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Emily's been waiting years to make us do this one — and with Sam Neill's passing this year, we're honouring him by unpacking his greatest role. Thirty-three years on, we're revisiting the original Jurassic Park and getting into the one decision Spielberg made that keeps it from feeling dated, even as every CGI-heavy reboot has failed to come close.

We're also spiralling over the behind-the-scenes bombshell that he didn't even want to direct this — and the wild deal that got it made while he was editing another masterpiece on the other side of the world. Plus our completely unhinged case that Jurassic Park is secretly a feminist manifesto, from the all-female dinosaurs to why the velociraptors are the real heroines.

It's nostalgic, it's chaotic, and yes — Emily cried over a fictional dinosaur.

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There's a new drama on Binge that's already got everyone talking, and the cast list alone is worth the watch — Jennifer Garner, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall, Judy Greer, Timothy Olyphant and a scene-stealing Chloë Sevigny. Based on a beloved bestseller, it follows a grieving food blogger who gathers a friend from every era of her life for one weekend on the island.

And we can't stop thinking about the Netflix true crime doc that's genuinely one of the best we've seen. It opens with an idyllic Californian couple, some terrifying anonymous emails and a Craigslist twist too disturbing to spoil — then keeps flipping. Conflicting accounts, lying witnesses, evidence that changes everything: you won't know what to think until the very end.

Plus a soapy, sexy small-town Texas romance is back on Netflix for season two — basically Yellowstone's fun cousin, led by two faces you've loved for years.
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Meghan Markle's MasterChef Australia episode drops this weekend, and the internet has already decided she's at war with the show's most beloved judge. But dig into who's actually behind these headlines and the whole thing starts to smell like a very familiar beat-up.

Then we're giving Marvel some tough love. The first Avengers Doomsday trailer is finally here, it's stacked with more cameos than we can count, and yet we walked away worried. We're getting into the return no one asked for, the "lazy" storytelling loophole, and whether this can possibly live up to Endgame.

Plus the horror trailer that made our whole team scream — a contortionist ghost, a Jessica Chastain double, and a jump scare so inventive we've been forcing it on everyone we know. We also need to address the Coraline of it all.

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This morning, big wins in court for both Rebel Wilson and Cher, Ryan Gosling's decade-long poster nightmare is finally over and Jacob Elordi hilariously opens up about his biggest fears.
☕ Cher wins her royalties war against Sonny Bono's widow but still has a HUGE legal bill
☕ KJ Apa reveals Cole Sprouse punched him in the face at a strip club to help him get sober
☕ Kesha goes face to face with a 'psychotic raccoon'
☕ Rebel Wilson wins her defamation case against Charlotte MacInnes
☕ La La Land is back in cinemas August 16 with Ryan Gosling's infamous "La La Hand" finally fixed after 10 years
☕ Jacob Elordi shares his deepest darkest fears...and they're highly relatable
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Jennifer Garner swore she was only popping by the Suddenly 30 set to maybe sneak into a background shot, so why has she been papped in full Jenna Rink mode? We're unpacking the leaked photos she very much didn't want getting out, and what her surprise return (alongside another very familiar face) actually means for the reboot.

Plus, MAFS gave us its one real fairytale this year: a genuine proposal, an actual engagement, a couple who seemed to make it. And now it's over, with one half saying they were completely blindsided. We're getting into who ended it, and the very specific reality-TV formula behind how the news dropped.

Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling has finally won his decade-long war against the La La Land poster, and we're outraged. Erasing iconic cinema over one self-conscious hand? We're explaining why it's a dangerous precedent, and why complaining might've been his biggest mistake.
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