Talk Fuse

    Topic: Entertainment

    Entertainment brings together the latest from film, television, music and gaming, tracking everything from big studio releases and streaming hits to the smaller stories behind the scenes. Expect a mix of reviews, interviews and features that look at how films and shows come together, the choices actors and musicians make along the way, and how decisions by studios and networks play out once viewers get involved.

    The topic also keeps an eye on the business and cultural side of the industry: how streaming services are reshaping what gets made and watched, the sometimes tangled relationship between entertainment and technology, and the moments when a franchise, format or platform doesn't go the way its backers hoped. Older films, shows and songs feature too, revisited with the benefit of hindsight on decisions that looked different at the time.

    For readers, it's a way to keep up with what's actually worth watching or listening to, understand the reasoning behind the projects that shape popular culture, and see how the industry's bigger shifts affect the entertainment on offer day to day.

    • TriCoast Worldwide & Vitagraph Set Fall Release For Malcolm McDowell & James Paxton Western ‘Last Train To Fortune’

      TriCoast Worldwide and Vitagraph Films have set a theatrical release for the Adam Rifkin-directed western comedy “Last Train to Fortune,” starring Malcolm McDowell and James Paxton. The film’s release matters as much for its lengthy backstory as its cast: the script was written 37 years ago by Rifkin’s mother Michele Rifkin and was originally meant…

    • Motorola Razr Fold Review

      Motorola has released the Razr Fold, a new book-style foldable phone that abandons the flip-phone format of earlier Razr models in favour of a “hotdog fold” design similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold range. Reviewed by IGN, the £1,899 ($1,899) device is notably thin and well-built, suggesting Motorola has drawn heavily on its foldable experience…

    • JERRY CANTRELL, KIM THAYIL And DAVE KRUSEN Set For ‘Sounds Of Seattle: Vol. 2’ Rock Camp In December 2026

      Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp has announced “Sounds Of Seattle: Vol. 2”, a four-day rock camp taking place in Seattle in December 2026, featuring Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen. The event lets musicians of all abilities rehearse, learn and perform alongside artists associated…

    • Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

      Anthropic has reportedly agreed a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing deal with AI infrastructure startup Volta, the latest in a string of major compute partnerships as it races to expand capacity amid fierce competition with rival AI labs. The agreement, first reported by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, underscores the scale of investment AI companies are…

    • Xbox’s free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars

      Xbox is marking its 25th anniversary this autumn with a set of free digital gifts for players, ahead of the milestone’s actual date of 15 November. The giveaways are largely cosmetic but aim to give the community a way to celebrate, even as the promised free translucent green Xbox Series X console will not, in…

    • The “truly great” 2004 movie Billy Bob Thornton made 30 years too late: “It would have done very well”

      Billy Bob Thornton has said that his 2004 historical epic *The Alamo* was “truly great” but was released 30 years too late, arguing it would have fared better at the box office had it come out in the 1970s. The John Lee Hancock-directed film, in which Thornton played Davy Crockett, was a critical and commercial…

    • Idaho College Murders Doc Series Grabs Attention On Netflix; ‘Ransom Canyon’ Season 2 Off To Slow Start

      Netflix’s new true-crime documentary The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare has topped the streamer’s English-language TV chart, drawing strong viewership for its account of the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. The series’ immediate popularity contrasts with a more muted reception for the second season of romantic western Ransom Canyon, which underperformed expectations despite…

    • 8 Fantasy Book Series With the Most Masterful World-Building

      Collider has published a list highlighting eight fantasy book series praised for exceptional world-building, arguing that while most fantasy aims for immersive settings, only a select few truly excel at constructing detailed, believable worlds. The feature spotlights titles that use either painstaking detail or simple, effective design to draw readers in over many years, from…

    • Hana Stretton – “From”

      British-Australian ambient-folk artist Hana Stretton has released “From,” the fifth preview track from her forthcoming second album, tiarn, due out this Friday. The song adds to a run of singles that includes “Stove,” “Salt,” “Seagull Theory II,” and “As It Was Before This,” building anticipation ahead of the record’s release. Stretton wrote the atmospheric track…

    • Mistfall Hunter Has Made Me A Believer In Extraction Games

      Mistfall Hunter is a fascinating mix of games. On the one hand, it’s a dark fantasy action-RPG with some deep class-building and light souls-like mechanics. On the other, it’s a PvEvP third-person battle royale that sits firmly in the extraction shooter genre. Typically, I’d avoid the latter kind of game, as my low vision makes…