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John Carney’s Power Ballad pits Paul Rudd against Nick Jonas over a stolen hit

Movies

John Carney’s Power Ballad pits Paul Rudd against Nick Jonas over a stolen hit

John Carney built his name on music as salvation. Power Ballad turns it into a custody battle over a song: a wedding singer past his prime watches a fading pop star spin one of his tunes into a hit, then sets out to reclaim the credit. Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas carry the fight.

Veronica Loop

Movies

Cuba Gooding Jr. in American Crime Story (2016)

Cuba Gooding Jr. anchors ‘Lotus’ as ACT3 and Blackops launch a five-film Asia-to-world slate

Leo Woodall trades White Lotus light for Middle-earth as Warner rebuilds a universe on Tolkien

Still from Kristoffer Borgli's The Drama, with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a couple a week before their wedding.

Kristoffer Borgli drops Zendaya and Pattinson into a wedding that curdles in The Drama

Sebastian Stan in Fjord (2026)

Sebastian Stan spends his blockbuster capital to anchor Mungiu’s Palme winner ‘Fjord’

TV Shows

"Young person in green clothing crouches beside a red car, holding a phone to her ear and appearing worried or anxious, outdoors during daytime."

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix: Pip swore she was done, then Jamie disappeared

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder returns to Netflix for a second season that is no longer about a school-project investigation. Pip Fitz-Amobi spent six episodes solving the Andie Bell case and told everyone she was finished. Then Jamie Reynolds disappeared, and the show became something darker: a YA whodunit that asks what the word ‘good’ in the title is still doing there.

My Two Cents on Netflix: Zerocalcare’s first ensemble is the bar that breaks the friendship

Untold UK: Vinnie Jones on Netflix puts the £20,000 video back on trial

Jae-seok’s B&B Rules! on Netflix is the show that ends the contemplative phase of Korean lodging variety

Joe Mantegna as David Rossi anchors Paramount+'s Criminal Minds Season 19 premiere

Criminal Minds returns to Paramount+ with Joe Mantegna leading Season 19

Technology

A Google AI cracked math problems open for 56 years — for a few hundred dollars each

Claude installs npm packages by itself, and the wrong one can take your files

Analysis

Editorial conceptual still life: a single unbranded injection pen on dark polished stone beside a half-finished plate, dramatic cool-toned studio light.

Ozempic personality is not a side effect — it is the point

Single smartphone face-down on an empty wooden classroom desk in warm afternoon light — the absence as the subject.

The school phone bans worked. The test scores haven’t moved

The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

Music

ITZY Motto (Unplugged Ver.) — official YouTube thumbnail

ITZY’s «Motto (remixes)» strips K-pop to acoustic across four tracks

JYP Entertainment’s ITZY deliver four reinterpretations of “Motto” on a new EP, anchored by an acoustic arrangement that marks their furthest departure yet from the group’s high-energy K-pop formula.

LE SSERAFIM performing in the official BOOMPALA music video on HYBE LABELS YouTube channel

LE SSERAFIM’s ‘BOOMPALA’ gets 8.3M views with no Spotify distribution

Album cover art for Sekai Tsunagare by HoneyWorks

HoneyWorks’ Sekai Tsunagare: Suzuki Minori and Terasaki Yuka bridge two worlds

Akhenaton — visuel de la vidéo officielle de Métèque et mat

With ‘Métèque et mat,’ Akhenaton turned a slur into a French rap touchstone

Science

Abstract editorial photograph of a weathered pointed wooden tool resting on dark sediment under warm conservation lighting

A 430,000-year-old digging stick is the oldest wooden hand tool ever found

Abstract editorial illustration of two counter-rotating spirals of cyan and magenta light twisting against each other on a dark background

Physicists caught a crystal’s atoms reversing their spin for the first time

Abstract astrophotographic illustration of a glowing accretion disk spiralling around a black hole against a dense starfield

The heaviest black holes are built by merging smaller ones, 153 mergers show

Business

Nvidia’s beat turned East Asia’s chip industry into a one-customer business

SpaceX’s IPO Asks Wall Street to Pay for Founder Control It Cannot Vote Out

India’s Power-Cost Spiral Turns Air Conditioning Into Inequality

More News

Cybersecurity

OnlyFans denies a 340-million-record breach, and so does the hacker selling it

DeepSeek

AI

DeepSeek made AI cheap, and the American AI bubble was built on it being expensive

Nicholas Galitzine in Masters of the Universe (2026)

Movies

Travis Knight bets Nicholas Galitzine’s He-Man can finally carry a movie

Disclosure Day

Movies

Spielberg sends Emily Blunt and Colin Firth into the day first contact goes public

Florence Pugh in Thunderbolts* (2025)

Movies

Studios chase Florence Pugh’s $70M ‘Midnight Library’ in Cannes’ biggest non-franchise bet

Tom Segura in promotional still for Bad Thoughts Season 2 on Netflix

TV Shows

Bad Thoughts Season 2 — Tom Segura’s Netflix anthology becomes a franchise test

The Heir premieres on iQIYI and CCTV-8 — Yang Zi anchors a 42-episode Huizhou ink-trade period drama

TV Shows

The Heir premieres on iQIYI: Yang Zi swaps palace romance for ink-industry grit

David Tennant's Tony Baddingham returns as Rivals Season 2 premieres on Disney+

TV Shows

Rivals returns to Disney+: David Tennant’s 1986 bonkbuster gets nastier in Season 2

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, whose film All of a Sudden won a shared Best Actress prize at the 79th Cannes Film Festival

Movies

How All of a Sudden made Cannes split Best Actress between Efira and Okamoto