Movie news
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.
Crush of the day
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.
Hannah Whitlock
October 4, 2026 9:17 am
The Uprising true story: Wat Tyler and John Ball really existed — the Robin Hood ending never happened
Two of the three men leading the rebellion in this film are in the chronicles, with dates and deaths attached. The third is invented, and so is what happens to him after the credits get close.
Hannah Whitlock
October 3, 2026 5:06 pm
Other Mommy ending explained: what the creature really wants when it begs to "go into your heart"
The entity in the closet is unfailingly polite. It asks the same question over and over, for years, and it will not move until somebody says yes.
Hannah Whitlock
October 3, 2026 3:49 pm
The Devil Wears Prada 2 ending explained: who ends up with Runway — and which original character turns traitor
The sequel spends two hours threatening to take the magazine away from Miranda Priestly. The person who comes closest to doing it is someone who used to answer her phone.
Hannah Whitlock
October 3, 2026 11:58 am
The true story behind the California Schemin' movie: two Scots faked American accents so well Sony signed them
The pitch sounds like a comedy premise and was, for about a year. Then it became a job that neither man could clock off from.
Hannah Whitlock
October 2, 2026 5:11 pm
Late Fame ending explained: why Dafoe's poet walks away
A film about a man being rediscovered has exactly two endings available to it, and Kent Jones takes neither. What Ed Saxberger does in the last stretch is closer to an accounting than a decision.
Hannah Whitlock
October 2, 2026 3:47 pm
I Want Your Sex ending explained: what really happened to Erika Tracy — and who profits from it
The film spends its second half convincing you it turned into a murder mystery. It didn't, and the question it replaces that with is considerably more cynical.
Hannah Whitlock
October 2, 2026 1:42 pm
Is Other Mommy based on Coraline? TikTok swears it's a live-action remake
The internet has ruled: Jessica Chastain is the Other Mother now. The internet is, generously, thirty percent right — and the seventy percent it's missing is so much worse.