In the past, literary and pop-culture-themed rooms have popped in hotels around the country — including designs that mimic Monica and Rachel's Friends apartment, an all-pink Barbie's Dream House room, a winter wonderland from Elf and a chocolate fantasy from Wonka.
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Sonal Dutt,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
In a series of high-pressure, high-temperature experiments designed to mimic the fiery beginnings of a young planet, scientists recreated the extreme environment where such worlds' molten rock and hydrogen gas interact.
That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.
The actress and producer is also setting out on directing her own feature film for the first time with a new movie titled A Tree Is Blue, which will costar Jessica Alba and Charli xcx.
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Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
Andrea Riseborough is also attached to costar in Ebenezer, though her role is being kept under wraps.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.
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