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Image: Blumhouse/Universal Pictures With Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 now playing in theaters, two familiar faces from ’90s horror share the marquee again. Based on the hit video game series, the sequel features Matthew Lillard returning as William Afton — the sinister mind behind the animatronics introduced in the first film. Lillard’s screen time is...
Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final ReckoningImage: Paramount Pictures This week’s streaming lineup is heavy on artificial-intelligence thrillers. Tron: Ares arrives on video-on-demand, extending the franchise about programmers pulled into the Grid with a plot centered on an AI combatant gone rogue. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the concluding chapter of...
Image: Warner Bros. Warner Bros. and Fathom Events have announced that Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy will return to cinemas in 2026 in its Extended Edition form for a special two‑weekend engagement. Select screenings will include experiential formats such as D‑Box motion seating and 4DX, promising an immersive, tactile way to experience...
Image: Independent Film Company Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero is the kind of queer, feminist folktale that delights in its sharp wit and unapologetic politics: clever, subversive, and committed to exposing how women are maligned across generations. Greenberg serves as an executive producer on Julia Jackman’s film adaptation, which...
The immensely talented actress Kim Cattrall best known for her legendary and era defining role as Samantha Jones in Sex and the City has officially confirmed the news of her marriage. This heartwarming announcement has sparked a wave of celebration among her colleagues industry leaders and adoring fans from around the globe. Following a period...
Image: 20th Century Fox Star Wars will return to cinemas worldwide in a newly restored presentation to mark its 50th anniversary. Lucasfilm has confirmed that the print scheduled for a limited theatrical engagement starting February 19, 2027, is the original 1977 cut — presented simply as Star Wars — rather than later re-titled or re-edited...
Image: Universal Pictures The latest revival of Naked Gun succeeds largely because its star, Liam Neeson, arrives with a lifetime of dramatic heft similar to how Leslie Nielsen’s serious résumé made the original gag work. Neeson has long been associated with weighty, earnest roles, but his late-career reinvention was turbocharged after 2009’s Taken unexpectedly turned...
Image: Universal Pictures David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 psychological horror It Follows rapidly attained cult status. Critics praised its uncanny atmosphere and the spare, methodical way it dramatizes an inescapable supernatural menace. Made on a modest $1.3 million budget, the film’s roughly $23 million global haul only amplified how strikingly effective its minimalist approach was. Viewers...
Image: Apple TV Most discussion around Vince Gilligan’s science-fiction drama Pluribus has centered on Carol (played by Better Call Saul alum Rhea Seehorn) and her struggle after an alien pathogen causes humanity to coalesce into a communal consciousness the production team dubs “The Others.” But another pivotal figure — an “Original” who appears resistant to...
Image: Dragonsteel / Artist: Tran Nguyen Readers familiar with Brandon Sanderson know two constants: he is perpetually at work, and occasionally those projects are kept secret. The latest confirmation of that pattern is The Fires of December, a new novel Sanderson recently unveiled. Sanderson announced the book at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 and shared details via an...
