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These Hollywood-Loved Designer Handbags Are Up to $1,500 Off at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale
Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale has opened to the public, offering discounts on designer handbags from brands including Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Coach and Vince. The annual event, one of the retailer’s biggest sales of the year, gives shoppers a rare chance to buy luxury bags that typically avoid major markdowns, making it a popular window for…
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3 Psychedelic Rock Songs From 1967 That Made Pop Radio Feel Like a Fever Dream
This American Songwriter feature revisits 1967, widely regarded as psychedelic rock’s peak year, when even the genre’s more experimental tracks managed to crack the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The piece highlights how mainstream pop radio briefly embraced strange, boundary-pushing sounds as musical tastes shifted, and selects three songs it considers emblematic…
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Meg Stalter Returns To Broadway’s ‘Oh, Mary!’, Silently Greets Stage Door Fans With A Written Note Of Explanation
Actor and comedian Meg Stalter returned to her Broadway debut role as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” on Friday evening, having missed a week of performances due to bronchitis. Her comeback matters chiefly to fans and followers of the hit comedy, as her illness had briefly fuelled online speculation about her whereabouts,…
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Over 40 Years Later, Horror Still Hasn’t Topped This Movie’s Perfect Ending
An article marking over 40 years since John Carpenter’s *The Thing* was released argues that the 1982 sci-fi horror film still has the finest ending in the genre, one that no subsequent horror movie has managed to surpass. Rather than offering a neat resolution, the film closes on unresolved ambiguity, deliberately denying audiences the closure…
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Forget ‘Bosch,’ Billy Bob Thornton’s 4-Part Crime Hit Is Taking Over Prime Video
Billy Bob Thornton’s legal thriller *Goliath* has surged back into Prime Video’s top 10 charts in several countries, as fans of crime dramas seek a replacement following the conclusion of the Bosch franchise and the announcement that *The Lincoln Lawyer* will end after its next season. The four-season series, in which Thornton stars as troubled…
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Indie Devs Unfairly Attacked Over Sony Decision to Stop Making Discs
Independent developers promoting their PS5 games on social media are being unfairly caught up in backlash over Sony’s decision to stop producing physical discs from 2028, according to Push Square. The controversy stems from PlayStation’s official accounts retweeting indie studios’ own promotional posts, which then draw a flood of “No Disc, No Buy” complaints aimed…
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Say Goodbye to the $129 Million Adventure Flop on Paramount+
Matthew McConaughey’s 2005 adventure film Sahara is set to leave Paramount+ in the US, prompting a look back at one of Hollywood’s most infamous box-office flops. The film, directed by Breck Eisner and also starring Steve Zahn and Penélope Cruz, was designed as an Indiana Jones-style adventure but became notorious for its runaway costs and…
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40 years ago, an iconic sci-fi thriller redefined what a sequel could be — and changed Hollywood forever
This year marks 40 years since the release of *Aliens*, James Cameron’s 1986 sequel to Ridley Scott’s *Alien*, which is widely regarded as a masterclass in how to follow up a beloved original without simply repeating it. Rather than recreating the claustrophobic horror of the first film, Cameron reimagined the franchise as a military action…