Movie news
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 9:03 am
The Lorne documentary has a Netflix release date — Tina Fey, Conan and Chris Rock do the talking, because SNL's Lorne Michaels won't
The most powerful man in comedy finally got the documentary treatment — and stayed exactly as unknowable as he's been for fifty years, which may be the point.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 8:47 am
Why Lee Child vetoed Jack Reacher 3: he liked Tom Cruise, made money off him — and killed the third film anyway
The author had the strangest kill switch in franchise history written into his contract, and he's finally explaining why he pulled it.
Tatiana Santos
October 5, 2026 8:12 am
Quentin Tarantino's Cliff Booth novel release date is set — readers get the 1977 story two weeks before Netflix does
The man wrote the movie, declined to direct it, and is now publishing his own competing version of the story — on a schedule engineered for maximum mischief.
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.
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.