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At 38, Akira is out-grossing Andrew Garfield's new epic in US cinemas — on a third of the screens
Crunchyroll and Sony’s 4K and IMAX run of Otomo’s 1988 classic has become Akira’s best North American release ever — on fewer than 800 screens.
September 19, 2026 9:31 am
Is Midsommar scary? Ari Aster calls it a breakup movie; the BBFC gave it an 18
Ari Aster's folk horror unfolds almost entirely in daylight and barely uses a jump scare, which is why viewers can't agree on whether it's frightening. What the BBFC actually flagged, how opening-weekend crowds graded it, and which of the two cuts to watch.
September 18, 2026 10:52 pm
Our review: Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen as the one doing the stalking in A24's Primetime — and the second act is where it sags
Think you know To Catch a Predator? A24’s Primetime reframes Chris Hansen’s world as a stylised, unsettling character study — with Robert Pattinson stepping into the hot seat.
September 17, 2026 10:07 pm
Ex Machina ending: what it means, and what Alex Garland has said about Ava's final scene
Ex Machina ends on a question it has spent the whole film setting up. Here's how the final act works, what the title is telling you, and what Alex Garland has said since about where in the film his own answer is hiding.
September 17, 2026 9:49 pm
Low budget couldn’t save it — Andrew Garfield’s Robin Hood movie tanks at the box office
Andrew Garfield’s latest historical drama has stumbled at the North American box office — and even a costly Robin Hood pivot couldn’t rescue its opening weekend.
September 14, 2026 9:44 pm
What happens at the end of Hacks? The finale detours through Paris — Deborah buys out the Louvre for an afternoon
How Hacks ends: what the series finale does with Deborah and Ava, the Paris trip, the private Louvre visit, and the decision that closes five seasons of the Emmy-winning HBO Max comedy — plus how the crew actually got into the Louvre to film it.
September 13, 2026 9:03 pm
What does gelded mean in House of the Dragon? The meaning, plus the rest of Ormund's episode 4 sentence
House of the Dragon season 3 episode 4 sent viewers to the dictionary with one word from Ormund Hightower. What gelded means, the crime that prompted the sentence, and what the rest of Ormund's ruling reveals about him.
September 12, 2026 9:58 pm
What book is Silo based on? It began as a self-published Kindle short story
The book behind Apple TV+'s Silo — Hugh Howey's trilogy of Wool, Shift, and Dust, which began life as a self-published Kindle short story in 2011. How a side project became a bestselling series, what each book covers, and how the show maps onto them.
September 10, 2026 8:16 pm
What is Sterling Point about? The OC's creators are on it alongside Megan Park
Sterling Point is Prime Video's eight-episode YA drama from My Old Ass writer-director Megan Park, co-showrun by The OC and Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and produced by Margot Robbie's LuckyChap. All episodes landed on 5 August 2026, a second season is already confirmed, and the premise starts with an inheritance: a 17-year-old gets a remote Canadian island from the grandfather she was never allowed to meet. Here's the full picture — premise, cast, and pedigree.
September 10, 2026 4:04 pm
Primetime came out of Venice on 95%, and the BBC called it the best work Pattinson has done
Robert Pattinson sets the Venice Film Festival abuzz with a turn critics call career-defining — and that’s before you clock the A24 stamp and who’s in the director’s chair.
September 8, 2026 10:15 pm
David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick wrote Aquaman and the Conjuring sequels — the Vincent Must Die remake is his first film as director
Variety says Aquaman scribe David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick is stepping behind the camera for a remake of a much-lauded horror — and he’s co-writing it too.
September 8, 2026 7:45 pm
Adam Wingard swapped Godzilla vs. Kong for a 15 million dollar horror, and it opened to 2.33 million
A24’s Adam Wingard action-horror, led by Adria Arjona, stumbled on opening weekend — turning its modest price tag into a bigger headache.
September 7, 2026 9:56 pm
A24 confirmed Kane Parsons for Backrooms 2 — he built the franchise out of a YouTube short he made at 16
A24 has named its Backrooms 2 director, and it’s exactly the pick fans expected.
September 7, 2026 8:39 pm
A24 is pushing a Julianne Moore song from Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut for a best song Oscar
Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut could put him in the running for an all-new Oscar category — one that would land him alongside some of the industry’s biggest names.
September 7, 2026 7:40 pm
Backrooms 2 is confirmed with Kane Parsons directing, and A24's biggest hit ever lands on HBO Max on 25 September
Backrooms 2 is pulling its team together, and the sequel is properly starting to take shape.
September 6, 2026 10:45 pm
Gritty Chris Hansen biopic Primetime gets early love for Robert Pattinson
Early buzz on Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime points to a gritty Chris Hansen biopic lit up by one performance — the kind that sets tongues wagging.
September 6, 2026 3:56 pm
Chris Hansen travelled to a screening of the Pattinson film about him and was turned away at the door
Lance Oppenheim says Robert Pattinson’s Primetime takes liberties with the truth, dramatising the production of Chris Hansen’s To Catch a Predator — and he’s got his reasons.
September 5, 2026 8:21 pm
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is $45 million from the biggest domestic run in history
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is within striking distance of the all-time North American box office record, closing fast on the current champ.
August 31, 2026 2:41 pm
That 'Bourne' director’s action epic? Turns out it’s a Robin Hood prequel
Andrew Garfield’s ‘The Uprising’ dramatizes the Peasants’ Revolt — and slips in an origin-story twist for a certain legendary outlaw.
August 26, 2026 1:10 pm
What happens at the end of Past Lives hinges on one Korean word
Celine Song's first film, released by A24 in 2023, follows two people who cannot manage to be in the same country at the same time. It went to the 96th Academy Awards with nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay and won neither. The whole ending rests on a word Nora explains in the first act.
August 20, 2026 5:48 pm
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