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Fool Me Once is the new Netflix thriller in town, catching the attention of audiences since its release, on Jan. 1. But of course, no show would be able to prosper without a lead star up to par, and in this case, that’s Michelle Keegan. In the TV adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel, the actress gives life to Maya Stern, a woman whose husband Joe (Richard Armitage) has been murdered. Well, at least that’s what she’s led to believe until she sees him breaking into her house, apparently alive. As one can probably guess from…

Keegan Michael-Key wants to crush your Wordle dreams. The actor, writer and comedian is working with The New York Times on a fresh marketing push for its New York Times Games division, including Wordle, the wordplay game the Times acquired last year. The push includes a contest in which users share their scores from Wordle, Spelling Bee and the crossword puzzle on social media, tagging their friends and the hashtag #NYTGamesChallenge. Winners will get swag or other prizes. But the grand prize?…

When are three shots from a single movie more exciting than a whole trailer? When those three shots are from George Miller’s Furiosa, of course. That film was one of several teased in a sizzle reel at the Warner Bros. panel during CinemaCon, which also included extended looks at Wonka, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, The Meg 2: The Trench, Joker: Folie à Deux, Blue Beetle, The Nun 2, and more.Spoilers of the Week: July 29thWe’ve already covered both Dune Part Two and Barbie, both of which showed enough footage we felt each…

Delicious Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez Why food tastes good According to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s classic 1825 study The Physiology of Taste, which defined the field of gastronomy, eating a dish that has never been tasted before “confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star”. When people first arrived in the Americas, they found vast numbers of unfamiliar animals, including…

Mushroom Kingdom, here we come.Gif: Illumination/NintendoUniversal, Illumination, and Nintendo just smashed the question mark block that is their upcoming animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie—but it wasn’t a mushroom or flower that popped up. It was a first-look teaser trailer.The trailer debuted at New York Comic-Con and gives us a tantalizing look at the film, which is hitting theaters on April 7, 2023. As previously announced, Chris Pratt is voicing Mario, Charlie Day is Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy is Peach, Jack Black is…

Image: DisneyDisney’s quest to create live-action remakes for all its animated classics takes another step forward with Pinocchio, which hits Disney+ on September 8 as part of the streamer’s anniversary celebration. Today’s new trailer—equal parts fantastical and sentimental, as expected—gives us our best look yet at the Robert Zemeckis tale, starring the director’s old pal Tom Hanks as Geppetto.Trailer 2 | Pinocchio | Disney+Quite obviously, “live action” in this case means “live action but a lot of CG characters,”…

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden have won the Orwell prizes for political fiction and writing.Keegan’s “beautifully written evocation of Ireland in the 1980s” has won the fiction prize, while Hayden’s “urgent and compassionate” book took the political writing prize. Both authors will be awarded £3,000.Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation, said the winners have, “in very different ways, written gripping…

Image: NintendoChris Pratt is going to voice Mario for Nintendo and Illumination’s Super Mario movie, and each day we sit with this knowledge feels like being actively aware there’s a clone of yourself just somewhere in the world. This movie’s entire voice cast feels like a fever dream, from Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach to Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. (Jack Black and Charlie Day as respectively Bowser and Luigi makes some sense, though.) While the Marvel and Jurassic World actor has done some voice work in the past,…