Movie news
Hannah Whitlock
September 18, 2026 6:27 pm
Picnic at Hanging Rock true story: readers once flooded the State Library of Victoria asking for records of the disappearances
There are literary hoaxes, and then there is whatever Joan Lindsay pulled off in 1967 — a novel so convincingly dressed as history that generations of Australians have marched into the State Library of Victoria demanding the police files.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
September 18, 2026 3:19 pm
The Salt Path controversy explained: a year after the Observer investigation, a 2026 admission reopened it
Some scandals die down. The Salt Path one just keeps lacing up its hiking boots.
Hannah Whitlock
September 18, 2026 12:11 pm
The Dog Stars filming locations: Hig's hangar is a real working airfield, dressed to look abandoned
There's a specific flavor of movie magic I refuse to shut up about, and it's this: the loneliest place in Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars — the hangar where Jacob Elordi's Hig lives out the end of the world with his dog and Josh Brolin's trigger-happy roommate — is not a ruin at all.
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.
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.