud-soaked, bone-crunching battle sequences became instantly iconic and helped shape films from Gladiator to modern fantasy blockbusters. The cast features Gibson as William Wallace alongside

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Conan O'Brien comments on deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner

Conan O’Brien has finally weighed in on the deaths of friends Rob and Michele Reiner, who attended his annual Christmas party in Los Angeles the night before their murders on Dec. 14, 2025. “It’s just so awful,” he told the New Yorker in a newly published interview. “And

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Arc Raiders community shines as stranger escorts downed player for 15 minutes

Arc Raiders' community produced a heartwarming moment when a stranger spent 15 minutes escorting a downed player to a hatch. The companion never spoke, but a timelapse shows them guiding the player and using a Vita Spray when health ran low. The rescued player, Kickflippingdad, said they hadn'

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Todd Howard says Fallout show nearly went to New Vegas in season 1

Fallout game designer Todd Howard says the creators of the Fallout streaming series wanted to visit one of the games' most iconic locations, New Vegas, in season one, but he urged them to wait. Howard recalled that the writers really wanted to go to New Vegas [for Season 2]

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Paige DeSorbo shares her 'everyday, quick' makeup routine

Fresh off NYFW, Paige DeSorbo demonstrated her "everyday, quick" makeup routine on Amazon Live, opting to skip foundation for a minimalist mix of products. "I'm not a 'lot of makeup'-type gal; you're not going to catch me baking," she

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Todd Howard says The Elder Scrolls 6 is "a while" off

Todd Howard told the Kinda Funny Gamescast that the follow-up to Skyrim "won't be out for a while yet." Fans have reacted by joking about hiring body language experts or, more fancifully, throwing Howard into a particle accelerator to get more clarity. Howard has also said

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The Lincoln Lawyer Drops Out of Netflix Global Top Five After Season 4

All episodes of The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 began streaming on Netflix two weeks ago, but the series has already slipped out of the platform's global top five. The show has been renewed for a fifth season, though no release date has been announced. Netflix has positioned The

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John Legend Raps 'Drop It Like It's Hot' at NYC Karaoke Bar

The Coaches of The Voice: Battle of Champions took a night out to Baby Grand in the Lower East Side, and John Legend grabbed the mic to rap Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" on February 19, with fellow Season 29 coach Kelly

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Can Claudia Winkleman conjure chatshow magic?

Claudia Winkleman’s new chatshow lands next month, and she has sounded genuinely thrilled: “I can’t quite believe it and I’m incredibly grateful to the BBC for this amazing opportunity.” Kalpna Patel-Knight called her “a true national treasure – warm, witty and endlessly entertaining,” and Graham Stuart argued a

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Trails boss: 'Just start with whichever title catches your interest'

The Trails series has been running for decades and, across 13 JRPGs, newcomers now face an investment of around 1,000 hours to see the full story. Toshihiro Kondo, producer and president of Nihon Falcom, says players can start pretty much wherever they want, which is technically true if, say,

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Tom Hardy’s The Drop Overtaken by Chris Hemsworth Thriller Crime 101

Crime 101 has reached $30 million worldwide and has surpassed the lifetime grosses of Michael Mann’s Blackhat ($20 million) and Tom Hardy’s 2014 film The Drop ($19 million). It opened to about $15 million and is projected to make roughly $7 million in its second weekend against a

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Stanley Kubrick's final film is streaming free on Tubi

Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, is streaming free with ads on Tubi. Kubrick obtained filming rights for Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Dream Story as early as the 1960s and transposed the novella’s Vienna setting to 1990s New York. The movie follows a married couple (Tom

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3 new to Prime Video movies to watch this weekend (February 21–22)

If you're staying home this weekend or planning a family film night, here are three notable films newly available on Prime Video. The picks travel through the decades, from a recent historical action piece to an early '90s Spielberg entry and the 1968 original of a stylish

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‘Emily — No Prisoner Be’: Kevin Puts Reimagines Dickinson

When Kevin Puts’s song cycle “Emily — No Prisoner Be” had its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, he signaled that this “wasn’t going to be your grandmother’s Emily Dickinson song cycle.” A 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner, Puts assembles roughly two dozen poems into a restive,

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'The Dreadful' review: Turner and Harington reunite in a flawed Gothic horror

Sophie Turner and Kit Harington reunite seven years after Game of Thrones in Natasha Kermani's Gothic horror The Dreadful. Turner plays Anne, who lives with her mother-in-law Morwen (Marcia Gay Harden) as they wait for the return of Anne's husband Seamus; their lives are upended when

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Five Free Movies to Stream Now

Spike Lee’s Crooklyn (1994) is a warm, memory-soaked portrait of a Brooklyn summer, drawn from Lee and his siblings’ childhood. Anchored by Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo and set to a soundtrack of jazz and hip-hop, the film captures family life on a Bedford-Stuyvesant block—its games, fights and

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Vanity Fair halves Oscar party guest list; Trump administration excluded

Vanity Fair has cut its Oscar party guest list by approximately 50 percent. No Trump administration officials have been invited this year. The change comes under new editor Mark Giudicci, who took over in June 2025 and has pared the list to separate the true A-list of moviedom from the

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Thrifty Business demo lets you arrange tiny treasures on cozy shelves

The demo for Thrifty Business is available now, offering a cozy shop sim centred on arranging little items across many shelves. Spellgarden Games, the studio behind Sticky Business, calls it a "laid-back management sim" focused on pixel pushing rather than profit min‑maxing, haggling minigames, or rushing to

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God of War Sons of Sparta review: 2D Metroidvania gives Kratos new depth

God of War Sons of Sparta is a 2D Metroidvania from indie studio Mega Cat rather than Santa Monica. It recasts Kratos as a young adult protagonist on a coming-of-age journey, sending him and his brother Deimos into the wilds to find a missing Spartan, Vasilis. Retro-styled and combat-heavy, it

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League of Legends risks a new circle of MOBA hell with public voice chat

Riot might be adding public voice chat to League of Legends, and as a recovering jungler I think that's a very bad idea. I quit playing League of Legends years ago for my mental health. After many years playing League and Dota 2, I found MOBAs to be

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Wo Hop’s Lunar New Year T-Shirts Are a Coveted Collector’s Item

Some go to Wo Hop, a basement-level Chinese restaurant on Mott Street in Lower Manhattan, for spare ribs and duck lo mein; others go for a seasonal T-shirt. The restaurant has offered Lunar New Year shirts since 2012, selling them for a few months each year, roughly from mid-January through

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Paul McCartney's Most Surprising Collaboration: Inside 'FourFiveSeconds'

Some collaborations stand out as unexpected yet exactly what we didn’t know we needed. In 2015 Paul McCartney, Rihanna, and Kanye West joined on "FourFiveSeconds," a genre-crossing single that met indie rock with folk. The song was a refreshingly bare departure from Rihanna’s usual work—acoustic

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Erika Jayne says she was in an abusive relationship 'not too long ago'

Erika Jayne revealed on the latest episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills that she was a victim of domestic violence. Speaking with Denise Richards and Sutton Stracke, the 54-year-old said the abuse was "not with any of my husbands" and described it as "all water under