Warning: Spoilers ahead for the finale of HBO’s The Last of Us.
The power of The Last of Us video game lies in its ending. Every single chapter leads to the crucial moment when Joel must decide whether he will murder both rebels and innocent medical workers in order to save Ellie from an operation that would kill her but save the world. The scene r…
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After six seasons entertaining viewers as the royal family’s party girl, Princess Margaret’s run on The Crown comes to a brutal end with the series’ final episode drop on Dec. 14.
As well as capturing the highs of the special relationship between the Queen and Margaret—including a night off royal duties to sneak out for VE day celebrations at London’s Ritz hotel in 1945…
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There’s an idiom in Swedish—kärt besvär—that I quite love. It sums up many of the important things we do in life. And as one ages, it seems more and more that everything becomes a kärt besvär.
The words break down to kärt (sounds like “shairt”), meaning “dear or cherished or beloved,” and besvä…
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Cats are known to do one very specific thing: whatever they want. Which is why it’s usually not a good idea to try to get a house cat to perform a trick, especially one they don’t have a choice in. Yesterday, after Taylor Swift was announced as TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year, social media users gravitated toward one of the three covers in particular. In the cover portrait, Swift is joined…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Knock at the Cabin.
In writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie Knock at the Cabin, one family is faced with a grievous choice: willingly sacrifice one of their own or, as the four armed strangers holding them hostage claim, the world will end.
The apocalyptic horror film, in theaters Feb. 3, is …
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Earlier this week, Film Twitter spiraled into an unhappy frenzy upon hearing the news that Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) had killed the upcoming movie Batgirl. The DC Comics movie had filmed for seven months with a reported budget of $90 million—and now, thanks to the apparent finger snap of an executive, it was vanishing into thin air. Others observed that several movies streaming …
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Several much-anticipated new series, as well as beloved old favorites, are coming to Netflix in April 2022. Anatomy of a Scandal, an adaption of Sarah Vaughan’s best-selling novel, premieres on April 15, and an interactive trivia game starts April 1. New seasons of Russian Doll and Better Call Saul also hit the streaming platform this month.
If you’v…
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ongoing quest to become media multihyphenates is set to peak in the coming weeks: Harry’s hotly anticipated memoir Spare hits the shelves on Jan. 10, Meghan recently landed major celebrities and public figures like Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and Serena Williams on her podcast Archetypes, and Netflix has now released two trailers for…
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What happens when two of the most anticipated films of 2023 debut in the same week? A fan-made movie crossover event known as Barbenheimer.
Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Dua Lipa, and Issa Rae, among several others, will release on July 21. Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s film on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was integral to …
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Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X are two of the most famous civil rights leaders in America. And yet, they only met once.
The photo seen below of the duo—King at left, Malcolm X at right—was taken 60 years ago this year on Mar. 26, 1964, at the U.S. Capitol. Segregationists in the U.S. Senate were filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the two had come to support the pass…
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