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Mark Zuckerberg gets to rehearse his answers. Frances Haugen has to decide whether to disclose what she knows. That imbalance gives Aaron Sorkin’s 'The Social Reckoning' its strongest dramatic idea: a corporation can prepare for accountability as a presentation problem, while an employee must make a decision with consequences. Sorkin, writing and directing, understands the obscenity of that arrangement.

The Christmas decorations in Michael Sleep’s living room have become a dreadful kind of fidelity. His girlfriend Clea disappeared on Christmas Eve seven years ago; keeping the room untouched preserves somewhere she could return to. In 'Small Prophets', waiting has acquired furniture, habits and an address. Creator, writer and director Mackenzie Crook gives this arrested life an extraordinary interruption, but the achievement is how much he makes the ordinary life matter.

• Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour | -DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS Starfleet’s rule against interfering with other societies is meant to prevent harm, but its hardest cases ask whether refusing help can cause harm too.

Corpse Bride makes gothic storytelling accessible by refusing to make its dead characters the main source of fear. The 2005 stop-motion film begins when nervous groom Victor Van Dort places a wedding ring on what he believes is a branch and inadvertently marries Emily, a dead woman. Its sharper unease lies with the living: a grey, status-conscious world where marriage is treated as a financial arrangement and people are trapped by manners, money and expectation.

Gumamina is a perfume side project co-founded by Marissa Zappas and Courtney Rafuse, the independent perfumer behind Universal Flowering. Launched in December 2023, it began with Odette and Odile, two fragrances inspired by Swan Lake’s white and black swans. It is a genuine collaboration between the two perfumers, separate from their individual work.

Graveyard Keeper 2 blueprints require a relevant Research Tree upgrade first, followed by the specific construction materials for that blueprint. Unlocking a technology is therefore separate from paying its material cost: a completed unlock does not itself build the workstation, upgrade or defensive structure. That makes early wood-processing builds relatively cheap, while later machinery has a much longer shopping list.

Stanley Welch's house party appears to have acquired a funding application, of all things. Apparently, he decided he wanted to write a musical following a different guest out of the door in each song, and asking 'important people' for money meant putting a little more on the form than "please?". He duly came up with an explanation, though he's since found another one. "At the time I thought it was a fun, simple idea and I was trusting my gut, which told me there was something in it," he says.

• Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour -DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS The two dates refer to one launch appearing on different local calendars. Published 7 Oct 2026 • 2:30 pm The Lowdown (everything wotcha need to know) +Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls' 6th and 7th August 2026 release dates refer to the same worldwide launch appearing on different local calendars, not a staggered rollout.

• Hype-THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST Upset-DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour -DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS Ron Grainer composed Doctor Who’s 1963 theme, while Delia Derbyshire created its extraordinary electronic realisation at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Danny McBride’s first response to David Gordon Green’s idea of reviving Halloween was “no way”. That resistance, rather than simple franchise enthusiasm, helped shape the 2018 film’s approach: it returned to John Carpenter’s 1978 original, discarded the intervening sequel continuity and built a new confrontation around Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. McBride, Green and Jeff Fradley wrote the film as a direct follow-up to Carpenter’s original, bringing Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie.