FX In 2014, FX bared a new set of fangs with the vampiric action horror series, “The Strain.” Adapted from a trilogy of books co-written by “Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, the show follows a vampire outbreak that occurs in New York City after a plane … Read more
Delroy Lindo took a few moments to thank everyone for all the support following last week’s incident at the BAFTA Film Awards when an audience member with Tourette’s syndrome shouted a racial epithet. Sinners co-stars Lindo and Michael B. Jordan were presenting when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson, who was in the audience, shouted the N-word … Read more
Ethereum account abstraction, or smart accounts, will be shipped with the Hegota upgrade “within a year,” said Vitalik Buterin on Saturday. “We have been talking about account abstraction ever since early 2016,” said the Ethereum co-founder over the weekend. He added that now, “we finally have EIP-8141, an omnibus that wraps up and solves every … Read more
Jack Whitehall, host of the 2026 Brit Awards, took a jab at the BAFTAs on Saturday night’s award show following the racial slur incident. The Brit Awards are the first live award show in the UK since the BAFTAs, and Whitehall took the opportunity to issue a warning to viewers during the broadcast. “There may … Read more
Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the Iranian regime a year after the start of his second term as president cements his transformation from a sceptic of intervention to an avid user of American power abroad. It is a risky gambit. The prospect of the Iranian regime’s collapse could trigger unbridled retaliation by the remnants of … Read more
BBC If there is one man who has left a mark on “Peaky Blinders” as deep as Cillian Murphy’s Thomas Shelby, it is his unhinged equal, Alfie Solomons, played by Tom Hardy. Before he was cracking skulls in “MobLand,” which is set for a second season, Hardy joined … Read more
When Ali Khamenei was nominated by senior clerics to replace Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader in 1989, he insisted he was underqualified. Khamenei, who has died at the age of 86 after joint US-Israeli air strikes on Saturday, told the clerics of the Assembly of Experts that one had “to really weep for … Read more
Shia LaBeouf has once again been arrested, this time on an additional charge of misdemeanor count of simple battery related to an incident earlier this month in which he assaulted several people in New Orleans, per the Associated Press. The actor was previously booked and posted bail in the aftermath of the Feb. 17 bar … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Iran’s state television has confirmed that the country’s longtime supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday, hours after the US and Israel pounded the Islamic Republic with air strikes and urged … Read more
Maggie Gyllenhaal discussed her experience directing her brother, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, in her forthcoming Gothic romance movie The Bride! In a sprawling discussion with The New York Times, she explained, “I waited until I was absolutely sure that asking him to do this part in the movie — it’s a pretty small part, it’s just … Read more