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Published Sep 8, 2026, 1:05 PM EDT

It looks like if they wanted to, video game companies could get the Trump admin to stop ripping them off.

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Look how they massacred my girl

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Our latest look at The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has come and gone, and Link has never looked more moist. The latest footage from Nintendo's upcoming nostalgia trip has set tongues wagging about the game's art style — is it adorable or creepy? Does the look evoke the cozy covers of Terry Pratchett books or a Thomas Kinkade mall kiosk? While no one seems to dispute that the new Ocarina's riff on familiar locations like The Great Deku Tree and Hyrule Castle Town looks terrific, the character models for child Link and Zelda have already proven to be a bit more divisive.

Since expanding from theater into film, writer-director Florian Zeller has specialized in examining the pressure of mental health issues on families — dealing with dementia in The Father and depression in The Son, both based on his plays. His third feature, Bunker, puts an outwardly happy marriage under the microscope as fissures start forming and it’s most rewarding when the psychological give and take between two people who love each other remains in tight focus. That’s in large part due to the galvanizing performances of real-life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, for whom the film was written, bringing an electric emotional charge to scenes of both intimacy and estrangement. 

Consider, for a moment, the cupboard — maybe in the spirit of irreverence we should term it a closet — in which, for 30-odd years, lay undisturbed the footage that future star cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (“Atonement,” “Die, My Love”) shot behind the scenes of Derek Jarman‘s 1991 movie “Edward II”. Consider then, the opening of that closet and the discovery of what it contained. For a certain type of cinephile, spooling through those rushes for the first time and realizing that they essentially open up a wormhole to the past as lived in the present tense, it must have been like finding Narnia, with Jarman a puckish, charming, proudly queer Aslan.   

Welcome to The Euro Debrief, a new Sky Sports column in which Adam Bate rounds up some of the key stories from the latest matches across the continent. This week:

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Published Sep 7, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT

Bad games can be good games when you're on Shelf Quest

Before 'Mr. Jambo,' Kyle Gordon rocked to Buck Bumble

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Summer Lovin'

From Kacey Musgraves' disco balls to Miranda Lambert's afternoon delights, 2026 looks to be Nashville's raciest year in decades

Surely, you’ve seen…The Balls.

No one expected that country music in the summer of 2026 would be illuminated by the sparkly, gloriously perverse glow of a set of disco testicles. But that low-hanging display, the centerpiece prop of Kacey Musgraves’ Middle of Nowhere Tour, has come to sum up country’s year of horniness. Amplified by the whirling of Musgraves’ lonely-girl washing machine — not to mention her use of eggplant emojis, an extremely steamy video, and even a lube line — this has undoubtedly been the genre’s wet hot American summer.

The title of “Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing” is the closest that Erik Shirai‘s documentary comes to a joke at the expense of its subject: sumo wrestling, the Japanese sport largely known in the western world for the ample size and minimal clothing of its practitioners, and not an awful lot beyond that. In all other respects, however, this stately, artfully produced film aims to act as a corrective to such cheap, culturally insensitive perceptions. Examining as it does the motivations and ambitions of a number of sumo wrestlers, from grand masters to rising stars, through a solemnly respectful lens, the doc finds humanity and even beauty in what can all too easily be comically framed on screen.

Enterprising Flemish broadcaster VRT has boarded the historical coming-of-age drama series ‘King of Hearts’ from Giles Coulier, whose company, De Wereldvrede, is behind such hits as 2019 series “War of the Worlds” and Prix Europa winner, “Albatros.”

This season’s league phase of the Champions League kicks off on Tuesday, with Real Madrid vs Inter Milan and Porto vs Man City among the standout games on the first evening.