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13 Mar 16:55

Netlix’s The Gentlemen lets Guy Ritchie get back to basics and perfect his vibe

by Austen Goslin
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Ya know how we always complain about there not being enough things to watch these days? Good news! This is great!

Theo James as Eddie Horniman from The Gentlemen sitting in a plush chair drinking wine
Photo: Kevin Baker/Netflix

The Guy Ritchie of Snatch has never been better

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22 Feb 18:20

The Redwall books are just sitting there, waiting for a big, fun adaptation

by Sam Barsanti
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Yes!! This! Oh man I loved these books so much.

Forthright Entertainment and Soma Games released a couple of small video games this week based on Redwall, the beloved children’s fantasy series written by the late Brian Jacques. They are, effectively, the first time the franchise has been touched in over a decade, when Jacques’ final book in the series—2011’s The…

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14 Feb 14:34

One of the funniest seasons of Taskmaster is finally on YouTube

by Pete Volk
Urzila Carlson, wearing a bright pink vest, looks surprised as she reads a task on Taskmaster New Zealand.
Image: Channel 4

One of the best seasons of Taskmaster ever is now fully on YouTube

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09 Feb 19:40

You can buy A24’s Stop Making Sense restoration on 4K, and nothing is better than that

by Zosha Millman
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This thing is gorges

David Byrne performs alongside the Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense
Photo: Vivendi Entertainment

If home is where you want to be, then pick this Blu-ray disc up and turn it around (in your DVD player)

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09 Feb 19:20

Lego’s Dune set includes a Baron Harkonnen minifig that has to be seen to be believed

by Susana Polo
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The picture is so great, I love it so much.

LEGO Icons Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter on a pedestal in a nice room
Photo: Lego

This is what Frank Herbert would have wanted

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04 Jan 20:09

Travis Kelce Has to Work on Christmas

by Kase Wickman
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I just love that Vanity Fair writes these articles now.

His holiday hustle and bustle will take place on the gridiron.
04 Jan 20:08

How Mayim Bialik Lost Her Role as the Main Host of ‘Jeopardy!’

by Claire McNear
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Drama at Jeopardy! I think he's done Kenough to be the permanent host, but never had a huge issue with Bialik's episodes.

Getty Images/Jeopardy Productions Inc./Ringer illustration

After two years behind the ‘Jeopardy!’ lectern, Bialik announced she would no longer host the quiz show. New reports uncover what went wrong and what may be in store.

It was the middle of August 2021, and a swift union seemed to make sense. A week and a half earlier, Mike Richards, the executive producer of Jeopardy!, had been named the successor to longtime host Alex Trebek. Then, amid a storm of bad press and having filmed just five episodes as host, Richards abruptly stepped down. Production screeched to a halt with the season premiere mere weeks away. Already, a full day of taping had been canceled at the last minute, with more tapings the following week likely to meet the same fate. Sony needed episodes in the can and, just as important, something to quiet the worst press cycle in Jeopardy!’s history.

The answer appeared obvious: Mayim Bialik. The actor, after all, had just been announced as Richards’s backup—the host of occasional prime-time specials on ABC and yet-to-be-announced spinoffs, while Richards would take the more prominent role as the host of the daily syndicated edition. So when Bialik, waiting in the hospital while her boyfriend was having hip replacement surgery, told her agent to reach out to Sony, the studio was only too eager to put a deal together to get Bialik to host the daily show as soon as possible.

“From the hospital waiting room, I said to my agent, ‘Please ask how we can help,’” Bialik recalled to Glamour later. “That’s literally what I said. I don’t want to seem opportunistic, but I’m part of this family now.”

Almost two and a half years later, her role in that family has changed. On December 15, Bialik wrote in a statement that she had been informed by Sony that she would “no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!Jeopardy! confirmed to The Ringer that Bialik is under contract until the end of the season with a one-year option remaining. With several months of taping remaining this season, Bialik was informed that her option would not be picked up.

The development has ushered in a series of reports looking into Sony’s concerns about Bialik and her performance as a host. According to a source close to production, Bialik was ultimately outshined in the role by Ken Jennings, the storied Jeopardy! contestant who was initially brought in to cohost only as a stopgap measure, filling in while Bialik was busy filming the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, and who will now host the entirety of the syndicated show. But the reason for the change likely goes beyond that. So where did it all go wrong? And what does it mean for Jeopardy! moving forward?


When Bialik was named a host of Jeopardy!, the selection fit a certain obvious logic. The actor was widely known for her roles on the sitcoms Blossom and The Big Bang Theory, and she had drawn praise for a two-week stint guest hosting the quiz show after Trebek’s 2020 death. She also holds a PhD in neuroscience, brainy laurels that fit well with Jeopardy!’s brand. After Richards stepped down, first as host and then as executive producer, on the heels of reporting by The Ringer and other outlets that sparked concerns about his past and the integrity of the host search, she seemed like a natural choice to fill the void and bring stability.

Yet in some ways, Bialik made for an uneasy cultural fit. In his nearly 40 years on the job, Trebek crafted an image as more than just staid and reliable; publicly, he was also stringently apolitical. He spoke of voting for both Democrats and Republicans and generally avoided sharing his opinion on anything spicier than his preferred tipple (chardonnay). In recent years, Jeopardy! leadership has doubled down on that reputation, presenting the show as a safe harbor of impartiality in turbulent modern times where facts alone are what matter.

Bialik’s ascent at the show, then, represented a departure from those norms. Long an avid user of social media, Bialik has written and spoken extensively about her life and beliefs. After her hiring, a slew of controversies resurfaced, among them her promotion of a dubious brain health supplement called Neuriva, her 2017 New York Times op-ed about the #MeToo movement that many interpreted as victim blaming and for which Bialik later apologized, and her advocacy for a range of controversial parenting techniques, including delaying or withholding some vaccinations for children. Bialik has said that she is not anti-vaccine while also stating in 2020 that “we give way too many vaccines.”

Bialik has not shied away from weighing in on contentious subjects, telling Bill Maher recently about her distaste for cancel culture. At times, she has invoked Jeopardy! along the way. In October, she filmed an Instagram Reel with the Israeli actor Noa Tishby in which Bialik, who has written at length about her Jewish faith and Israel, riffed on her game-show duties while discussing the crisis in Gaza. “The free world is in jeopardy, but this time it’s not a game,” she said, before reading Tishby a series of Jeopardy!-style prompts. In a video published the day before Bialik announced her departure from the syndicated show, Bialik and Tishby again deployed a game-show format to make statements about the Israel-Hamas war. “You might be an antisemite if you think that the solution to what is going on in the Middle East is that the Jews should just go back to where they came from,” Bialik said. “The Jews are the indigenous people of the land of Israel,” Tishby added as Bialik nodded beside her, “so there’s nowhere to go back to.” A Sony official said that while the studio was aware of the videos, they had no impact on the decision not to retain Bialik on the syndicated show.

Then there’s the matter of her absence from the entirety of the current season of Jeopardy!, which began airing in September. In May, Bialik announced that she would cease hosting Jeopardy! in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, which was on strike. “There’s a lot of complexity to this, but my general statement is always that I come from a union family,” she said later. “While it’s not for me to personally judge anyone else’s decision, for me, I am a union supporter—pretty much all unions and what they fight for.”

Sources close to the show say this stand was not exactly what it seemed. Jeopardy! and other game shows are guided by a distinct set of union provisions known as the Network Television Code, meaning that while Jeopardy!’s writers are members of the WGA and thus were part of the strike—many were prominent figures on picket lines in Los Angeles and New York—the rest of the staff and crew were not. SAG-AFTRA—which began its own strike in July and of which Bialik and Jennings are both members—explicitly advises non-striking members to continue to work per the terms of their contracts; to do otherwise can weaken the union’s negotiating power because it indicates that members might not follow the letter of the contract.

There was also a semi-recent precedent at Jeopardy!: During the 2007-08 writers strike, Trebek hosted throughout the work stoppage. Both then and during this year’s strike, the quiz show used only clues written before the writers decamped. (The Network Television Code is governed by its own contract, which runs through June 2024.)

Bialik’s move, however, left many decrying Jennings as a scab and criticizing Jeopardy! for taping at all. The actor Wil Wheaton, a friend of Bialik’s who she said was the first to predict she would get the Jeopardy! job, slammed Jennings in a widely discussed Facebook post in which he wrote, “Your privilege may protect you right now, but we will *never* forget.”

On December 18, Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported that Bialik’s decision to step back from hosting during the writers strike left Jeopardy! executive producer Michael Davies and Sony executive vice president of game shows Suzanne Prete “furious.” The WGA strike concluded in September, with SAG-AFTRA following in November, and Bialik still did not return to the show.


Issues persisted around Bialik’s performance in the studio, too. Part of that may have stemmed from her personal disconnect from Jeopardy!, about which she was up-front. She has written in the past about not watching any television and said that she learned of the opportunity to guest host only when her son saw buzz about the host search online. She seemed mystified by the level of scrutiny that the show, and, by extension, the host, received: “Like, who knew that people were so passionate about who hosts Jeopardy!?” she said shortly after taking on the series.

Her apparent unfamiliarity with the show’s rhythms and lore rankled some longtime fans. Complaints at times verged on petty: Viewers griped that she referred to the show’s first round as “single Jeopardy!,” a phrase Trebek himself used occasionally, and piled on about her propensity to laugh during exchanges with contestants—a charge that smacked of misogyny to some. Other viewers, however, pointed to more fundamental issues. Throughout her time as host, Bialik was criticized for noticeable pauses after contestants delivered responses, with Bialik sometimes going silent for a conspicuous beat before issuing a verdict. Less charitable observers took this as an indication of a lack of familiarity with the show’s material such that she needed to wait for offstage judges to decide if an unexpected answer was correct. Tellingly, it was Jennings and not Bialik who was tapped to host last year’s Tournament of Champions and this spring’s Masters contest—high-stakes competitions with more difficult material where mistakes by the host could have much more serious, and costly, consequences for players.

Bialik said that she suspected she would be reduced to tears if she were a contestant. “People ask if I know all that stuff, and I’m like, ‘No. No,’” she said. “Answering things like that under pressure with a timer is not gonna happen for me. It’s hard!”

The self-effacement presented a stark divergence from both Trebek, who perfected the art of always seeming to know more than the contestants, and Jennings, who won a record 74 games as a contestant in 2004.

Criticism of Bialik, often via comparison to Jennings, reached such a fever pitch that the moderators of the fan-run Jeopardy! subreddit stepped in to ban most anti-Bialik rhetoric. “Nitpicking even the smallest little mannerisms, as has frequently and ongoingly been the case with Mayim—it drags the community down and is not welcome,” a moderator wrote. Plenty of complaints still got through, however: After Call Me Kat, which was reportedly the primary obstacle to the actor’s ability to host more episodes of Jeopardy!, was canceled this May, one user wrote, “I’ve never been so upset about a show that I’ve never watched being canceled.” The comment attracted nearly 700 upvotes, making it one of the subreddit’s top three comments of 2023, according to the forum’s official year in review.

Other incidents widened the chasm between Bialik and Jeopardy!’s vocal online community of superfans. Last year, she said on multiple occasions that fans had criticized her for reusing an outfit on the show. Not only was there no clear evidence that she had taken a social media walloping over the jacket in question—recent posts featuring the jacket on both her and Jeopardy!’s Instagram accounts did not appear to have any comments criticizing the repetition—but some fans wondered if she was lashing out at Lilly Nelson, a viewer who has attracted a loyal following and seemingly the blessing of Jeopardy!, which ran a feature on her online, for her rigorous cataloging of contestant and host garb alike.

Still, Bialik had plenty of fans, and ratings—sky-high, with Jeopardy! generally leading all shows in syndication—fluctuated little between the two hosts’ time at the lectern. This month, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch declared Bialik his favorite Jeopardy! host ever. (“w apologies to Alex T,” he wrote.) The staff was also fond of her, with reports of her surprise delivery of cupcakes for the crew early in her hosting tenure leaked immediately to the Daily Mail.


Jennings’s surpassing of Bialik to become the full-time host of the syndicated edition represents a stunning reversal of fates for the pair. At the outset of Jennings’s time hosting Jeopardy!, detractors criticized him for a lack of showbiz polish. Bialik’s decades of experience on camera, meanwhile, gave her an advantage in even small matters: her comfort with a teleprompter, for example, which Jennings spurned as an homage to the prompter-resistant Trebek, a decision that left him vulnerable to needing to re-tape segments.

Bialik spent her first months on the syndicated show on a media tour in which she made clear that she wanted the full-time job for good: “I’d give up my first child to host Jeopardy! forever,” she professed in Newsweek. Jennings struck a different note in his interviews at the time. “You’re not going to see me in the papers talking about how important it is that I ended up hosting,” he told USA Today. To CNN, he said he was “not particularly ambitious” enough to want the permanent gig.

That dynamic seemed to be reflected internally early on, when it was clear that Bialik’s reworked deal with Sony afforded her a superior position within the show. Throughout the 2021-22 season, Bialik was introduced in her episodes as “the host of Jeopardy!,” while Jennings was welcomed with the phrase “now hosting Jeopardy!”—seeming to emphasize that he was lower in the host pecking order. Davies, who came aboard as executive producer in the wake of Richards’s exit, eventually confirmed that the difference was because of Bialik’s contract, which stipulated that she was, in Davies’s phrasing, “the host of Jeopardy!,” while Jennings was merely a guest host. By the next season, however, both Bialik and Jennings had signed new deals with Sony that left them both billed simply as “host.”

With Bialik sidelined for the bulk of this year, Jennings had a third season of hosting reps to himself. Jennings has been widely praised for improving his onstage performance, and he has developed a persona that has traces of Trebek’s signature sarcasm as well as a bubbly eagerness to share additional factoids that you might expect from a trivia champion. That growth was noted within Sony, too: Many Jeopardy! staff members came to believe that Jennings had become the technically superior host, according to a source close to production, who says that Jennings’s improvement was the key factor that spelled the end for Bialik.

TMZ reported on December 20 that the extended period with a single host further helped convince Sony executives that the dual-host model was inferior. Critically, Jennings also filled in on Celebrity Jeopardy! in prime time—an assignment that would otherwise have gone to Bialik—and thrived, producing ratings on par with or exceeding those obtained by Bialik last year.

Jennings has had his own rocky moments, most notably when a series of his tweets including ableist comments reemerged in late 2020; he apologized for the “unartful and insensitive” messages. But he has by and large avoided controversy during his time as host. He is helped by the perception that he is Trebek’s natural heir, by dint of both his own history as a contestant and his ties to Trebek, who prepped Jennings over the phone to fill in for him shortly before his death; Trebek’s wife left a pair of his cuff links for the newbie host when Jennings arrived to tape his first episodes.


Bialik may yet return: A statement by Jeopardy! released on December 15 left open the possibility for Bialik to still host prime-time episodes in the future. Davies has spoken at length about his plans to expand the Jeopardy! franchise and said last year that the growth would necessitate “multiple hosts to represent the entire audience, to represent the entire country, in order to take this franchise forward.” (Davies has suggested that it was his decision “to bring Ken in and have Ken be a second host along with Mayim”; it is perhaps not coincidental that the TMZ report also contained the tidbit that Bialik “didn’t always agree with production decisions ... including the hiring of executive producer Michael Davies.”)

TMZ further reported that while Sony executives would like to maintain a relationship with Bialik, “Mayim made it clear it was all or nothing. As a result, we’re told Sony brass declined.” Even the public announcements of Bialik’s exit point to a rift: Jeopardy! did not publish its own statement until an hour after Bialik posted hers, and it wrote that “Mayim Bialik has announced that she will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!,” suggesting that the actor may have acted unilaterally in making a final decision.

No matter how the rest of this unfolds, there is a certain irony to the way that the hire brought in to steady the ship made her own dramatic splash at Jeopardy! In the three years since Trebek’s death, the quiz show has at times felt doomed to cycle through recurring controversies. But this time, Jeopardy! finally looks to be in a position to get what it’s been palpably chasing all this time: just the right level of nerdy steadiness. As Jennings put it this week in reference to Trebek’s tenure, “I look forward to 37 more years of doing it, when I’ll be a very, very old man.”

05 Dec 16:13

Grand Theft Auto 6’s first trailer is here

by Michael McWhertor
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2025 is really 2026

Jason and Lucia from Grand Theft Auto 6
Image: Rockstar Games

Rockstar’s new crime epic finally comes out of hiding

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27 Nov 18:40

Fargo season 5 premiere: The show comes roaring back with a lean, confident new story

by Tom Philip
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If you like nipple-pierced Jon Hamm in a hot tub overlooking the mountains with Working Man blaring over it, then this show is for you!

It’s been almost three years since Fargo was last on TV, its fourth season representing something of a nadir for Noah Hawley’s scattered take on the Coen brothers’ classic. At its best, Fargo has been a fascinating and worthy addition to the name, borrowing mostly just “vibes” from the film, rather than a bunch of…

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27 Nov 15:21

Jack Reacher, king of righteous beatdowns, finally returns in December

by Joshua Rivera
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Did Lar and Pen get into this show, Jared? Cause it fuckin rips

A close up of Jack Reacher, a very large man, wearing a jacket and looking off in the distance, probably at someone smaller than he
Photo: Brooke Palmer/Prime Video

Sometimes all a hero needs is a strong moral compass and turkeys for hands

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09 Nov 13:23

I watched the forbidden episode of Bluey that Disney refuses to stream

by Oli Welsh
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"Fact one: Bluey, the Australian animated TV show for preschoolers about a playful family of dogs, is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. (Yes, this is a fact, not an opinion.) Its seven-minute episodes are funnier, more layered, more substantial, and sometimes even more moving than most hourlong adult dramas. There’s one called “Flat Pack” that deals with Darwinian evolution, human progress, religion and the afterlife, marital relationships, the sweet pain of letting go, and assembling Ikea furniture — and it does all that in a way that’s sweet, hilarious, and accessible to people who haven’t learned how to talk yet. In seven minutes. That’s how good it is." PREACH!!!

A still from Bluey. Dad is wearing a baby carrier and Bingo’s head is popping out between his legs. Bluey looks alarmed.
Image: Ludio Studio/ABC/BBC

On the transgressive power of ‘Dad Baby’

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30 Oct 17:22

All The Light We Cannot See review: A twisty, tricky World War II drama

by Cindy White
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This is one of the best books I've ever read, slightly optimistic for the movie

Some great books simply aren’t suited to adaptation, though that’s never stopped Hollywood from trying. Judging the book by its cover, and its massive popularity, the appeal of bringing something like Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See to the screen is obvious. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in France…

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06 Oct 12:02

Those Two 49ers Radio Hosts Who Hate Eagles Fans Can’t Stop Taking Gigantic L’s

by Kyle Pagan
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Hearing TO's voice just reminded me of that Superbowl run and how incredible he was. That is all.

These 49ers radio guys from the Morning Roast just can’t stop taking L after L after L over and over and over again like clockwork. You’d think they’d stop mentioning Philly, but they can’t! They’re literally obsessed with Eagles fans ever since we curb-stomped their team in the NFC Championship game and a couple fans might’ve been mean to them.

They had Howard Eskin on and he called out Crossing Broad like the sad sack of traitor trash he is. They refused to talk about the multiple 49ers fights DURING THE PRESEASON so I had to call up and remind them. There have been BARBARIC fights already during the season. And today they had Terrell Owens on for an interview and tee’d up a question for him to knock out of the park and it totally didn’t go as planned:

They’re literally doing T.O. a solid by plugging his wine FOR FREE and it still backfired. Look at Joe Shasky’s face after he said Philly:

L after L after L after L! They’re a giant walking Floyd Mayweather gif:

I’m almost starting to feel bad how much I can’t stop winning. These two are on a historic run for the ages and I am loving every second of it!

Even when they almost have a chance to gloat in our faces like last night during the Phillies game the universe interjects and says not today my friends:


If that was a 49ers game someone would’ve been stabbed at an IN-N-OUT afterwards. You know how I know that? Because it already happened this year:

The post Those Two 49ers Radio Hosts Who Hate Eagles Fans Can’t Stop Taking Gigantic L’s appeared first on Crossing Broad.

08 Sep 12:23

Thousands of real bugs and Family Feud combined for Righteous Gemstones’ chaotic finale

by Pete Volk
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Uncle Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers! This entire show is about Powis' church

Danny McBride and Stephen Dorff stand on opposite sides of a lectern, where Walton Goggins runs a game show as Baby Billy in The Righteous Gemstones.
Photo: Jake Giles Netter/HBO

How the HBO show pulled off its (Bible) bonkers conclusion

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17 Aug 16:29

The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal

by Susan Casey
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Long read but really interesting. Including this little nugget, "In June 2016, Rush piloted OceanGate’s shallow-diving sub, the Cyclops 1, to the site of the Andrea Doria hulking 700-foot ocean liner and epic entanglement hazard that had sunk in 1956 off Nantucket, in a patch of the Atlantic known for its murky fog and seething currents."

To many in the tight-knit deep-sea exploration community, OceanGate’s submersible dives were reckless and often dangerous, writes best-selling author Susan Casey.
16 Aug 17:35

How Do the Suits on ‘Suits’ Stack Up? A Menswear Expert Weighs In

by Chris Murphy
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Here ya go guys! It's all about the Suits!!

Fashion guru Derek Guy digs into Suits, the most surprising show of the summer.
16 Aug 12:35

Why Is Everybody Watching ‘Suits’?

by Alan Sepinwall
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See Jared! All Netflix

The USA Network legal drama — featuring one Meghan Markle — has been TV’s most-watched show for the past month. And we have Netflix to thank
19 Jul 16:23

The best thriller of the year is a TV show about Idris Elba on an airplane

by Austen Goslin
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It's true, it's very fun.

Idris Elba with his hands tied standing in an airplane in Apple TV Plus’ Hijack
Image: Apple TV Plus

Apple TV’s Hijack is the ’90s thriller this year desperately needed

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10 Jul 12:22

The 5 best thrillers to watch on Netflix this July

by Toussaint Egan
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Hell yeah you do!

Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake holding a pistol, dressed in winter gear with flecks of blood visible on their forehead in Extraction 2.
Image: Jasin Boland/Netflix

You want to see Chris Hemsworth beat up a dude with a flaming riot shield? Hell yeah you do

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05 Jul 12:01

Vivica A. Fox wishes Will Smith was in Independence Day 2, too

by Matt Schimkowitz
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Me too

Stars, they’re just like us. They didn’t like the Independence Day sequel either.

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29 Jun 13:48

Tom Cruise Endorses Your ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Double Feature

by Savannah Walsh
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Yes, I am doing this. Yes, I am glad that I have Tom Cruises' support. And yes, I am seeing them in the obvious order or Oppenheimer depression first, then recover with fun Barbie.

“It doesn’t get more explosive (or more pink)”
21 Jun 17:39

Spotify's Bill Simmons denounces Harry and Meghan as "grifters"

by William Hughes
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Our boys getting aggregated!

Earlier this week, news broke that former Suits star Meghan Markle and the guy she’s hitched to (Harry, last name apparently “of Sussex”) were breaking up with Spotify, ending an agreement with the podcasting company that dated back to 2020. As we reported on Friday, this news was accompanied by some banal but…

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23 May 11:38

Imagine Dragons performed a stripped-down rendition of "Radioactive" for striking writers because, sure!

by Hattie Lindert
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Clearly sent by the AMPTP as a form of torture. Brilliant move.

For writers picketing in New York and Los Angeles as part of the ongoing WGA strike, using the old imagination is no new territory, whether it’s dreaming up a perfect end for Logan Roy or imagining better, fairer, more sustainable working conditions becoming a reality. But one thing Guild members don’t have to imagine…

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21 Apr 14:34

A TMNT x Stranger Things comic will explore the dynamic between Eleven and Raphael

by Susana Polo
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What in the

The legs of the Stranger Things teens stand on a busy Manhattan street, while below the pavement and upside down, the four Ninja Turtles pose with their weapons, on the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Stranger Things #1 (2023).
Image: Fero/IDW Publishing/Dark Horse Comics/Netflix

Cowabunga, Eleven

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14 Apr 21:03

Jodie Foster hunts a serial killer in True Detective season 4's chilling trailer

by Saloni Gajjar
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Fuck. Yes. This show is still 2 for 1. The Terrible Vince Vaugn season aside, it's faaaantastic. Got a real Insomnia vibe to it.

HBO—whose streaming service is soon dropping the “HBO” and sticking to Max for some reasonis gearing up for another season of its fan-favorite crime anthology. True Detective returns for a fourth round with a star-studded lineup and a different but probably super gritty case, in typical TD style.

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06 Apr 13:10

Adam Driver in talks to play a young Robert De Niro in Michael Mann's Heat 2

by Gabrielle Sanchez
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Wait...wouldn't he make a better Pacino?

Michael Mann may have found one lead for Heat 2 amongst the cast of his current project, Ferrari. Adam Driver is reportedly in talks to star in the long-awaited sequel once he wraps his role as Enzo Ferrari in the director’s upcoming biopic.

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05 Apr 11:59

Yes, weapons will break in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

by Michael McWhertor
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God damnit

Link strikes a Construct with a makeshift hammer made of a stick and boulder in a screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Link battles a Construct with a new Fuse weapon in Tears of the Kingdom | Image: Nintendo

New gameplay shows that Breath of the Wild’s weapon durability will return

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05 Apr 11:58

Chanel West Coast decides that 30 seasons of Ridiculousness is enough

by Mary Kate Carr
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Jared, your girl!

All good things must come to an end. And while we’re at it, bad things and utterly neutral things usually come to an end, too. Comedy Central’s Ridiculousness might just defy categorization in this regard, as it persists in being ridiculous more than a decade in. However, co-host Chanel West Coast’s tenure with that…

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05 Apr 11:58

Scott Pilgrim anime will bring back the movie’s entire cast

by Michael McWhertor
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What! Yay!

Michael Cera as Scott in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. He’s brandishing a katana wreathed in pink flame, digital letters on the side of the screen proclaim LEVEL UP!
Photo: Universal Pictures

Netflix and Edgar Wright confirm, well, everyone

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23 Mar 18:10

An Adventure

by Reza
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These are hit and miss but I really like this one