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The following includes Hypnotic spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Hypnotic, the new Netflix thriller from directors Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel (The Open House), has arrived to scare the streaming service subscribers into a trance right before Halloween hits. Starring Midnight Mass’ Kate Siegel, Hypnotic centers on Jenn, a woman struggling after a miscarriage

The life of a fisherman in Malta isn’t all it cracks up to be, and sometimes you’re willing to go to extreme lengths to provide for your family. All of this can be seen and more in Luzzu, Malta’s award-winning foreign language film. “A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He

The spice must flow, and when it does it will look like movie theater popcorn. That appears to be the reasoning at Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., with the former breaking the news on Twitter that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is officially greenlit and already has an October 2023 release date! The news comes

Twilight and Spencer actress Kristen Stewart admits she’s only made a small handful of “good” films. “Ahead of the U.S. debut of her enthralling and Oscar-worthy performance as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s biopic Spencer, Kristen Stewart is acknowledging the elephant in the room: her career hasn’t really been filled with critically acclaimed features, to

Can you believe that Legends of Tomorrow, a show that started off as a home for characters who had completed their arcs on other DC Arrowverse shows, began with a tricky/impenetrable premise, and has since evolved to be one of the weirdest and most unique TV shows around is about to celebrate its 100th episode?

This article contains spoilers for Succession season 3 episode 2. The Roy siblings of Succession may not have known the details, but they knew the men involved in the Waystar cruise line scandal, and that makes them culpable. However, making that point with sincerity and without clever put-downs or cheeky irony was bound to go

For considerable swaths of its hefty running time, Marvel Studios’ Eternals doesn’t feel much like the “typical” Marvel movie, whatever that may be. At its best, Eternals attempts to push the Marvel Cinematic Universe forward in new directions, much like Thor, the two Captain America sequels, Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther did. While it

The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror” episodes have become a tradition worthy of international renown and global ill repute. They are dark candy for the soul and a grab bag of tricks and treats. The installments are non-canon, so beloved characters can die horribly amusing deaths, and the normal morality plays of America’s most animated family

The PlayStation 3 ranks below the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 4 in the minds of many fans, but it has to be said that the sometimes maligned console is also the home of some of the most notably difficult video games of the relatively modern era. While I don’t think that Sony and their studio

This article contains spoilers for Dune. Both of them. For miles stretching as far as the eye can see, oceans of sand slumber beneath two moons. In the distance, a pair of figures, a mother and son, cross this vast chasm of dunes on their quest to find those blue-eyed devils they call the Fremen.

This article contains spoilers for Dune. It’s right there in the first few minutes of the movie. As the title Dune materializes onscreen, the words “Part One” appear directly below it. But that’s not really a surprise or a spoiler for those who’ve been paying attention. Director Denis Villeneuve has said all along that his

This What We Do in the Shadows review contains spoilers. What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Episode 9 Talk about sucking all the air from the room. Vampires are impressive, lethal, and mythic, but energy vampires can take center stage with the subtlety of a passing wind, breezing by. Silent, but deadly, the

As surreal as it may now seem, 2008’s Iron Man was initially dismissed as yet another visually-driven but unexceptional comic book movie for an era filled with them. Not only was it a Hail Mary moment for the upstart Marvel Studios over its attempt to bring old Shellhead into the mainstream, but its selection of

This American Horror Story: Double Feature review contains spoilers. American Horror Story Season 10 Episode 10 It took the full four episodes, but American Horror Story has finally tied its two story threads together using the most unlikely character. Of course, it wouldn’t be American Horror Story without a last-minute twist that may or may

As if the multiverse mania confirmed for Spider-Man: No Way Home wasn’t providing enough speculative hype, the film is rumored to feature a crucial Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix nod with the return of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock—and potentially his costumed crime-fighting alter-ago, Daredevil. While such an appearance would seemingly canonize the events of the revered

Night Teeth is very entertaining, not particularly scary, and more of an action film than a straight horror movie. But at its center is a romance, and some wicked antiheroes who are sadly put in their place all too soon. Isn’t that the problem with intra-vampire spats, though? All the worst bloodsuckers bleed out, even

At the Doctor Who: Flux press launch, held just 48 hours before Jodie Whittaker completed her final day’s filming as the Doctor, Whittaker was asked to pick her favourite guest star during her time on the show. After initially protesting the question in mock horror and spreading the love by saying, “There’s too many people

This article is sponsored by Flowers for the Sea is a bewitching tale that engrosses for the entirety of its 112 pages. Trapped on a deteriorating ark, afloat in a treacherous and endless sea, Iraxi is the inadvertent hope for the vestiges of humanity who managed to survive the flooding of their kingdom, and the

Disney kicked off this week by announcing a slew of release date changes, almost all of them involving the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Indiana Jones 5 was also bumped from next year to 2023, while unrelated, untitled Disney live-action and 20th Century Studios releases were removed). Several major Marvel films were moved back in the schedule

Imagine this: a Halloween costume contest, featuring only TV characters dressed as other fictional screen characters. Now wait, you don’t have to imagine it, because it’s happening, friend. We’ve gathered 30 memorable instances of TV characters making meta costume choices for Halloween, and ranked them in order of greatness. To get the points system straight,

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers. Young Justice Season 4 Episodes 1 and 2 Jeez, it’s been a long time.  Young Justice: Phantoms picks up essentially where Outsiders left off, but it’s been a little over two years since the last episode came out, and…uh…a lot has happened since then. You know. Out there.

The first footage from Andy Muschietti’s hotly anticipated The Flash movie arrived at DC FanDome and folks, it is quite a ride. We’ve long known that this film would take at least some inspiration from the Flashpoint comics story (which was also adapted for the third season of the TV series), but it seems that

What is he hiding under there? That is typically what the denizens of Gotham might ask in a Dark Knight movie about the Batman himself. But in the new The Batman trailer, the audience are the ones left to speculate about why we never see the face of Paul Dano’s the Riddler, who is only

Todd Haynes is more of a conductor than the director of The Velvet Underground. He tells the story of the band in chronological time, but fills in the blanks by presenting a performance piece of historical art. This is Haynes’ first documentary. It is the first time he hasn’t put a fictional spin on the

Spider-Man: No Way Home will serve as the sixth appearance of Tom Holland’s Wall-Crawler role, which, in a sobering fact, he’s been fielding for over five years now. Consequently, the star is saying that the new film, his third solo feature, is being treated like the closing chapter of a tonally-linked trilogy. Indeed, recent comments

For many of us, October is the most wonderful time of the year. With the smell of autumnal leaves turning red and golden hued, the sound of children’s laughter as ghosts and goblins walk down the street, and finally the sight of pumpkins everywhere you look—there’s no better month-long celebration than the wind up to

The Batman made waves last year when its first trailer dropped during the inaugural DC Fandome digital event, and all eyes are on the movie once again as Warner Bros. prepares to drop a second look at the movie. Batfans would do well to keep an eye out for this Saturday’s DC Fandome 2021, which

This American Horror Story: Double Feature review contains spoilers. American Horror Story Season 10 Episode 9: Blue Moon With every passing year, the human-alien hybrid efforts being undertaken by the mysterious aliens from the 1950s seem to be getting closer to something familiar. We’ve seen the early efforts; the face-hugger monster from Amelia Earhart was