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Lav Diaz casts Gael García Bernal as a Magellan drained of glory

Lav Diaz, the Filipino master of the marathon art film, compresses the first circumnavigation into one of his shortest works and his first in color in over a decade. Gael García Bernal plays Ferdinand Magellan not as a conqueror but as the instrument of a conquest that devastated the people he reached.

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A still from Vladimir de Fontenay's Sukkwan Island, with father and son standing apart in orange hunting jackets on a frozen Norwegian lake.

Sukkwan Island strands Swann Arlaud and Woody Norman on a frozen father-son reckoning

Little Brother sends Eric André crashing into John Cena’s tidy realtor life on Netflix

Santiago Segura as José Luis Torrente at a campaign podium surrounded by reporters in Torrente Presidente

Torrente Presidente on Netflix: Spain’s Worst Ex-Cop Trades the Heist for a Campaign

A still from Na Hong-jin's Hope, with officer Sung-ae firing a rifle in a smoke-filled street.

Na Hong-jin bets Hope can turn a village creature hunt into cosmic tragedy

TV Shows

Chris & Martina: The Final Set — Netflix reopens an 80-match rivalry that outlasted the tennis

Rebecca Gitlitz’s Netflix documentary sits Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in front of their own old matches — eighty of them, decades of trying to beat each other — and finds the two rivals now facing cancer side by side. The final set, it turns out, is not the one with a trophy.

Agent Kim Reactivated on Netflix: So Ji-sub’s bank manager hid a black-ops past

Notes from the Last Row: Choi Min-sik returns in a Netflix thriller about a teacher hooked on a student’s writing

Avatar: The Last Airbender returns to Netflix with an Earth Kingdom season that belongs to Toph

The Bear Season 5: Carmy chases perfection, and the kitchen pays the price

Sports

A host-city landmark illuminated during the 2026 FIFA World Cup

World Cup 2026: the knockout contenders, ranked by the system that survives a tight tie

The criterion isn’t talent. It’s whose tactical idea still works when the moment-makers are smothered and a tie has to be controlled, not just won.

Erling Haaland Waited His Whole Career for a World Cup — Now He’s Carrying Norway Into the Knockouts

Spain Sweep Saudi Arabia Aside to Reach the World Cup Last 32 — but the Flaw Cape Verde Exposed Went Untested

Germany Beat Ivory Coast to Reach the World Cup Last 32 — but Nagelsmann’s Bench, Not His System, Saved the Favourites

Technology

China bet it could beat the US in supercomputing without Nvidia. It did

IBM proved its 0.7nm chip works. The factory to make it doesn’t exist yet

Analysis

Law & Order returns to NBC at 10pm after nearly not returning at all

KATSEYE’s makers wanted to take the K out of K-pop. They forgot what the K was for

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

Music

Alewya — still from the Maktoub video, campaign visual for debut album Zero featuring Addis Girls Skate

Alewya packs 15 tracks into 16 minutes on Zero, her Shy FX-produced debut

Alewya arrives at full-length with Zero, a fifteen-track debut that runs sixteen minutes and was executive produced by UK soundsystem legend Shy FX. The London-based Ethiopian-Egyptian artist has been building toward this moment through years of EPs and singles that refused to settle into one genre.

The Strokes — Reality Awaits official album video thumbnail

Science

Gravitational lensing arcs in galaxy cluster Abell 2218

Business

Sanna Marin addresses European Parliament on strategic autonomy in energy, food, defence and technology — European Parliament (CC BY 2.0)

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The wealthy family of Karim Aïnouz's Rosebush Pruning posed in their wood-panelled Spanish villa.

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