• Kim Kardashian West said she believes President Donald Trump is changing his mind on his tough stance toward drug dealers.
• She pressed Trump at the White House two weeks ago to get him to commute the life sentence of 63-year-old Alice Johnson, who was convicted of non-violent drug crimes in the 1990s.
• Kardashian West said when she spoke with Trump about Johnson's case, she "saw compassion" from him.

Kim Kardashian West, who recently helped secure the freedom of 63-year-old Alice Johnson, said she believes President Donald Trump is starting to change his attitude toward non-violent drug offenders serving lengthy prison terms.

Last Wednesday, Trump commuted Johnson's life sentence, just one week after Kardashian West made a well-publicized trip to the White House to press Trump in person for the clemency.

"I hope maybe this inspires more people to talk to the people in power that you can have an effect over them for the greater good of other people," Kardashian West said in an interview alongside Johnson with NBC News' "Today" show.

Johnson's commutation was a remarkable about-face from Trump, who spent much of his 2016 campaign using tough-on-crime rhetoric. Trump even recently proposed executing drug dealers responsible for trafficking large quantities of drugs.

When asked about Trump's view on drug dealers, Kardashian West said Trump had displayed empathy when she spoke with him about Johnson's case.

"I think his mind is being changed already," she said. "To me, I saw compassion."

Johnson agreed with Kardashian West, and said she intends to keep working on the issue of criminal-justice reform and clemency for prisoners serving similar sentences.

"I can't stop. I can't stop," Johnson said. "I've lived it. I've walked with 'em. I have cried with 'em. My life is completely intertwined forever with those who were left behind. So it can't end here."

Watch a video of the interview below:

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• Chinese Netflix-competitor iQiyi has more than doubled its stock price since going public in the US in March. 
• The stock is wildly popular with millennial investors on the stock trading app Robinhood.
• Follow IQ's stock price in real-time here. 

Shares of iQiyi— the Baidu-owned video service widely seen as the Netflix of China — has more than doubled since its US initial public offering less than three months ago.

As its stock has skyrocketed from $18 at the IPO to $37 on Thursday, the streaming video service has become a darling for millennial investors on the stock trading app Robinhood, whose users skew markedly younger than that of traditional brokerages. The stock is now held by 31,302 Robinhood investors, the site’s data shows, making it the 30th most held stock. It first appeared in the top 100 in late May.

Ten-year-old iQiyi began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange in March after being spun off by the Chinese search giant Baidu. The offering raised $2.25 billion for the video service, which currently boasts 61 million subscribers. For comparison, Netflix has more than 100 million worldwide, but Chinese regulations have hindered its expansion in the country.

Its success in trading so far has led to optimism on Wall Street. Both Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse have positive ratings for the stock.

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These are the movies that you can never escape — and that’s not a bad thing.

They are the movies that you stop everything to watch, can get sucked into even if it’s halfway through, and know ever single line of.

These are the best rewatchable movies.

From Spielberg classics like “Jaws” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” to romantic comedies “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and “Hitch,” to classics like “The Godfather” and “Toy Story,” these are the titles that keep us in love with movies.

Here are the 29 most rewatchable movies of all time:

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“A Christmas Story” (1983)

Perhaps it’s because of the 24-hour marathon of the movie on TV every Christmas, but Bob Clark’s adaptation of the Jean Shepherd novel is a nostalgic look at the holidays and childhood that never gets old no matter how many times you watch it (even in one sitting during Christmas day).

“Back to the Future” (1985)

From the premise to the performances to the soundtrack, everything about Robert Zemeckis’ classic makes it a movie that you can never get tired of.

“Big” (1988)

The playfulness of Tom Hanks playing a teenager in an adult’s body is the essence of this movie and is a joy to watch even decades later.

• After it became clear that Fortnite players who owned a Nintendo Switch and a PlayStation 4 were only able to use their account on one of the platforms, players were not happy with Sony.
• The company issued a response, but they didn't directly address the Switch and it left many players unsatisfied.
• Sony still has not explained why they are blocking players from playing on the Switch. 

After facing a wave of backlash, Sony issued a response on Thursday to its controversial decision to bar Fortnite accounts on PlayStation from being used to play Fortnite on Nintendo Switch, a problem that Fortnite players on Xbox won't face if they want to play the game on the Switch.

Many players, however, feel Sony didn't adequately address the issue. 

The confusion began earlier this week, when Fortnite launched on the Nintend Switch and players who had their Epic Games account linked to their PlayStation quickly realized they were unable to play the game on their Nintendo Switch— and vice versa. 

When attempting to log on to the Switch version, players who faced the issue were greeted with this message:

"This Fortnite account is associated with a platform which does not allow it to operate on Switch," the message reads. "Neither the Fortnite website nor Epic Games Customer Service are able to change this. To play Fortnite on Switch, please create a new account."

In a statement to BBC, Sony provided a response that many felt dodged the heart of the issue. 

"We're always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience," a Sony spokesperson said. "With... more than 80 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, we've built a huge community of gamers who can play together on Fortnite and all online titles.

"We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for Fortnite fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms," the statement continued. "We have nothing further to add beyond this at this point."

After the statement began making the rounds online, many players took to social media to voice why they weren't satisfied with the response.

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• Funny or Die's parody talk show "Between Two Ferns" returned on Thursday after a nearly two-year absence. 
• Host Zach Galifianakis interviewed comedian Jerry Seinfeld and rapper Cardi B.
• Galifianakis treats Cardi B much better than Seinfeld in the episode, giving her a gift for her baby-on-the-way and making Seinfeld sit on a crate. 

After a nearly two-year absence, Funny or Die's "Between Two Ferns" returned on Thursday with guests Jerry Seinfeld and Cardi B. The last time we saw the Zach Galifianakis-hosted parody talk show was in September 2016, when Hillary Clinton was the guest during the presidential campaign. 

Galifianakis opens the episode with comedian Seinfeld, saying to someone off-camera, "I had president Hillary Clinton on last time, and now I have this guy." 

He then starts the interview off by mentioning "Seinfeld" actor Michael Richards' (Kramer) 2006 racist standup routine: "It's been a real launching pad for whites," Galifianakis quips about the "Seinfeld" show.

After Galifianakis pokes fun at Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and "Bee Movie," Seinfeld retorts by asking the host if "The Hangover," which Galifianakis starred in, would be considered a comedy classic if its sequels were never made. 

Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld," even makes a brief appearance, but Galifianakis becomes upset that Seinfeld doesn't refer to Knight as Newman.

Later in the episode, rapper Cardi B joins Galifianakis between the ferns to Seinfeld's surprise and confusion. Seinfeld is forced to sit on a crate while Cardi B gets the chair. Galifianakis gives her a gift for her future baby, a onesie that says "Rap Fan."

"This is a really different interview than the one I did," Seinfeld says. "I'm not even between the ferns anymore."

Galifianikis closes the episode with a "Seinfeld"-inspired stand-up routine: "You ever have a talk show and on that talk show the guest is really lame?"

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• Los Angeles police are investigating allegations of elder abuse suffered by Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee.
• A restraining order has been filed against Lee's caretaker and business partner, Keya Morgan, who was arrested on Monday on suspicion of filing a false police report. 
• It's the latest development in a strange saga that reached new heights in a Hollywood Reporter story that alleged years of elder abuse against Lee by his close advisers.

On Wednesday, a temporary restraining order was issued against Keya Morgan, a longtime business manager and adviser to Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. The order revealed that Los Angeles police were investigating claims of elder abuse suffered by the 95-year-old co-creator of Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, and Fantastic Four.

It's the latest development in a saga that reached new heights in a Hollywood Reporter story published in April. The story uncovered a nasty battle over Lee's estate, and contained allegations of years of elder abuse.

THR obtained an early February declaration signed by Lee and coordinated by his attorney, Tom Lallas. The document claimed that three men, including Morgan, had tried inserting themselves into Lee's 67-year-old daughter J.C.'s life in order to take advantage of her and Lee — and then gain control of Lee's assets, property, and money.

Lee's estate is worth over $50 million, according to Wednesday's restraining order.

Lallas filed the restraining order against Morgan on Lee's behalf. Lallas claimed he was pushed out as Lee's lawyer in February after Lee (or someone else, as THR noted) changed his mind about the declaration. Lallas said Morgan "inserted himself into Mr. Lee's life" after the death of Lee's wife last year. The order claimed Morgan took advantage of Lee's poor hearing, vision, and judgment; moved Lee from his family home; and prevented his family and associates from contacting him.

On Monday, Morgan was arrested on suspicion of filing a false police report against "burglars" at Lee's home, who were actually police and a social worker conducting a welfare check on Lee. 

But there's more to this story, and to understand how it got to this point, it's important to understand other details in THR's story and what surrounded that report. 

Accusations of Lee being taken advantage of

According to THR, Morgan and J.C. began "consolidating their power over Lee" after Lee changed his mind about the declaration. Lee's longtime assistant Mike Kelly was limited to pre-approved, supervised visits; his longtime housekeeper was fired; and his emails were monitored by Morgan, who even filmed Lee condemning the declaration when Morgan learned that THR had obtained a copy.

At 95, Lee is susceptible to being taken advantage of, but he was even more so after the death of his wife of 70 years Joan last July, THR reported. She was also always better with their daughter, J.C., whose outbursts could turn physical at times, according to THR (she denied a particular allegation of slamming Lee's head against a chair).

Days after THR's report was published, Lee released a video message (filmed and distributed by Morgan) defending Morgan and denying the claims made.

"You people have been publishing the most hateful, harmful material about me and my friend Keya [Morgan], and some others," Lee said in the video. "It's as if you suddenly have a personal vendetta against me and the people I work with."

To close the video, Lee said, "If you don't stop these articles and publish retractions, I am going to sue your a-- off."

Other complications

Outside of the THR report, Lee's life has been the subject of other headlines as well.

Prior to that article, The Daily Beast reported that Lee's finances were being drained and a $300,000 check had been written from Lee's business account without his authorization to a charity organization he formed with Jerry Olivarez. Olivarez contested that Lee gave him the check as a 'thank you' for helping him in negotiations with POW! Entertainment.

Lee recently filed a $1 billion lawsuit against POW!, claiming the company that he founded had forged his signature in order to gain exclusive rights to his name and image.

Last month, Lee's Twitter account posted a written claim that all of his social media other than Twitter had been hacked and was not actually him. 

On Sunday, a day before Morgan was arrested, Lee's account posted another video on Twitter asserting that Morgan was his only partner, and the only person who represented him. 

"Anybody else who claims to be my rep is just making that story up," the tweet from Lee's account said.

It all adds to a saga that was already strange to begin with. Lee's troubles this year have been frequent, and with an LAPD investigation into elder abuse underway, hopefully those troubles are resolved sooner rather than later. 

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• Millennial investors had been buying up AT&T stock, according to data from the free-trading app Robinhood.  
• The Department of Justice on Tuesday approved the $85 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner. 
• Watch AT&T trade in real time here.

Millennial investors were piling into AT&T shares in anticipation the Department of Justice would approve its $85 billion merger with Time Warner. 

Data from the free-trading app Robinhood, popular amongst millennials, showed 7,278 investors bought AT&T shares using the app over the past week. It is unclear as to what specific days the transactions occurred, so it is possible the bulk of the purchases came after the deal's approval was announced.

The flow into AT&T shares moved the stock up to 25th place on the list of the 100 most-owned stocks on the app. AT&T was previously the 29th most-owned stock by Robinhood users. As of this week, 41,927 people on Robinhood own AT&T stock, up 21% from a week ago. 

The AT&T and Time Warner marriage has been roughly two years in the making and a source of heavy scrutiny. At issue was whether a combination of the two giants would violate US anti-trust laws and create a lack of choices for US consumers. 

President Donald Trump is on the record saying the merger is "not good for the country." But the deal was approved on Tuesday. That sent AT&T shares down nearly 5%, and put many of those recent buyers underwater on their positions. 

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• The Nintendo 3DS portable console was a no-show at Nintendo's E3 presentation this week.
• However, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime tells Bloomberg that the 3DS business is actually on an uptick, and the company plans to support it alongside its newer Nintendo Switch.
• He says that the 3DS is intended for kids and younger gamers — it's cheaper, and offers titles from almost every major Nintendo franchise. 
• Regardless, it's pretty clear that Nintendo is placing its future bets on the smash-hit Switch.

Like the rest of the world, I'm insanely hyped for "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate," which was officially unveiled by Nintendo at this week's E3 video game event. Still, I couldn't help but notice that in the "Smash" hype, one thing was missing from Nintendo's big presentation: Any mention, whatsoever, of the Nintendo 3DS.

First released in 2011, the Nintendo 3DS is the modern successor to the company's long legacy of handheld consoles, dating back to the original Game Boy. However, because the smash-hit Nintendo Switch console can be detached from a TV for on-the-go play, it's left the future of the 3DS in doubt – a doubt accentuated by its no-show at E3.

Not to worry, though, as Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime told Bloomberg on Wednesday. He says that the Nintendo 3DS business is up 10% in America, a figure that includes the budget-focused Nintendo 2DS product line.

“So the Switch is not all on its own. It’s getting some very strong support by a dedicated handheld business here in the Americas. And for us we want to continue driving both of those platforms," Fils-Aime told Bloomberg. 

His stance is that the "2DS and 3DS are for kids and families to get engaged for the first time potentially in video games," while the Nintendo Switch is "where consumers want to play 'Smash Bros.,' 'Zelda' and all of those big epic games.”

Fils-Aime has a point. The Nintendo 2DS and 3DS consoles are cheaper than the $299 commanded by a Nintendo Switch. The low-end Nintendo 2DS console, meanwhile, costs $80, and comes with a game. The fanciest in the line, the New Nintendo 3DS XL, retails for $200. Every 2DS and 3DS console can play the vast majority of 3DS games.

And even if Nintendo never published another 3DS game, the console is already packed to the brim with incredible titles, representing almost every major Nintendo franchise: There are two "Super Mario" games, four from "The Legend of Zelda," the superlative "Mario Kart 7," two "Metroid" entries, and even "Super Smash Bros."

In that sense, it's totally logical for the Nintendo 3DS to stick around. For Nintendo's considerable audience of younger gamers, the 3DS is an affordable way to play some of the company's all-time great games. If you want the real next-generation stuff, though, like the forthcoming "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate," you'll need a Switch. 

At the same time, it's pretty clear where Nintendo's priorities lie. The 3DS release slate is looking pretty thin. Probably the highest-profile 3DS game yet to come this year is a remake of "Luigi's Mansion," a Nintendo GameCube title that originally came out in 2011. The signal from Nintendo is clear: The 3DS isn't going anywhere, but Switch is the future.

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A viral hashtag is spurring people's imaginations – and their love of all things Marvel. #MarvelUniverseSongs was trending on Twitter on Thursday and the results were pretty great.

Twitter users changed their favorite songs to reflect characters (or the sad ending of "Avengers: Infinity War") in the Marvel universe both on-screen and in the comic books. Everyone from Thor ("Thor Some Sugar On Me") to Hawkeye ("Hawkeye of the Tiger") got some love. 

Judging by the tweets, Thor seems to be the most song-friendly character and film series. 

Below are some of the funniest examples:

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E3 2018 is finally coming to an end.

The biggest video game event of the year featured plenty of major game announcements throughout the week from the world's top game makers including Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Bethesda, Square Enix, and Ubisoft.

But some came out of the event looking better than others.

These were the winners and losers of E3 2018:

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Winner: Sony-backed studios making PlayStation 4 exclusives

The coming PS4 exclusives "Spider-Man," "Ghost of Tsushima," and "The Last Of Us Part II" all look incredible, and it goes to show what studios can do when they have the support of a major studio like Sony.

Sony put Insomniac Games in charge of "Spider-Man," Sucker Punch is developing "Ghost of Tsushima," and Naughty Dog is leading the way on "The Last Of Us Part II," but what's impressive is how all three of these games already show the level of polish fans have come to expect from a PlayStation 4 exclusive. The future of the PS4 looks very bright thanks to these studios.

Loser: Sony

Despite the incredible-looking games coming from Sony-backed studios, Sony itself came off E3 looking not so great. Its press conference featured a big intermission that many fans say ruined the flow of the show and made its later announcements feel less exciting.

Later in the week, Sony got into hot water when many of the more than 2 million people who downloaded "Fortnite: Battle Royale" for the Nintendo Switch in its first 24 hours of availability found they couldn't play on both a PlayStation 4 and the Switch and would have to choose one or the other — at least, if they wanted to keep their purchased items.

Now, Sony is facing a great deal of pressure from fans and even rival companies to provide cross-play for games like "Fortnite" — that is, the ability for PlayStation 4 gamers to play with people on other platforms. Microsoft and Nintendo have made great strides in cross-play, with "Minecraft" and "Fortnite" letting Microsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Switch owners play together.

Frustrations with Sony over the topic are bubbling all over social media. A senior Xbox executive even tweeted his fans asking who would want to play "Destiny" across Xbox and PlayStation. And Microsoft's Xbox UK account also sent this cheeky tweet:

Winner: "Super Smash Bros" fans

Nintendo spent 24 minutes of its 42-minute E3 presentation talking about "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate," its mascot-versus-mascot fighting game scheduled to arrive on the Nintendo Switch on December 7.

Fans knew before E3 that "Super Smash Bros." would be Nintendo's focus at the event, and Nintendo lived up to that promise by introducing plenty of details about the new game. But Nintendo went a step further and paid homage to the game's biggest fans by bringing back every character from past "Super Smash Bros." games, including characters that appeared only once, as well as fan-favorite stages and items.

Nintendo also made some in-game tweaks that "Smash" fans asked for, like shorter Final Smash moves and small changes to the intricacies of combat. The game will even support GameCube controllers, a nod to people who play "Smash Bros." in competitive tournaments. If you loved "Smash Bros." before E3, Nintendo's presentation was directed at you.

• Musician Imogen Heap is working on a blockchain project, Mycelia, that will let artists store all the information about their songs in one place and more easily track payments.
• Heap is self-funding the project with proceeds from the Harry Potter musical, which she helped to score, and ethereum that she earned selling a song for cryptocurrency.

DUBLIN, IRELAND — Grammy Award-winning Imogen Heap is using the proceeds from her score for the Harry Potter musical and a surprise ethereum windfall to fund a blockchain project to help musicians keep track of, and get paid for, their music.

Heap appeared at the MoneyConf conference in Dublin this week to talk about her project Mycelia. Heap wants to create a blockchain-based app that will allow musicians to store all the information about their work in one place. Currently, no central repository exists for information like publishing rights, recording rights, and composition rights.

"It’s about how to ease flow of payments, how to ease collaboration, how to grow partnerships, how to make better collaborations on a business level and a creative level," Heap told Business Insider.

"If you’re just a new musician out there and you don’t know what to do, how do you know where to sign up? This is a guide as much as anything, a way to help the music maker navigate the industry."

Heap admitted that blockchain was not the only way to solve this problem but said she is keen to piggyback on the popularity of the technology, which was first developed to underpin digital currency bitcoin.

"There are many ways to do it," she said. "But for me, it’s important to be in this space because it’s a growing space and the music industry has to move with the times and I just want to make sure that we’re here and prepared — the music-makers are prepared."

Heap has been talking about creating Mycelia for around three years but said she is now taking the idea forward and hopes to have an app by September.

She said: "I didn’t expect to be able to develop a thing — I didn’t want to, to be honest, I just wanted to make music. I thought if I could just share an idea maybe someone would make something but in the end nobody was doing this thing."

Heap, perhaps best known for her song Hide & Seek, is planning to do a world tour to promote the project once the app launches. She will do 40 shows around the world connected to business conferences.

Heap is self-funding the project and says she has benefitted from her work scoring the Harry Potter musical, playing on London's West End.

"I’m also in a position, thanks to Harry Potter to be honest, that I’m not needing to make money on the next album and the next tour. I’ve just lucky to be in a position where this magic play is essentially giving me a wage every week, which has never happened in my life before. Who would have thought? Harry Potter is the saviour — well, not a saviour but Harry Potter is enabling this."

She added that she has also benefitted from the surge in cryptocurrencies over the last year. Heap released the song Tiny Human on the ethereum blockchain in 2015, allowing people to download the song in exchange for the cryptocurrency ether.

"People paid $1, or 1 ETH, which was equal to $1 at the time," she said. "That was $200. I didn’t think anything of it and then, of course, it went massively up and I took a bit out and put it into the project, and then it went massively down. It went up to £200,000."

Ether reached a peak of over $1,200 per coin in early January before declining in line with the wider cryptocurrency market. Ether is trading at around $480 as of June 14.

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• Jokingly shown off at Bethesda's E3 conference, most people didn't think that 'Skyrim Very Special Edition' on the Amazon Echo was real.
• In fact, it's a free app available for Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices.
• The game is a sort of stripped-down, text RPG version of Skyrim.

When I first saw Bethesda director Todd Howard slyly showing off "Skyrim Very Special Edition" at E3, a voice-only version of the game with Amazon's Alexa, I thought Todd had got us again. I assumed it was another one of Bethesda's jokes where they show how self-aware they are — this time making fun of how many re-releases they gave to the nearly 10-year old game "Skyrim."

I was wrong. "Skyrim Very Special Edition" is very real, and I loaded it up on the Amazon Echo Dot to give the text-to-speech RPG game a try.

Having never used an Echo device before, I wasn't sure where to start. After setting it up and connecting my Amazon account, I thought I was ready to go.

"Alexa, play Skyrim," I sheepishly said.

"Ok — playing Skyrim Main Theme," Alexa replied, and immediately queued up the infamous Skyrim theme song. 

I quickly realized that I needed to add "Skyrim Very Special Edition" to Alexa's "skills" before I could use it. There are no actual visuals to this game, and all the information is relayed to you through Alexa, so I created some Skyrim-style graphics to help illustrate what the speech-based adventure was like:

The game itself is pretty simple: here's how it works

You start off at a crossroads, Alexa asks you to decide which way to go after a few choices are presented, and you'll meet someone at the end of that road. That someone will always have some important quest for you that they can't be bothered to do themselves, and you can choose to accept or deny the quest. Then, you will inevitably get into some sort of combat. You can choose to use your weapon, cast a spell, use a shout, or flee the battle. You don't have many other choices to make, and answering is as simple as saying "weapon," or "spell" — you don't ever actually choose which weapon, spell, or shout to use. 

After getting the hang of the game (which took about 3 minutes), leaving it for a while and then coming back, Alexa greeted me and reminded me where I had left off. I was working on a quest where someone had asked me to retrieve a priceless work of art. 

I chose yes, and walked further into the cave (or at least Alexa told me I did).

I didn't feel like fighting, so I chose to flee.

“The mighty dragonborn manages to scamper off successfully," Alexa said, mocking me. Inside the cave and past the Khajiit that I ran from, I fought a few spiders. After that, I was finished with the cave. 

• Season two of Netflix's "GLOW" is even better than the first.
• It's funnier, even as it explores complex themes including race and sexual harassment. 
• Star Betty Gilpin steals the show in brilliant comedic and dramatic scenes.
• Season two debuts June 29 on Netflix. 

Season two of “GLOW,” which makes its debut with ten new episodes on Netflix June 29, is much funnier and deeper than its excellent first season, keeping it high up in the ranks as one of the best Netflix original shows, and one of the best shows on television.

The half-hour drama/comedy set in 1980s Los Angeles is inspired by "Glamorous Ladies of Wresting" (aka "G.L.O.W."), a women's wrestling program that premiered in 1986. The first season received glowing (forgive me) reviews from critics and audiences alike when it came out last summer. The show stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron, and features a large and diverse cast of women of many ages and backgrounds.

Season one was great, but it was just a charming and sweet introduction to what this show could become. And with the training out of the way — and the plot surrounding Ruth’s (Brie) affair with Debbie’s (Gilpin) husband — the show has more room for its spectacular set of characters and focuses on issues including race, sexual harassment, motherhood, teen angst, and letting go of the past.

There’s a lot more layers and a lot more comedy now that the women are wrestling, filming, and writing their ridiculous show full time, rather than preparing for it. Late in the season, there is an episode that is a show-within-a-show, and it’s some of the most brilliant sketch comedy in years.

Brie and Maron are as fantastic as they were last season. Gilpin's ability to combine slapstick physical comedy with heartbreak as Debbie’s altar-ego Liberty Bell — providing insight into both Liberty Bell and Debbie at the same time — is mind-blowing. And Maron, who proved he has some acting chops as director Sam Sylvia, gets a lot more to do between his new role as a father to a teenage girl and his complicated relationship with Ruth.

With a better understanding of this world and the main characters, producer Bash (Chris Lowell) gets a major storyline that goes from surprising to tragic, while Tammé/Welfare Queen (Kia Stevens) and Arthie/Beirut (Sunita Mani) confront their racial stereotypes in very different ways. Unfortunately, the more characters who get the spotlight means that others like Cherry Bomb and Carmen take the backseat.

Instead of pitting the women of G.L.O.W. against each other, the story this season brings them together. There is conflict between them, especially Ruth and Debbie, who have a complicated past. Amidst a disagreement on how actresses should handle sexual harassment and a major injury that might have been inflicted on purpose, we get the chance to see how Ruth and Debbie’s friendship was before the first episode of the series. Their respect for each other, despite what they disagree on and what they’ve been through, is a great example of a female friendship on television.

By exploring complex, relevant themes and taking full advantage of its comedic elements, “GLOW” season two is even better than the first.

Watch the trailer for season two below. You can see the entire season when it comes out on June 29:

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Running out of movies to watch? We can help.

Every week, we look through Netflix's collection to recommend seven movies you can watch over the weekend.

Some of our selections recently joined Netflix, and some have been available for while — you probably just didn't notice.

From the irreverent war comedy "Tropic Thunder" to Disney's "Moana," these are awesome movies on Netflix you can watch this weekend, including Netflix's newest hit romantic comedy.

Here are seven movies on Netflix you should check out (along with their scores from Rotten Tomatoes).

Note: Not all of these films are available in countries outside the United States. Sorry!

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"Set It Up" (2018) — a Netflix original

Netflix description: In desperate need of a break from the office, two beleaguered assistants team up to trick their workaholic bosses into falling in love.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: N/A

Predictable in an adorable way, "Set It Up" follows every beat you expect it to, but brilliantly. Plus, Lucy Liu is great. This one could fill the hole "A Christmas Prince" has left.

"Inside Man" (2006)

Netflix description: A detective matches wits with a thief who's always one step ahead of the cops, and when a loose-cannon negotiator arrives, things spin out of control.

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 85%

There are a lot of heist movies. But Spike Lee's masterful direction in the underrated "Inside man" turns a common story in the film world into a thrilling and clever one. Its stellar cast — which includes Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Willem Dafoe — helps too.

"Tropic Thunder" (2008)

Netflix description: This combat film send-up from director-star Ben Stiller tracks a group of actors who are forced to become real-life soldiers.

Critic score: 82%

Audience score: 70%

While Robert Downey Jr.'s Oscar-nominated role as a white Australian man playing a black man hasn't aged very well, this comedy is still a great social satire that blew people away for its accuracy as a Vietnam War-movie satire, and with Tom Cruise's role as a ruthless producer.

• The cast of "Solo" had no idea about that major appearance from an iconic Star Wars character at the end of the movie. 
• Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich said he only learned about the cameo a few months ago. 
• Please don't read this post if you don't want to know about the spoiler. 

Warning: There are MAJOR spoilers for "Solo: A Star Wars Story" below. Read at your own risk. And if you haven't seen "Solo" yet, do it. It's pretty good!

Director Ron Howard and the crew did everything they could to avoid spoiling the major cameo at the end of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," including keeping the film's cast in the dark about it as long as possible. 

At the end of "Solo," it's revealed that Darth Maul is the head of crime organization Crimson Dawn, and who Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) was really working for this whole time. His appearance came as a surprise to many people, considering Obi-Wan Kenobi literally slit his body in half with a lightsaber in "The Phantom Menace." But in novelizations and in Star Wars series "The Clone Wars" and "Rebels," he survives. Darth Maul's appearance in "Solo" makes that canon for the films as well. (Well, minus an entire story where Darth Maul temporarily has spider legs.)

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich said that he had no idea Darth Maul would appear until a few months ago, when the cast was filming pick-ups (footage filmed after the initial filming is complete): 

"There was a part in the script where it said, 'Somebody appears', and it wouldn't say who. So there was a lot of speculation amongst the crew and cast about who is that going to be. Then I found out a few months ago. I found out pretty late. Everyone was kind of talking about it and speculating. Some people were really convinced ... there were a lot of rumors."

Ray Park, who played Darth Maul in "The Phantom Menace," returned to reprise the role. 

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In March 2017, Nintendo launched its new Switch console alongside a huge new "Legend of Zelda" game.

A month later, Nintendo followed up with a "Mario Kart" game.

A few months after that, a new "Splatoon" game arrived.

Then, just before the big holiday shopping season, Nintendo dropped "Super Mario Odyssey" — a brand new, main-series Super Mario game from Nintendo's top development talent.

In short: 2017 was a big year for Nintendo.

Look no further than the company's astronomic stock performance in 2017 for an idea of just how big of a year 2017 was:

2018, however, is shaping up to be a lot less exciting by comparison.

Here's why:

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Nintendo's 2018 games line-up is distinctly less impressive than last year:

Between now and December, Nintendo has four first-party games scheduled to launch:

1. "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate"— the next entry in the long-running Nintendo fighting game series which features an all-star cast of gaming characters.
2. "Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!" and "Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!"— an updated re-master of "Pokémon Yellow" that comes in two slightly different versions.
3. "Super Mario Party"— the next entry in the multiplayer-focused minigame series starring Nintendo characters.
4. "Mario Tennis Aces"— the next entry in Nintendo's franchise of popular mascots playing each other in wacky games of tennis arrives June 22.

That's pretty much it.

There are some big third-party games, like "Octopath Traveler," and a major addition to "Splatoon 2" just launched (the "Octo Expansion"), and the Nintendo Switch Online service is scheduled to light up this September.

There are a few new things, no doubt.

But it's a major dropoff from 2017, which had major Nintendo Switch game launches nearly every month. It was always going to be hard for Nintendo to top a year with major new "Mario" and "Legend of Zelda" games, but 2018's comparative game line-up is a return to the Wii U years of B-tier games sporadically launching.

With 2017's Switch launch, Nintendo revitalized its two biggest game franchises — Mario and Zelda. 2018's line-up pushes the pause button on that evolution; it'll be at least another year before Nintendo launches the real Pokémon game for Switch, to say nothing of the long-awaited "Metroid Prime 4."

"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate," "Super Mario Party," and "Pokémon: Let's Go!" are B-tier Nintendo games.

As a lifelong "Smash Bros." fan, it hurts to admit it — but it's true: The "Smash Bros." franchise is a B-tier Nintendo franchise, along the lines of "Kirby" and "Mario Party." 

It's an incredible game series, but it's also a fighting game series. It's inherently limited by its genre, even though it stars literally every major Nintendo character (and loads of minor Nintendo characters, to say nothing of guest characters from non-Nintendo games). 

To be clear: "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" is likely to sell quite well, and millions of Switch owners will love it. But it's unlikely to see the absurdly high numbers that games like "Super Mario Odyssey" and "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" did. 

The same could be said for the new "Pokémon: Let's Go!" games and "Super Mario Party." The former isn't the much anticipated new "core" Pokémon title being made for Switch, and the latter is, well, it's a "Mario Party" game. Both will sell well and entertain millions of people, but it's unlikely that either will achieve the astronomic impact levels of impact that games like "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" did.

The biggest games in development for the Nintendo Switch are coming in 2019 or later.

Many Nintendo fans are looking beyond 2018.

Nintendo's "Yoshi" game originally scheduled to launch this year was pushed to 2019, according to Polygon.

And a major new Pokémon game is coming to the Nintendo Switch — the next entry in the main series, in fact — but it's scheduled to arrive in the second half of 2019. It's a big deal that the next game in the main series will be on the Switch, considering the entire Pokémon series up to this point has existed solely on Nintendo's handheld consoles. The first Pokémon game debuted on the original Nintendo Game Boy, and the series continued that tradition through to the most recent release on the Nintendo 3DS. 

And what of "Metroid Prime 4"? 

That's the big question. The game was notoriously absent from Nintendo's big video presentation this week at E3 2018, the annual video game trade show in Los Angeles. 

Since announcing the game in a logo at E3 2017, Nintendo's been quiet about "Metroid Prime 4." It's unlikely to arrive in 2017 given its absence from the big show — it's expected in 2019 or later.

• MoviePass told Gizmodo that it is looking launch a family plan for its service within a month.
• The company is currently burning cash at a rate of around $20 million per month to fund its subscription service for individual users. 
• MoviePass told Gizmodo that it is projecting to exceed five million paying subscribers by the end of 2018.

MoviePass told Gizmodo that it's looking to launch a family plan for its service within the next month.

The company currently offers a $9.95-a-month subscription service that allows individual users to see one movie per day in theaters each month (with several caveats), and it's burning cash at a rapid rate to fund it. 

When it reached two million paying subscribers in February, MoviePass said that it would be profitable at between three million and four million subscribers. After the company hit three million subscribers this week, Ted Farnsworth, the head of MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, claimed the company could break even at five million subscribers. It is unclear how MoviePass could accomplish this given that it currently loses money on every additional subscriber.

"MoviePass' rapid growth is within its projections that estimate the service will exceed five million paying subscribers by the end of 2018," MoviePass told Gizmodo in a statement.

The company has not yet announced a price point for its prospective family plan, but it could very well help push the service to the subscriber numbers it's projecting. 

MoviePass has said that it has secured a $300 million "equity line of credit" that could sustain it for a year despite its losses of around $20 million per month, but financial experts have cast doubt on that statement, saying that MoviePass would have to convince investors of its long-term viability and potential for profit to access that money. 

The company's stock has plummeted more than 98% from its 52-week high of $32.90 set in October. On Friday the company was trading at under 40 cents per share, as concerns on Wall Street continue to mount about the company's financial stability.

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• Owen Grover recently became a CEO, but he spent most of his career at iHeartMedia learning from its famous CEO, Bob Pittman.
• The best advice Pittman ever gave him was how to hire for genius.
• "These are people who are so quirky that their genius is often completely missed," Owen told Business Insider.
• It's the polar opposite of what most managers do today when they hire for "cultural fit." 

Owen Grover spent most of his career at iHeartMedia studying under its famous CEO, Bob Pittman, an icon of the music industry who founded MTV and went on to hold various CEO and executive roles at places like Six Flags and AOL Networks.

Grover's career has been a wild ride — zipping around the country on Pittman's plane putting together unusual deals, rising inside iHeartMedia to general manager, and, most recently, leaping to become CEO of Pocket Casts, a podcasting app recently bought by a coalition of public-radio stations.

The best piece of management advice Grover ever got came from Pittman when Grover was a young manager in the company's fledgling digital unit, Grover told Business Insider.

"Bob told me to always accept people with towering weaknesses as long as they are accompanied with towering strengths," Grover recalled.

"These are people who are so quirky that their genius is often completely missed," he said. "It's easy to want everyone to get along, or to hire people that are easy to manage. But doing so is how you get B's hiring C's hiring D's."

That's the opposite of how many think about hiring with today's emphasis on "cultural fit."

Managers these days are repeatedly warned to be wary of hiring a "toxic" person. They're looking for "superstars" who are not only bright and capable, but socially suitable.

Pittman's view is contrarian.

"If people have strong strengths, encourage them, even if they don't fit in," Grover said.

The author and former Netflix chief talent officer Patty McCord agrees. She wrote in a recent Harvard Business Review article that "finding the right people is also not a matter of 'culture fit.'"

She wrote about hiring outside the box, like taking on a humble programmer from an Arizona bank who didn't have the ego of the Valley rockstars he would join, or the manager with a stutter who struggled through the interview but could take the most complex ideas and make them simple.

The key part of Pittman's strategy is a "no a--holes" policy, Grover said.

People have to be respectful, even when they disagree. But if someone with great ideas isn't great at math, someone else can do the math for them. If they are technically brilliant but not good at words, someone else can do the words for them.

Everyone contributes just their strengths and isn't judged, berated, or required to shore up their weaknesses.

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It's easy to forget about some great movies while they are in theaters, especially during the summer movie season. Some smaller-budget films go under the radar when up against blockbusters like "Infinity War" or "Solo."

That's why every week Business Insider suggests five potentially overlooked movies currently playing in theaters that you can choose from for the weekend.

Some may be harder to find than others, but these movies are the perfect watch if you are looking for plans, especially if you have MoviePass, which lets you see any movie you want in theaters for $10 a month. It's a great way to get you in the theater for movies you may not have considered otherwise. 

This week's movies include the child-raising drama "Tully" starring Charlize Theron, Ethan Hawke as a priest struggling with his faith in "First Reformed," and a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Below are five movies you can see in theaters this week:

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"First Reformed"

Release date: May 18

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 97%

"First Reformed" is from writer/director Paul Scrader, the writer behind classic Martin Scorsese films "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull." With "First Reformed," he delivers a story packed with questions on the relationship between faith and morality, and Ethan Hawke gives one of his best performances as a priest struggling with those ideas.

Description: "Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary."

"On Chesil Beach"

Release date: May 18

Rotten Tomatoes score: 68%

Saoirse Ronan follows up her Oscar-nominated performance in "Lady Bird" with "On Chesil Beach." If you're in the mood for a romantic story, and more of Ronan (who is great in everything she does), then this might be the movie for you.

Description: "Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson, and Samuel West."

"Tully"

Release date: May 4

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Charlize Theron delivers another amazing performance as a mother struggling to raise her children. If you liked director Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" and writer Diablo Cody's "Juno," then you might like this. You may even relate to it if you have children of your own.

Description: "A new comedy from Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno). Marlo (Academy Award winner Charlize Theron), a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis)."

"Incredibles 2" is finally in theaters after 14 years, and with a 95% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes as of Friday morning, it seems to be worth the wait.

But the Pixar follow-up is far from the only sequel to take so long to be made. In fact, another long-awaited sequel is coming to theaters later this years with "Halloween," which brings back Jamie Lee Curtis to the horror franchise. 

Business Insider rounded up 17 sequels that took over 10 years to be released following the last film in its respective series. To be considered, it couldn't be a reboot — as in, it had to be a sequel within a series of films that continues the story and/or features the same actors.

In the case of this year's "Halloween," it is a direct follow-up to the original 1978 film that ignores all other sequels, so we included it as such. In the case of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," we counted it as a sequel to "Return of the Jedi."

We ranked the sequels below from least amount of time to longest amount of time to finally be released after their predecessors. 

Below are 17 movie sequels that took over 10 years to be released:

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"Toy Story 3"

Release date: June 18, 2010

Predecessor: "Toy Story 2" (1999)

Years between films: 11

"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"

Release date: July 2, 2003

Predecessor: "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991)

Years between films: 12

"Clerks II"

Release date: July 21, 2006

Predecessor: "Clerks" (1994)

Years between films: 12