Movie news
Daniel Okafor
November 12, 2026 7:11 am
The man who made Gollum count as acting is putting AI in Hunt for Gollum
Andy Serkis spent two decades proving a digital character is a human performance. His own Middle-earth movie has machine learning in the de-aging pipeline.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 5:08 pm
How accurate is Barbie in the Nutcracker? Dancers are pausing the new one to check the feet
The 2001 Barbie in the Nutcracker was built on real New York City Ballet dancers. The new Netflix special got dancers looking at the feet, and they don't like what they see.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 4:46 pm
Clayface marketing budget: why a $44 million movie still can't break even at the box office
Clayface has made more than twice what it cost, and it's still in the red.
Hannah Whitlock
November 11, 2026 4:27 pm
Pillion vs the book: both endings make Ray disappear, only one lets Colin know why
Box Hill ends with Colin learning Ray is gone for good. Pillion ends with Colin learning nothing at all, and the director says he doesn't want to know either.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 4:09 pm
Bridge to Terabithia true story: who the real Leslie was
Leslie Burke had a real-life model in a Maryland second grade, and one part of her story was so unlikely that a fellow writer told Katherine Paterson to change it.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 3:27 pm
Barbie in the Nutcracker ending explained: who is the young man who shows up at Clara's house?
Barbie's first CGI movie spends nearly all of its running time in a candy-colored kingdom and saves its best trick for an ordinary living room.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 3:06 pm
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple list of deaths — including whether Ralph Fiennes' Dr. Kelson makes it out
The Bone Temple puts Ralph Fiennes in front of a gang of Satan-worshipping killers, hands him an Iron Maiden song and asks him to put on a show.
Hannah Whitlock
November 11, 2026 2:48 pm
Die My Love book vs movie: Ariana Harwicz says Lynne Ramsay made it more punk than the novel
Ariana Harwicz wrote a 123-page novel about a mother coming apart in the French countryside. Lynne Ramsay moved it to Montana, put a punk track on top and premiered it in front of 3,500 people at Cannes.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 2:17 pm
Bridge to Terabithia's ending explained: the death in it happened for real, to an eight-year-old
Katherine Paterson didn't make up the worst thing in her most famous book. She wrote it because her son had already lived through it.
Tatiana Santos
November 11, 2026 1:56 pm
Barbie in the Nutcracker 2026 cast: the only name held over from 2001 is a posthumous credit
Netflix's new Barbie in the Nutcracker has a whole new voice cast, a new villain and a 45-minute runtime. It also has one voice from the original, and he died two months before it came out.