Movies - Page 15
Midsommar director's cut vs theatrical: the added 23 minutes settle the one argument fans still have about Dani's ending
Ari Aster released a longer version of Midsommar six weeks after the theatrical run, and it is not a bonus-features edition. Here's what the restored footage contains and how it changes the reading of the final scene.
October 3, 2026 2:58 pm
We Need to Talk About Kevin book ending: Shriver saves one reveal for the final pages that the film had no way to hide
Lionel Shriver's novel spends four hundred pages as a wife's correspondence with her husband, and the final chapter changes what you've been reading. Here's how the book's structure hides something a camera can't.
October 3, 2026 1:14 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
Enemy ending explained: the giant spider makes sense the moment you replay what Adam's mother said
Denis Villeneuve's Toronto thriller ends on an image that looks like a non sequitur and isn't. The key is a short, unremarkable visit Adam pays to his mother about two-thirds of the way in.
October 3, 2026 9:47 am
The combined Warner Bros. and Paramount now has its name locked in
Paramount and Warner Bros. are finally pressing ahead with their merger — and they’re doing it under a new name.
October 3, 2026 8:34 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
Ben Affleck used AI to make his new Netflix thriller and won’t say which parts
Ben Affleck says AI was used on his Netflix thriller Animals — but, like a magician, he won’t reveal where.
October 2, 2026 6:27 pm
‘Doomsday is only our 39th movie’: Kevin Feige says Marvel is nowhere near done
Even with Phase Six nearing its end, Kevin Feige says Marvel’s film machine isn’t easing off, teasing more to come beyond the next Avengers films.
October 2, 2026 6:04 pm
The Fast and the Furious filming locations: Dom's house is real — and so mobbed that Google blurred it on Street View
Almost nothing in the 2001 original was built on a backlot. The house, the market, the race streets and the diner are real addresses in Los Angeles, and one of them has spent twenty-five years dealing with the consequences.
October 2, 2026 5:21 pm
Jeanne du Barry true story: the real Jeanne was 25 when she met the king — Maïwenn plays her at 46
Maïwenn's film compresses, re-dates and softens a life that was stranger than the version on screen. Here's the real Jeanne Bécu, where the film tracks her, and the single casting decision that reshapes the rest.
October 2, 2026 4:36 pm