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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...

The update’s main additions are a photo mode and 15 new dungeons. Developer Cold Symmetry has released Rotten Autumn, a major Halloween-themed update for Mortal Shell II. The photo mode lets players take in-game screenshots. Mortal Shell II also gets an alternative soundtrack created by Sakis Tolis of the Greek metal band Rotting Christ. Rotten...

Stephen King’s Dark Tower series has a reputation as one of the hardest stories to adapt. It spans a multiverse of worlds across several long novels, so where do you start? Mike Flanagan says the answer is simple. You start at the beginning. Flanagan created The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. He also...

The series “Kholod” (“Cold”), starring Lyubov Aksenova, is set to be examined for allegedly discrediting the authorities, according to the news agency RIA Novosti. Representatives of the public organization “Officers of Russia” have lodged a complaint about the show with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. They say they were approached by viewers...

Changes & Improvements Resolved an issue where the moon appeared instead of the sun at the start of a day, and smoothed out an abrupt lighting jump at dusk and dawn. Corrected the snapping angle for fences. Fixed the stump cutter so it works properly on trees that haven’t been felled yet. Restored hand tools...

Greetings, Pal Tamers! Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone around the globe who took part in the Palworld Global Popularity Poll 2026 this September. Your enthusiasm pushed the turnout past last year’s total, and we’re truly grateful. Here are the top three winners in each category: Pal Category 1st place: Sekhmet 2nd place: Solenne...

Most Cowboy Bebop episodes hand Spike Spiegel a bounty, a complication, and enough time to crack a couple of jokes while he puffs on a bent cigarette. He’s always in trouble. He fights for his life in shootouts where he’s vastly outnumbered and dodges explosions left and right. Even when he takes a beating, he...

A trailer has surfaced online for the action thriller “Best Pancakes in the County.” The film stars Nicolas Cage and arrives on streaming platforms on November 20. The story unfolds inside a small diner, where FBI agents, a con artist and a waitress, who share a deeper connection, are dragged into a large-scale shootout. “Pancakes”...