Welcome to Crosstalk, wherein A.V. Club writers discuss their varied (or unvaried, as the case may be) perspectives on a pop-culture topic. This time, with the first half of 2026 firmly in the ...

This silly supernatural thriller about a fiendish shape shifter leaves coherence and clarity behind. By Erik Piepenburg Before the presidency. Before Yorktown. There was … George, the land surveyor.

Microsoft is reportedly preparing thousands of job cuts as AI spending rises, with sales, consulting, and Xbox among the areas expected to be affected. If you can only read one tech story a day, this ...

Andy Burnham has said he is yet to choose his chancellor. Earlier, Sir Keir Starmer issued a formal apology on behalf of the state to survivors of forced adoptions. Follow the latest. Burnham says ...

Ahead of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumored wedding at Madison Square Garden July 3, the couple donated a whopping $26 million to various charities across the United States, E! News has learned.

Nor does anyone else, alas, inject much-needed "dynamism". It takes a while to get used to Mirren's "lumpy facial prosthetics", said Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph, but she gives a "focused and ...

France’s OVHcloud bets on frontier AI as Europe seeks alternatives to US models The company says the cost of training frontier AI models has fallen sharply, but analysts say the bigger challenge may ...