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Inside ‘DAU,’ the 20-Year Soviet Simulation That Became Cinema’s Strangest Ghost Story
Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s long-mythologised film project DAU is finally arriving at the Venice Film Festival, two decades after he began building a sealed, fully functioning recreation of a Soviet research institute in Kharkiv, Ukraine. What started in 2006 as a conventional biopic of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lev Landau, nicknamed “Dau”, spiralled into an immersive,…
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About Premium Content Inks International Deals for Mystery and Romance Series, Counterfeit Art Doc (EXCLUSIVE)
Boutique distributor About Premium Content (APC) has secured several international broadcast deals for its French-language slate ahead of Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous event in Le Havre, covering crime drama “Blue Gold,” romance series “Seasons” and art-fraud documentary “An Artful Imbroglio.” The sales extend the shows’ reach across the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain and Belgium, adding to…
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8 Sci-Fi TV Shows With Aliens That Are 10/10 Masterpieces
Collider has put together a list of science-fiction television series featuring extraterrestrial life that it rates as ten-out-of-ten masterpieces. The feature highlights how differently aliens can be portrayed on screen, from menacing, monstrous threats to complex characters used to explore weighty philosophical and social themes, and argues that the best examples elevate their shows well…
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One minute Daniel was at party to celebrate his engagement. The next, the young plumber was dying in a Thomastown car park, shot by a mystery gunman after being stalked by an unmarked Porsche
A 22-year-old plumber, Daniel Hussein, was shot dead in a car park in Thomastown, in Melbourne’s north, just hours after celebrating his engagement with family and friends. Mr Hussein reportedly told relatives shortly before the shooting that he was being followed by a mysterious unregistered black Porsche, and his family believe he was killed after…
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Review: Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 (PS5) – A Deeply Disappointing Downgrade of a Sequel
Push Square’s review of Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 for PS5 delivers a harsh verdict, calling the co-op shooter sequel “one of the most frustrating fumbles of 2026.” The reviewer, a self-professed fan of the Alien franchise and the original Fireteam Elite, argues the sequel represents a significant step backwards rather than a natural progression, with…
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Apple TV Officially Crowns the Best Sherlock Holmes Movie
Apple TV’s editorial team has named Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film “Sherlock Holmes,” starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular detective, the best big-screen adaptation of the character. The article credits Ritchie’s stylistic reinvention of Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuth, moving him away from the traditional pipe-smoking, deerstalker-hat image towards a scruffy, physically imposing and bohemian figure,…
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The Business of Lucy Darling: How Carisa Hendrix Went From Performing At Haunted Houses To Touring Globally As Her Old Hollywood-Inspired Character – Comedy Means Business Podcast
Deadline’s Comedy Means Business podcast profiles Carisa Hendrix, the Canadian comedian and magician who built a global touring empire around Lucy Darling, an Old Hollywood-inspired glamour character she created in 2017. Her story shows how a variety act born from teenage haunted-house gigs and youth-outreach performing programmes grew into a self-managed, data-driven touring business, offering…
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Preview: Alien Deathstorm Is Not the Sci-Fi Horror I Expected
Rebellion’s upcoming shooter Alien Deathstorm surprised a Push Square previewer at Gamescom by offering a far more atmospheric, exploration-driven experience than the linear sci-fi shooter they expected, blending combat with genuine horror elements. During a 20-minute hands-on demo, the writer was left to navigate a storm-battered station with only a vague compass marker for guidance,…
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Man About the House star Richard O’Sullivan dies at 82
The actor Richard O’Sullivan has died at the age of 82, prompting a look back at a career that ran from precocious child star to one of British sitcom’s most beloved leading men. He began acting almost by chance, after being sent to the Corona Theatre School to soften an Irish accent picked up on…
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Dungeon Crawler Carl meets The Finals in this wild new FPS
Korean developer NC unveiled Like or Die, a new first-person shooter, during Gamescom 2026’s Opening Night Live showcase. The game draws heavy visual and mechanical inspiration from Embark Studios’ The Finals, featuring destructible environments, traversal tools such as zip lines and jump pads, and players who explode into pixelated cubes on defeat, but reframes the…