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Few long-running anime have as much respect as Naruto and its sequel, Naruto: Shippuden. Though both the original and its sequel had their share of ups and downs, it’s generally agreed upon that Shippuden’s last fight is a major highlight of the franchise, and one of the best brawls ever put to animation. Unfortunately, despite the sheer epic scale of Naruto and Sasuke’s last battle, the remainder of the anime series is a mixed bag. Though Naruto: Shippuden doesn’t quite end with filler episodes, it also doesn’t end where fans would expect it to. In a move that no doubt…

Arlo Parks is a British singer-songwriter and poet from London, England, whose deeply emotive writing and genre-blending sound span indie pop, R&B, folk, and electronic textures. She first garnered widespread acclaim with her Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed in Sunbeams and followed with her introspective sophomore album My Soft Machine — both celebrated for lyrical honesty and rich musicality.Known for her tender voice, literary songwriting, and ability to translate complex feelings into graceful music, Parks has become one of the UK’s most compelling artistic voices of her generation.“2SIDED” is the lead single from Parks’ forthcoming third album Ambiguous Desire (due April 3, 2026 via Transgressive Records), a…

More than three years after the series was first announced, Amazon says it has found the man to play the star of its TV show based on the long-running God of War TV series.That’s him above on the left (uh, obviously). Ryan Hurst will play Kratos, the warrior at the center of the God of War games. Prime Video’s press release about the news says he is “Spartan by birth, and a god by nature” and was “raised in a martial culture, he rose to command armies in service of his homeland until one day he made a fateful deal with Ares, the Greek God…

Your watchlist and Westeros are both expanding, as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, the upcoming Game of Thrones spin-off based on George R. R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg stories, debuts on HBO on January 18. Following the dangerous adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell), the series has promised to be detailed in its dedication to the source material, and has become one that George R.R. Martin himself has publicly praised in the process. Ahead of the show’s release, and in the shadow of the first response on Rotten Tomatoes failing…

The long-awaited 3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has officially gone live early, and you can download it right now. The massive feature-packed 3.0 update was supposed to arrive on January 15, but appears to have launched a little bit earlier than planned. I spotted multiple reports of gamers getting access to the update around 11am GMT here in the UK, and have been able to confirm for myself that the 3.0 update has indeed landed. How To Grab The 3.0 Update Early It’s pretty easy LEGO room in pastel pink colors From Animal Crossing New Horizons 3 Update…

Festivals: Backstage Madness (2025) by Amanbek Azhymat: 70-year-old screenwriter battles nephew’s commercial demands through absurdist typewriter fantasies top of pagebottom of page

There’s a new highest-grossing actor in the history of movies.According to The Numbers, Zoe Saldaña has edged past Scarlett Johansson to become the #1 grossing actor in the entirety of cinema. Saldaña has appeared in many of the biggest films of the last two decades, including all three Guardians of the Galaxy films, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, plus all three Avatar films, up to and including the new Avatar: Fire and Ash, which recently passed $1 billion at the global box office and continues to sell tickets at an impressive rate.Between those various franchises, Saldaña has appeared in all three of the three biggest movies in history — and can take credit…

The Oscars race is well and truly in full gear, and the fight for supremacy in the Best Actor category is one of the most fascinating in recent memory. After taking home gold at the recent Golden Globe ceremony, Timothée Chalamet has perhaps now edged into poll position against the chasing pack, consisting of the likes of Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another. As the titular Marty Supreme, Chalamet delivers an electric, unmissable performance soaked in the flaws of a sports prodigy’s heavy ego, and fans have…

Page-to-screen adaptations are always tricky to master, and the changes in Netflix’s People We Meet On Vacation prove that despite Emily Henry’s book having the perfect rom-com flair, there were some things that had to shift to make the story work. Page-to-screen adaptations are nothing new. For as long as there have been stories, there have been adaptations, but page-to-screen is gaining new momentum in the streaming era. While Henry’s novel, a bestseller that debuted in 2021, is a brilliant work of fiction that brings together romance, comedy, and literary fiction, it was clear from the moment Netflix announced its…

This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with remarkable restraint. State of Statelessness is an anthology comprising four tales by the Drung Collective, a group of filmmakers working within the Tibetan diaspora. Each story is shaped by the same unresolved grief – for a distant land occupied and unreachable, for identities fractured by borders. Though the film travels across continents, its accounts are bound by a shared longing for a land lost not to time, but to erasure. Tsering Tashi Gyalthang’s Where the River Ends follows Pema, a young girl living in Vietnam with her Tibetan father, Tenzin. As…