Author: Ada Blood

Sometimes life imitates art. In 2019,  Canadian author Rachel Reid released the novel “Heated Rivalry,” about hockey players on opposing teams in a secret relationship. In November, the novel was turned into a hit television series for HBO Max.  Anna Kjellbin, who plays for the Toronto Sceptres, will be facing her fiancée, Ronja Savolainen, who plays for the Ottawa Charge, in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy. Savolainen is a member of Team Finland, and Kjellbin will be playing for the opposing Team Sweden. The couple did face off before in 2024 at the Professional Women’s Hockey League, and…

We’re back with another edition of Urban Legend: Fact or Fiction. Today, we will be looking at our most modern legend, the arcade in the Little Caesars in Saco, Maine. So grab a slice while we pull apart this mystery.  The internet has a way of taking small jokes and turning them into mass trolling campaigns, doubly so when the subject is mysterious. Five days ago, Reddit user Just-aReddit posted to r/Maine about the Little Caesars Pizza in Saco, Maine. Specifically asking other users about an alleged arcade inside the restaurant, because they don’t recall it having one. Then it…

It’s been 54 years since Apollo 17 took the first astronauts to the moon. Tomorrow, the Artemis II will go from the Vehicle Assembly Building to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. A massive step towards its final launch to do a 10-day orbit around the moon and back again.  The multi-hour journey from the assembly building to launchpad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is currently scheduled to start no earlier than 7am (EST) on January 17th. (This time is subject to change due to technical preparations or weather conditions.) At 9am (EST), there is a media event for…

The beloved sci-fi franchise “Star Trek” is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and Pluto TV is boldly going where no free streaming has gone before. The streamer is celebrating the milestone with several new pop-up channels and some exciting primers. These Trek dedicated channels include: These new channels will only run through January 31st, after that the “Enterprise” channel will beam out. Pluto TV will also be airing the premiere episode of “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” on the “Star Trek” and Paramount+ Picks channels through January 28th. The episode is also streaming for free for a limited time on YouTube. We’ll…

Amazon MGM Studios just gave us the first trailer for “The Bluff,” a pirate action-adventure movie starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas (“Citadel”) and Karl Urban (“The Boys”). The upcoming film is co-written and directed by Frank E. Flowers (“Bob Marley: One Love”) with Joe Ballarini (“My Little Pony: The Movie”). Chopra Jonas stars as Ercell “Bloody Mary” Bodden, who is trying to escape her violent past as a pirate. After fleeing to the Cayman Islands and building a family, her former captain, Connor (Urban), finds her. Ripping apart the new life she has built with his vendetta. “The Bluff” also stars…

“Art” made through generative AI technology has been a hot-button issue for the past few years. Streaming platforms like Bandcamp and Spotify have been particularly affected, with users uploading fully AI-generated tracks. Some uploaders even go so far as to generate AI bots to listen to these fake songs, because the future is both incredible and horrifying.  Spotify has busted rings doing these kinds of things, and despite claims of cracking down on these shenanigans, the platform is still overrun with generative-AI slop. In November, Deezer revealed that “roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, to the…

Since 2003, the Visual Effects Society has used the VES Awards to honor outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in entertainment. VES revealed their 2026 nominees, and James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” leads the pack with 10. Not a huge surprise considering 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” earned a record-setting 14 nominations, going home with 9 of them. “Fire and Ash” is nominated in 8 of the 23 categories, competing against itself for Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in a Feature and the Emerging Technology Award From the world of television, Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” HBO’s “The Last of Us,”…

February 27th, 2026 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise. To celebrate, LEGO has revealed their first-ever official sets based on the iconic monster-catching game!  The sets currently up for pre-order include: Eevee This 587-piece set brings Pokémon fan-favorite character, Eevee, into the world of LEGO. Featuring Eevee’s cute face, with a perky tail and ears, this set is sure to delight any trainer. Some parts, including the tail, can even be moved and angled, more like a figurine. Fully assembled, it stands 7.5 in. (19 cm) tall. Pikachu and Poké Ball A 2050 piece kit for franchise…

In March of 2024, Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios announced “Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.” It will have several of the studio’s “Twisted Childhood Universe” characters in an “Avengers”-style horror crossover.   Jagged Edge has confirmed film will begin shooting this summer! Rhys Frake-Waterfield (“Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” films), creator of the Poohniverse, will write and direct.  “Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble” will have heroes and villains from “Blood and Honey,” “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare,” “Bambi: The Reckoning,” and Waterfield’s upcoming “Pinocchio: Unstrung.” There have even been rumblings about other public domain characters joining the party, like “Sleeping Beauty,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Mary…

It looks like HBO’s “The White Lotus” has selected the hotel it will use for its upcoming 4th season. In November, it was confirmed by the network that this season would be set in France. Now we know that the Château de La Messardière in Saint-Tropez will serve as the fictitious White Lotus resort.  In the previous season, HBO had a marketing partnership with the Four Seasons hotel chain. As part of this deal, the first 2 seasons used Four Seasons hotels as locations. Season 3 was primarily shot at the Four Seasons as well, but with 3 other non-Four…