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Warner Bros. Pictures It’s the spooky season once again, which means that horror movies aren’t just another genre of film, but a must-watch. There have been plenty of new additions to the catalog of seasonal greats in 2025, and it just so happens that HBO Max just added one of the year’s best to stream, perfectly timed for Halloween: “Weapons,” a film we called a “gruesome and unsettling crowdpleaser” in our review.  Helmed by “Barbarian” director Zach Cregger, “Weapons” features an ensemble cast led by Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Alden Ehrenreich,…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters on Friday marched through one of the favelas targeted in Rio de Janeiro’s most lethal police raid that left more than 100 dead, calling for Rio state Gov. Cláudio Castro to resign amid continued outrage over the deadly operation. Locals, politicians, activists, grieving mothers who lost their sons in prior operations and people from other Rio neighborhoods gathered to voice their fury in Vila Cruzeiro, part of the Penha complex of favelas, where days prior residents laid out scores of bodies they had collected from a nearby green area following the raid.At…

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” is a perennial holiday favorite for many. Interestingly, despite coming out in 1993, Tim Burton pitched the idea a full decade earlier in 1983. Fans studying that decade-long span will spot “Nightmare” protagonist Jack Skellington pop up a few times across Burton’s earlier efforts, including his 1988 horror comedy “Beetlejuice.” Toward that film’s climax, Lydia (Winona Ryder) summons Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to save the Maitlands’ ghosts from her family’s exorcism. Beetlejuice emerges from the floor, wearing a carnival-themed mobile on his head. For a quick second, you can see that the top…

“It: Welcome to Derry” is an eerie, chilling prequel that takes us to Derry, Maine, decades before Stephen King’s Losers Club was even born. In the show’s second episode, “The Thing in the Dark,” even its opening credits are loaded with hidden meaning. If you want a complete rundown of every single reference the credits make, click the video above. It includes scenes which foreshadow and recall many a local tragedy, ultimately turning the whole opening package into a loving, tightly-packed tribute to King’s world.  The most prominent image in the first few…

Theo Wargo/Getty Images It’s never easy to break into the acting business. Everyone has to start somewhere, whether it’s in a b-grade horror movie or by popping up in a Burger King commercial. Some of the world’s most famous faces have climbed the ladder to fame via humble beginnings. Behold one such luminary: Oscar winner and Marvel Cinematic Universe’s enthusiastic Egyptian god Khonshu, F. Murray Abraham as an underwear mascot. Known today to switch effortlessly between blockbuster movies, theatre, and horrifying short films, in the mid-to-late 1970s, he was arguably best-known as the Leaf.…

From favorite son to tabloid fodder, Prince Andrew this week was stripped of his remaining titles and evicted from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.As of Friday, the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, was no longer listed on the roll of the peerage, where he had previously appeared as Duke of York, another of his titles.____This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Further, that alleged activity can’t even reliably be linked to any Meta employee, Meta claims.Strike 3 “does not identify any of the individuals who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any were employed by Meta or had any role in AI training at Meta, or specify whether (and which) content allegedly downloaded was used to train any particular Meta model,” Meta wrote.Meanwhile, “tens of thousands of employees,” as well as “innumerable contractors, visitors, and third parties access the internet at Meta every day,” Meta argued. So while it’s “possible one or more Meta employees” downloaded Strike 3’s content…

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 31 (ANI): BJP MP and actor Ravi Kishan has filed a police complaint in Gorakhpur after receiving death threats and abusive phone calls containing derogatory remarks about his family and religious beliefs. An FIR has been registered at the Ramgarh Taal police station, officials said on Friday. Gorakhpur city SP Abihnav Tyagi said, “An incident has come to light where an unknown individual threatened MP Ravi Kishan over the phone regarding his speeches during the Bihar election campaign. A case has been registered at the Ramgarh police station under relevant sections, and investigation is underway.” According to…

CAIRO (AP) — Groups of gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan attacked in several waves, abducting doctors and nurses, then gunning down staff, patients and people sheltering there, the World Health Organization said Friday.The attack Tuesday in the country’s Darfur region was part of a reported rampage by the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group, as it captured the key city of el-Fasher after besieging it for 18 months. Witnesses have reported fighters going house-to-house, killing civilians and committing sexual assaults.Many details of the hospital attack and other violence in the city…