TV Tokyo Theme songs always do some heavy lifting, but when the show in question is science fiction, the task is often even heftier. The best sci-fi themes have to get the right energy going, set the tone for the world you’re about to dive into, and match that world in its overall sound, all while delivering something memorable and catchy in just a minute or two. It’s a big ask, but the history of sci-fi themes prove that the genre is up to it. From classic golden-age themes to…
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O’Shea Jackson Jr. just narrowed down where Den of Thieves 3 is heading, and one fan-favorite location didn’t make the cut. The star revealed which continents are still on the table for Donnie Wilson’s next heist. O’Shea Jackson Jr. teases the next heist setting for Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves 3 O’Shea Jackson Jr. recently teased the potential new setting for Den of Thieves 3 during an exclusive interview with ScreenRant. The actor, who plays heist mastermind Donnie Wilson opposite Gerard Butler’s Big Nick O’Brien, discussed the challenges of picking a new location. Jackson acknowledged that his character cannot return to the United States after…
Columbia House, the 71-year-old mail-order music club that is somehow still operating in 2026, is finally shutting down for good. ”After 9/15/26, The Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders,” reads a recent message on its website. “You can still purchase books with your credit card or credits as normal.” The announcement was first spotted by YouTube channel Channel 33 RPM and later written up by the blog Cord Cutter News. We’ve reached out to Columbia House for further comment.Columbia House was founded as Columbia Record Club in 1955 by its namesake music label to send albums directly…
Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s Podcast. Big Technology Podcast: Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally…
We’re turning some kind of corner in the ongoing conversation about if, where, and how to deal with the reality that AI-generated text has already made its way into mainstream publishing. Here’s a look at the biggest recent headlines: 🤖 Welcome to the uncanny valley. In the most meta (but not Meta™️) of experiments, Mother Jones‘s David Corn used Claude to generate a novel about a writer who used Claude to generate a novel. It took a couple tries, but the ultimate result was “not so bad.” Though flawed, The Ghost in the Machine (Claude’s got jokes) kept Corn engaged:…
Astronomers have discovered the first confirmed dual active galactic nucleus in a Green Pea galaxy, revealing two supermassive black holes growing at the same time inside a compact, intensely star-forming system. X-ray observations with Chandra resolved two actively accreting black holes, while Keck spectroscopy confirmed that both belong to the same merging galaxy. The paper outlining the research was submitted to the arXiv preprint server on July 20. View Original Source Here
A new semester at “Hollywood Arts” begins this fall: Netflix has announced that the “Victorious” sequel series, starring Daniella Monet as student-turned-teacher Trina Vega, will premiere Thursday, October 15. According to the official logline, the spin-off sees “struggling actress Trina Vega return to her former high school, Hollywood Arts, as an unqualified substitute teacher, quickly finding herself both clashing with and unexpectedly inspiring a new generation of ambitious and talented students as they learn to find their true path at Hollywood’s most elite performing arts school.” Alyssa Miles, Erika Swayze, Emily Liu-Wang,…
As part of D23 and and theaters putting more tickets on sale for the film, Marvel released a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday over the weekend. And even though it was the weekend, we here at ScreenCrush tasked our army of Latverian Doombots with finding all of the many Easter eggs, hidden secrets, and little Marvel references in it.And, yup, there are plenty more things we learned from the new Doomsday trailer. In our latest Marvel Cinematic Universe breakdown video, we’ll show you all the most important stuff. We’ll give you Doctor Doom’s comic-book backstory, speculate on what universe Robert Downey Jr.’s Doom is from,…
Stray Kids are speechless. The members of the K-pop supergroup reacted on Sunday night (Aug. 16) to the news that their latest release, THIS & THAT is officially their ninth Billboard chart-topper. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “Hello all, we are Stray Kids!,” the eight-member group said in unison in an Instagram Story captioned, “9th consecutive Billboard 200 #1 album ‘THIS & THAT’ … Thank you STAY, from the bottom of our hearts.” “Today we are excited to share the most exciting news ever,” added member Bang Chan. “Our most recent album, THIS & THAT, has reached No.…
When prepping for a trip, something we’ve all contended with is that we’re so preoccupied with figuring out what to pack for the trip that what to wear to the airport becomes an afterthought, even though that’s one of the most important outfits of the entire trip, in my opinion. It can be a challenge to find the perfect outfit for a travel day that checks all the boxes: comfortable, stylish, and versatile enough to handle varying temperatures. But you know whose airport outfits always check all the boxes? Dua Lipa.Dua Lipa was recently spotted at JFK, and she seems…
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something.In a new paper in Nature, scientists have chronicled a “black hole star” that’s the size of our solar system and glows bright red in the depth of space. The findings are based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, which continues to change how astronomers think about the cosmos.Researchers focused on some of the most distant observable phenomena in the universe, which appear to be something like a star in disguise. Based on the light they emit, they appear to share some characteristics with giant stars,…
Sick of the AI slop that’s infiltrated every corner of the internet? Desperate to ditch the corporate rat race? Stressing about the cost of living while billionaires shoot rockets into space? We’ve got book recs for that! If the current state of the world has you spiraling into existentialism, swap your doomscrolling for summer reading + take solace in the fact that you’re not the only one who’s tired of living through unprecedented times. For cathartic tales of corporate mayhem: Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, translated by Mara Faye Lethem Fallow by Sarah Anderson I Hope This Finds You Well by…
Social media has upended how people engage with healthcare, as it provides a platform for people to share their experiences, find support groups, and learn more about symptoms and conditions. But it’s also given nefarious actors a platform to promote products, spread misinformation and prey on people’s fears. Meanwhile, algorithms deliver users an individually tailored stream of content, promoting and prioritizing the most engaging posts with little oversight.In her book “Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health” (Oneworld Publications, 2026), author Dr. Deborah Cohen, a broadcaster, journalist and editor who has a medical degree from the University of Manchester…
The next morning, John retrieves Hal from the sheriff’s department — where Kerry kept him in a broom closet, because OF COURSE she saw through his ruse — and Hal is arraigned. A local lawyer steps up during the proceedings and offers to represent Hal, who hires him on the spot; the lawyer is Billy Macon (Jason Ritter, “Matlock”), and he happens to be Kerry’s husband. After Billy gets Hal released, he invites them to his father’s ranch that night for dinner. His father is a huge Green Lantern fan, he explains, and really wants to meet the hero himself.…
Body horror, at its best, reacquaints us with the flesh, asking us to accept the strange and often disturbing experiences of what that entails. Veronica’s nightmare of giving birth to a writhing maggot-baby – arguably the film’s most unforgettable image – locates that same fear of threatened bodily autonomy in unmistakably gendered terms. Brundle fears the body he no longer recognises, but Veronica fears a body capable of producing new life beyond her control. It is this viscerality, rendered through the film’s Oscar-winning practical effects, that captures the fraught relationship with our bodies so acutely. Of course, simply being acquainted with the flesh…
Here are the eleven best 1970s glam rock albums ranked in order.There probably isn’t another period in rock history quite like the early-to-mid 1970s and there probably never will be again, in all honesty. As we know, the late 1960s was when the tides began to turn; gone were the days where people thought The Beatles actually had long hair. By the time the 1970s rolled around, it was game over. Rockstars were decked out in makeup, platform boots, glitter, and clothes that simply would’ve been unthinkable a few years earlier. Some of the Alice Cooper group’s first outfits were old…
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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? The ghost mall phenomenon inspired Mall Goddess. Having grown up in the Midwest, I’m struck by the transformation of malls from fun meeting places to acres of emptiness. I hope these old buildings will transform in a positive way. So, I set a story in a crumbling behemoth. The characters within the mall battle against changing times and corruption. It’s a light-hearted read, but it’s firmly grounded in the real-life evolution of brick-and-mortar to online retail, and how this impacts people\’s financial stability and community connections. If…
A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic as part of a new weekly service on a route that cuts shipment times in half but that environmental groups warn could speed up the melting of polar ice. View Original Source Here
John Johnson/HBO Max The ambitious HBO series “Lanterns,” based on DC Comics’ “Green Lantern” franchise, stars Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, a rookie space cop training under aging intergalactic peacekeeper Hal Jordan, played by Kyle Chandler. Stewart learns some of the dos and don’ts of being a member of the Green Lantern Corps cosmic peace force in the rural America of “Lanterns.” The pair of superheroes stumble onto a conspiracy threatening to disrupt more than just Stewart’s apprenticeship. The show has been compared to “True Detective,” which happens to be one…
The new movie and TV releases coming to HBO Max from August 17 to August 23, 2026, include Mother Mary, Thanksgiving, and many more. Mother Mary is written and directed by David Lowery. The psychological drama film focuses on pop star Mother Mary reuniting with her estranged friend and ex-costume designer. However, this reunion brought old wounds to the fore, forcing Mary to face her past. The film received mixed reviews and features Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in key roles. Also coming to HBO Max is the Eli Roth-directed slasher film Thanksgiving, which follows a small town in Massachusetts…
Noah Kahan welcomed Chappell Roan on stage during his Saturday concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to perform her song “California.” Watch fan-made video below. Late into the 27-song set on Kahan’s “The Great Divide Tour,” he introduced Roan, who thanked the audience before giving Kahan some appreciation. “Noah always stands up for me,” Roan told the crowd. “He’s a good person, for real.” Get Noah Kahan Tickets Here Before performing “California,” a song from Roan’s 2023 debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Kahan said the track was the first he ever heard by his…
I’m a beauty editor, so it’s part of my job to trial and document the eye creams that blast away dark circles and the serums that revive dull skin. While these lotions and potions get us to the finish line, everyone knows that the real driver behind bright under-eyes and plump skin is adequate sleep.While I have a seemingly endless number of products that can place a Band-Aid over a bigger issue, I know enough about the human body to recognize that I’ll never achieve the complexion, energy, or metabolism I desire until my sleep quality improves. But as someone…
I’m already growing hoarse in Golden Gate Park as Charli XCX takes the stage at a San Francisco music festival. The crowd starts jumping as a guitar hook hits, and I reluctantly comply, bouncing around on these aging knees as my chunky Puff necklace almost flies off the chain.During a lull in the set, someone next to me compliments the necklace, which has stainless steel swirls and a bulbous orange center. Their eyes grow wide as I flip the cap off and explain that it’s a hidden USB flash drive—I plugged the Puff into my phone to show off the…
Every month, the What’s Up in YA newsletter has a roundup of the best YA graphic novels and comics out that month. I’ve combined all of these comics into a collection: Young Adult Graphic Novels & Comics of 2026. Anyone can browse Book Riot collections and click the covers to find the publisher’s description, the Book Riot recommendation, and links for where to purchase the title.All Access members can create their own private and public collections, so if you want to keep track of the new YA releases on your TBR, that’s the best way to do it! Check out…
Four lemurs that had close contact with people, including one via a “lemur yoga” class, caught a human herpesvirus and subsequently died, a new study shows.The virus at fault was herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which is extremely common in humans. In people, the infection usually causes no symptoms or produces cold sores. In primates, though, the infections can often be deadly — in this case, all four lemurs developed encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, and died.This is the first time that an HSV-1 infection has been confirmed in lemurs via a molecular analysis — namely, PCR tests…
NBC In 1967, Julie Newmar — who was already well known for her slinky portrayal of Catwoman on another hit 1960s TV show, “Batman” — beamed her way into the 2nd season of the original “Star Trek” series. Her character made it to the end of her episode, too. But if writer D.C. Fontana had her way, that ending would have been far more tragic. In “Friday’s Child,” Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) must protect Eleen, the pregnant widow of Capella IV’s slain…
In perhaps the least surprising news of all of Disney’s D23 Expo this year, the company announced they are moving forward with a third film in their hugely successful Zootopia franchise.Voice actors Ginnifer Goodwin (Judy Hopps) and Ke Huy Quan (Gary De’Snake) announced the project during the D23 Disney films event on Friay night. They revealed the film’s title treatment (and, yeah, it’s just called Zootopia 3) as well as the fact that it will introduce birds to the world of Zootopia. (Snakes like Quan’s Gary were introduced in Zootopia 2.)READ MORE: The Worst Disney Villains of All TimeFew sequels in history have ever felt more…
Though they haven’t made a hit in 25 years, Sugar Ray has never really gone away in the minds of millennials like Julia Jacklin, who grew up on Mark McGrath and co.’s indelible late ‘90s alt-rock-and-pop blend. That’s why the Australian singer-songwriter decided to cover the band’s single “Every Morning” for Triple J. Check out her slightly more downtempo version below.“I’ve liked it since I was a little kid,” Jacklin says about the track. “I love any way to connect with my younger self as much as I can. I feel like we were singing it together: me now, and…
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