After your July 4 re-watch of Independence Day, your next move should be to stream 1996's other patriotically themed release: Uncle Sam, a movie so up-front about its intentions as a satirical horror comedy that its poster, a ghoulish parody of a military-recruiting ad, has the tag line “I Want You... Dead.”

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Greta Gerwig Explains the 'Long Journey' to Cast Ryan Gosling as Ken
The lore that’s already been built up around Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very beginning in bringing the fashionable Mattel doll to the big screen. But apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling—who plays Ken—took a bit more convincing to join the project.
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Ibai Says Twitch Capped Viewers on His Boxing Stream, the Most-Viewed in History
Tensions continue to simmer between Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, who on Saturday broke the world record for most concurrent live viewers on Twitch with his annual boxing event, and Twitch. After slamming the platform on Saturday for outages during La Velada del Año III, which drew in 3.4 million viewers, the streamer…
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Rogers: The Musical Succeeds From Screen to Stage at Disney Parks
Now open at Disney California Adventure’s Hyperion Theater at the Disneyland Resort is Rogers: The Musical. Perhaps one of the last things Twitter fandom made happen, the abridged musical history of Steve Rogers’ Captain America takes the corny parody seen in Disney+’s Hawkeye and expands it into a theme park-perfect…
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Everything You Need to Know About Foundation Ahead of Season 2
The first season of Apple TV+’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation required paying close attention to keep track of its dense plot and frequent time shifts. But those who stuck with its sci-fi saga were richly rewarded—and with season two on the way, there’s no better time to catch up on season one.
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Astronomers Baffled by ‘Planet That Shouldn’t Exist’
The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at least one planet per star in our galaxy.

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An Ode to My Favorite Moment in Independence Day
There are 20 seconds in the 1996 blockbuster film Independence Day that get me every time. And it’s not some big reveal. It’s not some funny joke or hugely emotional beat. It’s just a brief, 20-second blip where the film achieves a level of perfection that, I feel, it never reaches again, and this is coming from a…
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Text AI Art Generators Hinder Artists More Than Help Them
Making art using artificial intelligence isn’t new. It’s as old as AI itself.
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Secrets of Amazon Prime Day
I’ve been covering Amazon Prime Day since it launched in 2015, and over the years I’ve seen it blow up into a huge made-up shopping holiday. But is it actually a good way to save money?

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Bluesky Sees "Record" Web Traffic After Elon's Latest Dumb Twitter Decision
Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout of inspired stupidity, Musk tweeted out a new edict Saturday: from now on, anybody who doesn’t pay for Twitter will only be able to read a…
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One Piece's English-Dubbed Anime Is Coming to Crunchyroll
This weekend at Anime Expo, One Piece fans learned that the Japanese version of the upcoming live-action Netflix series will be dubbed by the anime’s original Japanese voice actors. Today, there’s even more One Piece dub news: the English dub of the anime will soon be arriving on Crunchyroll.
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James Gunn Won't Be at Comic-Con 2023, Which Doesn't Bode Well for DC Films
Comic book movie fans going to San Diego Comic-Con this year were just dealt another punch in the gut as filmmaker James Gunn revealed on his Instagram that he won’t be attending the convention.
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Suicide Squad ISEKAI Sends the Hitmen Into an Anime Fantasy
A cryptic, weirdly fantastic new anime is coming from WB Japan. Harley Quinn and the Joker take on another world, or possibly multiple worlds, in the teaser trailer for Suicide Squad ISEKAI. Do I know what’s going on? No. But does it look exceptionally cool? Absolutely it does. Check out the short teaser below.
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Valve All But Bans Steam Games From Using AI-Generated Content
Game developers looking to distribute their playable creations via Valve’s popular Steam hub may have trouble if they’re looking to use AI during the creative process. The game publisher and distributor says that Steam will no longer tolerate products that were generated using copyright-infringing AI content. Since…
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You Can’t Access Pornhub in Mississippi or Virginia Anymore
Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is “for lovers,” PornHub says it’s protesting the states’ recently-enacted age verification laws that create massive business and privacy issues for the porno site.
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Exhaust Yourself Watching Tom Cruise Sprint in Every Mission: Impossible Movie
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Onepromises to add even more perilous stunts to the Tom Cruise action franchise. But as part seven’s release approaches, Paramount’s paying tribute to a feature of the films that requires just its star and his very fleet feet. Who knew how much running Cruise did in these…
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After Barbie, Here Are 14 Other Toys Mattel Might Make Into Movies
All signs point to this month’s release of Barbie being a massive hit. It just seems to be the summer movie most people are talking about, and tracking on its opening weekend says it’s likely to beat the new Christopher Nolan movie—even before any reviews have come out. If Barbie is actually as good as we all hope it…
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Anker's New iPhone Battery Might Be Incompatible With the iPhone 15
After MagSafe came along in 2020, most of Anker’s iPhone-specific portable chargers took advantage of the feature; magnetically adhering to the back of the device and charging it wirelessly. For the first time in a while, Anker has released an iPhone backup battery that connects directly to its Lightning port, but if…
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You Up? Mars Helicopter Finally Makes Contact After Two Months of Silence
After 63 days of agonizing silence, NASA’s Martian chopper finally phoned home.
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The Superhero Noir Plot Thickens on Next Episode of Image Comics' Who Is No/One
The next issue of Image Comics’ Massive-Verse title No/One is out this week—and with it, a new installment of podcast Who Is No/One, which expands on its story. io9 has an exclusive clip to share from the true crime-style podcast, which stars Rachael Leigh Cook and Patton Oswalt as investigative journalists—and this…
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