The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

Podcasting has suffered a series of blows over the past few years: industry layoffs, the rise of AI-produced slop, and, perhaps most existentially, a growing focus on video platforms. But 2025 ...

The past year brought no shortage of stellar fragrance launches, and after 12 months of testing, wearing, and tracking the best colognes of 2025, a few clear themes emerged. In case you didn't know, ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

A rejiggering of centuries of real history via fake news reports, and a restaging of a majestic work of theater within a virtual environment. A look back at a defining moment in our country’s history, ...

“Continue?” It’s one of the oldest words in video games. You stumble. You put in another quarter. You try again. Hey, you’ll get ‘em next time. Never has that sentiment been more true than in 2025 — ...

Variety is, as they say, the spice of life, and 2025 provided a fantastic array of different video games. We’ve survived and extracted from the robot-ruled battlefields of Arc Raiders, adventured ...

Here is Loudwire's ranking of the 13 best metal albums of 2025. We've already anointed singled out this year's 51 best rock and metal albums of the year overall, but now it's time to get into the ...

Our critics picked their favorite moments, not necessarily from their favorite shows of the year — a certain “South Park” episode, for example. By James Poniewozik and Mike Hale The television critics ...

On the small screen, 2025 was all about money—the ostentatious peacocking of wealth on shows such as Sirens, And Just Like That, Selling Sunset, and With Love, Meghan; the spiraling production costs ...

With the Switch 2 having launched in June, 2025 marked the beginning of a whole new console generation for Nintendo. The more powerful hybrid console has seen an extremely busy first six months, ...