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The creative split between brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen remains one of the biggest setbacks to cinema in the last decade. Their last film together was the Netflix anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which was initially announced as a series.

No other show is quite as crude, controversial, and consistently comedic as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Damien Molony reveals why Jim Bergerac’s iconic car is more than a nostalgic callback — it’s a physical connection to the wife he lost.

X-Men '97 had a nearly impossible task when it arrived more than 25 years after X-Men: The Animated Series came to an end. Marvel wasn't rebooting the beloved series or just borrowing its characters for another adaptation.

2025 was a relatively quiet year for Denzel Washington, the two-time Oscar-winner who is best known for his roles in Training Day, The Equalizer, and Glory. Washington reunited with director Spike Lee for Highest 2 Lowest, which is based on the famou…

The teen sci-fi show I Am Not Okay With This, developed by Jonathan Entwistle and Christy Hall, was released on Netflix in 2020.

2026 has been a wild year for Tom Hardy, who has spent a considerable amount of time in the news cycle despite not having a single new project hit the big or small screen.

Netflix couldn’t have picked a better year to keep Stranger Things alive. The original series is finished, but Hawkins isn’t going anywhere just yet.

You cannot properly summarize David Robert Mitchell’s filmography to date, since each one tackles a different genre or two, and then all of them have their own ideas about how to do weird things with those genres.

To say that transformation occurred on Once Upon A Time is a major understatement. On screen, the ABC series was known for reinventing itself and putting its iconic characters through numerous wild scenarios and twisted storylines.

Two dinosaur movies butted heads at the box office this weekend, grossing similar amounts despite being targeted at different demographics. Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie, the third installment in the quietly successful animated franchise, overperformed …

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) has been one of TV's most fascinating characters for two decades, so much so that fans refuse to let go of him.

Having completed a month of release in theaters worldwide, Christopher Nolan's latest epic, The Odyssey, clearly has more left in the tank. Last week, the movie emerged as the highest-grossing hit of Nolan's career, overtaking The Dark Knight and The…

Topping the charts for the third weekend in a row, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now among the five highest-grossing films in domestic box-office history and the eighth highest-grossing hit on the all-time global list.

Season 7 of the Netflix phenomenon Black Mirror arrived in 2025 with another batch of episodes to fill its audiences' brains with existential dread, and creator Charlie Brooker has since confirmed that the series will return again.

Fans of World War II-era movies and television are spoiled for choice at home, with several titles on offer. The History Channel's epic documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks has completed its 20-episode run and is now available to watch in i…

The ending to a film is extremely important. One can have what some think to be the greatest plot out there, but without a good ending to finish it off, and wrap everything up in a nice bow, the experience will be tainted. This can especially be said…

After years in the trenches, Jon Bernthal finally seems to have established himself as a marquee name, both on streaming and in theaters. The actor began 2026 by starring in the thriller series His & Hers, which also featured Tessa Thompson.

Jon Bernthal has a type, at least in the characters he plays. Whether portraying a corrupt cop, mobster, vigilante, or con man, the actor often brings his signature brash sensibility to these men who straddle the line between good and evil.

One of the most exciting movies currently in production is The Peasant, a period epic filmed on location in the mountains and deserts of India with Dev Patel at the helm.

In a few days, Rebecca Ferguson will be seen alongside an eclectic cast in The Magic Faraway Tree, an adaptation of Enid Blyton’s fantasy novels for children. It’s a departure for the Swedish actor, whose 2026 slate is dominated by sci-fi projects ai…

Japan is one of the leading countries in terms of video games, providing some of the greatest franchises of all time, such as The Legend of Zelda and Metal Gear Solid. They continue to innovate the genre with their creativity and dedication, which ca…

It's Anne Hathaway's world, and we're just living in it. After a few years of relative dormancy, Hathaway has returned to the center stage of movie culture to remind everyone why she's not only a major icon but also one of the best actors living toda…

There are so very few video game worlds that have a visual identity as instantly recognizable as Cyberpunk 2077. The world of Night City is just drenched in neon, there are enormous corporations everywhere you turn, and you have to look cool if you w…

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale and some light spoilers from Fire & Blood.

Among the ever-growing list of Jordan Peele acolytes who prove that sketch comedians make surprisingly great horror directors, Zach Cregger has quickly staked his claim.

The best thing about streaming is, while you're often waiting for big movies to come onto platforms so you can watch them again, they're also like a digital Blockbuster Video.

Pirates are a type of seafaring thief who have actually existed throughout history and continue to exist to this day. However, most people associate them with the Golden Age of Piracy, which ran from the 1650s to the 1730s.

Video games have grown more and more since the humble days of arcades and 8-bit consoles to be one of the most profitable and massively successful entertainment mediums in the world.

Stephen King has written books that have inspired several great films, but adapting his work to the small screen has been a greater challenge.

When you sit down to watch this movie, you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a particularly nasty Western and nothing more. It's got criminals on the run, long desert highways, kidnapped families, outlaws — they're always cool — and a …

It is sad to see, but physical video games are slowly dying, especially with the recent announcement that PlayStation will be moving away from physical releases in general. While fans are encouraged to buy physical games like Red Dead Redemption 2, t…

Since the days of Ancient Greece, many works of literature have aspired to take their readers on painful emotional journeys, a symbolic purgation of emotion that Aristotle called catharsis.

After the live-action Snow White remake didn't go to plan, Disney was hoping to sail to success with this summer's live-action Moana movie.

When you hear the term "military thriller," you probably imagine a big budget, tons of open warfare, scale, violence, you name it, but it's not always the case.

HBO has produced more quality television than any other network, and holds its creators to an impressively high standard.

It truly has been an excellent year for horror. Whether it's Nia DaCosta​​​​​​'s masterpiece 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Sam Raimi's long-awaited return to the genre with Send Help, or a lore-expanding slasher sequel in Ready or Not 2: Here I Co…

Joel Kinnaman has quietly built one of the strongest action résumés of his generation. Between RoboCop, Suicide Squad, Altered Carbon and Silent Night, he’s become exceptionally good at playing men who look like they’ve been punched by life several t…

Have you heard of Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Following their performances in Christopher Nolan's historical epic The Odyssey, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal delivered this summer's other big blockbuster, which has so far smashed all expectati…

Sometimes simplicity is all you really need for a movie to entertain you. Who really needs a complex plot when you've got a warehouse, a gun deal, and 90 minutes to fill? This movie takes that brilliantly simple premise and stretches it into one of t…

Of all the returning shows in 2026, from Netflix's flagship romance series Bridgerton to Prime Video's best ass-kicking action series Reacher, there is perhaps none more exciting than the long-awaited return to AFC Richmond in everyone's favorite hea…

House of the Dragon Season 3 is over, leaving us with a two-year wait before we can pick up the story of Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and her struggle for power. As always, some of us will fill the time by re-reading George R.R.

Lucky is a great new show on Apple TV. But when it comes to crime series, the streamer has a diverse selection of options beyond that.

Animation is a limitless format when done right. Creators can conjure up magical, experimental, ambitious worlds on screen without worrying about the constraints that come with live action. That creative freedom has given audiences some of the greate…

At the heart of the appeal of so many great crime shows is a sense of macabre intrigue, a morbid curiosity that invites viewers to revel in the dark depravity of human behavior.

Jennifer Morrison is known by fans for a lot of different roles. The multihyphenate star made a name for herself on shows like Once Upon a Time and House M.D.; she briefly starred in the J.J.

Henry Cavill is a man who's very familiar with a sword and a shield, and he'll be doing it again soon enough as Connor MacLeod in Highlander, but that won't be the first time he's done so. This is a man who loves battling legendary warriors and ancie…

Before Brooklyn Nine-Nine made him the face of the NYPD, the late Andre Braugher took the airwaves by storm as Baltimore Detective Frank Pembleton in the critically acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Street.

The discovery of a hidden gem featuring two big stars you never imagined would have ever crossed paths is one of the true virtues of the streaming era. Nobody has time to watch every single movie at the multiplex, and finding it at home used to be to…

Netflix was, once upon a time, a ragtag underdog, a Scrappy-Doo of a service that was still trying to make its way and punch above its weight class.

Batman on the big screen was all but a lost cause in the nascence of the 21st century, with audiences and critics some combination of soured and apathetic toward the Caped Crusader following the glitterbomb travesty of Joel Schumacher's Batman and Ro…

War movies can show battles on an enormous scale, but sometimes the most effective approach is to trap the audience inside one tiny piece of machinery with five men who know it could become their coffin at any moment.

J.R.R. Tolkien gave modern fantasy its dominant language. Fellowship quests, invented histories, dark lords, maps, ancient races, lost kingdoms, and secondary worlds still carry his fingerprints. Calling another book more influential therefore needs …

In the age of neo-Westerns we presently find ourselves, perhaps no streaming giant has a finer collection of modern television horse operas than Paramount+.

Fantasy has been one of the hardest genres to crack, even if the best iterations of it can be all-time classics. While science fiction tends to have a hook that can be easily explained, fantasy requires viewers to buy into worldbuilding and expand th…

For a sci-fi series to stand out in the era of Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, and The Expanse is no mean feat. But that’s exactly what a 2013 title managed to do.

Recent Marvel Studios projects have seen the return of characters long thought dead, or in the case of Deadpool & Wolverine, characters who originated from movies that predate the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

These days, cozy mysteries are all the rage. What's not to love? After all, murder doesn't have to be so grim. Folks looking for something thrilling that rivals Knives Out ought to consider perhaps the greatest mystery series of all time: Agatha Chri…

Netflix has leaned heavily into sci-fi this year, with one of the streamer’s biggest new releases being War Machine.

If you wanted to be boring, you could decry the 21st century as one where reading started dying out, and kids especially seemed less interested in reading. Maybe some did, and maybe others read less, but young people still had certain sorts of books …

When a show runs for 15 seasons on television (and 327 episodes), there are bound to be a few curveballs thrown in the mix.

It takes something truly special for a movie to be genuinely scary. Even the tensest of thrillers and the most jump-scare-filled of horror films can have a tough time getting under the skin of veteran scary movie fans.

There are times when music can bring about a societal revolution. That was certainly the case in the late 1960s, when rock and roll spoke for the counterculture in a time of war. It happened again in the 1990s. As the decade began, the subgenre was i…

For anyone born after, say, 2000-ish, it's surely hard to fathom a Batman era before the Christopher Nolan pictures.

There are plenty of reasons to be unsettled by “British Pork: It’s Got the Lot,” but the strangest might be that the original commercial actually existed.

The last few years have been nothing short of a massive breakout for Michael B. Jordan, who was already one of the biggest stars in the world thanks to his villainous role as Killmonger in the first Black Panther movie.

It's certainly easier for many modern moviegoers to largely stick to contemporary releases, considering that these films are often at the center of cultural conversation.

This year in horror belongs to one movie. Focus Features' Obsession, YouTuber Curry Barker's breakout into mainstream cinema won over global audiences and critics, breaking multiple records on its way into the annals of film history.

Put simply, coming-of-age stories are about the transition to adulthood, with some being about children who take steps toward becoming young adults, and others being about teenagers (or young adults) becoming actual adults.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 3 finale. "They say every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin, and the world holds its breath.

If you're a horror movie fan who loves creature features, you know well that the subgenre can provide both terrifying classics and B-movie schlock. For every Jaws, The Birds, or Tremors, there's a Grizzly II or Sharknado.

For many, Yellowstone opened a door to the modern West in ways they hadn’t considered before, but for others, it was the trip back in time to the harsh frontier of 1883 that solidified their love of the Western genre.

No matter how many roles he takes on at this stage of his career, Elijah Wood will always be famous for his role as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings movies.

The heist movie is one of the greatest triumphs of the thriller genre. Producing many of the most entertaining films of all time, the heist thriller formula is relatively simple, following the events surrounding a major crime, usually a robbery, and …

Jane Schoenbrun is definitely one of the most interesting filmmakers to make some kind of mark on the horror genre – and blow up – in recent years.

The history of the United States of America and the history of filmmaking are pretty intertwined. Though the official founding of this country may have come long before celluloid film, it was just getting on its feet when domestic film productions be…

Computer-generated imagery has been inseparable from blockbuster filmmaking today. It has completely transformed what is possible in filmmaking. From dinosaurs to massive superhero battles, CGI has become one of the most important tools in modern cin…

Memoirs can be a difficult sell. After all, who really wants to spend hundreds of pages listening to someone talk about their own life? In the wrong hands, the genre can feel self-important, and even overly dramatic. The best authors, however, do som…

There's no question that Spider-Man's rogues gallery is one of the best in superhero media, only bested by Batman's collection of foes. The best Spidey villains have, obviously, been featured heavily in the live-action films.

Lara Croft is like the Batman of ladies. She has survived several timelines, shifting control schemes, supernatural relics, collapsing temples, and enough betrayals to make trusting archaeologists seem irresponsible. Honestly, the games felt haunting…

Thriller might be the single most oversaturated genre on television right now, and there's a simple reason for that. It works. No other genre is built quite so perfectly for the streaming era, where every platform is fighting for your attention.

Throughout film history, the cinematic art form has evolved in all sorts of unpredictable ways. And through it all, one thing has remained constant: incredible romantic comedies.

The very best of television may have come in the past 20 years, but the '90s were packed with plenty of beloved shows that still hold up to this day.

The X-Men rarely get much time to relax. Between Sentinels, mutant-hating politicians, time travel, and whatever new existential threat happens to be knocking on the mansion's door that week, there is usually another disaster waiting before anyone ca…

Summary Collider's Steven Weintraub talks with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars at SDCC 2026. Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Celia Rose Gooding, and Ethan Peck discuss Season 4's biggest swings and returning to Comic-Con.

Five years after she became a household name thanks to The Queen's Gambit, which remains one of Netflix's most-watched original shows, Anya Taylor-Joy is back at the forefront of a new limited series that's doing phenomenally well on another streamer…

Most people often write off comic strips as disposable entertainment, but if they looked closer, they'd see some worthwhile life lessons on the pages. Peanuts has lasted for over 50 years because it shows how Charlie Brown keeps trying despite obstac…

In the wake of Orange Is the New Black's smash-hit success on Netflix came GLOW, created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.

With Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Robert Pattinson having a great year in theaters, and Matt Damon and Jon Bernthal delivering hits across mediums, Alan Ritchson has further cemented himself among the foremost stars on streaming.

Somewhere around 2010, family movies stopped being only for kids. I don't mean the jokes got dirtier or the plots got more complicated, since a five-year-old can still follow every movie on this list without any trouble. I mean the emotional stuff st…

Jennifer Morrison spent seven seasons on the hit series Once Upon a Time as Emma Swan, a woman reluctantly trapped in a town where fairytale characters are stuck in the real world with no memory of their original reality.

A truly great children’s game respects the child holding the controller. It teaches through play, rewards curiosity, and provides enough flexibility for different ages to enjoy the same world. Easy entry helps. Lasting depth is even better.

Continuing a hot streak of success for mid-budget genre movies on Netflix, a new sci-fi thriller has delivered an exceptional performance in its opening week on the streamer.

Director Christopher Nolan is not known for doing anything small. The Academy Award-winning director has long embraced a "bigger is better" mentality in his films, most recently evident with his latest, The Odyssey, which was shot entirely in IMAX.