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
Verdict: 4.5/5 — A lean, gory, unexpectedly funny survival-horror thrill ride that finally understands the assignment. Zach Cregger has delivered not just the best Resident Evil film but the best video game movie ever made. The franchise is reborn. Director Zach Cregger Writers Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten Cast Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul … Read more
Verdict: 3/5 — A pulpy, handsomely mounted erotic thriller that never quite commits to the campy fun its premise promises, carried almost entirely by Anne Hathaway’s feral commitment. Audiences are devouring it; critics are wincing. Both are right. Director Michael Showalter Writer Nick Antosca, based on Colleen Hoover’s novel Cast Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh … Read more
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning” has bombed at the box office. The $40 million Sony release — a companion piece to the Oscar-winning “The Social Network” — opened to just $5.5 million domestically from 2,606 theaters over the October 9–11 weekend, landing in a distant fifth place. Worldwide, the film has managed only about $9 … Read more
“Other Mommy” has stormed the domestic box office. Universal and Blumhouse’s horror release opened to an estimated $27.5 million from 3,365 North American theaters over the October 9–11 weekend, according to studio estimates reported by Comscore — more than doubling its $19 million production budget in a single three-day frame. Worldwide, the film has already … Read more
The short answer: The good guys win — the Algorithm never reaches the future. But the real twist is that a future version of the Protagonist orchestrated the entire operation, and Neil — the friend beside him all along — was the masked soldier who saved his life twice, and must now go back in … Read more
The short answer: The winner is Player 222 — Jun-hee's newborn baby. After a final knife fight atop the towers of Sky Squid Game, Seong Gi-hun (Player 456) realizes the game cannot end while both he and the infant survive. So he delivers one last speech to the Front Man and the VIPs — "We … Read more
Medicaid members living in the Bronx will be exempt from the new federal work requirements when they take effect on January 1, 2027 — because the borough meets the law’s high-unemployment threshold, the New York State Department of Health has confirmed. The Bronx is currently the only county in New York that qualifies for the … Read more
Verdict: 4/5 — The best performance of Dwayne Johnson’s career anchors a gritty, unglamorous sports drama that refuses every cliché of the genre. Benny Safdie directs with bruising intimacy, and Emily Blunt is superb. It’s too punishing and deliberate to be a crowd-pleaser — the box office proved that — but it’s a real film … Read more