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HBO’s hit series, The Sopranos, is universally hailed as one of the most influential and beloved television dramas of all time, known for its award-winning performances by a star-studded cast, innovative writing, and a collection of memorable characters. Before the show originally aired in 1999, gangsters and organized crime were no strangers to small-screen entertainment, but The Sopranos stood out for a variety of reasons, notably for its unheard-of concept about a mob boss going to therapy to discuss his issues with his mother. Creator David Chase undoubtedly piqued viewers’ interest with his contradictory, humanizing approach to the traditional mafioso,…

HBO is a treasure trove of excellent series across every genre, but a few top-tier thrillers have fallen through the cracks. This is somewhat surprising, as HBO has offered some of the best thriller shows in recent memory. The Kate Winslet-led Mare of Easttown has a shocking killer reveal that’s still wowing audiences, while The White Lotus’s thrilling season finales keep providing premium watercooler discussions. However, for ever buzzy series, HBO has just as many underrated thriller series. It’s hard to understand why, as many of these shows boast A-lists casts, are adaptations of buzzy bestselling novels, or have heaps…

If there’s one thing that 2025 has done really well it’s to place out in the open the fact that the so-called ​“system” for securing political asylum is a sham. Rather than representing the collective moral outlook of a country – or what that outlook purports to be – it instead leans on violence and intimidation, making a desired choice of residence less a question of a rock and a hard place, and more a rock and a rock. Dreamers, by first-time filmmaker Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor who channels her personal experiences, initially flouts a Prisoner Cell Block H vibe, as Nigerian refugee Isio (Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo) is flung into Hatchworth Removal Centre (likely…

Movies: Mirrors No. 3 (2025) by Christian Petzold: The Reflection of Grief in a Stranger’s House top of pagebottom of page

Depending on how you clock these things, it’s been almost half a century since Star Wars was shown in its original theatrical form. Within a few years, George Lucas began tinkering with the movie. By 1981, for example, Lucas had altered the opening crawl to add the phrase “EPISODE IV — A NEW HOPE” denoting his larger plans for the franchise and the idea that the first film was actually the fourth story in a massive ongoing saga.Further minor alterations happened throughout the 1980s and ’90s but then far more drastic changes occurred in 1997 with the debut of the “Special Editions” that added new special effects…

When news broke that Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner Bros.’ streaming and studio businesses, the Hollywood internet immediately split into two camps: Those terrified of yet another mega-consolidation, and those convinced Netflix was the only buyer with the infrastructure, global reach, and runway to keep a legacy giant afloat. Paramount, which had attempted an eleventh-hour all-cash bid of $30 a share, positioned itself as the more “traditional” steward — but Warner Bros. still chose Netflix’s mix of cash and stock, despite the lower up-front number. On paper, that’s odd. In practice, it’s not. Warner Bros. didn’t just choose…

This Christmas with Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet and Josh Safdie are bringing to theaters a complex tale of greatness, growth, self-destruction, ambition, and ping pong. Premiering on December 25, 2025, the Josh Safdie-directed and written Marty Supreme follows the tale of Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a rising star in the professional table tennis world in 1950s New York City, who goes to hell and back in the pursuit of his larger-than-life dreams. Before the sports comedy-drama movie’s panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil on December 5, I spoke with Chalamet and Safdie for Screen Rant about Marty Supreme and its…

When investigative journalist Seymour ​“Sy” Hersh is asked what made him a suitable candidate to run his father’s store in Chicago, he shrugs, ​“Pizazz. Like people.” Pizazz and liking people not only equipped Sy to work front of house at Isador Hersh’s dry cleaning business, they have made him appealing to journalistic sources across an extraordinary 50+ year career and they permeate this scintillating documentary by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. Hersh’s language crackles with a mordant Yiddish brevity such that even when describing US war crimes and torture, he never loses his powers of speech. Aged 88, his brain has lost none…

New Movies: Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) by Bill Condon: Fantasy and Politics Collide in a Prison Cell Musical top of pagebottom of page

We’ve got some out-of-this-world news for Men in Black fans: A brand-new Men in Black movie is reportedly in development at Sony Pictures.Deadline reports Bad Boys for Life writer Chris Bremner is attached to write the fifth installment in the Men in Black series, which currently includes the original trilogy as well as the soft reboot film released six years ago.Sources told Deadline no talent is officially attached to the film just yet, but that Sony hopes original star Will Smith will ultimately reprise his role as Agent J after receiving Bremner’s yet-to-be-finished script. The outlet reports “the plan is…