FocusFest is returning this fall on October 10 in Los Angeles after its successful debut in 2025, which featured an advance screening of the global phenomenon Obsession. The festival will be hosted by television personality Justin Sylvester and will feature special guest appearances from Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed‑Miles, the stars of Sense and Sensibility.  Hosted by indie film studio Focus Features, this year’s one-day festival follows on the heels of last year’s sold out event and has now expanded with more screenings and themed food and beverages. FocusFest continues to celebrate filmmakers and successful films from the Focus catalogue…

Ever since Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, we’ve known that the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently has two sets of Avengers, two versions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, who don’t necessarily get along. Sam Wilson’s Avengers and the New Avengers are sure to clash in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. But for years now, a group of youthful heroes have been assembling to join the fight, a group that will eventually become the Young Avengers. The end of The Marvels showed Ms. Marvel meeting up with Kate Bishop a.k.a. Hawkeye to recruit her to the team, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania…

The New Hollywood movement may have broken the classic studio system and opened the way for the smaller, more personal films of the 1960s and ’70s, but they never forgot about genre movies. In fact, the first proper New Hollywood film was Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a crime movie. It’s not hard to see why crime movies would capture the imagination of filmmakers at the time: New Hollywood movies tended to focus on complicated men at the bottom rungs of society, men who had to make hard decisions. Throw in the general unease that Americans felt after the…

Some of the cleverest ideas are not the result of careful planning. They happen because someone runs into a problem, grabs whatever is nearby, and tries something that probably should not work. Sometimes the result is a temporary fix that is surprisingly effective, while other times an accidental combination creates something genuinely ingenious. These moments are especially satisfying because they show creativity without the pressure to invent something groundbreaking. A strange workaround, an improvised tool, or an unexpected use for an ordinary object can suddenly solve a problem in the simplest possible way. The people behind these ideas may not…

Some everyday problems are so specific that you almost have to see them to understand just how bad they can get. A small inconvenience can turn into a ridiculous mess, a simple repair can create an even bigger problem, and something that should take five minutes can suddenly require an entirely new solution. These moments are funny because they are familiar, but also strangely extreme. We have all dealt with broken objects, bad design, unfortunate timing, or a shortcut that clearly did not work as planned. The difference is that these people happened to capture the evidence. Each photo offers…

For years now, film fans have been complaining about the lack of sex in movies. As writer RS Benedict perfectly put it in the essay, “Everyone is Beautiful and No One Is Horny,” Marvel movies in particular feature people with idealized, perfect bodies, but no signs of sexual desire. “Even when they have sex, no one is horny,” writes Benedict. “No one is attracted to anyone else. No one is hungry for anyone else.” Several others have echoed Benedict’s sentiments, most recently, director Zack Snyder, who told Variety, “Sex in movies is weirdly gone. I don’t understand it.” Snyder continued…

Alfred Hitchcock once mused surprise is a bomb going off beneath a table that neither the characters nor the audience knows is there. Suspense is the public knowing about the bomb whilst the characters sit blissfully unaware.  Zach Cregger knows about suspense as much or more as he does a well-timed jump scare. The wunderkind genre filmmaker—who became the toast of midnight madness festivals after the demented Barbarian, and improbably Oscar voters via the political allegory film he claims is only coincidentally incendiary, Weapons—appreciates that you remember and most likely care about Resident Evil. Many of us have played at…

Anime NYC has finished this year, with New York Film Festival and New York Comic Con yet to come. But for those who love the strange and the macabre, the region’s big event is the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, October 15–22, at the Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg. To celebrate its 11th edition, the 2026 Brooklyn Horror Fest will kick off with the U.S. Premiere of the vampire mockumentary I Love Paris, directed by Nick Murphy. From there, the festival offers horror fans an unmissable mix of new masterpieces and old favorites. In addition to the domestic debut of I Love Paris,…

Ahead of its season 6 release in September 2026, Apple TV renewed Slow Horses for an eighth season. The renewal made the British spy thriller series the longest-running show on the streamer, and fans seemed pretty happy. Why wouldn’t they be? While other great shows are getting canceled or wrapping up their stories, Slow Horses just keeps on running, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Yet season 8 could inspire some big behind-the-scenes decisions for those shepherding the TV version of Mick Herron’s bestselling book series onto the small screen, as it will adapt the events…

Were action stars considered classic at the start of their careers? That’s a trick question; of course they weren’t. While they certainly made blockbuster hits here and there, to become an action icon you need perspective, and that can only be gained through the passage of time. As such, we’re left wondering: who will become the classics of the future? Their careers are being built right now, with movies and shows that are already hits. Here, we’ve gathered the faces that, at least to us, will become the icons of the future of action cinema. IMDb Karl Urban From Éomer…

With Lanterns doing great numbers for HBO and anticipation for Man of Tomorrow building every day, James Gunn has become one of the most recognizable and bankable figures in media today. Of course, no one starts out as a successful blockbuster filmmaker and studio co-head, but Gunn’s rise to the top of DC Studios is particularly shocking. After all, he started out writing for the notorious B-movie studio Troma Entertainment and penning scripts for two Scooby-Doo movies. His earliest directorial works were edgy cheapies, an attitude that briefly got him fired from Disney, even after making two hit Marvel films.…

“I grew up online at probably too young of an age trying to find people to talk about the things that I liked,” reflects Amy Roberts, the manager of business development at Theorist Media and creative director and host of its fashion-forward brand Style Theory. “Being able to do that for a living is a huge gift. It really just makes you excited to be able to hop onto a mic and have those conversations that hopefully the audience will carry on even after you’ve stepped out of it. It’s such an exciting thing to do. It really is a…

Fifty years ago, Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was startling for how prescient it appeared. In the era of Woodward and Bernstein, and Walter Cronkite, here was a film about a blossoming rot undergirding American news media, and a capitalistic profit-motive that threatened to write doom across the future of serious journalism and the public it served. Now, I will be the first to admit that serious journalism is not necessarily a term I associate with Chris Hansen, the once ubiquitous face of To Catch a Predator, Dateline NBC’s voyeuristic pedophile profiler. But there is an unexpected symmetry in…

Sitcoms are the comfort food of television, at least the healthy kind when compared to reality shows. You know the characters, understand the rhythm, and generally have a pretty good idea what kind of joke is coming next. That is, unless the show decides to throw that formula straight out the window. Basically every sitcom has that one episode where we raise an eyebrow at least, yet there are some shows with moments so out there that it can’t help but to generate discussions online. From what we could find, these are the episodes that reminded viewers sitcoms can get…

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…