Movies - Page 14
Funny Games: does the dog die? You'll know within the first half hour — and it's the mildest thing that happens in that house
Haneke's home invasion picture has a reputation for cruelty, and the family dog is where it starts collecting. Here's exactly when it happens in both versions, how much you see, and what the film is doing with it.
October 4, 2026 4:12 pm
Is Amistad a true story? John Quincy Adams really argued the case — the speech Anthony Hopkins gives was written in 1997
Spielberg's courtroom drama sticks closer to the record than most people assume, right up until the summation everyone remembers. Here's which parts happened, which were assembled, and what the real argument sounded like.
October 4, 2026 3:06 pm
Jeanne du Barry ending explained: why she's thrown out of Versailles before Louis XV is even dead
Maïwenn's film gives its heroine everything Versailles has to offer and then takes it back in a single afternoon. Here's what happens in the last twenty minutes, and why the order of events is stranger than it looks.
October 4, 2026 1:58 pm
21 grams experiment explained: Sean Penn's movie made the number famous — a rival doctor had already explained it away in 1907
A Massachusetts doctor put six dying patients on an industrial scale in 1901 and published the result six years later. Here's what he actually measured, what the press turned it into, and the rival physician who offered a duller explanation within weeks.
October 4, 2026 12:52 pm
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
Breathless ending explained: the cop mistranslates Michel's last words to Patricia — and so do most English subtitles
Michel's dying line in Godard's debut is mumbled, mistranslated inside the film by a policeman, and then mistranslated again by the subtitles. Here's the French, and what each English version quietly changes.
October 4, 2026 9:23 am
Clear your 2027: River locks a January theatrical date with Universal and Blumhouse Atomic Monster
TIFF survival slasher River, starring Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe, has set its cinema release — but the when is the bit to clock.
October 4, 2026 8:55 am
Oslo, August 31st ending explained: one reading says Anders never left his parents' house — the whole day happened in his head
Joachim Trier's film follows one man through one day in Oslo, and a persistent minority reading says none of it took place. Here's what the last reel actually shows, and how much weight that reading can carry.
October 3, 2026 5:44 pm
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
Is Enemy at the Gates a true story? One character has never turned up in a single German record
Jean-Jacques Annaud's Stalingrad film is built around a duel between two real-sounding snipers. One of them has a Hero of the Soviet Union citation. The other has no paperwork anywhere.
October 3, 2026 4:41 pm