James Cameron is willing to spend 16-plus years and hundreds of millions dollars making the Avatar films, but he won’t ever fill out some paperwork to become a U.S. citizen. Guess it’s, “Hasta la vista, baby,” right? The revelation came as Cameron spoke to BuzzFeed Canada during this week’s Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere at Los Angeles’ El Capitan Theatre. Despite “[living] there for 47 years in L.A.,” Cameron, a native of Ontario, said he has no interest in becoming a citizen of the US. “I did think about it for a while because I thought there was a lot…
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It’s no longer difficult to find Wi-Fi when you leave the house. Hotels, restaurants, bars, transport hubs, sports stadiums, stores, city parks, and many other places offer internet connectivity nowadays, and access is often free if you’re willing to give up an email address.That makes staying connected much easier, whether you’re working away from the office, or trying to keep up with your favorite TV show on vacation. But the increasing ubiquity and convenience of public Wi-Fi doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make more of it—and to keep yourself better protected when you get online.These networks are not the…
Set against the unforgiving landscape of late–19th-century upstate New York, Pearl Bound is a novel where history presses as heavily as fate and love is inseparable from survival. In this conversation, author Natalie Bergman discusses how the Gilded Age’s stark inequalities shaped her story, why the supernatural functions as a form of inheritance rather than escape, and how family bonds can both sustain and suffocate. Drawing on her background in screenwriting and her own lived experience, Bergman explores the cost of autonomy, the legacy of trauma, and what it means for women to claim power in a world determined to…
If you have teenagers — or were once a teenager yourself — you’ve probably experienced this: Your kid’s jeans fit perfectly in September, but by December they’re showing ankle. The adolescent growth spurt can feel astonishingly fast, with some teens growing 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) in a single year. But is this really the fastest period of human growth?Surprisingly, no: The teenage growth spurt is only the second fastest that humans can grow.”We’ve been tracking children’s growth from birth all the way through to adulthood, and the fastest period of growth is clearly the first couple…
CBS The Silver family believes their worst nightmare has come true when Ben’s murder conviction is vacated and his killer, Ronan Flaherty, walks free. But as Friday’s “Boston Blue” comes to a close — and fans are left waiting until Feb. 27, 2026 for the next episode — the hour ends with a devastating reversal that leaves one Silver facing consequences no badge can shield them from. Ben and Mae’s son Jonah — a rookie cop still finding his footing — goes rogue and confronts Flaherty on his own. By…
When a website make a list of the most underrated movies of the year, you know what comes next right? It is inevitable. So as we get ready to turn the calendar from 2025 to 2026, let’s begin to wind down our look back at the year in cinema with a list of most disappointing and overrated movies of the year.If there’s a silver lining here, it’s this: There weren’t that many films I would describe as hugely disappointing or massively overrated this year. Unlike our list of underrated movies, which was ten entries long and could have easily expanded to 12 or 15 titles, our overrated list runs just…
Timothée Chalamet took a break from talking table tennis to hop on a “4 Raws” remix with mysterious U.K. rapper EsDeeKid. The move is an extended part of a dull internet conspiracy that maintained Chalamet—who used to rap under the alias Lil Timmy Tim and was once knighted by Lil B—was actually EsDeeKid. You can listen to the Oscar nominee shout out his new film Marty Supreme and rap about drinking lean in the track and accompanying music video below.Read our review of EsDeeKid’s Rebel. View Original Source Here
Alexa Chung exhausts me sometimes because she is always wearing something that I didn’t know I needed and my credit card just can’t handle it. Most recently it was a custom floral opera coat with repurposed vintage mink fur. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I saw it and now I don’t know how I can live without one of my own. (Image credit: Getty Images)The jacket was created by Bulgarian designer Viktor Gichev, who works at One of a Kind vintage archive in London’s Portobello Market, while also building a brand out of his bedroom.…
Ashley Gold / Axios: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill’s text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California’s SB 53 — Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models. View Original Source Here
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Kingdom of Time? There are actually two stories behind the story. The tales of two thrones, if you will, that altered my brain chemistry and reignited my love for reading and writing—Game of Thrones and Throne of Glass. It was after my fourth reread of the latter that I decided I wanted to give it a go myself. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Kingdom of Time, what would they be? This is a fun one! The leading ladies in Kingdom of Time…
Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometresStarcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst for colossal data centres be fixed by launching them into space? Tech companies are eyeing low Earth orbit as a potential solution, but researchers say it’s unlikely in the near future due to a mountain of difficult and unsolved engineering issues. The huge demand for, and investment in, generative AI products like ChatGPT has created an unprecedented need for computing power, which requires both vast amounts of space and gigawatts of power, equivalent to that used by millions of homes. As…
Brooke Palmer/HBO The minds behind “IT: Welcome to Derry” didn’t show viewers Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise until Episode 5 – and they didn’t allow his scene partners to get too familiar with him before that, either. In order to capture some authentic shock from the actors, the showrunners made sure Matilda Lawler, Amanda Christine, and Clara Stack — who play Marge, Ronnie, and Lilly, respectively, in HBO’s horror series — didn’t lay eyes on Skarsgård in his demonic circus garb until it came time to shoot Pennywise’s grand entrance. “They kept him top secret…
1. One Battle After AnotherWe’ll be honest: in the run-up to the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, we had no real idea of what to expect. We kinda knew that it had been inspired by a Thomas Pynchon novel; it had Leonardo DiCaprio wearing granny shades and doing a lot of shouting; and that it was his first contemporary-set film since Punch-Drunk Love. When we finally got to see it, we all agreed that this was 2025’s pure kino moment, our jaws constantly on the floor upon witnessing the work of a filmmaker with almost Jedi-like mastery of the…
They say age is just a number, and two superstars making high-profile TV appearances this month on programs that traditionally cater to young audiences prove the point. When Cher appears as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on Saturday, she’ll make a little history. At 79, she’ll be the second-oldest musical guest in the show’s 50-year-plus history. Ragtime pianist Eubie Blake was 92 when he was the musical guest (alongside Gregory Hines) on the March 19, 1979, show. Blake had a late-in-life resurgence in popularity thanks to the 1978-79 Broadway musical Eubie!, which showcased his ebullient songs, such as “I’m…
Rachel Reid didn’t intend for anyone to write a dissertation about her horny little gay hockey series.Then again, the Nova Scotia author behind the Game Changers series could never have anticipated the level of fanfare that’s accompanied the television adaptation of her books: Heated Rivalry.The show, commissioned by Canada’s Crave and distributed by HBO Max in the US, debuted in late November and quickly became a massive hit. It’s the number one Crave original series of all time, and it also climbed to number 1 on HBO Max. A second season has already been greenlit.If you’re not watching it yet,…
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison Every year in December, Christmas books—especially Christmas romances—take over the Goodreads Most Read list. This year, the most popular holiday title is Good Spirits, but you can find a dozen more Christmas reads on the top 50. This one follows Nolan, aka the Ghost of Christmas Past, as he takes on a new assignment, haunting Harriet. But people-pleasing Harriet is no Scrooge, so why is she being haunted? As Christmas Eve approaches, the two begin to fall for each other. It was read by 16,000 Goodreads users this week and has a 4.0 average rating.…
At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, write the authors of a new article from Polity, neoliberalism was “consolidated as the only legitimate form of doing politics.” But in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and with the entrenchment of far-right governments across the world, neoliberalism’s dominance was threatened by the rise of populism. And while some analyses of populism present the phenomenon as a continuation of neoliberalism, Asaf Yakir and Doron Navot argue that it in fact represents a rupture with the neoliberal order. View Original Source Here
Bertrand Calmeau/CBS Filled with Christmas spirit? More like possessed by Flower. In Thursday’s two-part Season 5 fall finale of “Ghosts,” Sam is in for a big surprise when Thor’s Christmas gift for Flower includes Flower taking over Sam’s body to satisfy her munchies. (I mean, Pringles are pretty tasty.) But it’s all bad timing for Sam, who’s due to appear on live TV to promote her book. The whole charade turns into the perfect showcase for Rose McIver who spends a good portion of the episodes frolicking about as the perpetually…
A new report has revealed details about the behind-the-scenes changes that led to Sylvester Stallone’s exit from the Cliffhanger reboot and Pierce Brosnan’s casting in his place. The change in casting is reportedly related to financial disputes and scheduling conflicts. Report claims new lawsuit explains Sylvester Stallone’s departure from Cliffhanger reboot A recently filed lawsuit has provided new clarity around Sylvester Stallone’s decision to step away from the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot. Stallone was announced in May 2023 as returning to the role he originally had in the 1993 action hit Cliffhanger. However, reports in October 2024 confirmed that he was…
Megadeth are now three songs deep into their self-titled final album and we’ve got the new song and lyrics for “Let There Be Shred.”Dave Mustaine and Teemu Mantysaari are clearly having a great time living up to the title of the song as they lay down some blistering guitar work on this pulse-racing banger. Even the song itself speaks to their love of heavy music, embodying the spirit of what it’s like to shred on the guitar.Take a listen to the song (the corresponding video arrives Friday morning using the video player below), then check out the lyrics for “Let…
When I was invited by ALO to visit Courchevel, a ski town in the French Alps, I knew I was entering foreign territory in more ways than one. My experience with après-ski fashion is limited to West Coast ski towns in Colorado and Utah, where Western-inspired trends reign supreme. However, I knew that a visit to a chic mountain town in France would mean leaving my cowboy hats and boots at home. Courchevel is one of the most high-end ski resorts in the world, known for its five-star accommodations (we stayed at the iconic Les Airelles), Michelin-star dining, designer shopping,…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected by astronomers, will make its closest approach to Earth overnight between Thursday and Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), when it gets to just 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) from our planet. It poses no threat to Earth.The precise moment will come at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Dec. 19, according to Space.com. Though still just under twice the distance from Earth as the sun — something that will preclude stunning photos from giant telescopes — it’s a unique opportunity to glimpse an object from another star system. Discovered in July…
Fox The upcoming 24th season of “Family Guy” will kick off with a moment fans have waited 450 episodes to see. Airing Sunday, Feb. 15 (Fox, 9:30 p.m.), the show’s 450th installment finds Lois suddenly able to understand Stewie, thanks to some herbal assistance — as you can tell from their bloodshot eyes in TVLine’s exclusive first-look photo above. “They talk about the stuff that fans would want them to talk about — the history of their relationship, Stewie’s desire to kill her, his opinion of her, hers of him,…
Some fantastic new movies are streaming for the first time at home this weekend, and ScreenCrush has your guide to the newly released films that deserve your attention while you relax as the week comes to an end.Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are for watching movies, but if you’re not in the mood to journey out to your local theater, you can always heat up a bag of microwave popcorn, curl up on the couch in your PJs and hit “play” from the comfort of your own home.New Movies Streaming This WeekendThis week and weekend you can dive into Netflix’s brand-new…
If you’re still hunting for AirPods deals for Christmas and are willing to roll the dice on shipping, there are some nice last-minute sales available. This includes the lowest price ever on AirPods Pro 3, as well as limited stock on deep discounts for the standard and noise-canceling AirPods 4. Your best bet for getting AirPods delivered in time for Christmas is with an Amazon Prime subscription. Members get faster delivery speeds, as well as exclusive access to Lightning Deals. If you’re not already a member, sign up for a 30-day free trial for full access to the sale and faster…
I come from a long line of Luddites. My grandmother special-ordered her Toyota Camry with crank windows because she was convinced it was “one less thing that will break.” My father refused to upgrade our six-CD stereo system even though the eject button wouldn’t open and it could only play the first CD he ever put in it. The Traveling Wilburys Vol.1 was the soundtrack to our family dinners for a decade. As for myself, I only switched to a smartphone in 2013, when it would’ve cost about the same amount to repair my flip phone.Now I am the same…
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An artist’s impression of PSR J2322-2650bNASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is far from the weirdest thing about the exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b. Michael Zhang at the University of Chicago and his colleagues spotted the odd planet, which is more than 2000 light years away from Earth, via the James Webb Space Telescope, and immediately noticed that something about it was unusual. The spectrum of…