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In just over a year’s time, Anthony Mackie will have the chance to shake off the Captain America: Brave New World negativity as he returns in the hotly-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday. Also set to feature a jaw-dropping selection of the best actors of today — including Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Vanessa Kirby, Pedro Pascal, and Sir Ian McKellen — Doomsday promises to be the MCU’s make-or-break point, after years of relative mediocrity. In the meantime, Mackie fans are helping count down the days until the Doomsday clock strikes by catching up on some of…

Sarah’s Oil is performing well with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The historical drama, which is set in the early 1900s, follows young Black girl Sarah Rector (Naya Desir-Johnson) being given a parcel of oil-rich land that she defends from a variety of ruthless interested parties, with the help of a kind-hearted Texas wildcatter named Bert Smith (Zachery Levi). Levi is known for having starred in a variety of superhero movies, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok as well as the DC Extended Universe movies Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Although Sarah’s…

A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from the rapid expansion of the railways in the 1910s to the thundering highways of the 1960s. Adapting this much-lauded miniature epic might seem like a fool’s errand, but Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, who previously collaborated on Sing Sing, capture the grandeur, tragedy and intimacy of Johnson’s work without slipping into nostalgia for an idealised kind of West inhabited by John Wayne.Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a loner labourer going wherever the work takes him as industrialisation spreads westwards, epitomises strong but silent…

In Theaters: Die My Love (2025) by Lynne Ramsay: The Dark Corners of Motherhood: A Visceral Psychological Drama top of pagebottom of page

I had just turned 10 when The Mummy came out in May of 1999, and I remember cowering, wide-eyed, behind my giant bag of popcorn topped with Sno-Caps as man-eating CGI scarabs terrorized the characters on screen. I couldn’t sleep that night when we returned home from the movie theater, as visions of decrepit mummies and deadly, ancient bugs and men shriveling up as they got the life sucked out of them flashed in my little girl brain. I was so scared! I was hooked.The Mummy has long been one of my favorite films, partly due to my undying ’90s…

Saturday Night Live Season 51 has already featured some impressive hosts, including Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler, Sabrina Carpenter, and Miles Teller. The popular sketch show by creator Lorne Michaels has been airing on NBC since 1975, and celebrated its 50th anniversary with a three-hour special event earlier in the year. Over the course of its run, SNL has received a whopping 84 Emmy wins, the most out of any other television show in history, and has been hailed by many as one of the greatest TV shows of all time. The series is headlined by a supremely talented ensemble of…

The Hulk is one of the most powerful characters in the MCU, but there are multiple versions of the character in Marvel Comics that haven’t yet been seen onscreen. Some even possess more power than others, with The Immortal Hulk arguably ranking among the most powerful beings in the entire Marvel Universe. Since his original debut in 1962’s The Incredible Hulk #1, these are the variants proving to be the strongest version of Hulk in history. 15 Gray Hulk (The Original) Incredible Hulk #1 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, Artie Simek Created by writer Stan Lee and artist…

Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s a textured sensuality to the world crafted by director Dan Trachtenberg that’s undeniably appealing. The scaled, rippled skin of the Predator has a certain kind of beauty; its hollowed out face, golden eyes and expressive mandibles tap into something primal and exciting. The extraterrestrial world is rich in oozing lifeforms and even the synthetic curves of the film’s humanoid characters, androids designed to explore the inhospitable planet, feel embodied; their skin delicate, apt to rip and scar. The film opens with an exile,…

Movies: Flat Girls (2025) by Jirassaya Wongsutin: Love, Class, and the Quiet Rebellion of Growing Up top of pagebottom of page

Netflix has released the first five minutes of Stranger Things Season 5, and it seems the final season of the hit sci-fi adventure series will take fans back to the very beginning of Will Byers’ terrible time spent in the Upside Down.The upcoming season kicks off by revealing what really happened to Will in the Upside Down after he disappeared the night of November 6, 1983. As it turns out, Will bravely held his own for quite awhile, and even encountered Vecna long before the other kids did in Season 4.The clip, released late Thursday (November 6), starts with young…