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John Wick 4’s top-down scene: the game behind it
The overhead Dragon’s Breath shootout in John Wick: Chapter 4 came from The Hong Kong Massacre, not Hotline Miami. Here’s what Stahelski and Reeves actually said.
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How a hair in a death mask named the Somerton Man, and what DNA still can’t tell us
In 2022, researchers named the Somerton Man as Carl “Charles” Webb using hair caught in his plaster death mask. Here’s how genetic genealogy works, in plain English, and the questions DNA can’t answer.
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John Wick animated movie: the Impossible Task, explained
Lionsgate’s animated John Wick prequel is officially a go, with Keanu Reeves voicing John. What the Impossible Task is, who’s making it, and whether a prequel can keep the legend.
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Every Metallica studio album ranked, from Kill ‘Em All to 72 Seasons
Metallica are playing the Las Vegas Sphere through March 2027. Here are all 11 studio albums ranked, with our scores, the songs that matter and where to start.
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How much can you make streaming GTA 6 from zero?
Most new GTA 6 streamers will earn between nothing and about 25 dollars a month in year one. Here are the real Twitch, Kick and YouTube splits, a low-to-high estimate table, and…
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