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A new world. A new order. A new Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series, premieres November 25th on Prime Video.» SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/Prim...
This is a roundup of films and documentaries streaming on Disney+, arguing that the service's catalogue, swollen by the Fox and Star acquisitions, now contains plenty of adult fare that outclasses rival libraries. Each entry gives a short, opinionated pitch for a title such as Logan, Aliens, Get Out or Nomadland, pairing the critical case for it with a note on why it's worth an evening.
Ranking of five underappreciated modern sci-fi films worth revisiting: Life, Colossal, James vs. His Future Self, Totally Killer, and The Endless, topping the list. It argues these titles deserve far more recognition than they get, having been overshadowed either by genre oversaturation, limited studio backing, or straight-to-streaming releases rather than any lack of quality. Each entry gets a short case for why it excels—from Life's effective horror execution to Colossal's blend of kaiju spectacle and personal drama to The Endless's unsettling low-budget craft—making the piece a handy watchlist for genre fans wanting picks beyond the usual 80s/90s nostalgia.
A curated list of four entertaining R-rated films available across popular streaming platforms.
Apple TV is launching Nocturne, a thriller series based on Lars Kepler's novel "The Sandman," starring Liev Schreiber as a former soldier-turned-detective and Stephen Graham as a serial killer terrorizing a small Pennsylvania town. The series premieres October 30 with two episodes, followed by weekly releases through December 25.
Forgotten films, found. Watch the films nobody claimed, hosted by the Internet Archive. Television channels that run round the clock, curated lists, and a player that remembers where you were.
Play Dead is the official Grateful Dead streaming service launching with over 20 previously unreleased complete shows, plus two new vault recordings added weekly, all in high-resolution audio quality. The service provides access to the band's entire official discography including Dave's Picks box sets and archival releases, organized chronologically by performance date for the first time. At $9.99/month or $99.99/year, it also integrates with the nugs platform for access to related artists like Dead & Company and Phil Lesh & Friends.
An article comparing the TV series Longmire and Yellowstone, explaining why Longmire is considered superior and where to watch it.
This is Entertainment Weekly's fall preview guide, highlighting 20 new scripted series launching between September and December across Netflix, HBO, Prime Video, and other streamers. The piece offers brief plot synopses and cast information for each show, ranging from reboots like "A Different World" and "Harry Potter" to original dramas like "War" and "The Altruists," helping readers decide which upcoming releases deserve their attention.
This three-part HBO documentary traces model Hoyt Richards' 15 years inside Eternal Values, a New Age cult run by self-proclaimed alien prophet Frederick von Mierers, who bled followers of millions before dying in 1990 while concealing his AIDS diagnosis. Because almost nothing exists online about the group or its leader, the series stands as the fullest account yet of the cult and its eventual collapse around 1999, tied partly to Richards' escape from its North Carolina compound. It's notable as HBO Max's best-reviewed current release, sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes even while lower in the platform's viewership rankings than Euphoria and Hacks.
This How-To Geek piece runs through five quick fixes for new smart TVs whose factory defaults prioritize showroom appeal and data collection over actual viewing quality: disabling motion smoothing (the "soap opera effect") by switching to Filmmaker/Cinema Mode, swapping Wi-Fi for a wired Ethernet connection to cut buffering, recalibrating oversaturated Vivid/Dynamic picture presets, and turning off Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) — the tracking feature that fingerprints what's on-screen up to twice a second and sells viewing profiles to data brokers, hidden under brand-specific names like Samsung's Viewing Information Services or LG's Live Plus. It closes with a tip on setting up manufacturer remote apps (SmartThings, LG ThinQ, etc.) as a faster, Wi-Fi-based backup to physical remotes. Worth keeping as a practical, brand-agnostic checklist for de-junking a new TV in a few minutes.
Coax turns a personal Plex library into a simulated cable-TV experience, auto-sorting movies and shows into themed channels (by genre, decade, actor, studio) and slotting them into a live EPG-style schedule you can channel-surf rather than endlessly browse. The piece argues this solves "decision fatigue" from on-demand grids and makes forgotten titles in a large library more likely to get watched, though it flags Coax's Apple-only availability and steep $70 price, and briefly compares it to cheaper alternatives (NostalgiaTV, QuasiTV).
This is a product page for the LEAK TruStream network streamer/DAC, built around Silent Angel's streaming platform and an ESS Sabre ES9038Q2M reference DAC, supporting Spotify/TIDAL/Qobuz Connect, Roon Ready, AirPlay 2 and hi-res formats up to PCM 768kHz/DSD512. It's worth keeping mainly for the full spec sheet (I/O options including balanced XLR, coaxial/optical digital out, USB audio, headphone amp specs) and the framing of the unit as a complete source component styled to match LEAK's Stereo 130/230 amplifiers rather than a bare digital transport.
Marshall's new Heddon is a $300 wireless hub that enables multi-room audio grouping and Wi-Fi streaming for its existing Bluetooth home speakers using Auracast technology, supporting services like Spotify Connect and AirPlay. It works wirelessly with the brand's third-generation speakers (Acton III, Stanmore III, Woburn III) and can connect older models via wired RCA outputs, while also featuring RCA inputs for streaming vinyl records throughout the home. The Heddon is available now with promotional discounts: half off when purchasing one speaker, or free with the purchase of two or more.
"The Lazarus Project," a British sci-fi series now on Netflix, follows George as he discovers he's part of a secret organization that rewinds time to prevent extinction-level catastrophes, forcing him and others to repeatedly relive trauma and make impossible choices. The show distinguishes itself by grounding its high-concept premise in character-driven storytelling and emotional consequences rather than relying on CGI spectacle or genre clichés. Though canceled after season two with no renewal prospects, it holds a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and represents the kind of ambitious, smart sci-fi that rivals prestige offerings on competing platforms.
"Significant Other" is a sci-fi horror hybrid about a couple whose backpacking trip in Oregon goes catastrophically wrong after a mysterious object falls from the sky, generating dread through atmospheric filmmaking rather than jump scares while exploring themes of intimacy and deception. "Infinity Pool" follows a blocked writer on vacation who escapes execution by having a clone created and executed instead, then descends into hedonistic depravity with wealthy tourists who exploit the loophole, satirizing how the rich can literally buy their way out of consequences. "Costa Brava, Lebanon" depicts a self-sufficient family's isolation shattered when a landfill is planned next to their compound, using their fragmentation as a metaphor for environmental collapse and societal breakdown.
"Dhamaka" is a Mumbai-set action thriller starring Kartik Aaryan as a washed-up radio newscaster who receives a bomb threat targeting the city's major bridge and sees it as his chance to reclaim fame. Directed by Ram Madhvani and adapted from the South Korean film "The Terror Live," the movie functions as a morality tale examining how Arjun's ambition leads him to exploit a genuine crisis for career advancement, while his cutthroat boss exploits it for ratings. The film maintains relentless pacing despite character depth, delivering the bomb-threat intensity of "Speed" filtered through the media-ethics critique of "Network."
This is a ranked list of 30 anime series available on Netflix, spanning genres from action shonen like Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer to slice-of-life comedies like Komi Can't Communicate and romantic dramas like My Happy Marriage. Each entry includes a brief description of the plot and why it merits watching, with particular emphasis on animation quality, character development, and emotional impact, while noting that the list is regularly updated as new titles arrive on the platform.
This is a curated list of thirteen cerebral science fiction films available on various streaming platforms, selected for their thought-provoking premises that explore concepts like simulation theory, artificial intelligence, time travel, and altered perception of reality. The films range from classics like *2001: A Space Odyssey* and *The Matrix* to more recent entries like *Arrival* and *Ex Machina*, with streaming availability noted for each title across services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play, and others. The author emphasizes these aren't typical sci-fi action movies but rather films designed to provoke deep contemplation about the nature of existence and human experience.
The 2010s marked the shift from the internet as a discrete destination to an omnipresent algorithmic feed woven into daily life, with platforms like Instagram and Twitter replacing chronological timelines with engagement-based algorithms that fundamentally altered how information, politics, and culture reach us. This transformation—enabled by smartphones, streaming services, and social media's evolution—created a disorienting temporal experience where past and present collapse, making figures like Trump the ideal vessel for such a system while spawning cultural backlash (vintage watches, vinyl records, digital detox rhetoric) that ultimately fails because the internet has become inseparable from physical reality. The essay argues that what defines the decade isn't any single technology but the complete merger of our online and offline identities, creating a perpetual state of algorithmic fragmentation that keeps us perpetually scrolling, reacting, and unable to escape.