The phrase strange science facts that are true gets thrown around a lot, and most of the time the payoff is a recycled list about how your stomach lining replaces itself. We are skipping the body. The cat is more curious about parts of the universe that read like a typo in a textbook. Eight […]
Cannes 2026 closed its 29th La Cinef student competition on 21 May with a result the festival did not see coming. Out of 2,747 submissions from 662 film schools across the planet, the jury picked a short film called Laser-Cat, directed by a Brazilian filmmaker named Lucas Acher, currently at NYU. First Prize. €15,000 grant. […]
You died. The screen fades to gray, the bonfire is three rooms back, and the souls you spent the last twenty minutes farming are sitting on the floor next to a knight twice your size. You sigh, you stand up, you try again. If that loop sounds familiar (or terrifying), congratulations: you have just met […]
An 80s television car that has not turned a wheel in over ten years got pulled over by a New York City traffic camera. The Volo Auto Museum, sitting in the Illinois cornfields, opened its mail and found a 50 dollar speeding ticket addressed to KITT, the talking black Trans Am from Knight Rider. The […]
A plant that vanished from the scientific record in 1967 just showed up on a private cattle station in northern Queensland because a horticulturalist took a picture and put it on the internet. The plant is Ptilotus senarius, a small slender shrub in the Amaranthaceae family. For fifty-eight years nobody knew if it still existed. […]
Jack Ryan: Ghost War landed on Amazon Prime Video today, May 20, with John Krasinski back in the CIA blazer for the first time since the TV series wrapped. The film clocks in at 105 minutes, directed by Andrew Bernstein, co-written by Krasinski himself, and it just posted a 36 percent on Rotten Tomatoes across […]
Every May the US publishing machine pumps out the same kind of debut, a quiet domestic novel about a woman in Brooklyn rethinking her marriage, a coastal town with a secret, maybe a missing sister. This May the most interesting debut on the table is none of that. It is 192 pages of literary horror […]
Forza Horizon 6 dropped on May 19, 2026, and the numbers are already absurd. Around 270,000 concurrent Steam players at launch, 1.7 million on the early access ramp, a 92 Metacritic average on Xbox Series X/S, and the highest-rated game of the year so far. Playground Games finally took the series to Japan, the setting […]
The uncanny valley is the reason a robot face, a CGI character, or an AI-generated person can look almost right and still make your skin crawl. It is not a horror trope or a vague feeling. It is a measurable dip in how comfortable humans feel as an artificial figure gets closer and closer to […]
Most awards shows hand out a few statues, spread the love around, and let everyone go home with something. The 2026 ACM Awards did not do that. On Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Ella Langley walked up to the microphone, then walked back, then walked up again, then again, […]
