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Taylor Swift dropped four surprise songs on Friday and the internet hasn't stopped spiralling since. We're decoding the shared-ex theory that has everyone pointing at Joe Jonas, the unexpected apology to Tom Hiddleston nine years later, and the one lyric she refuses to actually say out loud.

But not everyone is singing along. With reviews turning brutal and a wild new conspiracy about who really wrote her best albums, we're asking whether anything Taylor releases can ever live up to the legend now.

Plus, Sabrina Carpenter has landed one of the most coveted roles in Old Hollywood, and we need to talk about whether the pop star can actually pull it off.

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This morning, Taylor Swift's four surprise Encore tracks have broken the internet (and a Spotify record), and the fan theories about who they're about are flying. Plus, she's about to make VMAs history, and Tom Holland, Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley are teaming up for a project I did not know I needed.
☕ Taylor Swift's four new Encore tracks and the exes fans think they're about
☕ Taylor's history-making VMAs honour and the A-list stars in her new music video
☕ The VMAs line-up, including one legend's first live performance in 23 years
☕ Tom Holland, Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley join forces for a Hollywood biopic
☕ Nobody Wants This season 3 trailer drops, with one very surprising makeover
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The Family Stone is officially getting a sequel, with the beloved Christmas family returning to our screens later this year. So naturally, it got us thinking about the movies that perfectly capture what happens when you put one complicated family under the same roof.
For this week’s Friday Round-Up, Laura and Em are sharing their favourite movies about messy, chaotic and deeply complicated families. There’s a Disney classic so good we had to include its sequel, the little indie movie that became an Oscar-winning sleeper hit, and a Nancy Meyers favourite that Em had somehow never seen.
Plus, we get into what we know about The Family Stone sequel and whether it can possibly recreate the magic of the original.
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First up, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves in a new Apple TV series inspired by the wild real-life theory that they're actually brothers.

Then there's the Prime Video rom-com made for your Saturday afternoon on the couch. Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman fake-date their way through Stanford in a book-to-film adaptation with a very interesting origin story.

On the big screen, Brad Pitt goes full survival mode with a three-legged ex-army dog in a movie that's got 'Oscar bait' written all over it. Em brings out her secret film journal for a review so brutal, Brad might want to block his ears.

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Dakota Johnson is back on the Verity press tour, and we can't work out who she really is. Between a chaotic Vogue house tour and a baffling podcast moment that has us questioning everything, we're unpacking the 'survival tactic' behind her public persona.

Hilary Duff is leaning all the way into the Lizzie McGuire era, but not every star wants to relive their biggest hit. As Tones and I's NRL Grand Final plans collapse over one very famous song, we're asking whether artists owe fans the bangers.

Plus, Taylor Swift has dropped four mysterious song titles for The Encore, and our resident Swiftie has a theory that might just crack the whole thing open.

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