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The State of the 2024 Oscar Race: The Fall Festivals Leave Burning Questions
With the three major fall festivals—Venice, Telluride, and Toronto—all in the books, the 2024 Oscar season is now unofficially underway. All of the highly touted films that premiere at the fall fests tend to add more films and names into the conversation than they remove, and this year’s fests didn’t see any “The Son”–level critical…
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Expend4bles
“The Expendables” had a simple enough concept—gather a bunch of ’80s-era action cinema icons, including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, and Mickey Rourke, and bring them together for an old-school-style shoot-em-up in which they, along with such current familiar faces (and pecs) as Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, and Steve Austin,…
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It Lives Inside
It begins with your standard shot, a camera tracking through a modest but deteriorated home. In the abode’s hallways are dead, crumpled bodies. Screams can be heard emanating from an ajar door leading to the basement. We travel down creaky stairs to a body burned so badly that steam is still rising from the charcoaled…
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India’s Moon Lander Misses Wake-Up Call After Successful Mission
The Chandrayaan-3 mission did what it set out to do, but its lander and rover could not be roused after entering the cold lunar darkness two weeks ago.
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Brainless Jellyfish Demonstrate Learning Ability
Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first evolved.
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Cantonese-Style Steamed Fish Recipe
Kenji López-Alt frequently relies on this efficient recipe to feed his family of fish lovers with minimal time and effort.
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Pizzerias navigate buzz, backlash around Dave Portnoy’s pizza festival
Some pizzamakers don’t agree with the Barstool Sports founder’s statements, but they like what he does for business with his One Bite reviews and charity work.
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David Brooks and the $78 airport meal the internet is talking about
The New York Times columnist faced questions and memes after he said his $78 bill at Newark Airport was “why Americans think the economy is terrible.”
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Need advice? Join columnist Carolyn Hax’s weekly chat (postponed to Sept. 29 | 12 p.m. ET)
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.
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A restaurant ‘created by Chick-fil-A’ appeared in Md. We investigated.
Little Blue Menu, which showed up in the former home of an Applebee’s in College Park, serves — get this — burgers, among other items.