Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last of Us finale
The season finale of HBO’s The Last of Us was a gut punch for both those who have played the video game, and those who came to the story through the show. Following the devastating finale, many are wondering what Season 2 of the TV series will look like. It was announced last January…
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It’s been exactly 2,465 days since the global pop icon Rihanna released her last album, ANTI, and after years of teasing music but not releasing it, the musical drought is finally over. The “Diamonds” singer released her first solo single in six years, titled “Lift Me Up,” for the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie soundtrack. The song comes aft…
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In HBO’s The Regime, Kate Winslet plays Elena Vernham, the charming if authoritarian leader of a small European country. Elena, the autocratic chancellor of her nation, is, by turn, charismatic, oblivious, and tyrannical—but above all, she is terrified of mold. Her mycophobia is so great that the first episode of the series, which premiered on March 3, opens with a haphazard renovati…
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It was quite a coup for the Oscars to land a rare performance from Beyoncé, singing her nominated song from King Richard on the same Compton tennis courts where Venus and Serena Williams got their start. But the fact that the luminous production number, featuring dozens of musicians and dancers swathed in neon, tennis-ball chartreuse, opened the telecast meant you had to wonder:…
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If there’s one name that carries a lot of weight in the horror movie industry, it’s Jason Blum.
The founder and CEO of horror hit factory Blumhouse Productions, Blum has been responsible for more than $6 billion in global box office earnings over the past two decades. After producing a handful of non-horror movies in the early aughts, Blum put his company on the map by acquiring a low-bud…
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TikTok’s power to create inescapable hits out of songs has been one of the platform’s defining features since everyone turned to it during early COVID-19 lockdowns. The most recent earworm to get stuck in people’s heads, “If We Ever Broke Up,” is now out on streaming services from Mae Stephens, a 19-year-old from the United Kingdom, who is clearly a student of the …
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