For the most part, the latest trailer for the Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake tells us what we already knew. Set in 1971, the series stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, a few years after her son Jason drowned to death at Camp Crystal Lake, but a few years before she started killing counselors who tried to reopen the camp in 1980. Along the way, we get looks at important characters, such as Nick Cordileone as local cook Crazy Ralph and William Catlett as Levon Brooks, the beleaguered town sheriff. But the real interesting part of the trailer…

Some TV quotes become so memorable that they stop feeling like lines from a show and start becoming part of everyday language. The Simpsons has been doing that for decades, giving fans an almost endless supply of ridiculous one liners, accidental life advice, and perfectly timed insults. Ask someone for their favorite quote, and you are likely to get a completely different answer every time. Reddit recently asked fans to pick the one line they love most, and the responses covered plenty of classic moments, deep cuts, and jokes people still use in real life. Here are 15 favorites that…

Fans of superhero cinema can sometimes have quite strong feelings about Zack Snyder’s DC movies. While some argue that the tone he chose for projects like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was too dark, brooding, or humorless for their DC comic book characters, others have often raced enthusiastically to his defense, noting his unique visual style and focus on building mythology over delivering crowd-pleasing moments. Years after Snyder’s relationship with Warner Bros. grew strained and he left the cinematic universe behind, James Gunn and Peter Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios and took over its…

Some movies are unsettling because of what happens on screen, while others become even harder to watch once you discover what was happening while they were being made. Difficult productions, disturbing accidents, unusual decisions, and real events surrounding the cast can completely change the way certain scenes feel. Sometimes the story behind a movie is almost as memorable as the movie itself, especially when something unexpected happened during filming that audiences never knew about. Once you learn these details, certain moments can carry an entirely different weight. Here are 15 movies whose behind the scenes stories make them considerably more…

A portion of the internet has been having a good time recently, imagining it has uncovered a secret musical behind the curious trailers for Tom Cruise’s upcoming black comedy, Digger. One trailer even showed the 64-year-old actor atop a rotating platform, while other background characters appeared open-mouthed, as though mid-song. Clearly a musical, the internet proposed! Well, no. Apparently not. Variety, citing sources “familiar with the production,” says Digger is not actually a movie musical. Time to pack up the conspiracy and go home, eh? Find something else to read far too much into. Still, I reckon it’s a shame…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 5 From episode one, Lanterns has made it clear that Hal Jordan and John Stewart don’t trust each other. But we really thought that when the chips are down and things get bad, these guys would pull it together and figure out how to work with one another. After all, these guys are heroes, right? Yet, when Antaan finally gets confirmation that Zoe is the Manhunter he has been looking for and starts their attack, and as Zoe and her husband Will Macon launch their counter-offensive and tear Rushville apart, Hal…

This article contains spoilers for Lanterns season 1 episode 5 At the climax of “Lights Out,” the fifth episode of Lanterns, every conflict the show has been building to boils over. Macon activates his men and his defenses to protect the Manhunter Zoe from not just the Green Lanterns, but also Antaan and his people, who have arrived to take her in. Zoe also begins destroying Rushville via the red light lasers she used to fake her death in the previous episode, decimating the town she once called her home. And what are our heroes doing while all this devastation…

Spike Lee demanded immediate attention with his 1986 debut feature She’s Gotta Have It, and filmgoers have not been able to look away since. Not only has Lee established himself as one of the most distinctive filmmakers in cinema history—known for signatures such as his double dolly shot and declaring each work “A Spike Lee Joint”—but he’s continued to innovate, pushing the form forward even 40 years into his career. With so many entries in his filmography, ranking Spike Lee will always be a daunting task. And to help, we are just looking at his narrative features, which excludes some…

Ask them. Yes, that’s the boring answer, but it’s also the most effective one of the bunch. Of course, being up front about it could lead to embarrassment, even though we live in a day and age where Dungeons & Dragons appears more and more in mainstream media. So, if asking them directly is out of the question, we’ve developed a few ways to tell if they may or may not be interested in D&D. We’re considering two different kinds of people here: those that already know about D&D, and those with characteristics that would make them the ideal party…

There is something remarkable about realizing that some of the faces who defined classic Hollywood are still here. These actors and actresses became stars when movie theaters, studio publicity, and television appearances shaped celebrity culture, and their careers helped create the images of glamour and stardom that people still recognize today. Some are still working, others rarely appear publicly, but all of them have lived long enough to witness several generations of Hollywood transform around them. A few even began acting more than seven decades ago. Here are 12 vintage leading men and ladies who remain with us in 2026,…

Humor, sensible themes and what we can talk about on screen changes drastically with the times, reflecting how we ourselves change and evolve as a society. Technology isn’t the only thing moving forward, after all, and part of adapting to the changing times is understanding that, while some movies of the past were enjoyable back then, they aren’t so much so right now. You can still appreciate these movies, of course, with performances, filmmaking, and widely cultural impact; what matters is recognizing that parts have aged badly. These are classic movies that often make modern viewers feel that admitting how…

Watching an older movie can feel like opening a time capsule. Some details are obvious, like enormous phones, cigarette smoke everywhere, or people somehow making plans without texting each other. Others are much easier to miss because they were completely normal when the movie was made. A character can casually walk into a building without security checks, leave a message on an answering machine, or spend hours looking for someone without reaching for a phone. These little moments can be more fascinating than the main plot because they reveal how much ordinary life has changed. Once you start noticing them,…

Not all that long ago, few expected a superhero movie to actually care about the comics. We just had to accept that the Batman of the movies would blow up a chemical factory, the Red Skull would be an Italian guy who got facial reconstruction surgery as soon as possible, and that the X-Men would scoff at the very idea of yellow spandex. Of course that really began to change with the incredible suit that Tobey Maguire sported in his Spider-Man movies, and by the time that the Avengers wearing outrageous costumes on multiversal adventures, it seemed as if comic…

Making a movie is complicated even when everything goes according to plan. When it doesn’t, a production can quickly turn into an expensive nightmare involving ballooning budgets, endless reshoots, dangerous working conditions, creative battles, or all of the above. Sometimes the chaos somehow produces a great movie anyway. Other times, everyone involved endures months or even years of trouble only to watch the finished product get torn apart by critics or ignored by audiences. Hollywood history is filled with ambitious projects that became cautionary tales long before they reached theaters, including a few where simply abandoning the whole thing might…

Actors can become so closely associated with a certain kind of character that audiences start knowing what to expect before the movie even begins. The comedian will be funny, the romantic lead will be charming, and the dependable hero probably isn’t about to become the person everyone should fear. That makes it especially satisfying when a performer throws that familiar image away and proves they can do something completely unexpected. Sometimes it means turning a beloved funny actor into a disturbing villain, while other transformations reveal comic or dramatic abilities that had been hiding in plain sight. The best examples…

Some of the most unforgettable moments in movie history were never guaranteed to make it onto the screen. A line was changed at the last second, an actor improvised something unexpected, or a production problem forced filmmakers to rethink an entire scene. Sometimes, the moment existed only because someone took a chance when the original plan stopped working. These little twists created scenes audiences still remember decades later, even though they could have easily disappeared before anyone saw them. Here are 15 iconic movie moments that came remarkably close to never happening, and the surprising stories behind how they ended…

Some TV episodes end with answers. Others end with viewers staring at the screen, wondering what just happened. A strange final scene, an unexplained twist, or a story that suddenly refuses to make sense can leave an audience debating the episode long after the credits roll. Television has produced plenty of moments that became famous precisely because nobody could agree on what they meant. Some were deliberately mysterious, while others simply took storytelling somewhere audiences were not prepared to follow. These 15 episodes left viewers with questions, theories, and plenty of reasons to hit replay, proving that sometimes the most…

This article is sponsored by Hachette Partworks. For over 50 years, Dungeons & Dragons has brought together fantasy fans of all ages with everything from tabletop gameplay to stories based on its epic realms. Now Hachette Partworks is sharing a whole treasure trove of Dungeons & Dragons literary stories with its novels collection, bringing together 100 of the greatest D&D novels ever written. This includes some stories that have long been out of print, with fans finally able to read these classics for the first time in years. And to commemorate such an extensive launch, Hachette has pulled out all…

“Hey, listen!” Just reading those words is enough to make anyone who has played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time sit up and pay attention. Link’s fairy guide Navi says those words approximately ten billion times while traversing across Hyrule’s past and present to prevent Ganondorf from using the Triforce to conquer the world. Annoying at first… and second… and third, Navi’s little interjections are as much a part of the game as the various puzzles and boss battles. So fans would be forgiven for being slightly taken aback by the trailer for Nintendo‘s remake of The Legend of…

Paul Greengrass knew he always wanted to make a quasi-Robin Hood movie well before his deeply naturalistic historical epic, The Uprising, had the famous rogue’s name added to the poster. The film is still very much in the vein of the realpolitik thrillers Greengrass made his bones on early in his career with the Irish Troubles-set Bloody Sunday (2002) and the 9/11-based United 93 (2006), plus more recently in Captain Phillips (2013)—although this time with a far more exotic sheen in 1381 England on the eve of the fabled Peasants’ Revolt. Even so, he didn’t mind when Focus Features revealed…