Movie news
Tatiana Santos
October 7, 2026 7:17 am
Embassy release date on MGM Plus: Anna Kendrick is trapped in a Die Hard-style siege, and Sam Heughan plays her ex-fiancé
Mercenaries, a locked-down embassy, and an ex who happens to be SAS: MGM+ has bought itself a very specific kind of fun.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
October 6, 2026 9:05 am
"Read the comic book": Anthony Mackie's answer on Chris Evans' Steve Rogers in Avengers: Doomsday points to Nomad
Anthony Mackie had a very blunt answer about Chris Evans' Marvel comeback, and a 52-year-old comic book backs him up.
Tatiana Santos
October 6, 2026 8:44 am
Christian Bale's The Bride cost Warner Bros. $90 million in theaters — is it a streaming flop on HBO Max too?
The box office verdict on Maggie Gyllenhaal's monster romance was brutal, and the streaming verdict is a lot more complicated.
Tatiana Santos
October 6, 2026 7:08 am
The Batman Part 2 production paused as Matt Reeves steps away — and its 2028 release date was already the fourth one
The sequel was finally shooting in London, its release date had finally stopped moving, and then the cameras stopped too.
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 9:03 am
The Lorne documentary has a Netflix release date — Tina Fey, Conan and Chris Rock do the talking, because SNL's Lorne Michaels won't
The most powerful man in comedy finally got the documentary treatment — and stayed exactly as unknowable as he's been for fifty years, which may be the point.
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 8:47 am
Why Lee Child vetoed Jack Reacher 3: he liked Tom Cruise, made money off him — and killed the third film anyway
The author had the strangest kill switch in franchise history written into his contract, and he's finally explaining why he pulled it.
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 8:12 am
Quentin Tarantino's Cliff Booth novel release date is set — readers get the 1977 story two weeks before Netflix does
The man wrote the movie, declined to direct it, and is now publishing his own competing version of the story — on a schedule engineered for maximum mischief.
Hannah Whitlock
October 4, 2026 3:16 pm
Does Peeta die in Catching Fire? Katniss swore to die for him — The Hunger Games had other plans
Catching Fire spends its entire second half daring you to think the answer is yes. It isn't — though the film gets closer to it than most sequels would dare with a lead.
Hannah Whitlock
October 4, 2026 11:38 am
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire recap — the 2013 movie already showed a piece of Haymitch's Games
Katniss ends this film by winning it the same way her mentor won his, twenty-four years earlier. The movie never says so out loud.
Hannah Whitlock
October 4, 2026 10:26 am
The Social Reckoning true story: the real whistleblower walked out of Facebook with tens of thousands of secret files
The person Mikey Madison is playing spent her last months at Facebook photographing her own employer's internal research. Then she gave it to a newspaper, a regulator, and a Senate subcommittee, in that order.