2009
Stephen King meets The Matrix: Gerard Butler's forgotten flop Gamer is now free on Tubi
Neveldine and Taylor’s 2009 film, with Logan Lerman controlling Butler’s death-row inmate like a game character, is streaming free from 17 September.
September 20, 2026 4:21 pm
The Virgin Suicides true story: Jeffrey Eugenides has traced the whole novel to a single conversation
Readers have hunted for the real Lisbon sisters since 1993. Jeffrey Eugenides has said the whole novel grew from one exchange he had while waiting for dinner at his brother's house — and from a five-word answer he never got past.
September 18, 2026 6:57 pm
What is the Big Red Machine in Reacher? Where the name comes from, and who is really after him in season 4
Reacher season 4 keeps naming a set of enemies the Big Red Machine, and the phrase isn't the show's invention. Here's where it comes from on screen, what it's borrowed from, and how it fits into a season with an unusual number of people chasing the same USB drive.
September 15, 2026 8:36 pm
Hard to take — Gary Oldman on Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman's deaths
At the Toronto International Film Festival, Gary Oldman spoke movingly about Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman, recalling learning of Ledger’s death more than 18 years ago.
September 13, 2026 5:22 pm
General Hospital has a new therapist for Anna, because Kevin Collins is off in Ireland
Kearran Giovanni has officially arrived on General Hospital — but the big question now is who she’s playing.
September 13, 2026 2:53 am
EastEnders: what happened to Jordan? The full timeline, starting at Vicki and Ross's wedding
EastEnders' The Night That Changes Everything left one of Walford's youngest residents fighting for his life. The full Jordan timeline, from Vicki and Ross's wedding reception through the hospital updates that followed.
September 12, 2026 7:28 pm
What happens at the end of Fast and Furious 1? The final scene set up nine more films
How The Fast and the Furious (2001) ends: the final race, the decision that closes the film, the often-forgotten last scene after it — and how those few minutes grew into an eleven-film saga with a confirmed 2028 finale.
September 11, 2026 8:04 pm
What happens at the end of Catching Fire? The film stops mid-story — the rest only came a year later
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) is the rare blockbuster that ends on a deliberate cliffhanger, lifted straight from Suzanne Collins's novel and staged by director Francis Lawrence with a confidence he later credited to binge-watching Breaking Bad. Here's exactly how the film wraps up, why the final shot was improvised on set, and why audiences had to wait until 21 November 2014 for the story to continue in Mockingjay – Part 1.
September 10, 2026 2:46 pm
Vin Diesel hinted he might direct Fast Forever, a 200 million dollar film — his last feature cost under 50,000
Fast Forever is gearing up for its final lap, but a rumoured Vin Diesel–involved creative shake-up ought to give you pause.
September 6, 2026 10:00 pm
The Dirty Dozen gets its first 4K release on 17 November, with nothing on it but a reversible slipcover
At long last, a war epic that helped inspire Inglourious Basterds is landing on Blu-ray.
September 6, 2026 8:53 pm
Bruce Campbell has been given about five years, and he is already booking conventions for the summer
Bruce Campbell has shared a fresh update on his cancer battle, laying out what he’s dealing with on the health front.
September 6, 2026 6:00 pm
The Odyssey just did something at the box office we haven’t seen in 17 years
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has pulled off a box-office feat no film has managed in 17 years — and you’ll want to see the number driving it.
September 6, 2026 4:46 pm
Netflix drops Apatow's Funny People on 16 September, the film that never made its money back
An underrated 2009 Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen comedy that struggled at the box office but fared better with critics is about to vanish from a major streamer.
September 6, 2026 2:43 pm
What book is Reacher based on? A different one each season — and nowhere near publication order
Prime Video's Reacher has adapted four Lee Child novels across four seasons, and has picked them out of a hat that contains 30 books. Season 4, which began on 12 August 2026, is the fourth novel it has used and the 13th Child wrote.
September 4, 2026 5:19 pm
Who killed Ben in Reacher? The book settled it back in 2009
Ben Merrick — college-age son of Anna Merrick — disappears in the opening stretch of Reacher season 4, which arrived on Prime Video with three episodes on 12 August 2026. For three episodes the show won't confirm whether he's alive.
September 3, 2026 7:17 pm
Who is Mary Ellen Daniels in Reacher, explained
Reacher season 4 dropped its first three episodes on Prime Video on 12 August 2026, and by the end of the second one a name nobody had heard before was running the entire case. Mary Ellen Daniels gets a handful of minutes, no scenes with the leads while alive, and a body on a bedroom floor.
September 3, 2026 1:15 pm
What are MasterChef UK winners doing now? One turned the trophy into a nationwide restaurant chain
The BBC has crowned an amateur champion every year since MasterChef was revived in 2005. That's 22 trophies and 22 very different afterwards — some went straight into professional kitchens, some kept the day job, and one built a restaurant group.
September 2, 2026 4:26 pm
Penn Badgley is playing a man whose whole family has killed someone
You star Penn Badgley heads Prime Video’s darkly comic new murder mystery — adapted from a bestseller with a title you won’t forget.
September 1, 2026 5:06 pm
EastEnders actors who have died: remembering losses that reach back to the original 1985 cast
EastEnders actors who have died: the Walford stars we've lost across four decades, from the original 1985 line-up to long-serving favourites, and how Albert Square paid tribute to each of them.
August 29, 2026 1:18 pm
Which MasterChef season is best? We scored every season on cooks, drama and finales — one ran away with it
Which MasterChef season is the best one to watch? We ranked the seasons on cooking talent, drama and finale quality to settle the argument — and explain what made the winner untouchable.
August 27, 2026 10:52 pm
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