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Stranger Things ended its decade-long run with a feature-length finale on New Year’s Eve that managed to temporarily crash Netflix’s servers, while also dominating movie theaters. Despite mixed reactions to said finale, this is probably the best sendoff Matt & Ross Duffer’s sci-fi sensation could have hoped for. Yet there were some fans who believed a secret episode was in the works, leading to the “Conformity Gate” theory. For those not in the know, “Conformity Gate” puts forth the theory that Stranger Things’ heroes haven’t actually graduated from high school and pursued their dreams, instead being trapped in an illusion…

Gwen Stacy comes back in a returning Spider-Man project, and the character dons a superhero costume. Peter Parker has had many love interests in Marvel Comics and in adaptations, with Gwen easily being one of his most iconic, second only to Mary Jane Watson. Live-action Spider-Man movies made the most of that relationship with Emma Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise. Stone’s Gwen and Andrew Garfield’s Peter had the best chemistry of a live-action Spidey film. That said, Spider-Man’s animated series have also featured Gwen, with the beloved The Spectacular Spider-Man touching on that romance. Gwen has also become a…

It’s only a matter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: a leisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd Avenue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 14th to 10th that cuts east across 10th and lands at one of the apartments between Alphabet City’s Avenue C and Avenue D, where – in spirit for us, in the flesh for Hujar – Allen Ginsberg awaits with a relative lack of interest in the scheduled photoshoot that incited the short excursion. That’s the kind of minutiae exhausted in detail in Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, a literal title for a straightforward film.Jokes aside,…

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The fourth Avengers: Doomsday teaser is here. (Here in this case means any theater showing Avatar: Fire and Ash.) After Steve Rogers, Thor, and the X-Men, the latest features a major Marvel crossover: Between the forces of Wakanda (including Letitia Wright’s Black Panther and Winston Duke’s M’Baku) and the Fantastic Four (namely Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Thing). Plus Tenoch Huerta Mejia’s Namor is there as well.So what brings these huge Marvel characters together? What are they talking about? What’s their Marvel comics history, and what does it mean for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? In our latest Avengers: Doomsday breakdown video, we’ll discuss the…

Image via Saban Films Revenge is on repeat in Redux Redux, a new genre-bending science fiction action thriller. Michaela McManus plays a grieving mother who won’t let space or time stand in her way as she seeks revenge on her daughter’s killers. Collider is thrilled to bring you an exclusive first look at the trailer and poster for Redux Redux, which will premiere in theaters on February 20, 2026. In our exclusive trailer, McManus (9-1-1: Lone Star) plays Irene Kelly, a woman still grieving for her kidnapped and murdered daughter. She’s dealing with her issues by going on a road…

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy makes history in several ways when it premieres as the first new Star Trek series in four years. Executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy arrives on Paramount+ with two episodes on January 15. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was previously the newest Star Trek series when it premiered in 2022. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy joins Strange New Worlds as the two remaining Star Trek series on Paramount+. Both Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy have two seasons coming in 2026 and 2027. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces a slew of…

The career ascent of writer/​director Chloé Zhao has been immense, taking in intimate indie dramas (Songs My Brother Taught Me, The Rider), sprawling sagas that cleaned up at the Oscars (Nomadland) and the more thoughtful side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Eternals). She returns with an emotionally tumultuous adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, ​‘Hamnet’, about William and Agnes Shakespeare’s devastation at losing their young son to an illness that was sweeping the land.LWLies: When you are reading something, or finding material for films, and you happen across something that makes you think, ​‘This could make that transition,’ what are the…

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At this point, we’ve got the pattern. Each week, a new Avengers: Doomsday teaser has debuted in theaters in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash. For a couple of days, you can only see it in the theater (or on social media in extremely grainy bootleg copies). Then it comes to the internet in full HD. Wash rinse repeat.The first teaser revealed that Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers would be back in Avengers: Doomsday, despite his supposed retirement in Avengers: Endgame. The second featured Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, who we already knew was one of the main Avengers returning for this fifth Avengers movie.The third teaser is…