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Patrick Stewart: A Man Who Bridged Our Past with the Future
I only ever saw Sir Patrick Stewart once in person. It was on stage at the Cort Theatre in New York City, where he starred opposite his late-in-life best friend Sir Ian McKellen.
The 13 Coolest Looking Werewolves in Movie History
There are certain rules you need to know to survive a horror movie. Jamie Kennedy’s Randy Meeks codified them for a post-slasher world in the 1990s via Scream. But if you’re a fan of far more classic cinema—or the lore that inspired it in the case of Robert Eggers, director of this Christmas’ Werwulf—then there are even more foundational commandments that should be obeyed: Beware the moon, stick to the road, and whatever you do, don’t go investigate that howling out on the moors.
The Debut Review: Julianne Moore Gives a Russian Nesting Doll of a Performance
I never participated in community theater, that peculiar intersection of (sometimes) professional-grade talent and a hobbyist’s after-hours work schedule. But I did get to join a couple of school plays back in my younger days, and it’s easy to remember the sense of kindness and togetherness that emanates from people gathering round in order to create—or in many cases simply to play. One suspects writer-director Jesse Eisenberg misses that kind of innocence in his craft as well.
Warhound: Genetically Enhanced War Dogs Startup Claims It Could Have Major Applications for Pet Owners Original
What brave new world is this where genetically engineered military work dogs are not the stuff of science fiction but, soon, the stuff of science fact? That is one of the upshots from news that Fortune first broke Thursday evening about American billionaires Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey collaborating on a new startup titled Warhound, and already it has in stealth raised $200 million in seed funding.
Carrie’s Matthew Lillard: The Biggest Lesson from Modern Teachers Is It’s ‘Never the Kid, It’s the Adults’ Original
Matthew Lillard is deeply proud of his children. Obviously aware of the irony that he was once most famous for playing young people discovering their identities or beginning their lives in high school and college, and is now the “elder statesman” on sets like Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, Lillard remains acutely observant of the growing-up experience—especially in his own home with three children between the ages of 18 and 24.
Werwulf: Exclusive First Look Inside Robert Eggers’ New Movie and a Career in Moonlight
Robert Eggers is in the midst of transformation. When we catch up with the 21st-century maestro of the macabre, he is in a pitch-black room (of course) at his London studio, supervising the final mix of sound and effects for Werwulf. Like other Eggers films that are now staples of modern horror, from The Witch to Nosferatu, Werwulf is a meticulously researched, borderline fanatical period piece, this one set in a 1300s England so authentic every character speaks in Middle English.
Peter Jackson Partners with Colossal to Bring Giant Moa Egg Back to New Zealand Original
There are not even 40 confirmed, sufficiently complete moa eggs known about on this planet. Those that survive are a glimpse, a keyhole really, into a past and time when these great, enormous birds dominated the islands of New Zealand (or Aotearoa, as it is known in Māori). Of those less than 40 surviving eggs, only eight are believed to have 90 percent or more of their shells still intact. That number is about to go up to nine.
You Can See Everything: Exploring the Ending and Nathan Fielder’s Spoiler-Filled Intentions
This article contains major You Can See Everything spoilers. Please do not read before watching the movie. Is Nathan Fielder trying to protect Elizabeth Holmes? Are we protecting Elizabeth Holmes? It’s the final, devastatingly open-ended question that Fielder leaves hanging in his and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything. Are the filmmakers compromised by Elizabeth Holmes’ widely recognized abilities to manipulate? Is the audience?
How Greta Gerwig Got Led Zeppelin’s Support and THAT Song in Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew Original
Greta Gerwig was pitching a Chronicles of Narnia movie to Netflix before she realized she wanted to make it. The year was 2019 and her frequent collaborator/husband Noah Baumbach was in the midst of the Netflix rollout for his own passion project, Marriage Story. Meanwhile Gerwig was fresh off the release of her solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, and on the eve of her second feature opening: Little Women.
Wuxia, Anime, and Giant Hair: Street Fighter Director Explains ‘90s Influences
It’s one of the most recognizable silhouettes in video game history. With six-plus feet of beefy muscle squeezed into a tight, sleeveless green shirt, the character they call Guile cut a towering figure over arcade cabinets via his blonde flattop haircut, not least of all because the do reached sizes larger than most men’s heads.
The Social Reckoning Review: Aaron Sorkin’s Transformation of Mark Zuckerberg Is Complete
There are few movies coming out this fall where the role of expectation will as dramatically influence perception as The Social Reckoning. Aaron Sorkin’s surprise sequel to one of the greatest films in the 21st century always seemed like a tall order. Here is a new movie with the gumption to expound on what many consider to be both Sorkin’s finest screenplay and a vision that managed to define the shadow of big tech on modern life at a time when many were only dimly aware of its influence.
Bucking Fastard Review: Kate Mara and Rooney Mara as The Shining Twins (But Funny!) Original
Kate and Rooney Mara are not twins, nor are their characters Jeanie and Joanie Holbrook in the new, odd Werner Herzog movie Bucking Fastard. Joan and Jean, in fact, get aggressively perturbed when they’re mistaken as identical siblings, or otherwise described in any terms as a double act. That’s because they’re so singularly one person; one characterization; a single performance told via two Maras. To suggest a differentiation is akin to effrontery.
WB’s Value Lies in More than Just Capes, Harry Potter, and IP
Photo: Monica Schipper/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images This article originally appeared as part of the Den of Geek “Absolute Cinema” newsletter. Find out how to subscribe here. In 1969, director Stanley Kubrick was on top of the world. He had, as the director once mused to his later-friend Steven Spielberg, made a dint on cinema thanks to the extraordinary vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
You Can See Everything Review: Nathan Fiedler Vanishes in Elizabeth Holmes’ Looking Glass Original
Some documentaries strive to guide you into the uncanny valley, holding the viewer’s hand while the surreality of its subject matter is slowly revealed. You Can See Everything starts in that place, moves in furniture, and makes itself snugly at home in some of the valley’s choicest real estate. Which in this case resembles the San Diego beach house of Elizabeth Holmes just 34 days before she goes to prison.
Digger Ending Explained: It’s Bleaker Than You Realize Original
This article contains Digger spoilers. How will our descendants view us? It’s a question that seems to haunt Alejandro González Iñárritu, the director and co-writer of Digger. He is old enough to vividly remember when folks around his age—albeit perhaps more so in the U.S. than outside of it—began looking at their parents as “the Greatest Generation.” They were the ones who lived through the Great Depression and faced the horror of World War II.
Verity Review: Anne Hathaway’s 2026 Winning Streak Had to End Sometime Original
Verity is a movie that makes a lot of noise about writing. The most important characters are authors.
Digger Review: Tom Cruise Attempts Kubrickian Satire in Bold, Uneven Swing
If you’re of a certain age, it is easy to miss the Tom Cruise of yesteryear who defined his career by the daring risks he would take with auteurs as much those safe studio bets.
Club Kid Review: The Feel-Good A24 Gay Nightclub Movie You’ve Been Waiting For
There are few people who do not at some point want to be the life of the party. There are even fewer who want to be the final dregs hanging on after last call is announced, “Closing Time” played, and the lights flipped on. Peter, Jordan Firstman’s hard-living and self-styled party promoter, is well past both points in a debut feature that the actor also wrote and directed.
Paper Tiger Review: Adam Driver and Miles Teller Lead Great American Film Original
For more than half a century, the vernacular around crime and cinema has changed. Many of the films and even television series that are responsible for this shift have a method to their madness. Whether it is the majestic gravity of the Corleone family or the shiny shoe slickness of Ray Liotta’s Henry Hill, these characters inhabit stories designed to reveal the seductive power of the criminal underworld that lures wayward souls to damnation.
Godzilla Minus Zero Review: Bigger, Grander, and Double the Kaiju Original
This article reconfirms who the second kaiju is in Godzilla Minus Zero, which neither we nor the filmmakers consider a spoiler. But just in case… here’s your warning. When Godzilla Minus One released three years ago, it was remarkable for a multitude of reasons.
Why Robert Pattinson Needed Lord of the Rings and Sauron to Understand Chris Hansen Original
In the minds of director Lance Oppenheim and star Robert Pattinson, Primetime was always as much about the idea of Chris Hansen as it was the man. The film they made is certainly based on a real figure, specifically in regard to the most controversial segment of Hansen’s To Catch a Predator as relayed in a 2007 Esquire article about the day a man died while filming the program.
Sense and Sensibility Review: A Surprisingly Bittersweet Jane Austen for New Generations Original
At a certain point, oft-loved (and oft-adapted) classics, such as the works of Jane Austen, transcend their status as simple stories. They’re standards; myths; anthems whose value in each successive generation stems from how some beloved beats are adhered to whilst others are omitted entirely by a free-styling soloist having their way on a jazz bass. Or a pianoforte.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Ending Should Make Hardcore Gamers Happy
This article contains massive Resident Evil spoilers. The ending of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is its most twisted and ambitious element. After a mean, lean, mutated-heart-on-its-sleeve B-movie where we watch a hapless millennial named Bryan (Austin Abrams) bungle his way through the zombie apocalypse consuming Raccoon City, the final act of is where everything comes to a gooey head.
Resident Evil: The Biggest Changes from the Game Make for a Better Movie
This article contains Resident Evil movie spoilers. One of the greatest jump scares in all of video game history occurred during the early movements of the original 1996 Resident Evil classic. As either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield, players would wander tentatively and fitfully through a big spooky mansion where they know the animated remains of human corpses are slowly shuffling about. What most gamers back then did not realize though is that humans weren’t the only danger.
Resident Evil Review: A Decent Raccoon City Movie That Comes Well-Armed
Alfred Hitchcock once mused surprise is a bomb going off beneath a table that neither the characters nor the audience knows is there. Suspense is the public knowing about the bomb whilst the characters sit blissfully unaware. Zach Cregger knows about suspense as much or more as he does a well-timed jump scare.
Primetime Review: You Can’t Look Away from Robert Pattinson’s Weirdest Antihero
Fifty years ago, Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was startling for how prescient it appeared. In the era of Woodward and Bernstein, and Walter Cronkite, here was a film about a blossoming rot undergirding American news media, and a capitalistic profit-motive that threatened to write doom across the future of serious journalism and the public it served.
The Movie That Best Captured That Post-9/11 Feeling
Twenty-five years is obviously a long time. In a quarter-century, social media services flourished, smartphones multiplied, and entire generations were born and came of age. That distance is probably why today’s sobering 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has been met with a curious new trend on TikTok, X, and various other apps: younger users apprehensive or baffled by how solemnly folks become around this date.
Hachette Unveils the Ultimate Dungeons & Dragons Novel Collection
This article is sponsored by Hachette Partworks. For over 50 years, Dungeons & Dragons has brought together fantasy fans of all ages with everything from tabletop gameplay to stories based on its epic realms. Now Hachette Partworks is sharing a whole treasure trove of Dungeons & Dragons literary stories with its novels collection, bringing together 100 of the greatest D&D novels ever written.
Paul Greengrass Reveals The Uprising Began With the Title ‘The Hood’
Paul Greengrass knew he always wanted to make a quasi-Robin Hood movie well before his deeply naturalistic historical epic, The Uprising, had the famous rogue’s name added to the poster.
Do We Really Need to Explain the Nazis Metaphor in Starship Troopers, Mr. Trump? Original
So over the long Labor Day weekend in the U.S.—a three-day respite that unofficially marks the end of summer with excursions to the beach or mountains, or at least hot dogs on the grill—President Donald Trump took to his personal social media app, Truth Social. Quite a lot. And among the President of the United States’ many wordy, often bombastic posts was what appeared to be an announcement for the honest-to-Palpatine uniforms intended for the burgeoning U.S. Space Force.
Do We Really Need to Explain the Nazis Metaphor in Starship Troopers, Mr. Trump?
Do We Really Need to Explain the Nazis Metaphor in Starship Troopers, Mr. Trump? Tue, 8 September 2026 at 6:40 pm UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So over the long Labor Day weekend in the U.S.—a three-day respite that unofficially marks the end of summer with excursions to the beach or mountains, or at least hot dogs on the grill—President Donald Trump took to his personal social media app, Truth Social. Quite a lot.
The Most Intense Sci-Fi Movie of the Year Began with a Fishing Trip Near the Korean DMZ
Director Na Hong-jin can be unexpectedly modest for a filmmaker who has a penchant for making near three-hour genre epics like The Wailing, 2016’s supernaturally-charged horror movie about mysterious killings in a small town that became the toast of Cannes. Before that, The Yellow Sea saw the South Korean auteur tackle the action genre with similar verve and ambition.
Oscar Season Now: Welcome to the Rest of the Year Original
Early September is traditionally a quiet time at the multiplex. The last holdovers from the dog days of summer movie season—your Spider-Mans and Odysseys, as well as August risks like Coyote vs. Acme—continue to do dwindling business. Meanwhile new and skewed genre films are taking their chances in the off-season. But for everyone else outside the industry, now’s the time to think about schools reopening and vacations ending. In the biz, though?
The Best Martin Scorsese Movies Not About Gangsters
Martin Scorsese has been making movies since 1967. His filmography currently sits at 26 features, 16 documentaries, and numerous short films. He’s a tireless advocate for film, supporting numerous preservation efforts and sponsoring the world cinema project, which brings attention to filmmakers across the globe. And lately he’s become something of a social media darling, thanks to the efforts of his granddaughter, plus pop star Charli XCX.
HBO Harry Potter Trailer Reveals New Snape, Quidditch, and Hogwarts But Still Feels Old Original
“Are you really Harry Potter?” wee little Dominic McLaughlin is asked by another incredulous first-year Hogwarts student at the end of the Harry Potter teaser from five months ago. That intriguing bit of marketing really leaned into elements from J.K. Rowling’s book series glossed over 25 years ago in the Christopher Columbus movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, such as just how miserable muggle school is for the Boy Who Lived.
Onslaught’s Adam Wingard Wants Michael Myers ‘Run Through a Military Filter’
There is something mythic about a climactic moment only teased in the Onslaught trailers and marketing. A mother, wounded, bloodied, and defiantly badass stands with a chainsaw-in-hand and an eyepatch-on-face against an otherworldly, demonic force with glowing eyes and heavy weaponry. The tableau might be worthy of a John Trumbull painting—or at least a John Carpenter poster.
Superman 2’s Adria Arjona Opens Up About Reteaming with James Gunn
Adria Arjona is careful when deciding what to say next. A charismatic and quickly ascendent actor who stole scenes in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man and Tony Gilroy’s Andor, she is now about to be seen wielding a chainsaw and some ferocious mama bear energy in Adam Wingard’s giddy throwback to John Carpenter vibes: Onslaught.
Coyote vs. Acme Reception Confirms the Looney Tunes Have Long Deserved Better Original
There are several ways to look at the Coyote vs. Acme opening this past weekend. The first is that the movie performed well past expectations and deserves a carrot in addition to a well-timed “what’s up doc?” for its effort. This picture was, after all, generally projected to earn between $11 and $14 million by industry prognosticators, yet wound up grossing $15.9 million in the U.S. and nearly $24 million worldwide in its opening weekend.
Onslaught Review: Adria Arjona Channels John Carpenter Vibes Original
Forty years ago, a movie like Adam Wingard’s Onslaught would have all the markings of a John Carpenter flight of fancy. This is after all a picture with diabolical Nazi scientists working for the U.S. government; experimental super soldiers who look ever so much like masked, Michael Myers-shaped serial killers; and one woman who is smart and badass enough to take it all on with a pint-sized child by her side.
Tim Curry: From Rocky Horror to Clue, A Fearless Character Actor Ham
In the heady Wild West days of 1970s New Hollywood, relatively few people knew what would work. That especially included the older studio executives who still ostensibly ran things.
It Ends Review: NEON’s Brutally Clever Cosmic Horror
Introverts and extroverts view the world in different ways. For most extroverts, a road trip with friends where small talk transforms into the random minutiae of a wandering mind sounds like a blast in eight-hour chunks. To an introvert, the prospect of spending even a fraction of that time “shooting the shit” can be its own special type of torture.
House of the Dragon Season 4 Needs to Let Alicent Be Alicent
This article contains House of the Dragon season 3 spoilers. In the last month, I found myself rewatching the first season of House of the Dragon. This was done partially to remember details that four years and a dozen-plus episodes can make hazy. But it was also out of nostalgia for a series that I absolutely adored in its freshman year and that, while I still enjoy, has increasingly come with caveats.
Let Dinosaurs Rule Hollywood Movies Again Original
A few years ago, I had the chance to speak with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the screenwriters who first came up with the idea of A Quiet Placeand who wrote and directed the deliciously elevated B-thriller, Heretic. In between those pictures, they also wrote and directed a dinosaur movie that didn’t quite work, the Adam Driver-led 65.
Marvel Announces New X-Men Cast: Adam Driver On Board as Unexpected Villain
When 12,000 fans, press, and professionals stuff themselves into Anaheim’s Honda Center you can expect electricity. And on a sweaty Southern California Friday night Disney hoped to channel that energy into another win — building on the momentum of the record breaking opening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day — on the opening night of their “Ultimate Fan Event” D23.
Coyote vs. Acme Review: Justice for the Looney Tunes Is Here Original
The most feel-good story at the movies this year isn’t happening just on the screen. By virtue of merely playing out of cinema projectors, Dave Green’s Coyote vs. Acme feels like a miracle before even the title card; it’s a Cinderella story if Cinderella was a rabbit in a gown and wig doing their best Ingrid Bergman impression. In a world where movies like Batgirl have vanished forever inside a Warner Bros. vault to justify a corporate tax write-off, Coyote vs.
House of the Dragon’s Most Shocking Book Change Has Infamous Real History Roots Original
This article contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 3. Power resides where men believe it resides. This famous nugget of wisdom, spoken between Lord Varys and the Imp of Casterly Rock, is virtually a thesis statement for Game of Thrones and the larger George R.R. Martin universe.
The Odyssey’s Wild Success Echoes Core Batman Lesson for Christopher Nolan Original
The Odyssey is now officially the highest grossing movie in Christopher Nolan’s career. The filmmaker of Inception, Oppenheimer, and three different Batman pictures capped that milestone Sunday when Odyssey crossed $1.1 billion at the global marketplace, topping a benchmark last set by The Dark Knight Rises 14 years ago. In one sense, the scale of popularity for this film should not be too surprising. It was long ago when Nolan reached the rare heights of a director who is a brand unto himself.
The Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)
There is something to be said about taking stock and counting your blessings at a year’s midpoint. For most that demarcation moment comes at the end of June, which is, after all, the year’s literal halfway mark. Yet we’ve always preferred taking stock in the dog days of summer, at least when it comes to movies.
Robert Pattinson Terrifies as Chris Hansen in Full Primetime Trailer Original
Charlie, the nebbish and ineffectual bridegroom in Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, and Antinous, the smug and oily would-be suitor in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, could not be further apart. However, they share two specific characteristics: they’re both played to the hilt by Robert Pattinson and they’re each in their own idiosyncratic way deeply funny performances.
One Night Only Review: Dystopia with a Happy Ending Original
Dating is hard. The modern world has taken this eternal truism and exacerbated it in a sea of apps and swipes—a digital marketplace often stripped of that ephemeral thing old souls call romance. Hell, it’s even hard getting a decent rom-com these days. Which might be what makes One Night Only cleverer than it has any right to be.
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