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Summer movie flops revisited: Just how bad were these big-budget disasters?

From Battlefield Earth to Waterworld, we're taking another look at some notorious big-screen bombs to see if they're as bad as we originally thought

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Does the truth really matter with Flamin' Hot ?

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Who is Unicron, the planet-eating villain at the center of Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts?

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Lionsgate is ready to inflict a Leprechaun reboot on a new generation

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BMF producer suspended for intimidating striking writers, driving his car toward picket line

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Citadel's Nielsen ratings really don't match its budget

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Diablo IV's Hardcore mode is a fun way to flush your life down the toilet

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Top Chef season 20 finale: A global winner is crowned

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Let Shawn Mendes be the first to leverage New York's terrible air quality for music

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Tom Holland is taking a break from acting

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17 films that changed everything with their special effects

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The Crowded Room review: Tom Holland leads an utterly confused thriller

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The multiverse is doomed and even Spider-Man and The Flash can't save it

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Kieran Culkin says Sarah Snook believed Succession was getting a fifth season "until the very end"

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Poorna Jagannathan and Richa Moorjani on Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling, and more

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A toast to Succession's 10 most cringeworthy speeches, ranked from least to most wild

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14 times Succession broke our hearts

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Our final Succession power rankings

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Every character on Succession, ranked by how despicable they are

Summer movie guides

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The most anticipated summer movies of 2023

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This summer's 15 most promising under-the-radar films

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The 25 movie stars you need to watch this summer

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Summer of bummers: why 1983 was the worst season ever for movie sequels

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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Flamin' Hot

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War Pony

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The Crowded Room

Apple TV+

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Human Resources

Human Resources

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6 things you have to watch on TV this weekend

The Flamin' Hot movie arrives, the last Human Resources season drops, Tom Holland stars in a TV thriller, and more

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Bryan Cranston says he’s going to retire and move to France in a few years

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Bill Hader is really nice and considerate — report

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The Field Of Dreams series that never was left a stadium sitting in an Iowa cornfield

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Hank Azaria acknowledges problematic Simpsons past, defends problematic Idol present

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Film

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Children Of The Corny: The 15 worst Stephen King movies and miniseries, ranked

Not even the Master of Horror can bat a thousand—as films like Dreamcatcher and Pet Sematary prove in our look at truly terrible King adaptations

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Unfortunately for Wes Anderson, his seven-year-old has heard about Star Wars

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Flamin’ Hot review: spicy snack gets a tasty origin story

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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts review: reboot is long on action, short on ideas

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Screen tests are already happening for James Gunn's Superman: Legacy

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25 best shows streaming right now on Peacock

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The best movies to watch on Apple TV Plus right now

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What to watch on Hulu: 43 best TV shows streaming right now

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The best and scariest horror films to watch now on HBO Max