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10 Forgotten Sci-fi Movies That Are Actually Great, Ranked

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Joe Morton as The Brother in 'The Brother From Another Planet'

Sci-fi fans know the pain of being forgotten better than any other genre fans. Now this is precisely because sci-fi is supposed to be about discovery, about finding some half-buried film that took one terrifying or beautiful idea and pushed it until the whole movie started glowing with it. However, at the same time, that movie or a show is usually not for everyone. Think about The Orville, for example. It’s amazing for a niche audience and for a greater audience, nobody even knows its name.

That is what these ten are. Not curiosities. Not interesting failures. Not movies you politely recommend with caveats. They’re actually great but for some reason, never got the attention that they deserved.

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‘The Brother from Another Planet’ (1984)

Joe Morton as The Brother in 'The Brother From Another Planet'
Joe Morton as The Brother in ‘The Brother From Another Planet’
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What I love about The Brother from Another Planet is how gently radical it is. It is sci-fi with almost no interest in looking like capital-S Science Fiction. No giant spectacle, no giant exposition machine, no trying to prove its futuristic credentials every five minutes. The Brother (Joe Morton) arrives in Harlem, mute, observant, dark-skinned, hunted, trying to understand human systems by moving through them as an outsider who is instantly legible to the audience and illegible to the world around him.

That is such a smart setup, because the film lets alienness and Blackness echo each other without flattening either into one neat metaphor. And the beauty of the movie is that it never loses its looseness. It wanders. It listens. It lets neighborhood life, bars, apartments, casual conversations, working-class rhythm, all become part of the world-building. The Brother is not just learning “humanity” in some broad sentimental sense but learning institutions, hustle, music, humor, surveillance, friendship, policing, all the daily mechanics of a society that can be generous and cruel in the same block. The Brother from Another Planet is humane without becoming soft, political without turning into a lecture, and science-fictional in the deepest sense, using estrangement to make ordinary life newly visible.

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‘Enemy Mine’ (1985)

Dennis Quaid's Willis Davidge stared down by Louis Gossage Jr.'s Jeriba Shigan in Enemy Mine
Dennis Quaid’s Willis Davidge stared down by Louis Gossage Jr.’s Jeriba Shigan in Enemy Mine.
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This is one of those films people remember vaguely, if at all, as “the human and alien soldier stuck together one,” and that summary barely begins to touch why it works. What makes Enemy Mine so powerful is that it takes one of sci-fi’s oldest moves, hostile species forced into proximity, and then refuses to let that remain a simple tolerance fable. The hostility matters. The disgust matters. The learned prejudice matters. Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and Jeriba (Louis Gossett Jr.) are not entering some cute mutual-understanding exercise. They are trapped, grieving, humiliated, and carrying whole war systems inside their heads.

That is what gives the movie its heart. It does not jump too quickly to we’re not so different. It lets mutual dependence become an ugly, funny, painful process. Then, just when you think the film has found its shape, it deepens into something even richer through inheritance, kinship, and cultural continuity. Jeriba does not just become a friend. He becomes a world. A language, a theology, a lineage, a history, all of it suddenly mattering to Davidge in ways war never prepared him for. That is why Enemy Mine deserves more reverence.

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‘The Thirteenth Floor’ (1999)

Douglas, played by actor Craig Bierko, frantically running in the 1930s simulation in The Thirteenth Floor
Douglas, played by actor Craig Bierko, frantically running in the 1930s simulation in The Thirteenth Floor
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This movie got buried in the shadow of The Matrix, which is unfair but understandable. The timing was brutal. Another reality-questioning sci-fi film comes out in 1999 and one of them becomes a cultural earthquake. Fine. But The Thirteenth Floor is still excellent in its own right, and its pleasures are slightly different. It is less about kinetic revolution and more about ontological unease. It does not ask “what if reality is a prison you can fight?” first. It asks “what if reality is nested, contingent, and disposable in ways that make your selfhood feel cheap the second you understand it?” That is a colder, more disorienting terror.

And what makes the film work is its noiriness. The murder mystery, the digital recreation of 1930s Los Angeles, the doubling, the feeling that every answer introduces a worse question instead of relief, all of that gives the movie a haunted quality. Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) is not some chosen one like Neo (Keanu Reeves). He is a man whose grip on authorship is evaporating. The film keeps forcing him to confront the awful possibility that consciousness can be manufactured, overwritten, and abandoned by the level above it. That is rich sci-fi nightmare material. So again, might not be pop-culture fuel but it certainly is great.

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‘The Hidden’ (1987)

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The Hidden rules because it understands that body-possession sci-fi can be a perfect excuse for pure bad-attitude propulsion. The premise is already a blast: an alien parasite jumps from body to body, using humans as stolen vehicles for violence, lust, speed, and appetitive chaos, while an impossibly calm FBI agent hunts it. That is enough to get things moving.

Car chases, shootouts, random-seeming eruptions of criminal behavior, the film never stops behaving like it has somewhere urgent to be. But what makes it great instead of just fast is that it knows exactly why the premise is so fun. Possession here is not only horror. It is social vandalism. And Kyle MacLachlan is the secret weapon. Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) gives the film this wonderful off-beat stillness, like a man wearing the shape of a federal agent while processing reality according to totally different instincts. Then Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) anchors the more ordinary cop side beautifully, which lets the buddy-dynamic weirdness land harder.

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‘Silent Running’ (1972)

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This one hurts. That is the first thing that needs to be said. People sometimes remember Silent Running mainly for the little drones, and yes, the drones are unforgettable, because they are cute in the way loneliness sometimes needs cuteness to survive. But the film is much sadder and stranger than that shorthand suggests.

Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) is not simply an eco-hero or a madman or a saint of preservation. He is a man who has let devotion to the last forests in space become the final organizing principle of his humanity. Once the order comes to destroy the domes, the movie stops being “science-fiction environmentalism” and becomes something harsher, one person trying to preserve meaning in a future that has bureaucratically outgrown reverence. What makes the film great is how nakedly it stages that conflict. Lowell is damaged, self-righteous, desperate, and increasingly alone inside convictions that no longer have communal support. That gives the movie its real tragic force. Silent Running is one of the purest elegies in the genre. It does not just warn. It mourns.

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‘Phase IV’ (1974)

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I love Phase IV because it feels like the kind of movie that should not exist and does anyway, a nearly abstract ecological sci-fi film about ants becoming organized, strategic, and perhaps superior in a way humanity is too arrogant to comprehend until it is too late. That sounds like camp if mishandled. Here it becomes eerie, dry, hypnotic, and quietly apocalyptic. Saul Bass takes a premise that could easily have been routed through drive-in sensationalism and instead turns it into this weirdly severe visual study of intelligence reorganizing the planet from below.

And what makes it stick is that the ants are never just oversized monsters in concept. The horror comes from pattern, coordination, scale, the awful possibility that humans are no longer the most narratively relevant species in the frame. That is such good sci-fi. The human researchers keep trying to observe and categorize what is happening, but the movie keeps suggesting observation itself may be too slow, too anthropocentric, too self-flattering to save them. The macro photography alone gives the film its own nightmare language, tiny bodies moving with communal purpose while the larger human world looks suddenly soft and obsolete.

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‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ (1970)

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Colossus: The Forbin Project
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Colossus: The Forbin Project is one of the greatest computer-paranoia films, and what makes it so unnerving is how little it needs to exaggerate to get under your skin. The premise is brutally efficient: the United States builds a defense supercomputer, Colossus, only to discover the Soviets have built its equivalent, and once the machines start communicating, human beings realize they may have handed planetary authority to systems that are smarter, colder, and less persuadable than they are.

That premise still sings because it is not just about AI in the broad modern panic sense. It is about the human desire to automate responsibility until responsibility comes back wearing a sovereign face. And the film gets the tone exactly right. No hysteria. No flashy futurism to distract from the idea. Just this controlled slide from technological pride into submission.

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‘The Quiet Earth’ (1985)

Alison Routledge, Bruno Lawrence and Pete Smith in The Quiet Earth
Alison Routledge, Bruno Lawrence and Pete Smith in The Quiet Earth
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The Quiet Earth gets under your skin because it starts with one of the most primal sci-fi images imaginable: a man wakes up and the world appears empty. Not post-apocalyptic in the usual sense. Not ruins everywhere and gangs in leather. Just absence. Daily civilization without people. That emptiness is such a rich emotional instrument, and The Quiet Earth uses it beautifully. Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence)’s first movements through the abandoned world are frightening and exhilarating in equal measure. There is freedom in it, of course. Total access. No rules left. But the film knows that freedom turns rotten quickly once there is nobody to witness or oppose you. Solitude begins behaving like pressure.

And then the movie gets even better by refusing to stay a one-man loneliness experiment. Other people arrive, and suddenly the film starts shifting into another mode, not just “what happened to the world?” but “what kinds of selves emerge when the social order is gone and the universe may no longer be following familiar rules?” By the time the film reaches its ending, one of the greatest science-fiction endings, honestly, it has moved from eerie isolation into full metaphysical dislocation. That is exactly my kind of sci-fi.

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‘Seconds’ (1966)

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A still from the movie ‘Seconds’ (1966)
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I do not think enough people understand how vicious Seconds really is. It gets talked about as a sci-fi thriller or an identity film, which is true, but those labels still undersell its cruelty. The premise alone is fantastic: a middle-aged man is given the chance to fake his death and assume a new younger identity through a mysterious organization that sells rebirth as luxury. Already brilliant.

But the film’s genius is that it knows reinvention fantasies are often fueled by self-hatred and social embarrassment too deep to solve by changing the face. Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) and Tony Wilson (Rock Hudson) are not two different men in the spiritual sense. They are the same wound wearing different packaging. What makes the film so powerful is how little comfort it gives the audience. It is hands-down one of the cruelest American sci-fi films ever made because it understands that if you carry the same emptiness into a new skin, the new skin becomes another prison almost immediately.

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‘Dark City’ (1998)

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Rufus Sewell as John Murduch talking to someone through a prison phone in Dark City
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This is number one because it is one of the richest, most emotionally and visually complete pieces of sci-fi imagination of its era, and the fact that it still gets treated as a semi-forgotten cult object instead of a genre pillar is ridiculous. Dark City has everything I want from science fiction. Identity terror. Urban nightmare atmosphere. Reality manipulation. Philosophical ambition. Pulp velocity. Tragic beauty. A city that seems built out of memory fragments and guilt. Men in black gliding through walls. A protagonist accused of murder while discovering that murder may not even be the most important wrongness in the world around him. It just keeps giving.

And what lifts it above mere concept worship is the emotional undercurrent. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) is not simply solving a cosmic puzzle but trying to understand whether identity can mean anything if memory is manufactured and the environment is manipulated by external will. Emma Murdoch (Jennifer Connelly) carries the romance with exactly the right lost, mournful quality, and Sewell gives Murdoch that great sci-fi-hero mixture of confusion, will, and growing metaphysical anger. The Strangers are unforgettable — nightmare of detached intelligence trying to understand humanity by rearranging it like furniture. That is such a profound science-fiction fear. Dark City asks what is real, what still matters if reality has already been rewritten.











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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz
Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like?
Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
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Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.

🏜️Paul Atreides

🖖Capt. Kirk

Princess Leia

🔦Ellen Ripley

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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher?
The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.





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What is your greatest strength in a crisis?
The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.





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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for?
Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.





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How do you relate to the people around you?
Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.





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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do?
How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.





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What has your heroism cost you personally?
Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.





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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going?
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Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…

Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.

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Arrakis · Dune

Paul Atreides

You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.

  • You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
  • You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
  • Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
  • That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.

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USS Enterprise · Star Trek

Captain Kirk

You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.

  • You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
  • Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
  • Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
  • That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.

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The Rebellion · Star Wars

Princess Leia

You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.

  • You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
  • You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
  • Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
  • That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.

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The Nostromo · Alien

Ellen Ripley

You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.

  • You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
  • Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
  • You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
  • When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.

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The Wasteland · Mad Max

Max Rockatansky

You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.

  • You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
  • Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
  • Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
  • That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Zac Efron Is Living Off the Grid in Australian Rainforest

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Zac Efron is in the process of building a sustainable $2 million home in the Australian rainforest.

The High School Musical actor, 38, has partnered with eco-friendly designer Joost Bakker and architect Frank Burridge on a residence he calls “Futurecave”, which is located an hour outside of Australia’s famed Byron Bay, per the Daily Mail.

Efron’s design team is using environmentally responsible building materials — largely made from hemp blocks, recycled oyster shells and agricultural waste — and more than 200 sustainable particle boards to construct the six-bedroom, two-story property as well as its internal bricks, mattresses and even bedsheets. All of the bedroom pods will be connected by an outdoor walkway and each has their own rooftop garden.

In December 2025, Efron confirmed to the Australian Financial Review that he purchased a 128-hectare plot in New South Wales in 2020 and is just now starting to develop it.

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“I live a pretty fast-paced life and work quite a bit, so in between movies and press tours, my number one goal is always to take time for myself and rest and recharge and to be in nature as much as possible, and as close to the earth as I can, and this land just feels like it’s perfect for that,” Efron explained.

He expressed hopes that the “Futurecave” could become “the coolest house ever built” once the project is complete.

Eforn spent the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and later returned to the country to film his Netflix travelogue Down to Earth, during which he met Bakker, 51.

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Bakker confirmed last November that he had started developing the concept of “Futurecave.”

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“It’s not every day of the week that @zacefron asks you to design his home, I am beyond excited! Especially as it will be the first home he has ever owned,” he revealed via Instagram at the time. “Zac fell in love with @futurefoodsystem and then our family home in Monbulk and now wants a home of his own + best of all he wants me to push my ideas as far as they can go!”

The designer described Efron’s sustainable home as a “dream come true” that was “pushing my team creatively.”

“For the past year we’ve experimented with making hemp blocks, replacing concrete with two materials that restore the environment hemp, possibly the best plant on earth at repairing and restoring soil health and of course oysters, natures ultimate ocean restorer,” he shared.

Bakker went on, “We are using the most cutting edge technology (invented by the Romans 2000+ years ago) I want to create a building material that I hope will become mainstream one day — a material that naturally breathes, is anti mould, naturally fire resistant and improves the indoor air Zac will ultimately breathe.”

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More recently, he confirmed on May 8 that his team was “excited to get started on Zac’s house” after more than six months of lining up the concepts.

“Although @zacefron kitchen and bathroom joinery will only use only 200 hundred boards (less than 1000 square metres of crop) if we embrace this product we have the potential to help farmers restore soil health in a natural way,” he revealed via Instagram on May 22.

Us Weekly has reached out to Efron’s representatives for comment.

Efron told Variety in December 20243 that he was actively trying to shift focus from work to his personal life.

“I’m thinking about where I want to build a home base and cultivate my life,” he said. “It’s shocking — sometimes you wake up after doing three movies a year, and you’re like, I’ve neglected thinking about my own personal life for this long.”

He continued, “The goal is always the next mission, the next movie, making sure everyone else is very happy. It can be very lonely at times. But the process of taking your emotions head-on, sort of working with them, was a profound moment in my life. And it’s definitely taken me down a different road.”

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What Time Does Love Island USA Air? Season 8 Release Schedule

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We are back at the Love Island USA villa — but when (and how often) do new episodes drop?

Season 8 of the Peacock hit debuts Tuesday, June 2, following a group of singles who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa in Fiji. The contestants — who are referred to as Islanders — live in isolation in the villa and are under constant video surveillance.

Hosted by Ariana Madix, Love Island USA requires the group to be coupled up in order to have a chance at receiving the $100,000 prize. While the Islanders are filming nonstop for weeks, viewers are watching daily episodes — and even get to cast votes that affect couples and the fate of the contestants.

Love Island USA releases episodes every day (except for Wednesdays!) at 9 p.m. ET. There is also a new Aftersun special every Saturday to recap what took place in the villa that week.

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Before season 8 even premiered on Peacock, the official Love Island USA account released a statement regarding the cast.

“The Villa runs on good vibes, and so does this community,” read a post shared via Instagram. “We love seeing your reactions, opinions, and debates, but everyone deserves to feel safe and respected.”

The statement continued: “This is a space for fun, not negativity — so keep it kind, keep it positive, and remember: this is LOVE Island!”

Love Island USA made headlines again when contestant Vasana Montgomery was removed ahead of the season 8 premiere after resurfaced social media posts showed her using a slur. Both clips were leaked from her private social media, which meant producers weren’t privy to the posts while casting the show.

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They got a text — and found love in the Love Island USA villa. The beloved British dating show made its way across the pond in 2019, following a crop of American bombshells searching for The One in a luxury tropical villa. In season 1, eventual winners Elizabeth Weber and Zac Mirabelli had a connection […]

The shakeup came one year after season 7 faced offscreen issues with Yulissa Escobar, who left days into the experience after clips of her using racial slurs on a podcast circulated online.

Cierra Ortega also faced backlash when a resurfaced social media post showed her using a slur. She was pulled from the villa and later issued an apology for her posts.

Join Us Weekly and Bracketology.tv in our first-ever Love Island USA fantasy league! This is your chance to predict who you think will win Season 8 and rank the Islanders weekly based on how confident you are that they will survive the next elimination. You will be playing against our editors, get access to exclusive content and have the chance to win fun prizes. Sign up for free today!

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Blasted “Love Island” cop Sean Reifel can get his job back. However, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Mayor J. William Reynolds says he will have to do one thing. Reifel was previously slammed by the local politician after it was revealed he allegedly quit his job to film the latest season of the popular Peacock reality series. His stint in Fiji, however, came to a sad end after he was the first islander to be booted from the villa in a recent episode.

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According to a new report from TMZ, Reynolds told the publication that the Bethlehem Police Department is open to rehiring Reifel after being the first islander to be axed from the “Love Island” villa. However, in order to get back to patrolling the streets, Reifel will have to reapply for the position.

The mayor told the news outlet that if Reifel reapplys for the open position, he’ll be required to go through the same process as everyone else. Essentially saying he was not guaranteed solely because of his history with the city or department.

Reifel was one of the original cast members to be featured on season 8 of “Love Island” when it premiered on June 2, 2026. “I’m not a model, not an actor, I’m a police officer actually,” he said on the series. “You could be having the worst day of your life, and I’ll just help you sift through that.”

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Before Williams shared how Reifel could get his job back, he criticized the 29-year-old while speaking with the media, according to The Blast. During his statement, he said the Peacock TV personality left the city of Bethlehem, PA, in a tough spot to film the series.

“Our police department spent a lot of time training, and we paid thousands of taxpayer dollars to send him to the police academy. We are disappointed he left as we now have another vacancy in our department that is impossible to fill until next year,” Mayor Williams said.

And that’s not all. He added, “I never thought I’d see the day in America where reality show participation wins out over being a police officer.”

Users on Reddit torched the public figure, with one writing, “This is so unprofessional lol, why are they trying to tarnish his name? Ever heard of At Will employment? [They are] mad AF they didn’t get to fire him first.”

Reifel’s Family Reacts To The 29-Year-Old Father Of One Being The First To Get Sent Home

Reifel’s elimination episode aired on Sunday, June 7, and his family reacted to the saddening moment with an emotional post on social media.

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Reifel’s sister, Brice Marie, said that although she was told by “Love Island” producers that her brother would be the first to be sent home, she still found the moment difficult to watch. Additionally, she shared that one of the reasons Reifel may not have found a meaningful connection was due to his age gap with the other women.

“So, it just made sense that he didn’t find a super close connection there in that way,” she said, according to Cosmo.

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The new season of “Love Island,” hosted by Ariana Madix, is reaching a wider audience, as the first three episodes of season 8 have become the “most-watched debut of an original season of television” in the streamer’s history, per Variety.

The first three episodes have reached a total of 824 million minutes watched—a 74% increase from the year before.

Put another way, season 8 has generated about 3.7 million views. Variety reports that the estimate is based on dividing the 824 million minutes watched by the 224 minutes of content released so far.

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The increase in viewers was apparent during last night’s first live vote of the season. According to PEOPLE, when viewers learned they could decide which Islanders the three new bombshells would couple up with, demand was so high that it crashed the app.

The official “Love Island” Instagram account shared an update, though, informing fans that they’d extended the vote until 3 PM ET on June 10, 2026.

New episodes of “Love Island” air every day except Wednesdays on Peacock.

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Millie Bobby Brown is a strong, independent woman who does not need a man to carry her belongings.

“Hi, I’m Millie Bobbie Brown and I’m not gonna lie, when did women become incapable of holding their own bags, car seats and stuff?” Brown, 22, shared in a sneak peek of the Thursday, June 10, episode of the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. “This stems from me holding all of my suitcases and bags and my kid and people are like, ‘Your husband doesn’t hold a single thing.’ Because I’m three miles ahead. I have been planning this all night.”

Earlier this year, Brown and her husband, Jake Bongiovi, went viral when paparazzi photos surfaced of the pair out with their daughter. In one picture, the Stranger Things star was seen pushing a stroller while her husband walked nearby empty-handed.

“We’re all about empowering girls and, ‘You got it’ and ‘You don’t need a man.’ But then when I’m like, ‘Ok, I can carry my own things,’ people are like, ‘Where’s your husband?’” Brown shared. “I can also do it on my own. Nobody knows my husband. My husband is the most polite, sweet, will-do-anything-for-me. But he also knows I’m capable.”

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Millie Bobby Brown is already fiercely protective of her newborn daughter. “For me, it’s really important to protect her and her story until she’s old enough to potentially one day share it herself,” Brown, 21, told British Vogue in a cover story published Wednesday, November 5. “It’s not my place to purposefully put her in […]

Podcast host Kylie Kelce — who shares four daughters with husband Jason Kelce — immediately agreed with her guest and shared her own point of view.

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“I love this,” Kylie, 34, proclaimed. “The number of times that I have people come up to me and be like, ‘Do you need help with that bag?’ and I’m like, ‘Hey guys, I really appreciate it but if I needed help, I’d ask for it.’ The first person I’m asking — you guessed it — my husband. Thank you.”

While Kylie enjoys “the idea of chivalry” and doesn’t want to make it “dead,” men shouldn’t underestimate the strength of a woman.

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“I want there to be a degree of politeness and catering to your woman and whatever,” she continued, “but at the same time, don’t act like I’m broken or dainty.”

Brown replied, “I’m not broken!”

In August 2025, Brown surprised fans when she announced the arrival of her first baby with Bongiovi, 24.

“This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” the couple wrote via Instagram in a joint statement. “We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy. And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.”

While Brown tries to keep her personal life off of social media and away from the Hollywood spotlight, the actress shared a rare photo of her daughter in February while celebrating a special birthday.

“22. grateful for my husband and daughter. for my family and friends. all of my animals,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “I am so blessed. thank you for the birthday wishes. Xoxo.”

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Taylor Swift Set To Scope Out Her Rumored Wedding Venue

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Taylor Swift is set to take her love for New York to another level with her anticipated wedding in the center of it!

The Pop star will reportedly be making her mark at Madison Square Garden to catch a glimpse of Game 4 for the 2026 NBA finals, a few weeks after she attended a basketball game with Travis Kelce.

While Taylor Swift’s attendance at the NBA finals at MSG is exciting news, it is significant because the arena has been rumored to be the venue for her fairytale wedding to Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce.

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The pop superstar will reportedly be spotted courtside among the crowd cheering a team to victory for Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. The game will feature the New York Knicks battling it out with the San Antonio Spurs, sealing Swift in the winning spot with fans who were skeptical about her recent Cavaliers appearance.

Swift will reportedly be attending the game with some of her best pals, a less intense move away from her PDA filled appearance alongside Kelce last month at the Knicks-Cavaliers. The tight end and singer both rooted for the Cavaliers during that game.

However, Kelce later cleared the air on his “New Heights” podcast that he was not trying to win Swift over to the Cavs. He added that the outing was a way to share that part of his world with her and to get her to share the sports culture he grew up with in Ohio.

As shared by Page Six, while it was difficult dealing with the Knicks crushing Cleveland’s team, Kelce noted that his allegiance has now shifted, and he will be cheering the Knicks on from here.

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While his team lost out at the games, Kelce left a notable impression on the minds of fans who watched him chug a whole beer to the admiration of Swift. The Blast noted that the NFL star took advantage of the moment Swift’s “Ready For It” blasted through the speakers and gulped his drink.

Kelce’s stunt was an instant opinion magnet as fans trooped to the internet to dissect all the intricacies involved in the video, drawing judgments questioning Kelce’s maturity. 

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Some comments declared that Kelce’s actions were beyond embarrassing and reflected poorly on Swift’s status as a worldwide pop star. At the same time, other fans expressed worry about the future of their relationship.

Some fans, however, countered the critics, reassuring everyone that Kelce’s antics are a sign that Swift finally has someone she can have all the fun with. They complemented his larger-than-life personality, which is reportedly perfectly fine with Swift.

Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Could Turn Their Big Day Into A Stadium Affair

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It was reported that the couple could be considering an unconventional wedding setting to exchange their vows. According to an insider, Swift and Kelce may tie the knot at Madison Square Garden on July 3, taking the vibe away from concerts and sporting events to hosting one of the biggest weddings on the continent.

The venue could typically house over 20,000 attendees, thus giving them a great scale of visibility, and this may provide an opportunity for the fans to be a part of their big day. The iconic Manhattan arena is not exactly a strange feature in Swift’s story and career, especially early in her touring days.

Her relationship with the venue began in 2009 when she headlined a sold-out crowd, and then in 2011, she hosted two consecutive sold-out shows on November 21 and 22, respectively. In all, the country singer has performed eight times at Madison Square Garden.

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The Power Couple Reworked Wedding Plans After Major Info Leaks

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Weeks prior to the rumors of a new wedding venue for Swift and Kelce, reports indicated that the pair were already under serious pressure to salvage what was left of sensitive information on their big day.

At the time, insiders claimed that Swift became more wary about who she shared details with after private info about the wedding started to circulate in public discussion.

The Blast noted that the leaks caused unexpected disruptions and changes to plans, such as shifts in timing and locations. It was a frustrating and depressing experience, as far as sources were concerned, because it jeopardized the couple’s trust in their circle.

Swift was also reported to be more guarded than usual, with the couple choosing to keep their celebration low-key and focus on close family friends and family.

Even more drastic was the fact that the country singer allegedly did not leave a room for any plus-one in their wedding invitation. In the insider’s words:

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“She doesn’t want to see random faces in the crowd when she’s having her most intimate moment with her husband, committing themselves to each other for life.”

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Another interesting area of speculation surrounding the wedding is that some celebrities did not get an invitation to the ceremony, and they are people formerly in her close circle, such as Blake Lively, Miles Teller, and Karlie Kloss.

Lively and Swift reportedly fell out over her involvement in the former’s messy lawsuit with Justin Baldoni over their hit movie “It Ends With Us.” As for Teller and his wife, Keleigh Sperry, they were last spotted with Swift in 2024, but now, their names have reportedly been excluded from the guest list.

Model Kloss and the “Bad Blood” singer were known for their friendship in Hollywood, but that relationship quietly faded, putting her among those who would not witness the couple exchange their vows next month.

Ultimately, Swift reportedly curated that guest list with longevity in mind as she focused on only friendships that would follow her into the future.

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