Midnight Special Review: Superpowered Coming of Age Story

There’s definitely something admirable about a filmmaker willing to jump headfirst into a completely original narrative without force feeding plot details, butJeff Nicholstakes that approach a bit too far inMidnight Special. There’s an extremely moving coming of age, family-driven story in there, but it’s tough to appreciate when you spend most of the film’s 111-minute running time trying to piece together and make sense of the details. The movie opens with Roy (Michael Shannon) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton) on the run as they attempt to take Roy’s eight-year-old son Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) from a religious cult that worships him due to his supernatural powers....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 623 words · Kimberly Gomez

Mother/Android Trailer Stars Chloë Grace Moretz as an Apocalypse Survivor

Hulu has released the official trailer and poster art for their upcoming sci-fi film,Mother/Android. The movie is set in a world where androids were commonplace in everyone’s homes — so what happens if they all switch and start to target the humans around them? StarringChloë Grace Moretz,Mother/Androidillustrates a woman’s struggle to get to safety to bring her son into this futuristic world. In the trailer forMother/Android, we get an in-depth look at Moretz,Algee Smith, andRaúl Castilloin theMattson Tomlin-directed epic for Hulu....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 321 words · Jennifer Hendrix

Movie Talk: Jurassic World 2 Director Announced

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (April 18th, 2016) Mark Ellis, Jon Schnepp, Dennis Tzeng and Stuart Brazell discuss the following: It’s Monday which means it’s time for the weekend box office report brought to you by our friends at AMC theatres. Proving once again that Disney owns the box office, theirlive actionJungle Bookmovie destroyed estimates, taking in an astounding 103.5 million at the box office, making it the second largest April opening behindFurious 7....

July 17, 2025 · 4 min · 758 words · Joseph Roberts

Movies Like Shutter Island to Watch for More Mind-Bending Mysteries

Shutter Islandis considered a modern classic for many reasons. For starters, it is a product ofMartin Scorsese’s brilliant filmmaking.He isn’t a director who makes psychological thrillers often but when he did, he hit the bullseye.Shutter Islandboasts an unforgettable performance byLeonardo DiCaprioin the lead role. Besides DiCaprio, this movie also features a stacked ensemble cast includingMark Ruffalo,Ben Kingsley,Michelle Williams,Emily Mortimer,Patricia Clarkson, andMax von Sydow, among many others. Based onDennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, the psychological thriller follows the story of U....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1307 words · Mr. Drew Gonzales

Mythic Quest’s Cast Has Too Much Fun Talking Season 3 at SDCC 2022

Shortly before theMythic Questcast took the San Diego Comic-Con stage in Ballroom 20 and showed a new trailer forSeason 3, along with revealing the fall release date,Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch,Imani Hakim, andJessie Ennisstopped by the Collider studio to talk about making the fantastic Apple TV+ comedy series. If you haven’t yet watched the show,Mythic Questfollows a group of video game developers as they work behind-the-scenes on one of the most popular multiplayer games in the world....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · Mitchell Mendez

New 'The Rookie' Season 7 Promo Follows a Missing Person's Case With Strong Ties to John Nolan

One of the biggest traditions onThe Rookieis documentary-themed episodes. With Season 6 being short, the show skipped that tradition. In Season 7, we pick it up as Abigail Tierney (Madeleine Coghlan) goes missing while investigating the hospital that has delivered several serial killers in the last few episodes. “Documentary filmmakers interview the LAPD on a complicated missing person’s case connected to John (Nathan Fillion),” reads the logline forThe RookieSeason 7, Episode 15, “A Deadly Secret....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · Kelly Wolfe

New on Hulu in June 2023

Hulu has plenty of hot titles that will be available to stream this June.The Bearwas one of the biggest break-out hits of 2022 and Season 2 will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu withJeremy Allen WhiteandAyo Edebiriboth reprising their roles.Eva Longoriawill be making her feature directorial debut about the creation of an iconic spicy snack food inFlamin' HotstarringJesse Garcia,Annie Gonzalez,Dennis Haysbert, andTony Shalhoub. Popular series such asCruel SummerandIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphiawill also be available to stream on Hulu in the month of June....

July 17, 2025 · 4 min · 680 words · Erica Jackson

Operation Mincemeat Cast & Character Guide: Who's Who in the War Drama

How did a disguised dead body and a few fake documents lead to the liberation of Sicily in the Second World War?Operation Mincemeattells the true story of a deception operation executed by the British military in 1943. To successfully take control of Sicily from the Axis powers, British intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) came up with a plan to trick German forces into moving away from the Italian island....

July 17, 2025 · 6 min · 1244 words · Steven Harris

Oscar Race 2020 Contenders: Who's Ahead and Who's in Trouble?

Over the last few days, while critics groups have been weighing in with their picks for the best films of the year, the industry guilds have also been announcing their nominations for 2019. The various guilds are key for the upcoming Oscar race in that they can often reflect how Hollywood is feeling about certain films or performances, and can provide a roadmap of sorts to the “best-liked” movies of the year....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Christopher Rose

Pete Docter Is Directing a New Movie at Pixar

Pixar usually keeps their movies quietly under wraps until they have something they’re ready to show. The only movie they officially have on their slate right now isToy Story 4for next year, although they have five unannounced titles set for various release dates from 2020-2022. While we don’t have any official details on these movies, it’s reasonable to assume that one of them is fromInside OutdirectorPete Docter. The Wrapreports that Docter “plans to complete the film he’s currently working on,” despite stepping into the Chief Creative Officer role thatJohn Lasseterwill vacate by the end of the year....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Cindy Mccoy

Ray Donovan Season 5 Renewed by Showtime

Showtime announced today that – no big surprise! – it’s bringing back its family dramaRay Donovanfor a fifth season. Per usual, the season will have 12 episodes, and will start production next year. Showtime President and CEODavid Nevinsalso noted during the show’s panel at the TCA Press Tour that the series returned this year up double-digits from last year (which had an excellent run), and noted that of course,Liev Schreiberwas also just nominated for this second Lead Actor Emmy, alongsideJon Voightfor his second Supporting Actor nomination....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Andrew Winters

Red Sparrow: Win Free Tickets to Our IMAX Screening

Back in 2015, Collider partnered up withIMAXfor a screening series. The goal was to show both old and new movies and have intimate conversations with the people involved in bringing the films to life. While I had optimistic goals for what I wanted to accomplish, over the past two years we’ve absolutely exceeded my lofty expectations by showing some of the biggest new releases before they’ve been in theaters with meet and greets for the fans....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 512 words · Erika Andersen

Richard Linklater Moon Landing Movie with Jack Black Coming from Netflix

Back in 2018, word leaked thatRichard Linklater, celebrated Texas filmmaker behindBefore Midnight,Boyhood, andDazed and Confused, would be tackling a movie based around the moon landing.Last year he told methat while it didn’t get off the “launch pad,” he was going to “take another run at it.” And apparently, that run was successful, because today Netflix announced thatApollo 10 ½: A Space Age Adventurewould be coming to the streaming platform. Described as combining live-action with hand-drawn and CGI animation, the new movie “tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 478 words · Roger Smith