Why is The Running Man rated R? The MPAA's reasoning lists three things
Edgar Wright's Stephen King adaptation carries an R, and the MPA summed it up in a single line. Here's what that line is covering, how the British board described the same film, and whether the 1987 version got the same treatment.
September 23, 2026 5:12 pm
Who is the Trawler in The Shards? Bret Easton Ellis's novel never confirms it — here's what the series has shown
Bret Easton Ellis's 2023 novel builds a serial killer across 600 pages and then declines to name him. Here's what the book actually establishes, what Ryan Murphy's FX adaptation put on screen, and why neither version settles it.
September 23, 2026 1:57 pm
Worst Neighbor Ever: where are they now?
Netflix's Worst Neighbor Ever covers four property feuds that ended in criminal court. Here's where every case stands today, from the prison terms and parole dates to the one lawsuit that outlived the trial.
September 23, 2026 10:48 am
How does Jack Ryan season 3 end? Everything comes down to two warships facing off in the Baltic
Jack Ryan's third season ends with an American destroyer and a Russian one closing on each other in the Baltic Sea. Here's what the Sokol Project actually is, how the standoff gets resolved, and what it costs the people who stopped it.
September 22, 2026 4:32 pm
MasterChef season 7: where are they now? A decade after the DJ beat the teacher and the poker pro
MasterChef season 7 put a Las Vegas DJ, a Kentucky schoolteacher, and a World Series of Poker runner-up in the same finale — the first three-way final in the show's history. Ten years later, here's what all 20 home cooks did with it.
September 22, 2026 11:47 am
Washington’s secretary of state wants your game fighting the Cold War
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs told PAX West developers their games are American soft power in a new Cold War. The pitch, and the counterarguments.
September 21, 2026 7:46 am
How much of Hell on Wheels is true? Thomas Durant was real — the rest needs sorting character by character
AMC's railroad western built five seasons around one genuinely historical figure and invented nearly everyone standing next to him. Here's how the cast of Hell on Wheels lines up against the record of the Union Pacific, character by character, and which liberties the Gayton brothers took with the parts that were real.
September 20, 2026 5:57 pm
How realistic is For All Mankind? The verdict from the former astronaut who advises the show
Apple TV's alternate space race keeps a former NASA astronaut on staff to check its physics, and he has been unusually candid about where the show cheats. Here's what Garrett Reisman says For All Mankind gets right, what he quietly lets slide, and how the series has held up now its timeline has overtaken real life.
September 20, 2026 4:04 pm
How old are Ramona and Annie in Sterling Point?
Prime Video's Sterling Point states one lead character's age outright and leaves the other to guesswork, which is why the numbers circulating online don't agree with each other. Here's what the series actually establishes about Annie and Ramona, and why its own backstory rules out the most commonly quoted answer.
September 20, 2026 1:11 pm
Why did Band of Brothers lie about Blithe? The title card is off by nineteen years — and no DVD or stream has ever corrected it
The closing title card on episode 3 of HBO's miniseries makes a claim about Private Albert Blithe that his service record contradicts. Where the mistake came from, what Blithe did for the next two decades, and why every release since 2001 still carries it.
September 20, 2026 11:24 am