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Lily Allen at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at American Museum of Natural History on Nov. 3, 2025, in New York. Lexie Moreland/WWD Lily Allen says the “tradwife” lifestyle once appealed to her but no longer does. In an interview with The Times published Tuesday (Oct. 20), Allen looked back on her marriages to...
Fans of Critical Role and its diabolical adventuring party, The Mighty Nein, have plenty to enjoy right now. The animated series debuted in December 2025, and spin-off material has since expanded on the Campaign 2 cast. That includes novels like Critical Role: The Mighty Nein – Stories Untold and live-show one-shots like Projekt Funball. Another...
After a disappointing theatrical run, Ridley Scott’s latest movie, The Dog Stars, is headed to streaming. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re probably not alone, given how poorly it did at the box office. It’s a post-apocalyptic thriller based on Peter Heller’s book of the same name. The Dog Stars was a box-office bomb....
September brought plenty of movies worth watching, including Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Resident Evil and Primetime. The animated fantasy Forgotten Island mostly slipped past audiences. It made little splash at the box office despite positive reviews from critics and viewers. It currently holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Weak marketing or bad timing...
Betsy Braddock has one of the most tangled histories of any X-Men character. She debuted in Captain Britain nearly 50 years ago, and in Marvel Comics lore that says a lot. Best known as Psylocke, one of two characters who use the name, Betsy has been shuffled around the Marvel universe and has traded names...
“Wealth must be distributed retroactively too.” Gavin Goslin, a Treyarch veteran who worked as a level designer on Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2, says the original development team deserves royalties from sales of the re-releases. In a LinkedIn post, Goslin noted that the re-releases are almost identical to the originals and...
As Star Wars approaches its 50th anniversary in 2027, the franchise’s reputation has swung up and down like a seesaw. It has landed a few wins, including Andor‘s Emmy success and the positive reception of Disney’s latest animated series, Maul: Shadow Lord. But the lows have been so deep that it’s hard to imagine expectations...
Something has gone terribly wrong at Area 51. Pax Armata troops showed up expecting to seize classified technology. What they found instead was one of the base’s most closely guarded secrets: a Marker, hidden inside the facility the whole time. Within days, the reports began flooding in. Soldiers spoke of violent hallucinations, eerie symbols appearing...
U2 Olaf Heine Netflix announced Tuesday (Oct. 20) that U2 will headline the NFL’s first Thanksgiving Eve halftime show. The game between the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams will take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., with kickoff set for 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 25. U2 will perform between halves,...
The Beatles Apple Corps Ltd Apple Corps announced plans on Tuesday (Oct. 20) to move The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool into a 100,000-square-foot attraction, which is set to open in 2028. The company also announced a “Yellow Submarine”-themed viewing experience at the top of St. John’s Beacon, the city’s second-tallest building. The long-running, award-winning...
