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The wait for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey has been lengthy. The film was announced nearly two years ago; tickets went on sale a full year in advance. And, if you’ve been waiting for any major film adaptation of Homer’s epic poem — Nolan’s or otherwise … well, you’ve been waiting since the dawn of cinema. While various Italian producers have taken a stab at The Odyssey, Nolan’s is the first Hollywood treatment of the tale.

The Sun’s ingress into Cancer opens your astrological year, and that moment provides the map from which everything that follows derives as your horoscope for 2026-2027. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, and the Moon is above all a planet of gathering – people drawn together in groups, for any purpose at all, by no particular agenda beyond proximity and warmth.

Pittsburgh’s most iconic cookie is trading the bakery case for a pickle jar thanks to Eat’n Park. The Eat’n Park Smiley Cookie, which celebrates its 40th birthday this year, is getting a temporary flavor remix in honor of Picklesburgh. The restaurant chain is introducing its first batch of Pickle Smiley Cookies — the traditional design as well as grinning face, with green, pickle-flavored icing — and will sell them at the weekend-long festival.

Disney went all-in on Moana after the 2016 film became a global hit, green-lighting a sequel — 2024’s Moana 2 — and thoroughly incorporating the character into its theme parks and merchandise. It’s still a bit of a surprise, however, has the Mouse House remade one of its own stories so quickly. Just 10 years after the original debuted, Moana returns to cinemas in live-action format. In fact, Moana has smashed the turnaround record; the next closest competitor, Mulan, waited 22 years.

At this point, why resist the new Minions & Monsters movie? Yes, the Minions — the oddly shapeless, distinctly shaded (they have their own custom shade of yellow) creatures originally featured in the Despicable Me series — have been memed, commercialized and overexposed to an impressive degree. Yet there’s enough gleeful, wordless slapstick charm to these little scamps that it’s much easier to try to enjoy their hijinks than find a reason to scoff.

At this point, why resist the new Minions & Monsters movie? Yes, the Minions — the oddly shapeless, distinctly shaded (they have their own custom shade of yellow) creatures originally featured in the Despicable Me series — have been memed, commercialized and overexposed to an impressive degree. Yet there’s enough gleeful, wordless slapstick charm to these little scamps that it’s much easier to try to enjoy their hijinks than find a reason to scoff.

Leo season arrives in full color. The Sun is high, fruit is at its peak, and the days feel made for display and celebration. There’s a richness to this part of summer, a sense that things are ripe and worth savoring. Leo leans into that. It doesn’t content itself to entertain – it elevates the word! Even a simple drink can become a moment, a gesture, a show of care delivered with unmistakable flair.

A year after James Gunn rebooted the DC Comics series with the enjoyable Superman, Kal-El’s cousin gets the spotlight. The Supergirl movie stars Milly Alcock as a similarly super, but with a different motivation, young Kryptonian whose heroic duty interrupts a solo vacation. Audiences met Supergirl — Kara Zor-El, officially — at the end of last year’s film, stumbling into the Fortress of Solitude after a bender to pick up her beloved pooch, Krypto.

With brightly colored decorations, picnics, yard games, swimming, friends and family, and a finale of fireworks, kids just might think the Fourth of July is the best kind of a birthday celebration. We’ve sourced some of our easy, perfect for the Fourth of July recipes to prove those kids right.

The July 29, 2026 Full Moon falls in Aquarius – a name that means, simply, “water-carrier”: aqua, water, with the suffix that focuses the word on the one carrying it. The water in this image pouring out, not still, and that is an image worth staying with for a moment in this month’s horoscope. A vessel that must be emptied to be useful. Fixed air, hot and moist: Aquarius is the most deliberate of the air signs, the one that has given its elemental nature intentional form.