[This story contains spoilers from Forbidden Fruits.] When Victoria Pedretti is on your screen, just know she’s there for a reason. “This bitch doesn’t want to do anything she has to do,” the 31-year-old actress quips to The Hollywood Reporter, as she’s solely focused on projects that have an impact on people. Over the last…
Andrew Garfield made a case for supporting the Harry Potter franchise — despite firmly disagreeing with saga author J.K. Rowling‘s trans views — while the author herself weighed in on HBO’s first teaser trailer for the TV reboot. The Amazing Spider-Man and The Social Network star was talking to Hits Radio when he first praised…
Anxiety, more so than technological rigor, sits at the heart of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Director Daniel Roher is anxious about the future he’s bringing a child into — will it be an AI-driven utopia? Or does it spell certain doom, something explored in countless sci-fi stories. To figure it…
While it’s been damned if you do, now it’s also damned if you don’t. Being canceled for making comments considered too rogue, insensitive, inflammatory or divisive, specifically on political topics, is something celebrities have been dealing with for decades. But getting criticized for staying silent, that’s a whole new battle stars are having to deal…
Despite the fact that spring isn’t often associated with big discounts, Amazon seems keen to turn every season into one filled with savings. Case in point? The retailer is currently hosting a spring sales event, which will run through 2:59AM ET on April 1st. Retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Newegg have also hopped aboard…
Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94. Kluge’s family confirmed his death to German media on Wednesday. A cause of death was not given. Kluge was one of the signatories of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, which called…
While most flagship phones have been steadily getting slimmer over recent years, the upcoming 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra could end up being a bit chunkier than its predecessor. Leaked measurements of the phone shared by XpertPick and OnLeaks on Thursday show that it will be slightly thicker than the 2025 version, about…
Members of a convoy that delivered humanitarian aid to Cuba were detained and interrogated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon returning to the United States on a charter flight from Havana. Of the 20 US citizens who were pulled for secondary inspection at Miami International Airport on Wednesday morning, 18 had their phones and…
Three children stare at the dilapidated remains of a battlefield, with trees and man-made structures mostly razed to the ground, save for the sturdy frame of a lone trebuchet. It’s a pensive snapshot of the bloodshed in A Plague Tale: Innocence by virtual photographer Ludovic “Shinobi” Helme — but it’s no mere screenshot. It’s a…
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Influencer after influencer says the same thing about Grüns. The gummy vitamins are delightful, chockful of whole organic…
