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Audiences are already floating theories about M. Night Shyamalan‘s new movie, Remain, which will be released theatrically next year. It’s Shyamalan’s first new film since 2024’s Trap, marking his longest gap between movies in more than four decades. Warner Bros. unveiled the mysterious first trailer for Remain this week, prompting comparisons to Shyamalan’s masterpiece, The Sixth Sense. Released in 1999, The Sixth Sense immediately catapulted the filmmaker to the A-list and earned him comparisons to Steven Spielberg. While the jury’s out on whether he has lived up to the promise he showed early in his career, Shyamalan has certainly created a unique identity for himself, so much so that every time someone mentions twist endings, one of his movies likely comes up. That said, three years before The Sixth Sense, another movie delivered a twist so memorable that it earned its breakout star an Oscar nomination. The movie in question is currently streaming for free in the United States.
It was released in 1996 and directed by Gregory Hoblit. The thriller follows a criminal defense lawyer who agrees to represent an altar boy accused of murdering a priest. Richard Gere starred as the lawyer, while Edward Norton played the altar boy in a star-making supporting performance. It was Norton’s feature film debut, and he won a Golden Globe for his work in addition to scoring nominations at the Oscars and the BAFTAs. The film also featured Laura Linney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Andre Braugher.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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01
Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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05
You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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06
What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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07
What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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08
It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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Here’s Where You Can Watch the Thriller for Free
By now you’ve probably guessed that we’re talking about Primal Fear. Those who’ve seen the movie know that it ends with an unforgettable twist, and those who haven’t seen it are in for a fun ride. Primal Fear was part of a particularly strong wave of psychological thrillers made in the 1990s, along withSe7en, Copycat, The Bone Collector, and The Silence of the Lambs. It’s a style of filmmaking that the recent Netflix title The Whisper Man paid homage to. Primal Fear grossed more than $100 million at the box office against a reported budget of $30 million, and it now holds a “Certified Fresh” 77% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Primal Fear is a straightforward yet entertaining thriller elevated by a crackerjack performance from Edward Norton.” The movie is currently streaming for free on Pluto TV. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
“I mean, fan for life,” Ganesh, 28, told E! News on Thursday, September 10. “They also gave me such a start to my career. I will watch it to the extent that I watched season 1 and season 2.”
She added: “I might watch it more. I get self-conscious about my work so now I don’t have the barrier of watching myself.”
Ganesh also reflected on the lessons she learned from working with Noah Wyle, saying, “He was really great about talking about his experience and what it was like being on ER and I feel like I learned a lot about that through him.”
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News broke in April that Ganesh would be written out of the show after season 2. The decision received backlash from fans who were still upset about Tracy Ifeachor‘s exit after season 1. Both departures were referred to as a creative choice.
“It’s sort of the nature of the show. Unfortunately, the way the medical profession works, you come in, you learn, you move on, and we want to try and be as truthful to that process as possible,” creator R. Scott Gemmill explained to Us at the time. “So we’re going to turn over our cast. But I think it’s a great launching pad for people, and that’s the best we can do.”
In a separate interview, Gemmill addressed the criticism surrounding multiple women of color leaving The Pitt.
Shabana Azeez, Supriya Ganesh, and Noah Wyle.Warrick Page/HBO Max
“It eliminates the false jeopardy some shows have,” he told Vulture. “[Mohan] is somebody who doesn’t have a job lined up and might not know where she’s going next, and we’re trying to build up the uncertainty that these young physicians face.”
The interviewer pointed out to Gemmill that the show’s two major departures have both been women of color. In response, Gemmill called it “just a by-product of having a diverse cast,” adding, “We have a lot of women, and a lot of women of color. It’s just a coincidence more than anything else.”
“Emergency rooms have a high revolving door,” Wyle told Variety at PaleyFest’s screening of The Pitt earlier this month. “As always, we try to bring in new characters or promote from within as we go through these cast changes and try to keep the story lines fresh.”
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Wyle didn’t rule out more departures before the show starts filming season 3, adding, “It’s an inevitability that’s going to happen every season with this show, because as writers we’re hard-pressed to figure out what a lapse of time we can have and keep most of the ensemble together realistically.”
He concluded: “Obviously Supriya has been a huge part of our show since the beginning. Dr. Mohan is a beloved character, and I love playing with her and working with Supriya, and we wish her all the best in her next endeavors, and we’re going to miss her.”
In early summer 2026, the horror headlines were dominated by Focus Features’ Obsession. Former YouTuber Curry Barker made his filmmaking debut with this breakout masterpiece, as scary as it is poignant. Key to the film’s success was a viral lead performance by Inde Navarrette, which is already an early favorite to earn Oscars gold in 2027, alongside other major category pushes for Obsession.
Not only has Obsession been labeled one of the finest debuts of this decade, but it has also smashed many box office records. This includes becoming the highest-grossing original horror movie of this century and the only genre film in history to stay in the box office top ten for over 40 days in a row, with Obsession turning a sub-$1 million budget into more than $500 million worldwide. But Obsession wasn’t the only horror hit breaking box office records in May 2026.
Released alongside Barker’s breakout was Backrooms, which itself broke an impressive box office record as 20-year-old Kane Parsons became the youngest director ever to claim the #1 spot on the North American box office charts. Like Barker, Parsons was also making the move from YouTube to filmmaking with his directorial debut, which saw him adapt the viral online creepypasta into a mind-boggling feature-length success. Against a reported production budget of just $10 million, Backrooms earned an impressive $393 million in global revenue, but its success isn’t limited to a strong theatrical run. Four months later, Parsons’ horror smash is still proving popular, officially ranking as the most-watched movie on Amazon in the U.S., even outperforming the second-placed Obsession.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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01
Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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02
Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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03
What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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04
What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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05
You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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06
What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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07
What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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08
It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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What Did Critics Say About ‘Backrooms’?
Although it didn’t earn quite the unfiltered praise of Obsession, Backrooms was still the recipient of widespread acclaim upon arrival. The film drew comparisons to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch in Aidan Kelley‘s review for Collider, in which he called it a “near-flawless film that demands to be seen.” Backrooms scored highly on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, earning a “certified fresh” score of 87%, just 6% short of Obsession. Backrooms is led by Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and features a script by Will Soodik, who had previously penned the Homeland episode “Tower of David.”
The Backrooms are ready to be explored on streaming now. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, are ready to let go of their Malibu mansion after almost three decades of calling it home.
Speaking to U.K. publication The Times on Friday, September 11, the actor, 73, explained why it might be time for the couple to move on from their $100 million home.
“We’ve been spared by the fires a few times now. But I think it’s time to move. Everything changes, everything falls apart,” he told the outlet. “We live by this body of earth’s water on a fault in a ring of earthquakes. That creates a fear.”
The MobLand star continued, “I think the two of us are somewhat reclusive. It’s a long way into town. We have a small circle of friends here [but] people get divorced, they die, they move on. And we’re still here.”
Pierce Brosnan‘s life led him to a lasting marriage with Keely Shaye Smith. Brosnan was previously married to Cassandra Harris from 1980 until her death in 1991. Brosnan and Harris welcomed son Sean (born in September 1983), and he adopted Harris’ daughter Charlotte and son Chris, whom she shared with her late ex. Harris died […]
In January 2025, the Palisades Fire burned more than 23,000 acres across L.A. and its surrounding suburbs, including Brosnan’s neighborhood. According to CalFire, more than 6,500 structures were destroyed, 975 were damaged and at least 27 people lost their lives.
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Many celebrities, such as Billy Crystal, Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Tyra Banks and more, were among those who were affected by the severe weather disaster.
Although Brosnan and Smith’s home was “spared” during this event, they went through an ordeal a decade prior.
In February 2015, Us confirmed that their Malibu home sustained approximately $1 million in damage after a fire spread from his garage to one of the rooms in his home. According to the L.A. County Fire Department at the time, it took nearly 40 minutes for 50 firefighters to respond, contain, and extinguish the blaze.
Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith.(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Brosnan met Smith in 1994, three years after his first wife, Cassandra Harris, died of ovarian cancer. Prior to Harris’ death, she and Brosnan welcomed son Sean in 1983. (Brosnan also adopted Harris’ daughter, Charlotte, and son, Chris, whom she shared with her late ex.)
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The James Bond star opened up about the secret to the longevity of his marriage to Smith during an interview with Fox News in December 2023.
“We like each other a lot. We love each other a lot,” he told the outlet at the time. “And we’ve been down the road, and we’ve seen many, many hardships as families do, as we all do.”
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He added, “But watching someone grow up with you and grow old with you is a very spiritual journey. To watch each other change … whatever it may be, the hair [or] the waist … it’s [about] the love in the heart.”
There can never be too many thrillers in Hollywood. The industry has more than one way to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. For decades, staples like The Silence of the Lambs,Fargo, and Pulp Fiction have differed in style, but they all deliver that same adrenaline rush in theaters.
Over time, the thriller genre has evolved to reflect the anxieties of modern society. Each decade introduces new fears and pressures, which often translate into high-stakes situations that test the human psyche. With that in mind, here are the 10 best thriller movies of the last 20 years, ranked.
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‘The Raid: Redemption’ (2011)
Iko Uwais as Rama in The Raid RedemptionImage via PT Merantau Films
The Raid: Redemption follows Rama (Iko Uwais), a rookie officer part of an elite police squad tasked with raiding a high-rise apartment block controlled by crime lord Tama Riyadi (Ray Sahetapy). Inside, criminals rule every floor, forcing residents to obey for survival. When their cover is blown, the team becomes trapped, fighting through waves of armed attacks to reach the top.
There is something claustrophobic about fighting in enclosed buildings. The moment the squad enters those doors, there’s no way out. Within tight corridor spaces, machete-wielding brutes can jump on you at any second. There is no grace in fighting, just the urgency to fend off as many attackers as possible, with adversaries literally coming from all four directions.
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‘Shutter Island’ (2010)
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Shutter Islandstarts with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) investigating a patient’s disappearance from Achecliffe Hospital. Drawn there for personal reasons, he suspects the doctors are hiding sinister practices. Denied key records, Teddy presses on as a hurricane isolates the island. With dangerous inmates loose and clues mounting, he begins to question his memory and sanity.
The isolation of being confined to a mental facility on a stormy island does things to the mind. When someone’s head is in a daze, it’s hard to differentiate what’s real and what isn’t. Hence, the psychological aspect of Shutter Island. As the claustrophobia kicks in and Teddy’s senses are tested, a series of frightening hallucinations begins to taunt him.
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‘No Other Choice’ (2025)
Yeom Hye ran holding a weapon in disbelief in ‘No Other Choice’Image via Neon
Unemployment makes people do the craziest things in No Other Choice. Veteran papermaker Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) loses his job when his company is taken over. He struggles for over a year to find work in the industry while his family faces growing financial strain. When he spots an opening at a rival company, he does everything to eliminate the other candidates and secure his future.
South Korea is best known for critiquing class anxiety, and No Other Choice — despite the absurdity of Man-su’s actions — reflects just that. As realistic as thrillers go, nothing is more relatable than the fear of being laid off after years of dedication. And when viewers are at Man-su’s age, that anxiety only intensifies.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘The Secret Agent’ (2025)
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The Secret Agent is set in 1977 Recife, during Brazil’s military dictatorship, where former researcher Armando (Wagner Moura) arrives during Carnival under a false identity, secretly reconnecting with his young son and a network of political dissidents. Living among refugees and underground activists, he becomes caught up in surveillance, corruption, and escalating threats.
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While this sounds like fiction, there are unfortunately real threats faced by those who speak out against capitalist corporations. These dangers still exist today. The real horror comes from the idea that people in the highest socioeconomic positions can view the working class as insects they can easily dispose of.
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‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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In the aftermath of Batman Begins, Batman (Christian Bale) partners up with Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to take down an elusive mob accountant. However, when the three hit a dent in their investigation, they have no choice but to turn to the Joker (Heath Ledger). Little do they realize, the green-haired menace has plans to take over Gotham.
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The real highlight of The Dark Knight is every interaction between Batman and the Joker. It’s not even the fight scenes, but the moments inside the Gotham City Police Department that bring the most adrenaline. As Batman nearly breaks him physically, the Joker sits back, clearly enjoying the fact that he’s winning the battle where it matters most — inside Batman’s head.
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‘Gone Girl’ (2014)
Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) in a scene from ‘Gone Girl.’Image via 20th Century Studios
Gone Girlis an extreme case of a marriage gone wrong. Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) returns home to find his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) missing days before their anniversary. As media scrutiny intensifies, his seemingly perfect marriage dissolves in the public eye. Under growing suspicion, Nick becomes the main suspect of the investigation, not realizing that Amy has orchestrated the entire ordeal.
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No backstabbing is worse than character assassination. Sometimes, being dead feels like a better option — at least the buried don’t have to listen to the opinions of others. But Nick is put through the wringer when he is falsely accused of being abusive. Sometimes, the best weapon isn’t murder — it’s word of mouth.
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‘Inception’ (2010)
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The surreal thriller Inceptionfollows Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), a master thief specializing in extracting secrets from dreams. Offered the chance to reclaim his life, Dom is willing to take one last job. Instead of stealing information, this time, he must perform inception — planting an idea within a target’s subconscious.
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There are virtually no limits in Inception. Entering the dreamscape feels like a surreal ride, and the film captures this through its large-than-life landscapes. From a zero-gravity hallway fight that spins endlessly to a dream world where an entire city block explodes piece by piece, it proves that thrillers can be just as visually stunning as they are heart-pumping.
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‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007)
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The chaos in No Country for Old Men begins when ordinary welder Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers drug deal carnage and takes two million dollars. Meanwhile, a psychopathic killer named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) hunts him down, murdering anyone in his path. As Moss tries to hide his tracks by going high and low in Texas, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell gets to the bottom of the case (Tommy Lee Jones).
The thrill in No Country for Old Men comes from just how eerily still the movie moves. There’s no explosive buildup. Instead, it throws viewers off by putting together the most ordinary of scenarios that, within a second, become a deadly affair. Case in point: Chigurh’s polite conversation at the gas station turns into a life-or-death coin toss situation.
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‘Parasite’ (2019)
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Parasitefollows the struggling Kim family, who live in a cramped semi-basement and fold pizza boxes for scrappy pay. When Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) lands a tutoring job he is clearly unqualified for, he gains access to the wealthy Park family. Slowly, he brings each family member into the household under fake identities as they infiltrate this world of privilege.
Parasitechallenges audiences to rethink their views on social class. At first, the film seems to “villainize” the Kims for lying their way into a wealthy household. However, it also reveals that they are victims of an unequal capitalist system. While they may be difficult to fully empathize with, their actions reflect a harsh reality where “faking it until you make it” becomes their only way out of poverty.
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‘Uncut Gems’ (2019)
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Uncut Gems kicks off with jeweler Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) buried in debt and addiction. Instead of putting a pause on his gambles, he’s constantly high on the next big win. When he acquires a rare Ethiopian opal, he stakes everything on a high-risk plan involving an NBA player’s performance.
Before Uncut Gems, Sandler was known as Hollywood’s quintessential funny man — which is why seeing him play a menace is both shocking and refreshing. The film doesn’t hold your hand. Viewers are thrown straight into high-anxiety situations where people are constantly in each other’s faces, and it always feels like someone could pull a gun at any second.
Angela Murray is looking back on what she should have done differently to save herself from her recent eviction from the Big Brother house.
“I think if I had to say anything that I could do differently, it would be in the final two to three days, and of my time in the house, and that would have been to read the room,” Angela, 52, exclusively told Us on Friday, September 11. “[I] knew something was going on.”
While Angela was aligned with Survivor alums Rick Devens and Dee Valladares throughout the game, she could tell their demeanours were different after they were all put on the block by Barrett Pfeiffer.
“Devens was acting way too cool, and I felt something was off with Dee. If I could have read the room,” she reflected about the shift in energy. “I even told her ‘[Devens] wants to keep you over me.’ I knew that. I knew that she was his number one.”
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Angela admitted that she should have taken the time to pitch her case to Yash Patel and Taylor Brown — who ended up being the deciding votes.
“I wish that I had gone to Taylor and Yash and told them that I’m due for an HoH. I wish I had said, ‘I’ll help you.’ I did say that, but I wish I had said things like Devens and Dee are not going to take out the boys. They’re not. They’re only putting on this big elaborate show. They’re fooling you. They actually want you guys out,” she said. “If I had said that, I could have maybe stayed, and I thought about that all night last night as I was leaving the house.”
Angela wishes she would “have been a little sneaky” and “set a different tone in motion.” However, it might have been a hard sell compared to how Dee, 29, pitched herself to stay.
Mallory Aurichio and Drew Campbell were aligned in the Big Brother house — but he ultimately decided to send her home. “I do feel betrayed by Drew, but he seems very regretful of it,” Mallory, 24, exclusively told Us on Friday, August 28, following her eviction from the season 28 house. “I have no doubt […]
“It’s very clear why the house kept Dee over me because she was acting like a killer,” she told Us. “Like she said in her speech — and she had been saying it all week long, ‘I’m gonna help you get out those boys,’ meaning Drew [Campbell] and Barrett.”
Angela knows all too well that Dee “has a history of winning and being very good” at games so the Survivor 45 winner’s argument was something she would “be able to deliver on that promise.”
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While Angela knows she would have had to convince Yash, 24, and Taylor, 27, to flip their votes, she couldn’t see herself being loyal to them.
“I didn’t have that energy in me. I didn’t give that. I played very undertone because if I were to stay, I would have wanted Barrett and Drew to not be [targeted]. I didn’t want to be a threat to them,” she admitted. “I could either go with Yash and Taylor or I could go with Barrett and Drew. That was kind of my strategy of staying a little bit more even keel with that.”
Big Brother 28’s Haley Thogmartin had a rough go during the medieval-themed twist that went on all night. “I was out there for probably seven hours, but I didn’t know how long I’d be out there,” Haley, 29. exclusively told Us on Thursday, September 3, following her elimination from the Big Brother house. “Plus, it […]
Angela was no stranger to the Big Brother house as she was a fan favorite during her first time playing in season 26. However, viewers got to see the evolution of Angela this year.
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“Playing Big Brother this season compared to my first, I think there are a lot of changes,” she told Us. “There’s some familiar things because you know I’m Angela. I’m who I am, and I’m gonna play the way I want to play. And I play with my heart. I play with my gut. I always felt like I did have good reads in both seasons.”
The real estate agent continued, “I think the thing that’s different the most is that I strategized. I had multiple alliances, and I paid attention. And when I saw that there was going to be a divide starting in the house, and I was watching some of the heavy hitters puff out their chest, and I pointed out to them that there was this divide starting, and I was also kind of guiding that kind of divide and planting seeds. I created Big Brother from the get-go, and I think that is the difference.”
Big Brother airs on CBS Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
Taylor Sheridan spoke about his dislike for the storytelling in Marvel movies.Sara De Boer/startraksphoto.com
Few writers and producers have been as busy this year as Taylor Sheridan, but that doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering he’s balancing so many projects. Not only is Sheridan continuing to expand the Yellowstone universe with spin-offs like Marshals and Dutton Ranch, but he’s also working on seasons of new shows like Tulsa King and Landman. Sheridan is also getting back into the screenwriting business with some of his new projects, including his new Sicario-style action thriller, F.A.S.T., and his Call of Duty movie with director Peter Berg. Sheridan has developed an almost unprecedented audience in recent years, and although he’s leaving Paramount in favor of NBCUniversal in a few years, meaning his shows will soon stream on Peacock, it’s expected that most of his fans will have no trouble making the move to a different platform.
While Yellowstone or Tulsa King may be the first show that comes to mind when you think of Taylor Sheridan, he has written and produced other iconic Westerns over the years that you may not realize he was attached to. One of such stories is Lawmen: Bass Reeves, which was written and created for TV by Chad Feehan but produced by Taylor Sheridan, who also gave insight into the story and creative direction. Sheridan and Feehan reunited earlier this year for the first season of Dutton Ranch, but Feehan has since been dismissed as the showrunner for Season 2, with Benjamin Cavell taking over showrunning duties for Season 2. Three years after Lawmen: Bass Reeves began streaming on Paramount Plus, the show has returned to the streaming top 10 as fans wait for the next Sheridan-produced show to hit streaming.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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What Is ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ About?
The official synopsis for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, which earned scores of 79% from critics and 91% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the legendary lawman Bass Reeves, one of the greatest frontier heroes and one of the first Black deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River.” Fans have asked questions for years about a potential second season of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, but Paramount and Sheridan have confirmed at every turn that the show is a limited series that was only ever designed for one season. The cleanest way to pitch Lawmen: Bass Reeves to someone who hasn’t seen it is that it’s like if you put Bosch and Yellowstone in a blender. The show is the perfect mash-up of a sweeping Western epic and a detective thriller.
Check out all episodes of Lawmen: Bass Reeves on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Taylor Sheridan’s future projects.
The singer, 40, and Michael Polansky, have quietly welcomed their first child, according to multiple reports on Friday, September 11.
Photos of Gaga holding a baby as she walked with Polanksy were published by Page Six. Additional details about the baby’s birth date, gender and name are not yet known.
Us has reached out to Gaga’s reps for comment.
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The singer has been open over the years about her desire to become a mother. She revealed in a January 2012 interview with The Insider that she wanted to have children “someday,” clarifying, “[That will happen] a long, long day from now. Not soon.”
Nearly a decade later, Gaga shared her wishes for bonding with her future children. “I really hope that when I have maybe a little girl one day, or a little boy, and they see Mommy put her makeup on, that they have the same experience that I did [with my mom],” she told Allure in July 2019. “That’s the greatest gift of all, when you can connect with your parents.”
That December, Gaga noted that her 10-year plan included starting her family. “I want to do more movies, I want to have babies and I want to continue to build the behemoth that is Haus Laboratories into the makeup company of my dreams,” she said in a YouTube video at the time.
Does Lady Gaga want a little one? The singer has spoken about her future family plans multiple times over the years. While the Grammy winner has been in many high-profile relationships, including her engagements to Taylor Kinney and Christian Carino in 2015 and 2017, respectively, the New York native moved on with Michael Polansky in […]
Gaga later marveled at the process of becoming a parent. “I am very excited to have kids,” she told InStyle in April 2020. “I look forward to being a mom. Isn’t it incredible what we can do? We can hold a human inside and grow it. Then it comes out, and it’s our job to keep it alive.”
As for her love life, Gaga has been dating Polansky since 2019. They were spotted packing on the PDA at a New Year’s Eve celebration in Las Vegas.
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The “Poker Face” singer made their relationship Instagram official the following February while they vacationed in Miami over Super Bowl weekend.
Since hitting the scene, Lady Gaga has become one of the most famous faces in pop music history. The New York City native released her debut single, “Just Dance,” in April 2008. As she continued to drop one chart-topping hit after another, from “Bad Romance” to “Born This Way” to “Million Reasons,” she quickly became […]
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“I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes off,’” she said on the AppleTV+ series The Me You Can’t See at the time. “And I said, ‘No.’ And I left, and they told me they were going to burn all of my music. And they didn’t stop. They didn’t stop asking me, and I just froze and I — I don’t even remember.”
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Gaga said that the “person who raped [her] dropped [her] off pregnant on a corner” near her parents’ house. “Because I was vomiting and sick,” she recalled. “Because I’d been abused. I was locked away in a studio for months.”
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Although Gaga did not feel like “the same girl” anymore for a while, she acknowledged that she was “learning to pull” herself from the darkness of her past. “That’s part of my healing is being able to talk,” she explained. “I’m trying to make sure I give back with that experience, instead of, I don’t know, locking it away and faking it.”
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When Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s hairstylist speaks up on a product he loves, we listen. The latest gadget to get Chris McMillan’s stamp of approval? The OO!Brush Detangling Hair Brush, a vibrating hairbrush that detangles, smooths and amplifies shine on all hair types. McMillan recently took to Instagram to share his love of the product: “scalp brushes that stimulate the scalp, that don’t hurt the scalp are very important.”
Unlike your average detangling brush, the OO!brush actually does all of the work for you. It uses what the brand calls Harmonic Resonance technology to deliver more than 6,000 micro-strokes per second to help loosen tangles as you brush. The result? Less of the pulling, tugging and repeated passes that can make detangling such a pain. That gentler approach may be especially appealing if your hair is prone to knots or breakage. It also creates less friction than a traditional hairbrush, and the rapid micro-movements help smooth the hair cuticle and distribute natural oils from root to tip for added shine.
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The best part is that you can use it on both wet and dry hair. It’s water-resistant and works especially well if your hair is coated in conditioner, giving you extra slip as you work through stubborn knots. For everyday brushing, press the power button and glide it through strands as you normally would, letting the vibrations help loosen tangles rather than forcing the brush through them. If your hair is curly, coily or especially knot-prone, the brand recommends starting at the ends and slowly working your way up.
Amal Clooney’s signature hair look leans into soft volume, touchable texture and just enough tousle to feel effortless. And while you might assume it’s all about high-end styling tools, celebrity hairstylist and colorist Dimitris Giannetos recently revealed that one of the key tools he used on Clooney is surprisingly simple: the Wet Brush Frizz-Free Detangler […]
Once you’re done brushing, flip it over and the vibrating brush doubles as a scalp massager, using gentle pulses to stimulate the scalp and encourage blood flow! It’s an easy way to give your scalp a little extra attention while supporting an overall healthier environment for your hair.
One Amazon reviewer said it “glides through my hair so much more easily because of the vibration.” Another shopper with “thin, straight hair” said it “works so well to detangle” and “feels like a head massage.”
If knots and tangles make brushing your hair feel like a full-on workout, it may be time to add the OO!Brush Detangling Hair Brush to your haircare routine!
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Would you believe Us if we told you the secret to achieving the perfect blowout isn’t serums or hot tools? The magic actually lies in the type of hairbrush you use. Back in 2022, Jennifer Aniston‘s longtime hairstylist, Chris McMillian, revealed the big news on Instagram. According to the pro, the Ibiza Hair Boar Bristle […]
After winning Artist of the Year at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga thanked Polansky in a sweet shout-out. “Thank you Little Monsters, my fans, for always supporting me and always supporting the monster in me and to my partner in all things, Michael,” she said during her acceptance speech on September 7. “Creating this year with you was a beautiful, beautiful dream, and you have been my partner every step of the way. I dedicate this to you, my love.”
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Gaga, who won four awards total that evening, gave a rare glimpse at her relationship with Polansky the following day via an Instagram tribute.
“Dreaming up this album, making the plan, building every vision with you — talking endlessly about what we would create and do for monsters has been an experience I could not have ever imagined,” she captioned the September 8 post, thanking her partner for his help on Mayhem. “I love how much you love my fans and want them to be happy🖤 it fills my heart with happiness how much you love them because we get to love them every day together — you care as much as I do about people feeling seen in the world.”
She gushed, “I’m forever grateful for how much you love and fight for me. You work so so hard with me from dawn till dusk everyday living the music, performances, and plans with your blood sweat and tears — to see it through every step of the way this year I am the luckiest girl alive. I love you endlessly.”
Gaga called Polansky “a true renaissance man,” who has shown her a love she’s “never known” by being a creative partner in life and love. “You are MY artist of the year. And the love of my life,” she concluded.
Alien is a franchise that has constantly reinvented itself, much like the creator of the series, Ridley Scott. Scott himself first created a claustrophobic haunted house in space with the 1979 original before James Cameron transformed its sequel into an action movie. Then Scott came back and decided to go all philosophical with Prometheus.
Its 2017 follow-up, Alien: Covenant, attempted to bridge those different approaches by combining the mythology of Prometheus and, well, it didn’t really work. But still, nine years after arriving in theaters, Alien: Covenant has found another streaming home on Peacock. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.
The cast is led by Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) as David, the survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition, as well as fellow synth, Walter, alongside Katherine Waterston(Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Daniels, Billy Crudup (Almost Famous) as Oram, Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down) as Tennessee, Demián Bichir (The Hateful Eight) as Lope, Carmen Ejogo (Selma) as Karine, Jussie Smollett (Empire) as Ricks, and Callie Hernandez (La La Land) as Upworth.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Is ‘Alien: Covenant’ Any Good?
Commercially, Covenant earned approximately $241 million worldwide which, while hardly disastrous in isolation, represented a substantial decline from Prometheus, which had grossed more than $400 million five years earlier. Plans for Scott to continue David’s story subsequently stalled, although Scott recently stated he wished to take over control of the next Alien film and finish it.
Collider’s review stated that Alien: Covenant has some genuinely strong ideas, but it doesn’t always know what to do with them. Scott seems much more invested in David, the deeply unsettling android played by Fassbender, than in the actual Alien side of the story. As a result, we get a movie that doesn’t know what it is, because there’s not enough Prometheus in it to follow through and be a proper sequel, while the more traditional Alien stuff just feels perfunctory. At its heart, Covenant underlines how difficult it is to separate Alien from the shadow of the original films. Still, it’s undeniably a “Ridley Scott sci-fi movie“, and that alone helps explain why it’s finding fresh attention now, especially after the franchise’s recent momentum with Alien: Romulusand Alien: Earth.
Alien: Covenant is now streaming on Peacock in the United States.
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Release Date
May 19, 2017
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123 Minutes
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dante harper, John Logan, Jack Paglen, Michael Green
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