Movie news
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 5:45 pm
Hollywood's new Irish gambling movie is really FanDuel's origin story — yes, the app on your phone
A period drama about a Dublin bookmaker sounds like a local story. The company it's about owns the biggest sportsbook in America.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 4:22 pm
I was told nobody wanted Brad Pitt anymore. His dog movie just passed $180 million
While the internet relitigated Brad Pitt, an original survival thriller about a man and a dog quietly outgrossed a DC movie and Tom Cruise.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 3:00 pm
First Coyote vs. Acme, now Eric Bauza's final Daffy Duck: Warner keeps burying Looney Tunes
The first theatrical Looney Tunes short in 14 years carries the last Daffy Duck performance of Eric Bauza, who died October 25. Warner attached it to a film trackers are already writing off.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 12:11 pm
A 19-year-old said Gen Z can't watch movies. Reddit's replies blamed his parents
A self-flagellating post about zoomers and cinema collected 765 comments. Most of them are about husbands over 40 and parents over 60.
Tatiana Santos
November 2, 2026 11:50 am
You Can See Everything documentary: is Elizabeth Holmes playing Nathan Fielder, or is he playing her?
For nearly three hours, Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes sit across from each other, each apparently waiting for the other to drop the act.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 10:47 am
Nathan Fielder is a bigger draw than DC now — and Halloween proved it
A three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary just beat a superhero movie on its own holiday weekend, and the costumes told the same story as the grosses.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 9:23 am
Taika Waititi just pulled a Kevin Smith on Klara and the Sun's critics
The director answered a 26% Rotten Tomatoes score with an Instagram rant. The number that actually sank his movie is $701,059.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 8:00 am
The director whose Heat shootout Marines train on just shot himself in the leg at a range
Michael Mann built a 40-year reputation on firearms realism. On Halloween, his own holster filed a dissent, and Heat 2 fans felt it in the schedule.
Daniel Okafor
November 1, 2026 5:18 pm
Remember when The Odyssey was going to flop for being 'woke'? It just passed Furious 7 overseas
Christopher Nolan's epic was declared dead on arrival over its casting. It's now Universal's biggest international release ever, and Elon Musk's AI answer to it is seven minutes long.
Daniel Okafor
November 1, 2026 4:41 pm
I wrote Clayface off as DC's Morbius too. Its international numbers say I was wrong
A week ago, the DCU's cheap body-horror experiment looked like a third straight dud overseas. Now it may be the first Gunn-era DC movie the rest of the world actually showed up for.