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Review - Spider-man: Brand New Day (2026)
A lonelier, darker Peter Parker and the best web-swinging yet
Review - The Odyssey (2026)
Nolan goes full myth. Spectacular, grand, and almost too heavy to sit through in places.
Review - Obsession (2025)
A wish gone bad and one of the creepiest faces in recent horror
Review - The Drama (2026)
Not the rom-com the trailer sold you
Review - Superman (2025)
Gunn cooked, story wasn't my thing, the dog stole It
Review - The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
A beautiful retro future with a villain problem
Review - The Naked Gun (2025)
Liam Neeson cut loose, and It's exactly the medicine you need
Review - Tron: Ares (2025)
Great visuals, bad screenplay. The music by Nine Inch Nails makes it better.
Review - Troy (2004)
Watched it to prepare for The Odyssey. Got a reminder of what's missing.
Review - Supergirl (2026)
Gorgeous, borrowed and weightless, but Milly Alcock makes it fly
Review - The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
A loud, handsome adventure that forgets to breathe
Review - Disclosure Day (2026)
Spielberg rediscovers his sense of wonder and Emily Blunt delivers the performance of her career!
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Sorry Star Wars, Prime Video's 10/10 Space Opera Series Is the Perfect Dune Replacement
Star Wars is the major successor to Dune, but The Expanse captured the Imperium's politics even better.
'Extraction' Director Joins the World’s Wildest Short Film Festival
Collider can exclusively reveal that Sam Hargrave will join one of the most exciting short film contests in the world. Read on for more.
'Peaky Blinders' Creator's Forgotten Apple TV Sci-Fi Thriller Officially Surges on Streaming
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight created a sci-fi thriller for Apple TV that is surging on streaming. Get all the details here.
Aaron Paul To Play Music Mogul Jimmy Iovine In Universal’s ‘Snoop’; Giovanni Ribisi Also Set
EXCLUSIVE: Snoop, the Snoop Dogg biopic from Universal Pictures, has added two more to its cast: Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar). Paul will play Jimmy Iovine, the billionaire…
CAA Signs ‘East of Eden’ Actor Costa D’Angelo (EXCLUSIVE)
Creative Artists Agency has signed actor Costa D’Angelo, Variety can reveal exclusively. D’Angelo can currently be seen as Young Adam Trask in Netflix’s limited series “East of East,” alongside…
‘Love Is Blind’ Star Rob Feeley Breaks His Silence on Michaella, the Beekeeper and Why He Nearly Skipped the Reunion
Rob Feeley is sitting in his car. He’s taking the Zoom call from the driver’s seat, two days before the “Love Is Blind” Season 11 reunion drops on Netflix — and almost two years following the night…