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KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack Songs Ranked: From Catchy to Golden

Netflix and Sony Animation’s action-musical animated extravaganza, KPop Demon Hunters, has quickly become a global cultural phenomenon. Anecdotally, when I went to the top of the Empire State Building with some friends this past weekend, I noticed a young girl wearing a Huntr/x shirt while a stranger gushed about how much he and his friend […]

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That Weird Time The Toxic Avenger Became a Kid-Friendly Saturday Morning Cartoon

Later this month will see the release of The Toxic Avenger, the reboot of the beloved splatter comedy that introduced the world to the visceral joys of Troma. Starring Peter Dinklage in the title role, the movie is a proudly gory superhero pastiche with pitch black humor, cartoonish bad guys, and a total lack of […]

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A Ron Howard Family Vacation Led to His Darkest Movie

Ron Howard always wanted to visit the Galápagos. In the director’s mind, it was a “bucket list” destination before there was a movie called The Bucket List. When we catch up with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, he even points out that he dreamed about this well ahead of his frequent collaborator and friend Paul Bettany filming […]

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McKenna Grace and Jojo Regina Open Up About Sisterhood, Survival, and What We Hide

Sometimes the most compelling stories are those told from perspectives we rarely consider. That’s exactly what screenwriter and director Dan Kay set out to do with What We Hide, an emotionally driven film that examines the ripple effects of addiction through the eyes of its youngest witnesses and those left to pick up the pieces […]

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Alien: Androids and AI Are Now the Center of the Franchise

This article contains very mild spoilers for the first episode of Alien: Earth. There originally were never going to be any robots in the world or mythology of Alien. As brilliant as Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett’s initial idea was about a crew encountering an alien organism that nestles itself inside a human host—or “impregnates […]

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Ne Zha 2: The Real Lore Behind the Biggest Movie of 2025 (and Why You Haven’t Heard of It)

Last February, and at the start of the Chinese New Year, a movie called Ne Zha 2 came to theaters around the world, including a relatively small handful of screens in the U.S. Since then it has earned more than $2.1 billion globally. For context, that makes it not only the biggest movie of the […]

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Jeffrey Wright Recalls His ‘Most Neglected’ Film (and Why the Studio Buried It)

Sometimes it takes an outsider to diagnose a dysfunction in a family or the problem in a marriage. And when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the American Civil War, few filmmakers have captured the complexity and psychology that perpetuated this 19th century reckoning better than Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee. The director’s pensive and […]

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How Highest 2 Lowest Finally Brought Jeffrey Wright and Spike Lee Together

Jeffrey Wright and Spike Lee are only nine years apart in age. They have also known each other since near the beginning of their careers, with the Tony and Emmy-winning actor telling us that he first met Lee when he was still a young thespian on the make in New York City. It was 1989 […]

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Nobody 2: Bob Odenkirk and Connie Nielsen Reveal Their Real-Life Vacation Nightmares

When making the first Nobody back in the pre-COVID days of 2019, Bob Odenkirk refused to let himself think about the project as the start of a potential action franchise. Despite spending more than a year training for the gig, he viewed it first and foremost as a creative gamble. Even so, he confides to […]

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KPop Demon Hunters Does Not Feel Like a Netflix Movie (And That Makes It Great)

Late in the back half of director Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’ new Netflix sensation, KPop Demon Hunters, musical icon Rumi (Arden Cho) takes a break from her side hustle as a late-night monster-slayer in order to simply slay above an arena stage. Before thousands of screaming fans and a lighting scheme that matches the […]

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Bob Odenkirk Thinks ‘Some Version’ of Late Night Comedy Will Survive Streaming

Bob Odenkirk is aware that taking a punch to the face and being able to convincingly throw one in return onscreen is a little bit like doing comedy. Having gone through the learning process once for the former in 2021’s Nobody—a film for which Odenkirk spent more than a year training and preparing—the actor sees […]

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The Batman 2: Jeffrey Wright Excited by the Direction of Matt Reeves’ Script

Next spring Matt Reeves’ long-anticipated The Batman Part II is expected to finally go in front of cameras at Warner Brothers’ Leavesden studios in London. When that happens it will mark nearly four years to the day since Reeves’ previous DC crime epic opened in cinemas in March 2022. Both this time gap and fans’ […]

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Weapons Review: The Most Twisted Studio Movie of the Year

Zach Cregger’s Weapons does not always feel like a horror movie, and for large stretches it isn’t one. The enigmatic genre piece begins and ends with a mystery: Why would 17 elementary schoolers, all from the same class, wake up  in their disparate childhood bedrooms at 2:17 in the morning and then vanish into the […]

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Fantastic Four Box Office Drop Poses Tough Questions for MCU and Superheroes

Last week I was away on assignment in San Diego. For that reason, I was not able to write about the opening weekend of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But if I had, like many I would have noted the film’s $117.7 million debut was a positive sign for the MCU, offering the best launch […]

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Together: Alison Brie and Dave Franco Really Are a Horror Power Couple

Real life couples playing big screen lovers has been a fascination for audiences since the days of Fairbanks and Pickford, Tracy and Hepburn, Cruise and Kidman. How much of what we are watching is indicative of the real-life dynamic between these two performers? Do they love like that, lean on the other’s shoulder in the […]

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The Long Walk Cast Reacts to Being ‘Too Tense’ for SDCC

It marked some kind of milestone when the lights went out and an audible gasp spread across thousands of people. For the first time in San Diego Comic-Con history, new exclusive footage shared with the excited and hopeful in Hall H was being obscured. The screen literally went dark. This was not done to hide […]

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Shin Godzilla Director Reveals Why Those Eyes Are So Adorable

For a long time it seemed like Godzilla would never be scary again. While the most famous of giant movie screen monsters to stomp around a metropolis began as a sober, menacing metaphor for the dangers of nuclear weapons in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 masterpiece that started it all, the Big G soon became a creature […]

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