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Parannoul’s 상처 (Remaining): when anonymous shoegaze turns confessional

Music

Parannoul’s 상처 (Remaining): when anonymous shoegaze turns confessional

Parannoul, the anonymous South Korean musician whose textured shoegaze has drawn international critical attention, releases 상처 (Remaining) — the most direct and unguarded title of his catalogue.

Alice Lange

Movies

Mila Al-Zahrani drives through the desert as Noelle Al Saffan in a still from Haifaa al-Mansour's Unidentified

Haifaa al-Mansour’s Unidentified asks who a body in the desert belongs to

Chiwetel Ejiofor in Backrooms (2026)

What are ‘liminal spaces’? How an internet aesthetic of empty rooms conquered horror

Aerial still from Pal Oie's Kraken: a lone kayaker glides across a Norwegian fjord above the submerged shape of a giant eye.

Pål Øie sinks Kraken into a Norwegian fjord where the water watches back

Suzu Hirose and Fumi Nikaido against the Nagasaki harbour, with Yoh Yoshida as the older Etsuko in an English garden, in Kei Ishikawa's A Pale View of Hills

Kei Ishikawa adapts A Pale View of Hills without solving the lie at its center

TV Shows

"Three women walk together in a city, smiling and carrying shopping bags, with tall buildings, a Bulgari store, and people in the background on a sunny day."

Sweet Magnolias Season 5 Takes Serenity’s Trio to Manhattan on Netflix

Serenity, South Carolina was always the destination. For four seasons, Sweet Magnolias treated its fictional town the way other shows treat a love interest — the place its women left for an afternoon and ached to return to, the kitchen at Sullivan’s, the spa on Main Street, the porch where the margaritas got poured and the week got talked through.

Viral Hit - Netflix

Viral Hit on Netflix makes a bullied teenager livestream his own fights to survive

The Evil Lawyer - Netflix

Netflix’s The Evil Lawyer makes hiring a cheat the only way an innocent man clears his name

Every Year After - Prime Video

Every Year After on Prime Video measures a first love by the years Percy and Sam spend apart

The Rest Is Football - Netflix

The Rest Is Football brings Gary Lineker to Netflix for a World Cup it cannot show you

Sports

World Cup 2026, Group L: England Favoured — Modrić’s Croatia Won’t Agree

England arrive with a perfect qualifying record and Thomas Tuchel’s structural discipline. Croatia arrive with Luka Modrić at 40, a sixth World Cup, and the particular nerve that makes them the one side in Group L capable of turning the forecast into a contest.

Aerial view of the open-air Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, a 2026 FIFA World Cup host stadium.

World Cup 2026’s most dangerous opponent isn’t on any team sheet — it’s the heat

Exterior aerial view of Estadio Akron in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico

Estadio Akron, built like a volcano into the hills of Zapopan, hosts El Tri’s homecoming

The Mexico national football team gathered on the steps for an official team portrait

Mexico finally built a team that’s hard to beat — a home World Cup asks whether that’s enough

Technology

Claude Fable 5 found a 27-year-old bug humans missed, and now it’s public

Mexican Ninja character fighting in neon-lit Nuevo Tokyo streets

Mexican Ninja’s brawl finally matches its premise: a sharper demo finds its edge

Analysis

A dim bedroom at dawn, pale light entering through a tall window across an empty bed — a conceptual image for the line between ordinary distress and clinical disorder.

Mental-health awareness worked. Now it mistakes distress for disorder

Editorial conceptual scene: an empty classroom at dusk, rows of vacant desks and golden light through tall windows, the phones cleared out of the school day.

The phone-ban study measured grades. The case for it was never about grades

Editorial conceptual still: a single smartphone glowing on dark glass beside an empty chair drawn close, the image of a conversation engineered never to end.

The griefbot’s business model is a mourner who never says goodbye

Music

Sakurazaka46 BACKS members promotional teaser for their 15th single Lonesome rabbit / What's KAZOKU?

Sakurazaka46 put a solitude anthem and an anime family song on the same single

Sakurazaka46’s 15th single pairs two songs pulling in opposite directions, marking the first double A-side in the Sakamichi Group’s history.

Xande de Pilares in the official 'Vento' Copa 2026 music video still

Xande de Pilares bets samba can lead Copa 2026 from outside Brazil

LUDMILLA and Wesley Safadão put Ronaldinho Gaúcho in the booth on Tu Pode Falar Mal

Taylor Swift — I Knew It, I Knew You (from Toy Story 5) — YouTube thumbnail

Taylor Swift writes for Pixar and bets the emotional register is the same

Science

Abstract neural network connectome visualization — glowing synapse nodes and branching axon pathways in deep moody atmosphere

Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 160,000 neurons — and its legs run themselves

Abstract editorial photography: supermassive black hole event horizon in early universe, neon cyan and magenta cosmic atmosphere

Webb measured a 13-billion-year-old black hole — it formed before its galaxy

A California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) moving over eelgrass in shallow water.

An octopus used a mirror to find food it couldn’t see, a first for any invertebrate

Business

A brass turbine and interlocking-gear assembly lit on a dark background, used as a visual metaphor for the engines of economic growth.

What Is a General-Purpose Technology? The Inventions That Rewire an Entire Economy

European Union flags in front of the Berlaymont building, European Commission headquarters in Brussels

Europe let its antibiotics drift to China. Sandoz is asking Brussels to fight back

The Ferrari factory in Maranello, Modena

Ferrari built an EV to take on China. Its own fans turned on it first

More News

Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson performing on a floodlit stadium stage in Lionsgate's biopic 'Michael'

Movies

‘Michael’ is about to take the musical-biopic crown from Graham King’s own ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Movies

Colors of Evil: Black: Netflix sends prosecutor Bilski to a town that won’t say where its children went

Outlast: The Jungle - Netflix

Reality

Outlast: The Jungle sends Netflix’s survival game to Panama, where no one can win alone

Series

My Family returns to Netflix with the promise already broken — and Sergio Castellitto walking back in

Key visual for Takahiro Hasui's Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, with Conan and the Kanagawa police motorcycle division against the Yokohama Bay Bridge.

Movies

Fallen Angel of the Highway sends Detective Conan after a riderless motorcycle

Music

Shakira and nine acts open the 2026 World Cup at Estadio Azteca

Preview video still from Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' Academy School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party theatrical film

Music

Love Live! Hasunosora bets a six-track film EP on listeners outside its ecosystem

Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone in Garibaldine red shirts in Roberto Andò's The Illusion (L'abbaglio).

Movies

Roberto Andò recasts Garibaldi’s Sicily campaign as sleight of hand in The Illusion

Abstract editorial render of a spiral disk of dust and gas sweeping around a single bright central star, in cyan and magenta on deep black.

Science

A planet nursery was caught spinning for the first time, and parts ignore the rules