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Zendaya and Pattinson's Strangest Movie Yet Hits HBO Max Friday
The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli's A24 dark comedy about a couple unraveling the week before their wedding, was a surprise 126 million dollar hit. On Friday it comes home to streaming.
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The best-reviewed thing arriving on streaming this week is also the strangest. The Drama lands on HBO Max this Friday, July 31, and if you skipped its spring run in theaters, this is the one to fix. Kristoffer Borgli, the…
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The Perfect Apocalypse Binge
Next month, Ridley Scott puts Jacob Elordi in a small plane over a dead America in his film of Peter Heller's novel The Dog Stars. It is the latest proof of a stubborn truth: the end of the world is…
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Arnold Turns 79. We Settled the Terminator vs T2 Argument for Good
He was told the accent, the name and the body would keep him out of Hollywood. They became the brand instead. A ranked tour, timed to his birthday this week.
Television
Is the Animated Batman Really Better Than the Movies?
Batman: Caped Crusader drops its second season on Prime Video this Friday, the whole thing at once. The live-action films get the scale, but the best Batman right now is hand-drawn.
Television
Netflix's Twist Machine Keeps Churning Out Content
I Will Find You has ruled Netflix's global chart since June. It is the newest of a decade of Coben adaptations, and they are very much not equal.
Games
Palworld's Comeback Pulled Almost a Million Players Back
The survival game everyone made monster-catching jokes about hit 1.0 this month, and it is still pulling close to a million players a night on Steam.
Games
Is the Console War Finally Over?
Halo: Campaign Evolved rebuilds the 2001 game that launched the Xbox in Unreal Engine 5, and for the first time in the franchise's history, you can play it on a PlayStation.
Books
Stephen King, Where to Start?
The Long Walk is topping HBO Max and the King adaptations keep coming. If the movies sent you looking, here is where the reading actually starts.
Music
Charli, Tyla, Shania, Ariana: This One Is Clearly Best
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Music
The Most Emotional Reunion of the Summer
The Fifty Something tour is Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson's first road trip in eleven years, and their first ever without Peart. It is also the best reason in a decade to finally get into Rush.
Cross-media
We Asked Our Algorithm What to Watch After Dune. It Told Us to Read Instead
Feed the CrossBinge engine Denis Villeneuve's Dune and the closest things it returns are not other blockbusters. They are Frank Herbert's novels and the adaptations everyone forgot.
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