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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
La La Land ending explained: what that final sequence means, in Damien Chazelle's own words
La La Land ends with an eight-minute sequence that rewrites everything the audience has just watched, then snaps back. Damien Chazelle has explained repeatedly what that epilogue is for, which film he was copying, and why the ending was locked before the rest of the script existed.
September 20, 2026 2:41 pm
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
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
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
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
La La Land filming locations: the real Los Angeles spots behind every big scene, and how to visit them
Damien Chazelle shot La La Land on real Los Angeles ground — a freeway interchange, a Griffith Park hiking road, a Hermosa Beach jazz room that has been booking bands since 1949. Here's the address for each big scene and what you'll find there now.
September 18, 2026 7:58 pm
Sam Raimi makes movie from horror survival video game, yep, with Toy Story 4 director
Sam Raimi is plotting a big-screen take on a smash horror survival game, with the Toy Story 4 director aboard, as 20th Century Studios snaps up the rights.
September 18, 2026 4:37 pm
All blood, no pulse — Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story just drags
Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story goes bonkers, stretching true crime; Sarah Paulson and Rebecca Hall are great, Ella Beatty’s good — but does it really work?
September 18, 2026 11:54 am
Michael B. Jordan is giving Thomas Crown a motive — he says nobody wants to watch a billionaire stealing art for fun
Michael B. Jordan’s take on The Thomas Crown Affair will break from the original in a key way — and he’s not doing it on a whim.
September 18, 2026 1:09 am
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
Universal is having second thoughts about releasing Alex Gibney's Musk documentary abroad — it got a four-minute standing ovation in Venice
Universal Pictures is reportedly rethinking its plan to distribute Musk, and the latest release date chatter won’t cheer anyone waiting for the Elon Musk movie.
September 17, 2026 8:34 pm
The Odyssey Oscar predictions: category by category, for the best-reviewed film of Nolan's career
The Odyssey is the best-reviewed and highest-grossing film of Christopher Nolan's career. Here's how that converts into an Oscar campaign — the categories it can't lose, the ones Universal has a genuine strategy problem in, and the record it's chasing.
September 17, 2026 8:16 pm
Four years after Werewolf by Night, Gael Garcia Bernal is asking fans to push Marvel into some sense of responsibility
Gael García Bernal has sparked fresh chatter about Jack Russell’s MCU future — and hints fans could help decide whether we get more Werewolf by Night.
September 17, 2026 8:32 am
Lance Armstrong has sold his life rights for the first time - Edward Berger and Austin Butler start shooting the biopic in January 2027
Austin Butler’s Lance Armstrong sports biopic has kicked up a gear, as Oscar-winning director Edward Berger pushes production toward a target start date.
September 17, 2026 7:42 am
Ron Howard's Medal of Honor drama with Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway takes Christmas Day 2027, the corridor that carried 1917
You’ll see Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway team up in Ron Howard’s next for Amazon MGM Studios, reportedly slotted into a competitive holiday corridor.
September 17, 2026 7:17 am
Warner Bros has the Weapons prequel dated for September 2028 - Cregger says he will probably get to Gladys after The Flood
Fans of Aunt Gladys, brace yourselves — Zach Cregger’s Weapons prequel has received a bleak update, and your wait just got longer.
September 17, 2026 6:08 am
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu spent 125 million dollars on a dark comedy with Tom Cruise - early tracking puts the opening at 20 million
Tom Cruise’s next outing, Digger, isn’t exactly off to a flying start, with early box office tracking hinting at trouble well before its 2 October 2026 release.
September 17, 2026 2:34 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
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