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120 Beats per Minute meaning: what the title of the ACT UP Paris drama refers to
The title of Robin Campillo's ACT UP Paris drama is a measurement, and it's measuring two things at once. What 120 beats per minute actually refers to, how the film's score and editing keep proving it, and why the English-language release quietly dropped the number.
September 19, 2026 10:13 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
Charlize Theron is behind the first live-action Webtoon series in English — a mafia nanny romance with 338 million views
Hulu’s adaptation of Violet Matter’s Webtoon, with 338 million views, follows an elite nanny guarding a Venetian mafia underboss’s son. Max Gill is writing.
September 19, 2026 10:18 am
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
Charlize Theron is turning a hit mafia webcomic into a series — a nanny who babysits for the mob and fights like a spy
Hulu is adapting The Mafia Nanny, the Webtoon about a nanny-academy graduate hired to look after a mafia underboss’s son. Theron is on board as a producer.
September 18, 2026 1:05 pm
No Leon, no Jill, no S.T.A.R.S. - the first reactions call Cregger's 90-minute Resident Evil the most violent thing he has shot
Early word on Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil isn’t exactly whisper-quiet — and, for once, everyone seems to agree.
September 17, 2026 4:56 am
The DCU has its first R rating - Clayface cited for gore, nudity and drug use, in cinemas on 23 October
Brace yourself: Clayface’s DCU movie is steering into body horror, with an MPA rating teasing it won’t skimp on the gnarlier stuff.
September 17, 2026 3:48 am
Tom Cruise's hardest role is not a Mission: Impossible, not Magnolia and not Eyes Wide Shut — he named it to GQ
Tom Cruise says the toughest character he’s ever played isn’t the one you’d expect — as he lines up an ambitious project with Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
September 16, 2026 8:02 pm
What does Jack Ryan say to the cook in Russian?
Alec Baldwin's Jack Ryan speaks exactly one line of Russian in The Hunt for Red October. Here's the phrase, what it literally translates to, and why a CIA analyst is shouting it at a man from the galley.
September 16, 2026 6:03 pm
Tarantino's tenth film slips again: he's writing The Popinjay Cavalier for the West End
Quentin Tarantino has picked the star for his debut stage play, The Popinjay Cavalier — a casting that should raise a few eyebrows.
September 13, 2026 2:00 am
Why does Star City use British accents? The showrunners' explanation, and the For All Mankind precedent it broke
Star City, the For All Mankind spinoff on Apple TV+, has its Soviet characters speaking English in British accents. The showrunners' full explanation, the Chernobyl connection, and the franchise precedent it overturned.
September 12, 2026 7:07 pm
What EastEnders actress was murdered? The two cases, three years apart, and the convictions that followed
Two EastEnders actresses were murdered three years apart — Gemma McCluskie in 2012 and Sian Blake in 2015. The full facts of both cases, the police investigations, and the sentences handed down at the Old Bailey.
September 12, 2026 2:41 pm
Who from Peaky Blinders is real? The real gang's heyday came decades before Tommy's era
Which parts of Peaky Blinders actually happened — the real Birmingham gang behind the name and when it genuinely operated, the historical figures the series wrote into Tommy Shelby's world, from Billy Kimber to Oswald Mosley, and what historians say about the razor blades.
September 8, 2026 10:01 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
Ad Vitam is now Netflix's ninth most-watched non-English film ever, with 38% on Rotten Tomatoes
At just 98 minutes, an action thriller starring Guillaume Canet has blown past expectations on streaming, barging into the all-time biggest hits.
September 7, 2026 9:39 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
Pulse is getting a second Hollywood remake, this time from Smile's producer and an SXSW winner
A reimagining of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s J-horror classic Pulse is moving ahead at Screen Gems and Spyglass with Parker Finn involved — and it’s just found its director.
September 6, 2026 7:56 pm
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