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20 off-the-radar TV shows you should be watching

With so many TV shows available to stream and watch, it's impossible to keep up. From reality to scripted to docuseries, the genre is so vast we're sure there's a production on this list to suit your taste.

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J-pop star and Love Letter actor Miho Nakayama dies, aged 54

J-pop star and Love Letter actor Miho Nakayama dies, aged 54 - Nakayama was found dead at her home in Tokyo after cancelling a Christmas performance

The IP that wouldn't die: Film franchises that just keep on going

How many times can Vin Diesel go fast and be furious for his family? When will Andy’s toys finally get some rest? Will Michael Myers ever cease to exist? While some franchises know how to either keep the magic alive or realize when to hang it up, some film franchises just won’t quit.

Best soundbars 2024: get the best sound, bar-none

Best soundbars 2024: get the best sound, bar-none - Head to the bar for upgraded audio

Jonathan Anderson Is Named Designer Of The Year At The Fashion Awards 2024

Here's everything you missed

Fallout season two starts filming with Walton Goggins back in character

Walton Goggins has slipped back into his Ghoulish guise to start filming the second season of Fallout.

20 critically-panned movies that were box office hits

Audiences and critics have been known to clash in opinions. These 20 movies were commercial successes, but critics didn't have much good to say about them.

Jesse Eisenberg opens up about filming tough movie scene: ‘I couldn’t stop crying’

Jesse Eisenberg opens up about filming tough movie scene: ‘I couldn’t stop crying’ - ‘I was glad when the movie ended,’ said actor

Five of the best music books of 2024

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Pop Culture 1955-1979 Jon Savage, Faber From his definitive punk history England’s Dreaming to his forensic examination of mid-60s pop culture 1966, Jon Savage’s work has long represented the gold standard of music writing. This may well be his masterpiece: an epic of meticulous research and analysis that’s fascinating in its unearthing of a frequently buried history. Beautifully written – its 800...

Beatles ‘64 director David Tedeschi and producer Margaret Bodde on The Beatles and their rock and roll legacy

Beatles ‘64 director David Tedeschi and producer Margaret Bodde on The Beatles and their rock and roll legacy - Yolanthe Fawehinmi chats to director David Tedeschi and producer Margaret Bodde about their new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary and Beatlemania.

The people who put on a production of Hamlet… inside Grand Theft Auto

The people who put on a production of Hamlet… inside Grand Theft Auto - IN FOCUS: During the pandemic, two out-of-work actors decided to mount a Shakespeare adaptation within the blocky, sun-kissed world of ‘Grand Theft Auto’. Now their unexpectedly touching story has been brought to life in a new documentary, writes Greg Evans

How an Irish YouTuber turned a niche following into millions for charities with holiday livestreams

How an Irish YouTuber turned a niche following into millions for charities with holiday livestreams - An Irish YouTuber hopes to raise millions of dollars for charity this holiday season — and is using a popular gaming technology to rally his fans around the cause

Mark Lanegan 60: A Celebration: The late grunge growler gets a loving, fittingly contrary celebration

Mark Lanegan was one of rock’s great brooding refuseniks, cut of the same cloth as Johnny Cash and Nick Cave, a grunge-era growler who scored only one substantial hit with his first band, Screaming Trees, and whose restless creativity and contrary attitude thereafter made him a fearsome cult hero. After a life lived on the edge, Lanegan was hospita...

Peter Jackson and The Lord Of The Rings cast reunite at premiere of new adaptation

Director Peter Jackson was joined by some of the cast of the original Lord Of The Rings trilogy at the premiere of the new anime adaptation, Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim. The new film is set to be released on December 13.

Best Local Co-Op & Split-Screen Games On Xbox Game Pass

For those looking for couch co-op fun while exploring the Xbox Game Pass library, here are some of the best split-screen games available.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew review – Jude Law’s romp through a galaxy far, far away is excellent fun

Star Wars is not obliged to be fun – Andor is probably the best of the TV spinoffs, and that’s hardly any fun at all. But its dud movies and series tend to be the dour ones, because its core business is to be a silly stellar adventure for kids, parents and adults who still have a lively inner child. Fun should be the default, and now the franchise has hit upon the sort of show it should have made years ago. As everyone online who saw the trailer...

Amazon Prime subscribers can claim a frankly absurd number of free games like The Outer Worlds and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine with Prime Gaming right now - these are my top picks

Amazon is celebrating the release of Secret Level by giving away loads of great games with Prime Gaming.

Si King ‘grateful’ for ‘wonderful outpouring of support’ after Dave Myers death

Si King ‘grateful’ for ‘wonderful outpouring of support’ after Dave Myers death - He was speaking ahead of The Hairy Bikers: You’ll Never Ride Alone documentary, about the memorial day which will air on BBC Two on December 23.

20 TV characters shockingly recast during the show's run

A recast for a minor character usually isn’t too noticeable, but sometimes it can take a lot of getting used to if a lead character is recast and even changes the dynamic of a show.

‘Intensely nostalgic’: why A Knight’s Tale is my feelgood movie

There’s a neat little moment in A Knight’s Tale that I like to think speaks directly to how it became one of my favourite films. Having riled up the crowd before Heath Ledger’s imposter knight William rides into a joust, Paul Bettany’s boisterous Geoffrey Chaucer tells him: “I got their attention. You go and win their hearts.” Brian Helgeland’s 2001 film is on paper absurd. It’s a medieval sports movie about jousting, filmed on cheapo sets in...

Tributes paid to singer Dickie Rock after death aged 88

Tributes paid to singer Dickie Rock after death aged 88 - The Dublin-born singer represented Ireland in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Come Back To Stay.

Chris McCausland’s Strictly diary: ‘There’s no point thinking this is a dancing competition’

So far on Strictly Come Dancing, I’ve been a zombie, a matador, a sailor and, given that my pro partner Dianne is an Aussie, even mimicked a kangaroo. It feels like I’m making one of those rubbish calendars that’s trying to be sexy, but missing the mark every time. That said, the costumes are generally really fun, apart from the fact that the wardr...

How much money do stars make from Christmas songs in 2024? From Noddy Holder to Shakin’ Stevens

How much money do stars make from Christmas songs in 2024? From Noddy Holder to Shakin’ Stevens - Slade's Noddy Holder called Merry Xmas Everybody a 'retirement plan'

Madame Choi and the Monsters by Patrick Spät and Sheree Domingo review – the stuff of blockbusters

This graphic novel, published first in German, is based on a true story, and if you don’t already know that tale (I’m afraid I didn’t), it will astonish you. A successful actor and her movie director ex-husband are kidnapped by an enemy state, so that they might make movies to please a dictator. On paper, this is the stuff of a disaster-ridden major motion picture, dreamed up by some crazed auteur. But it really happened. In 1978, Choi Eun-Hee,...

20 facts you might not know about Elf

Santa gets a lot of love at Christmastime, but let’s not forget the workers who make it happen: Elves. They don’t get as much attention on the holiday movie front, but one movie changed that.

20 canceled TV shows from the 21st century that need to be revived

Many TV shows from the 21st century have been canceled. Some were rightfully shelved, and others seemed like they could go on forever. Thanks to streaming networks (hey, Netflix!), a few classics have seen a revival, but there are many more that people are eager to see —like the 20 below!

Best Zombie Games On Xbox Game Pass

Everyone loves a good zombie game, and here are the best ones you can play on Xbox Game Pass.

20 actors who tried their hand a career in music

Entertainers are multi-talented people, but not all actors are meant to be pop stars.

Ranking the films of Tom Cruise from worst to best

There will never be another Tom Cruise. For decades, his star power has endured, even as movies have shifted away from stars in favor of studios. To celebrate, we've taken on the impossible mission of ranking every one of his films from worst to best. From Endless Love to Jerry Maguire, here are the actor's money roles.

Dick Van Dyke says he’s not afraid of dying: ‘I could go any day now’

Dick Van Dyke says he’s not afraid of dying: ‘I could go any day now’ - ‘I could go any day now,’ the ‘Mary Poppins’ star says in the moving footage, ‘but I’m not afraid of it’

20 songs that were unexpected bangers

We never expected to be jamming to a country Beyoncé song or a love ballad sung by Lil Wayne, but here we are. Keep scrolling to discover 20 unsuspecting songs from artists that we can't get enough of.

The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers - Break out your “Dune” popcorn bucket: It's time for the best movies of the year

Wicked: How cinema re-invented the witch and restored her powers

As 'Wicked' prepares to cast its spell over the box office, we look at how portrayals of witches on screen have evolved to become symbols of female empowerment and an embracement of otherness. View on euronews

15 songs Prince wrote that were made famous by other perfomers

No one wrote music like Prince, so it was usually easy to identify his influence — though, in some cases, the artists would transform the songs into something that belonged as much to them as it did to Prince.

The Concord episode of Secret Level is like a message from a ghost whose unfinished business is creating a global multimedia franchise

The defunct multiplayer shooter speaks from the afterlife in Amazon's upcoming videogame-themed anthology series.

Eminem and Debbie Mathers showed that hip-hop is the genre where men come to terms with their mothers

Hip-hop has long been a culture that honours single mothers and their many sacrifices. “She was barely even grown and became my momma!” rapped a tearful Cee-Lo Green over a wounded piano on Goodie Mob’s criminally underrated 1995 song Guess Who. “I never knew my dad, so even when the times got bad / I was glad, because I had my momma.” On the powerful hood-gospel song, Dear Mama, 2Pac famously paid tribute to the persistence of his own family...

At The Fashion Awards, Kojey Radical Has Reasons to Smile

Esquire grabbed a moment with the British-Ghanaian musician pre-ceremony as he prepared to host the night wearing Botter, Etro, Denzil Patrick and Zac McGarry, styled by Toni-Blaze Ibekwe

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review

Dr. Jones stole my heart in MachineGames' best game to date.

Irvine Welsh to publish new sequel to Trainspotting

It has been just over 30 years since readers first encountered Trainspotting’s Mark Renton searching for his drugs in an overflowing toilet, and almost as many since Danny Boyle’s adaptation of the scene was seared into the minds of a generation. Now, Irvine Welsh is continuing the life stories of his iconic characters in a new sequel to the 1993 cult classic. Men in Love will follow Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie as they try to leave heroin...

Notable film characters whose on-screen intros were in sequels

In many instances, sequels often fail in living up to the films they follow up. However, some can more than hold their own and are even better than the original movie in a series.

20 actors who have rejected the role that made them famous

Many actors are defined by a singular role in their performance history, and some actors wish they could be defined by any character other than the one that made them famous.

Kate says she ‘didn’t know’ what 2024 held in store as she hosts carol service

Kate says she ‘didn’t know’ what 2024 held in store as she hosts carol service - It is the fourth time the Princess of Wales has held her event at Westminster Abbey.

Everything you need to know about King & Conqueror on the BBC

The new historical drama has an all-star cast, including James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Clémence Poésy...

You owe it to yourself to not spoil these 20 films' endings

Thanks to the rise of the internet and social media, it is almost impossible to avoid spoilers for movies. As soon as a movie hits theaters or streaming, its contents are all over the web. Having a movie spoiled can sometimes completely ruin a viewing experience, so avoid spoilers for these films at all costs.

Emmy-award winning actor Thom Christopher dies at 84

The icon died Thursday.

Rosamund Pike: ‘The older you are the more complex the lives you’re playing get – and it has a cost’

One of the achievements of which Rosamund Pike is most proud (and for which I most admire her) is related not to her acting career (although she has had memorable roles in dozens of films, from Pride & Prejudice to Saltburn) but something that occurred on a road trip from Prague to London this summer. At the wheel of her 1972 Citroën DS, she ran in...

Best PS Plus Games

PS Plus Extra and Premium have some of the greatest PlayStation games from across the console brand's history, and here are the best of the best.

20 Disney movies you totally forgot existed

While many titles in the Disney catalog are considered classics, the studio has many forgotten films that have fallen into obscurity. Whether they are duds or hidden gems, these movies have slipped under the radar.

Jack White review – do whatever you can to get a ticket

For more than a decade, you could be forgiven for thinking that Jack White – rock and roll’s last great aesthetic purist – had diverged from his righteous path, if not lost his way entirely. Once an unbridled force of nature, his music had become so self-conscious and studied that, if nothing else, you had to give it to him for trying so damn hard. You could sense trouble as early as the last two White Stripes records, as the band began to...