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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
Zack Snyder has sold his Fountainhead series twice — both buyers backed out within a week
Zack Snyder has written 10 of the 12 episodes of his Ayn Rand adaptation and told Happy Sad Confused why studios keep getting cold feet.
September 19, 2026 12:47 pm
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
Flanagan has a season of The Dark Tower written and Stephen King's blessing — and still no studio willing to pay for it
Mike Flanagan has encouraging updates on two projects — one’s still alive, and the other he’s currently writing.
September 17, 2026 9:43 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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: what the title means — Kesey wrote the novel on night shifts at a psychiatric ward
The title of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes from a nursery rhyme, but the novel came from a night job at a Californian veterans' hospital and a CIA drug programme. Here's where Ken Kesey got both.
September 17, 2026 3:17 pm
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
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
Barbossa has died twice in Pirates of the Caribbean. Geoffrey Rush says he would only come back a third time on one condition
A Pirates of the Caribbean icon fancies a comeback in Pirates of the Caribbean 6 — minor snag: his character’s already dead.
September 16, 2026 3:19 am
Didn't see this coming — first reactions to Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph
Zack Snyder’s passion project The Last Photograph has finally hit TIFF — and if you were expecting the usual adoration, you might want to brace yourself.
September 14, 2026 10:46 pm
Last Meals gets second helpings: Tessa Thompson and Michael Shannon join Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook
Last Meals, the prison drama led by Mads Mikkelsen as a death-row chef, has added two more heavy-hitters — and the line-up’s looking tastier by the minute.
September 14, 2026 9:42 pm
Bold claim — director says a new movie tops Stallone’s Oscar winner on story
Director Peter Farrelly reckons I Play Rocky out-underdogs Stallone’s Oscar-winning Rocky — and he’s got a reason.
September 14, 2026 9:24 pm
Well, that's awkward — first reviews label Liam Neeson’s new action-thriller epic 'miscast'
Early reviews of Liam Neeson’s new actioner are already flinging the M-word — “miscast” — which never bodes well.
September 10, 2026 10:43 pm
Anthony Hopkins goes full world domination in a new post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller
Anthony Hopkins slips into a chilling role for a morally knotty sci‑fi thriller that goes deep underground—wait till you find out when it’s set.
September 10, 2026 10:34 pm
Back together — Mike Flanagan and Matthew Lillard's next horror film ropes in a Prey star
Mike Flanagan’s next horror film brings a familiar face back into his orbit — and teams them with a Prey star you’ll recognise.
September 10, 2026 10:21 pm
Who is in The Pitt from ER? The overlap was big enough to end up in court
The ER veterans in front of and behind the camera on The Pitt — Noah Wyle, John Wells, and R. Scott Gemmill — and the Michael Crichton estate lawsuit arguing that this overlap makes the hit medical drama an unauthorised ER reboot. Where the case stands now.
September 10, 2026 6:54 pm
Mel Gibson teases Resurrection of the Christ heading into different realms
Mel Gibson has hinted The Resurrection of the Christ won’t simply replay his original — he’s steering it somewhere you won’t expect.
September 8, 2026 9:24 pm
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