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The new Lord of the Rings has its cast.Announced at CinemaCon (and shared online by Warner Bros.’ official social accounts), The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum will star its director Andy Serkis as Gollum (and Smeagol), along with Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Kate Winslet as Marigol, Jamie Dornan as Strider, Leo Woodall as Halvard, Lee Pace as Thranduil, and Elijah Wood as Frodo.Strider is eventually revealed to be Aragorn — the character played by Viggo Mortensen in Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings trilogy.READ MORE: 15 Movies You Didn’t Realize Were SequelsSerkis let it slip that Aragorn would be in the film and that he would be…

After a solid debut at the domestic box office last weekend, the hotly debated new dark comedy The Drama passed a major milestone in its sophomore frame. In doing so, the movie entered an elite list for the arthouse distributor A24, which is gradually making inroads in the mid-budget space. The market was desperate for someone to fill this vacuum, and it seems like A24 has risen to the challenge in the last few years, with films such as Civil War, The Smashing Machine, and Marty Supreme. Each of those movies cost more than $50 million, with two of them…

It’s hard to find a Hellboy fan who doesn’t love Guillermo del Toro’s movie duology. With Ron Perlman stepping into the role of the legendary Big Red, this was an era that represents the character at his absolute peak. However, a new Hellboy duology is now on the verge of release, and it arrives with the return of an iconic redesign for Hellboy that even del Toro himself would likely applaud. Hellboy fans need to mark their calendars for July 22, 2026, as this will mark the release of Dark Horse’s upcoming two-part Giant Robot Hellboy Returns series. Die-hard fans…

“Taking care of our elderly is not a choice, it’s a patriotic duty,” an ominous voice from the sky declares in the opening moments of Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail. Listening carefully is 77-year-old Tereza (the veteran Brazilian actor Denise Weinberg), whose disgruntled expression only deepens when a gold-plated laurel is placed to frame her door to let passers-by know she is approaching ​“that age”. When a person turns 80, a government mandate orders that they be loaded like garbage bags onto the ​“wrinkle wagon” and transported to a senior citizen colony, removed from everyday society to unburden the younger generation. It’s a looming threat to Tereza, but…

Martedì e venerdì (2024) by Alessio De Leonardis & Fabrizio MoroA grounded portrait of desperation, fatherhood, and survival. When responsibility clashes with moral compromise in a fragile lifeA struggling father is pushed toward crime as he fights to maintain a relationship with his daughter and hold his life togetherThe film follows Marino, a man navigating financial hardship, emotional instability, and separation from his family. After losing his wife and facing mounting debts, he is only allowed to see his daughter twice a week—Tuesday and Friday. As his situation worsens and he loses his livelihood, Marino is forced into a desperate…

The 1990s. The further into the past they recede, the more they sound like complete fiction. Music on compact discs? Disposable cameras you threw away after one use? People losing their minds over bears stuffed with little plastic beans? Flannel everything? Really?Yes, really. And, perhaps the most implausible of all: A decade of incredible movies. Sure, there were some sequels, and plenty of mainstream junk. But from the perspective of 30 years later, the 1990s were a golden age of cinema, both from within Hollywood and from independent filmmakers here and around the world. You look at any list of great…

There’s no shortage of competition shows right now, but Netflix’s latest unscripted pickup sounds like it’s aiming for something a little meaner, rougher, and a lot less polished. This one isn’t about baking, bluffing, or making a fortune in a mansion. It’s about stripping people down to the basics and seeing what’s left when the comforts of modern life disappear. And with a concept like that, it makes sense that Netflix went looking for someone who actually looks like he could survive the end of the world. That someone is Alan Ritchson, who is officially bringing a new survival competition…

Sydney Sweeney’s box office bomb just became a streaming hit. Sweeney’s underperforming movie touting a budget of $15 million has scored big just days after the movie’s US streaming debut. The lead actor has had a massive career boost in recent years, starring in a number of high-profile films in the process. Sweeney’s latest movies include the 2024 horror movie Immaculate and the box office juggernaut thriller The Housemaid. But this hasn’t prevented her from having a number of duds in her career recently as well. One of the most notorious of these was her role in Madame Web, a…

As the political procedural turns 50, its depiction of paranoid, uncertain times bears a chilling resemblance to our own. With world politics in turmoil and constant revelations surfacing of powerful individuals’ ties to corruption, it seems impossible to place trust in figures of authority. These words describe the present, of course, but could equally apply to the tumultuous times depicted in Alan J Pakula’s All the President’s Men (1976). Along with the neo-noir thrillers Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974) All the President’s Men completes what is informally referred to as Pakula’s ‘Paranoia Trilogy’, encapsulating the dread and turbulence of the 1970s. All the President’s Men directly focuses on…

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