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On Friday night, mere minutes after the New York Knicks wiped the floor with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Playoffs, Bill Maher kicked off his latest “Real Time” monologue by wading into the murky waters of Blake Lively v. .

Anthony “Tony” Eugene Amatullo Jr., a former Warner Bros. .

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for “Mortal Kombat II,” now playing in theaters. .

Trump Media and Technology Group, operator of social-media platform Truth Social, reported a massive net loss for the first three months of 2026 and less than $1 million in total sales. .

The social satire “Our Hero, Balthazar” has an incredibly dark logline: A young man named Balthazar (Jaeden Martell), who spends time forcing tears for online videos lamenting gun violence, travels to Texas to intervene with a person who he believes to be a potential school shooter (Asa Butterfield). Despite the pitch-black premise, co-writer and director […].

Before “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” there was “Prognosis: Negative,” a film script written by Larry David in the 1980s that was never produced. .

It was mere hours before No Doubt kicked off its residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere when the emotional weight of the moment struck bassist Tony Kanal. .

There’s a lot of sound and fury against David Ellison’s pending $111 billion megamerger with Warner Bros. .

Shawn Levy is set to direct the original sci-fi movie “Somewhere Out There” for Netflix. .

Oscar winners Renée Zellweger and Sissy Spacek will star with rising talent Mia Threapleton in “A Woman in the Sun.” Black Bear and Artist Equity have partnered with Zellweger’s Big Picture Co. .

Late-night hosts discussed Marco Rubio’s meeting with the pope, Trump bragging about his mental acuity and the ongoing ‘skirmish’ in Iran.

Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’.

This Florida-set revenge thriller swings between being boring and ludicrous. It’s riddled with awkward dialogue and convenient plotting.

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The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected.

The long-suffering saga has been kept alive this decade by TV alone – but even that will perish if the new movie fails to extend its universe.

The Brooklyn-based artist’s songs seem to follow private trains of thought, which shift their subtle musical colours in a way that will slink in to your head, too.

For nearly four decades, the artist Kermit Oswald lived with some of the most intimate works Haring ever made. Now the pieces are going up for auction.

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On a floral-themed LP, squiggling melodies and quizzical distortion banish the winter gloom Dreijer brought to the Knife and his tracks with Fever Ray.

For anyone needing a break from binging The Pitt, you can always put in your own shifts as a hospital manager, surgeon, paramedic and of course as a demonic morgue assistant.

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary adventures.

Ahead of her new album, Bitch, we rate the best of a singer who expertly suffuses self-empowerment anthems with humour and party-starting energy.

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targeted.

As he plays a dodgy sheriff in Ben Wheatley’s Normal, Odenkirk will be here to answer your inquiries about a remarkable career that has taken him from Wayne’s World to Saturday Night Live and The Bear.

Stories of chance encounters at home and abroad and the influence of his programmes around the world.

The great Mexican director is in England to pick up a BFI fellowship – and buy a haunted house. He talks gods, ghosts, monsters and almost being destroyed by the Weinsteins.

Spokesperson for Welsh singer shared further update on her health after she was rushed to hospital in Faro, Portugal.

The iconic fashion photographer has been crowned a master at this year’s Photo London – a rare exhibition of his stunning work in the capital proves why.

Shelby Van Pelt’s best-selling book is adapted into an easily digestible, sweet-natured afternoon watch .

Eilish and Cameron are mismatched in flashy pop documentary that misses the subtlety of her music .

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Lyrics about naked owls and eating rocks might be irksome to some – but there’s no denying that the alt-rocker’s fifth album is beguiling, tightly written and richly melodic.

This astounding true story, written by Neil Forsyth, asks the question: what if the A-Team was comprised entirely of disgruntled customs officers?

As photography became mainstream in the mid-20th century, a group of teachers helped solidify art photography as a movement. The work and lives of Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan and other photographers are celebrated in a new exhibition. Photography As a Way of Life is on display at the Princeton University Art Museum until 7 September.

From gigantic goat hair costumes to small hidden rooms in houses, this year’s photography festival takes a turn for the spectral.

For more than two decades, Pardington has been photographing taonga (Māori cultural treasures) and natural history specimens in museums around the world. In the South Canterbury museum, she was struck by a collection of stuffed native birds which had been subject to taxidermy – many of them now extinct or endangered. They inspired a new human-scale portrait series of these manu (birds), revered within Māori culture as intermediaries between human and divine worlds. The resulting works will be exhibited at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes.