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DC's Flash is back in live action, and it isn't Barry Allen — Jay Garrick turns up in The Big Bang Theory spin-off
Episode 9 of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe traps the gang in a comic, where they need the Cosmic Treadmill and get the Golden Age Flash instead.
September 20, 2026 9:55 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
The Princess Bride ending explained: what the final kiss and the grandfather's last line mean
The Princess Bride ends on two words the film has spent ninety minutes teaching you how to hear. Here's what the final scene is actually doing, how it departs from William Goldman's novel, and why Rob Reiner shot an entirely different ending and then binned it.
September 18, 2026 3:32 pm
Dwayne Johnson hit 282lb for Benny Safdie's last film - for the next one he cut to 235lb to play a 70-year-old
Dwayne Johnson says he’s shed serious weight for Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music, and the figure he gives in a recent Instagram video is properly eye-watering.
September 16, 2026 10:59 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
Midsommar ending explained: Ari Aster has said what Dani's final smile means to him
Ari Aster has been answering questions about the last shot of Midsommar since 2019, and his reading of it is neither the comforting one nor the one Florence Pugh gives. What the film's final image was built to do.
September 16, 2026 4:48 pm
'The rumors are true. And do you want this?' — what Tom Cruise asks people before they work with him
Long branded ‘intense’, Tom Cruise has owned it — and explained why that intensity shows on set.
September 16, 2026 12:12 am
What shows are in The Boys universe? The complete list, in the order to watch them
The Boys ended in May 2026, but the Vought Cinematic Universe didn't. Here's every series set in that world, what each one actually contributes, and the order that makes the crossovers work.
September 15, 2026 3:48 pm
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
Three flops in a row for Andrew Garfield, and the one thing that would fix it is the suit he says he is done with
Andrew Garfield’s recent run of theatrical setbacks might leave him leaning on his superhero franchise for a much-needed lifeline.
September 14, 2026 11:25 pm
Pages exist — Steven Knight says he’s finished first draft of the new James Bond script
As we wait for Amazon MGM to name the next 007, the new James Bond film has quietly hit a key milestone behind the scenes.
September 13, 2026 8:41 pm
What happened to Ruby in Death in Paradise? Shyko Amos has talked about how rough viewers were on her at first
Ruby Patterson left Death in Paradise after two series. Here's how the show wrote Shyko Amos's character out, what the BBC said at the time, and Amos's own candid account of how viewers received Ruby at first.
September 12, 2026 6:42 pm
What happens at the end of Catching Fire? The film stops mid-story — the rest only came a year later
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) is the rare blockbuster that ends on a deliberate cliffhanger, lifted straight from Suzanne Collins's novel and staged by director Francis Lawrence with a confidence he later credited to binge-watching Breaking Bad. Here's exactly how the film wraps up, why the final shot was improvised on set, and why audiences had to wait until 21 November 2014 for the story to continue in Mockingjay – Part 1.
September 10, 2026 2:46 pm
What happens at the end of The Long Walk? Stephen King loved the ending — Mark Hamill's first reaction was "uh oh"
How The Long Walk ends — Francis Lawrence's 2025 adaptation makes a major change to the finish of Stephen King's 1979 novel, one the author personally signed off on and one that gave Mark Hamill pause when he first read the script. The full film ending, the book comparison, and what everyone involved said about the switch.
September 8, 2026 6:12 pm
Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars opened to 19.3 million dollars worldwide, the weekend The Odyssey crossed 1.5 billion
New box office figures for Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars make grim reading — and you won’t like what that means for Disney.
September 7, 2026 11:04 pm
Zack Snyder still won't deny the Dark Knight Returns rumours: he'll do it 'when they let us'
Zack Snyder has addressed the long-running chatter about directing a live-action Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — and, this time, he lent the rumours a bit of weight.
September 6, 2026 8:25 pm
A Reddit horror thread became a novel, and now Lily James is buying the haunted ranch
Seasons has just bolstered its ranks, with Lily James now joined in Companion director Drew Hancock’s supernatural horror thriller by names you’ll recognise.
September 6, 2026 2:14 pm
Fall 2 brings back the sister who died in the first film, and blames Becky for it
Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline Currey return in Fall 2: Deadpoint — including Gardner, whose character died last time.
September 5, 2026 3:08 pm
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