Disney just gave audiences their fullest look yet at Hexed, its upcoming animated feature, and the reaction has been surprisingly warm. After years of online skepticism toward the studio’s animated output — amplified by a run of unpopular live-action remakes and divided responses to its acquired Star Wars and Marvel slates — expectations for a … Read more
Hollywood Boulevard traded its red carpet for deep ocean blue this week as Whalefall surfaced for its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre, and the event was engineered to be unforgettable. A giant sperm whale head greeted guests outside the venue, setting the tone for a survival thriller built around one of cinema’s most … Read more
The short answer: Cooper was Murph’s “ghost” all along. Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar closes with Cooper falling into the black hole Gargantua, entering a five-dimensional tesseract built by future humans, and sending the quantum data Murph needs to save humanity — via gravity, through the second hand of her wristwatch. Humanity escapes a dying Earth; Cooper … Read more
The short answer: Hank MacLean was the villain all along. The finale of Prime Video’s Fallout reveals that Lucy’s father — a Vault-Tec executive alive since before the bombs — personally dropped a nuke on Shady Sands after his wife Rose took the children and left, and that his own wife is now the feral … Read more
Verdict: A star-driven crime thriller with a killer premise it keeps fumbling. ★★★☆☆ Ben Affleck knows how to direct a crime movie. The Town and Gone Baby Gone are modern classics of the genre. So there was real reason to be excited about Animals, his Netflix thriller about an LA mayoral candidate whose son is … Read more
Verdict: A gloriously self-indulgent auteur satire that dares you to hate it — and almost gets away with it. ★★★☆☆ There was a brief moment, sometime before the reviews landed, when Digger looked like the most important film of the autumn. Tom Cruise, unrecognisable and unleashed, under the direction of a two-time Oscar winner, taking … Read more
The scariest trailer of the season just dropped — and it is not what anyone expected. Horror mastermind Mike Flanagan has unleashed the first full trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs, and instead of another possessed child, he is giving the iconic franchise a radical reinvention: a gritty serial-killer mystery where the evil at the center … Read more
Prime Video has finally pulled back the curtain on its next great historical epic. At a packed New York Comic Con panel on October 9, the streamer unveiled the first teaser trailer and confirmed the premiere date for Bloodaxe, the Viking-age saga from Vikings creator Michael Hirst. The series premieres January 20, 2027, with all … Read more
Short answer: In the Severance season 2 finale, Mark’s outie and innie execute a plan to rescue Gemma (Ms. Casey) from Lumon’s testing floor, where the “Cold Harbor” project has been using her severed consciousnesses. They succeed — but at the stairwell exit, innie Mark refuses to cross, choosing to stay inside with Helly instead. … Read more
Short answer: In Sinners, Smoke dies fighting to protect the juke joint from the KKK, reunited in a vision with his late wife Annie; Stack survives as a vampire because Smoke spared him on the condition he never touch Sammie; and a mid-credits jump to 1992 shows Sammie as an old blues legend visited by … Read more