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In real life as in the movie itself, the big, famous mantra and “first rule” of Brad Pitt’s live-in-the-moment hero Tyler Durden in Fight Club (streaming here on Peacock) is probably best taken at face value: “You do not talk about Fight Club.” Vindicated from a tepid early 1999 box office showing by what’ll probably…

Did we really go to the Moon or was it all just an elaborate hoax orchestrated by Stanley Kubrick? More than half a century after Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took that giant leap for mankind, an ardent minority of conspiracy theorists continues to assert that no human ever stepped foot on the lunar surface…

Henry Cavill as sparkling vampire? It could have happened! When Summit Entertainment optioned the film rights to Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight novels in 2007, the author celebrated the news on her blog, while reflecting on MTV and Paramount’s failed attempt to bring the fanged romantic saga to the big screen (all five films are now streaming on…

In the 2008 action-thriller Wanted (streaming now on Peacock), based on the Mark Millar and J.G. Jones comic book of the same name, a secret society of killers possess the supernatural ability to control the flight path of bullets. While Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is still grieving the death of his father, he learns that…

When the sci-fi series Firefly was axed before its first season had even finished airing, the creative team went into desperation mode to try and find a way to wrap up the space cowboy adventure in a satisfying way for fans. That scramble ended with the sequel film Serenity — but the journey to make…

Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C. (streaming now on SYFY) imagines one potential past, but has little if any archaeological evidence backing up its narrative. The story takes place 12,000 years ago among a small society of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl. They spend their days hunting mammoths and dreaming of a better future, but their relatively peaceful…

The 1980s was an absolute golden age for scripted comedy, which probably explains how a show as offbeat and distinctive as ALF (streaming now on Peacock!) ever managed to crash-land its way to a weekly time slot on mainstream network TV. After all, there are only so many Earthly places where you can set a…

Peacock will become the exclusive streaming home of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer starting Friday, February 16, the NBCUniversal platform announced today. Six Nolan classics — Memento (2000), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Dunkirk (2017) — are set to join the service Thursday, February 1. If you can’t wait for its streaming debut, the acclaimed…

“There’s nothing to watch!” If that’s a familiar refrain from kids in your house, we get it. It’s easy to understand how kids can get overwhelmed looking for great shows to watch. But as it turns out, Peacock always has a huge selection of animated kids originals that will appeal to even the pickiest viewers. From…

Is Peacock a streaming service or a toybox? It’s getting harder to tell because there are now two different shows on the platform about talking toys. One of them is a Teddy bear with a tendency for raunchy humor. The other is a doll who also has a tendency for raunchy humor — and also…