Dungeons and Dragons has been a big part of Stranger Things from the beginning, with the Mind Flayer, Vecna, and many of the other threats coming directly from that board game. However, there is one ...

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Predator: Badlands is set in the future on a ruthless alien planet, where Dek, a young Predator rejected by his own kind, ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash has become the third film in the franchise to surpass $1 billion at the global box office, but questions ...

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Sigourney Weaver recently revealed the key advice she gives younger actors. Before sharing that advice, she said, ‘I'm ...

Steven Spielberg approached sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov about writing the script for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but ...

David Bowie’s had a vigorous afterlife since dying in New York 10 years ago. He conquered Billboard’s album chart for the ...

This week's letters to the editor address our 'law and order president,' square dancing and Ron Johnson's support of a book.

I keep waiting to become more cynical about movies as a film critic. Every week I read one think piece after the next about how cinema is dying and no good movies are made anymore, but 2025 was packed ...

“Bugonia” refers to the ancient Greek belief that bees could spawn spontaneously from dead cow carcasses, and that cow dung was beneficial to the hive. It’s a myth, of course, but that didn’t stop ...