This year’sSundance Film Festivalwas the place to watch films about mental health, grief, and family troubles. Renowned documentary filmmaker Dylan Southern returned to the festival to present all three in his latest film,The Thing with Feathers.The feature is adapted from Max Porter’s 2015 novel,Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which follows a grief-stricken father after the death of his wife. Left to take care of his two boys after their family tragedy,Benedict Cumberbatch’s character must work diligently to be the caretaker his sons need....

Warning: Contains spoilers for Venom War: It’s Jeff! #1!! There’s no guidebook for handling symbiotes gone wild, especially if they start taking over Coney Island, such as happens in Marvel’s latestVenomWar tie-in comic. Enter the remnants of Kate Bishop’s West CoastAvengersteam to do what they do best: improvise. When Jeff the Land Shark becomesthe latest symbiote vessel, and dozens of Swingers attack, the team uses a clever tool to keep the threat at bay....

Warning: this article contains some spoilers for The White Lotus season 3, episode 6.Mike White’s popular HBO series,The White Lotus, has included more shocking moments than ever this season, especially surrounding the Ratliff family. Jason Isaacs portrays Timothy Ratliff inThe White Lotus’s castthis season, along with Parker Posey as his wife, Victoria. Victoria and their three children each have their own problems going on, but Timothy Ratliff is having by far the worst week....

If your experience with today’sConnectionspuzzle is growing sour, you may want to take a step back, refresh, and come back to it with new eyes. That will allow you to uncover the rest of the puzzle’s secrets and unravel it completely. However, you may need a little help,particularly with the last two categories today, and to help you out, you may use these hints to get you from slightly frustrated to winning with confidence....

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice Beetlejuicecontains a lot ofreferences and Easter eggs to the firstBeetlejuice, and these two moments in the sequel hint at a brutal reality for Charles and Delia Deetz. Charles and Delia Deetz are never presented as good people throughout theBeetlejuicefranchise, and while Betelgeuse is the main villain of the original, the Deetz parents act as secondary antagonists.Beetlejuice Beetlejuicereveals the consequences of their actions from the first movie, with their lives getting much harder after the 1988 original....

If there are two things that defineSonic the Hedgehog, they’re his incredible speed and his blue quills. However, there was a time before the spiny speedster had his iconic hue. In fact, Sonic turning blue is linked to Dr. Robotnik, with their shared hero and villain origins revealing howSonic the Hedgehog’s titular hero and iconic antagonist took their current forms. We’re looking at exactly how Sonic turned blue, as well as howrunning too fastpermanentlychanged the hero’s design later in the franchise....

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2’s episode 9.Lukas Kyle interacts with The Algorithm inSiloseason 2’s episode 9, making it hard not to wonder what its significance is in the Apple TV+ show’s overarching storyline. In both seasons 1 and 2, Apple TV+‘sSiloloyally follows the primary story beats from theoriginal Hugh Howey Silo books. However, at the same time, it does not shy away from introducing some of its own original elements to make its story more suitable for the television episodic format....

A detail fromHouse of the Dragonseason 2 suggests thatAemond Targaryen has a fiancé in Westeros, yet she didn’t appear throughout all of season 2. Actor Ewan Mitchell plays Aemond in theHouse of the Dragoncast, and he’s done a fantastic job throughout season 2 establishing the Prince Regent as one of the show’s primary antagonists. With Aegon out of the picture for the time being, Aemond is the leader of the Greens, who are now crumbling under the pressure from Dragonstone, Driftmark, and Harrenhal, with Rhaenyra’s advantage increasing....

WARNING: SPOILERS from Suits LA episode 3.AsSuits LAintroduces a new version of real-life actor Brian Baumgartner into theSuitsuniverse, the episode deals with the star’s career outside the world ofThe Office. One of the ways thatSuits LAis able to standing out fromthe originalSuitsTV showis its inclusion of real-life figures and celebrities, with the West Coast-centric spinoff taking place in the City of Angels, a primary location for many actors today. InSuits LAepisode 3, one of the popular stars fromThe Office, another NBC legacy series, becomes one of the driving plot points, but with a twist....

This article contains spoilers for The White Lotus season 3, episode 5, and also contains mention of suicide. Timothy almost makes an incredibly dark decision inThe White Lotusseason 3, episode 5, with his reasoning linking to earlier elements of his storyline. Timothy has arguably been one of the main focuses ofThe White Lotusseason 3’s cast, with his business dealings being perhaps the primary reason why.Timothy’s crimes with Kenny inThe White Lotushave raised a great deal of issues for the patriarch of the Ratliff family, despite him wishing to relax on a wellness vacation....

Sci-fi is often designed to appeal to all ages, but R-rated sci-fi movies have the freedom to show extremely dark and violent futures. An R-rating allows a sci-fi movie to get more violent and more profane, which means that it can cater its story to a mature audience without having to worry. This suits dystopian fiction particularly well, as some visions of the future don’t save room for redemption and silver linings....

Much of wrestling history reflects on how WCW wasWWE’sbiggest competitor of the 90s, butECWcan’t be left out of that conversation. While ECW wasn’t on course to beat WWE in the ratings for83 weeks like Eric Bischoff,Extreme Championship Wrestling did largely inspire many of the sensibilities of modern wrestling. Before WWE quickly introduced inappropriate moments into the Attitude Era that theycouldn’t get away with today, Paul Heyman was booking even more extreme angles for ECW....

DisneyPrincess outfitsfrom over the years have always been rather unique, but some are far more impractical than others. Whether it is a live-action oranimated Disney movie, it isn’t uncommon to see a character wearing a look that realistically makes sense to the situation they are in. Although these stories always put action and drama at the forefront of the narrative, it is still strange to see a heroine in an outfit that just isn’t practical....