Three fan-favorite Batman movies are being re-released in theaters next week in celebration of Batman Day.
Warner Bros. has announced some big plans for Batman Day next week, one of which includes a whole weekend of Batman films in theaters. The studio will be re-releasing Tim Burton's Batman, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and The LEGO Batman Movie at participating AMC, Cinemark, and Regal theaters. However, feel free to check other chains as well; I also found a few smaller theaters playing some of these films.
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The rollout will begin on Friday, September 18, with one movie playing each night throughout the weekend. According to listings, Batman will play on September 18, Mask of the Phantasm will screen on September 19, and The LEGO Batman Movie will be shown on September 20. In the past, theaters have shown Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy during this period, but that doesn't appear to be the case this year. Instead, TNT will be airing the trilogy on TV on September 19, and of course, they'll also be available to stream on HBO Max.
While most fans have likely seen Burton's Batman at some point in their lives, it's worth seeing big and loud in a movie theater, if given the opportunity. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is also well worth seeing in theaters, as it had a theatrical release back in the 90s, but not many people actually made it to the theater to check it out. It's arguably one of the best Batman films out there, and if you haven't seen it at all, there's no better way to experience it than on the big screen.
In related news, Batman's next big-screen adventure is still a ways off. The Batman Part 2 starring Robert Pattinson is officially filming throughout the rest of the year and will hit theaters in February 2027, after years of production delays. The film's plot and villains are being kept under wraps, but Sebastian Stan is heavily rumored and speculated to play Harvey Dent/Two Face.
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives returns for Season Five on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 3 a.m. ET on Hulu. The new season features Taylor Frankie Paul, Jen Affleck, Jessi Draper, Layla Taylor, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Matthews, Miranda Hope, and Whitney Leavitt.
If you want to watch the franchise that racked up 650 million minutes streamed during Season 4 without paying, your best bet is a trial of Hulu + Live TV. While The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is a Hulu original, the standard plan won’t get you a free stream, so read on for the best ways to watch at no cost.
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Premiere date, time: Thursday, Sept. 10 at 3 a.m. ET
Produced by Jeff Jenkins, Season Five promises to showcase everything from “Taylor’s return from The Bachelorette” to “Whitney’s debut on Broadway in New York City,” according to a Hulu release. And, of course, there’s a whole lot of drama in between.
It’s important to note that filming for the fifth season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was briefly paused in March amid Frankie Paul’s assault allegations. She will appear in the season only “in a limited capacity.”
How to Watch The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season Five Online
Season Five of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is set to premiere on Hulu, but you won’t be able to watch it for free with the standard Hulu plan. If you don’t want to pay, you’ll need to opt for Hulu + Live TV, which offers three different plan options. All three come with a three-day free trial, which you can find below.
Hulu (With Ads) + Live TV, Disney+ (With Ads), and ESPN Select (With Ads): $89.99/month.
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In our experience, the best option is the $89.99-per-month plan. If you decide to keep Hulu + Live TV after the trial ends, you’ll get access to Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN Select.
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The latest weapon in the console wars is an Xbox-exclusive Call of Duty skin
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The console war has found a new battlefield, and this time it’s the latest Call of Duty entry. Xbox players are getting a special Modern Warfare 4 gun skin that PlayStation and PC players literally cannot see.
Activision just announced the “Inner Circuit” M4 blueprint as a bonus for anyone who digitally pre-orders Modern Warfare 4.
While everyone gets the same weapon blueprint with identical stats, Xbox players get a very different-looking version.
The Xbox-exclusive treatment celebrates the console’s 25th anniversary with a translucent green design inspired by the original Xbox, complete with Xbox branding on the magazine. On Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC, the same weapon instead has a more traditional mil-spec appearance.
The Xbox skin that PlayStation players can’t even see
A console-exclusive skin on its own isn't odd, but here's where things get weird: The Xbox version isn't visible to anyone playing on another platform.
If an Xbox player encounters someone on PC or PlayStation and pulls out their fancy translucent-green M4, those players will see the standard version of the weapon. The appearance is determined by the platform you're playing on, rather than being something players can toggle themselves.
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At least there's no competitive advantage. Activision says both versions have the exact same attachments and gameplay characteristics. The only difference is what the gun looks like. From the blog post, the Inner Circuit M4 has these attachments/stats:
11.5" Shortline Barrel — improves handling and mobility, at the cost of recoil control and effective range.
FTAC Dominion Muzzle — reduces vertical and horizontal recoil.
FSS Fireline Grip — steadies firing, but slows snap-to-aim.
SZ Prima-4 Dot Optic — slim dot sight with a clear sight picture.
ZLR ASP50 Stock — retractable stock designed to reduce weight and improve movement speed.
The over build focused on accuracy, handling, and mobility, particularly for close- and mid-range fights. The blog also says it can work as a mobile secondary option alongside a sniper loadout.
Platform-specific Call of Duty bonuses aren't new, but making a cosmetic that only Xbox players can actually see is a strange new twist.
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Playing Wardogs is a bit like playing Battlefield, except you have to buy every gun, magazine, helmet, and kevlar vest yourself. It's a milsim FPS that runs on a personal wallet—doing useful things for the team makes you money used to unlock permanent upgrades and temporary gear.
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Wardogs is designed in a way that lets you play any role you want and still be a profitable teammate. But especially early on, it can be tough to make enough cash to consistently fund unlocks, and the game doesn't spell out some of the most lucrative playstyles. Based on dozens of hours in closed beta tests, here are some early tips for making money fast in Wardogs.
Disclaimer
Bulkhead has stated the economy of the beta will change for the early access release, so some of these figures might change at launch. I'll be sure to update figures once we know them.
Spot, spot, spot with binoculars
The safest, simplest, and surprisingly efficient way to make money in Wardogs from minute one is to buy a $75 pair of binoculars. Binoculars (and its fancier variants) allow you to spot enemy soldiers, vehicles, and structures, temporarily marking them on the map and in-world for teammates.
On top of just doing a nice thing for your team, each successful spot (holding left-click over a visible target) earns you a small cash prize immediately, and when a teammate kills that target, you get an assist worth hundreds. The nice part of this strategy early on is you don't have to stick your neck out and risk your loadout before you understand the game: just perch up on a hill with a few of the Hot Zone or enemy FOBs, lay down, and be your team's eyes and ears.
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Build a FOB
Another extremely safe, profitable playstyle is to grab a hammer, buy a FOB module, and build a base for your team in a strategically useful location. The default FOB spot at the start of the match is the tower nearest to your spawn. Ask your heli pilot to load up with FOB supplies (or do this yourself), and head to a tower. Once you're there:
Place the FOB
Build it by holding LMB with your hammer (hitting the yellow X's makes it go faster)
Use FOB supplies to build a perimeter of walls, gates, and Hesco blocks
Every productive swing of a hammer earns cash ($15 in the beta), and completing a build can be worth more than getting a kill ($1,200 to $1,500).
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Revive others quickly and often
My favorite non-lethal way to make money while staying in the action is revives and heals. Reviving teammates is worth $900 (in the beta), and you can do it without buying any additional equipment. The problem is that the default revive speed is annoyingly slow, which is where resuscitators come in. The one-use revive items are cheap to buy in introductory levels, so if you want to become a human ambulance, you could:
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Buy the biggest backpack you can
Fill it with resuscitators and bandages
Follow teammates in the backline
Quickly revive anyone who goes down for $900
Get extra assist cash when they go on to get kills
Heal teammates with bandages for $200 a pop
That's what I did during beta weekends until I reached Medic level 11 and unlocked the defibrillator. Defibs are a larger investment at $1,600 (and $150 batteries), but they're the quickest way to revive teammates and each battery is good for five revives.
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Drive the spawn vehicle to the zone
This won't always be an option, as only one person can do the job at a time, but driving your team's spawn vehicle (the APC with a satellite dish on top) from HQ to the zone is a quick gig that pays royalties. You can drive the APC to a FOB, leave it there, and make money every time a teammate uses it.
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Be a taxi
The best way to get from spawn to the zone in Wardogs is the spawn APC. When that's not an option, everyone needs a taxi. The cheapest way to earn cash as a virtual uber is to practice flying a helicopter in the firing range, then ferry people back and forth to the zone. Not only do you get direct cash for dropping people off in the zone, but nice people will give you tips, and you'll also get assist cash if they go on to get kills.
You have to be in the mood to do this job well: Helicopters aren't cheap for a new player, and you have to be good enough at flying to not crash or get blasted out of the sky by an RPG. Plus, you're essentially ignoring the shooting part of this shooter, which won't appeal to everybody. The reward is a steady stream of money and happy teammates.
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Be a cheapskate
Not much to this one: Buy the cheapest guns, fill them with the cheapest ammo, paper-thin armor, and go get a kill. It's not the most exciting playstyle, but it can be if you treat it like a free loadout in an extraction shooter. Get a kill, loot that enemy corpse, and steal all of their better gear. Saving money while making money.
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Play the Hot Zone
If you hadn't already noticed, you passively earn money for simply standing in the Hot Zone—hundreds of dollars by the minute, actually. You don't even have to shoot anyone, but you will earn extra for killing and assisting in the Hot Zone. If you want to get in the action, there's no better place to be.
Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though. %!s()
As the UK unveiled sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israel responded with fury, declaring it would shutter Britain's diplomatic mission to the Palestinians, kick out UK military staff from an international coordination base near Gaza and ban nearly a dozen left-wing British members of parliament from entering Israel.
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It was a blaring signal of defiance and a remarkable diplomatic escalation.
The UK had taken the action arguing it had a moral imperative to stop the "destruction" of the two-state solution - a future independent Palestinian state - at the hands of the Israeli government. It accused Israel's government of turning a blind eye to the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians by settlers.
The standoff, which by the afternoon extended to a further 11 mostly European countries set to join the settlement trade ban, raised a crucial question: When Israel becomes isolated, the US as its superpower backer often steps in to provide a diplomatic shield. Was the US, too, going to condemn Britain's policy?
Such a reprimand had been previewed by some observers. It felt even more likely when the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, appeared on the BBC before the UK announcement suggesting American "sanctions, repercussions or retaliations" could be coming for Britain, albeit that he didn't know what these were and hadn't spoken to President Trump.
But as Tuesday wore on, Washington's response was notably muted.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, asked about the UK move by reporters on the way to Colombia, said: "Obviously, we're not going to do what the UK did. We saw their announcement today but I don't have any comment on it right now."
He added that Britain had notified the administration ahead of time (most likely during a phone call Trump had with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday) and said the US shared "the goal of stability" at a tense time in the region and didn't "want to see some uptick in violence… in the West Bank".
It was hardly a withering rebuke of the British move, let alone any kind of punishment. In fact, Washington seemed to be sharing some of the concerns that motivated the move.
Asked about it on Wednesday, Trump said he would be speaking to Israel to understand their thinking, adding: "I understand exactly what's going on, but I want to find out why all of a sudden has that happened."
My understanding is that discussions about the US response were taking place at a high level within the administration on Tuesday. The baseline position appeared to be against any moves that could negatively impact American companies.
Huckabee, who has longstanding views based on biblical justifications for Jewish settlement in the West Bank, appeared to be speaking off the cuff in some of his public remarks - a feature now common for some Trump-appointed ambassadors.
Staunchly pro-Israel Republicans in Congress were very publicly arguing for actions against Britain; pointing out that US states like Florida have punitive laws against companies that boycott Israel. But from the White House and State Department, more targeted criticism of the UK did not materialise.
It is still possible the administration will come out with some condemnation of the British move in the coming days. But the lack of any urgent pushback is likely to reflect current frustrations within the Trump administration at the Israeli leadership.
Trump's biggest foreign policy priority currently is trying to prevent the crisis worsening in the Strait of Hormuz, now the focal point of his stalemated war with Iran. His joint attack with the Israelis has left numerous friction points in his complex relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At critical moments when Trump tried to reach a deal with Tehran, Netanyahu escalated fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel has said it was acting against threats to security, but the moves had the potential to derail US diplomacy.
Meanwhile, Trump wants progress on his Gaza peace initiative, involving disarmament of Hamas and Israeli military withdrawal. Netanyahu has publicly rejected the plan in its current formulation.
Officially, the State Department referred me to Rubio's comments in Miami in relation to the UK announcement. But all told, Trump appears unwilling to come out to bat for Netanyahu currently.
This has extended to him so far not endorsing Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli election. The administration, aware of splits within Trump's base of support on Israel, has also itself grown irritated at the extent of settler violence in the West Bank, given the lack of action by the Israeli government to meaningfully punish it. This is embarrassing for the White House.
West Bank violence against Palestinians is frequently the subject of protests from Trump's Gulf Arab allies - the countries mediating on Gaza, who Trump needs to pressure Hamas. They wonder how the US can draw concessions from the Israelis in relation to this if it can't on settler violence in the West Bank.
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