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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
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
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
Henry Cavill's WWII flop The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare hit No. 3 on Netflix US in under 24 hours
Guy Ritchie and Henry Cavill’s WWII film sits behind only The Seemingly Perfect Family and Why Did I Get Married Again? in the US.
September 20, 2026 10:17 am
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
The Big Bang Theory spin-off wanted Green Lantern — DC kept him for Lanterns, so the episode got the Flash
Co-creator Zak Penn explains why Stuart Fails to Save the Universe went to Gotham and Central City instead: DC would give them anyone but Green Lantern.
September 19, 2026 11:33 am
Charlize Theron is behind the first live-action Webtoon series in English — a mafia nanny romance with 338 million views
Hulu’s adaptation of Violet Matter’s Webtoon, with 338 million views, follows an elite nanny guarding a Venetian mafia underboss’s son. Max Gill is writing.
September 19, 2026 10:18 am
The Virgin Suicides true story: Jeffrey Eugenides has traced the whole novel to a single conversation
Readers have hunted for the real Lisbon sisters since 1993. Jeffrey Eugenides has said the whole novel grew from one exchange he had while waiting for dinner at his brother's house — and from a five-word answer he never got past.
September 18, 2026 6:57 pm
David Corenswet says the Man of Tomorrow characters are 'a little more mature' — the sequel puts Superman in an uneasy alliance with Lex Luthor
David Corenswet is hinting Man of Tomorrow will show Superman in a different light — the sort that’ll make DCU fans sit up.
September 18, 2026 2:35 am
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
Why did Gabriela leave Fire Country? Stephanie Arcila learned of it while filming the season 3 finale
Stephanie Arcila's Gabriela Perez left Fire Country after three seasons. Here's when Arcila found out, what she and the producers said about how the decision was made, and whether the character is gone for good.
September 17, 2026 6:29 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
Warner Bros has the Weapons prequel dated for September 2028 - Cregger says he will probably get to Gladys after The Flood
Fans of Aunt Gladys, brace yourselves — Zach Cregger’s Weapons prequel has received a bleak update, and your wait just got longer.
September 17, 2026 6:08 am
Slow Horses has already finished shooting season 7 - season 6 arrives on 16 September with a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score
Slow Horses has only just hit its sixth-season launch, yet Christopher Chung says the Apple TV series has already decided Season 7’s release window — fancy knowing when?
September 17, 2026 5:43 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
After telling Venice that AI meant he no longer needed Black actors, Paul Schrader starts an erotic thriller with Cara Delevingne next month
Cara Delevingne and Liam Hemsworth are set to lead controversial filmmaker Paul Schrader’s new erotic thriller, built around a love triangle and boasting a title that’ll raise eyebrows.
September 17, 2026 2:59 am
The Last of Us will stop in 2027 exactly where the games stop - the Game of Thrones mistake HBO is not repeating
Casey Bloys has confirmed The Last of Us Season 3 is happening — and it’s swerving the Game of Thrones misstep you’re dreading.
September 17, 2026 12:14 am
What happens at the end of A Quiet Place Part II? The ending, and how Part III picks it up in 2027
A Quiet Place Part II ends more abruptly than almost any studio horror sequel of the past decade. Here's how the film gets there, what it deliberately leaves hanging, and everything Paramount has confirmed about Part III's 2027 release.
September 16, 2026 10:36 pm
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