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At the beginning of last year, it was impossible to predict just how much the moviegoing experience would change over the following months as theaters across the globe closed, many films shifted to a streaming-only release strategy, and blockbusters got punted to a year or two later in the wake of the pandemic.

The Best Movies of 2021 (So Far), Ranked

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Find the best spots daily to eat and drink in hipster neighborhoods. Hit the roof, drink a beer and eat delicious at top-tier restaurants. Plan your nightlife adventure with maps and reviews of unknown micro-brews, rooftop parties, and independent drink.

Best Restaurants & Bars - Places to Eat & Drink - Thrillist

Like denim jackets and air, apples are everywhere in autumn (and also year-round, but you get it).

Apples, Ranked

Toho

This year has already given us plenty of exciting new anime to work with, like the genre-upending Wonder Egg Priority, the incredible and absurd Sk∞ (aka Skate the Infinity), and the back half of Season 1 of everyone's new anti-shonen favorite Jujutsu Kaisen.

Anime We Can't Wait to See in 2021

Bleecker Street

In 1989, the United States Navy's underwater sonar surveillance system SOSUS, built in the 1950s and used to pinpoint Soviet submarines during the Cold War, picked up a highly unusual sound off the coast at 52 Hertz, a pitch or two higher than the lowest note on a tuba.

'The Loneliest Whale' Might Actually Not Be So Lonely, According to a New Documentary

Netflix

We're still in this interminable pandemic but that hasn't stopped the pipes that provide us with content from spewing out its usual mix of liquid honey and total sludge.

The Best TV Shows of 2021 (So Far)

At long last, Netflix has finally given us I Think You Should Leave Season 2, a second batch of brilliant sketch comedy starring Tim Robinson.

The 12 Funniest Sketches From 'I Think You Should Leave' Season 2

Adult Swim

Since the concept's introduction in Season 3, it's been the debate ricocheting around the Rick and Morty-verse: Is the Beth at home with her family the real Beth, or is she a clone, the "real Beth" traipsing across the multiverse with a half-shaved head getting into intergalactic adventures?

'Rick and Morty' Just Made the Whole Clone Beth Thing a Lot More Complicated

Ufotable

When an anime movie, seemingly out of nowhere, dethrones Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away and freakin' Titanic as the biggest box office success of all time in Japan in just six weeks—during a pandemic, no less—it's probably time to pay attention to that anime movie.

'Demon Slayer' Will Quickly Become Your New Favorite Anime

There's nothing quite like a good heist story, with their thrills of the hero(es) outmaneuvering their enemies up to the last possible second and gratifying sense of justice in seeing the bad guys in power get what's theirs when the rug is pulled out from under them.

13 Things 'Lupin' Fans Should Stream, Read, and Do After Watching Part 2

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We ask you, once again, to consider the Beach Read: What is it?

24 Books We Can't Wait to Take to the Beach This Summer

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There is life before Shrek, and there is life after Shrek.

What Animation Hell Hath 'Shrek' Wrought?

Warner Bros.

From the icy warehouse and frozen bullets in the opening seconds of the trailer for the new Mortal Kombat, it was clear that one of the franchise's most famous characters was getting a big upgrade from the 1995 film.