Annabelle has spent decades at the center of ghost stories, horror movies, and warnings from some of the most famous paranormal investigators in America. 

However, Annabelle’s latest chapter may be her most public yet. Since Matt Rife unveiled the Haunted Warren Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the infamous artifact has become the centerpiece of a booming attraction drawing visitors from across the country. 

As curiosity about the doll grows, some paranormal experts fear the attention itself could become part of the problem.

Long before Rife became the legal guardian of the Warren estate and its collection, Annabelle had already developed a reputation that extended far beyond paranormal circles. 

According to accounts documented by Ed and Lorraine Warren and later detailed in Gerald Brittle’s book “The Demonologist,” the case began in 1970 when two nurses reportedly became convinced that an unseen presence had attached itself to a doll in their possession.

The Warrens ultimately removed the doll and kept it under strict containment, believing it was connected to a dangerous entity rather than a harmless spirit. Over the years, stories linking Annabelle to accidents, injuries, and other disturbing incidents only strengthened her notoriety.

That history is why some paranormal believers are struggling with the idea of the doll becoming a major tourist attraction. Rather than remaining hidden away in a controlled environment, Annabelle is now one of the museum’s biggest draws, with visitors actively seeking encounters with an object once treated with extreme caution.

Psychic medium Matt Fraser believes that shift fundamentally changes how people interact with the doll and what it represents. 

“Ed and Lorraine Warren took them seriously and contained them for a reason,” he told the Daily Mail, adding, “When you turn something that was once contained into an attraction, you completely change the relationship people have with it.”

Annabelle’s New Home Has Turned The Doll Into A Major Attraction

The concerns intensified after Rife enthusiastically introduced the museum’s expanded collection to the public. 

Rather than focusing solely on Annabelle, the comedian revealed that the attraction now houses an enormous number of allegedly haunted artifacts gathered from around the world.

“This is significantly bigger and more terrifying than I think any of us anticipated,” Rife said while showcasing the museum. “We have collected over 1000 of the world’s most haunted objects and added them to the Warrens’ already historic collection.”

For Fraser, the issue is not simply that Annabelle is on display. It is the environment surrounding her. He worries that placing the doll among hundreds of other reportedly haunted items while welcoming thousands of emotionally charged visitors creates a situation unlike anything the Warrens originally envisioned.

“And now you’re taking Annabelle and bringing her together with an entire collection of objects that reportedly carry their own histories and energies, all under one roof, while thousands of people continuously walk through that environment,” he said.

According to Fraser, every guest contributes something to the atmosphere. In his words, “Every visitor brings their own energy with them, whether that is fear, grief, curiosity, skepticism or even the desire to provoke whatever might be there.”

Annabelle Visitors Are Being Urged Not To Treat The Doll Like A Challenge

As Halloween approaches and tours continue to sell rapidly, Fraser has shifted his focus to people planning to visit the museum. His advice is less about fear and more about avoiding behavior he believes could invite trouble.

“My concern is that evil energy loves attention,” Fraser explained, further noting, “Dark energy wants to be acknowledged. It wants people talking about it, challenging it, fearing it and feeding it with their attention.”

That belief is why he says he has no plans to visit Annabelle himself. In his view, many visitors approach haunted objects with the wrong mindset, treating them as entertainment or daring them to respond.

“People sometimes think they can walk into these places, challenge whatever is there, laugh about it, ask for signs and then simply walk away. I would never recommend doing that,” he said.

Instead, Fraser recommends entering with clear boundaries and avoiding direct interaction altogether. “Do not challenge Annabelle. Do not ask for a sign. Do not speak directly to these entities. Do not touch anything you aren’t supposed to touch,” he said.

Annabelle’s Public Museum Era Draws Concern From Warren Family Insider

As debate continues over Annabelle’s new life as a major tourist attraction, some of the strongest criticism hasn’t come from skeptics or frightened visitors. Instead, it has come from someone with deep ties to the doll’s history.

Chris McKinnell, Ed and Lorraine’s grandson, publicly questioned the direction Annabelle’s story has taken since Rife became the collection’s legal guardian. 

Speaking on the “Reel Appreciation” podcast in October 2025, McKinnell admitted he wasn’t initially focused on Rife himself. “I’d never even heard of him until he bought it. I didn’t know who he was,” he said. 

Instead, he expressed concern about how the artifacts were being displayed and discussed. McKinnell recalled that when his grandparents allowed people to view the collection, the visits were extremely controlled.

“It was always by special invitation, one or two people, very small groups with specific instructions – don’t touch anything, don’t treat anything with disrespect, do not try to communicate with anything,” he explained. 

His strongest criticism came when discussing the museum itself. “To me, that place is the Chernobyl of the paranormal and it bothers me to no end what can happen,” McKinnell revealed.

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Annabelle’s ‘Missing Doll’ Panic Sent The Internet Into Meltdown

Before the debates erupted over Rife’s museum plans, Annabelle triggered a nationwide social media frenzy after thousands of people became convinced she had somehow vanished.

The panic began in May 2025 when rumors spread online claiming the doll had gone missing while traveling as part of a paranormal tour. 

Decider reported that the situation quickly snowballed into a full-blown internet meltdown, with users across multiple platforms sharing alarming theories about where Annabelle had gone and what her disappearance could mean. Some posts even linked the doll to unrelated disasters and strange events, fueling the hysteria.

One viral social media user captured the confusion by writing on X, “What do you mean, Annabelle, the doll has gone missing??? WHO THE F* LOST HER????”

Others echoed similar concerns as the rumor gained traction. Another widely circulated post claimed, “So the streets are saying after they moved the Annabelle doll out of the Warren museum (when they explicitly said never to move it) she’s now gone missing.”

As the speculation intensified, officials connected to the Warren collection were forced to step in publicly. Dan Rivera of the New England Society for Psychic Research addressed the rumors directly, attempting to put an end to the growing panic.

“Some wild and crazy internet rumours this morning claiming that we lost Annabelle. She/it is NOT lost,” Rivera said while showing the doll safely secured inside its case.

Subsequent reporting confirmed there had never been a disappearance. The doll had simply been traveling as scheduled and was accounted for throughout the tour. Paranormal investigator Ryan Buell later verified Annabelle’s whereabouts and confirmed she had safely returned following her appearances.

I’ve put every one of these on for someone during a lazy weekend and watched them get hooked within one episode, that’s basically the whole criteria here. Covering all kinds of subject matter based in reality or entirely fictional, they all move fast enough that you don’t check your phone even for once.

A couple of these are just pure comfort watching. But there are also some properly intense, with subject matter like murder or the actual end of the world sprinkled around, still just as easy to binge in one sitting. So here are seven shows, ranked by how hard they are to stop watching once you’ve started.

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‘The Lost Room’ (2006)

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This one’s just weird in the best way. A motel room disappeared back in the sixties, and now there’s a whole underground world of collectors chasing cursed objects that came out of it, a pen that makes people believe anything you write with it, a comb that freezes time, sunglasses that do something nobody ever fully explains. It is all just so exciting to watch. Joe Miller (Peter Krause) is a cop who gets pulled into all of it after his daughter vanishes into the room itself.

Nobody in the show ever really explains where these objects came from or why they work the way they do, and that’s honestly what makes it fun instead of frustrating, you’re just along for the ride with him. Jennifer Bloom (Julianna Margulies) plays one of the more dangerous people chasing the same objects, and the whole thing only runs six hours total, so it never overstays its welcome trying to explain everything, you are only meant to enjoy.

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‘Good Omens’ (2019)

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An angel and a demon team up to stop the actual apocalypse, and mind you they do not care about humanity’s soul or whatever, the sole reason is because they’ve both gotten way too comfortable living on Earth and don’t want it to end. Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) runs a bookshop he refuses to actually sell books out of, and Crowley (David Tennant) drives around in a vintage Bentley causing just enough chaos to keep hell happy without really meaning any of it.

The two of them have technically been enemies since the Garden of Eden, and by now they act more like a bickering old married couple than opposing forces of good and evil. Based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, the whole show is funnier than a story about the end of the world has any right to be, and Frances McDormand narrating as the literal voice of God is one of the best casting choices in the whole thing.

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‘The Queen’s Gambit’ (2020)

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Watching someone get really, really good at chess should not be this entertaining, and yet here we are. Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) grows up in an orphanage where she gets hooked on tranquilizers and chess at basically the same time, taught by the janitor, Mr. Shaibel (Bill Camp), almost by accident. Every match she plays gets edited like an actual sports movie, quick cuts, tight framing, that satisfying feeling of watching someone outplay everyone in the room.

The costumes and the sets alone are worth watching this for, every outfit Beth wears gets more confident as she does, and the sixties production design looks incredible in almost every frame. Benny Watts (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) shows up later as both a rival and something more, and the show reportedly caused a real spike in chess set sales after it came out, which says something about how fun it is to watch even if you’ve never played a game in your life.

4

‘WandaVision’ (2021)

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Every episode of this show is styled after a different decade of sitcom, black and white in the fifties, warm and cheesy in the seventies, single-camera mockumentary by the later episodes, and for a while you don’t fully know why Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) are living inside all of it.

It’s a clever gimmick on its own, watching the visual style shift every episode, but it turns out to be hiding something much sadder beneath all the sitcom jokes and laugh tracks. Once the actual reason behind everything gets revealed, you realize the show was playing a much longer game than it let on early, and it’s rare for something built on a joke premise to also end up being this moving.

3

‘Watchmen’ (2019)

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This one opens with the real 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and turns that into the backstory for an entire superhero universe, masked cops, a hidden clone army, and Angela Abar (Regina King), a detective secretly moonlighting as a vigilante called Sister Night.

Damon Lindelof basically remixed the original graphic novel instead of just adapting it straight, and it’s a weirder, angrier show for it. Jeremy Irons plays an aged Ozymandias doing increasingly bizarre stuff on what turns out to be a strange country estate, and the show balances that absurdity with real, serious history without either side undercutting the other.

2

‘The Night Manager’ (2016)

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This is just an incredibly good-looking show, filmed across places like Mallorca, Cairo, and the Alps, and it knows exactly how to use all that luxury to make its actual villain more disturbing. Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) goes undercover to get close to Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), an arms dealer who’s charming enough that you almost forget what he actually does for a living.

Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) is the intelligence officer who is running the whole operation. She was actually a man in the original John le Carré novel, and the show gender-swapped the role and then wrote Colman’s real pregnancy straight into the character. It’s a slow burn, but it’s dressed up so well, gorgeous locations, sharp suits, yachts, that the slowness never actually feels slow, only enjoyable.

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‘The Haunting of Hill House’ (2018)

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There’s a ghost hidden somewhere in the background of almost every shot in this show, and most people don’t notice them the first time through, which makes it one of the most rewatchable horror shows out there for that reason alone. Each episode focuses on a different sibling from the same family, years after they all grew up and left the haunted house that’s still messing with their lives.

Mike Flanagan shot one entire episode as a series of nearly unbroken long takes, one stretch runs close to seventeen minutes without a single cut, moving between three different timelines in the same house without you even noticing the transitions. It’s one of the most technically impressive things ever done on television, which actually serves the story.

For over two decades, Jessica Chastain has been a constant presence on screen. Like many actors, she began with guest roles on TV before moving into film. Her performances in movies like Zero Dark Thirty, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and The Good Nurse have made her one of the most recognizable actresses. And even on the small screen, Chastain has proven herself as a television star with shows like George & Tammy and Scenes From a Marriage.

Chastain was expected to return to television last year with an Apple TV crime thriller, but the series was delayed following the assassination of American political commentator Charlie Kirk. Apple TV may have delayed the crime thriller, The Savant, indefinitely, but viewers will see Chastain soon — just not on Apple TV. She stars in Netflix’s upcoming film Heartland, and Netflix has set the premiere date for mid-November.

Heartland takes place in Music City, and Chastain’s character, Misty Jones, is embedded in the city’s DNA. She used to be a country music megastar but left it all behind for a life of seclusion for an unexplained reason. But that world calls on her once again when her niece — also a country music singer, just not as famous — goes missing. Misty goes on a search that forces her to confront her own past and the unseen underbelly of Nashville, where no one, including Misty, is who they seem. Shana Feste wrote and directed Heartland. Other cast members include Wynn Everett, Garret Hedlund (Roy Combs), Ross Lynch (Jace Jacobs), Carter Faith (Charlie Heart), and Jennifer Nettles (Winnie Jo Lean), among others. Heartland debuts on Netflix on Friday, November 13.

What Happened to Jessica Chastain’s Crime Thriller ‘The Savant’?

In the Apple TV crime thriller, Chastain plays the titular character, an investigator who infiltrates online hate groups in the hopes of stopping them before they do real-world damage. The series explores ideas related to white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and more. After Kirk’s assassination, Apple TV worried about a potential PR crisis and pulled the show indefinitely. Chastain revealed earlier this year that the show was now scheduled for release, but the rumored July premiere date never happened. It remains to be seen whether Apple TV will release it, a year after Kirk’s death.

Stream Heartland on Netflix when it hits on November 13. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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Fantasy can get away with hand-waving how the magic works, but sci-fi usually can’t. So, once a series sets up a rule about physics or technology, breaking that rule later just to save a character is cheating. That constraint actually makes good sci-fi lore harder to build than fantasy lore, since every made-up law of the universe has to sound like it could theoretically work.

These six, however, built entire universes around one or two core ideas, then followed the logic of those ideas all the way out to their most extreme, uncomfortable conclusions instead of chickening out halfway through. But that’s not the entire reason for their success. The character arcs, world building, zero loopholes, stitching of the entire storyline, and the thrill factor, everything contributed to why these six are the best.

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‘The Remembrance of Earth’s Past’

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During the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie gets the chance to send a message out into space, and she tells the aliens who receive it exactly how disappointed she is in her own species. That one decision at the start of The Remembrance of Earth’s Past changes basically everything that happens across all three books.

Liu Cixin builds the whole trilogy around a disturbing idea called the dark forest theory, that every civilization in the universe stays silent on purpose, because reaching out to another species is more likely to get you destroyed than to make a friend. The Trisolarans, fleeing a dying three-sun system, try to stop human scientific progress using proton-sized supercomputers that can see and manipulate matter at will.

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‘The Expanse’

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An alien substance called the protomolecule gets discovered frozen on a moon out past Saturn, and once it reaches a large asteroid full of people, it starts turning everyone infected into something that isn’t quite human and isn’t quite anything else either. In the book, it is just the beginning of a much bigger political mess between Earth, Mars, and the Belters, people born and raised in the asteroid belt who’ve physically adapted to low gravity over generations.

James S. A. Corey is actually a pen name for two separate writers, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and together they built out an entire believable culture for the Belters, complete with their own slang and their own grudges against the inner planets that feels genuinely real by book three or four. Then the protomolecule opens a network of gates leading to a thousand new solar systems, and never for once the story is scrambling to catch up with its own ambition.

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‘Foundation’

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Hari Seldon invents a kind of math that can predict the behavior of massive populations centuries in advance, even though it can’t predict what any single person will do, and he uses it to figure out that the vast Galactic Empire is about to collapse into thirty thousand years of chaos. Foundation follows the plan he sets up to shrink that dark age down to just one thousand years instead, using a colony of scientists positioned at the edge of the galaxy.

Isaac Asimov is the writer who structures the whole series around what he calls Seldon Crises, moments where history seems to be falling apart until it turns out Seldon predicted the exact solution centuries earlier and left instructions for it. Then a character called the Mule shows up, a mutant nobody could have possibly predicted, and the entire foundation of the plan, math and all, nearly falls apart because of one variable nobody accounted for.

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‘Hyperion Cantos’

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Seven strangers travel together to a planet called Hyperion to meet a creature known as the Shrike, something covered in blades that seems to move backward through time and kills almost everyone who gets near it, and each of them has a personal reason for making a trip that’s basically a death sentence. Hyperion structures itself like a version of the Canterbury Tales, with each pilgrim telling their own full story along the way, and every single one of those stories could work as a standalone piece of science fiction.

Dan Simmons builds a hidden collective of artificial intelligence, TechnoCore, that secretly runs most of human technology and has its own private plans nobody in the actual government knows about. Between the farcaster network letting people step between planets instantly and the constant question of whether the Shrike is a monster or some kind of judgment, the whole series manages to feel both meticulously planned and properly mysterious book after book.

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‘The Culture’

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Nobody in this society wants for anything, food, medicine, art, all of it exists in unlimited abundance, and the actual government running things isn’t made up of people at all, it’s a collection of hyper-intelligent AI Minds who pilot enormous, sentient starships and give themselves names like Grey Area or So Much for Subtlety.

Iain M. Banks wrote each book in The Culture as its own mostly standalone story instead of one continuous plot, which means you can start almost anywhere in the series without getting lost. Special Circumstances, the Culture’s shadowy division for interfering in less advanced societies when doing nothing would be worse, gives Banks a way to explore some properly uncomfortable questions about whether a utopia has any right meddling in everyone else’s business.

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‘Dune’

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A desert planet controls the entire galaxy’s economy because it’s the only place a specific spice exists, a substance that extends life, enables faster than light navigation, and gives certain people the ability to see fragments of the future, and every major power in the universe is willing to go to war over it. Dune follows Paul Atreides after his family gets handed control of that planet as a political trap they don’t fully realize until it’s already sprung.

Frank Herbert built the Fremen, the planet’s native desert people, with their own language, religion, and water-conservation culture so detailed that the appendices at the back of the book read almost like an actual anthropology text. The ecological message underneath all of it, about resource scarcity and what happens when outside powers exploit a fragile environment for profit, was unusually ahead of its time for a book published back in 1965.

The science fiction genre is thriving right now, but it can feel like a huge commitment to pick up a new book knowing you might be reading for months — or even years. Many of the most influential sci-fi titles are dense tomes or shelf-hogging series, but some of the best stories are short, sweet, and to the point. The greatest recent example is This Is How You Lose the Time War, co-authored by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone and published in 2019. The book can be read in just one afternoon, yet it conveys an epic story spanning centuries and worlds.

This is How You Lose the Time War is an epistolary novel, meaning it is written in the form of letters sent back and forth between two characters. Its protagonists are known only as Agent Red and Agent Blue, and both are time-traveling warriors on opposite sides of a war so grand in scale we can’t really comprehend it. Even in this context, the two fall in love against all odds, yet they are trapped in a conflict that seems endless. It would be a heartwarming story at any length, but the fact that it’s packed into one short novel is all the more impressive.

‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’ is Grand in Scale

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Sci-fi fans often measure their favorite media on celestial scales. Space operas span galaxies and millennia, cyberpunk stories pack planets with dense cities, and Lovecraftian horrors introduce us to monsters so great we can’t even perceive them with human eyes. This Is How You Lose the Time War matches this scale in a single volume, not wasting a single word. There are no exposition dumps or technical jargon, yet it’s easy to understand that we’re reading about advanced non-human beings traveling through time and fighting a war of interdimensional territory.

The two agents in this story work for warring empires who exist in separate timelines, yet both want to eradicate the other before they can pose a threat. To do this, they need to hop through history tweaking events to suit their needs, and in the process they inevitably run into each other. Rather than fighting, they begin passing discrete messages back and forth, starting a bond that evolves into real love by the end of the book.

There’s certainly nothing wrong with sci-fi books that span thousands of pages — many of my personal favorites do — but there’s something impressive about fitting such a grand story into a short book. This Is How You Lose the Time War is around 200 pages long depending on which edition you pick up. The audiobook is four hours and 16 minutes long at regular speed, narrated by Cynthia Farrell and Emily Woo. Whether you’re a veteran of the Dune Saga or you’re intimidated by massive sci-fi books, this is one that all fans of the genre should check out.

The Viral Success of ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’

If you’re familiar with This Is How You Lose the Time War, chances are have one anonymous Twitter user to thank. Back in 2023, the book shot up many bestseller lists thanks to the user @maskofbun, who at the time was using the display name “bigolas dickolas wolfwood.” They wrote: “Read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. It’s only like 200 pages u can download it on Audible it’s only like four hours. Do it right now I’m very extremely serious.”

Something about the emphatic recommendation paired with the user’s display name made this a viral tweet. It’s notable that this account wasn’t often used to recommend books — it was primarily a fan account for the manga and anime franchise Trigun. The user chose to remain anonymous after the tweet took off, and even declined a nomination for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work the following year. Their post inspired thousands to read the book and recommend it to others, so whether you’ve heard about it from a friend or are hearing about it for the first time in this article, you have Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood to thank.

This Is How You Lose the Time War is available now in print, digital, and audiobook formats. It has been optioned for a TV adaptation, but there has been no news on that front for several years.

2026 has been a busy year for Russell Crowe, though none of his newer movies have gained the same traction at the box office or on streaming as some of his older hits. Crowe has already starred in a pair of movies this year — he began 2026 by starring as an MMA coach in Beast, the action thriller that’s now streaming on Starz after grossing only a few million at the box office. His next action movie, The Get Out, also failed to gain any box office traction, and the film is now available to purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV. Crowe will return to the world of blockbuster filmmaking with the new Highlander reboot co-starring Henry Cavill. The film hails from long-time John Wick director Chad Stahelski, but it’s still without an official release date.

While most movie fans would agree that the pinnacle of Crowe’s career came in the late ’90s and early 2000s when he was nominated for three Oscars in a row, he continued this success into the late 2010s with other notable hits like 3:10 to Yuma. Crowe stars alongside Christian Bale and Ben Foster in the 2007 Western, which is a remake of the 1957 Western starring Glen Ford and Van Heflin. 3:10 to Yuma came into theaters carrying a $55 million budget, meaning it needed over $100 million to break even, but it left theaters with a cumulative total of only $70 million at the global box office. Nearly 20 years after its theatrical premiere, 3:10 to Yuma fans can rewatch the film via the Howdy extension on Prime Video, which can be added to a standard subscription for only a few dollars.

What Is ‘3:10 to Yuma’ About?

The official synopsis for Russell Crowe’s 3:10 to Yuma, which holds scores of 89% from critics and 86% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) terrorizes 1800s Arizona, especially the Southern Railroad, until he is finally captured. Wade must be brought to trial, so Dan Evans (Christian Bale), the owner of a drought-stricken ranch, volunteers to escort him to the train. Along the trail, a grudging respect forms between the men, but danger looms at every turn, and the criminal’s men are in pursuit.” The film was written by Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas and directed by James Mangold. It’s the perfect mash-up of Sicario and Unforgiven for fans who love a classic revenge story set against the backdrop of a dusty Western.

Check out 3:10 to Yuma via the Howdy extension on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Russell Crowe’s future projects.

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September 6, 2007

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Katie Holmes spent more than a decade building a life that looked very different from the one she left behind after her split from Tom Cruise. 

While she focused on raising daughter Suri and carving out her own path in New York, marriage seemed firmly in the rearview mirror. 

However, according to a new report, the actress is viewing life through a different lens these days, and one unexpected relationship may be changing a belief she once seemed determined to keep.

Long before conversations about a future with Jason Bard Yarmosky entered the picture, Katie Holmes was already experiencing a major change in how she viewed life.

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According to a source close to the Hollywood star, the death of her longtime friend and former “Dawson’s Creek” co-star James Van Der Beek earlier this year forced Holmes to reflect on how quickly life can change and whether she was making the most of her own.

“After James died, Katie started to realize she better enjoy the days she has ahead and just live life to the fullest no matter what,” the insider told the Daily Mail.

The source described a woman who is no longer postponing experiences for some distant future. Instead, Holmes is reportedly embracing opportunities as they come, whether that means traveling, pursuing new adventures, or allowing herself to fully invest in a relationship.

“She is looking at the glass as not just half full but totally full. It’s like Carpe Diem in fast forward. She wants to have fun, she wants to explore and laugh and love,” the insider stated. 

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That change in mindset has reportedly become visible in her day-to-day decisions, with the source revealing, “She loves Italy and was like, ‘Let’s go there!’ That ‘some day’ feeling is today, she is doing what she wants now.”

Holmes Finds A Different Kind Of Romance With Yarmosky

Katie Holmes’s renewed outlook on life appears to have coincided with her relationship with New York artist Jason Bard Yarmosky.

While the 47-year-old has been linked to several men since her divorce, sources say this romance feels different. 

Yarmosky, an accomplished painter whose work has appeared in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe, reportedly offers a grounded presence far removed from Hollywood’s usual glare.

The pair recently attracted attention after photos showed them enjoying time together in Italy, sparking widespread interest in their relationship.

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Behind the scenes, however, insiders claim Holmes’ feelings run much deeper than a vacation romance. “Katie would definitely entertain the thought of marrying Jason one day because she is in love and he makes her feel amazing,” the source told the outlet.

The insider added, “She is over the moon that she has found a guy who makes her sparkle.” What makes the development particularly surprising is that Holmes reportedly spent years with little interest in marriage.

According to the source, “After her divorce from Tom, she pretty much swore off marriage, but these days she is reconsidering. It might happen.”

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Katie Holmes Refuses To Repeat The Mistakes Of Her Past

Even as marriage is reportedly back on the table, those close to Holmes insist she is approaching this relationship far differently than she did her first trip down the aisle.

Her 2006 wedding to Cruise was a lavish celebrity affair held at Italy’s Odescalchi Castle and attended by some of the biggest names in entertainment. The marriage ended in 2012, and Holmes quickly relocated to New York and focused almost entirely on raising Suri.

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“After she divorced Tom, she totally focused on raising Suri, so she put dating on the back burner,” the source explained.

Now, with Suri attending college and Holmes entering a new phase of life, she reportedly feels more freedom to prioritize her own happiness. Still, that does not mean she is rushing.

“Katie is having a fantastic time, but she is also sensible, so she will wait a year before she makes a big move like marriage,” the insider said.

The source noted that Holmes has learned valuable lessons from her past, sharing, “With Tom she jumped right in; she had so much confidence in their union, but with Jason she will first make sure they are a very good fit.”

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And if another wedding does happen, it will reportedly be the opposite of the grand spectacle that once captivated Hollywood. According to the insider, “The next time Katie marries, it will be a small celebration with family and close friends; it won’t be showy.”

Holmes Makes Romance New York Fashion Week Official

Katie Holmes made a sweet NYFW appearance alongside her new boyfriend, NYC artist Jason Bard Yarmosky, as they attended the Calvin Klein Collection show. A soft, romantic moment wrapped in fashion‑week glamour. pic.twitter.com/xT7BXzYGDp

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 While insiders were discussing how the actress had embraced a new outlook on love and life, Katie Holmes and the artist quietly turned that momentum into a very public relationship milestone at the 2026 New York Fashion Week.

Vogue reported that the couple made their Fashion Week debut together at the Cult Gaia show in New York City, where they sat front row alongside fashion heavyweights including Iman and Helena Christensen. 

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It marked one of their most high-profile appearances to date and left little doubt that their romance had entered a new phase. 

Holmes looked effortlessly chic in a black off-the-shoulder top paired with textured metallic gray trousers and black pointed pumps, finishing the look with chunky gold hoop earrings. 

Yarmosky complemented her understated aesthetic in a faded gray T-shirt, black trousers, and black leather boots.  

The appearance was not an isolated outing. The night before, the pair attended a Michael Kors dinner where Holmes wore a vibrant purple dress with striking red pumps, while Yarmosky opted for an all-black ensemble. Fashion Week insiders noted that the couple appeared relaxed and affectionate throughout both events. 

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Katie Holmes Goes Instagram Official With Birthday Tribute

If Fashion Week served as one of the public debuts, social media may have been the moment Holmes officially confirmed what fans had suspected for months.

The actress surprised followers when she shared a heartfelt birthday tribute to Yarmosky on Instagram, marking one of the rare times she has publicly acknowledged a romantic partner on Instagram since her divorce from Cruise. 

The post featured intimate images from a private celebration and immediately generated headlines because it felt so personal coming from someone who has historically guarded her private life. 

Holmes captioned the post: “Happy Birthday to the best of the best… @jasonbardyarmosky.” 

One photo showed the couple embracing while holding microphones during what appeared to be a karaoke session. 

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Another featured a candlelit birthday cake prepared for the artist. The birthday post didn’t come out of nowhere. Throughout the summer, the couple had gradually become more visible. They were first linked after being spotted holding hands at a film screening in East Hampton before attending dinners, art events, and Hamptons gatherings together.

Following one of the most acclaimed science-fiction movies ever made would be intimidating for almost any filmmaker, but James Cameron didn’t try to replicate what Ridley Scott had accomplished with Alien. Instead, the filmmaker behind The Terminator turned its sequel into something bigger, louder and more action-oriented.

The result was 1986’s Aliens, a rare sequel that is routinely mentioned alongside — and sometimes even above — its predecessor. Four decades after its theatrical release, Aliens has found another streaming home, and it officially landed on Netflix in the United States on September 1 alongside Scott’s original Alien, allowing subscribers to watch the first two chapters of Ellen Ripley’s story back-to-back.

Aliens picks up decades after the events aboard the Nostromo, when Ripley is finally rescued from hypersleep and returns to civilization. After learning that humans have established a colony on LV-426, the same world where her crew first encountered the Xenomorph, Ripley reluctantly agrees to accompany a squad of Colonial Marines there after contact with the settlement is suddenly lost.

The cast is led by Sigourney Weaver (Avatar) as Ellen Ripley, alongside Michael Biehn (The Terminator) as Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Carrie Henn as Rebecca “Newt” Jorden, Paul Reiser (Stranger Things) as Carter Burke, Lance Henriksen (The Terminator) as Bishop, Bill Paxton (Twister) as Private William Hudson, Jenette Goldstein (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) as Private Jenette Vasquez, and William Hope (Captain America: The First Avenger) as Lieutenant Gorman.

‘Aliens’ Became One of the Greatest Sequels Ever Made

As we all know, Cameron inherited Ridley Scott’s Alien and turned its sequel into a much bigger, louder and bombastic kind of movie without just trying to be a retread of what came before it. Speaking to Collider, Biehn explained that he believes Cameron achieved something monumental with Aliens.

“He did two sequels. He did T2, and he did Aliens. People will argue until I’m gone, well gone and in the grave, about which is a better movie, Alien or Aliens, and Terminator or Terminator 2. But I can tell you one thing: it’s very hard to follow Jim Cameron. [David] Fincher had to do it with Aliens, and then somebody else had to do it for the third Terminator, and it’s just not the same to have expectations that somebody else is going to write something, and they’re going to direct it. People talk about, ‘Well, this guy didn’t play a very good Kyle Reese.’ He didn’t have Jim Cameron writing Kyle Reese. He didn’t have Jim Cameron creating it. That actor who played Kyle Reese didn’t have the words that I got to say.”

Aliens is streaming on Netflix, fuboTV, Philo and YouTube TV.

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Release Date

July 18, 1986

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137 minutes

Director

James Cameron

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James Cameron

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Gale Anne Hurd

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German tennis pro Alexander Zverev poked fun at his rival Ben Shelton’s girlfriend, Trinity Rodman, following his U.S. Open men’s singles win.

“Trinity, I thought you had a game today, no?” Zverev, 29, said during his winner’s speech inside New York City’s USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sunday, September 13, following his 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 defeat over Shelton, 23. Shelton and pro soccer player Trinity, 24, began dating in March 2025.

“Well done to you as well,” the Grand Slam winner continued to direct at Trinity, whose father is NBA legend Dennis Rodman, as the crowd erupted in laughter. “You’re the lucky charm, so … not today, but usually.”

Trinity, who plays for the Washington Spirit in the National Woman’s Soccer League, took the lighthearted jab in her stride, laughing at Zverev’s comments before agreeing that today wasn’t her day, per footage of the moment shared via ESPN’s TikTok account.

Related: Olympian Trinity Rodman Cheers on Boyfriend Ben Shelton During BMW Open 

Olympian Trinity Rodman was boyfriend Ben Shelton’s No. 1 fan and cheerleader during the BMW Open tennis tournament. Rodman, 22, stepped out in Munich on Saturday, April 19, for Shelton’s semifinal match against Argentine athlete Francisco Cerundolo, sitting in a private box. The soccer player, for her part, dressed sporty chic in a black T-shirt […]

The athlete has served as a loyal supporter to Shelton throughout the tournament, spotted cheering him on during his semifinal matchup against Frances Tiafoe on Friday, September 11. She took her encouragement online after the match, which saw Shelton compete in his first U.S. Open final, taking to her Instagram Stories to spread the love.

“Onto the next,” she wrote atop coverage of Shelton’s progress into Sunday’s final. Trinity also showed her support on Shelton’s Instagram grid, commenting on a carousel of images her shared prior to Sunday’s match. “Love you so much,” she wrote, drawing a string of praise from fans of the athletic duo.

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Trinity also threw her support behind Shelton through her U.S. Open fashion choices, sharing a look at her “I Love My Boyfriend” cropped T-shirt via an Instagram carousel of her own on September 4. Her snaps captured her standing outside Arthur Ashe Stadium, where Sunday’s final was staged, in paired white heels, a mini skirt and a designer clutch.

Shelton spoke to Us about his romance with Trinity in April 2025, admitting that he knew some people would talk about their union. “But I didn’t think it would be a ‘break the Internet’ type of thing,” he said of the couple’s social media debut . “I’ve always been like, ‘OK, if I have a serious girlfriend,’ then [I’m] posting about it on Instagram … isn’t that crazy.”

He continued at the time, “I feel like for the past six months, whenever I would get seen with somebody, people would think we were dating. It’s like, ‘No, we’re just friends.’ Or if I’d hang out in a group of three and it was a guy and a girl, they’d cut the guy out and make it seem like I was on a date. It’s either gonna be I post about my girlfriend or they post about assuming who my girlfriend is.”