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It’s going to be a busy month on Netflix in December. I’m not even going to estimate how many hours of new content they’ve got over just 30 days. It’s a lot. Too much for any person to watch.The highlights: The final episodes of Stranger Things, including the series finale on New Year’s Eve, the new Noah Baumbach movie Jay Kelly starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, and Wake Up Dead Man, the third Knives Out mystery movie from writer/director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig. Sandler will also appear on a special episode of My Next Guest With David Letterman, and there are also…

Quentin Tarantino has been blessed to direct some of the greatest actors in Hollywood history. His culturally provocative, yet groundbreaking films feature dynamic characters in his screenplays, which influential stars such as John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, and Leonardo DiCaprio, among others, bring their full charisma to breathe true life on the screen. Of all the legends that ever stepped foot on a Tarantino set, however, Robert De Niro made the biggest impression on the iconic filmmaker. The two-time Oscar winner of The Godfather Part II and Raging Bull only collaborated with the Pulp Fiction director on one occasion, with the…

Clint Eastwood’s Dollars trilogy is one of the few trilogies where every movie is a classic. Westerns weren’t in great shape by the time the 1960s arrived. Younger audiences were drawn to more contemporary stories, while the genre had been overexposed thanks to multiple TV shows like Gunsmoke and Rawhide. Clint Eastwood himself spent a productive 8 years on the latter show, though his goody two-shoes character left him yearning to play something darker. While he couldn’t have known it at the time, his involvement with Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy would not only reinvent the ailing Western genre, it would…

Although you’d be forgiven for not realising it due to his evergreen boyish charm, 2025 marks 40 years of Ethan Hawke’s screen acting career. Never one to rest on his laurels, Hawke is hitting the milestone with three major projects landing concurrently in autumn of 2025: as the leading man in Sterlin Harjo’s star-studded FX show The Lowdown; returning as The Grabber in the sequel to Blumhouse box office success in Black Phone 2; and as Lorenz Hart in the latest film with long-time collaborator Richard Linklater, Blue Moon. Hawke is the gravitational charisma of all three projects, and the roles could not be more…

Summary of Movie: The Identity of a Lost DaughterReawakening is a British slow-burn character drama and thriller about a suburban couple, John and Mary, whose lives are shattered and then dramatically upended when their daughter, Clare, reappears ten years after she went missing at age 14. The film pivots on the central mystery of whether the woman claiming to be Clare is telling the truth, forcing the parents to confront grief, memory, and the desire for redemption.Summary of Content: John (Jared Harris) and Mary (Juliet Stevenson) have spent a decade grieving their missing daughter, Clare. On the cusp of the 10-year anniversary,…

The first-ever permanent Pokémon theme park will open to the public in just a few short months, but the Internet is already buzzing like a Beedrill about one of the park’s more controversial guest restrictions.PokéPark Kanto, which is scheduled to open on February 5, 2026, inside Tokyo’s Yomiuriland amusement park, will feature two main lands: Pokémon Forest and Sedge Town. Over 600 Pokémon statues, rides, souvenir shops, shows and various Poké-themed attractions will be spread across the two areas — but it appears not all Pokémon fans will be able to enjoy the full experience.According to the theme park’s official…

Blue Bloods fans miss seeing Tom Selleck as a cop, and with their favorite procedural now canceled with little to no hopes of ever returning, they’re turning elsewhere for their dose of the veteran TV star. Selleck has brought to life a handful of law-enforcement figures over the decades, but one that has been long buried in the pop-culture attic is suddenly experiencing a surprising resurgence on PVOD, more than forty years later. At the height of his Magnum, P.I. fame, Selleck carried some of that same gallant charm to the big screen in the 1984 sci-fi action thriller Runaway.…

Avengers: Secret Wars will feature a fan-favorite Stranger Things star. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had quite a few stacked rosters throughout its long history. When it comes to the MCU’s Avengers movies, which have become crossover events for the entire franchise, several of Hollywood’s biggest actors and a few rising stars are expected to come together with every installment. Avengers: Doomsday’s cast illustrates that, bringing back actors from Fox’s original X-Men franchise to stand alongside MCU veterans like Thor star Chris Hemsworth, as well as Multiverse Saga newcomers. While Avengers: Secret Wars’ story is a secret for now, the…

The invisible loyalties between Vinz, Hubert and Saïd suggest that they are childhood friends, splintering in young adulthood because of tensions in the neighbourhood – where the riot following the assault of their friend has laid waste to Hubert’s boxing gym – and in their disparate ways of relating to it. Vinz is a hothead, flailing against oppressive authority. Hubert, back home from the navy with a hard-won discipline and fragile maturity (​‘la haine attire la haine’), dreams of escaping – his weary mother’s response is to ask him to pick up some lettuce from the shops (women have only incidental roles…

Oscar November are a UK-based trio known for taking their live show seriously — no frills, just big riffs, honest vocals and a raw energy that cuts through any crowd. They’ve built their reputation on stage presence, performance-first attitude and a commitment to making live-music feel dangerous again. “Cat Lady (Live)” captures the band’s live power: pounding drums, distorted guitar, and a vocal delivery that hovers between sneer and confession. It’s a track about persona and performance,…