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CUPERTINO is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley. A lawyer (Mike Colter) is cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney (Rachel Keller) to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.

Once it was agreed that there was such a thing as film noir, two questions remained: Which films are film noir and what makes a film noir... noir? The arguments have persisted since then: Is The Maltese Falcon the first actual film noir? What is the best film noir? Is it Double Indemnity? Out of the Past? Gun Crazy? Is Touch of Evil the last classic noir, and when did neo-noir begin? Can it be noir if it's in colour? Everybody has an opinion and if you have one, be prepared to have your intelligence questioned. But very few of...

Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” died on Wednesday of natural causes, Variety has confirmed with his publicist. He was 93. The lean, rugged, mustachioed actor won an Emmy in 1993 and was also nominated in 1994 for playing Jimmy Brock, sheriff of the oddball town at the center of David E. Kelley’s CBS dramedy “Picket Fences.” He also shared SAG Award nominations for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for “Picket Fences” in 1995...

Dracula is a Democrat. He wants. The Democrats want. He is not willing to work to satisfy his wants. The Democrats are not willing to work to satisfy their wants. Dracula feeds off of others to satisfy his wants and to exist. The Democrats feed off of others to satisfy their wants and to exist. Dracula is stealthy so he can be in society and yet take from you without getting a stake through the heart. The Democrats are stealthy so they can be in society and take from you without getting a stake through their hearts. Dracula turns those...

The seventh-year pro had played in Tennessee’s first five games this season before being sidelined this past Sunday. ============================================================== The Tennessee Titans cut defensive lineman Jordan Elliott after he brought a gun to the team’s training facility in a “terrible lapse of judgement,” officials said Wednesday. Titans coach Robert Saleh defended Elliott and called his now-former player “a good man” who deserves another chance — but just not in Tennessee. “He’s a good man (who) had a terrible lapse in judgment that I recognize as a call for help more than a than a criminal act,” Saleh told reporters. “It’s...

The first look at Greta Gerwig’s vision for Narnia has been revealed. Today, Netflix is giving a first look at her vision for CS Lewis’s magical world in the trailer for The Magician’s Nephew, the first chronological book in the beloved series. With the soundtrack of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, the trailer opens with magician Andrew Ketterley (Daniel Craig) intoning that “sometimes one story is the beginning to all the others”, as he gives a group of kids a magic ring that will transport them to strange and wonderful lands. Elsewhere, the trailer gives a first look at many...

Fool's Ball, Week Seven, Pigskin Pickem ThreadYour home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

“Mr. Irrelevant” has the NFL’s highest QBERT rating so far this season. It’s time to stop holding his draft position against him. ================================================================================== In 2022, after his senior season at Iowa State, Brock Purdy was selected with the 262nd and final pick of the NFL Draft, earning the distinction of being that year’s “Mr. Irrelevant.” I suppose the title is a bit cruel. Of all the things a player might hope to be called on the most important day of his life, irrelevant is probably at the bottom of the list. It’s also, obviously, not an indicator of a long...

Matthew McConaughey has released a video on October 18, 2026, urging American voters to ditch the traditional two-party framework and embrace an Independent candidate ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections.In a video posted on social media, titled Independent counts, the 56-year-old actor said: “So, they’ve been telling us for years that an independent vote is a wasted vote.” He then asked the viewers how that 'unwasted vote' had been working out for them. The Dallas Buyers Club star then told the viewers that “this is about the upcoming ballot,” and he is not endorsing any party or a candidate....

CBS News is facing a defamation lawsuit as a Maryland teenager seeks $20 million in damages, claiming he was falsely identified as a person arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s lining. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, identified the 15-year-old plaintiff simply as “JV.” “He was not arrested for vandalizing it. He was not accused by law enforcement of vandalizing it. Yet CBS News broadcast and published a story to a national audience that placed JV’s image alongside the assertion that five people had been arrested for vandalizing and ‘sabotaging’...

Michael Forest, the strapping actor who starred in Beast From Haunted Cave and other B-pictures for Roger Corman and made memorable guest-star appearances on classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Star Trek, has died. He was 97. Forest was living in a facility for seniors in Sparks, Nevada, and died Wednesday, his friend James A. Brown announced. A native of North Dakota, Forest also made more than 20 movies in Spain, France and England — among them 100 Rifles (1969), starring Jim Brown and Raquel Welch — and was a very busy voice actor...

Explosive new details suggest Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs angered a notorious drug lord in jail, sparking a violent clash that resulted in Diddy’s head injury. Diddy reportedly sparked tensions among fellow inmates after an NBC report exposed his allegedly lavish lifestyle behind bars, prompting prison officials to conduct a raid and confiscate inmates’ cell phones, according to TMZ. Infamous Jamaican drug lord and fellow inmate “Dudus” reportedly took matters into his own hands by allegedly physically attacking Combs. NBC reported that Combs was being pampered with massages, access to a cellphone, and premium booze while serving time in Fort Dix. Video...

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Tom Cruise delivers the performance of his career in a movie whose real subject only comes into focus after it has already started playing with your head.Near the beginning of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger,” oil baron Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is briefing the president and his Cabinet. Digger, preoccupied with his terminally ill cat, has just set off a calamitous global environmental disaster and is meeting with the president to mitigate the fallout. None of us, not even the most rational people, is immune to the power of emotional messaging. The president, played by a slimmed-down John Goodman, is an...

Zillionaire Kelly Clarkson has just experienced one of the greatest injustices of our time, and honestly, we’re not sure how she’s managing to cope. The multimillionaire singer and TV talkshow host visited a quirky little toy store in Brooklyn, where she fell in love with a mechanical bird named Molly. But poor Kelly was told she couldn’t buy the bird, and for reasons we’re still confused about, she came home, hopped online, and turned this very normal situation into some Pretty Woman sequel. Rule 5: Watch out for 'The Pretty Woman mistake' | by Aparajita S Rao | Medium Yes,...

Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have bombed. Digger, in which Tom Cruise plays an oil tycoon so intent on drilling that he causes an ice shelf off Greenland to collapse, provoking climatic disaster, took only about $8 million in its first weekend, not great when it needs $280 million of box office takings just to break even. According to seasoned observers it is on course to lose Warner Bros $245 million, which would make it one of the worst cinema disasters of all time. Not even...

Fool's Ball, Week Six, Pigskin Pickem ThreadYour home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

The cuts represent about 6 percent of the streamer's workforce as it seeks a reset in its business. Netflix staff were informed that the company will undergo significant layoffs Wednesday, a source confirms to The Hollywood Reporter, as the streaming giant seeks a reset amid efforts to keep its global business growing. The company is expected to cut about 6 percent of its workforce, or about 1,000 people, making it the largest staff reduction at the company since 2022. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters announced the cuts in a memo to staff Wednesday morning. The company’s product, tech,...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — “Breaking Bad” actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said. Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press she declared Mitte dead at about 1:30 p.m. at what she believed was his home in Brownsville, Texas. She said she was unable to provide a cause, but an autopsy will be performed. Mitte played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston’s chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every episode of the five seasons of the AMC show, which recently ranked as the...

The disgraced musician returned to the low-security federal prison in New Jersey before sunrise, conscious and talking, according to TMZ. Sources at the prison told TMZ the injury was not life-threatening. It is not clear how he was injured. A Combs representative told Page Six, “We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs and are working to confirm the circumstances.” Combs has been in custody since September 2024. He was convicted last year of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of the more serious sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. In October 2025, a judge sentenced him...