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Festivals: A Scary Movie (2025) by Sergio Oksman: A Metacinematic Documentary Exploring Isolation and Fatherhood in an Abandoned Hotel top of pagebottom of page

NSFW? No thanks! Sex is no longer a draw for young audiences seeking something edgy at the movie theater.Variety reports that according to new data from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers, Gen Z viewers are tired of on-screen sexual content. (RIP to the raunchy teen sex comedy subgenre.)Released on Wednesday (October 22), the university’s annual Teens & Screens report, which surveyed 1,500 young adults and teens in August 2025, reveals 48 percent of Gen Z viewers believe there is “too much sex and sexual content” in modern movies and TV shows.But it’s not just the sex itself that’s turning…

Nearly a month into its theatrical run, director Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed new film, One Battle After Another, has established itself as a modest hit at the box office. The movie hasn’t quite broken out like some of its star Leonardo DiCaprio’s past hits — movies like The Revenant and The Wolf of Wall Street — but considering how oppressive the ecosystem is these days, there’s something to be said about it having recovered its reported budget, and then some. This past weekend, One Battle After Another passed the $160 million milestone at the global box office and overtook…

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Tulsa King season 3.After 35 years, Sylvester Stallone is finally getting a chance to redeem his worst Rocky movie, Rocky V, thanks to Tulsa King. In most of the lists ranking every Rocky movie, Rocky V almost always comes in dead last. It made far less money at the box office than Rocky IV did, and it was almost universally panned by critics, as it achieved an abysmal 32% on Rotten Tomatoes. Rocky V has been a black mark on Sylvester Stallone’s filmography for a long time. He famously made 2006’s Rocky Balboa to…

Kelly Reichardt is one of the greatest directors working in the world today. Her films such as Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Certain Women and First Cow have grown into modern classics on the subject of people wrestling with the complex founding notions of America. Her excellent new film, The Mastermind, takes a similar tack: it’s a palm-sweating, 1970s-set anti-heist movie in which a would-be criminal genius (perfectly essayed by Josh O’Connor) finds out in the most spectacular and blackly comic way imaginable that crime does not pay.LWLies: I’d be interested to know what your take on heist cinema is. What are the things…

Festivals: Don’t leave the kids alone (2025) by Emilio Portes: A Dark Psychological Thriller About Fear, Family, and Paranoia Behind Closed Doors top of pagebottom of page

Darkseid is not coming to the new DC Universe any time soon.That’s according to James Gunn himself, who is interviewed on the latest episode of the ScreenCrush Crossover Universe podcast. And the dude would know; he’s the co-CEO of DC Studios after all.“Using Darkseid as the big bad right now is not necessarily the thing,” Gunn told us. As for why, he explained “For a lot of reasons: Because Zack [Snyder] did it so cool in his way. And because [of] Thanos in Marvel.”We also grilled James Gunn about the multiverse, the end of Season 2 of Peacemaker, how it will set up…

The notion that animation is just for children has been consistently debunked, as R-Rated animated films have always served as a legitimate form of artistic expression. While the popularity of Dreamworks Animation, Pixar, and Illumination may have shown that animated family films can be very lucrative, there’s also a desire to tell more complex stories within the medium that are aimed at a mature audience. Given how popular adult animated shows like South Park, Family Guy, and BoJack Horseman are, it’s a bit surprising that there aren’t more R-Rated animated films consistently released on the big screen. Animation is a…

Avatar: Fire and Ash is positioned to end 2025 with a bang. James Cameron’s third entry in the Pandora-set, Na’vi-focused sci-fi franchise looks like it could be the most epic entry to date. And considering how well the previous two movies did (both making over $2 billion worldwide), there’s every expectation that Avatar 3 will crush too. Disney and 20th Century Studios are certainly banking on this outcome. The film’s December 19 release date marks it as the last blockbuster of 2025. There’s minimal competition for it through the remainder of the year, and Hollywood’s tendency to use January as…

At the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut Urchin premiered to great acclaim, winning the FIPRESCI Prize and a Best Actor award for Frank Dillane. Dickinson also proudly wore a t‑shirt that read: ​“Living on the streets is not a lifestyle choice Suella. It’s a sign of failed government policy,” referring to Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments in 2023 that rough sleeping ​“is a lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of BritainTeaming up with Under One Sky, a volunteer-led charity that aims to use education, compassion, and collaboration to…