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For a Few Dollars More, often called the best western sequel ever made, is free on YouTube
Sergio Leone’s 1965 western with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté is streaming for nothing on YouTube.
September 20, 2026 12:02 pm
V for Vendetta returns to cinemas for its 20th anniversary on 1 and 5 November — Bonfire Night included
Fathom and Warner Bros. are bringing the Wachowski-produced dystopia back for two days with a new trailer and a documentary by James McTeigue.
September 19, 2026 3:19 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
Matthew Lillard says he is ashamed he took Scream 7 after Melissa Barrera was fired — 'I didn't say no'
Matthew Lillard has spoken about his Scream return after Melissa Barrera’s firing — and he isn’t exactly proud of how he handled it.
September 18, 2026 12:22 am
Twenty-five years after Session 9, Brad Anderson wants a prequel about Mary Hobbes - no cast, no date, just a pitch from a convention stage
A quarter-century on from Session 9, Brad Anderson is cooking up a prequel — and wait till you hear who it shadows and what he’s calling it.
September 17, 2026 1:48 am
Netflix is making an animated Diablo series, the first of several Blizzard worlds it is taking on
Netflix’s new dark fantasy could fuse The Witcher and Arcane vibes — and, whisper it, maybe out-thrill Game of Thrones.
September 17, 2026 12:41 am
Fifty-one years on, Spielberg still says he fears the sharks are angry at him for what Jaws did to them
Half a century on, one Jaws decision still nags at Steven Spielberg — and yes, there’s a specific choice he’d take back.
September 15, 2026 12:30 am
Diablo took thirty years to reach the screen, and Blizzard is sending it to Netflix as a cartoon
Netflix has announced it’s finally bringing Diablo to TV — though not in the form some fans have been picturing.
September 14, 2026 11:45 pm
Band of Brothers is back in HBO Max's top ten at 25, and the making-of is climbing faster
An iconic series is marking its 25th anniversary — feeling old yet?
September 13, 2026 4:10 pm
De Niro's Tribeca 25 is on Netflix: the story of the festival he built to revive downtown New York
Robert De Niro’s new Netflix release lands today — and it couldn’t be further from The Whisper Man: this one’s a documentary.
September 12, 2026 2:03 pm
What happens at the end of Shameless? Fiona never came back for it
What happens in the Shameless series finale "Father Frank, Full of Grace", how the Showtime drama closed out 11 seasons and 134 episodes, and the full scheduling story behind Emmy Rossum's absence — including the storyline that was written for Fiona and never filmed.
September 11, 2026 4:47 pm
Who is in The Pitt from ER? The overlap was big enough to end up in court
The ER veterans in front of and behind the camera on The Pitt — Noah Wyle, John Wells, and R. Scott Gemmill — and the Michael Crichton estate lawsuit arguing that this overlap makes the hit medical drama an unauthorised ER reboot. Where the case stands now.
September 10, 2026 6:54 pm
The new Naruto movie just got a big update
A new animated Naruto film edges closer, as Viz Media lines up a panel promising franchise announcements — with a reveal expected to headline.
September 10, 2026 4:03 pm
How are EastEnders actors paid? The BBC's own annual report shows the top of the scale
How much EastEnders actors earn, from per-episode rates for newcomers to the salary bands the BBC's own annual report once made public — and why those names vanished from the list.
September 9, 2026 9:04 pm
Netflix's Minecraft series is not dead, and it took one fan question to prove it
After months of silence, Netflix’s Minecraft animated series just got a reassuring update — good news if you’d feared it had been quietly cancelled.
September 1, 2026 4:56 pm
Star Trek wants a world record for the salute William Shatner could never do
To celebrate 60 years, Star Trek is calling on fans to help crack a world record — and you can probably guess which gesture they’ve got in mind.
August 30, 2026 2:06 pm
What happened on EastEnders' 30th anniversary? The show gambled on going out live — and not everything went to plan
What happened on EastEnders' 30th anniversary? Inside the BBC's 2015 live week, the gamble behind it, and the moment viewers still bring up a decade later.
August 28, 2026 8:18 pm
30 Rock is doing a new 20th anniversary show with the original cast
The reunion boasts a stacked line-up, with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan among the confirmed names.
August 27, 2026 5:55 pm
Donnie Darko sequel book lands this year — and Richard Kelly’s got more up his sleeve
Richard Kelly is bringing Donnie Darko back with a sequel novel arriving later this year — and that’s only the prologue to his bigger franchise plans.
August 26, 2026 5:25 pm
Why did Steve leave Blue's Clues? The college story was for the kids — his real answer took almost 20 years
Steve Burns hosted Blue's Clues on Nickelodeon from its 1996 debut until 2002, across roughly 100 episodes, and left with an on-screen explanation aimed squarely at three-year-olds: Steve was off to college. Donovan Patton took over as Joe, and the show ran until 2006. The actual reasons arrived in instalments over the next two decades.
August 21, 2026 6:30 pm
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