Mark Wahlberg is back this week in the action thriller, Play Dirty, the latest from director Shane Black, who also shares screenwriting duties with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Wahlberg's career as an actor has been interesting because he went from being a former rapper and underwear model
Dwayne Johnson is ready to prove to moviegoers that he is more than a charming box office star with what is said to be a transformative performance in The Smashing Machine, which hits screens this weekend. It's a different direction for the wrestler-turned-actor, and it has yet to be determined if
This weekend, The Strangers: Chapter 2 hits screens and will continue the head-scratching decision to move full steam ahead with this franchise as a new trilogy of films. The Strangers: Chapter 1 was a haphazard remake of sorts of the superior 2008 film, directed by Bryan Bertino, which debuted
Paul Thomas Anderson arrives this weekend with his tenth film, One Battle After Another, which has already garnered some of the best reviews of his career. The last Anderson film to hit the big screen was 2021's Licorice Pizza, so cinephiles everywhere are excited to see what the prolific director
Leonardo DiCaprio returns to the big screen this weekend in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, and it's shaping up to be another critical win for one of the best actors of his generation. DiCaprio has always had a great eye for picking the right films that showcase his talent, but
Warning: spoilers are being served in the study, so you may want to steer clear. Before we get too comfortable here, I’d just like to say that yes, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale does end the series as we know it. Arriving at the end of Julian Fellowes’ swan song for his hit ITV drama turned
This summer, the world learned to believe a man could fly all over again with James Gunn’s Superman. One of the box office hits that made Warner Bros a force to be reckoned with in 2025, David Corenswet’s debut as Metropolis’ protector shined brightly in multiplexes. So, of course, the
Comic-Con International 2025 (SDCC 2025) is set to kick off this week, intending to welcome tens of thousands to San Diego to celebrate the popular arts… But this year a dark cloud already shrouds the event before it has even begun. Beginning earlier this year, United States immigration policy has
Remaking Faces of Death is a hell of a move in 2026. Although, this movie doesn't really remake that diabolical film from 1978, it instead takes inspiration from it and it even exists in the universe that this film takes place in. So getting that out of the way so that the horror "diehards" who
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.