Author: David Grove
Give Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts and Dianne Wiest a room collectively, and there’s a great probability somebody will depart it wounded. In “Closing Evening,” they play a household with years of grievances to work via and treasured little endurance for doing it gently. Author-director Cody Fern, working from a script he co-wrote with Devon Bostick, offers all three ladies loads to play, then places their relationships beneath higher pressure when certainly one of them receives a life-altering prognosis. The movie reaches for extra catharsis than it may all the time earn, however Paulson delivers certainly one of her finest display…
Since The Expanse led to January 2022, audiences have each desperately wished the present to return and to seek out a perfect alternative. There is not any doubt that The Expanse is a shining jewel in Prime Video’s catalog, particularly its sci-fi and thriller collections, so it is no shock that nearly 5 years later, folks nonetheless cannot cease speaking about it. There are many unimaginable new titles coming to Prime Video in October 2026, however for those who’re affected person sufficient to attend just a bit longer, there’s a tremendous TV present arriving in late November that may doubtless…
Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Reduce from the identical mould as final yr’s sensation-of-the-moment “The Housemaid” comes one other erotic thriller tailored from a bestselling novel, this time from the thoughts of Colleen Hoover. It’s onerous not to have a look at “Verity” by means of the lens of Paul Feig’s film from final yr. There are two girls and a hunk on the middle, an remoted mansion buried deep within the wilderness, simmering sexual rigidity, somebody who clearly isn’t telling the reality and sufficient lustful need to make everybody concerned rethink just a few life selections. Sadly, “Verity” might…
If you were to mention Donnie Darko today, many people’s minds would go straight to the word “iconic.” And rightfully so, but it wasn’t always viewed that way. Without spoiling too much for those who have yet to see the sci-fi thriller, there is a plane crash scene that is integral to the movie, though it premiered just six weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, forcing studios to pull all of its advertising. The film had a $4.5 million budget, largely funded through the generosity of producer and cast member Drew Barrymore, but it only grossed around $517,000 during its…
It’s straightforward to overlook that Tom Cruise, now 64, used to experiment exterior the proverbial franchise sandbox. Within the years since his audacious supporting flip as Les Grossman in “Tropic Thunder,” a lot of his filmography has been dominated by huge motion spectacles through which he hurls himself off cliffs, hangs from airplanes or straps himself inside a fighter jet, all within the identify of cinema. That dedication has understandably change into inseparable from his display screen persona, however it might probably overshadow the actor who gave us “Dangerous Enterprise” and “The Coloration of Cash,” went splendidly feral in “Magnolia”…
One of many greatest fantasy motion pictures in years, which utterly dominated the field workplace final 12 months, is not simply settling for one streaming dwelling; it is taking on a number of websites. The film shattered field workplace data in 2025 to develop into the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, stealing the crown from Makoto Shinkai and Studio Ghibli. If that wasn’t sufficient, it scored rave evaluations, incomes a joint 98% Rotten Tomatoes ranking from critics and audiences. Everybody was ready for the movie to develop into accessible on streaming. However a 12 months on, we’re now spoiled…
There may be no true-crime rock Netflix has left unturned, but Ted Kaczynski’s story presents a particularly difficult question for a narrative feature: How do you examine the making of a man who killed three people and injured 23 others without turning one chapter of his life into an explanation for everything that followed? “Unabomber,” directed by Janus Metz, chooses the most dramatic chapter it can find. It follows Kaczynski through a series of psychological experiments at Harvard while cutting ahead to the FBI investigation that would eventually lead to his arrest. It sounds like a way to put his…
This episode comprises spoilers for Lanterns Episode Seven, “The Jordan Boys Legacy”Warning: This text comprises dialogue about suicide. Reader discretion is suggested. Just one episode stays in HBO’s Lanterns, and the penultimate episode did a unbelievable job establishing what seems like an thrilling finale. As an alternative of that includes quite a lot of motion and establishing the finale to wrap up many storylines, “The Jordan Boys Legacy” is essentially character-centric and delves into Hal Jordan’s backstory because of the arrival of a backup of Hal’s consciousness saved in his Lantern ring, referred to as the Halogram. Although episode seven…
Courtesy of Paramount PicturesDavid Ayer’s “Heart of the Beast” is a serviceable entry in the leading-man-and-his-dog subgenre, though it earns style points for giving Brad Pitt an actual canine to act opposite. Harrison Ford wasn’t so lucky in 2020’s “The Call of the Wild,” where his companion was a CGI creation. There’s a pleasure in seeing Pitt share the screen with an animal who can meet his gaze, interrupt his solitude and occasionally upstage him. Ayer’s film checks nearly every box of the man-and-his-dog survival movie, and it knows exactly where to tug at your heart. What keeps it going…
Spoilers for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe Season 1 and its finale. Now that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is over, it is price contemplating which questions nonetheless require solutions and which do not. As the primary title in The Huge Bang Principle franchise that wasn’t in regards to the Cooper household, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe confronted a number of strain to dwell as much as the opposite exhibits. Fortunately, HBO’s hit sci-fi spin-off to The Huge Bang Principle has been a roaring success, and it is astounding how shortly the final ten weeks have handed.…