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HBO's The Pacific was adapted from two Marine memoirs and a third man who never wrote one. Where the series follows Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie exactly, where it merges and rearranges them, and which of its hardest scenes came straight off the page.

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.

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.

Tom Cruise has finally said whether those death‑defying Mission: Impossible stunts actually scare him, telling GQ straight.

Mahershala Ali’s Blade has failed — and that failure points to a blind spot you’ll recognise in how Marvel and DC make their superhero movies.

Reacher season 4 keeps naming a set of enemies the Big Red Machine, and the phrase isn't the show's invention. Here's where it comes from on screen, what it's borrowed from, and how it fits into a season with an unusual number of people chasing the same USB drive.

Apple TV's Star City takes the For All Mankind timeline behind the Iron Curtain, and got the best reviews of any new drama on the service this year. Here's the setting, the cast, and whether you need the parent show first.

Michelle Yeoh chalks up yet another belter of an actioner — and, happily, it absolutely lands.

Marvel Studios’ Blade reboot could’ve been very different, with its director confirming a much‑rumoured plot shift before leaving in 2022, when pre‑production was already underway in Atlanta.

Mahershala Ali told Deadline at TIFF 2026 the Blade update you were dreading — and why he’s still grateful to Marvel for helping another film.

An original action thriller landing this month fancies a tilt at the assassin-movie crown — and, against the odds, might just earn it.

Mahershala Ali’s latest action thriller comes with an unexpected link to Marvel Studios’ long-delayed Blade reboot, and premiered at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.

On his recent Ted Lasso return, Jamie Tartt drops a line that sounds daft — until you realise it nails Season 4.

An iconic series is marking its 25th anniversary — feeling old yet?

Hershel Rhee — Glenn and Maggie's son, played by Logan Kim — has spent three seasons of The Walking Dead: Dead City being kidnapped, recruited, and pulled between his mother and the people who took him. With season 3 airing on AMC from 26 July to 13 September 2026, Kim has explained where the character now stands and why the past seasons still shape him. Here's Hershel's full arc so far, plus the detail about his grandfather's pocket watch.

A throwaway line in Reacher season 4, episode 3 convinced fans a new faction called the Reds had joined the conspiracy. Here's what the line actually refers to, and who is really after Jack.

Dave Bautista’s sci‑fi comedy Alpha Gang is being likened to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and its directors say they went to remote extremes to earn the comparison.

Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn hated making Navy SEALs, yet the troubled 1990 actioner turned into a cult classic — and the route there isn’t what you’d expect.

Back for Avengers: Doomsday, the Russo brothers told the Associated Press why a huge cast is expected to unite Avengers, Fantastic Four and original X-Men.

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are taking a leaf from two Denzel Washington films to widen the net — but which ones?