Film

High-stakes Poker, Elegant Baccarat Tables, and Dangerous Rivals Make These James Bond Casino Scenes Unforgettable Ranking the Best of Them All In these scenes, from the classic baccarat game to the high-stakes poker game in Casino Royale, James Bond shows us the excitement of gambling in its many forms. These iconic scenes show that a

Stories of Jesus if he were gay, passion between masked Mexican wrestling, and intensely competitive rowing were among the highlights of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles’ InFocus: LGBTQ+ Cinema program. The Pride celebration consisted of two InFocus: LGBTQ+ shorts programs and the Los Angeles premiere of writer-director Honey Lauren’s debut feature narrative Mistake, about a family struggling

Steven Schloss was very strategic in his creation of “Vape Glow,” his intense 5-minute short about a man who can’t stop hitting his vape, even as something hideous closes in. Schloss wanted the film to get attention from top Hollywood executives, and raise awareness of his upcoming Hanukkah horror short, “Gimme.” The first part worked

Netflix’s new InstaDocs series is living up to its name — just weeks after the Jane Doe Cornell University case exploded into the public dialogue about sexual assault, the new doc Jane Doe v. Cornell will begin streaming tomorrow, Thursday, October 29. The InstaDoc follows “the explosive lawsuit brought by Jane Doe — the former

In Fatherland, an old man and his grown daughter venture back into postwar Germany, one seeking escape, the other searching for something that has long since disappeared. Well-acted and beautifully shot, it’s also a drama without much purpose—though its black-and-white grading means it must be special, right? I’ve never taken to director Pawel Pawlikowski’s understated

Available on Digital on October 30, 2026 The Dog Stars may have a terrible title but the latest from Ridley Scott is a gorgeous, engaging action-drama set in a world where a flu pandemic has wiped out most of humanity. Based on a book by the same name that presumably explains why the entire story

If a crime thriller can be described as cute, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is absolutely adorable. Well acted and oddly absorbing, the movie has John Turturro playing a well-meaning thief who gets into real trouble when he steals the wrong bag from the wrong man. Turturro delivers a fine, understated performance as

Available on Digital on December 8, 2026 When you take your seven-year-old daughter to a movie and the opening scene involves a boy ripping his chest open and jumping to his death, you know you’re doing parenting right. My daughter loves Coraline with a passion, and she has wanted to see Laika Studio’s Wildwood since

In Clayface, a hot dude sleeps with the wrong woman, gets his face cut up, and becomes a Batman villain–sans Batman. The third entry in the DCU following Superman and Supergirl, this R-rated body horror movie is smaller in scope and budget–only $40 million–and feels it. Far better than any of the Sony Spider-Man villain

In You Can See Everything, a dude you may or may not know named Nathan Fielder hangs with Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes and her husband and becomes consumed with understanding a woman who defies comprehension. Along the way he creates one of the most unique and enthralling documentaries of the decade. Holmes

Now available on Digital When the [Marvel Cinematic] Universe is at risk, never count out your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Yes, the webslinger is back sans multiverse nostalgia to breathe life into Kevin Feige’s sagging creation, and breathe life it does: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the best Marvel movie in years–arguably since Avengers: Endgame. The

Here are all eight Catwoman actresses ranked. We’re only including live-action performances, but including all Batman and Catwoman TV shows and films. So here we go. But first… A Catveat Julie Newmar, the first of the Catwoman actresses to play the role in the Batman TV series. ABC – Credit: 20th Century Fox To our

Now available on Digital With Hope, there is indeed such a thing as too much awesomeness. A spectacularly exciting and relentless sci-fi action-horror movie that also goes for 30 or 60 minutes longer than it needed to, Hope has a lot to love and an ending that is easy to hate. Set in a small

Now available on Premium VOD In The Invite, Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen are married and hate each other, but that doesn’t stop them from inviting the strange (and sexually noisy) upstairs neighbors (Ed Norton and Penelope Cruz) over for dinner, because who wouldn’t want to meet the couple that goes at it hard every

In Michael, director Antoine Fuqua checks all the boxes of a superficial biopic about one of the most famous and controversial singers of all time, minus the controversial parts. A not-very-interesting retelling of Michael Jackson that coasts on the fact that his music is downright incredible, your mileage will vary depending on what you want

I’m a kid of the 80s. I had a He-Man action character. Maybe a couple others. I also remember very little of the original Masters of the Universe, hold little nostalgia for it, and would be hard pressed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make a live-action adaptation of this silliness in 2026.

In Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays Latif, a not-so-great hitman and father who spends his time trying to find milk for his nipple-seeking baby and recycling skills he developed while training for Marvel’s ill-fated Blade reboot. Director Bassam Tariq, who was originally attached to that MCU film before it encountered too

So if the death of a single sperm whale sets in motion centuries of new life, and the sperm whale in Whalefall does everything in its power to swallow, chew, and digest morose scuba diver Jay, then the main takeaway from the movie is that every sperm whale should be hunted down and destroyed, right?

Does Wicker, the new comedic drama about a disgruntled woman who has a basketmaker weave her a wicker husband, thrust enough? The answer may depend on your gender. I’m a feminist, but I’m also a dude, and as I watched Wicker alone in the confines of my home (my girlfriend, who wants to watch the

In Hokum, Adam Scott finds himself down an elevator trapped in rooms and corridors with no obvious escape–the lighting is just a little darker than in “Severance.” Creepy from start to finish, Hokum is a worthwhile horror-thriller, even if it’s a bit more conventional than it wants to admit. Scott plays an asshole writer who