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The Christmas Masterpiece Streaming For Free, There's No Debate Anymore
By Chris Snellgrove
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The holiday season often devolves into a major argument, and we’re not talking about the one your weird uncle starts after having too much egg nog. No, this is the debate to end all debates: whether a certain action classic is a Christmas movie or not. At this point, though, the haters need to just admit that Die Hard is a holiday classic, and if you doubt that indisputable fact, streaming it for free on Tubi will most certainly change your mind.
Die Hard is a genuine cinematic masterpiece, and it earned its reputation as such long before the advent of streaming. The plot is beautifully streamlined: a New York detective heads to Los Angeles to rekindle the spark with his estranged wife, and that brings him to Nakatomi Tower, where she is enjoying a Christmas party with her coworkers. However, when mysterious bad guys take over the tower, the erstwhile detective discovers there’s no time for love as he becomes a one-man army taking on a legion of twitchy terrorists.
When you watch Die Hard on streaming, you’ll get to see some very familiar faces, including the late, great Alan Rickman as terrorist leader Hans Gruber. And for movie lovers of a certain age, it’s always great fun to see Reginald VelJohnson, the Family Matters patriarch who just can’t get away from playing iconic onscreen cops. But nobody shines more in this movie than Bruce Willis: casting him was a studio risk that paid off, transforming a television actor best known for the hit series Moonlighting into one of the most famous movie stars in the entire world.
If you’re hesitating to put Die Hard on for tonight’s streaming festivities, you’re probably asking what makes this movie so great. The short answer is that it partners killer action scenes with very smart storytelling, and it’s rewarding to see that our chief hero and villain are equally capable of surprising each other (not to mention the audience). The movie is full of quotable dialogue, but it never becomes a parody of itself, and that feels refreshing in a post-Avengers (or maybe we should say post “well, that just happened!”) world.
We’re not the only ones who love Die Hard, either: if you’re still on the fence about streaming it on Tubi, you should know that the movie has a wildly impressive 94 percent critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Additionally, this Bruce Willis classic has a 94 percent audience score as well, proving that it was an outsized hit with just about everyone. That popularity helped a movie made for $25–35 million to earn about $140 million at the box office, kicking off an entire franchise of sequels.
If we’re being blunt, those sequels offered increasingly diminished returns, and your enjoyment of later entries will mostly come down to how much you enjoy seeing Willis doing his charismatic action guy routine. But the first Die Hard is a celebrated classic for a reason, and streaming it for free on Tubi will always be a better alternative than slurping up the latest made-for-streaming slop from Netflix. As an added bonus, this film’s holiday setting gives you the perfect excuse to put it on while you’re wrapping presents or just leaving milk and cookies out for Santa.
Will you find Die Hard lives up to the hype after streaming it, or will you find its topsy-turvy action plot a little outdated? You won’t know until you check it out on Tubi. Streaming it on this platform is completely free, and that’s the kind of price that will always make us channel our inner Willis while yelling, “Yippee ki‐yay.”
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SNL opens with another Pete Hegseth press conference
Saturday Night Live returned from a brief hiatus Saturday with a cold open depicting a joint press conference between Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel, with “Master of None” creator Aziz Ansari playing the latter.
Colin Jost’s Hegseth hit the familiar beats at the podium — performative machismo, military bravado, and repeated jabs at the secretary’s well-documented drinking habits. This time, Hegseth arrived at the mic hauling an oversized pitcher of scotch, which he assured the room was his one for the day. He then fielded questions from the press about the administration’s handling of U.S. strikes on Iran, dismissing each reporter with the particular brand of smug confidence that has become central to Jost’s portrayal of the character.
Ansari’s Patel proved to be the sketch’s standout, arriving to defend his tenure at the FBI and proceeding to do so poorly. The bit’s centerpiece involved Patel simultaneously denying and admitting that he had locked himself out of his work email for 36 hours after forgetting he had changed his password to “kashmeoutside69.”
Funnily enough, Patel was reportedly locked out of his FBI email in real life and believed, at least momentarily, that he was being fired. As the sketch demonstrated, the distance between SNL’s Cold Open and the actual news cycle has rarely felt smaller.
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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for May 3, 2026
Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will require some knowledge of popular U.S. sports and pop culture.
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. The sports 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 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 before 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:
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Yellow: In Good Shape
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Green: Current NFL Head Coaches
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Blue: Famous Sports “Curses”
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Purple: Starts of Big Ten Names
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 #586 is…
What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?
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In Good Shape: AGIL, ATHLETIC, FIT, STRONG
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Current NFL Head Coaches: COEN, GLENN, REID, RYANS
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Famous Sports “Curses”: BAMBINO, BILLY GOAT, MADDEN, SI COVER
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Starts of Big Ten Names: BOIL, BUCK, CORN, HAWK
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.
If you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Connections.
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The DJI Mini 5 Pro drone is $500 off right now at Amazon — save on this content creator favorite
SAVE $500: The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s $500 off the list price of $1,599.
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What’s going to happen to the drone market in 2026? Due to legislative pressure on DJI imports in the U.S., there is so much uncertainty at the moment. We expected stock issues by now, but we’re actually seeing strong discounts on some of the best drones in the DJI range.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s $500 off and close to the record-low price.
The DJI Mini 5 Pro offers a huge 1-inch CMOS sensor, so whether you’re shooting 50MP stills or 4K/120fps slow-motion, the dynamic range more than delivers. The DJI Mini 5 Pro also makes use of forward-facing LiDAR that powers the new Nightscape Omnidirectional Sensing, meaning it can dodge branches, power lines, and buildings even when you don’t have eyes on your drone.
This popular drone offers 42GB of internal storage, meaning you can actually capture a full session of 4K footage without needing an external card as backup. That can have a massive impact for content creators.
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