Iron Man's influence isn't limited to comics or the MCU, as the superhero has left his mark in some anime that have their own ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Not all time capsules live up to expectations. For Smithtown, Long Island’s 350th birthday in 2015, officials clad in ...

Loosely inspired by the 1949 British film Kind Hearts and Coronets, this black comedy thriller stars Glen Powell as a man ...

And 2026 looks like it could be even bigger. New movies from Nolan, Spielberg, Gerwig, and Villeneuve! Zombies, werewolves, and slashers! Arthouse icons and blockbuster kings! And these are just the ...

Unfortunately for Hollywood, many 2025 releases failed to live up to this aspiration. Evaluating by the general metric that a ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Hollywood actor Iain Armitage, best known for playing Sheldon Cooper in the TV series Young Sheldon, has shared his 2025 music recap — and Kazakhstan’s artists made the list.

From blockbuster franchises and long-awaited sequels to star-studded dramas and comedies, 2026 is shaping up to be a huge year in film.

Casey Chong presents a selection of Die Hard riffs… The Die Hard on a [fill in the setting] subgenre first made its mark ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...