Movie news
Hannah Whitlock
September 18, 2026 10:33 am
Disclosure Day ending explained: the finale was the first scene Spielberg wrote — the last line wasn't his
Full spoilers ahead for the ending of Disclosure Day, up to and including its very last syllable.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
September 18, 2026 9:08 am
Which Spanish movie is The Invite based on? Olivia Wilde's version is already its fifth remake
Watching Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde get slowly dismantled over dinner by Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, you might assume The Invite sprang fully formed from some A24 pitch meeting.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 4:06 pm
Halle Berry, Meg Ryan and Regina King will decide which short film Chanel pays to make
Tribeca and Chanel announced the jury for the eleventh Through Her Lens on Thursday: Meg Ryan, Halle Berry, Regina King, Autumn Durald Arkapaw and Ella Rubin. They decide which pitch gets a fully funded short film — and three of them have directed a feature themselves.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 3:31 pm
Is Disclosure Day based on a book? Where the script came from, and the novel it borrows exactly one word from
Every time Hollywood drops a movie that feels grown in a lab from pure premise — aliens are real, the government knew, a Kansas City weather girl finds out live on air — my first instinct is to hunt down the airport paperback it was strip-mined from.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 3:11 pm
Primetime trailer: Robert Pattinson's Chris Hansen promises to be "bigger than Lost" — with Ari Aster producing
Why don't you have a seat, because A24 just dropped the final trailer for Primetime ahead of its September 25 release, and Robert Pattinson's Chris Hansen is somehow both a perfect impression and a jump scare.
Hannah Whitlock
September 17, 2026 1:56 pm
The Christophers ending explained
On paper, The Christophers is a heist movie: Michaela Coel's Lori Butler, an art restorer with a gift for painting in other people's handwriting, gets hired by the two worst adult children in London — Jessica Gunning and James Corden, both having a wonderful time — to sneak into their dying father's house and secretly finish his abandoned masterpieces, so they can "discover" them after the funeral and retire on the proceeds.
Tatiana Santos
September 17, 2026 12:51 pm
Matthew Lillard admits he's ashamed of his Scream 7 return: Melissa Barrera's firing "is really f---ing bullshit"
Matthew Lillard did something at a Scream 30th anniversary screening this week that you almost never see a working actor do: he publicly graded his own homework and gave himself an F.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 3:51 pm
Resident Evil is heading for $40-50M, and the film to compare it to isn't a Resident Evil movie
Resident Evil opens Friday, and Wednesday’s tracking says Sony is about to erase a record that has stood in this franchise since 2010. The number that predicts it, though, isn’t anywhere in the franchise — it belongs to the film Zach Cregger made before this one.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 2:19 pm
Ke Huy Quan gave up his Chinese name at 18, and his new memoir explains what he was trying to escape
Ke Huy Quan has spent the last four years being introduced by his full name, deliberately. His memoir, out this week, goes back to the years when he answered to something else entirely — and to the 18-year-old who thought that was the fix.
Tatiana Santos
September 16, 2026 1:44 pm
Brie Larson meets her dead mother in One Italian Summer: Paramount release date, cast and first plot details
Brie Larson has punched aliens, taught chemistry as an act of war, and voiced a space princess for Mario. Her next trick is quieter and, honestly, more of a gut-punch: grieving her mother on the Amalfi Coast — and then running into her at a seaside hotel, alive, tanned, and thirty years old.