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Premier League 2026-27 preview No 9: Everton
Everton enter the 2026-27 season with greater financial stability and cautious optimism, but their poor end to last season means claims of progress remain unproven. David Moyes’s side were briefly close to Champions League qualification in March before failing to win another match and finishing 13th, so stronger recruitment and a more consistent campaign will…
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Rami Malek’s $60 Million Spy-Thriller Flop Is Officially a Streaming Hit on Prime Video
Rami Malek’s 2025 spy thriller The Amateur, which underperformed in cinemas despite a reported $60 million budget, has become a streaming success on Prime Video. Its resurgence suggests that the film’s unusual premise—an inexperienced CIA decoder pursuing his wife’s killers—may be better suited to home audiences than theatrical ones, and could strengthen Malek’s case for…
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Gritty Action RPGs Will Soon Have Big Budget Competition from One of the World’s Most Popular Devs
HoYoverse is reportedly developing a darker, more realistic action RPG for consoles and PC, currently known as ‘The Weavers’. Leaked images and short gameplay clips suggest it could compete in the Soulslike and fantasy action RPG space, marking a notable departure from the developer’s established anime-style games. The project is said to feature open-world or…
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3 of the Best First No. 1 Hits in 60s Folk Music
The article highlights three 1960s folk-pop songs that became their performers’ first Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, The Mamas and the Papas’ “Monday, Monday”, and The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man”. It presents them as notable examples because folk music produced relatively few chart-topping singles, while each…
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The day Don Henley met his favourite singer: “You got a band?”
“It was funny…” The post The day Don Henley met his favourite singer: “You got a band?” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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‘Justified’s Best Walton Goggins Quote Is Still One of Television’s Greatest Villain Lines
Collider argues that Boyd Crowder’s declaration, “I am the outlaw,” remains one of television’s greatest villain lines because it captures the character’s charisma, ruthlessness and self-made identity. Spoken in Justified’s fourth-season episode “Outlaw”, it distinguishes Boyd from Harlan County’s wealthy criminal elite and reinforces why he became Raylan Givens’s most formidable long-term adversary. In the…
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Teamsters Pound Paramount Over WBD Merger Promises & Threats: “Stop Playing Games”
Teamsters Local 399 has criticised Paramount over its proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, demanding firm commitments to workers rather than public assurances and threats to leave California. The union says the merger could damage domestic film and television production and put jobs at risk, especially if cost-cutting follows a deal. The transaction…
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Why Green Day Wanted to Be Background Characters in Their Own Movie
Green Day chose to play minor background roles in Nimrods, a coming-of-age road-trip comedy inspired by their music and experiences, rather than making themselves the central characters. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said the approach was influenced by cult music films and allowed the band’s songs to shape the story without creating a conventional biopic. The…
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Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following ‘Top Tier’ Launch of Unhinged
Netflix has closed Night School, the Los Angeles studio behind Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2, shortly after the successful release of its narrative horror game Unhinged. The decision highlights Netflix’s continued restructuring of its games business, despite the company saying it remains committed to releasing games and describing Unhinged as a strong performer. Night School released…
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John Cena Made Peace With ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Never Coming Out: “I Don’t Own My Performance”
John Cena said he had accepted the possibility that Coyote vs. Acme might never have been released, stressing that performers do not control the business decisions made by a film’s owners. The film will now reach cinemas on 28 August after Ketchup Entertainment acquired it, ending a high-profile period in which Warner Bros. Discovery had…