Movie news
Daniel Okafor
October 18, 2026 6:26 pm
The studio that made Sinners just lost the people who said yes to it
Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy greenlit the riskiest hits in recent Warner Bros. history. Skydance kept the franchise executives instead.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
October 18, 2026 5:43 pm
'The only one of the three that actually tried something': The Last Jedi is winning the sequel war
A Reddit post set out to declare the movie bad once and for all. A hundred replies later, it proved the opposite.
Daniel Okafor
October 18, 2026 4:58 pm
Some Street Fighter fans say Andrew Schulz is why they're skipping it — Miami Vice '85 cast him too
The same casting complaint has now surfaced under two different franchise reboots, and the first of them just opened in theaters.
Hannah Whitlock
October 18, 2026 4:22 pm
Obsession Oscar buzz: the $750,000 horror hit wants 15 Oscars
A 26-year-old director's micro-budget horror movie out-grossed half the summer's blockbusters, and now its studio is campaigning it like it's Oppenheimer.
Hannah Whitlock
October 18, 2026 2:36 pm
How scary is Other Mommy? A demon wears Jessica Chastain's face to reach her 8-year-old — critics say the movie wastes it
The premise is nightmare fuel, the trailer's jump scare went viral, and the reviews read like incident reports. Here's what you're actually signing up for.
Hannah Whitlock
October 18, 2026 12:53 pm
What Late Fame is based on: the manuscript outlived its author by 80 years and survived a Nazi book burning
Willem Dafoe's quietest Oscar vehicle this year is adapted from a novella with a better third act than most movies: written in the 1890s, published in 2014.
Hannah Whitlock
October 18, 2026 11:08 am
Is One Night Only based on a book? The source is real — Hollywood ranked it #1 before a single scene was shot
No novel, no article, no podcast. The source material is a script that Hollywood's own executives voted the best unproduced screenplay of the year — and that's where the story gets uncomfortable.
Hannah Whitlock
October 18, 2026 9:17 am
Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The whole witchy island is England in disguise
The Owens sisters' New England seaside town has a new secret, and it's a postcode. Not one frame of the sequel was shot in America.
Daniel Okafor
October 17, 2026 4:52 pm
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc is making audiences feel sorry for Elizabeth Holmes
You Can See Everything opened October 16 with a perfect critics' score, and the most common reaction coming out of theaters is the one nobody planned for.
Hannah Whitlock
October 17, 2026 4:14 pm
Pretty Woman's original ending was two rewrites away from the movie you know
Before the fairy tale, the script was called 3000, Vivian was a crack addict, and the last scene left her money in a gutter. The writer himself drafted the movie out of its own ending.