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Today at the Apple TV 2026 Press Day, the stars of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, alongside prolific storyteller David E. Kelley, took the stage to unveil a teaser and shared a glimpse into the star-studded new series starring and executive produced by Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Elle Fanning, Golden Globe winner and…
It’s been an event thirty years in the making as Sidney Prescott faces her past in Scream 7. After sitting out the events of Scream VI, Neve Campbell is back facing the knife in the hotly anticipated sequel which sees original writer Kevin Williamson step into directing duties, three decades after the original film terrorised…
Few artists have reshaped popular music as decisively as Britney Spears. From the moment she debuted in 1998, she redefined what a pop star could look like, sound like, and represent. Her influence is embedded in the DNA of modern pop – in vocal styles, production trends, choreography, and the marriage of image and music….
Silenced is a bracing, compassionate, and urgently necessary documentary that transforms complex legal battles into a deeply human story about power, credibility, and the precariousness of women’s voices in public life. Director Selina Miles delivers a film that is both rigorously investigated and profoundly felt, blending courtroom insight with intimate, vérité-style storytelling that keeps the…
Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? is a film about what lingers after the end of a marriage – not the explosive rupture, but the quieter aftermath where two people must confront who they’ve become once the life they built together begins to dissolve. Rather than framing divorce as a dramatic turning point, Cooper is…
In Is This Thing On?, intimacy isn’t played for grand gestures or easy resolutions. It’s found in the quiet, uncomfortable spaces where love begins to shift shape. Directed by Bradley Cooper, the film observes Alex and Tess Novak as their marriage gently fractures, following two people forced to confront who they are beyond the roles…
The Musical is a prickly, uneven but intriguingly sharp first feature from director Giselle Bonilla, a film that clearly knows what it wants to be, even if it doesn’t always get there. Equal parts workplace satire, personal meltdown, and theatrical farce, the movie operates best when it leans into its absurdity, and falters when it…
Set in rural New Zealand in 2006, Big Girls Don’t Cry revels in its own humid, jangling state of being. Writer/director Paloma Schneideman, emerging from Jane Campion’s orbit (the director serving as an executive producer), has made a debut that feels lived-in rather than observed, patiently slipping inside the skin of a 14-year-old girl who…
Ramzi Bashour’s Hot Water arrives as a gentle, road-worn meditation on movement, belonging, and the complicated geometry of parent-child love. More interested in texture than plot, the film drifts across America with a perceptive eye, finding both beauty and banality in the stretch of highways that carry a Lebanese mother (Lubna Azabal) and her troubled…
When Valentine hit American theaters in February 2001, it arrived at a strange and unforgiving moment for horror. The post-Scream boom had peaked, critics were exhausted by the meta-wave, and studios were scrambling to find the next box-office darling. Into this atmosphere entered a stylish, glossy, almost defiantly straightforward slasher film – one that critics…
Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons begins a fragile and hard-won journey toward recovery in the shadow of the opioid crisis that continues to ravage rural Ohio. From that premise alone, Union County could have been another familiar tale of addiction and despair, but what unfolds instead is something far more tender,…
Night Nurse arrives already cloaked in intrigue: a psychosexual thriller set not in a glossy penthouse or shadowy alleyway, but inside the pristine, hushed corridors of a luxury retirement community. It is, on paper, a promisingly perverse collision of caregiving, exploitation, and desire – a place where intimacy is transactional, trust is fragile, and vulnerability…
Vera Miao’s feature debut, Rock Springs, is a film of undeniable importance, even when its storytelling struggles to cohere into a fully unified whole. Structured across three distinct acts – each with their own tonal and thematic weight – the film reaches for something vast: a reckoning with historical violence, inherited trauma, and the uneasy…
Sexual assault is one of cinema’s most fraught subjects. Not because it can’t be depicted, but because it so often can be mishandled. Films either flinch away from its reality, overtly depict the act with an almost exploitative lens, aestheticise it into something palatable, or frame it through adult comprehension that dulls its true terror….
Run Amok announces the arrival of a filmmaker unafraid of discomfort. In her striking debut feature, writer-director NB Mager tackles one of the most fraught subjects in contemporary American life – the aftermath of a school tragedy – and does so with a form that feels almost provocatively unexpected. The premise is deceptively simple yet…
“The Skylab space station fell out of orbit in 1979. During its mission, it had been home to hundreds of scientific experiments. Most of the debris burned up on re-entry, but some of it crashed to Earth. NASA thought it had recovered every piece. They were wrong.” Pay attention. This shit is real. That’s how…
From the moment The Wrecking Crew was announced, it felt less like a standard studio project and more like an inevitability. Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista – two of the most physically imposing stars working today – had already proven their onscreen chemistry as brothers in See. Fans could sense it. So could they. What…
After the Breakers rose – monstrous creatures that infect and twist their victims – men fell first, leaving women to lead the fight for survival. In this perilous new world, Willa’s mother is one of the war’s fiercest warriors, while her father, a battle-scarred veteran, hides with Willa on a remote island, training her in…
In Addition, Grace Lisa Vandenburg (Teresa Palmer) counts everything – numbers are the scaffolding of her meticulously ordered life. But when a chance encounter with Seamus (Joe Dempsie) turns her world upside down, Grace is forced to confront the chaos she’s long avoided. Directed by Marcelle Lunam and based on Toni Jordan’s bestselling novel, the…
Grace Lisa Vandenburg (Teresa Palmer) counts everything. Numbers are the quiet architecture holding her world together, until a chance encounter with Seamus (Joe Dempsie) begins to loosen the careful order she’s built around herself. Directed by Marcelle Lunam and adapted from Toni Jordan’s bestselling novel, Addition is a story about self-acceptance and recognising what truly…
Send Help announces itself as a survival thriller, but Sam Raimi’s latest is something far more subversive: a darkly comic, psychologically barbed dismantling of corporate masculinity and the systems that enable it. What begins as a familiar plane-crash setup quickly mutates into an unsettling power study, one that weaponizes genre expectations against the audience with…
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts is getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the 2026 AACTA Awards, and this year’s celebration promises to be something special. Leading the night is one of Australia’s most loved entertainers, Celeste Barber, who will host the AACTA Awards with her trademark wit, warmth and…
Bedford Park announces Stephanie Ahn as a filmmaker unafraid of emotional exposure – sometimes to a fault, but more often to devastating effect. Set between the push and pull of cultural obligation and personal survival, the film traces Audrey, a Korean American woman shaped by sacrifice as a love language, and Eli, an ex-wrestler whose…
Ángel Manuel Soto’s The Wrecking Crew wastes no time establishing its swagger: a sun-drenched, bone-crunching action comedy set on the streets of Hawaii, where estranged half-brothers Jonny (Jason Momoa) and James (Dave Bautista) reunite after their father’s mysterious death, only to find themselves tangled in buried secrets and a family-shattering conspiracy. When our Peter Gray…
The Wrecking Crew knows exactly what kind of movie it wants to be, and it’s in that confidence that it reveals its greatest asset. Directed by Ángel Manuel Soto (Blue Beetle), this sun-drenched, bruising action comedy channels the spirit of 80s/90s-era buddy chaos, pairing Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista as estranged half-brothers pulled back together…
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is the kind of film that knows exactly who it’s for, and makes no attempt to dilute itself for anyone else. Set almost entirely over one night inside Sardi’s restaurant on the opening of Oklahoma! in 1943, the film unfolds less like a traditional biopic and more like a rueful, jazz-inflected…
There are films that fail loudly, and then there are films that fail quietly; misjudged, misunderstood, and filed away under “not good enough” before anyone really figures out what they were trying to do. Awake belongs firmly in the latter category. Released in 2007 with a barely-there theatrical campaign, Joby Harold’s sleek medical conspiracy thriller…
The Oscars always tell you what kind of year it’s been – and the 2026 nominations just screamed it in neon: big swings rewarded, sacred cows ignored, and one film outright rewriting the record books. Because this morning belonged to Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, the blood-soaked, genre-bending juggernaut that didn’t just top the nomination leaderboard –…
There’s something weirdly refreshing about a horror movie that doesn’t posture, doesn’t smuggle in a lecture, and doesn’t pretend it’s “elevated” because someone mutters words of perceived depth between splatter sequences. Director Johannes Roberts understands the assignment with almost admirable single-mindedness with Primate: deliver a gory creature feature with a breezy, old-school sensibility and enough…
Australian systems change-makers and Indigenous storytellers Jack Manning Bancroft and Tyson Yunkaporta are inviting audiences to hit reset with Imagine, a bold, genre-defying animated feature landing in cinemas for special event screenings this January 26th across Australia. Co-created through the pandemic in an open, live Google Doc collaboration that brought together more than 400 contributors…
