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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…

Maxton Hall Season 2 has come to an end, and it’s needless to say that fans are still unwell after watching the finale. With Ruby (Harriet Herbig-Matten) being expelled once rumors of her and Professor Sutton (Eidin Jalali) begin to spread on campus, her future at Oxford turned into a distant dream. At this point, she only has James (Damian Hardung) by her side to console her, and even their relationship is put at risk by Mortimer’s (Fedja van Huêt) looming threats. Season 2’s final episode sealed the couple’s fate, proving that Mortimer will continue to go above and beyond…

Of all the TV show search queries in 2025, Netflix’s steamy summer drama The Hunting Wives was the highest trending. Based on the novel by May Cobb, The Hunting Wives cast is led by Brittany Snow, who plays Sophie O’Neill, a troubled woman who moves from Boston to East Texas with her family because of her husband’s job. Initially a fish out of water, Sophie is quickly befriended by the charming, hedonistic Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), who welcomes Sophie into her clique of rich, right-wing “hunting wives.” However, things go south when a local cheerleader is murdered, and Sophie finds…

Jafar Panahi has had to navigate the most challenging set of circumstances in order to make films. Censored and persecuted by an authoritarian régime that has imprisoned him, placed him under house arrest and subjected him to filmmaking and travel bans, Panahi has always proved resourceful enough to find a way. With his Cannes Palme d’Or winner, It Was Just an Accident, the auteur tensely grapples with the ethical dilemma of how much blame can – or should – fall on the individual cogs of a systemically violent machine, urgently examining the complexity and humanity at the heart of Iranian society. This interview…