Many iconic and popular video games, such as Red Dead Redemption 2, innovated the medium with immersive new gameplay and gaming experiences. When games get popular, they become franchises, and there are many faces in the industry, like Master Chief in Halo. However, there isn’t a more iconic and legendary face of gaming than Mario, everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber.

Whereas most video games try to stay in their lane, Mario has no problem delving into unexplored territory with new genres every year. That is why this list will celebrate the Super Mario Bros. games that are truly perfect based on aspects such as gameplay, design, influence, originality, variety, entertainment value, fan opinion, critical acclaim, and overall quality. This list will aim for a variety of franchises, including spin-offs and mainline platforms.

‘Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle’ (2017)

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Nintendo and Mario are synonymous, mainly because the character is a figurehead of the company. However, they have outsourced it a couple of times, and the result was a game like Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. When a time machine warps the two franchises into one, the two groups of characters must team up in order to defeat the mega-Rabbid and get back to their own reality.

Nintendo leaving their biggest franchise in the hands of another company is rare, and the pressure to make a good game is bigger than ever, so the developers must have had a sigh of relief when Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle turned out well. The strategic turn-based combat is something completely different yet welcome for Mario, creating a tactical shooter with engaging gameplay and a fun Mario vibe.

‘Super Mario Strikers’ (2005)

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Mario + Rabbids isn’t a major spin-off, but Nintendo has a few other popular side adventures, such as Mario sports games. Mario sports games are very hit or miss, but one that was a massive hit was Super Mario Strikers. In this game, players team up into a group of 5 and take on other teams in underground soccer/football competitions with extreme gameplay.

There are a few other sports games that could be here, but Super Mario Strikers stands out because it abandons the traditional vibe for something more aggressive and edgy. Fast-paced action paired with cinematic power-ups and surges of extreme gameplay, Super Mario Strikers is an addictive title that establishes itself as the best Mario sports video game.

‘Super Mario Sunshine’ (2002)

There are a handful of spin-off games on this list, but everyone knows and loves Mario because of mainline 3D platformers, such as Super Mario Sunshine. Going on vacation to a beach city, Mario doesn’t get any time to relax when he is framed for polluting the city. Now needing to clean it up, he sets out to find the one framing him for this crime and take them down.

While this may be seen as a controversial choice, especially since every 3D platformer is phenomenal, Super Mario Sunshine is an underrated yet beloved cult classic. The graphics were ahead of their time, specifically the water motions and attacks. However, more than that, this nostalgic video game boasts an engaging core mechanic while also highlighting an interconnected set of levels in a world that is fun to explore.

‘Super Mario Party Jamboree’ (2024)

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Nintendo has a lot of new ways to put a new coat of paint on Mario, as evident from this list, but that also includes party games. Mario Party is a board game-style franchise that has players roll dice to make their way around a map and compete in mini-games in order to collect enough coins to purchase a star. At the end of the game, the player with the most stars wins, but there are plenty of mini-games, twists, and roadblocks to make the outcome unexpected.

There are so many fantastic Mario Party games, especially nostalgic ones, but the best is arguably the most recent one, Super Mario Party Jamboree. It remasters plenty of classic mini-games and board game map styles to bring back what fans love while still being something new. As one of the most fun Nintendo video games, it is an absolute delight that is even better with friends or family, even if it might make some enemies.

‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’ (2023)

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Mario originally started as a 2D platformer, but the longer the franchise has gone on, it has transitioned into the 3D realm. However, Super Mario Bros. Wonder brought back that 2D style with a modern twist to make it better than ever. Bowser has grown tired of the Mushroom Kingdom, now setting his sights on the Flower Kingdom, which he takes control of using the powers of the Wonder Flower to fuse himself with the castle. Luckily, Mario and Luigi are here to stop him.

The Nintendo Switch is one of the best Nintendo consoles, especially for Mario, since it added so many new games and remakes. Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a must-play 2D platformer that reinvented the franchise with wacky gimmicks and bizarre unpredictability. But this fresh twist made Mario better than ever, using its imaginative mechanics to create an invigorating sense of play unlike anything else in the franchise.

‘Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’ (2004)

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Mario is mainly a platforming franchise, and this list proves it, since half of the entries are either 2D or 3D platformers. However, the franchise also consists of some magnificent RPG titles, such as Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The game follows Mario as he travels to a port town in order to help Princess Peach open the titular door. However, once he arrives, he discovers that the princess has been kidnapped by an alien race known as the X-Nauts.

There are so many Mario spin-off titles, but no one expected the RPG genre to be so prolific for the plumber, delivering multiple masterpieces. However, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door stands above the rest because of its engaging timed button gameplay that adds a nice sense of flow to the game. Compelling and charming, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an underrated Mario gem that is one of the best turn-based RPG titles.

‘Super Mario Odyssey’ (2017)

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As mentioned with Super Mario Sunshine, 3D platformers are easily the peak of the franchise, and the newest entry is still one of the greatest. Super Mario Odyssey follows the traditional Mario storyline with Bowser kidnapping Princess Peach to serve as his bride. Mario must now travel around multiple kingdoms to find and save her.

Fans are still waiting for the next 3D platformer from Mario, but Super Mario Odyssey is still the most expansive and ambitious project, making the wait more manageable. The many sandbox worlds are jam-packed with collectibles and platforming genius, making traversal fluid and fun. The capture mechanic changed the game, literally, adding another layer of gameplay that made everything even more compelling.

‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ (2017)

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The Wii U is one of Nintendo’s worst-selling consoles of all time, nearly bankrupting the company. When the Nintendo Switch came along and proved successful, Nintendo found an opportunity to port most of the Wii U exclusives; such was the case with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Players can select an array of racers and embark on trials, cups, tournaments, and battles. This game offers a large range of courses and races to compete in online, single-player, or couch co-op.

Every Mario game is fun, but there is a different level of enjoyability that comes with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe because of the number of levels, customizability, characters, and mechanical depth. The intricate design of the courses made it so they not only look impressive, but also offer a wide variety of surprises, routes, and fun. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is chaotic and endlessly replayable, highlighting its prestige as one of the most essential Nintendo video games.

‘Super Mario Bros.’ (1985)

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder is arguably the best 2D platformer in the franchise according to modern-day standards, but there is no more iconic and legendary game than the first Super Mario Bros. Very similar to every Mario game, the titular plumber travels throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, jumping on Koopas and going to the wrong castle in order to find and rescue Princess Peach, who has been captured by the evil King Koopa, Bowser.

It may not be the best Nintendo video game, but that is only because the Mario franchise has evolved into bigger things. Super Mario Bros. changed the way gaming is handled, partly because it single-handedly saved the industry with its popularity. Even if it is dated, Super Mario Bros. still holds up as an influential classic with game design 101 techniques that define the franchise and industry.

‘Super Mario Galaxy’ (2007)

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This list has proven that Mario has a plethora of incredible franchises, from Mario Party to Mario sports games. However, when it is all said and done, nothing beats a 3D Mario platformer, and the best of that bunch is undoubtedly Super Mario Galaxy. After Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach, Mario sets off on a planet-hopping quest around the galaxy in order to find her. With the help of Rosalina, he can travel around the cosmos and rescue Peach before it is too late.

Every 3D Mario platformer is essential, but Super Mario Galaxy is a step above the rest, remaining a nostalgic icon that innovated an already flawless franchise. When it comes to Mario, Super Mario Galaxy should be the first game that comes to mind simply because of its profound beauty, gameplay innovation, and representation of the character. The Red Plumber has never played better than in this game, proving it isn’t just the best Mario game, but one of the most fun video games of all time.

After Practical Magic’s Evan Rachel Wood was replaced by Joey King in the film’s sequel, Wood has thrown shade at the original cast and crew.

“I really appreciated Joey King reaching out to me because no one who worked on the original film did. She’s a sweetheart,” Wood, 38, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, September 1. The jab comes after Wood’s 1998 role as one of Sandra Bullock’s Sally Owens’ daughters, Kylie Owens, was recast with King, 27, replacing her in the upcoming Practical Magic 2.

King had told The Hollywood Reporter at the Los Angeles premiere of Practical Magic 2 on Monday, August 31, that she’d shared a “lovely” conversation with Wood in light of the casting switch-up.

“I just was so appreciative of the support that she showed to me and to the rest of the cast. She is so talented and so beautiful and she made this role so special when she was a young girl,” King told the outlet. “I feel so grateful to be able to play Kylie at this age but I love Evan so much and I’m so appreciative of her kind words and the exchange that her and I shared.”

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Wood revealed in July 2025 that she wouldn’t be returning for the sequel amid confirmed reappearances from the film’s leads, Bullock, 62, and Nicole Kidman.

Sharing the news via her Instagram Stories at the time, Wood wrote, “I am getting asked about this a lot, so l’ll just clear it up now; I was not asked to come back and be in the Practical Magic sequel. l offered my services, even if it was one scene or one line. I was told they are recasting. I am sorry to disappoint the fans. It was not in my control or my choice. I would have happily rejoined my sisters.”

In July, Wood expanded her take on the casting redirection during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I read the book and it seems like they’re not following the book,” Wood told the outlet earlier this year. “I think in the book it would have made sense to bring me back; I think in the way they’re redoing it and approaching it, it didn’t make sense.”

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Wood’s Practical Magic costar, Alexandra Artrip, was also omitted from the sequel with Maisie Williams replacing her as Kylie’s sister, Antonia Owens.

The sequel’s director, Susanne Bier, told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday that a recasting was necessary due to creating a “certain age group” in the sequel. She told the outlet, “In the story, they’re just, like, literally out of college, and with Joey and Maisie it just felt completely right.”

Joining Bullock and Kidman, 59, in reprising their original roles, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing are back as the witchy aunts of the leads’ sibling characters.

Action and thriller work so well together because tension needs momentum, and a good thriller already runs on momentum before a single punch gets thrown. The action gives you the release, the thriller gives you the dread leading up to it, and when a movie nails both, you stop noticing the runtime entirely.

Every one of the films on this list earns its place due to their brilliant and actual character work first, so by the time things blow up or a chase kicks off, you’re invested in who survives it and who doesn’t. Let’s get into some of the best action thrillers that figured out exactly how to balance both halves of their own name.

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‘North by Northwest’ (1959)

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This one’s from 1959, and it’s actually one of the funnier movies on this list, which nobody really brings up. Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) gets mistaken for a spy who doesn’t even exist, some guy just says the wrong name in a hotel lobby, and now a bunch of people are trying to kill him over it. Alfred Hitchcock keeps slipping dry one-liners into scenes where people are actively trying to kill Thornhill, jokes right in the middle of a chase, which is a strange thing to pull off and he does it anyway.

The crop-duster scene is the one everyone remembers. It’s just an open cornfield, nowhere to hide, and a plane trying to run one guy down in broad daylight, no music playing under it at all. Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) keeps you guessing about whose side she’s on right up until the end, and by the time it’s over, half this plot doesn’t actually hold up if you think about it for more than a minute. I still don’t care. I’ve watched it probably ten times.

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‘The French Connection’ (1971)

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I like this one, but I get why some people bounce off it, the main guy is just not likable. Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) is paranoid, reckless, and honestly kind of a bully to everyone around him, including people just trying to help him do his job. The movie never tries to fix that either, which I actually respect.

William Friedkin shot it on real New York streets without bothering to get all the permits, and you can tell, the car chase under the elevated train tracks still looks dangerous because it basically was. Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) is the calmer partner trying to keep Doyle from doing something stupid, and the ending just stops cold, no resolution at all, which was a strange choice for 1971.

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‘The Fugitive’ (1993)

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This is comfort food to me, honestly, I’ve seen it a bunch of times and it never gets old. A guy gets wrongly convicted of killing his own wife, and the only reason he even gets a shot at proving it is a bus crash that frees him completely by accident. Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) spends the rest of the movie hunting the real killer, while Marshal Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) hunts him right back, and neither one of them is really the bad guy here.

Andrew Davis directed it, and the dam jump is the stunt everyone remembers, but what actually makes this movie work is how tight the plotting is. Every little clue Kimble finds actually pays off later, nothing’s just there for the sake of it, so you hardly find any loophole. Jones won an Oscar for this, and honestly it’s deserved, that role could’ve been forgettable in a worse script.

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‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (1991)

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This one’s better than the original, mostly because of how much bigger it swings without dropping what made the first movie good. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) comes back, except now he’s protecting the kid instead of hunting his mom, and that flip is honestly why I like this version of the character more. James Cameron built the real danger this time around the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a liquid metal killer who just keeps reforming no matter what hits him.

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) comes back much harder and more paranoid, and her storyline, trying to stop a war she already knows is coming, gives the movie real stakes underneath all the action. The effects still look good today too, which says a lot, and the truck chase down the flood channel is still one of the best action sequences anyone has ever seen.

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‘Heat’ (1995)

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There’s a code the thief at the center of this one lives by, never get attached to anything you can’t walk away from in thirty seconds flat, and that discipline is what everyone wants in their real life being honest. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is always one step ahead of Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), a detective whose own personal life is falling apart just as badly as any criminal’s.

Michael Mann shoots that diner scene where the two of them finally sit down together so quietly and calmly that it almost feels anticlimactic, until you notice how much they’re saying to each other without raising their voices. The bank heist shootout downtown is loud and chaotic, and you can still follow exactly what’s happening at every second, which most action scenes can’t pull off.

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‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)

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Everyone already loves this movie, and I’m not adding it here just because it’s popular, I actually think it holds up. Most villains still want something specific, money, power, revenge, but the Joker (Heath Ledger) just wants to watch the whole city fall apart for no reason at all. Ledger’s performance hits harder knowing it was one of his last, and I don’t think that’s just hindsight talking.

Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) gets the saddest storyline in the whole trilogy, going from the city’s actual hope to Two-Face over the course of one movie, and Christopher Nolan spends more time on that fall than on Batman himself. Gordon (Gary Oldman) holds things together while everyone around him gets compromised, and the truck-flip stunt downtown, done with almost no CGI, still looks more real than most action scenes made today.

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‘Sicario’ (2015)

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Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is an FBI agent who actually follows procedure, and that turns into a serious liability the moment she’s surrounded by people who decided a long time ago that procedure doesn’t apply to them. Denis Villeneuve shoots the empty desert roads and silent border convoys with a lot of dread, so nothing in this movie ever feels like a break from what’s coming.

Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) and Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) both bend rules whenever it’s convenient for the mission, something Kate can’t bring herself to do, and the movie eventually makes it clear that her honesty is exactly what gets her used by both of them. It’s a bleak, cold movie about a war nobody involved actually believes can be won.

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‘The Raid: Redemption’ (2011)

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An entire apartment building offers free rent to any criminal who is willing to fight for the crime lord running it, which tells you immediately how bad things are about to get for the rookie cop who just walked in. Rama (Iko Uwais) has to survive one floor at a time, and Gareth Evans built the fight choreography around pencak silat, an Indonesian martial art that makes every hallway brawl look inventive and brutal.

Tama (Ray Sahetapy) is the crime lord who is controlling the building, and he barely leaves his own apartment, since the henchmen he sends after Rama do plenty of damage on their own. There’s almost no plot padding either, no long dialogue scenes, no subplots slowing anything down, just escalating fights that keep finding new ways to top the one before it, stripped down to just motion and consequence.

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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015)

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The person actually driving this story isn’t the guy whose name is in the title, it’s the one-armed rig driver who decides, almost on a whim, to smuggle a warlord’s five captive wives across the desert. Furiosa (Charlize Theron) carries the movie more than Max (Tom Hardy) does, and George Miller was seventy years old when he built almost the entire two-hour chase using real vehicles and real stunt performers instead of CGI.

Nux (Nicholas Hoult), one of the warlord’s fanatical soldiers, switches sides about halfway through, and the shift happens gradually enough that it never reads as a cheap twist thrown in for shock value. The movie barely explains its own backstory out loud either, letting costumes, vehicle design, and background details do that work instead, without a single line of exposition.

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‘Die Hard’ (1988)

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John McClane (Bruce Willis) shows up barefoot to his estranged wife’s office Christmas party just hoping to patch things up, and instead gets trapped in a high-rise once a group of thieves posing as terrorists take the whole building hostage. He bleeds, gets exhausted, cuts his feet on broken glass, and keeps talking to himself just to stay calm, which is exactly why the character never feels like a typical invincible action hero.

Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), in his very first film role, plays the villain with so much calm, articulate menace that basically every action movie villain since has been measured against him in some way. John McTiernan kept the whole story contained to one building and one night, without any subplots stretching outside it, and that restraint is a big reason nothing since has really matched it.

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Die Hard

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Release Date

July 15, 1988

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132 minutes

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Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Roderick Thorp

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Duane “Keefe D” Davis has been found guilty in the murder of Tupac Shakur, and some fans are already asking whether the case ends with him. As others celebrated the verdict as a long-overdue win for Tupac, attention is now shifting to Sean “Diddy” Combs and the questions that have followed the 1996 shooting for years.

Tupac’s family has also addressed the outcome, calling the decades-in-the-making verdict “not the end of the story” and vowing to keep his legacy alive.

The guilty verdict against Duane “Keefe D” Davis has reignited public speculation about Sean “Diddy” Combs, with viewers flooding social media with demands for investigators to take a closer look at the music mogul.

Under a YouTube video covering the verdict, one commenter wrote, “Hold puffy accountable,” while another declared, “Give them DIDDY NOW.” A third simply asked, “AND diddy????” Others went further, alleging Combs knew more about Tupac’s 1996 killing or should face scrutiny over long-running claims surrounding the case.

Those accusations remain allegations and were not established by the verdict against Davis.

Fans Celebrate Long-Awaited Justice For Tupac

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While some viewers looked beyond the verdict, plenty of others treated Keefe D’s conviction as a long-awaited moment for Tupac and his family.

“Finally, better late than never,” one commenter wrote. Another congratulated the Shakur family and called the outcome “a bit of Justice, 4 2pac!!”

Others were even more emphatic. “JUSTICE!!!! That took way too long. RIP Pac,” one reaction read, while another declared, “Justice has finally arrived” nearly three decades after the shooting.

The relief was mixed with sadness over how much time had passed. One fan said it was painful that Tupac’s mother did not live to see the day, but expressed hope that the family could now have some closure. Another simply wrote, “Finally lay this all to rest.”

Keefe D Pointed To Nephew In Tupac’s Fatal Shooting

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Long before his conviction, Keefe D gave investigators his own account of who pulled the trigger on Tupac. During a recorded 2008 interview played for jurors, Davis placed his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, in the back seat of the white Cadillac involved in the shooting.

As reported by The Blast, Davis said he was sitting up front alongside driver Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown, while DeAndre “Dre” Smith was also in the rear.

According to Davis’ account, he initially had the loaded .40-caliber Glock but could not get a clear shot at the BMW carrying Shakur and Suge Knight. He claimed he passed the weapon into the back seat, where Smith hesitated before Anderson grabbed it.

“He rolled down the window, popped ’em,” Davis told investigators of his nephew.

Tupac’s Family Says Verdict Is ‘Not The End Of The Story’

Tupac’s family is looking beyond the courtroom after waiting nearly 30 years for a conviction in his killing. In a statement following the verdict, spokesperson Mopreme Obafemi thanked the marshals and advocates who supported and protected the family throughout the proceedings.

“While this verdict is decades in the making, this is not the end of the story,” Obafemi said, per ABC News. He added that the family intends to keep Tupac’s legacy and “spirit alive.”

Tupac’s sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, was among the relatives and friends in court when the jury returned its decision.

Keefe D’s Lawyer Also Says The Fight Isn’t Over

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Keefe D’s legal battle is far from finished, however, with his defense already preparing to challenge the conviction.

Attorney Michael Sanft told NBC News that an appeal was anticipated before jury selection even began. A key issue will be the trial judge’s decision to let jurors hear statements Davis made under a 2008 proffer agreement.

The defense had unsuccessfully tried to keep those statements out, arguing they were “highly prejudicial.” Sanft said Davis spoke to federal investigators believing he could discuss what he knew without those remarks later being used to prosecute him.

Margot Robbie may be filming a movie in Paris, but it appears the actress is also adopting the French-girl look off the set, too. Robbie replaced basic everyday dresses with a breezy, luxe-looking jumpsuit, and we found the easy fall style for $27.

While strolling around the city, the Ocean’s Eleven actress rocked a flowy gray jumpsuit with sandals and a simple white tank underneath. Her outfit had the slouchy drape that only the coolest, richest Parisian girls seem to pull off . . . until now. This nearly identical version is hiding on Amazon, so you don’t even need to book a flight to shop it.

Get the Lepunuo Wide-Leg Jumpsuit for $27 at Amazon! Please note, prices are accurate at the date of publication but are subject to change.

The Lepunuo Wide-Leg Jumpsuit nails every detail of Robbie’s look, including the soft gray color, spaghetti straps and flowy wide legs. Even better? This Amazon style has actual functional pockets. The sleeveless design makes it a natural layering piece, which is ideal for last-summer styling or fall outfits.

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Fall means it’s time to break out the tall black boots, and if you’re like Margot Robbie, you’re prepping your wardrobe now (actually, last week). Robbie’s black boots are incredibly sleek, and we found the chic, polished look for 45% off on Amazon! Filming the Ocean’s Eleven prequel in Paris, the actress was spotted leaving […]

One happy reviewer wrote, “It’s not too tight anywhere. nor is it too baggy looking. Perfect to wear a T-shirt or tank under for warmer days/nights, yet can easily throw on a denim jacket or cardigan to wear in cooler temps.”

Bonus: This dreamy outfit piece has a loose fit makes it incredibly flattering, per reviewers. “Most rompers make me look like an Oompa Loompa,” an Amazon shopper said. “This one [has] a flattering cut. It falls nicely, hiding my lower tummy and love handles.”

Laid-back and polished, this chic jumpsuit is an easy staple for busy mornings, dressing up for rooftop dinners and down for Sunday markets. In other words, you’ll look pulled together without thinking about it. Snag Robbie’s summer-to-fall style below before everyone in the States catches on!

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Katie Holmes is sharing her adoration for boyfriend Jason Bard Yarmosky on his birthday.

“Happy Birthday to the best of the best…❤️ @jasonbardyarmosky,” the Dawson’s Creek alum, 47, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, September 1. Her sweet words were accompanied by a carousel of images that captured the couple carrying two microphones in what appeared to be a celebratory karaoke session.

Another shot showed a dimmed room lit up by candles placed atop a birthday cake.

The post was shared by the artist, 38, via his own Instagram account.

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Two hours later, Holmes shared an Instagram Story that showed more of Yarmosky’s birthday celebrations. In a clip, the actress and her man are seated at a table before Yarmosky blows out the cake’s candles. To cheering applause, Yarmosky then looks over to a grinning Holmes before she hugs him and he plants a kiss on her head.

The social media PDA comes after Yarmosky recently went Instagram official with his romance with Holmes. In a snap shared via his Stories, Holmes stood solo while rocking a chic ivory two-piece ensemble with a sleeveless, fitted top and matching midi skirt.

The pair were first linked in July when they were photographed holding hands while attending a screening of The Invite hosted by The Cinema Society at New York City’s East Hampton Regal UA.

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Katie Holmes was spotted out and about with a new guy in New York. According to photos obtained by People, Holmes, 47, was spotted on an outing with artist Jason Bard Yarmosky on Friday, July 10. The pair held hands while attending a screening of The Invite hosted by The Cinema Society at the East […]

They were seen together again later that month while leaving Sienna Spiro’s private performance as part of NYC’s Soho Sessions concert series. Earlier in the evening, the duo were reportedly seen kissing and embracing each other as they watched the concert.

New York is home to both Holmes and Yarmosky, who has built a name for himself through paintings and drawings after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010. According to his website, his work is based on themes of aging, time and memory and has appeared in multiple museums across the country, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

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Holmes’ daughter, Suri Cruise, is also flourishing within the world of artistic expression. Suri, 20, whom Holmes shares with ex-husband Tom Cruise, was confirmed within the upcoming cast of Midsummer!, a modern-day take on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in July.

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Katie Holmes was feeling the love from her daughter, Suri Cruise, on her 46th birthday. The actress reshared several birthday tributes from family and friends via her Instagram Story on Wednesday, December 18. Among the posts, Holmes revealed the sweet gift she received from Suri, 18. “I am so grateful for all of my blessings […]

According to a report by Page Six at the time, Suri, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, is set to perform alongside classmates at the Trust Arts Education Center’s Peirce Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As for Holmes’ artistic pursuits, she recently reunited with former Dawson’s Creek costar Joshua Jackson to film Happy Hours, a rom-com trilogy written and directed by Holmes.

Hunter Biden has publicly discussed his sexuality, joking that he’s “48.5 percent gay.”

“Only a little bit,” the youngest son of former President Joe Biden told political reporter Luke Beasley during the August 17 episode of the “Luke Beasley Show” podcast. Hunter, 56, had offered the response when asked by the openly gay host, “Are you gay?” (Joe, 83, was also father to Beau Biden who died in 2015 at the age of 46 from brain cancer.)

Beasley pushed Hunter further with, “More or less than 50 percent?” to which the businessman, author and artist replied, “48.5 percent.”

Hunter then returned to the topic after the pair began to move on. “I want to get back to the gay question. Maybe I’ll take my 48.5 … to 48.7,” he said before changing his mind later. “I just wanted to let you know I’m back … to 48.5 percent gay.”

The comical bit continued with Beasley asking Hunter, “If you were gay, would I be your type?” to which he responded, “No, a little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay.”

Hunter married Melissa Cohen in 2019, two years after divorcing his first wife, Kathleen Buhle. He shares three daughters with Buhle and a son, born in March 2020, with Cohen. In Buhle’s 2022 memoir, “If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction and Healing,” she wrote about her former husband’s addictions and multiple infidelities amid other mental health struggles that impacted their family.

In June, Hunter took to X to mark seven years of sobriety. “7 years sober today,” he wrote via the platform on June 1. “Thank you to everyone who has walked this road with me.”

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Hunter’s podcast appearance comes after he recently claimed multiple times that American politics is filled with closeted sexuality. “Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C.,” Biden said during a July 18 appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast.

He continued, “Their whole lives, they’ve been closeted and so you have this … blackened heart by the fact that you can’t be who you want to be, so you take it out on everybody else.”

Four days later, the July 22 episode of “The Don Lemon Show” podcast saw him discussing his theory again. “I know this to be true. There is a contingency of … gay Republican men who are closeted and have an enormous amount of self-hate, I believe,” Hunter claimed. “And we all know who they are. In [Washington] D.C.. We all know who they are.”

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