Author: Rahul M

20th Century Studios It’s been a time of feast and famine for big blockbusters in 2025. Hits like “A Minecraft Movie” and “Superman” have broken out, but even the once-powerful Disney has had a rough time navigating the 2025 box office. The costliest flops offer a stark reminder that even a reliable brand name isn’t enough to guarantee financial returns. Into this uncertain domain strolled “Predator: Badlands,” the first theatrically-released franchise entry since 2018’s “The Predator.”  Before its release, expectations were guarded over this production’s financial potential. Could the umpteenth “Predator” movie…

CBS Contains spoilers for “Fire Country” Season 4, Episode 4 — “Like a Wounded Wildebeest” Bode Leone (played by former child star Max Thieriot) is notorious for making the worst possible choices with his time, safety, and life in “Fire Country,” so it’s not surprising that he turns away from what’s been a supportive and healthy relationship with Audrey James (Leven Rambin) to try to keep his head above water. It’s a disappointing twist, but probably not that surprising after his brief reconnection with Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) before her departure…

NBC In 2025, “Saturday Night Live” celebrated its 50th anniversary on the air, bringing back as many former cast members, guest hosts, and musical performers as possible to highlight the series’ momentous influence on comedy and popular culture. Because it’s been on for over half a century, having launched its 51st season in late 2025, fans of “SNL” stretch across generations, from all ages and all walks of life. But one episode remains unseen by many of today’s fans, and that’s the very first one. “SNL” premiered on October 11, 1975,…

Paramount Pictures RATING : 7.5 / 10 Pros Surprisingly mature work from Edgar Wright Strong showing from Glen Powell in the lead Largely true to the source material Cons Doesn’t quite stick the landing Too toothless where it really counts Over the years, Stephen King has had to endure some awful movie adaptations, but 2025 has given us three well received ones thus far. Reigning king of King translations Mike Flanagan gave us the uplifting “The Life of Chuck”; Osgood Perkins dropped the gleefully malicious “The Monkey”; and Francis Lawrence offered up…

George Burns Jr/NBC Dean Archer (Steven Weber) has had his share of detractors during his time on “Chicago Med,” but did you know his story arc was almost completely different? Weber revealed during an appearance on The One Chicago Podcast that Dean was almost killed off during his first season on the program. The actor said that in the original sides he auditioned with, “the character was a guy who was a naval surgeon, who had been to Afghanistan, had been wounded, had PTSD, and in fact, at the end…

Thirty-eight years later, The Running Man is back on our screens, playing to a world that seems to have caught up with the original’s idiocy. This new one features a considerably less bulky, but no less watchable star in Glen Powell, playing runner Ben Richards. Fired from various jobs for insubordination, and tending to a sick toddler, he’s press-ganged into joining America’s favorite kill-or-be-killed game show, after a producer identifies him as “quantifiably the angriest man to ever audition.”The show’s premise has been tweaked a bit, too. Instead of navigating a series of video-game-like levels for the length of a…

When Apple released the Vision Pro last year, the headset had three main drawbacks: a $3,499 starting price, an uncomfortable design and a limited selection of content.With the debut of a new version with an M5 chip, Apple hasn’t lowered the price or added much additional content. But it has addressed the comfort issue — without changing the hardware itself — thanks to a new head strap called the Dual Knit Band.The strap is included with all new Vision Pro units, and existing owners can buy one for $99. That means there’s little reason for current Vision Pro users to…

Netflix In hindsight, it felt inevitable that “Stranger Things” would become a phenomenon. Despite being an original property, its 1980s setting gives it a nostalgic, familiar feeling. It helps that it’s full of cultural references, from “Gremlins” to “Ghostbusters,” for viewers to pick up on. Beyond that, “Stranger Things” hooked viewers with its biggest mysteries, like why Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) has powerful telekinetic abilities and what the true purpose of the Upside Down is.  “Stranger Things” has done a great job of teasing out information with each passing season. Even between seasons (which frequently spanned…

Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock The year 1994 belonged to Jim Carrey, as he starred in three major comedy films: “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “Dumb and Dumber,” and “The Mask.” The latter, though, could have established him as a horror icon if one of the original outlines had been chosen. The origins of “The Mask” trace back to the ’80s, when Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson worked with writer-artist Mark Badger to create a character known then as the Masque. “The idea I had was sort of a combination of a Steve…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday congratulated voters of Bihar for what he described as “historic voting for change” and expressed confidence that a “progressive, job-creating Mahagathbandhan government” would soon be formed in the state. He also advised all Mahagathbandhan candidates, workers and supporters to remain vigilant during the counting process and keep a watch where the EVMs are stored and maintain a 24-hour surveillance there. In a post on social media platform X, Yadav alleged that the ruling party was spreading confusion through “pre-planned fake exit…