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The People v. Gorilla Grodd is filming, and Skyler Gisondo says scenes are shot almost entirely on courthouse CCTV
Skyler Gisondo told Collider the DCU mockumentary from the American Vandal team feels like a play. HBO’s Casey Bloys confirmed filming but no air date yet.
September 20, 2026 4:49 pm
How accurate is The Pacific? Checked against the two Marines' memoirs it was built on
HBO's The Pacific was adapted from two Marine memoirs and a third man who never wrote one. Where the series follows Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie exactly, where it merges and rearranges them, and which of its hardest scenes came straight off the page.
September 20, 2026 4:02 pm
Before The Weight: five essential Ethan Hawke performances, from Reality Bites to First Reformed
Ethan Hawke’s The Weight is in UK cinemas. His essential work runs from Linklater’s Before films and Boyhood to Training Day and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed.
September 20, 2026 3:02 pm
A thriller rated 4.9 on IMDb has knocked Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Again? off No. 1 on Netflix US
Rylee Reagan plays an 18-year-old who cons her way into an au pair job in Lisa France’s Seemingly Perfect Family, No. 1 in the US on 17 September.
September 20, 2026 1:47 pm
Jalen Brunson won the Knicks their first title since 1973 — on 5 November he guest-stars in Law & Order: SVU
The Knicks guard makes his first scripted appearance in episode 5 of SVU’s 28th season. NBC hasn’t said who he plays.
September 20, 2026 12:53 pm
Ethan Hawke hauls gold for Russell Crowe's warden in The Weight, out now with 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Padraic McKinley’s Depression-era survival thriller premiered at Sundance and opened in UK cinemas on 18 September, with Julia Jones and Austin Amelio.
September 20, 2026 12:29 pm
Henry Cavill's WWII flop The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare hit No. 3 on Netflix US in under 24 hours
Guy Ritchie and Henry Cavill’s WWII film sits behind only The Seemingly Perfect Family and Why Did I Get Married Again? in the US.
September 20, 2026 10:17 am
'Nobody's called, the sets are gone': Akiva Goldsman doesn't see Star Trek: Year One happening
The Strange New Worlds showrunner told RadioTimes the Kirk spin-off was never officially cancelled, but the sets are gone and the cast has moved on.
September 20, 2026 9:28 am
Mutiny on the Bounty true story: what the 1789 record says that three Hollywood versions didn't
Three Hollywood studios have filmed the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty, and all three agreed on who the villain was. The ship's log, the court-martial minutes and the Pitcairn records tell a different story about William Bligh, Fletcher Christian and what actually happened after the launch was cut loose.
September 19, 2026 9:01 pm
NCIS: why did Jimmy's wife die? The off-screen death, and the writers' reason for it
Breena Palmer was already gone by the time NCIS came back to her, and the show delivered the news in a single line of dialogue. Here is when it happened, what the episode said out loud and what it left to inference, and the reason the writers put the loss on Jimmy rather than anyone else on the team.
September 19, 2026 6:41 pm
Is Forgotten Island based on the Philippines? What DreamWorks took from real Filipino folklore — and from the directors' own families
DreamWorks' 50th feature drops two best friends through a portal into an island stocked with Philippine mythology. Here is how much of it comes from genuine folklore, which regional traditions the creatures are pulled from, and what the two directors lifted from their own families.
September 19, 2026 5:42 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
What does NCIS use for dead bodies? The autopsy-room method, straight from producer Mark Horowitz
Executive producer Mark Horowitz casts every corpse on NCIS himself, and the job is far stranger than it looks from the sofa. Here is how the show fills its autopsy table week after week, and why living actors usually beat the very expensive dummies.
September 19, 2026 2:37 pm
Cregger's Resident Evil hides the Revenant, a Puker and a zombie dog with tendrils — the game monsters in the reboot
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil doesn’t retell a game, but it borrows their monsters, the inventory crawl from pistol to rifle, and locked-door puzzles.
September 19, 2026 2:26 pm
Shrek fans will get to step into the swamp: the 2001 film is being reworked for giant immersive domes ahead of Shrek 5
Cosm and Universal are reworking DreamWorks’ 2001 film for LED dome screens, the first animated title in their shared reality format. Tickets go on sale this autumn.
September 19, 2026 2:03 pm
Last call for Ryan Reynolds and Salma Hayek's R-rated Hitman's Bodyguard films — both leave Netflix on 1 October
The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, with Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek, have a few days left on Netflix.
September 19, 2026 1:39 pm
Money Heist's Berlin is the villain in Prime Video's new legal thriller — already one of the biggest shows on streaming
Eugenio Derbez and Pedro Alonso lead El Juicio, a Mexican legal drama about an assault case against a rich family’s son, released on 11 September.
September 19, 2026 1:12 pm
Eight trilogies where every film is a masterpiece, from Back to the Future to The Lord of the Rings — Star Wars is out on a technicality
Three films and done, each one strong: the Cornetto, Dollars, Dark Knight, Before and Three Colours trilogies make the list alongside Middle-earth.
September 19, 2026 11:58 am
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