Culture

Is Wallace Shawn the Only Avant-Garde Artist Who Gets Stopped in Times Square?

After lunch in a cold December, Wallace Shawn walked across town and, despite his ordinary black parka and wool cap, attracted a ripple of excited energy: giggling fans stopped him in line, stared in open adoration and shouted recognitions like his famous exclamation, “Inconceivable!” He is most commonly recognized for

Culture

James Wan Aims to Make Saw Scary Again

James Wan is returning to the Saw franchise to help steer its next entry and to revisit the qualities that made the 2004 original notable. The first film, directed by Wan and written by and starring Leigh Whannell, introduced a groundbreaking approach to serial-killer and psychological horror and created a

Culture

Bad Bunny’s Key Career Moments

In just a decade Bad Bunny rose from a young upstart to headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, becoming a central figure in Latin music and one of the world’s most streamed artists. He has been outspoken about the second Trump administration’s immigration policies, which brought controversy to

Culture

Slow West, the 84-minute Western, streams free on Pluto TV

Slow West, the 84-minute Western released in 2014, is streaming for free in the United States on Pluto TV. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee alongside Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn. John Maclean made his directorial debut with Slow West. Smit-McPhee plays a young Scotsman who travels to America in search

Science

War Transformed Ukraine's Dogs

Russia’s invasion has not only inflicted suffering on people; it has also changed the country’s pets. In a study published in December in the journal Evolutionary Applications, researchers reported that exposure to the conflict rapidly transformed former pets into animals resembling wild canids. The team collected data from

Sports

Bruno Fernandes becomes second-fastest Man Utd player to 200 goal involvements

Bruno Fernandes reached another milestone for Manchester United as he ran the game against Tottenham Hotspur in a 2-0 win at Old Trafford, taking his tally to 200 goal involvements for the club. Bryan Mbeumo had opened the scoring with a sweeping effort from the top of the box from

Politics

MAGA Split Over Israel Spurs Debate About 1967 USS Liberty Attack

On June 8, 1967, Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the U.S.S. Liberty, a U.S. Navy intelligence ship off the Sinai, killing 34 service members and wounding 171. Those facts are not in dispute, but the motive behind the attack has become a fierce fault line within

Culture

Blue Beetle director says Xolo Maridueña's hero could still return

Blue Beetle, played by Cobra Kai's Xolo Maridueña, was left in limbo when the DC universe was rebooted. Released just as the transition began, the film left Jaime Reyes' future uncertain. Director Ángel Manuel Soto, while promoting The Wrecking Crew starring Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista, said

Politics

Seguro favoured to beat Ventura in Portuguese presidential runoff

The centre-left Socialist candidate, António José Seguro, is heavily favoured to defeat the far-right populist André Ventura in Portugal’s runoff presidential election on Sunday, in a vote that will test the depth of support for Ventura’s brash style of politics. Recent opinion polls suggest Seguro will collect twice

Tech

A16 iPad drops to $300 at Amazon

Apple’s 11-inch iPad with the A16 chip is on sale at Amazon, marked down $50 to $300. It has been overshadowed by new Air and Mini models arriving in 2025 and strong competition from Samsung and the Kindle Scribe. The A16 iPad sits between high-end tablets and budget models,

Culture

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Classic Sci‑Fi Remade Three Times

Don Siegel adapted Jack Finney’s 1954 novel into Invasion of the Body Snatchers, released on Feb. 5, 1956. The black-and-white film, shot in 2.00:1 Superscope, introduced the slang expression “pod people” for the emotionless duplicates and has continued to inspire modern creators, with Vince Gilligan praising it

Culture

Dances with Wolves Is Now Free to Stream on Pluto TV

The 1990s are often called the era of the "Revisionist Western," and a handful of classics emerged, including Unforgiven, Tombstone and The Quick and the Dead. The period began with perhaps the greatest of them all: Dances with Wolves, an epic that few expected to succeed. The film

Sports

Cole Palmer rejects Chelsea exit rumours after Wolves hat-trick

Cole Palmer has dismissed suggestions he is unhappy at Chelsea or wants a move back to Manchester, labelling exit rumours 'rubbish' after his hat-trick in a 3-1 win over Wolves. He said he is not listening to the noise and that he is happy in west London. Palmer

Sports

‘It has changed my life’: five years on from Wrexham’s Hollywood takeover

Two Chewbaccas handed out flyers to passersby. No one making their way towards the Turf batted an eyelid; for five years now a touch of Hollywood has become part of Wrexham. Ninety minutes before kick-off the city’s most famous public house was heaving. Lying in the shadow of the

World

Ransom note gives crucial clue to Savannah Guthrie's missing mom Nancy's location

Six days into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, TMZ founder Harvey Levin said a “very detailed” ransom note has provided a possible location. Levin, speaking on CNN after the first deadline passed, said the demand letter his team was emailed disclosed a radius around Tucson that investigators can use. He added

Sports

Stefania Constantini Is Cortina’s Hometown Olympic Hero

Stefania Constantini, 26, has become the familiar face of the Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the town where she grew up and learned to curl. A Beijing Olympic champion and winner at the 2025 world championships, she trained for years in the local arena, attended the town elementary school

Culture

Winterspell turns Lorcana’s Boost into a deckbuilding engine

Boost, a keyword that lets you put the top card of your deck facedown under a character, debuted in Whispers in the Well and had been only sporadically used. There were just 18 characters with Boost and a handful of supporting cards, but Winterspell significantly expands the mechanic, roughly doubling

Health

Green time over screen time: how to look after your eyes

"The eyes are 'the lamp of the body'" reads a biblical phrase used here for good reason: eyesight shapes how we meet the world, and its loss can be shocking. "Blindness is a very scary disability," says Prof Lauren Ayton, deputy director of the

Culture

After losing 92 soldiers in Menace, I'll never call XCOM brutal again

I've called XCOM brutal for years. Menace, a new strategy game from Battle Brothers creator Overhype Studios, lives almost entirely on that same knife edge, but unlike XCOM it never lets you step back onto solid ground: there's always another fight to win, another compromise to

Tech

The best AR and MR glasses in 2026: Expert tested and reviewed

Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality glasses are evolving quickly, offering a more comfortable alternative to VR by blending digital overlays with the real world. These devices can deliver real-time information, help with translations and searches, and let you check scores or capture life from a first-person perspective — often at a

Sports

Super Bowl LX 2026: How to Watch and What to Know About Sunday’s Broadcast

The countdown is almost over. This Sunday, February 8, 2026, the New England Patriots face the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, with kickoff at 6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT. The broadcast will feature a record-breaking halftime show with Bad Bunny and what the

Crypto

ARK sells $22M in Coinbase shares, buys Bullish across ETFs

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest continued reducing its exposure to Coinbase, unloading about $22.1 million worth of shares across multiple ETFs. The firm sold 92,737 Coinbase shares from the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), 32,790 from the Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and 8,945 from the Fintech

Culture

'The Wizard of Oz' Returns to Broadcast TV for First Time Since 1998

The 1939 musical fantasy The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, will return to broadcast television for the first time in almost 30 years after MeTV acquired the rights to air the film. Although the movie has been available to buy, rent, and stream, the last free broadcast was on

Business

Kraven's $62.1M Box Office Loss Prompts Sony to End Spider-Man Universe

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe began with Tom Hardy’s Venom films but slid after theatrical failures such as Morbius and Madame Web. The studio recovered some losses with the Venom pictures, yet that model proved unsustainable. Kraven the Hunter, released at the end of 2024, cost around $100 million to

Sports

McTominay and Hojlund snatch late 3-2 win for Napoli at Genoa

Ex-Manchester United players Scott McTominay and Rasmus Hojlund were the heroes as Napoli came from behind to beat Genoa 3-2 in the final minute. Napoli fell behind early at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris to a Ruslan Malinovskyi penalty, but Hojlund levelled after 20 minutes and McTominay soon put the visitors