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Neve Campbell Goes Full-On Die Hard In Her Explosive, Big-Budget Action Thriller
By Jennifer Asencio
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Neve Campbell is best known for the Scream franchise, in which she plays perpetual final girl Syndney Prescott-Evans. Although that character has been an extreme success for her, it was hardly her breakout role, as she was already well-known from the popular drama Party of Five and fellow teen movie The Craft. She backed off from her career in 2011 after making Scream 4, only appearing in a few TV movies and show episodes rather than major projects, until she returned to television full time in House of Cards in 2016. Her return to the big screen wasn’t a Scream movie, either: it was Skyscraper, a 2018 action disaster film starring Dwayne Johnson.
Obvious Influences, But Keeps Its Own Identity
If you take all the best parts of Towering Inferno, Die Hard, and The Mummy Returns, and mix them all together, what results is this action vehicle that was really meant for The Rock, but gave Campbell some action-hero cred as well. They play married couple Will and Sarah Sawyer, who met when Will lost his leg in a hostage encounter and Sarah was the military medic who treated him. 10 years later, they are married with two children and a successful security consulting business that has been hired to review a tech-loaded Hong Kong residential skyscraper called The Pearl. Will, Sarah, and their two children head off to fulfill the contract and live in the building in the meantime.
When terrorists try to obtain control of the building’s tech systems to obtain sensitive data about an organized crime syndicate, Will goes to hell and back to rescue them. That includes scaling a burning building, fighting off terrorists, and dodging police who’ve mistaken him for the instigator of the attack. Can Will survive and rescue his family? Will the terrorists get what they came for? Where there ever be enough duct tape in the world?
Action Grounded By Its Characters
The reason I threw The Mummy Returns in with two movies that obviously reference large buildings threatened by fire and criminals is that this movie really is a family film. Campbell and Johnson work well together as a couple in Skyscraper, and are obviously good parents to their kids. When the going gets tough, Sarah is as capable as her husband, if not as strong, and exactly the kind of woman he would believably marry. She’s not a super-woman. The terrorists she manages to subdue with a nice judo throw, she has to disable first. She’s not beating up big guys, but rather using her wits and their own strength against them. Johnson is all fatherly devotion, bringing to mind the classic adventure couple of Rick and Evie O’Connell.
But the movie is more about Will and his struggles to get to his family. The Rock’s performance is complicated by his character’s disability, which the production never lets us forget about by hobbling the actor so he has to hop around on one leg when the character isn’t wearing his artificial one. He is vulnerable, but in a way that doesn’t diminish him as a man. He isn’t submissive or cowardly, especially when it comes to his family. The Rock dissolves into the role, and sometimes you forget you’re watching the famous pro wrestler and not his character.
If there is any problem with this movie, its that Will is sometimes superhuman, doing things that nobody could do, even with two whole legs. Some of his stunts are unbelievable and obviously CGI, but if you roll your eyes and get past these scenes, the action and chemistry between the characters delivers. Navigating through the burning, collapsing building, the danger is mostly from the setting itself rather than the bad guys, giving both Johnson and Campbell a lot of room for heroics that don’t involve violence. The movie leaves the violence to the terrorists.
Campbell’s return to the big screen met with middling ratings, but the movie showcases her versatility and growth as an actress going from young adult sensation to action-mom. It’s a great popcorn flick the whole family can enjoy together without too much to hide the kids’ eyes from. A few people do get shot or blown up, but the carnage is mostly contained and not gory.
Best of all, Skyscraper is currently free on Tubi. Check it out on your next movie night!
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Hurdle hints and answers for March 25, 2026
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.
There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.
An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.
If you find yourself stuck at any step of today’s Hurdle, don’t worry! We have you covered.
Hurdle Word 1 hint
A woven hairstyle.
Hurdle Word 1 answer
BRAID
Hurdle Word 2 hint
An excursion.
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Hurdle Word 2 Answer
JAUNT
Hurdle Word 3 hint
Shine.
Hurdle Word 3 answer
GLEAM
Hurdle Word 4 hint
Not height.
Hurdle Word 4 answer
WIDTH
Final Hurdle hint
Moon-related.
Hurdle Word 5 answer
LUNAR
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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 25, 2026
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is for people who like sneakers.
As we’ve shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.
Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
What is Connections: Sports Edition?
The NYT‘s latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication’s sports coverage. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.
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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
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Here’s a hint for today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Here are today’s Connections: Sports Edition categories
Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today’s Connections: Sports Edition #548 is…
What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?
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Games Played on a Table – AIR HOCKEY, FOOSBALL, POOL, SNOOKER
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Nike Shoes – AIR FORCE 1, BLAZER, PEGASUS, SHOX
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Giants Greats – BONDS, MAYS, OTT, POSEY
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NBA___ – ALL-STAR, CUP, DRAFT, FINALS
Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.
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Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Connections.
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NYT Pips hints, answers for March 25, 2026
Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.
Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips
If you’ve ever played dominoes, you’ll have a passing familiarity for how Pips is played. As we’ve shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible – and common – for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.
Here are common examples you’ll run into across the difficulty levels:
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Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
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Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
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Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
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Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
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Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.
If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.
Easy difficulty hints, answers for March 25 Pips
Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed horizontally.
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.
Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 6-3, placed vertically.
Number (14): Everything in this space must add up to 14. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally; 4-4, placed horizontally.
Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 0-4, placed vertically; 4-4, placed horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints, answers for March 25 Pips
Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-6, placed horizontally.
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Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 2-6, placed horizontally; 5-6, placed horizontally; 6-1, placed horizontally.
Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.
Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically; 5-6, placed horizontally; 5-3, placed vertically.
Equal (1): Everything in this orange space must be equal to 1. The answer is 6-1, placed horizontally; 3-1, placed horizontally.
Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 5-3, placed vertically; 3-3, placed horizontally; 3-1, placed horizontally.
Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 1-0, placed horizontally.
Hard difficulty hints, answers for March 25 Pips
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically; 1-2, placed horizontally.
Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 1-2, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed horizontally.
Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically; 0-6, placed vertically; 0-2, placed horizontally.
Less than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 6-6, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed vertically.
Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 0-3, placed vertically; 6-5, placed vertically; 6-4, placed horizontally.
Greater than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally.
Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is -3, placed vertically; 3-0, placed vertically.
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 6-5, placed vertically.
Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.
Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally; 5-5, placed horizontally.
Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 3-0, placed vertically; 4-2, placed vertically.
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