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On my way to the airport in Palm Springs I saw a sign that said: “Movies Help Everything!” I smiled, Roger would have agreed. As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Siskel & Ebert this month with a film series curated by the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), I have taken a trip down memory lane. Since it has been twelve-plus years since Roger passed away on April 4, 2013, I was surprised that reviewing the clips of him with his partner Gene Siskel still leave me weepy. Fortunately, their antics also bring me great joy, and so guffaws of laughter overpower the tears.  On Fridays when we publish our weekly movie reviews at RogerEbert.com, there are inevitably films that leave me wondering, WWRS (What Would Roger Say). I will be discussing on...

The Radio City Music Hall engagement of the world tour of Boublil and Schönberg’s LES MISÉRABLES: THE ARENA CONCERT SPECTACULAR has extended by one week due to demand. Radio City Music Hall will be the singular North American engagement in 2026. The production will play a limited engagement from Thursday, July 23 now through Sunday, August 9, 2026. Following a record-breaking two-year run since its opening in Belfast in September 2024, with over 1-million tickets sold worldwide so far, the new dates will mark the end of the official 40th anniversary celebrations of the world’s longest-running musical. Les Misérables last played on Broadway in 2016 and the London production has just entered its 41st year at the Sondheim Theatre. Full casting is to be announced soon. About The Sh...

Posted Nov 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM UTCImprove retro gaming on the Switch 2 with a handheld CRT dock.If you grew up playing the Super Nintendo and N64 on a beastly tube TV, you may appreciate Joel Hartlaub’s custom dock for the Switch 2. It features an integrated CRT screen, recessed hand grips with shoulder buttons hidden inside, and speakers that outperform those on Nintendo’s latest handheld.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Andrew LiszewskiCloseAndrew LiszewskiPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Andrew LiszewskiGadgetsCloseGadgetsPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollo...

Music Declares Emergency have launched a new ‘Hope Over Fear’ t-shirt campaign with IDLES, Yard Act, Enter Shikari, Maisie Peters, jasmine 4.t and many more artists. READ MORE: IDLES tell us about “the end of an era” and working on “more driven” new material In support of their ‘No Music On A Dead Planet’ campaign to establish regional climate hubs across the UK, a host of acts including Sleaford Mods, The Pogues, Editors, Declan McKenna and more will join with the charity to promote the launch by wearing one of three campaign t-shirts and “sharing messages of hope with their fans” throughout November. The charity partner and Music Venue Trust will see each hub bring fans, artists, and organisers together to create, collaborate, and take action through gigs, workshops and local organisin...

Japan’s Sega Sammy Holdings has reported a steep decline in earnings for the six months ending September 30, 2025, citing slower video game sales, acquisition costs, and regulatory delays. Despite the downturn in its entertainment and mobile gaming divisions, the company’s gaming operations, including its casino and pachislot segments, achieved notable growth. Financial Results Impacted by Lower Game Sales and One-Off Costs According to the company’s financial report released Friday, net profit dropped 91% year-on-year to JPY2.75 billion (USD 18 million), down from JPY30.38 billion (USD 198.6 million) in the same period a year earlier. Operating income also fell by 69% to JPY10.06 billion (USD 65.8 million), while revenue decreased 5% to JPY201.1 billion (USD 1.31 billion). Adjusted EBITDA...

Where to watch: SonyLiv, Amazon Prime Video and ZEE5Featuring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore in the movie, which centres on Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a US military lawyer, who defends two US Marines charged with murdering a fellow marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. However, the plot of the story revolves around the needle of suspicion, which points to a colonel. Source link

Mavis Staples’ latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto.“Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly considered retirement in 2023, deliver a peaceful, even-keeled sound that is neither thunderous nor sleepy. Instead, Staples invites world-weary listeners to join her steady march forward across 10 tracks propelled by bouncy horns and tranquil, finger-picked guitars.The record features nine covers and an original, “Human Mind,” written by Hozier and Allison Russell. On that track, Staples decries “children dying by machines of war” and the sadness of missing family now passed. Yet the chorus finds space to cautiously celebrate humanity. “God bless the human mind / Who would dream the sweet desi...

The next Xbox is a PC. Well, sort of.Last week, we revealed that the next Xbox is essentially going to be a PC, and that the Xbox Ally Windows 11 handheld is a "test bed" of sorts to figure out what aspects of the OS need to be improved for that universe. Microsoft is working to boost how Windows handles HDMI, video game shaders, and all sorts of additional things within the Xbox PC ecosystem.The Xbox Ally has already delivered some powerful gaming improvements to Windows 11 as part of this initiative, allowing apps like Xbox and eventually Steam to launch right from login in full-screen mode, disabling the Desktop environment to boost gaming performance, with more planned in its handhelds roadmap. But the work doesn't stop on the consumer end. You may like On the flip side of this effo...

November means the holidays are on the horizon, and with them comes more time off to do what we love most: watch movies. Amazon Prime Video keeps an impressive rotation going, so I’ve selected some winners for you to pair with your popcorn this week. First, we’re engaging in some stand-up comedy with one of my favorite comics, then we’re back-tracking to the eighties to have breakfast with the coolest group of high school kids on the planet. After that, it’s sci-fi time with an alien investigation flick, followed by a sword-and-sandal epic and a new Amazon Original featuring Mr. Funky Bunch himself, Mark Wahlberg. These are the five movies you have to watch on Prime Video this week. 5 Tom Segura: Completely Normal (2014) ...

Iconic Austin blues venue Antone’s Nightclub has announced a lease extension to remain at its current location, 305 E. 5th St., for another 50 years. The club has also secured a $1.3 million investment from Rally Austin — a real estate nonprofit that partners with the city through the Austin Cultural Trust program  — to create the “Antone’s World Famous Museum of the Blues.”"Securing a home for 'Austin’s Home of the Blues’ for the next 50 years is a grand and poetic victory to the impassioned pursuit that Clifford Antone started 50 years ago,” Antone’s co-owner Will Bridges said in a news release. “And to bolster our presence and impact with the education and preservation focus of the blues museum deeply enriches and realizes the full vision of our mission.”The lease extension positions An...