This weekend marks the release of the science fiction thriller Mercy, directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. The film is set in 2029 Los Angeles, as a detective stands trial for the alleged murder of his wife, and he has just 90 minutes to prove his innocence
AI is seemingly everywhere these days. In Hollywood, questions about its role in the filmmaking process are accompanied by legal concerns that have embroiled the embattled entertainment world for some time now. It's also frequently a subject of the stories onscreen themselves, as in "Mercy."
Two of the hottest topics you could mention in a room today are the rise of A.I .computing and the jurisprudence of the American police system. In Mercy, director Timur Bekmambetov uses both subjects to make another case for his recent storytelling obsession known as Screen Life. That decision is
The concept shown in Mercy’s first trailer has movie fans drawing parallels between director Timur Bekmambetov’s latest experiment in ScreenLife and Minority Report. That’s a comparison that needs to be put on the table as it’s too loud to ignore, but we're not here to talk about that.
Since the dawn of the atomic age, there have been a healthy number of stories that engage in the paranoia of nuclear war. However, there are only a handful that truly dig into the machinery that makes this existential threat a constant concern, like A House of Dynamite does. While Oppenheimer is
Amazon MGM Studios is proud to announce their upcoming new sci-fi thriller film Mercy. This upcoming film starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson will make its theatrical debut on January 23, 2026. As for what it's about, well, you can read their official synopsis below: In the near future, a
Lost in the Reel's video review for Silo Apple TV+ has come out with some incredible original series since its inception. Though I can't help, but feel like recently… the quality of these shows has gone down a bit. Last year they provided hits like The After-party, Bad Sisters, and
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.
It's been quite a long time since we've had a Star Wars movie in theaters. In the time between Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and now, we've had a revolution in entertainment in streaming and Star Wars moved from controlling the theater to a fixture in our living rooms with shows like The