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24-05-2025
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Bury venue featured on TV named as UK's top arcade
Europe's biggest free play arcade, nested away in a converted Bury mill, has been named as the UK's best ahead of the bank holiday weekend. New research has revealed the best arcades and Arcade Club on Cork Street has been ranked as number one. The retro club began as a passion project by owner Andy Palmer, who started off with just 30 machines, and soon expanded to open up other venues across the North West. The Arcade Club Leeds and Blackpool locations, also owned by Andy, came in the top five too, making it a clean sweep for the business. Leeds ranked second while Blackpool came in fifth. VegasSlotsOnline combined Google reviews, the average time people spent at each venue, online search volume and other factors to rate arcades across the UK. Get the latest news delivered straight to your inbox by signing up to the Bury Times morning newsletter as well as our breaking news alerts. It found that people spend an average of four hours at Arcade Club Bury, which has an impressive Google review score of 4.8 out of 5. One review said: 'Amazing experience. Spent 7 hours in here and it didn't feel like a long time. Food very reasonably priced. 'Bars limited selection but everything you need again just normal pub prices. You can leave and enter as many times as you need within your timed hours. 'The cloakroom is free to use just ask as you arrive. Floors themed with types of games. Toilets on every floor. Something for everyone and suitable for all ages.' Another shared: 'An amazing nerd haven, I was awestruck by the options. One time fee entry and all games are free to play it has a bar with decent food. 'We were in our element playing loads of games. I managed to complete the entirety of house of the dead. 'Great night out. Definitely going again.' READ MORE: Bury Comic Con set to return with special guests lined up READ MORE: Teenager at centre of Bury murder investigation named The Bury arcade celebrated its 10th anniversary last year and has gone from has gone from strength to strength ever since, expanding from one to four floors of popular modern and retro gaming, alongside rare imports and cult classics. Visitors pay a one-off entry fee of £10 per child or £18 per adult and all games are free to play. The family-friendly venue featured in the Netflix thriller, Fool Me Once, and has supplied props to major productions such as Ready Player One, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Black Mirror. A spokesperson for Arcade Club said: 'We were thrilled to be named the best arcade in the UK. 'With Leeds ranked number two and Blackpool also in the top five, we're incredibly proud of what the whole team has built. 'We go the extra mile because it's the right thing to do. No shortcuts, just a relentless focus on creating something genuinely special. 'From day one, it's always been about giving visitors an unparalleled experience and real value for money. 'In tough times for hospitality, we never take it for granted when people choose to spend their time with us.'
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Netflix review: So much here to love, so hard to accept the non-stop price hikes
Show of hands: Who remembers when Netflix was a DVD-by-mail service? (If you said, "What's a DVD?", I officially hate you.) Has any other company pulled off such a dramatic — and successful — transformation of its business model? Today's Netflix is synonymous with streaming, with the largest subscriber base of any service and some of the most notable original shows of the 2010's and 2020's. However, it's also synonymous with price increases, with Standard and Premium plans rising eight times in the past 12 years. And in 2023, the company infamously banned password-sharing, meaning family members outside your home could no longer share your account — unless you paid an added fee. How's that for treating loyal customers? A more realistic question: Is Netflix worth it? With plans as high as $25 per month and fewer breakout shows than in the early days, the service may seem more like a luxury than a necessity. So what's the story? Here's my Netflix review. Related: The best streaming services for TV, movies, sports and more in 2025, tested and reviewed The best live-TV streaming services for 2025 Hulu review: The single best value in streaming services, especially if you bundle Like cable TV before it, streaming was supposed to save us from commercials. But here we are, with Netflix, Max, Hulu and most other services now charging extra if you want ad-free viewing. If you don't, Netflix Basic with Ads costs a very reasonable $7.99 per month. It's the big jump to the first ad-free tier, Standard, that feels egregious: $17.99 per month, a 125% spike. And then there's Premium at a jaw-dropping $24.99. Unfortunately, you can't get a price break by prepaying annually, and if you want to share your account with someone not at your address — a kid away at college, for example — it's $6.99 extra with ads or $8.99 extra without. There's also an unexpected gotcha with the Basic plan: It includes only "most movies and TV shows." In other words, some content will be locked out. According to What's on Netflix, the missing programming comprises only about 2% of the library, but that includes notables like House of Cards (Netflix's first breakout hit, ironically), Peaky Blinders, It Ends with Us and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. It's also worth noting that if you want 4K streaming, you'll need the Premium plan; the other two tiers top out at 1080p. Check out Netflix's plans and pricing page to learn more about what's included (or not) in each plan. Here's one unusual benefit to being a Netflix subscriber: mobile games. At any tier (including Basic), you get full access to around 80 premium ad-free games, most of them available for both Android and iOS phones and tablets. (Some can be played on PC as well, and about a dozen work on Roku devices, with your phone serving as the controller.) It's a pretty impressive roster across all the major categories: action, strategy, puzzle, arcade and so on. A few examples: Monument Valley 3, Civilization VI, Exploding Kittens and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. To get them, just look for the Mobile Games row in the Netflix app on your device. This is a rather odd perk, one unmatched by any other streaming service (though technically Amazon does offer free PC games to Prime subscribers, who also get Prime Video). If you're into mobile games, there's a lot to enjoy — but I suspect I'm not alone in thinking I'd gladly trade them for lower subscription prices. Where to start? Netflix is arguably most famous for its original shows, starting with massive hits like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, leading to the buzzworthy likes of Stranger Things, Black Mirror and Bridgerton, and more recently followed by The Diplomat, A Man on the Inside and plenty more. That's a remarkable pedigree, but am I alone in thinking the service hasn't had a real juggernaut, a real breakout hit, in a while? I mention that only because many people will likely subscribe for only a month or two at a time (owing to the price), the better to get caught up on hot new shows — but my impression is there are fewer of them now than in the past. That said, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out some personal favorites that are available only on Netflix: Atypical, Beef, BoJack Horseman, Dead to Me, Derry Girls, Fisk, Kim's Convenience, Murderville, The Kominsky Method and Travelers. OK, I did not set out to make a list that long, but it also reinforces my point: The majority of those shows are at least a few years old. Very little from 2024 or 2025 has made my must-watch list. Of course, a lot of this comes down to personal preference. You might be rabidly in love with new shows like Adolescence and The Residence. To each their own. And of course Netflix is home to much more than just originals: There's a rotating selection of movies and TV shows across all genres. Just don't expect a lot of classics; at this writing, the oldest movie here is 1973's The Sting. If you're into stand-up comedy, Netflix offers plenty, having hosted two Netflix is a Joke festivals, and it's currently home to dozens of comedians' stand-up specials. However, you won't find any live channels, though the service has been dipping toes into live content: talk show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, for example, and the recent Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast. As for sports, for now it's limited to WWE Raw, which airs weekly on Mondays, as well as a slate of Christmas Day NFL games. But the infamous Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight was a bona fide blockbuster, and the service has signed the upcoming Women's World Cup, too. In other words, expect more live content on Netflix going forward, not less. All told, it's impossible to declare Netflix has "better" content than, say, Max or Paramount+. It's up to you to decide whether you like what's on the menu. And speaking of menus... As with other streaming services I've reviewed recently (see full list at the bottom), I tested both the Google TV and Roku versions of the Netflix app. They're nearly identical, starting with your sign-in options, which include a QR code you can scan with your phone. Very quick, very easy, especially if you have the Netflix mobile app installed. A couple taps and you're in. Both apps also have the traditional left-side menu with options like Home, Search, Movies, Categories and My List. Roku adds as a Games option here as well; as noted above, a smattering of Netflix's mobile games can be played on your TV. For now, however, Google users are out of luck. For the most part I find the Netflix interface visually appealing and easy to navigate. The upper half shows details about whatever you've selected in rows in the lower half — no need to "click through" to get a description of the movie or TV show. And the cursor always stays in the same spot instead of moving across the row; the title cards are what scroll horizontally. (Sorry if that's confusing; just trust me when I say it makes navigation a lot more intuitive.) That said, one thing that has long annoyed me about Netflix's Home menu: It seems like the My List row often relocates itself. Sometimes it's the third one down, sometimes it's 26 rows down (or somewhere in between). I realize I can access My List directly via the side menu, but I typically navigate via Home and just wish it was consistent. This is true of the Continue Watching row as well, and on occasion I've noticed that that one has disappeared altogether (only to return the next time I open the app). I like the Netflix screensaver (which kicks in after five minutes of inactivity) that's basically a slideshow of other available content — though it would be nice if it included a "watch now" or "add to my list" button so you could easily check out something that looks interesting. It's weird that there's no Settings menu. If you want to disable, for example, the annoying auto-play feature that shows previews while you browse, you have to do it in a web browser. Same goes for accessing parental controls. And if you decide you don't like that screensaver, the only way to turn it off is via a very obscure setting ("Test participation") buried in the Security menu. Want to log out of your account? Again, with no Settings menu, there's no obvious way to do so. You have to visit the Get Help menu, which I find confusing; I'm not looking for help, I'm looking to sign out. (Weirdly, this lengthy menu of mostly informational items does contain one actual setting: an on/off toggle for HDR.) Finally, Netflix's search function works very quickly, displaying results dynamically as you click letters, but it doesn't indicate what you can actually search for. Just movie and TV titles? Actors as well? Genres? Turns out it supports all those parameters and more, including languages and things like "Atmos" (as in Dolby) and "UHD" (Ultra High-Def). But how would you know that? When I typed in "Tom," with the intention of looking up Tom Cruise movies, I saw no matching results in the title cards on the right. But in the text matches that appeared below the search keyboard, there were numerous "Tom" options: Cruise, Hardy, Hanks, etc. That made it easy to select the one I wanted without having to type further. (For the record, Netflix currently has not a single Cruise movie — but there are several for Hardy and Hanks fans.) I will make that argument that Netflix has lost a bit of luster over the years, in part due to increased competition and in part because the blockbuster well seems a bit dry. There's also the matter of seemingly endless price increases, which make the service harder and harder to afford (unless you're willing to sit through commercials). On the other hand, Netflix has a ton of content — most of it good, some of it great. Will I forgive it for cancelling The OA and Travelers after just two and three seasons, respectively? No. Am I excited for the returns of Stranger Things and The Diplomat? Absolutely. As with so many streaming services, this one really depends on what you like to watch. And there's no shame in subscribing in binge-spurts, which is how I'm doing it these days. (I might reconsider if there was an annual discount. Anyone there listening, Netflix?)
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Everything We Know About The ‘We Were Liars' Show So Far
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Prime Video's next YA book-based TV show with a big audience and set at the beach will likely be We Were Liars, based on the book by E. Lockhart. The rights to the best-selling novel were optioned in 2022 by Julie Plec's My So-Called Company and Universal Television. More from Deadline Read on for everything we know about the We Were Liars television series: When will We Were Liars come out? E. Lockhart posted on Instagram to expect the series in 2025, and just recently she revealed that the release date is June 18 on Prime Video. Entertainment Weekly also gave an exclusive first look at the series with photos of the liars themselves, their mothers and the whole Sinclair family. L-R: Candice King, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Mamie Gummer, Joseph Zada, Emily Alyn Lind and Shubham Maheshwari in 'We Were Liars Is We Were Liars in production? Yes! The series has wrapped production. Who will be in We Were Liars? Emily Alyn Lind (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor (Baby Girl) and Joseph Zada (Total Control), will play the titular four liars, or the main quartet of kids that take center stage in Lockhart's novel. Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence Sinclair in 'We Were Liars' Lind plays Cadence, the eldest Sinclair granddaughter of the family who has a fling one summer and fights a traumatic brain injury the next. Maheshwari will play Gat, a New York City kid who is thoughtful, smart and ambitious, but who feels he sticks out against the elite on the private island owned by the Sinclair family. McGregor plays Mirren, an artest who watches the world closely. Zada will play Johnny, the reckless, chaotic and charming ringleader of the four liars' trouble-making. Zada was recently cast as Haymitch Abernathy in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a prequel story that focuses on Katniss and Peeta's mentor (portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the quartet of films that starred Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson). Emily Alyn Lind, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada and Shubham Maheshwari in 'We Were Liars Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession) and Candice King (The Vampire Diaries) will also play leads — the three Sinclair sisters. The Vampire Diaries creator Julie Plec spoke to Deadline about reuniting with Candice King on the project. 'Carina [Adly Mackenzie] and I, from almost day one, were writing Bess in Candice's voice…but we thought she was too young, and we didn't think we'd be able to get her hired. Then we realized that we didn't care,' she told Deadline, laughing. :Candice has a very grown up, mom soul, in addition to being this young, vibrant woman. We knew she could do it, and we just decided to put her forward and hope for the best and keep our fingers crossed and prepared to go into battle for her. And then nobody said no. Everyone just thought it was a great idea. All of our anxieties were for not.' 'And honestly, if Caroline Forbes is the part she was born to play, Bess Sinclair is the part that she's meant to play next. They're the same person, just separated by two generations and some children.' RELATED: 'We Were Liars': Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald & Candice King To Star In Amazon Series Based On Book Caitlin Fitzgerald, Candice King and Mamie Gummer in 'We Were Liars' Gummer will play Carrie Sinclair, eldest daughter of wealthy media mogul and patriarch Harris Sinclair (David Morse). Her parents own Beechwood Island, where the family vacations every summer. She has two sons, but the upcoming summer may challenge her sobriety. FitzGerald will play Penny Sinclair, who breeds golden retrievers and is in the midst of a messy divorce. King plays Bess Sinclair, the youngest daughter of the Sinclairs. She has three children, and her meticulousness and organization know no bounds. Rahul Kohli (The Fall of the House of Usher), replaced Arsher Ali in the series-regular role of Ed, partner of Carrie. L-R: David Morse and Rahul Kohli in 'We Were Liars' Wendy Crewson (Tracker, Gray) is set for a heavily recurring role. Who else is behind We Were Liars? The series is written and executive produced by Plec and MacKenzie, with the former writing the first episode and the latter writing the second. Executive producers also include Emily Cummins for My So-Called Company and the novel's author, Lockhart. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amazon MGM Studios are the studios. Nzingha Stewart directed the pilot episode. RELATED: 'We Were Liars' Series Adaptation In The Works At Amazon From Julie Plec, Carina Adly MacKenzie & Universal TV The show was given a series order by Prime Video in March 2023. What is We Were Liars about? Set on the Sinclair family's privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts, the story explores the lives of the perfect-on-the-surface Sinclair family, who have secrets among them. The three Sinclair daughters and their children spend every summer on Beechwood Island. Something happens to Cadence at 15 years old one summer, and her the other three liars prompt her to remember the full story two years later. How will Lockhart's prequel book Family of Liars fit into all of this? Plec will also adapt the prequel book, which tells the secretive story of a different Sinclair generation. David Morse as Harris Sinclair in 'We Were Liars' In an interview with Deadline, Plec hinted that there are already hopes for a Season 2 of the series, which may feature more of the plot of Family of Liars as she says it would focus on the mothers' lives. I think fans of the book are going to be very, very happy, because I think we hit all the marks and all the beats that the book does, and then also expand the universe,' she said. 'Layers upon layers upon layers to really make the adult characters really nuanced and really multi layered, and to set the stage for Season 2, which theoretically is going to take us deeper into the moms' lives as well and add another generation to the story.' RELATED: Julie Plec Reflects On 15 Years Of 'The Vampire Diaries' & Teases Upcoming YA Mystery Series 'We Were Liars' Is there a trailer for We Were Liars? Yes, Prime Video released a teaser trailer at the beginning of May. Best of Deadline Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Finn Wolfhard learnt so much from Willem Dafoe in The Legend of Ochi
Finn Wolfhard learnt a lot from working with Willem Dafoe in 'The Legend of Ochi'. The 'Stranger Things' actor stars alongside the Hollywood titan in the new fantasy movie and was grateful for the chance to acquire acting knowledge from the 'Nosferatu' star. Speaking to People, Finn said: "I had a lot of great conversations with him, and I asked him about what it was like as a theatre actor in New York in the '70s and '80s. It was really cool to pick his brain about that stuff." The 22-year-old star continued: "I really got to watch him, and through watching him, I feel like I learned a lot about acting and the craft of acting. He's just always been someone who I think is just in it for the art of it." Finn also explained how Dafoe's distinctive tones stood out as the pair worked together on the flick. He said: "Whenever I would hear his voice, I'd be like, 'Oh, my God! He's real.' "He's in every movie of all time, and his voice is so iconic, and his acting is so legendary." However, Finn admits that he found it hard to disassociate Dafoe from his portrayal of Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the 2002 movie 'Spider-Man'. The 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' star recalled: "For the first few days, it was hard not to see Norman Osborn." Finn was only 13 when he found fame through his portrayal of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series 'Stranger Things' and admitted recently that he would take better care of his mental health if he had the chance to go through the experience again. He said: "I don't think I'd ever go back and do something over, but maybe I would go back to when the first show came out and blew up, and I would directly put myself into therapy. "But it was so crazy and overnight, that there was not really any time to think about that." However, the star acknowledged that making errors is simply a part of growing up. He explained: "I would end up probably making a mistake in a different way anyways. I think childhood, and life in general, is about trial and error."
Perth Now
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Finn Wolfhard learnt so much from Willem Dafoe in The Legend of Ochi
Finn Wolfhard learnt a lot from working with Willem Dafoe in 'The Legend of Ochi'. The 'Stranger Things' actor stars alongside the Hollywood titan in the new fantasy movie and was grateful for the chance to acquire acting knowledge from the 'Nosferatu' star. Speaking to People, Finn said: "I had a lot of great conversations with him, and I asked him about what it was like as a theatre actor in New York in the '70s and '80s. It was really cool to pick his brain about that stuff." The 22-year-old star continued: "I really got to watch him, and through watching him, I feel like I learned a lot about acting and the craft of acting. He's just always been someone who I think is just in it for the art of it." Finn also explained how Dafoe's distinctive tones stood out as the pair worked together on the flick. He said: "Whenever I would hear his voice, I'd be like, 'Oh, my God! He's real.' "He's in every movie of all time, and his voice is so iconic, and his acting is so legendary." However, Finn admits that he found it hard to disassociate Dafoe from his portrayal of Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the 2002 movie 'Spider-Man'. The 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' star recalled: "For the first few days, it was hard not to see Norman Osborn." Finn was only 13 when he found fame through his portrayal of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series 'Stranger Things' and admitted recently that he would take better care of his mental health if he had the chance to go through the experience again. He said: "I don't think I'd ever go back and do something over, but maybe I would go back to when the first show came out and blew up, and I would directly put myself into therapy. "But it was so crazy and overnight, that there was not really any time to think about that." However, the star acknowledged that making errors is simply a part of growing up. He explained: "I would end up probably making a mistake in a different way anyways. I think childhood, and life in general, is about trial and error."
