All eight episodes of Ted Season 2 debut on March 5 on Peacock.

As soon as Ted Season 2 starts you know you're on familiar ground, with phone sex lines and sperm-soiled tissues. The Bennett family might have had their emotional moments in the first season, but there's nothing like chronic masturbation to signal that the writers haven't gone entirely sentimental. The eight episodes whisk you through chronic teenage libido, marital shenanigans, fantasy roleplay, Bill Clinton, and the psychosexual terror of seeing little Ted running at top speed while sporting a bouncing, purple strap-on.

Max Burkholder, who plays John, is still the hormonal heart of the show. It's a rare actor who can play a teen boy who talks about jerking off constantly and is still ultimately loveable, but Burkholder has that superpower. Even when he's being at his most leg-humpingly horny, he's still ultimately a good guy. The character of Susan breaks out of her mom shell with Alanna Ubach delivering medium-rare middle-aged messiness without overdoing the cringe. Despite my best efforts, even Scott Grimes is winning me over with his portrayal of Matty Bennett, a man I would deliberately sprain an ankle to avoid seeing at a family wedding. I did and still do love Giorgia Whigham as Blaire Bennett, who continues to be the sarcastic voice of reason when one is required. Ted is Ted, and I should probably be worried about how normal a talking teddy bear seems to me now, but have you seen 2026 so far? Talking stuffed animals who smoke weed are the least of our worries.

Some of the jokes are starting to feel a bit repetitive, the novelty of a cute bear who cusses isn't quite what it once was after two movies and a season of a TV, and Ted is never one to miss out on the chance for a cheap laugh, but there are enough new story threads to pull you through any scenes that don't provoke a chuckle or two. I still enjoy a crass sex joke with the best of them, but I want to be surprised.

This season has range too, with single episodes swinging between light and heavy subject matter, juxtaposing a super-serious emotional moment with, say, Ted having a tube of Rolos shoved up his back alley. The first season didn't shy away from more difficult topics - the Christmas episode "Loud Night" was beautifully done - but this time around it feels like the writers had the comedic confidence to take on even weightier topics. The show might be based in the ’90s, but for better or worse a lot of the hot topics remain just as spicy today. It pays off too as the Bennetts feel more rounded, more like a real family, without it ever feeling like you've accidentally switched over to an after-school special.

On the lighter side, the absolute stand out is Episode 3, "Dungeons & Dealers." A loving poke at the world of Dungeons & Dragons, it sees the Bennett clan transported into a fantasy land as a mage, a fighter, a cleric, a thief and a bard. The segment takes its source material just seriously enough to be affectionate, but not strictly enough to feel like being stuck with your 15-year-old nephew who is compelled to give a lecture on the dual spellcasting controversy. It's got it all: taverns, riddles, a surprising use for urine. Burkholder is a genuine Dungeons & Dragons fan, as is episode writer Chelsea Davison, and it shows.

John is 18 years old in this series and graduates by the end, and it's hard to imagine the show being able to continue the careful balancing act between warm and fuzzy feelings and small and fuzzy bears who make jokes about jizz now that the kid isn’t really a kid and is out of school, facing the crushing but ultimately mundane routines of adulthood. That said, I'm absolutely ready to be proved wrong with a Season 3. The Bennetts have earned it.

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The Bride! is in theaters on March 6.

Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, committed her to celluloid in his campy 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Whale's follow-up latched onto a subplot of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, involving the Creature's demand for a female companion, and it became not just a commercial hit but an enduring commentary on gender and sexuality. 90 years later, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! brings her back to life through a contemporary feminist lens, paying homage to both the Depression-Era classic and Shelley's 1818 novel. Yet as much as the actor-turned-filmmaker reassembles this Gothic horror story with themes of consent, gender violence and female agency, her movie manifesto is garishly stitched together.

As with Bride of Frankenstein, the film uses Mary Shelley as a framing device and casts Jessie Buckley in the dual role of the British author and the eponymous monster just as actress Elsa Lanchester did before her. But where the Bride arrives towards the end of that film, here she takes centre stage, and Buckley proves a formidable force. In shadowy, black-and-white close-up, she first appears as Mary, looming over proceedings like a devilish, rage-filled spectre seeking to course-correct "the paucity of a stifled mind" by continuing her creation story through a female subject. It's pretty bold of Gyllenhaal to have a fictionalised Shelley ridicule her own work and her own mind, but I guess she wouldn't be the first filmmaker to play fast and loose with the legacy of a British female author.

The film's Mary takes brutal possession of Ida (Buckley), an American woman living a hedonistic life, drinking and cavorting with gangsters in a Chicago speakeasy of 1936. Buckley lurches schizophrenically between the competing female minds, raving in Mary's clipped English vernacular and throwing drunken accusations at a mob boss called Lupino (Zlatko Burić), which leads to her inevitable downfall.

In comes Christian Bale's Frank, the 100-year-old Frankenstein's Monster of legend, in search of female companionship to combat his loneliness. He meets Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening), a scientist based on Bride of Frankenstein's Dr. Pretorious, whose gender swap from antagonistic "Father of creation" to quirky "Mother of creation" is barely drawn out beyond the blunt humour in her questioning of Frank and his carnal intentions for his mate. Still, she's "mad" enough to accept his commission, and once Ida is reanimated, the plot becomes an erratic mash-up of Bonnie & Clyde, Joker: Folie à Deux and Poor Things.

The Bride and Frank have an oddball dynamic; she's the black cat to his golden retriever energy, which offers some comedic charm. Suffering from amnesia, she's sceptical of his claim to her, knocks glass receptacles from tables when she doesn't get her way, and gets frisky at a "deprivation" disco. All the while, he gazes on adoringly; ready to smash some skulls if any gents get overfamiliar – which they do. Attempted rape as a plot device feels pretty hackneyed at this point, but given the overarching themes, it's unsurprising, albeit tedious. It's the violent catalyst for the two monsters to go on the run, murdering (sometimes accidentally) their way from the Midwest to the East Coast and back as a litany of subplots and side characters overwhelm the story.

The Bride's past relationship with crooked detective Jake Wiles (Peter Sarsgaard) is lazily shoe-horned in through late-stage exposition, while his more capable secretary and wannabe detective Myrna Mallow (Penelope Cruz) becomes a "woman vs the patriarchal workforce" trope. As The Bride starts to remember snippets from her life, her incoherent ramblings suddenly make her the unwitting poster child for female liberation. Cue spinning newspaper headlines saying "GIRLS RRRIOT" and ladies rocking ink-splotted lips and wild hair as they start pelvic-thrusting on car bonnets. It's a somewhat juvenile distraction from the emotional core of this story about a woman defining her identity on her own terms.

Frank's almost homoerotic affection for his favourite movie star, Ronnie Reed (Jake Gyllenhaal), fuels the monster's misguided romanticised ideals, but the script falls short of delving any deeper into the queer themes laced into the very Frankenstein films The Bride! takes major inspiration from.

Gyllenhaal clearly has an affection for that cinematic age and uses her modern lens to explicitly show scenes of sex, desire, violence and gore that would've never made it past the Hays Code censors back in the day. She also heightens the monstrous romance with a few manic dance sequences and hallucinatory movie scenes set against Karen Murphy's captivating steampunk Depression-era sets, with Sandy Powell's rebellious costuming marrying punk rock with classic ’30s styling. It's a gritty yet grandiose world, with impressively monstrous hair and make-up design, but the choreography and cinematography don't quite capture the swing time magic the film references, and coupled with the score, things hit more of an awkward rock-opera note than truly raging against the patriarchal machine.

The Bride! is guilty of overindulging in feminist buzzwords and girl power imagery; it even has Buckley's Bride jarringly screaming "Me too! Me too!" in the final act. But it never lives up to the radical display of female autonomy it promised. And therein lies the real tragedy.

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For the first time in years, Apple has introduced a new MacBook in its laptop lineup. It’s the MacBook Neo, a colorful, lower-power computer that runs on the A18 Pro chip. It’s the cheapest MacBook on the market, with a starting price of $599. Apple is pitching it to students and people who mostly use their computers for non-demanding tasks like email, web browsing, and media streaming. MacBook Neo is available for preorder now starting at $599 (see it at Amazon) with four different color options. It ships starting March 11.

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In lieu of a polished livestream of a heavily produced, pre-recorded announcement of new stuff, Apple spread out a series of announcements across three days of press releases that culminated in small, invite-only events in a few different cities this week. The biggest news from all of that: The company rolled out its first new Mac laptop product line for the first time since 2015’s plain MacBook. The MacBook Neo is a $599 laptop that comes in multiple vibrant colors and is powered by the chipset of the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. It’s also one of the cheapest machines the company has ever released and it’s landed with impeccable timing, given the supply chain that feeds all of our tech is being gobbled up to feed the great AI beast.

We’ll get into the Neo, but that’s not everything Apple announced this week. We also saw new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, the iPhone 17e, an M4-equipped iPad Air, and two new displays from the Cupertino Crusher. (I’m sorry, that’s a terrible nickname.) You won’t find a powerful new gaming laptop here, nor will the MacBook Neo make our list of budget gaming laptops, although that’s not necessarily for lack of oomph. The new MacBook Pros will be plenty powerful; it’s just that the industry, broadly, still doesn’t make games for Macs.

Lanterns is one of the big shows that will be part of the first phase of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DCU (which is officially called Gods and Monsters: Chapter One), and it’s being described as a detective drama that’s inspired by shows like True Detective and Slow Horses. That much is plainly apparent in the recently released Lanterns teaser trailer.

The series, which stars Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart, is slated to debut on HBO Max in August 2026. We may still have a few months to wait, but we are starting to learn a lot more about the series and who else will be part of the show.

Let’s break down all the main cast and characters you need to know about so you’ll be ready for this adventure filled with Green Lanterns and more.

Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan

According to HBO, Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Godzilla vs. Kong) will take on the role of the “Lantern legend” known as Hal Jordan. He will work alongside John Stewart as an intergalactic cop, and the pair will be drawn into a “dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.”

The teaser trailer establishes Hal as a very gruff mentor to John, one who's unafraid to throw his young charge in the line of fire if it means he'll learn on the job. Hal also seems to have no trouble playing the bad cop, as evidenced by him roughing up a suspect in interrogation and pulling out his ring.

We also catch a glimpse of Hal's rugged Green Lantern uniform in the trailer, one quite a bit different from the CG costume of the 2011 movie:

Hal Jordan was created by John Broome and Gil Kane and first appeared in Showcase #22 in October 1959.

Aaron Pierre as John Stewart

Aaron Pierre (Mufasa, Rebel Ridge) is John Stewart, a new recruit of the intergalactic cops known as the Lanterns. Stewart will team up with Chandler’s Hal Jordan in an effort to solve a murder that happened on Earth.

As the trailer reveals, John is still very much a rookie, having only been training under Hal for a couple of months. Hal tells his new partner, "Don't get hung up on the jewelry, junior. You're just a f****** substitute teacher. You aren't ready to get up in front of the class until the ring says you are." He then promptly throws himself out of their car, leaving John to literally fly or die. A dysfunctional relationship, to say the least.

We see John carrying his Lantern in one shot of the trailer, suggesting he will eventually have cause to use the new tools of his trade.

John Stewart was created by Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams and first appeared in Green Lantern #87 in December 1971.

Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner

After making his debut in James Gunn’s Superman and briefly appearing in Peacemaker Season 2, Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle) will return as Guy Gardner in Lanterns.

"He's a jerk,” Fillion said of his character to TV Guide. “What's important to know is, you don't have to be good to be a Green Lantern; you just have to be fearless. So Guy Gardner is fearless, and he is not very good. He's not nice, which is very freeing as an actor because you just think to yourself, what is the most selfish, self-serving thing I can do in this moment? And that's the answer.

"I think if he has a superpower, it might be his overconfidence, in that he thinks he could take on Superman. He can't!"

Guy Gardner has been around since 1968, as he was created by John Broome and Gil Kane and first appeared in comics in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #59.

Kelly MacDonald as Sheriff Kerry

Via Variety, Kelly MacDonald (Brave, No Country for Old Men) has joined the cast of Lanterns as Sheriff Kerry, a “non-nonsense woman deeply devoted to her family and close-knit town. Her resilience, shaped by a complex past that’s hardened her resolve, anchors her when the community’s secrets begin to surface.”

Kerry may be a love interest of Hal, but it's clear from the trailer that she has absolutely zero patience for Hal and John sticking their noses in the town's latest murder case.

Garret Dillahunt as William Macon

Via Deadline, Garret Dillahunt (12 Years a Slave, Raising Hope) is William Macon, who is described as a modern cowboy who is a “self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade.” Billy Macon is his son.

William Macon appears to be a new character created for Lanterns.

Poorna Jagannathan as Zoe

Poorna Jagannathan (The Night Of, Never Have I Ever) will be playing Zoe in Lanterns. She’s rumored to be the love interest of John Stewart.

Zoe appears to be a new character created for Lanterns.

Ulrich Thomsen as Sinestro

Actor Christian Bale, who played the lead in the 2000 American Psycho movie, was recently asked what he thought of the new American Psycho movie coming from Luca Guadagnino. "Whoever wants to give it a shot, give it a pop," Bale told The Hollywood Reporter at the premiere of his latest film The Bride in New York City. "I loved making it with Mary Harron so many years back. So many fantastic memories of it all. Bold choice of anyone to… I don't know if they're doing a remake or what... I don't know anything about it, but all the best to 'em. I like brave people."

Bale didn’t have any particular picks when asked as far as actors to play the iconic Patrick Bateman this time around, but it’s great to see him so open to another portrayal that might end up quite different from his own.

That said, casting has seemingly been a big undertaking for the project. When it was first announced in 2024, Austin Butler was set to star as Bateman — but a 2025 report claimed that The White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger was up for the role. But, as of this writing, no one has officially been attached to the part just yet. It doesn’t seem to be for a lack of trying, though.

"A couple of high-profile actors, whom I can't name, have turned it down," Bret Easton Ellis, author of the 1991 novel on which the film was based, revealed last month on his podcast. "I think maybe because they don't want to be in the shoes of Christian Bale." To be fair, that makes a lot of sense. Bale’s performance is the stuff of legend, and it will probably prove a bit difficult to find an actor ready and willing to do something wholly different with their Bateman — which appears to be Guadagnino’s strategy here.

"From what I’m told, this movie is completely different from Mary Harron’s 2000 movie,” Ellis also shared on the pod. “It's a completely different take, and going to bear no resemblance to that movie."

It’s certainly the move, doing something completely different with the source material versus rehashing the same old thing. Plus, the book and the movie do have a lot of differences between them, so there’s tons of opportunity there to play around. The only other person officially attached to the project besides Guadagnino is The Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote Steven Soderbergh’s 2013 film Side Effects, and it’ll be interesting to see where he goes with this reimagining of a perverted classic.

Before it became a movie that launched Christian Bale into stardom, American Psycho was a critically acclaimed, darkly comedic novel about the poisonous power of the American Dream. And in January, IGN exclusively debuted a new preview of The Folio Society's American Psycho set, featuring new looks at the box design, endpapers, frontispiece, and replica business card.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.

With the release of DC K.O. #5, DC's latest crossover event has come to a close. The winner of the high-stakes superhero martial arts tournament has been crowned, leaving only one final battle between the new King Omega and the almighty Darkseid. And when the dust settles, it quickly becomes clear that DC has an even bigger Darkseid story in the works.

What happens in the finale of DC K.O.? We're going to break down this last, epic battle and the immediate fallout, but beware of spoilers for DC K.O. #5 ahead!

King Omega vs. Darkseid

DC K.O. #4 not only featured the first encounter between the Justice League and their counterparts in the Absolute Universe, it also ended on a big twist, with Lex Luthor betraying Superman to win the fighting tournament. As the final issue opens, Luthor is crowned King Omega, and he's clearly enjoying all the power that comes with the title.

However, Luthor's triumph is short-lived. Time Trapper (the evolved, intelligent version of Doomsday) intervenes and gives Superman a second chance to be the hero his universe needs. In his more enlightened state, Time Trapper realizes that his primary purpose isn't to destroy Superman, but to save him. And so he empowers the Man of Steel with both destructive Omega Energy and its polar opposite, the creation-rich Alpha Energy. Superman immediately returns to the battlefield as the true King Omega.

The first official trailer has arrived for HBO's Lanterns ahead of its debut in August 2026, and it features a flying Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and a John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) who is in training and waiting for his turn to wield the iconic ring.

Lanterns appears to be taking a much more grounded approach in a world filled with superheroes, as we don't really see any powers take center stage besides a few teases at what this pair can do. Instead, we get a look at the fraught relationship between the old veteran and the up-and-comer who is waiting for his time to shine.

The trailer reveals Jordan and Stewart have been together for about two months now, and Stewart hasn't been able to wear the ring yet.

"Don't get hung up on the jewelry, junior," Jordan says. "You're just a f****** substitute teacher. You aren't ready to get up in front of the class until the ring says you are."

What follows next is Jordan jumping out of the car before it speeds off a cliff, and Stewart needing to find a way to survive, which he does off-screen.

We then get a glimpse of the wider mystery at hand, which involves a murder in the American Heartland. It also includes Sheriff Kerry (Kelly Macdonald), who doesn't like these two getting in her way.

The rest of the trailer is filled with tension between the teacher and his student, a glimpse of Jordan's old suit, and even a tease of the other Green Lanterns, who Jordan believes are all aliens. Oh, and one is a "f*****' squirrel," who is most likely Ch'p from the comics.

"The Green Lantern's oath is to protect people," Stewart says. "We both know I do a better job of this than you."

"This is my job," Jordan responds. "As long as I'm alive, that ain't changin'. So, take a deep breath, junior."

"You're old. You're tired," Stewart says. "And your time is up."

Lanterns will arrive after Supergirl, and it's another way the DCU is expanding in 2026 and introducing new characters. And yes, it will also include familiar faces as Nathan Fillion will return as Guy Gardner in the series.

Adam Bankhurst is a writer for IGN. You can follow him on X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and listen to his show, Talking Disney Magic.