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If you are asked to pick a genre you most associate with Steven Spielberg, you’d probably pick sci-fi. He is one of the ultimate masters of sci-fi and is responsible for quite a lot of the most familiar visual language that we associate with sci-fi, especially heart-driven, Amblin-like releases that appeal to a very broad
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Godzilla Minus Zero.The highly anticipated new film Godzilla Minus Zero is finally here. The Takashi Yamazaki-directed feature arrived in theaters this past weekend, and made quite a splash in doing so. The film, which audiences had high hopes for after the quality (and success) of its predecessor, Godzilla Minus
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WARNING: This article contains discussion of drug addiction, homophobia, suicide, bullying, eating disorders, sexual assault, and school shootings. Like any other show that premiered in 2009, Glee is a product of its time— for better and for worse. The musical teen drama was a trailblazer in its genre, blending the melodrama of classic coming-of-age stories
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Queer Edward IITheo Rollason It’s ajubilant homecoming for London-based director Theo Rollason, who scooped up the Queer Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival for their behind-the-scenes documentary covering the fraught production of Derek Jarman’sEdward II. Using Seamus McGarvey’s never-before-seen archive of betacam footage, Rollason builds an evocative capsule of 1990’s queer activism extending out
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The Departed ending is one of the most shocking and analysis-worthy film finales ever. Martin Scorsese’s award-winning 2006 movie, a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, culminates in the collision of the plot’s parallel storylines. For most of The Departed, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) are deep undercover in
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“Alright, I’ll get married… Let me be aconcubine. Isn’t that awoman’s fate?” says 19-year-old Songlian (Gong Li) at the beginning of Zhang Yimou’sRaise the Red Lantern. Tears trickle down her motionless face, faintly reddened by the light outside, as she stands in white before ablack-framed window. In this opening image, colour already hints at the
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Lee Chang-dong only makes films when he’s good and ready, as Possible Love is his follow-up to 2018’s astounding love-triangle drama, Burning. This new film explores class, gender, generational conflict and filmmaking through the prism of two couples who breach the economic divide to collaborate on adocumentary. LWLies: Do you see any aspect of performance
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Mystery is something that remains thoroughly connected to the influential German director FW Murnau – both in terms of his work and their fate, as well as to his mythology. It is devilishly tempting to view this air of mystery in connection to Murnau’s singular ability to capture the supernatural. Several Murnau pictures are lost
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A content machine Thefirst wave of AI-generated videos was largely the territory of tech bros experimenting with the limits of technology, but as generative video models become more sophisticated, agrowing industry has been emerging around turning those experiments into commercially viable entertainment. The emphasis seems to be less on telling better stories than producing more
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In his fourth collaboration with Martin McDonagh, Sam Rockwell has become one of the director’s most reliable vessels for moral chaos. Their latest, Wild Horse Nine, finds him in unusually restrained territory, playing an unhappily married CIA operative whose time in Rapa Nui becomes entangled with friendship, regret and redemption. He talks to LWLies about
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I’ll admit it – the prospect of talking to the actor John Malkovich was adaunting one when faced with acareer of such magnificent scope and diversity. Toggling constantly between stage and screen, Malkovich has made aname as someone who brings asense of literary gravitas to any role he takes on. My first encounter with the
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When Martin McDonagh made the transition from stage to screen with 2008’s In Bruges, it was fairly obvious that he was an artist with the ability to excel in both mediums. He had come from arun of lauded stage productions, including 2001’s ​‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ and his first Broadway production, ​‘A Behanding in Spokane’,
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Even when it looks like Irish writer/​director Martin McDonagh has one foot deeply set in his comfort zone – the tawdry world of dysfunctional male friendships – the other foot is somewhere else entirely, this time tramping the fertile ground of JFK conspiracy theories and America’s checkered history of destabilising nascent democracies around the globe.
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Let’s Have Kids! answers the burning question of how friends stay together even as life pulls them in opposite directions, and filmmakers Adam Sztykiel and Ellie Knaus pulled out all the stops to tackle it as honestly (and hilariously) as possible. The movie follows two literally lifelong best friends, Emma (Karen Gillan) and Phoebe (Zoë
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The best pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise aren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest ships, the most intimidating reputations, or the flashiest sword-fighting skills. Being a successful pirate requires considerably more than looking good in a tricorn hat. A genuinely accomplished buccaneer needs to know how to command a crew, navigate dangerous
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Screenshot ofThe Elder Scrolls 6‘s reveal teaser. Published Oct 29, 2026, 12:29 PM EDT Nicholas Becher is a gaming journalist with an MFA in Creative Writing from FAU. With extensive experience playing video games, he covers all forms of gaming content at Screen Rant, from breaking news to the latest fan theories. Most-played games range from
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Barely out of his twenties, Lance Oppenheim has already established himself as something of amoving image renaissance man. With documentaries, shorts, music videos and more under his belt, he turns his hand to dramatic fiction with Primetime, aportrait of American TV presenter Chris Hansen (played with oily precision by Robert Pattinson) who was responsible for
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The subject of male violence and the manosphere entered the political arena around the release of Adolescence on Netflix, which featured Ashley Walters in an acting role. Its impact was profound and it is currently the second most watched Netflix show ever made. In his debut feature film as director, Walters collaborates with screenwriter Nick
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This new film from writer/​director Marie Kreutzer (Corsage) charts the tortuous predicament of Léa Seydoux’s Lucy Weiss, amusician whose marriage to filmmaker Philip (Laurence Rupp) is irrevocably shattered when he is taken into police custody under suspicion of possessing and distributing sexualised images of children. Before the visit from the police, Lucy and Philip were
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