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Order in and have a family movie night this weekend with Sylvester Stallone’s Samaritan: Prime Video’s new action fantasy flick is about making decisions and living with the results. The movie centers on Sam Cleary, a 13-year-old boy who has a hunch that his mysterious next-door neighbor, Mr. Smith (Stallone), is actually the superhero vigilante Samaritan — who most people believe died in a fire 25 years ago. Sam goes on a mission to get Samaritan to come out of hiding so that the city can be saved. While there are heroes and superpowers in the film, the focus is on ordinary people and their common humanity. Ultimately, it brings a message of hope for a brighter future when people learn to work together — an especially important lesson for the preteens in your life (watch trailer, runtime 2:45).

⚽ It’s Europa League day: As the group stages of the Europa League kick off, these are the most worthy games to keep an eye on today: At 6:45 pm: Zurich v Arsenal, and Ludogorets Razgrad v Roma. At 9pm: Man United v Real Sociedad, and Lazio v Feyenoord.

Friday is a quiet day for European football, but it’s exciting on the regional front: Saudi league winner Al Hilal will face Egyptian League champ Zamalek at 8pm for the Lusail Super Cup in Qatar.

If you still need your European football fix, Gameweek 5 of La Liga kicks off at 9pm with Girona and Real Valladolid facing off.

Gameweek 6 of the German Bundesliga also gets underway at 8:30pm, with Werder Bremen facing Augsburg.

Saturday will see the CAF Super Cup Final at 9pm between Morocco’s RS Berkane and Wydad Athletic Club, the title holder of the CAF Champions League.

And Gameweek 7 of the English Premier League kicks off at 1:30pm with Fulham v Chelsea at 1:30 pm. At 4pm, you can alternate between four EPL games: Liverpool v Wolverhampton, Leicester City v Aston Villa, Bournemouth v Brighton, and Southampton v Brentford. The game we’re looking forward to the most kicks off at 6:30pm between Manchester City and Tottenham.

SPEAKING OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE- Chelsea is set to appoint Graham Potter as their new manager, after sacking manager Thomas Tuchel yesterday due to the team's poor performance this year, Sky Sports reported. The new owners made the call after Tuesday's 1-0 Champions League loss to Dinamo Zagreb — who are currently being coached by a familiar face: Former Pyramids FC manager Ante Čačić.

La Liga: Rayo Vallecano hosts Valencia at 2 pm, Espanyol plays Seville at 4:15 pm, then Barcelona faces Cadiz at 6:30 pm. Last but certainly not least, Atletico Madrid will play Celta Vigo at 9pm.

In Serie A: Napoli hosts Spezia at 3pm, followed by Inter v Torino at 6pm, and then Milan faces Sampdoria at 9pm.

The most notable Bundesliga matches kick off at 3:30 pm: Bayern Munich v Stuttgart and Leipzig v Borussia Dortmund.

(PS: have you joined the Enterprise Fantasy League yet? If not, just click here or enter the following code: 8o4sut.)

Egypt just got its first Church-affiliated football club: A junior football club affiliated with central Cairo churches opened admissions today for junior players, Al Arabiya reports. The Oyoun Misr Club will accept applications for players born between 2003-2014, according to an announcement on Down Town Cairo Academy’s Facebook page, and intends to compete in the Egyptian League up to the fourth division.

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You can now have homemade gooey chocolate chip cookies, sans the kitchen mess, thanks to d.licious. Chocolate chip cookie die-hards know that store bought cookies just don’t hit the spot. Nothing beats a freshly baked warm cookie straight out of the oven. The catch? You need to dedicate a couple of hours to whip up the batter, (typically annihilating your kitchen in the process) and wait for the batter to chill and bake. D.licious saves you all that hassle — just put their frozen mounds of cookie dough onto a tray and they go straight into the oven for around ten minutes. Instead of a mess, you’re only left with chewiest cookies that ooze out warm chocolate goodness. Their cookies come in four different flavors: Milk Chocolate Chunk, Nutella Stuffed, White Chocolate Pecan and our favorite Dark Chocolate Sea Salt. You can order the boxes, which each make 12 cookies, on their website for delivery, or pop into any Souffle store to pick one up yourself.

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Who runs the world? (Girls): Three talented ladies will take charge tonight at Cairo Jazz Club: Singer-songwriter Lella Fadda will open the night with a selection of her original songs, followed by UAE-based musician Almas, who will be in the house to play her rap, trap, and hip-hop-inspired originals, and DJ Nedz will close things out with a dancey set.

Musician Nesma Abdelaziz will perform at the Cairo Opera House’s Open Air Theater tomorrow at 8pm. The famed marimba player will be performing some Arabic classics as well as Western melodies with her band.

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Cult Podcast introduces listeners to a new cult and its leaders every week, from the more obscure cults you’ve probably never heard of to some mind blowing details about more high profile groups. Hosts Paige Wesley, Armando Torres, and Andrea Guzzetta show up having done their homework for each episode, thoroughly well-researching each cult they feature. They detail the political and cultural climate of each era the cults were formed in, providing a greater understanding of why and how people were persuaded to join and what made the prospect so enticing. They even have a five-part series of episodes dedicated to Donald Trump’s followers, who have often been described as cult-like. The hosts question how literal of a description that is, looking at his earliest supporters and the rise of the MAGA following. From online cults to historical cults, they’ve covered all sorts of groups in the 236 episodes they’ve recorded.

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