Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two ends with Paul Atreides as Emperor — and the galaxy at war. After Paul defeats Feyd-Rautha for the throne and agrees to marry Princess Irulan for political legitimacy, a devastated Chani walks out of Arrakeen, summons a sandworm and rides alone into the desert. Paul then orders Stilgar to “lead … Read more
In Edward Berger’s Conclave, the conclave elects Cardinal Vincent Benítez — the Archbishop of Kabul, secretly named a cardinal by the late pope — who takes the papal name Innocent. After the white smoke rises, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) learns Benítez’s hidden truth: he is intersex, and once booked a hysterectomy in Geneva that he … Read more
Most music biopics are greatest-hits packages with the edges sanded off. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the opposite: a deliberately small, brooding film about the bleakest chapter of Bruce Springsteen’s career, and how a haunted bedroom demo became one of the most beloved albums ever made. It divided critics and underperformed at the box … Read more
One year after it detonated onto Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite has lost none of its power to ruin your evening — and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is a political thriller stripped of all comfort: no heroes, no villains, no reassuring resolution. Just eighteen minutes, one missile, and the … Read more
Friday, October 23, 2026, was supposed to be a coronation. DC Studios’ Clayface opens wide in more than 3,400 theaters today, with forecasters projecting a $25–30 million debut. Instead, the weekend has turned into the most unpredictable box-office fight of the year — because a three-hour documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is expanding … Read more
The hunt for the next James Bond has reached its final act. According to reports from Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter published October 22, Amazon MGM Studios has invited at least four actors to final screen tests for the role of 007 — and the tests are scheduled to begin this Friday, October 23, 2026, … Read more
Hereditary’s ending is a coronation, not a tragedy — at least not for the cult. After the Graham family is destroyed, the demon Paimon finally claims its intended male host: Peter. In the backyard treehouse, cult members crown him and chant “Hail Paimon,” while the headless bodies of his mother and grandmother bow before him. … Read more
Memento’s ending reveals that Leonard Shelby already found and killed his wife’s attacker a year ago — and that the story of Sammy Jankis is his own repressed guilt. His handler Teddy has been using him as an amnesiac hitman ever since. Unable to face the truth, Leonard deliberately manufactures Teddy as his next target, … Read more
The Predator franchise is about to do something it has never done in nearly four decades: ask you to root for the alien with the dreadlocks. Predator: Badlands, the new film from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, opens in theaters on November 7, 2026 — and its final trailer, released this week, makes the franchise’s boldest … Read more
The phone is ringing again. Four years after Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone became one of 2022’s most celebrated horror hits, its sequel has arrived — and audiences showed up. The Universal and Blumhouse release topped the box office with $26.5 million domestic from 3,411 theaters, plus $15.5 million internationally for a $42 million global … Read more