Movie news
Hannah Whitlock
September 20, 2026 1:16 pm
Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The locations, and why the Owens house had to be rebuilt from scratch
Twenty-eight years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but here we are: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back in theaters as the Owens sisters, and I have already mentally redecorated my apartment in Full Witch.
Crush of the day
Hannah Whitlock
September 20, 2026 11:53 am
Sound of Falling ending explained: what happens on the farm in each of the four eras
Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling won the Jury Prize at Cannes — the first German director to pull that off since 1959 — and then spent its release making audiences feel like they'd been handed someone else's dream journal with the pages shuffled.
Hannah Whitlock
September 19, 2026 12:26 pm
How many Lost Boys movies are there? The count, plus the reboot that's been stuck in development since 2021
There are three Lost Boys movies. I know. Say it with me: three.
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.
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.