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Speed still sells. Gal Gadot’s Prime Video thriller The Runner climbed to No. 1 on the streamer’s global movie chart within days of release, proving that an 84-minute clock can beat a three-hour lore dump. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the film casts Gadot as a mother racing to save her kidnapped son — high-concept urgency …
Horror comedy just got another living-room victory lap. The latest Scary Movie chapter — widely tagged as Scary Movie 6 — is now streaming on Paramount+, complete with the Core Four reunion fans waited more than a decade to see again. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall return to slash through tropes …
Saturday night on the Lido did not stay polite. Lance Oppenheim’s A24 drama Primetime premiered in Venice’s Sala Grande and walked out with a nearly eight-minute standing ovation — the kind of festival noise that turns a screening into industry lore before the credits fade. Robert Pattinson leads as Chris Hansen, the television host whose …
Apple TV is betting on star chemistry and a high-concept one-liner with Mayday, a Cold War road-trip action-comedy that drops Ryan Reynolds opposite Kenneth Branagh. The setup is gleefully unserious: an American pilot shot down over Russian territory, nursed back toward fighting shape by an ex-KGB operative who loves America a little too hard. Survival, …
New Monster season date announced — see the piece on Xaldris.
The Secret of Secrets is filming — read the update on Xaldris.
Quick note on the Spider-Noir cancellation — full story on Xaldris.