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Brad Pitt Reveals The End Of His 7-Year Sobriety
A set of rules orders Brad Pitt‘s new relationship with alcohol.
The actor revealed he has taken a timeout on his sobriety journey seven years down the line. He claims he is not where he used to be when he decided to quit alcohol, and now his steps are guided by caution rather than confidence.
Brad Pitt’s personal transformation began in 2016 after his separation from his ex-wife Angelina Jolie following an alleged altercation on an airplane with their six children present.
In an interview published on Monday, August 10, Pitt had reportedly offered his interviewer a glass of wine during their conversation. The actor noted that his wines are not kept strictly for guests, especially now that he has gotten off his sobriety train.
“No, I got — I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon. Yep, nope, not good for me.’ Not in big quantities,” he expressed with a laugh.
He stated that with his newfound normal, he has taken a different approach to consuming alcohol because he had experienced a few occasions where he slipped up and paid dearly for it. Pitt continued that he ultimately realized after these episodes that drinking heavily is simply not his forte.
The actor told Esquire that he is now comfortable with having a few glasses of the good wine, with his limit well recognized. He stressed that he now treats keeping himself within a certain threshold seriously and responsibly.
The ‘F1’ Star Got Selectively Sober After Becoming A Father
Pitt, in 2017, had told GQ that he had regularly consumed alcohol or smoked since he left college, and he had honed his skills to the point where he could take it anywhere. However, as soon as the kids came calling, he decided to ditch all the spliffs and smokes, making an exception for alcohol.
As stated by PEOPLE, reality eventually dawned on him in 2016, when he discovered how far he had gone, and at the time of his interview the following year, he had marked six months of sobriety. He joined a 12-step program in 2016 and started attending AA meetings, which freed him in a way and began exposing ugly sides of himself.
In his words, “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard. It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself.”
He added that he was initially too shy to feel vulnerable at the meeting, but when he opened up, he realized he needed a reboot and had to wake up in several areas of his life.
Brad Pitt Revealed The Role Bradley Cooper Played In His Sobriety
Following his breakout role in 1992, Pitt recalled that he turned to marijuana to cope with the depression that ensued. He recalled avoiding every celebrity outing and just doing the most on his couch, smoking every night and numbing himself to sleep.
He quit smoking anything in sight after he witnessed extreme poverty on a trip to Morocco in the mid-90s, deciding to get off the couch. Four years after letting everything go in 2020, he had singled out his colleague in his acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor at the 2020 National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala.
Cooper had presented him the award at the event, and Pitt revealed that he had left his daughter at home to do the kind gesture, calling him a sweetheart.
Pitt told the crowd he got sober because of Cooper, and that he has been grateful for the opportunity every day. The “A Star Is Born” actor has also been sober for over 20 years, making him the best role model for Pitt at the time.
Pitt And Angelina Jolie’s Bitter Custody Era Quietly Ends 10 Years After Their Split
As twins Knox and Vivienne recently turned 18 and became adults, the actor and his ex-wife can now close the chapter on their bitter custody battle. As shared by The Blast, Pitt and Jolie’s kids went on a name-changing spree after they split up, opting for the “Jolie” last name.
According to family attorney Holly Davis, the twins reaching adulthood removes one of the final legal ties connecting them through their children. Davis added that the actress is now in a position where a custody order or court supervision no longer constrains decisions involving her relationship with the children.
The new arrangement may further deepen the disconnect between Pitt and the kids, as there are now no limits on Jolie, who may decide to do more to get the kids on her side.
Davis emphasized that it remains impossible to determine whether the children’s feelings toward their father were shaped by Jolie’s difficult relationship with Pitt or their own experiences within the family.
Brad Pitt And Jolie’s Kids Scarred By Airplane Incident
Everything started about a decade ago, when a private flight carrying Pitt, the actress and their six children erupted into a physical and verbal altercation that prompted the actress to file for divorce days later.
The altercation allegedly involved heavy drinking by Pitt alongside accusations of physical abuse and a subsequent FBI investigation that resulted in no criminal charges.
As noted by The Blast, the years may have gone by very fast, but the kids who saw it all go down are yet to move on. The kids reportedly remember that their parents’ marriage was an awful one filled with fights and drama.
Additionally, the children seemingly hold a grudge against the actor for failing to take the necessary steps to secure their Hollywood futures, despite his having one of the most iconic runs in the industry. Jolie, on her part, has included her kids in some of her projects, with their names displayed in the credits.
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Sami Sheen is reacting to an unexpected title her mother, Denise Richards, gave her while on a podcast.
The young model has found herself in the center of multiple conversations surrounding her famous family, but her most recent reaction might come as a surprise to fans.
From her complicated relationship with her father, Charlie Sheen, to differences with her sister Lola Sheen, Sami has never been one to stay silent.
Sami couldn’t help but be amused after being called her father’s “karma” by podcast host Bunnie Xo on an episode of “Dumb Blonde” Podcast where Richards was a guest.
“I feel like she is kind of Charlie’s Karma… I feel like she gives him a run for his money.” Richards agreed, responding, “Oh, she does.”
The former “ Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star shared how the “Two and A Half Men” actor needed that Karma, explaining that Sami stands up to Charlie more than any of his children.
She went on to admire her daughter’s confidence, stating that she loved that Sami wasn’t afraid to be who she was.
The 22-year-old seemed to be intrigued by the conversation as she commented, “hahaha this is so funny,” under the post.
Sami’s reaction might come as a surprise to fans online, as she and Charlie had publicly fallen out in the past, including over the creation of her OnlyFans profile.
Denise Richards Opened Up About Her Daughters’ Relationship With Charlie Sheen
Richards also opened up about the state of her daughter’s relationship with Charlie.
The “Wild Things” actress, who was married to the “Anger Management” actor from 2002 to 2006, said that her priority through the very public divorce was protecting her daughters.
As reported by The Blast, Richards explained that at the time she wanted Sami and Lola to have a personal relationship with their father, and not to form an opinion of him based on any negativity in the news.
Now that the girls are adults, the actress wants her daughters to have open conversations with Charlie about their childhood and the events they experienced growing up.
She went as far as suggesting there were still unresolved issues in the family, referring to it as the “elephant in the room.”
Sharing her desire for a better father-daughter relationship, Richards stated, “I hope one day that they feel comfortable enough and safe enough where they could just be open and say certain things.”
Charlie Sheen’s Daughter Is Exasperated At Nepo Baby Claims
Richards’ confession on the podcast comes months after Sami disclosed she was “frustrated” with Nepo baby allegations.
According to The Blast, the young media personality revealed that she had not received a dime from Charlie in over four years and has been fully supporting herself since she was 18 years old.
She expressed displeasure at finding out he had bought a car for her sister in cash, and had refused to purchase a horse for her at the same price. As a result, they hadn’t spoken in weeks.
The OnlyFans model then encouraged fans to keep subscribing to her content, as that was how she paid for her lifestyle
Sami Sheen Moved To Tears At Estranged Father Charlie Sheen’s Docuseries
Despite having a strained relationship, Sami had an emotional reaction to her father’s Netflix docuseries “Aka Charlie Sheen.”
In a video shared on social media, the 22-year-old recorded herself in bed, letting her solemn expression do the talking. The overlay caption on the video read “I didn’t know I was the reason he got sober.”
She encouraged viewers in the comments to give the documentary a chance, with The Blast reporting that she called it a 10/10 documentary.
Many fans weighed in on the video, with some calling for reconciliation, while others advised against it.
Sami Sheen Puts Sister Feud In The Limelight With Shocking Claims
The 22-year-old’s family drama extends beyond her relationship with Charlie, as she has previously clashed with younger sister Lola Sheen.
Earlier this year, she shared on her TikTok account that her sister Lola was allegedly seeing her ex-boyfriend. This caused a lot of speculation in her comments, including the fact that the mystery ex might be micro-influencer Aiden David.
As The Blast reported, when asked how she knew, Sami alleged she “went through his phone and saw over 300 deleted text messages between them.”
Sami and Lola are no strangers to a public spat, as the former previously called her sister out for her anti LGBTQ stance.
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Thirty years after “Scream” arrived in theaters, Matthew Lillard and Skeet Ulrich still cannot settle one of the movie’s most fiercely debated mysteries. The actors, who played killers Stu Macher and Billy Loomis in Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher, were asked to reveal which character was wearing the Ghostface costume when Tatum Riley was killed. However, Ulrich explained that the answer was never established behind the scenes, and claimed even screenwriter Kevin Williamson does not know for certain.
The question arose during a 30th-anniversary “Scream” reunion panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California. Ulrich and Lillard appeared alongside several other figures from the original movie, including Jamie Kennedy, Joseph Whipp, stunt performer Lee Waddell and Ghostface voice actor Roger L. Jackson.
When asked whether Billy or Stu killed Tatum, Ulrich admitted that the cast and filmmakers never discussed who was beneath the costume.
“To be honest, not even [screenwriter] Kevin Williamson knows who killed [Tatum]. And he wrote the damn thing,” Ulrich told the audience, per The Wrap. “And we never discussed it. So, it’s really fan theory, which I think is great. But, I don’t know. No one knows.”
Matthew Lillard Has His Own Theory About Stu Macher
Although Ulrich maintained that no one knows who killed Tatum, Lillard revealed which explanation he has personally embraced. “I always say it’s because she said ‘no’ to going to prom,” he told the crowd, pointing to Stu as the killer because Tatum, played by Rose McGowan, was his girlfriend.
Earlier in the movie, Stu attempted to persuade Tatum to attend the school dance with him. Her rejection therefore gives his character a possible personal motive beyond the murder spree he was already carrying out with Billy.
However, Lillard did not claim that his interpretation had been confirmed by Williamson, Craven, or anyone else involved in creating the film.
Tatum Riley’s Garage Death Became A ‘Scream’ Standout
Tatum’s death remains one of the original movie’s most memorable sequences. While attending a house party, she entered the garage to retrieve beer before being confronted by Ghostface. After fighting back, Tatum attempted to escape through the pet door in the garage door. Ghostface activated the mechanism while she was trapped, causing the garage door to rise and kill her.
The revelation that both Billy and Stu had been operating as Ghostface made it difficult to determine which one committed each murder. Fans have since analyzed the characters’ locations, behavior, and possible motives in hopes of assigning the individual attacks.
Yet the Midsummer Scream panel confirmed that the filmmakers did not provide Lillard and Ulrich with a definitive division of responsibility. And that lack of an official answer has allowed Tatum’s death to remain one of the franchise’s enduring unanswered questions.
The ‘Scream’ Finale Required 21 Consecutive Night Shoots
The reunion panel also gave Lillard and Ulrich an opportunity to discuss the demanding process of filming the original movie’s extended finale. The climactic house-party sequence, commonly referred to as “Scene 118,” lasts approximately 42 minutes onscreen. According to the actors, completing it required 21 consecutive nights of filming.
“When you see the film, the energy that [he and I and Neve [Campbell] and everybody is producing, we had to do daily for all that time,” Ulrich recalled. “So, that sticks out to me as being most memorable. And fun, because I got to hit [Lillard] with a phone.”
Lillard agreed that the filming schedule made the finale particularly difficult. “We shot at night. So, we were living a nocturnal life,” he explained.
The production process also moved more slowly because the filmmakers did not have multiple cameras capturing each performance simultaneously. “And also, back then, we only had one camera … you would have to do a take on every angle, every set-up multiple times,” Lillard said. “So, that sequence is really brutal and stands out in my memory.”
Despite the grueling schedule, the finale became one of the franchise’s defining sequences, revealing Billy and Stu as the killers and establishing their chaotic partnership.
Matthew Lillard Previously Embraced Another Billy And Stu Theory
The uncertainty surrounding Tatum’s killer is not the only “Scream” question Lillard has been willing to leave in the hands of fans. At a previous convention, the actor discussed the long-running interpretation that Billy and Stu’s intense relationship included romantic or sexual subtext.
Lillard acknowledged that the idea was never discussed while the original movie was being filmed. However, he said he and Ulrich have since embraced the way audiences interpret the characters. “Here’s the reality, it was never discussed on the day, it was not an issue,” Lillard explained. “But I think that we both really love it and hold on to it now as it’s sort of grown in popularity, this thought that these two characters were gay.”
The actor referred to Billy and Stu as “for sure gay” and revealed that he and Ulrich now jokingly call themselves “the first husbands of horror.”
Lillard also argued that the theory belongs to the audience, meaning it does not require official confirmation to carry meaning for viewers. “The reason is that you can’t take it away, like, nobody can strip us of that belief,” he said. “And in the world we’re living in right now, like… live with it.”
In much the same way, the mystery surrounding Tatum’s killer remains open for audiences to interpret.
As one of Marvel’s darkest, most violent characters on the side of good, The Punisher is given his fair share of fittingly twisted villains to hunt down. Chief among them is Billy Russo, the criminal formerly known as Billy the Beaut until Frank Castle mangled his face, causing him to take up the name Jigsaw. He’s been a constant and deeply personal thorn in Frank’s side both on the page and in the Netflix series, committing some truly heinous crimes and finding new, demented ways to torment the vigilante, all while serving as a constant reminder of the cost of his one-man war on crime. However, there’s now another formidable foe on the prowl who became a monster after his encounter with Castle.
In Issue #5 of Benjamin Percy‘s The Punisher series, Frank took down the ghost from his past once more, though it didn’t take long for another to haunt him. The very next installment kicked off a new storyline, “The Long Bullet,” introducing Collateral Damage, an entirely new villain for Castle with a gnarly design that illustrates how much pain he’s inflicted upon him. Described as one of the Punisher’s “failures,” he’s a former victim of Frank with a metal exoskeleton piercing his infected skin to keep him alive and help him overcome spinal paralysis. More than anything, a burning rage keeps him going until he can reach Castle’s door and put a bullet in his head, not just for himself, but because he believes it’s best for the entire city.
That time has come in issue #7. The latest chapter of The Punisher finds Frank having revived his war on crime in New York after recovering from battling Jigsaw. However, it becomes clear that someone isn’t pleased that he’s back on the streets when the bodies of petty criminals and even some innocent civilians are found dead, all seemingly struck down by the same bullet. Although the authorities are quick to suspect the Punisher, they’re proven wrong when, while Frank and his old ally Microchip are patrolling and tracking the signature of the round, the bullet flies back through Frank’s hand and back to Collateral Damage. Marvel Comics has now released a preview showing the pair in the sights of the metal-clad marksman, who has rifle skills to rival Bullseye’s.
‘The Punisher’s New Villain Is a Marksman Like No Other
The few pages shared tease Collateral Damage as, well, collateral damage, someone who was caught in the crossfire in Frank’s attempts to kill someone he believes deserved it. Specifically, it’s hinted that the new villain was hurt when the Punisher sent the Kingpin to the hospital. Collateral Damage’s motive is made clear as his rifle pulls up an image of Frank and his location, and he squeezes the trigger. Killing the man who ruined his life is one thing, but completely ruining him is another, more enticing proposition made easier by having a weapon with bullets about guaranteed to hit their mark. Meanwhile, Micro reads what he can about the mystery bullet’s location while Frank is busy driving. Despite staying off the main streets, however, their attempts to track the shot go wrong when they realize the bullet is speeding their way.
Farid Karami handles the interior artwork for The Punisher #7, while the duo of David Marquez and Guru-eFX created the cover. Their art gives the best look yet at Collateral Damage, splattered in blood with his rifle in the air and a look of almost melancholy as he sets out on his hunt. Both Marquez and Guru-eFX have contributed prominently across Marvel Comics covers of late, the former notably working on Godzilla Conquers the Multiverse, while the latter counts the myriad Queen in Black and Venom comics among their recent credits.
The Punisher #7 releases on August 12. Check out the full preview in the gallery above.
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2017 – 2019-00-00
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Netflix
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John Romita Sr.
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Jeremy Webb, Jim O’Hanlon, Andy Goddard, Tom Shankland, Jet Wilkinson, Dearbhla Walsh, Kari Skogland, Kevin Hooks, Michael Offer, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Stephen Kay, Stephen Surjik, Antonio Campos, Iain B. MacDonald, Meera Menon, Alex Garcia Lopez, Stacie Passon, Jamie M. Dagg
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Steve Lightfoot, Dario Scardapane, Felicia D. Henderson, Bruce Marshall Romans, Christine Boylan
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Movie fans love saying, “You’ll never see the ending coming.” Most of the time, they’re exaggerating. But every decade produces a handful of movies that actually earn that reputation. The 90s gave us Fight Club and The Sixth Sense, two movies that are still the default reference point whenever someone tries to describe a gut-punch plot twist to a friend. The 2000s had Oldboy, Saw, The Prestige, and the 2010s kept the streak going with Interstellar, Shutter Island, and Parasite.
The 2020s are only about halfway over, but they’ve already delivered an incredible collection of twists that nobody saw coming. So, we went through and picked the 10 that stuck with us the most. Here they are, ranked.
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‘Trap’ (2024)
Nobody does plot twists quite like M. Night Shyamalan. Sadly, Trap is also one of those movies that had its big surprise ruined by the trailer. But if you were lucky enough to go in blind, you got to experience one of the coolest twists of the decade.
At first, Cooper (Josh Hartnett) seems like an ordinary dad taking his daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert. But as the movie goes on, it becomes clear the arena is packed with FBI agents who are hunting a notorious serial killer known as The Butcher, and you soon find out Cooper is the one they’re looking for. Suddenly, Shyamalan flips the entire cat-and-mouse formula on its head by making the killer the one who’s trapped, and somehow still gets you rooting for him to slip past the cops.
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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ (2022)
For most of its runtime, Bodies Bodies Bodies plays out like a classic whodunit. A group of wealthy twenty-somethings gathers for a hurricane party, someone ends up dead, and everyone starts trying to figure out which friend is secretly the killer. Old grudges resurface, accusations fly in every direction, and the body count keeps growing exactly like you’d expect from a slasher.
Except there never was a killer. The ending reveals that David (Pete Davidson) accidentally slices his own throat trying to open a champagne bottle with a kukri for a TikTok video. Every death after that is just the group turning on each other out of paranoia, trying to find a killer that never existed.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ (2026)
If you went into the movie blind, just meeting Rocky for the first time is already one of the best surprises in recent sci-fi. The film starts as a lonely survival story about a guy stranded in space trying to find his way back home. And then, out of nowhere, another spaceship appears, and from that moment on, the movie becomes a wholesome story about the bond between Grace (Ryan Gosling) and Rocky.
But the movie saves its biggest gut punch for the very end. Throughout the film, Grace insists he never wanted to be on the Hail Mary mission, and you’re wondering what finally changed his mind. Once his memories fully return, we learn he never volunteered at all. Project director Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) had him sedated and placed aboard the ship after the original crew died just before launch. Looking back, that’s what makes the ending so much more moving. Grace couldn’t bring himself to sacrifice his life to save all of humanity. But by the end of the movie, he’d grown to love Rocky so much that he gave up his only chance of getting home just to save one alien.
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‘The Drama’ (2026)
The Drama opens like a glossy pre-wedding rom-com between Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson). But director Kristoffer Borgli drops an emotional grenade in the very first act that completely subverts genre expectations. During a drinking game with friends, everyone confesses the worst thing they’ve ever done. And Emma reveals that when she was 15, she planned a school shooting and only backed out at the last minute. From that moment on, the movie goes from a cute rom-com to a fascinating psychological drama about whether love can really be unconditional.
Charlie is forced to reconcile the woman he thought he knew with a version of her he never could have imagined. It’s built around the idea that some things, once said, can never be unsaid. You can forgive them, you can try to move past them, but they’ll always sit somewhere in the back of your mind, changing the way you see that person forever.
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‘It’s What’s Inside’ (2024)
Forbes (David Thompson) shows up to his old friend group’s pre-wedding party with a briefcase that lets everyone at the party swap bodies for the night. And the rest of the movie turns into a guessing game of figuring out who’s actually walking around in whose body. Forbes himself is shady the entire time. He’s always hovering at the edges of the party and never quite explaining why he tracked this group down after years of no contact.
But then you find out that the guy pulling all the strings was never actually Forbes. It was his sister Beatrice (Madison Davenport) the entire time, having swapped into her brother’s body and knocked him out before the party even started. And this was all revenge on the group that got her institutionalized years earlier.
5
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ (2023)
Most movies get one great twist if they’re lucky, but Across the Spider-Verse keeps piling them on, and each one is better than the last. The Spot starts out as a goofy villain-of-the-week that every superhero movie has the hero beat in the opening act before the real big bad shows up. But Spot turns his humiliation into motivation and actually evolves into a multiversal-level threat nobody saw coming. Another big blow comes when Miles learns he was never supposed to become Spider-Man at all, and that his dad is going to die because of it.
And just when you think the movie’s done throwing twists at you, the ending drops the biggest one of all. It looks like Miles is finally going to tell his mom he’s Spider-Man, and that’ll be the big cliffhanger for the next movie. But his mom just stares back at him confusedly. She has no idea who Spider-Man is. The colors feel slightly off. His room looks familiar but not quite right. Then Miles glitches, and it hits you like a ton of bricks. He never made it home. Miguel’s Go Home Machine sent him to Earth-42 instead, where his Uncle Aaron is still alive, his father is dead, and the Miles of this world grew up to become the Prowler!
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‘Caddo Lake’ (2024)
Caddo Lake opens with Ellie (Eliza Scanlen) searching for her missing stepsister Anna (Caroline Falk), who went missing on the lake, and Paris (Dylan O’Brien) investigating a section of the water that has strangely receded. Initially, these look like two separate stories running side by side. But you soon realize that Caddo Lake isn’t just a missing person mystery; it’s actually a time travel story.
The twist is that Ellie and Paris are both wandering through different decades of the same lake, which acts as a portal through time, and their lives have been intersecting the whole movie. Anna disappears through the lake and is transported back to 1952, where she is found by Paris and eventually grows up to become his mother. The entire film was a loop with no real beginning and no real end.
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‘Bugonia’ (2025)
Yorgos Lanthimos spends most of Bugonia inviting you to laugh at two conspiracy theorists, Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), who kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO because they’re convinced she’s an alien. Given the movie’s darkly comedic tone, their beliefs sound completely ridiculous. They come across as even more unhinged than the kind of people who believe in flat Earth theories or fake moon landings.
Every awkward conversation and absurd detail they reveal about the aliens seems designed to convince you that these two are just deeply traumatized men who have completely lost touch with reality. Except the conspiracy turns out to be true. Emma Stone’s character really is an alien, the empress of the Andromedans, and the ending reveals that Teddy wasn’t crazy at all.
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‘Barbarian’ (2022)
This one starts off like a typical serial killer thriller. Tess (Georgina Campbell) shows up to her double-booked Airbnb late at night and has to decide whether to trust her mysterious housemate Keith (Bill Skarsgård), and every polite thing he does feels laden with menace. In the middle of the night, she follows him down to the basement where she finds a labyrinth of underground tunnels, and then the movie completely switches genres on you.
What was a slasher setup turns into a creature feature about a monstrous woman living in a network of tunnels underneath the house. And right after that jump scare, the film abruptly cuts to black and jumps to a completely different character, AJ (Justin Long), a disgraced actor who owns the property and has no idea what’s waiting for him downstairs. By repeatedly changing the genre rules and forcing viewers to start over every time they thought they understood the movie, Barbarian became a defining horror debut and launched Zach Cregger as one of the genre’s most promising new filmmakers.
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‘Strange Darling’ (2023)
Told non-linearly across six chapters, Strange Darling spends its opening stretch playing like a fairly straightforward slasher. A wounded woman known only as the Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) is desperately running through the woods while a man called the Demon (Kyle Gallner) hunts her down with a rifle. Every visual cue tells you exactly how this story is supposed to work, and it feels obvious who the victim and the predator are.
But that assumption is exactly what Strange Darling wants you to make. The film masterfully uses your own horror movie instincts against you, and as the chapters go on, you find out that the Lady wasn’t a helpless survivor at all. She was actually the Electric Lady, a ruthless serial killer responsible for a string of murders. And the Demon was her intended victim who managed to turn the tables on her.
Strange Darling
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August 23, 2024
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96 Minutes
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JT Mollner
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JT Mollner
Druski is well known for his fake record label, Coulda Been Records, and for hosting auditions for it. He’s also known for his well-produced skits that often go viral. Recently, fans appeared to confuse Paul Bill Jr. and his new music video for one of the comedian’s on-camera moments. While Paul has addressed the hilarious mix-up, social media users are still waiting on Dru to tap in!
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Fans Are Adamant Paul Bill Jr. Video Is Really A Druski Skit
Singer Paul Bill Jr. dropped the music video for his single ‘Prettiest Girl In The Room‘ last month. Fans think he favors Druski as he sings, plays the guitar and plays the keyboard in the visual. For context, the comedian hosted a Coulda Been Records audition last month. He typically travels to various cities while posing as an overbearing music executive at the satirical record label. The popular clips appear to be parodies of music-based reality TV show auditions. Not only that, he also recently shared a parody of the Grammy-nominated Motown group The Jackson Five.
The timing of Druski’s videos, paired with Paul Bill Jr.’s resemblance to him, had heads turning! Social media users began speculating that the ‘Prettiest Girl In The Room’ video was another one of Druski’s hit skits. Here are a few reactions from the roommates:
User @_7cam wrote, “Oh sh*t I deadass thought this was Druski doing an Anderson Paak skit 😭😭😭.”
@m7.stl added, “genuinely thought ts was a Druski skit for the first 10 seconds😂😂.”
@lundynjackson_ wrote, “I’m sitting here like Druski be unlocking every character 😂 whole time this ain’t even him.”
User @iindgo, added “bro wtf , u gotta collab with Druski , i thought this was one of his skits lmaoo.”
@scolla.fungwe added, “ON MY SOUL I thought this was @Druski in WytFace 🤣😭.”
@trishonna was also convinced. “Definitely thought it was a Druski skit.”
=User @dylanjacobmusic added, “I know I wasn’t the only one who thought this was Druski lmao.”
Roomies’ Also Noted The Likeness Between The Artists
Roomies also made comparisons after seeing the video, and their comments are undefeated, giving kiiiis. See additional reactions below.
User @barbie_killer_ wrote, “I promise I passed by this video on mute earlier and swore up and down it was druski.., smh 🤦🏽♀️😂 auntie can’t tell anymore.”
@sassymoodyclatchet wrote, “This is indeed Druski and I will not be gaslighted into thinking otherwise 😂.”
@mkandy_ added, “now @druski about to make a skit out of THIS 😂😂😂.”
User @1partyboi_duece added, “I definitely thought Druski was up to his shenanigans 😂.”
@iam_svint joked, “They is rolling the clones out right in front of us 😂.”
User @nycxelizabeth added, “Someone should ask druski dad if he ever had other kids… cause there’s no way they not brothers.”
@daejones had a prediction. “Now yall know Drewski finna do a collab in 5 business hours lol.”
User @francinaaa_ wrote, “I STILL thought this was a Druski skit before reading the print 😂😂.”
@rickdarulah joked, “Lmfao imagine singing yo heart out and people think it’s a joke 😭he do look like Druski tho😅.”
Paul Bill Jr. Also Noted The Resemblance
After fans overwhelmingly noted his resemblance to Druski, Bill shared another video on Instagram noting the likeness, and he seemed rather amused. The post was captioned, “Figured I’ve give this song one more try 😅 comment of the day ‘Druski is that you?’” Text over the video reads, “If Druski starts singing like this I’m cooked but until then I’II keep posting this summer 😅.” The comedian has not yet reacted to Paul’s post or all the comments naming him.
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What Do You Think Roomies?
Miracle Herron was delivering an order for DoorDash when she was suddenly caught in the middle of a police chase. Suspect Torrance Whitaker was reportedly fleeing police, driving over 100 miles per hour, when his car came hurdling toward her.
Hit, Miracle Herron still managed to deliver her customer’s food.
So what was going on, and why?
The Shade Room’s Justin Carter is delving into the shocking story on ‘TSR Investigates.’
DoorDash Driver Hit In Police Chase Still Delivers Order!
According to Miracle Herron, when she arrived at her first customer’s address, she heard “sirens” and “wheels screeching.” Seconds later, a car being chased by police almost plowed her over.
“So I see the car coming toward me, [and] once I realized that the car was getting closer, and it was finna get ready to hit me, my mind was like, ‘You need to run,’” she recalled. “Once I get the thought to run, that was when I was hit by the car.”
Herron explained to Carter that she “felt the impact,” and immediately got out of the way in case the car kept moving. Additionally, Herron still delivered the order to her customers.
“There was a lot of adrenaline running that day, I can tell you that,” Herron explained to Carter, noting that she didn’t feel the need to go to the hospital that day. However, she definitely felt the impact the following day.
What Has Happened With Driver Miracle Herron Since?
According to Herron, she’s been in physical therapy since the incident. DoorDash, she says, has been helpful with her recovery. But she still has an important message to be heard.
“I feel like police officers shouldn’t do police chases in residential neighborhoods ’cause if it wasn’t me, it could’ve been somebody else’s child, you know?” she told Carter.
Scroll above to watch as Justin Carter delves into past instances concerning delivery and rideshare driver safety. Additionally, he shares a statement from DoorDash about the matter and details Miracle Herron’s recovery as she reportedly deals with “mounting medical bills” and unmanageable pain. Those interested in donating to Miracle Herron’s recovery efforts can do so via her GoFundMe campaign, located here. Lastly, Carter shares tips every delivery and rideshare driver should know to protect themselves from incidents, accidents, and injuries.
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What Do You Think Roomies?
San Diego Comic-Con may be done and dusted, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t Marvel Studios and Disney-related surprises around the corner this summer. Enter D23 Expo: the Mouse’s own fan event for exclusives and reveals that should feed fans for the rest of 2026. In accordance, Collider is pleased to exclusively reveal what tributes Iron Studios has planned for D23. At SDCC, Iron Studios unveiled collectible figurines that teased Avengers: Doomsday. Specifically, Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) himself as well as Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen). Just weeks later, they’re back with more Doom. They’re also taking it way back to the 1960s with not one, but two Walt Disney exclusive collectible figures.
Doctor Doom’s new — and exclusive to D23 — MiniCo figure features a “metallic paint job created exclusively for the event,” according to Iron Studios. As has been the case with previous Doomsday merchandise, the Fantastic Four villain has a yellow or gold armband that seems specific to the plot of the film. Maybe it’s tied to how the MCU will introduce Latveria? Just something to keep your eye on!
Iron Studios Will Pay Tribute to D23’s Titular Hero
In addition to the new Doctor Doom figure, Iron Studios is unveiling two figurines of Walt Disney, the man who started it all, at D23 this year. One of the two should be particularly of interest to all the theme park enthusiasts out there as it pertains to “the Florida project.” (Not to be confused with the 2017 film The Florida Project.) As you can see above, one of the figures has Disney perched in his office, with plans for what will eventually become Disney World on the board behind him. According to the official press notes:
“Iron Studios is celebrating D23 with two exclusive tributes to Walt Disney: a limited-edition 1/10 scale statue (500 units worldwide) featuring his official office, along with some distinctive details that only those who have visited the Disney studios will recognize. In addition to the iconic phrase ‘To all who come to this happy place, welcome,’ written on the back of the wood. This exclusive can only be found at D23, CCXP Brazil and Disneyland Paris.
In addition to this, we’ll have another exclusive item: the Walt Disney MiniCo, where the drawing board features the sketch of what would become the Florida project ‘Walt Disney World,’ as well as Mickey’s most iconic eras. This project was created in collaboration with Disney, and our team visited Walt’s office to recreate everything as faithfully as possible.”
Both figures have some additional Disney characters in the background. The “Florida project” a.k.a. Walt’s office MiniCo features Goofy, Pluto, and the beloved Sorcerer’s Apprentice version of Mickey Mouse from Fantasia. The other has three different, and not-so-hidden, Mickeys! The details and inclusive messaging should set the tone for a good D23 Expo this year.
Avengers: Doomsday will hit theaters on December 18. In the meantime, get an exclusive look at the new Iron Studios figures for the movie in the galleries above and stay tuned here at Collider throughout the upcoming weekend for more coverage from D23.
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December 18, 2026
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165 Minutes
Ariana Madix weighed in on the overwhelming reaction to the heated moments that were caught between Islanders on season 8 of Love Island USA.
“I was a little bit surprised [by the response]. For me, these are adults living [together] and it’s an adult show,” Ariana, 42, who has been hosting the hit Peacock series since 2024, exclusively told Us while promoting her partnership with Orgain.
Ariana reminded viewers that the show was rated TV-MA, adding, “So for me, the audience should be expecting people to act like adults in adult relationships. And people in adult relationships tend to get physical with each other on various different levels of whatever they’re feeling.”
The Love Island USA host showed support for how everyone navigated their villa relationships.
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 […]
“I support every islander in their journey of how physical — or if not physical — that they want to be in the villa,” Ariana continued. “I don’t think anyone should be shaming them for either direction that they take.”
She continued: “When that becomes a topic of discussion, I just sometimes wonder if maybe they’re first-time viewers potentially. Because if we go back to Love Island UK season 1, that’s on another level.”
The Love Island franchise originally began in the U.K. in 2002 before expanding worldwide with various spinoffs, including Love Island USA on Peacock. The series follows a different group of singles every season who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa for the chance to win $100,000.
The contestants — referred to as Islanders — live in isolation in a villa and are under constant video surveillance as they attempt to find love.
Ariana Madix Kim Nunneley/Peacock
Ariana has had a front row seat since she joined the franchise in season 6. While the reality star couldn’t confirm her return for season 9, she was surprised by the online speculation into her future as the host.
“I do [see that]. And obviously I can’t speak yet to what’s going to be happening next season,” she noted. “We did announce already that I will be hosting Love Island Games next year.”
While Ariana “can’t say anything that speaks to” plans for season 9 of Love Island USA, she saw the concern.
“I do wonder that sometimes. [People on social media have] been saying that every year and I always wonder where that comes from,” she added. “I have seen comments online that say there’s some sort of two-year thing and I’ve always wondered where did that [rumor come from?”
Ariana appreciated the outpouring of love, adding, “But you know what? It is really nice because so many of those comments will be so positive in the sense that they’re wondering because they’re hoping that I will be back. So that’s really great. But yeah, nothing’s been said. So I don’t know where they come up with that.”
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Ariana, who recently earned her first Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program, is currently preparing to host the season 8 reunion of Love Island USA.
She is also partnering up with Orgain for their plant-based protein powder, which has become part of her morning routine.
“This has been such an easy alignment because this is something that I do every day. It was something I was doing every day leading up to going to Fiji,” she explained to Us. “I — no joke — had to have someone bring tubs of it to Fiji so that I could continue on my protein iced coffee routine in the morning.”
Madix loved incorporating Orgain as part of her workouts — especially the Vanilla Bean flavor.
“When I first got back from Fiji, of course, I was jet lagged. I was struggling a little bit in [those] first few days to get back into my routine and now I’m back,” she said. “So I have my 21 grams of protein in my iced coffee every morning. I know myself, so I know that I’m not going to get up in the morning and make an elaborate smoothie and mess up my kitchen and do all of that before I head out the door.”
She continued: “My schedule is so different every day. So I know that if I can just start with that 21 grams of protein, I’m already at a headstart for hitting my goals for the day. Obviously, I love to work out, I love to lift weights, and if I’m not getting enough protein within that and I’m not hitting the right things for my diet, then I’m not going to build the muscle. And that’s really important to me. So this is the perfect thing to fit into my day for me.”
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