Every 10 years, it looks as though Lisa Kudrow will stage a brand-new “Comeback.” Exactly 20 years after the beloved comedy series’ first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after Season 2 in 2015, Kudrow officially is reprising her cult favorite role of Valerie Cherish for “The Comeback” Season 3. Creator Michael Patrick King, … Read more
Doc ‘Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print’ Trailer Examining the Magazine by Alex Billington June 27, 2025Source: YouTube “We’re not just a magazine… we’re a whole social movement.” HBO debuted the trailer for a documentary event titled Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print, taking a look back at the iconic, groundbreaking magazine known as Ms. … Read more
Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle international distribution on four upcoming releases for Amazon MGM Studios as part of a multi-year agreement, as the latter continues to build its own international theatrical distribution infrastructure. The first title is Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt, a psychological drama starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield that is set … Read more
Apple Original Films‘ critically acclaimed F1: The Movie is off to the races. The Formula One movie, directed by Joseph Kosinski of Top Gun: Maverick fame, has already banked a hefty $10 million in previews at the domestic box office before officially opening everywhere today, June 27. That includes $7 million in Thursday shows and $3 million from … Read more
Torn between action and comedy, irony and sentiment, and rah-rah jingoism and genuine self-reflection, “Heads of State” is a surprisingly entertaining romp. From a distance, the star-studded Prime Video romp feels like a fake movie-within-a-movie — which is ironic, given how many of these it features in it running time — but the stylings of … Read more
It was Apple’s commitment to customer accessibility that inspired the haptic F1 trailer, an industry-first promotional tool that has provoked a strong response heading into this weekend’s release of the Brad Pitt motor racing drama through theatrical partner Warner Bros. Unlike the accompanying conventional trailer depicting Pitt and rising British star Damson Idris as a veteran … Read more
An alternate history with different world leaders would be great escapism at the moment. Heads of State isn’t that, despite a here-and-there subtext that turns out to be more pointedly political than you see coming. The film, from Nobody director Ilya Naishuller, is a typical action-comedy that benefits greatly from its two stars, and slightly … Read more
2025 is racing by. We already covered the best movies of the year so far. So we have to do the flip side: The worst movies of 2025 to date. The good news: After six months of the year I don’t have ten movies bad enough to make a full bottom ten list. The bad … Read more
Composer Rob Simonsen (“Deadpool & Wolverine,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”) put his love of sci-fi and synth sounds to good use on his animated debut score for Pixar’s “Elio.” He was also inspired to experiment in spacey musical ways to enhance the coming-of-age story about loneliness and the search for belonging in space. “They brought me up … Read more
Rivers in film can be powerful symbols. As physical features, they are both setting and environment, sometimes an antagonist, sometimes an entire character. They can be engines of plot all to themselves. Sometimes a river is a goal, or a means to goal. Sometimes it’s an obstacle which guards the goal and must be overcome. … Read more