13 Assassins real story: the real Lord Naritsugu died at 25 of 'illness' — and the one complaint on his record isn't murder
Miike's film ends by telling you the tyrant's death was officially recorded as illness. Follow that name into the archive and you get three different men, one of whom was almost certainly not a tyrant at all.
October 4, 2026 11:44 am
Jeanne du Barry: what happened to Zamor between the gift box and the guillotine
Maïwenn's film hands Jeanne du Barry a Bengali page as a present and closes his story in one line of narration. The documented life of Louis-Benoît Zamor takes up rather more room than that.
October 3, 2026 5:09 pm
Funny Games: does the family die? Haneke answers the question twice — and rewinds one of the answers
Michael Haneke's home-invasion film sets up a hostage situation and then does something no thriller is supposed to do to its own footage. Here's how the ending works, and why he filmed the whole thing a second time ten years later.
October 3, 2026 11:32 am
Russell Crowe says the Gladiator sequel he was first offered was ‘pretty dumb’
Russell Crowe has now explained why he binned an early Gladiator sequel pitch for Maximus — branding the idea “pretty dumb” without sugar-coating a thing.
October 2, 2026 6:47 pm
Mike Flanagan’s Carrie is at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest score of his TV career
First reviews suggest Mike Flanagan’s Carrie is struggling on Rotten Tomatoes — though the picture isn’t quite so straightforward.
October 2, 2026 5:21 pm
Kathleen Kennedy admits handing over Star Wars is a relief
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to run Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy says stepping away from Lucasfilm is a relief — and her reasoning speaks volumes.
October 2, 2026 3:52 pm
Basic Instinct: who is the killer? Forget the ice pick — freeze-frame the killer's arm in the first scene
Basic Instinct ends on a shot engineered to keep people arguing, and the argument has run for more than thirty years. The most-cited physical evidence isn't in that shot at all — it's in the first three minutes, and it only shows up if you stop the tape.
October 2, 2026 3:52 pm
One Battle After Another’s Chase Infiniti will star in Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele’s horror film about what God looks like
Dylan Clark is turning his viral 2022 short Portrait of God into a feature for Lionsgate, with Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele producing and Chase Infiniti in the lead.
October 2, 2026 2:21 pm
