Movie news
Hannah Whitlock
November 15, 2026 2:13 pm
What is the 2026 Ebenezer movie about? The director of X and Pearl took on A Christmas Carol — and kept it PG-13
Ti West has made a Christmas movie, and the ratings board found exactly one thing to warn parents about.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
November 15, 2026 1:37 pm
Why The Running Man (2025) flopped: Glen Powell points at what Paramount did a month before release
In 2024, Glen Powell was the actor every studio wanted to be in business with. A year later he had a $110 million Stephen King movie in theaters, and he thinks he knows exactly when it started to go wrong.
Hannah Whitlock
November 15, 2026 12:43 pm
Is Other Mommy based on Coraline? Don't bring the kids who loved Coraline to this one
Only one of these two movies has a mother who wants to sew buttons into a little girl's eyes, and that's the one made for kids.
Tatiana Santos
November 15, 2026 11:53 am
Why the Tron: Legacy franchise never took off: Disney greenlit a sequel, then killed it eight weeks later
Disney has made three Tron movies in 43 years. There was supposed to be one more in the middle, and it got as far as a director, two returning stars and a shooting date before a completely different Disney movie got in the way.
Hannah Whitlock
November 15, 2026 11:07 am
The Blair Witch Project ending explained: the witch may never have touched them
The Blair Witch Project is named after a witch who never appears on screen. Its directors have spent 27 years refusing to say what she is, and the ending works better that way.
Tatiana Santos
November 15, 2026 10:19 am
How did they get Anthony Hopkins for Transformers? One breakfast with Michael Bay was enough
Hannibal Lecter signed up for a movie about giant fighting robots, and he says the deciding conversation happened over breakfast.
Tatiana Santos
November 15, 2026 8:47 am
Why did The Golden Compass fail? The director says the studio took the movie away from him after he shot it
The Golden Compass had Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, a talking armored bear and a $180 million budget, and it still helped sink a studio.
Tatiana Santos
November 14, 2026 2:29 pm
Star Wars original vs Special Edition: the 1977 cut returns to theaters in February — here's everything it doesn't have
For the first time in decades, a theater near you will show Star Wars without a single thing George Lucas added later, and some fans are going to miss things they didn't know were added.
Tatiana Santos
November 14, 2026 12:53 pm
How did they make The Lord of the Rings? Aragorn's most famous scream wasn't acting
Peter Jackson asked Viggo Mortensen for one more take, and Mortensen gave him considerably more than he'd asked for.
Daniel Okafor
November 14, 2026 11:58 am
Digger becomes the biggest box office disaster of Tom Cruise's career
For two decades, Tom Cruise was the one movie star who could open anything. Then he made a $160 million Alejandro G. Iñárritu satire about an oil baron.