Texas Senator Ted Cruz threw a light jab at Katy Perry’s boyfriend, Justin Trudeau, suggesting the former Canadian prime minister is essentially punching above his weight by being with her.

The “Dark Horse” singer certainly does not seem to see things that way, as she recently gushed about how Trudeau has changed her perspective on love and life in many ways.

Perry also reflected on how the past year was “tough” for her, but said she chose to remain cool and collected, even though she felt she had every reason to be “angry.”

Texas Senator Ted Cruz gave a surprisingly candid take on international relations this week, weighing in on the steamy romance between Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau.

When cornered by a TMZ reporter, the Republican senator was asked directly about his thoughts on the budding couple. He did not hold back, leaning into a classic football analogy to describe the pairing.

“Well, you know, there’s an old phrase of ‘outkicking your coverage,’ and I think Justin’s managed to do so,” Cruz said with a grin.

However, the senator was quick to make sure his comments did not come across as offensive, immediately adding a self-deprecating caveat: “Although to be fair, I’m in that same camp as well,” referring to his wife, Heidi Cruz.

The interviewer then asked whether he thought the relationship had any effect on U.S.-Canada relations, to which he replied, “objectively, it does affect U.S.-Canada relations,” before walking away.

Trudeau’s Supportive Boyfriend Moment Stirred Debate

Although the couple had been linked for some time, they only made their red-carpet debut on June 8 at the Tribeca Festival in New York City, while attending the premiere of “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris.”

However, their romance has already sparked tension among citizens of both nations, as many took to social media to call out Trudeau for traveling to the U.S. to watch the U.S. play in the ongoing World Cup, even though his home country, Canada, was also playing.

“Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call. But you know who I’m rooting for to take the Cup,” he wrote in an X post, adding a Canadian flag emoji.

Katy Perry Opens Up About Her New Love

Unlike what Cruz appeared to suggest, the “Roar” singer seems happy and satisfied with the way things are between her and Trudeau, and with the kind of love he has shown her since they got together.

In a recent chat with Justin Tranter on his “UnFamous Podcast,” Perry explained that it has been a transformative journey for her, saying Trudeau has helped change her perspective in no small way.

“I have love in my life now. That’s transformed me,” she said on the Wednesday, June 17, episode of the podcast when asked about how she has changed as a songwriter through the years. “You think when The Beatles say, ‘All you need is love,’ it’s a cliché? Clichés are clichés for a reason … it’s like you don’t know until you have your baby how beautiful that experience is and how it transforms you.”

“I am constantly in transformation, and I have so many placements of Scorpio in my chart that it would be easy for me to go to the dark side,” she added on Wednesday’s episode. “I’m constantly rebirthing, constantly transforming, constantly, you know, phoenix to ashes, then hopefully eagle.”

Perry Says Trudeau Has Become Her ‘Anchor’

The pair seems so enamored with each other that they cannot keep their hands off each other and have been spotted several times packing on the PDA.

During their appearance at the Tribeca Festival for the premiere of her concert film, “Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour – Live from Paris,” Perry spoke about how meeting Trudeau has been an “anchor” for her.

“I am very in love. And actually, that show was after I met the love of my life, and so I felt very anchored by that because I’m a little bit like a rainbow kite,” she said during a Q&A session, per PEOPLE. “I fly super high and touch the veil … cosmos … and sometimes I need to be anchored. So, to have that anchor finally makes me feel really whole now.”

Katy Perry Says Boundaries Changed Everything

Their relationship comes after a “tough” year for the “California Gurls” singer, who endured a painful split from her ex-fiancé Orlando Bloom, with whom she shares daughter, Daisy Dove. She also faced heavy criticism after joining an all-female space trip aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin vessel.

Perry told Tranter that instead of falling into “that weird victim triangle,” she decided to sit with her emotions, learn from them, and get feedback.

After coming to terms with the split, she adjusted her “boundaries” before meeting Trudeau.

“You know what it is? It’s really boundaries [of] boundaries within yourself, and then, when to boil it even further down, it’s just self-respect. It’s just love for yourself,” Perry stated. “If you don’t have boundaries, you may need to look at that … or peel yourself out of it. That’s what I’ve been doing is peeling myself out of all the conditioning.”

By Chris Snellgrove
| Published 11 seconds ago

At this point, it’s safe to say that The Mandalorian has really fallen off. The third season was aggressively mid and likely contributed to the disappointing box office for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the movie we got instead of Season 4. Once upon a time, though, the show seemed like it just might save Star Wars. The Sequel Trilogy was already leaving a bad taste in our mouths, and The Mandalorian seemed like the kind of hip, space western that could potentially save the franchise. While the show’s titular gunslinger was cool, the series’ real secret weapon was Grogu, everyone’s favorite adorable monster.

Long before he got his (frankly, pretty awful) name, Grogu was more popularly known as “Baby Yoda.” It’s a fitting moniker, as he’s designed to look exactly like a younger, cuter version of the Jedi Master who taught Luke Skywalker the ways of the Force. When The Mandalorian came out, the idea seemed very novel; like, who could imagine the idea of a baby Yoda who lived in the Jedi Temple before the events of Order 66? It wasn’t really an original idea, though. After all, an infant Yoda character was shown in a Star Wars comic that came out 17 years before the premiere of The Mandalorian!

Grogu’s Hidden First Appearance?

The comic is Star Wars Tales, which is the best comic to ever take place in a galaxy far, far away. The gimmick of these 64-page, oversized comics is that you get a selection of very different tales from various artists and writers. They were all non-canonical, which was annoying to lorehounds hoping for more official stories. But the non-canonical nature of these stories allowed their creators to get away with things they otherwise couldn’t. This included the adventures of Tag and Bink (two slackers who Forrest Gump their way through the entire Original Trilogy) and a hilarious trial where Han Solo has to argue he shot Greedo in self-defense and not cold-blooded murder.

In Star Wars Tales #13, there is a story named “Children of the Force.” It’s about a woman hired to bring a young, would-be Padawan back to their parents after the Jedi took the child. It’s a really good story, one which questions the ethics of monastic space police stealing children from their parents in the name of the greater good. Heck, it even has a fun moment where the woman hired to steal someone’s kid back teases Mace Windu about lightsabers being symbolic penises. But what fans of The Mandalorian might find fascinating is a brief glimpse of a Baby Yoda in the Jedi’s nursery.

From Comic Cameo To Cutesy Cannibal

So, was this particular Baby Yoda actually Grogu? Nope. Obviously, it would have been impossible for the creators to know what Jon Favreau would be cooking up 17 years later. In all likelihood, this was just a visual gag, one that might have been explained by the still-confusing appearance of Yaddle, another member of Yoda’s mysterious race. Additionally, this story, like all featured in Star Wars Tales, is non-canonical. But we also don’t know exactly when this tale takes place, so it can certainly be part of your own headcanon that this is actually Grogu chilling in the nursery.

In retrospect, it’s lucky that Star Wars Tales could include a baby Yoda, even as a gag. Eight years before this issue came out, George Lucas had all copies of a trading card recalled and destroyed because it portrayed members of Yoda’s race worshiping a weird, Spaceballs-esque idol. Basically, he wanted Yoda’s race to remain as mysterious and unknown as possible. Now, The Mandalorian has ensured that we know a lot more about these guys than we ever thought possible. For instance, thanks to Grogu, we know that Yoda was probably also a freaky little cannibal who ate everything that could fit into his mouth.

Too old to begin the training? Nah, man. Luke Skywalker was just too big to fit into Yoda’s pot of stew!

The first reactions to Supergirl have arrived, and if the early buzz is any indication, DC may have another major success on its hands.

Critics and journalists who attended early screenings have praised the film’s emotional storytelling, stunning visuals, and, above all else, Milly Alcock’s performance as Kara Zor-El. Many are calling her portrayal one of the standout superhero performances in recent years, describing her Supergirl as fierce, vulnerable, rebellious, and deeply human.

Entertainment journalist Brandon Davis wrote that Supergirl is “a visually stunning and emotionally rich adventure” and praised Alcock for delivering a “star-making performance.” Others echoed that sentiment, saying she completely owns the role and creates a version of Kara that feels dramatically different from Superman while remaining just as compelling.

Several reactions have highlighted the film’s unique tone, noting that it feels less like a traditional superhero movie and more like a cosmic fantasy adventure. The story reportedly embraces the darker, more emotional elements of the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic, following Kara on an interstellar journey filled with loss, vengeance, and self-discovery.

One early reaction described the film as “heartbreaking, hilarious, and visually gorgeous,” while another praised director Craig Gillespie for creating a world that feels expansive and unlike anything previously seen in the DC Universe. Critics have also singled out the chemistry between Alcock and Eve Ridley, who plays Ruthye, saying their relationship forms the emotional core of the movie.

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The praise surrounding Alcock has been especially consistent. In a recent profile, Gillespie praised the actress’s commitment and authenticity, while DC executives reportedly knew they had found their Supergirl after seeing her screen test. Her version of Kara is described as tougher, more emotionally scarred, and more rebellious than previous incarnations of the character.

That approach aligns closely with the film’s source material. Based on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the movie presents Kara not as an idealized hero, but as someone carrying the trauma of Krypton’s destruction while searching for her own purpose in the universe.

With Superman helping launch the new DC Universe and Supergirl now earning rave first reactions, fans have even more reason to be excited about the future of DC Studios.

If these early impressions hold true with audiences, Milly Alcock may have just delivered the definitive live-action Supergirl for a new generation.

By Jennifer Asencio
| Updated 1 hour ago

Daveigh Chase may not be a household name, but her face is known everywhere, and she also provided the voice for one of the most beloved Disney films of the modern era, Lilo and Stitch. Despite her legendary status as a juvenile, she did not fare so well as an adult. The actress passed away on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, after battles with drug addiction, homelessness, bacterial meningitis, and a blood infection. She was 35.

While her career was short-lived, it carried three notable roles that make her almost universally recognizable to fans of all stripes.

Daveigh Chase’s Iconic Roles

Her best-known voice-over role was as Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, the 2002 Disney animated feature about a young Hawaiian girl who befriends a dangerous but cuddly alien lifeform. The story centered around Ohana, a concept of family togetherness that leaves no one behind. When Stitch invades the lives of Lilo and her beleaguered older sister and caregiver, Nani, the little girl mistakes him for a dog and adopts him into her home. While Nani has to dodge social workers seeking to separate Lilo from her, government agents and alien bounty hunters are on the search for Stitch. Chase voiced Lilo for both the movie and the three-season TV show.

She also provided the voice of Chihiro Ogino in the English dub of the famous Hayao Miyazaki movie, Spirited Away. This 2001 classic introduced an entire new generation of viewers to Japanese animation and to the work of the amazing artist, bringing it beyond the niche anime fandom of other works like Princess Mononoke and Kiki’s Delivery Service and inviting numerous fans to join the anime craze.

From Animation To Live Action

Chase’s connection to Japanese cinema would not end with Spirited Away. Mere months after the release of Lilo & Stitch came her breakout live-action role, as the sinister Samara in The Ring. The 2002 horror film was an adaptation of the Japanese classic Ringu, and at the time, Japanese horror was very popular in the United States, as shown by the success of adaptations like The Grudge and imports like Audition.

For Chase, though, the role of Samara put her in the center of the action. Almost everyone has seen the iconic black-haired child crawl out of the well and emerge from the TV, even people who have never heard of The Ring. The scene has been shown, spoofed, and rehashed numerous times, forming a cornerstone of Western culture despite its Japanese roots.

A Life Cut Tragically Too Short

Unfortunately, Chase’s adult life more resembled Samara’s horror story than it did Lilo’s Ohana. Ditching her family at the age of 19, she had an adult life plagued with drug use and scrapes with the law, according to John David Schwallier, her estranged father. She had apparently been homeless, living on the streets near the hospital in which she died with her boyfriend, Roy Hernandez. Hernandez had attempted to collect funds to help her, and he and Schwallier had been in touch prior to her passing, allowing Schwallier to spend her last days with her and announce the news.

Many people loved Daveigh Chase in her childhood roles, but despite growing into a beautiful young woman, her career dried up when she became an adult. Her iconic films are all we have to remember her by, particularly her chilling turn in The Ring. May she find the peace in death that she never found in life.

Anne Hathaway met husband Adam Shulman and it was love at first sight — but their real-life fairy tale almost didn’t come true.

“You know when you don’t know someone very well, you just meet them and you’re like, ‘Wow, you really have it going on?’… We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway told Vogue in October 2010, noting that despite the terrible timing, she was convinced she had found The One.

The pair first crossed paths through mutual friends while attending the Palm Springs Film Festival in April 2008. While the Ella Enchanted actress told Harper’s Bazaar UK in February 2013 that she knew “from the second I met him that he was the love of my life,” she “also knew that I couldn’t have met him at a worse time.”

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Hathaway ultimately took a chance on Shulman — and she hasn’t looked back since.

The Modern Love actress and American Dreams alum went on to get engaged in 2011 and tie the knot one year later. Since their nuptials, the couple have welcomed sons Jonathan and Jack, who were born in 2016 and 2019, respectively. In June 2026, Hathaway announced she is pregnant again.

Keep scrolling for a complete timeline of Hathaway and Shulman’s love story:

By Robert Scucci
| Updated 17 seconds ago

Low-budget sci-fi is the ultimate proving ground for filmmakers because if they don’t lean into their limitations, they’re dead in the water. When done right, we get films like Primer (2004), Coherence (2013), Empathy, Inc. (2018), and my new favorite comedy in this wheelhouse, 2014’s The Infinite Man. With a cast of three, no special effects to speak of, and what appears to be an abandoned motel serving as the film’s primary location, The Infinite Man is about as bare bones as it gets.

It’s a time travel story, but really about how a man’s insecurities catch up with him in the most unhinged way possible. He builds a device that he thinks will save his relationship and, through his own doing, makes everything infinitely worse for himself. It’s almost poetic how badly he screws everything up, and if you love a good comedy of errors that’s both low-budget and high-concept, The Infinite Man is exactly what you’re looking for.

You Can’t Control Everybody, Not Even Your Past Self

The plot of The Infinite Man is simple at first, but snowballs in complexity as it barrels through its second and third acts. Dean (Josh McConville) is on the verge of a nervous breakdown after his anniversary with Lana (Hanna Marshall) doesn’t exactly go as planned. The motel they stayed at the previous year is now abandoned, and all the activities Dean had in mind to woo his unenthusiastic partner never materialize.

Like clockwork, almost as if planned, Lana’s ex-boyfriend, Terry (Alex Dimitriades), shows up, shocks Dean with a cattle prod, and leaves with Lana. Dean is distressed about this for a number of reasons. Most importantly, his desire to control every minor detail is so intense that he doesn’t realize how unhappy Lana is. But what’s really grinding his gears is the fact that Lana only dated Terry, a self-proclaimed pole-vaulting legend, for two weeks several years earlier.

Broken by this turn of events, Dean locks himself in the motel for a year and builds a time machine that allows him to travel back to the day Lana left him, effectively giving himself a do-over. The machine works, and he’s able to interact with both his past self and the past version of Lana. His attempts to influence their behavior without being detected backfire immediately when he’s discovered, setting off a chain of events that results in multiple duplicates of himself, Lana, and even Terry, all of whom vaguely recall Dean’s meddling.

It gets to the point where present-day Dean forces one of the Lanas to wear an earpiece while speaking with another version of himself so he can tell her exactly what to say, convinced his influence will lead everybody toward the correct outcome. But every time Dean interferes, things continue to get worse, not only for him, but for everybody around him.

Sometimes It’s Just Best To Let It Go

Dean’s character in The Infinite Man is a fascinating study. He’s a brilliant inventor and clever as hell, but his personality is so grating that it’s hard to root for him. He makes too many assumptions about people, is far too insecure for his own good, and every motivation he has is fundamentally selfish. He got dumped for being a control freak, and his solution is to become an even bigger control freak.

As annoying as Dean is, that’s where all the humor comes from, so it’s a fair tradeoff. He constantly gets his ass handed to him by his own miscalculations, and when he finally has to interact with alternate versions of himself, he starts to realize that he’s the problem. His evolution across the film’s brief 85-minute runtime is beyond impressive because you start out hating the guy, but gradually grow to like him as he becomes more self-aware.

The Infinite Man is a brilliant example of what filmmakers like Hugh Sullivan can do with virtually no budget, a tight screenplay, and the right characters to bring a concept like this to life. If you’re a creator in any capacity, it should always be inspiring when somebody gets out there and makes something, limitations be damned.

As of this writing, you can stream The Infinite Man for free on Tubi.

By Robert Scucci
| Updated 22 seconds ago

Everybody copes with grief differently, and most of us don’t even know how to handle and process it until it’s already knocking on our doors. Some people lose themselves in their work, or a passion project, and some people seek therapy. Some people do all of these things. Benny (Barak Hardley), the protagonist in 2018’s Spell, copes with the loss of his fiancé Jess (Jackie Tohn) by taking a solo, soul-searching trip to Iceland, where he finds out he might actually be a pawn in a supernatural game that will either solve his problems or make him wish he never left the United States.

The film is a compelling yet oddball exploration of grief, self-medicating, and searching for greater meaning after your life as you know it has been turned completely upside down. It’s also a hilarious sequence of events thanks to Barak Hardley’s commitment to the role and his character’s various quirks and idiosyncrasies.

That Escalated Quickly

When Spell first introduces us to Benny, he’s a total mess. He’s arriving at an Icelandic airport, and we’re immediately clued into his compulsive behavior. While I’m partial to counting stairs and making sure both my eyes blink an equal number of times so neither of them feels left out, Benny likes to lick shiny metal surfaces like door handles, water taps, and, in one case, a phallic art installation at one of the local museums. To make matters worse, he’s out of meds, dealing with the stress of a new location, and unable to immediately reach his doctor to get a new prescription filled overseas.

Oh yeah, and the grief that brought us here in the first place. Three months before the events depicted in Spell, Benny’s fiancé drowned in their pool while he wasn’t around, and he’s still unpacking that trauma.

He copes by having a one-night stand with Inga (Birna Rún Eiríksdóttir), who encourages him to get a tattoo of a symbol he doesn’t yet understand, but soon will. He wakes up the next day not knowing where Inga ran off to after stealing from him, and he soon connects with a tour guide named Steindor (Magnus Jonsson), who takes him hiking, talks about supernatural entities and ancient mythology, and hints at the fact that Benny is some sort of “chosen one.”

From this point forward, I really can’t go deeper into the film’s plot without revealing major spoilers, and this is one you’ll want to see for yourself. But you’ll want to stick around because there are visions, naked hot spring melees, boozy camping conversations, and the fact that you can never quite tell what’s actually happening to Benny and what’s simply a manifestation of his grief, compulsions, and lack of medication.

Barak Hardley Is A Perfect Lead

Though I can’t presently speak to Barak Hardley’s other work, he’s an absolute treasure in Spell. Benny is a complex character with personal hangups, recent traumas, and the endless intrusive thoughts that somebody with OCD has to deal with, all while navigating an unfamiliar landscape where everybody seems to be screwing with him on not only a human level, but a spiritual one.

He’s rightfully wary for all of these reasons, but whenever pressed, no matter how gently, he simply says “screw it” and does pretty much whatever he’s told. Since Jess’ death, which prompted him to go on this trip in the first place, he’s got nothing to lose and figures his life can’t get any worse, so he just goes along with everything that’s thrown at him.

Benny’s search for fulfillment and meaning doesn’t leave him with any easy answers, but his journey isn’t necessarily linear either. Grief comes and goes, and he’s just going through the motions while trying to unpack his demons in the most unconventional way possible. The question that remains is whether he finds the answers he’s looking for.

As of this writing, you can stream Spell for free on Tubi.

From the moment Tracker premiered, Colter Shaw’s (Justin Hartley) biggest unsolved case was his father. For years, Colter lived with questions that fractured his family, poisoned his relationship with his brother Russell (Jensen Ackles), and left him wondering whether the man who raised him had simply lost his grip on reality.

What began as a seemingly straightforward mystery surrounding Ashton Shaw’s (Lee Tergesen) death slowly evolved into something far more complicated, with each new revelation forcing Colter to reconsider everything he thought he knew. Season 3 finally delivered many of the answers fans had been waiting for, but that’s precisely why the story still hits like a punch to the gut. The truth proved that some wounds never fully disappear and merely become easier to understand.

The Shaw Family Mystery Was Never Really About Who Killed Ashton

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When Tracker began, Colter carried a burden that had defined much of his life. He believed his older brother Russell had killed their father during a confrontation in the woods. His mother, Mary (Wendy Crewson), did little to challenge that belief, and the siblings’ fractured relationship only deepened over time. However, as the series progressed, that simple explanation began to crumble as Russell insisted he was innocent, new evidence emerged, hidden journals surfaced, and long-buried secrets involving Ashton’s research and mysterious figures from his past slowly transformed what appeared to be a tragic family story into something much stranger.

What made the mystery so compelling was the damage those unanswered questions inflicted on the Shaw family. Mary kept secrets, Dory (Melissa Roxburgh) withheld information, Russell carried years of guilt and resentment, and Colter spent decades convinced he understood what had happened when, in reality, almost everyone around him had been protecting pieces of the truth. By the time Season 3 arrived, Tracker had made one thing clear: the biggest victim of all those secrets was the family Ashton left behind.

Season 3 Changed Everything Colter Believed About His Father

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Season 3 finally pulled back the curtain on Ashton’s work and the paranoia that defined his final years. What Colter had once dismissed as the unraveling of a troubled man turned out to be rooted in something tangible. Ashton wasn’t imagining enemies; rather, he had become entangled in dangerous government-backed research and spent his final years trying to stop experiments he believed had crossed an unforgivable line.

For years, Ashton existed in Colter’s memories as a contradiction, for he was the man who taught him to survive, but also the man whose behavior terrified his family. The deeper Colter dug, the more difficult it became to separate the loving father from the obsessive, paranoid figure his mother remembered. Season 3 refused to simplify that contradiction. Ashton wasn’t transformed into a saint, nor was he reduced to a madman; instead, Tracker embraced something far more complicated. Ashton was flawed, made mistakes, and hurt people he loved, but he was also trying to stop something he believed was wrong.

The Truth Brought Colter Peace, But Not Closure

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Perhaps the most powerful moment in the entire storyline comes near the end of Season 3, when Colter admits that he may not have found every answer, but he finally knows his father was trying to do the right thing, though it’s clear he didn’t exactly get the closure he sought. It goes to show that sometimes peace comes not from learning enough to understand motivations, at the very least.

There are still unanswered questions, however. Season 3 leaves the door wide open for more revelations, and Russell’s final scenes suggest the Shaw family secrets are far from finished. Yet something fundamental has changed, as Colter no longer seems trapped by the past as he once was. The mystery still hits like a punch to the gut two years later because, beneath the government conspiracies and secret programs, Tracker told a deeply human story about grief. Colter was searching for his father, at the end of it all, and after years of doubt, anger, and heartbreak, the answer he found was understanding, which was probably more than he expected.