Out-outraged.We’re in a timeline where the Kardashians have been bested at their own rage-baiting game. Our new villain: Sydney Sweeney. We’re still recovering from her straddling a basketball hoop naked for a sports-betting ad. Now she’s posing in lingerie as Cindy Lou from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Leave child characters out of your thirst traps, Sweeney.
Waiting for son-rise. How long until the release of Son of Thanjai? Too long. The open-world, action-adventure videogame, made by a small Chennai studio, is set in an alternate-history Chola Empire. Our hero is a spoiled prince who is betrayed, exiled, alone. He must fight his way back up. The visuals look stunning. Spring 2027 they say. Sigh.
McConfused. NYC’s Inside the Golden Arches claims to be a fine-dining experience. So, fancy place settings, glassware and mood lighting. But the menus has a McDonald’s egg-muffin starter, nuggets after that, and a Quarter Pounder burger for the main course. The aim is to show how the fast food is made. Don’t worry, New Yorkers are befuddled too.
{{/usCountry}}McConfused. NYC’s Inside the Golden Arches claims to be a fine-dining experience. So, fancy place settings, glassware and mood lighting. But the menus has a McDonald’s egg-muffin starter, nuggets after that, and a Quarter Pounder burger for the main course. The aim is to show how the fast food is made. Don’t worry, New Yorkers are befuddled too.
{{/usCountry}}Jungle booked. Kubo stans, Coraline fans, Boxtroll buddies, another Laika animation is out! Wildwood took 16 years to create, because all the stop-motion tech was done frame-by-frame. Reviews say it’s the studio’s best yet. And another reason to get the big-screen experience. This time, for a tale of a magical forest, not a returning warrior or another exploding helicopter. Bliss!
Separating flavours. Some internet idiots are trying to convince us that lemon and cinnamon, eaten together, taste like Coca-Cola. That tomato and sugar mimic the flavour of strawberry. That banana plus avocado equals ice-cream. That cucumber with sugar delivers the mouthfeel of watermelon. Nope. Nope. Nope. They’re poor approximations. Who wants that?
Dumping him. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are beginning to feel like Hollywood’s Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna. Mostly because we cannot understand why Bell continues to put up with this man embarrassing her at every opportunity. First, he suggested she should be grateful he’d never kill her, despite being “incentivised” to do so. Now, Bell has revealed that he keeps their romance alive by flirting with other people. Girl, blink twice if you need rescuing.
Feeling frosty. We know Christopher Nolan’s favourite female character: Beautiful, laughing in a flashback, and conveniently dead so her husband can have a personality or a redemption arc. Ghajini and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil feature this trope too. TIL: there’s a term for it. Fridging. It comes from a 1994 Green Lantern comic, in which the hero finds his girlfriend murdered and inside a refrigerator. Come on. There’s got to be a better way to motivate a man.
In a trance. Dutch cinema chain Pathé plans to hypnotise 30 people into forgetting their favourite films, including The Matrix and Se7en, so they can experience them for the first time again. Sign us up. Not to forget our favs, but to wipe our minds clean of the last season of GoT, everything Kanye West has said, and every frame of Kabir Singh, thanks.
From HT Brunch, November 07, 2026
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