Midnight Club's Mike Flanagan on Looking for New Flanafamily Cast Members

Mike Flanaganis known for keeping creative partners and cast members at arms reach, ensuring he always has a very talented team working with him on movies and TV shows. Even so, each new Flanagan production brings new people on board, in front and behind the cameras. ForThe Midnight Club, Flanagan found a series co-creator inLeah Fongwhile still producing the series withTrevor Macythrough their Intrepid Pictures banner. In an exclusive interview with Flanagan, Macy, and Fong, Collider’s ownPerri Nemiroffgot to discuss how Flanagan and Macy choose their coworkers and how they always manage to find so many gifted cast and crew members....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Michael Holt

Netflix's Seven Seconds Teaser Trailer Reveals the Crime Thriller

With Netflix releasing so much original content, it’s next to impossible to predict what new shows might become the next great cultural obsession. But as teasers start to make their way online for the streaming giant’s 2018 slate, there’s a safe bet that a new anthology series crime-thriller from the creator ofThe Killingmight just be one of them. In a society fraught with racial tension, sensational headlines, and an audience who would rather be entertained than informed, seven seconds can mean life or death....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 385 words · Monique Knight

No CGI Leia in Star Wars Episode 9, Says Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm has mercifully shot down rumors that the studio is planning to digitally resurrectCarrie Fisherin the wake of the inimitable actress' untimely death. Fisher passed away at the age of 60 last month after suffering a heart attack, which has put the folks at Lucasfilm in a bit of a predicament. While Fisher hadwrapped filming onEpisode VIII, General Leia was reportedly planned to play a major role in the final film of the new trilogy – a narrative move that makes sense considering her son is the burgeoning big bad of the revamped franchise....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 360 words · Andrew Martin

Oscars: How Parasite Won Best Picture

Many hoped it would happen, butfew thought it actually would. FilmmakerBong Joon-ho’s masterpieceParasitesteamrolledthe Oscars last night, winning Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature, Best Director, and of course Best Picture. It became the first-ever foreign language film to take the top Oscars prize, and flew in the face of statistics and precursor awards that had pegged1917the safe bet to take Best Picture and Best Director. So how did this happen? How did the best film of the year actuallywinBest Picture at the Oscars?...

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 755 words · Janet Bennett

Paddington 2 Review: This Movie Will Start Your Year Right

In spite of a lackluster marketing campaign whose greatest achievement was the “Creepy Paddington” meme, 2015’sPaddingtonwas one of the best surprises of the year.Paul King’s adaptation of the classic character was distinctly British in its humor, but universal in its emotional core where a lost little bear found a family. Sequels are always tough and tend to result in diminishing returns, butPaddington 2is even better than the original. Rather than try to rehash old jokes or coast on goodwill from the first movie,Paddington 2feels even more fully realized with a strong sense of identity and presence....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 859 words · Erin Johnson

Remember When Joaquin Phoenix Played Jesus?

Although films about religious subject material are often mired in controversy, they’ve also been surprisingly successful when it comes to attracting niche audiences. Even though films likeMartin Scorsese’s1988 masterpieceThe Last Temptation of ChristandMel Gibson’s controversial 2004 religious epicThe Passion of the Christearned both defenders and critics from the Christian community, the films nonetheless got people talking. Mary Magdalene Twelve men heard and spread the message of Jesus. Only one woman understood it....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1011 words · Evan Garner

Small Axe Trailer Reveals Steve McQueen's Five Film Anthology on Amazon

Steve McQueenis one of the best filmmakers working today, and now we have our first real look at his new projectSmall Axe, an anthology of five original films that will begin rolling out on Amazon Prime Video this November. McQueen is the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind12 Years a Slave, as well asHunger,ShameandWidows. He is a true artist in every sense of the word, and I’m excited to see what he’s been working on for the past couple years, especially sinceSmall Axewas clearly a passion project for the British writer-director....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 789 words · Kevin Dickson

SNL: Kim Kardashian's Best Sketches of the Night, Ranked

If you are a human being on this planet, you’ve likely heard ofKim Kardashian West, the uber-popular reality star, beauty magnate, and billionaire who has, along with her famous family, dominated pop culture for over a decade with their E! seriesKeeping Up with the Kardashians. She started getting attention when she appeared alongside her friend and fellow modelParis HiltonandNicole Richiein a few episodes of the reality seriesThe Simple Life, which took Hilton and Richie away from their privileged lives and inserted them into everyday jobs, like running a fast food drive-thru or working at a news station....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 941 words · Edward Matthews

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: JJ Abrams on Rey's Lineage

Spoiler warning:If you haven’t seenStar Wars: The Force Awakens,you may not want to read on. J.J. Abramsmade his first appearance at the TCAs to promote hisStephen Kingproject with Hulu,11.22.63, and returned today for Showtime’s panel onCameron Crowe’sRoadies. Afterwards, he answered some moreStar Warsquestions (of course), including about Rey’s lineage, and what he knows about it: I know quite a bit, but obviously, it’s not for me to talk about in this moment because this is Rian [Johnson]’s story now and the last thing I want to do is reveal something he’ll get upset about....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 622 words · Amy Martinez

The 60 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2010)

Say what you will about the state of the entertainment industry at the end of the decade, and my is it precarious, but there’s no denying that the last ten years have delivered an absolutely absurd amount of the best TV ever created. From the birth of streaming services, to the fading prejudice against being a “TV star” (Meryl Streep makes TV now!), the 2010s have been a goldmine of creativity and ambitious storytelling across mediums, genres, networks, and platforms....

August 6, 2025 · 10 min · 1934 words · Jenny Patterson

The Adam Sandler Comedy Roger Ebert Dubbed the "Story of a Violent Sociopath" Is a Streaming Hit

Happy Gilmoreis one ofAdam Sandler’s best-loved comedies in a collection that often proves divisive. Described by legendary criticRoger Ebertas “the story of a violent sociopath,” the film follows Sandler as the titular Happy, a failed hockey player who finds he has a particular skill for driving long and accurate golf shots. Almost 30 years since the debut of this beloved ’90s comedy, a sequel is finally on its way, and it seems that, in preparation for its arrival, viewers are flocking to stream the title to remind themselves of the chaos....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Mary Turner

The Highs and Lows of 'Selling Sunset' Season 7

Selling Sunsetis back for Season 7 andthe O Group is messier than ever this go around.Viewers witnessed catfights, call-outs, crazy news, and a sprinkle of real estate for the super-wealthy.These women of LA have no shortage of workplace turmoil and when you’re as tight-knit as the O Group, that can be just as hard to deal with as familial or relational drama. Keep reading to see what happened this season....

August 6, 2025 · 5 min · 1053 words · Patrick Cherry

The Purge 3 Review: A Tasteless Murder Showcase

For those about to jump into their very firstPurgemovie, the series takes place in a version of America where the New Founding Fathers have instituted a national holiday called The Purge during which all crime is legal for a span of 12 hours. You’re free to steal and kill as you please with the goal being that citizens will get it out of their system and then, for the rest of the year, be on their best behavior, keeping the crime rate below one percent....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 837 words · Andrea Wells