philosophy
Jamie Tartt returns to Ted Lasso for one episode, and gets Voltaire wrong to better effect
On his recent Ted Lasso return, Jamie Tartt drops a line that sounds daft — until you realise it nails Season 4.
September 14, 2026 12:08 am
Liam Neeson’s hard pass — one movie genre he won’t go near
After more than 100 films, Liam Neeson says there’s one movie genre he’ll never touch — go on, guess which.
September 13, 2026 4:25 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
VisionQuest tells Tony Stark's death from F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s side — the AI that was programmed to protect him and could not
Marvel’s VisionQuest will revisit Tony Stark’s death in a way you won’t expect — and a very familiar MCU voice is back in the mix.
September 8, 2026 7:20 pm
Six Roman war films historians will defend, and one of them built a 22-hectare Forum
Roman epics love a scrap, but against the history books only a rare few ancient Roman war films truly hold up — and not always the usual suspects.
August 30, 2026 1:52 pm
Silo's stairs aren't a punishment, and the Pact isn't scripture
One of Silo’s knottiest riddles just got a nudge towards an answer — and it could shift how you see the whole set-up.
August 29, 2026 4:17 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 was Dear England made? James Graham's answer starts thirty years ago
The BBC's four-part Dear England arrived on BBC One on 24 May 2026, three years after James Graham's play about Gareth Southgate sold out the National Theatre. Ask Graham why he wrote it, though, and he doesn't start with Southgate the manager.
August 11, 2026 4:29 pm
Why a 21st-century sci-fi classic packs more punch 12 years later?
AI’s latest leaps make a 12-year-old sci-fi masterpiece feel like an even knottier puzzle.
August 9, 2026 9:19 pm
What is the Safeguard in Silo? Solo's parents stopped it once, at a terrible price
If you're watching season 3 of Silo — airing weekly on Apple TV+ since 3 July 2026 — you'll have heard the word "Safeguard" whispered like a curse. Season 2 revealed what it means, and it's the darkest idea the show has produced yet. Here's everything we know.
July 23, 2026 8:41 pm
Alan Ritchson just conquered Netflix with 2026’s biggest streaming movie
The Reacher star has kicked down the door to the action-hero A-list, staking his claim among the genre’s elite.
July 18, 2026 3:13 pm
Virtuosity predicted the AI era—so why did we all miss it?
Long before chatbots and deepfakes, Virtuosity had Denzel Washington chasing Russell Crowe’s gleefully homicidal AI through a neon 1995 Los Angeles. This deep dive revisits the slick, eerily prescient thriller that nailed today’s tech fears—and somehow slipped past almost everyone.
July 4, 2026 10:56 pm
Christopher Nolan reveals why The Odyssey’s cyclops had to feel terrifyingly real
Christopher Nolan says the Cyclops in The Odyssey had to feel brutally real, not a weightless myth, and alongside Matt Damon he unpacks how they staged the set piece so Polyphemus lands like a force of nature — something you can almost touch, and absolutely fear.
June 27, 2026 6:59 pm
Netflix is reportedly turning Glen Powell's Hit Man into a series inspired by Richard Linklater's film
Netflix is reportedly turning Hit Man into a series, with Glen Powell and Richard Linklater reuniting to pull the trigger.
June 14, 2026 2:11 pm
The alien’s final whisper in Disclosure Day ending explained
Disclosure Day signs off with a gut punch: as Margaret and Daniel race to blow open a decades-long alien cover-up and Wardex scrambles to smother it, an extraterrestrial leans in and delivers Daniel Kellner a single, loaded word. With the planet at flashpoint and Spielberg letting the mystery hang, here’s what that whisper likely was — and why it changes everything.
June 11, 2026 8:40 pm
Prime Video Scores a Breakout Hit With 97-Minute Die Hard-Style Thriller
2025’s next big action swing traps 300 hostages in a high-rise — and leaves an unassuming cleaner to fight their way out.
June 4, 2026 4:19 pm
Andor Creator Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Disney Star Wars
Tony Gilroy just laid out a big-franchise philosophy miles from Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s approach—setting up a clash of visions that could shake up the fandom.
June 1, 2026 7:05 pm
Only 10 TV Shows Nailed Perfection in the Last Decade—Ranked
From mind-bending sci-fi to gut-punch drama, razor-sharp comedy, and nightmare-fuel horror, these are the rare TV shows from 2016–2026 that nailed it episode after episode.
May 30, 2026 2:33 pm
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