Movie news
Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 3:29 pm
Heart of the Beast is at 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics keep saying the real star isn't Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt spent months in the New Zealand cold, shot a survival movie with his Fury director, and got the best reviews of that director's career. The critics' thank-you notes, however, keep going to someone who eats boiled chicken.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
September 24, 2026 2:49 pm
Billie Lourd's kids are getting to know Carrie Fisher through Star Wars — in one scene, Leia is actually their mom
Billie Lourd went on daytime TV to plug a new season of AHS and came away with the most tender Star Wars story of the week. The kids know grandma mostly as a movie character — and one scene of that movie stars someone much closer to home.
Tatiana Santos
September 24, 2026 8:01 am
The Love Hypothesis movie hits Prime Video: Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman star in a rom-com that began as Star Wars fanfiction
The most improbable adaptation pipeline in publishing — AO3 to bestseller list to streaming — just completed its final stage, with a casting twist George Lucas couldn't have scripted.
Tatiana Santos
September 24, 2026 7:42 am
Ray Gunn trailer: Brad Bird chased this movie for 30 years — Netflix set the release date, with a theatrical run first
The Incredibles director's white whale finally surfaced this week, and it's getting the kind of theatrical treatment animated films almost never see.
Tatiana Santos
September 24, 2026 7:19 am
Gremlins 3 teaser shows off a new Mogwai, but the release date moves to 2028 — the delay isn't about production at all
Warner Bros. finally showed a frame of its long-awaited threequel — eleven seconds of it — and buried the lede in the date card.
Hannah Whitlock
September 23, 2026 1:17 pm
Who dies in Brothers Under Fire? Every death, in order — starting at the wedding
The film spends its first stretch on a wedding party in Mexico, which is the last time the squad is at full strength. Everything after that is arithmetic.
Daniel Okafor
September 23, 2026 12:54 pm
Marvel is filing copyright claims to pull four leaked Endgame Encore scenes off X — here is what is in them
Disney is selling Endgame Encore on four scenes nobody has seen. As of this morning everybody has seen them, in phone-camera quality, and the takedown notices are going out faster than the reposts. Three of the four are not really Endgame at all.
Daniel Okafor
September 23, 2026 12:09 pm
Elizabeth Holmes invited the cameras in 34 days before prison — Nathan Fielder's A24 film is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Every previous account of Theranos was assembled from the outside — court records, ex-employees, a Hulu series. This one was shot from inside the house, by a comedian who does not let people finish their own version of events, and it arrives with a perfect critics’ score.
Tatiana Santos
September 23, 2026 8:12 am
Endgame Encore re-release, September 25: the Doomsday footage depends on which ticket you buy
Marvel is putting a seven-year-old movie back in theaters this Friday, and the fine print on your ticket decides how much of the future you're allowed to see.
Daniel Okafor
September 22, 2026 6:56 pm
The lead of Netflix's Atypical needs $4,000 by 30 September to keep health insurance, and Jack Haven is asking anyone at all to hire them
An actor with a four-season Netflix series, an A24 lead and nine award nominations sat down in front of a phone last weekend and offered to take almost any job on almost any set. Not a stunt, not a bit. A deadline in the SAG-AFTRA rulebook closes on 30 September, and they are about $4,000 short of it.