After a somewhat light (but still fantastic) summer for video games, more notable releases started to come out in August 2022. Unfortunately, none of them were heavy hitters as games like Saints Row, Madden NFL 23, and Soul Hackers 2 were critical disappointments. Despite that, there were still some great games that came out this […]
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Yvonne Strahovski Escapes a Cult, Winds Up in Australian Detention Center, in Netflix’s Stateless Trailer
RELATED STORIES Yvonne Strahovski escapes one kind of hell only to land in another, in Netflix’s trailer for the Australian limited series Stateless. Inspired by a true story and premiering Stateside on Netflix on Wednesday, July 8, the six-part series promises “a powerful and timely tale” of four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration […]
New, Cool Cult Movie-Inspired Art from Gallery1988
The wild and wonderful pop culture-obsessed curators of Gallery1988 create awesome exhibitions all year long, but year after year, the most popular is “Crazy4Cult,” the multi-artist celebration of cult movies and TV. (It’s so huge, they’ve even spun it off into a series of books.) And this year’s version is a beaut, with tributes to […]
Man United cult hero appointed Red Devils’ interim manager
Manchester United have announced that former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been appointed caretaker manager until the end of the 2018/19 season. Solskjaer scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United between 1996 and 2007, and in 2008 became the club’s reserve-team manager, before taking the managerial role at FC Molde in Norway. Solskjaer will […]
The Cult London Bookstore That Might Just Throw You Out
The now sole owner of Collinge & Clark has just thrown someone out for eating Chinese food as they browsed through his small, one-room bookstore. And I begin to fear that everything I’ve heard about Oliver Clark, with his solemn speech and penchant for locking up at sporadic hours, is true (it is, incidentally). Yet […]
How Trump exposed, exploited, and embodied the cult of billionaire ‘big philanthropy’
Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images Author Anand Giridharadas believes elite-led philanthropy fueled the rise of Donald Trump. In his new book, Giridharadas argues that Trump exposed the hypocrisy of wealthy philanthropists, then used it to beat them at their own game. Giridharadas predicts that Trump may face a powerful reckoning as citizens begin to take charge of their […]
Cult classic TV show Veronica Mars is Hulu’s latest resurrection
Enlarge / Veronica Mars, circa season three. (credit: Rob Thomas) Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix seem to have all settled on one recipe for success: rebooting cult classic TV series that didn’t quite hit it big in their original broadcast runs. Netflix grabbed Arrested Development (for better or worse), Amazon picked up The Expanse. Now Variety reports that […]
Greatest Cupset ever? APIA stun Victory as cult hero emerges
THE FFA Cup Round of 16 has kicked off in sensational fashion, with NPL side APIA Leichhardt stunning reigning A-League champions Melbourne Victory in one of the tournament’s greatest ever upsets. Watch exclusive LIVE STREAMS of FFA Cup matches with foxsports.com.au and the Fox Sports App. STREAM NOW > While fellow top tier heavyweights Sydney […]
Nashville Recap: Cult Classic
Need to catch up? Check out the previous Nashville recap here. Nashville‘s Darius finally drops the nice-guru act in this week’s episode, and though there are far bigger questions that need resolution before the show’s impending finale — will Juliette and Avery get back together? Is Emily harboring secret resentment about being Cadence’s glorified nanny? […]
‘Drive’ director’s free cult film streaming service debuts this month
Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has taken his sweet time launching his free cult film streaming service, but it’s finally here… almost. As part of an editorial in The Guardian, Refn has confirmed that ByNWR should officially launch later in July. There are only four movies available at first. However, they definitely live up to […]