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Adam Sandler playing an astronaut on a solo mission to the edge of the solar system in the sci-fi drama “Spaceman,” and Disney 's animated coming-of-age story “Iwájú” set in the future in Lagos, Nigeria, are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: the video game Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, a Paramount documentary revealing how law enforcement has quietly used rap…

by Carla K. Johnson This photo provided by Sholto David shows David at his home in Pontypridd, Wales, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. David is a scientist-sleuth who detects image manipulation in published scientific papers. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced it is requesting six retractions and 31 corrections of scientific papers after he flagged problems in a recent blog post. Credit: Sholto David via AP…

Seth MacFarlane's filthy teddy bear character Ted and Martin Scorsese's true-crime epic “The Killers of the Flower Moon” are some of the new television, music and movies headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are Kevin Hart starring in “Lift” as the leader of a band of criminals enlisted to steal $500 million from a plane in mid-flight and Peacock's competition series “The Traitors” returning with host Alan Cumming. NEW…

For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left by the authorities.In 2021, 106,699 Americans died of an overdose. In Seattle, the fentanyl crisis is so bad that the number of overdose deaths has doubled in the last three years, causing the morgues to overflow. The “fourth wave” of the crisis recently descended upon the US, an ongoing mass-overdose event that has consumed law enforcement agencies, stretching the resources necessary for identifying the…

The pandemic was a nightmare for cinema as a whole, but in terms of nothing but sheer bad luck, few fared worse than Kenneth Branagh’s sequel Death on the Nile. The star and director’s opening chapter in his Agatha Christie franchise was one of 2017’s biggest sleeper hits after choo-chooing its way to $352 million at the box office, with all signs pointing to lightning striking twice after the filmmaker recruited yet another stacked ensemble for the second installment. via 20th Century Studios However, there’s a distinct…

At most high school reunions, people talk about kids, spouses and jobs. But at a party for 1970s graduates of Lynwood High School, two women on the dance floor were talking homicide. Rose Morales and Cheryl Sanchez Simmons had just learned that, when they were young, a girl their age had been strangled in their hometown. The killing of Jan Marsh, 14, had never been solved. And though the case had unfolded around them, neither woman had heard her story. As a band played ’70s hits inside a hotel near Disneyland,…

via Lucasfilm There are more than a few plot holes in Attack of the Clones, but one glaring blunder stands above the rest as just being completely nonsensical. The mistake appears during the climax of the second Star Wars prequel, the battle on Geonosis, as Anakin and Obi-Wan give chase to Count Dooku. A clone trooper is ordered to shoot down Dooku’s ship but claims to be out of rockets. However, during the same scene, rockets can quite clearly be seen on the gunship’s wing. Clearly a continuity error, but…

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Image via Disney Plus With the teaser release for Ahsoka early today officially breaking the internet, Star Wars fans across the internet have begun to speculate who exactly is playing the series’ big bad. For those unfamiliar, the villain and driving narrative pursuit in Ahsoka comes by way of Grand Admiral Thrawn — one of the most iconic villains that the galaxy far, far away has ever seen. Although it’s clear that Thrawn will be playing a massive role in the upcoming Disney Plus show, no one really knows…

Photo via Marvel Studios Set to come out in June, Secret Invasion is an upcoming miniseries from Marvel Studios about shape-shifting Skrulls who are being instilled as double agents throughout the Earth. Before the show even has a chance to begin, fans are already weighing in, trying to figure the story out before the first credit rolls. Starring Emilia Clarke as Abigail Brand, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, and a whole slew of huge names in Hollywood to fill out such an incredible…