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Jamie Jirak has been working as an entertainment journalist since 2017. In addition to The Daily Dot, you can find her latest work at SlashFilm and That Hashtag Show. Jamie resides in Los Angeles and co-hosts two podcasts, Phase Hero and Love in the Time of Hydra. She loves moderating panels and has done so for Marvel, Disney, Netflix, and more. Follow her on Letterboxd: @JamieJirak.

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Entertainment

Lionsgate teases “John Wick” and “Saw” video games, and fans already have ideas: “Please make it an open world shooter”

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“Stranger Things” brings in over $25M in just two days of movie theater finale screenings

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A group of trolls are modding “Ugly Sonic” back into the 2019 original movie

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“It’s finally his time”: Fans celebrate the return of Cyclops and the X-Men in new “Avengers: Doomsday” teaser

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Ranking the best Timothée Chalamet moments on the “Marty Supreme” press tour

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“I knew it”: Demonik, the fictional video game from “Grandma’s Boy,” may release as a real game

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

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Left: Screenshot from the film "Scrooged" with a close-up on actress Karen Allen’s face. Text overlay reads, "What happened to real faces?" Right: Actress Lindsay Lohan in 2025 on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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Culture

“What happened to all the faces?”: Woman asks why Hollywood actresses are all starting to look the same

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Chris Evans will be in “Avengers: Doomsday” after all. Marvel fans have mixed feelings about it

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

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Left: Woman's hands service an ice cream sundae into a plate at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Right: Kevin McCallister eating an ice cream sundae at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in "Home Alone 2."

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You’ll never guess how much the “Home Alone 2” ice cream sundae costs at The Plaza

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“Ruined my day”: KJ Apa is playing Jimmy Stewart in a new biopic, and no one can stop talking about his voice in it

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“Let them fight”: Fans aren’t happy with “Street Fighter” star Andrew Schulz after he took a dig at the “Mortal Kombat” cast

3 Panel: Left: Quentin Tarantino attends the screening of "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" wearing a black tux and black tie. Middle: Actor Ethan Hawke wearing headphones and a navy cowboy button-down speaking into a microphone on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Right: Paul Dano at the 10th Annual Governors Awards wearing a tuxedo and bowtie.

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“He just talks, talks, talks”: Ethan Hawke responds to Quentin Tarantino’s blistering Paul Dano diss

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The first “Supergirl” trailer is finally here, and DC fans are hyped: “Another W for the DCU”

Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

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“The hype train is running itself”: Fans are stealing “Five Nights at Freddys” standees from movie theaters—again

Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retriever sitting on a brown couch. Reddit comment text overlay reads, "We need to stop appealing to the heckin doggo pupperino crowd."

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“I find this corny”: Over 43K fans sign petition urging the Academy to give this dog an honorary Oscar

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