FILM & TV
Variety
Swiss filmmaker Antonin Niclass brings imagination to life in “Into the Forest,” a stop-motion short which won Friday the Young Audience Award at the Annecy Animation Festival. Produced by Milos-Films and shot at Héli...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
10 of the best open-world games that encourage you to explore off the beaten track and immerse yourself in their worlds.
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | Lit Hub Criticism “I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I can do.” Iranian wr...
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So that’s what Spotify has been teasing the last week
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FILM & TV
Variety
Barging through the doors of the Poohniverse nose-first, Pinocchio has officially come to the company of Winnie the Pooh, Bambi and Peter Pan with Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s “Pinocchio Unstrung.” The latest addition to t...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
Doug Cockle sits down with Polygon to discuss 20 years of voicing Geralt and what's next for the series.
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticism “I don’t remember the exact con...
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The pop-rockish single leads her 24-track double album
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FILM & TV
Variety
Warner Bros. Animation, hugely active this year at Annecy, unveiled Friday at Annecy a new “Dark Shadows” animated series, confirming the studio’s push in adult animation into other genres beyond adult comedy.&n...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
Kenichi Kutsuna talks about the challenges of trying to make viewers feel the difficulty of a FromSoftware game.
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Very often one finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical things, fin...
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Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band with Tracy Sawyer returned with a surprise show in Portland last night
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FILM & TV
Variety
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance paid a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California and, as is his wont, put his foot squarely in his mouth. The “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who compared Presiden...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
Everything Everywhere All at Once is landing on Tubi in July, making now the perfect time to watch the one multiverse movie that actually got it right
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, Ann Patchett’s Whistler, and Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews....
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“Wild Storm” leads the LP, which reckons with the fallout from the Altadena fires that destroyed the artist’s home
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FILM & TV
Variety
When “Curb Your Enthusiasm” wrapped up its 24-year-run in 2024, fans were concerned it would be the last time they’d see Larry David on screen. He had been saying the HBO sitcom was ending for the better part of the s...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
Dataminers have discovered League of Legends Classic, and Riot Games quickly confirmed the new game mode, which will be revealed at MSI.
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
Thomas W. Laqueur’s The Dog’s Gaze, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s The Book of Birds, and Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by B...
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Stream new releases from Beth Orton, Chanel Beads, and Maxo Kream
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FILM & TV
Variety
“Camp” writer and director Avalon Fast has a wonderfully specific genre designated for her film: “A bunch of girls in the woods doing weird stuff.” As if that doesn’t sell a ticket already, trust that Fast’s dreamy vi...
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VIDEO GAMES
Polygon.com
This weekend there's plenty of movies to stream, from horror, to science-fiction, to thrillers.
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BOOKS
Literary Hub
Through historical fiction, many BIOPOC authors help to reclaim the voices of our past and ensure that these sheroes are finally recognized and celebrated. These works collectively illuminate the many dimensions of eq...
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She also shared the rage-filled music video for her new single “Sun Has Set”
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