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Favorite part of Japan trip was not Tokyo; it was small town of Hakone

A highlight of my family's visit to Japan was Hakone, a town I had not heard of before this trip. To simplify planning, I booked a family tour through Intrepid Travel that went to Tokyo and Kyoto, but the tour also brought us to the quaint, quirky mountain

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Best Marathon faction upgrades and how to unlock them

The best Marathon faction upgrades add noticeable boosts to your stats and make some of the best gear in the game easier to access. Many upgrades unlock essential consumables and Implants in the Marathon Armory, letting you buy core loadout items or obtain them for free to lessen the sting

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I'm an American who studied in China: cheaper and set me up for success

I studied at universities in both the US and China, first in 2015 and again in 2025. I completed an undergraduate degree in political science at a state university in New York and studied abroad in Wuhan during the summer of 2015. Ten years later I returned to Shijiazhuang while

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor adds Demolisher class in Heavy Duty expansion

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has earned a strong reputation as one of the best autoshooters to follow in the wake of Vampire Survivors, blending Deep Rock Galactic’s mining mechanics with the power curve of Poncle’s action roguelike. Reviewer Robin Valentine gave the game a score of 90, calling

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Inside Broadway's Lost Boys musical

Vampire musicals are having a moment: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is dominating awards talk, AMC will release an Interview with the Vampire spin-off in June, and previews begin March 27 for The Lost Boys on Broadway. The show’s writers, David Hornsby and Chris Hoch, say they examined what has

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Daredevil: Born Again season 2 TV spot shows New Yorkers push back on Kingpin

A new Daredevil: Born Again season 2 TV spot gives a quick glimpse of what Matt Murdock means when he says he’s taking the city back from “Mayor” Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin. The clip shows New Yorkers behind police barriers pushing back against Fisk’s oppressive new order. One

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1348 Ex Voto Draws Conspiracy Over Italian Video Game Tax Relief

1348 Ex Voto, a third-person action-adventure from Sedleo published by Dear Villagers, launched on March 12 and currently holds a Metacritic score of 54 alongside a user score of 1.1. The sharp divide in ratings has been fuelled by an online backlash focused on the presence of lesbian romance

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Enchanted by her painting — we never spoke, then 55 years later

In 1961, at a primary school in north London, our teacher asked the class to paint a galleon. My effort was what you’d expect from a 10-year-old, but when I came in the next day I found it on the wall and, beside it, a Spanish galleon rendered in

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Cameron and Bigelow Nearly Brought X‑Men to the Screen

James Cameron once tried to assemble an X‑Men movie in the 1980s and ’90s, a stalled project that resurfaced in a 2012 panel by long‑time X‑Men writer Chris Claremont. Cameron was attached as a producer with then‑wife Kathryn Bigelow set to direct; Claremont described Bob Hoskins

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Why Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler Keep Collaborating

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's creative partnership has produced five films, and their latest, Sinners, earned a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, including an Actor in a Leading Role nod for Jordan for his dual role as twin brothers Smoke and Stack. On The Tonight Show in

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Christopher Walken gives his creepiest performance in The Comfort of Strangers

Christopher Walken’s gift for the movie monologue is on full display in The Comfort of Strangers, a discomfiting 1991 psychological thriller directed by Paul Schrader and written by Harold Pinter from a novel by Ian McEwen. Walken plays Robert, a white‑suited Italian sophisticate who lives in Venice with

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Egg Adventures, Trash Bandits, And Waking Nightmares: 5 Neat Indies

As nice as that taste of spring was, one more round of winter weather gives many of us one last excuse to stay inside for a day. From egg adventures to waking nightmares, why not nestle up with something small, strange, and uncanny with a few indie gems from the

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This 3-Part Horror Sleeper Hit Is the Ultimate Weekend Binge Before Season 4

Now is the perfect time to dive into the highly underrated, nightmarish horror series From before it returns for Season 4. The MGM+ original, created and showrun by John Griffin, follows a desperate group of survivors stranded in a mysterious, remote town they cannot escape, where strange and deadly creatures

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Matt Damon Steals SNL Oscar Host Auditions with Two Impressions

Back in 2018, Matt Damon appeared in a pretaped "Oscar Host Auditions" sketch on Saturday Night Live. The ensemble bit gave each member of the Season 44 cast a moment to showcase celebrity impressions, and Damon emerged as the standout with two unforgettable turns. He transformed into an

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Simpsons showrunner says 'never say never' on Hit & Run revival

Matt Selman, a longtime Simpsons writer and the show's current showrunner, told People "never say never" to a revival of Simpsons: Hit & Run. He noted that the love for Hit & Run is clear. At the same time, Selman said he is somewhat perplexed by

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My mother’s best advice: talk to your children like old friends

One summer I sat on the washing machine while my mother told me the best thing about having children: she said she’d always had a little friend. For me and my sister there were two friends. Divorced and largely on her own, she took us to galleries, to the

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The Most Criminally Forgotten Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

When people list great science fiction, names like Star Wars, Alien and The Matrix often come up first. Still, a baker’s dozen of worthy films have slipped from the conversation and deserve renewed attention. Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special follows Roy (Michael Shannon), his friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and Roy’

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Why Timothée Chalamet May Have Lost Oscar Lead to Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan pulled into the lead for Best Actor after winning two prizes at the Actor Awards on March 1 for Sinners, including Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Outstanding Performance by a Cast. The wins moved him up on betting markets such as

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Hannah Gadsby: The Obamas watched Nanette as a family

Hannah Gadsby recently released a free standup special, Woof!, in which she performs as a homemade sock puppet. She says she grew tired of being seen and that much standup is now background noise, so she chose to record an album rather than film the whole thing. The puppet was

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Karl Urban’s 2011 Vampire Epic Priest Is Now Streaming Free on Tubi

Priest, released theatrically in 2011, stars Paul Bettany as a warrior priest who must rescue his niece from an evil vampire. The film blends cyberpunk elements and sci‑fi Western tropes, features an animated sequence directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, and was helmed by Scott Stewart, who drew inspiration from John

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8 Game-Changing K-Dramas That Totally Rewrite Genre Rules

Phrases like "K-dramas" and "game-changing" have long gone hand in hand. The K-drama landscape has dramatically transformed over the past decade because certain shows dared to break the rules established for them; essential 2000s titles reached international viewers and helped actors become global superstars, paving the

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59 Years Ago a 1967 Beatles Hit Reached No. 1 in Nine Countries

1967 was an eventful year for The Beatles. The first half saw the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and in August their manager Brian Epstein died. Their first release after his death was the song 'Hello, Goodbye', recorded and issued quickly in November

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Landman edges out Marshals on Paramount+ Top 10

When Marshals launched, it was supposed to feel like the next big Yellowstone-adjacent event — a network-friendly, Kayce Dutton-led expansion that would keep Taylor Sheridan's TV machine rolling. The problem is that streaming charts are not always impressed by the plan. On Paramount+’s Top 10 for March 11,

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Ridley Scott's 4-Part WWII Sci-Fi Favorite Takes Over a New Streamer

The Man in the High Castle, executive-produced by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K. Dick’s novel, imagines an alternate reality in which Germany and Japan won World War II. The series ran for four seasons from 2015 to 2019, unfolding in a retro‑futuristic, 1960s‑inspired world shaped

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A 60s folk band helped me find my place in Britain

I was 15, awkward and unsure, feeling perpetually in-between: half-white, half-black; half-British, half-Caribbean. One night in 2008 my dad took me to see Pentangle at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank. I must have stood out in the crowd, but when I stepped out of that concert