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Review: Beware Boiúna is the killer snake movie Anaconda never was — no camp, all tension, in cinemas 2 October
Mike P. Nelson’s Amazon horror with Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira and Logan Marshall-Green plays its giant snake as a force of nature.
September 20, 2026 5:34 pm
What Castle in the Sky is based on, in Miyazaki's own account of the film's origins
Studio Ghibli's first release began with a comic Hayao Miyazaki read as a schoolboy, a satirical novel from 1726, and a research trip to South Wales. Where each piece of Castle in the Sky came from, in the director's own account — plus the four titles it nearly had.
September 20, 2026 5:03 pm
The People v. Gorilla Grodd is filming, and Skyler Gisondo says scenes are shot almost entirely on courthouse CCTV
Skyler Gisondo told Collider the DCU mockumentary from the American Vandal team feels like a play. HBO’s Casey Bloys confirmed filming but no air date yet.
September 20, 2026 4:49 pm
Stephen King meets The Matrix: Gerard Butler's forgotten flop Gamer is now free on Tubi
Neveldine and Taylor’s 2009 film, with Logan Lerman controlling Butler’s death-row inmate like a game character, is streaming free from 17 September.
September 20, 2026 4:21 pm
How accurate is The Pacific? Checked against the two Marines' memoirs it was built on
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.
September 20, 2026 4:02 pm
The Walking Dead: Dead City went from 56% to 100% on Rotten Tomatoes — season 3 is on Blu-ray from 17 November
AMC’s two-disc set has all eight episodes of the third season, which ended on 13 September, plus behind-the-scenes extras.
September 20, 2026 3:55 pm
Resident Evil's ending, answered: what Bryan becomes, who flies the helicopters and where the cure went — 10 questions
What started the outbreak, which virus it is, what chased Bryan all night and why there’s a blizzard: Cregger’s Resident Evil, explained.
September 20, 2026 3:27 pm
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
James Gunn teased 'the blackest night is yet to come' with three Lanterns episodes left — the comics event where dead heroes rise
Gunn’s post on Threads quoted the Lantern Oath, and fans now expect Sinestro, a bigger Blackest Night saga or Hal Jordan’s return.
September 20, 2026 2:11 pm
A thriller rated 4.9 on IMDb has knocked Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Again? off No. 1 on Netflix US
Rylee Reagan plays an 18-year-old who cons her way into an au pair job in Lisa France’s Seemingly Perfect Family, No. 1 in the US on 17 September.
September 20, 2026 1:47 pm
Zack Snyder's wife told him never to watch Joss Whedon's Justice League — he still loves the 'I tried' sign under his credit
On Happy Sad Confused, Zack Snyder said he never saw the theatrical Justice League, but a meme showed him the homeless man’s sign in the opening credits.
September 20, 2026 1:18 pm
Jalen Brunson won the Knicks their first title since 1973 — on 5 November he guest-stars in Law & Order: SVU
The Knicks guard makes his first scripted appearance in episode 5 of SVU’s 28th season. NBC hasn’t said who he plays.
September 20, 2026 12:53 pm
Ethan Hawke hauls gold for Russell Crowe's warden in The Weight, out now with 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Padraic McKinley’s Depression-era survival thriller premiered at Sundance and opened in UK cinemas on 18 September, with Julia Jones and Austin Amelio.
September 20, 2026 12:29 pm
For a Few Dollars More, often called the best western sequel ever made, is free on YouTube
Sergio Leone’s 1965 western with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté is streaming for nothing on YouTube.
September 20, 2026 12:02 pm
Six Emmys later, Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is back among the biggest shows on streaming
Vince Gilligan’s series with Rhea Seehorn won six of its 18 Emmy nominations and is back at No. 7 among Apple TV’s most-streamed series worldwide.
September 20, 2026 11:36 am
Resident Evil could hit digital in mid-October and Netflix in December, if Sony repeats what it did with Goat
Sony hasn’t announced dates, but its horror Goat reached digital six weeks after cinemas and Netflix three months later.
September 20, 2026 11:10 am
Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 9 sends La'an into a fairy tale where her prince has Kirk's face
In ‘Once La’an a Time’, the Elysian Kingdom anomaly from season 1 returns with dragons, wizards and doppelgängers, and La’an finally talks to the real Kirk.
September 20, 2026 10:44 am
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