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The Trailer for the Final 'Jumanji' Movie Is a Lot
They were kids. They were senior citizens. And now, for the final Jumanji film, they're a family. But that's just the start of it. The first trailer for Jumanji: Open World was just released, and it feels like the trailer for two or potentially…
Gen-Z's Movie Theater Comeback And The Power Of Collective Experiences
The power of collective experiences. Experts predicted that the cinema industry might never recover from the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. The U.S. box office plummeted 80% in 2020 ; studios prioritized direct-to-audience distribution and…
The Anthony Bourdain Biopic Is a Perfect Little Movie
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson has been a presence on the indie scene since 2013, putting out a string of…
Dan Harmon Shares His Hopes for the 'Rick and Morty' Movie
Rick and Morty wrapped up its ninth season over the weekend, and there are at least three more seasons currently in the works. The show's first proper spin-off, President Curtis, just debuted and was swiftly renewed for a second season. But even…
Movie Review: The Sheep Detectives
Earlier this summer my sweetie-wife and I ventured to the local cinema and caught a screening of The Sheep Detectives, the latest feature film from Craig Mazin, the showrunner for both Chernobyl and The Last of Us. Mazin, before his pivot to…
Every Spider-Man Movie, Ranked
“Like costume heroes? We think you may find our Spiderman just a bit... different!” So reads the opening of Amazing Fantasy #15, the coveted comic book issue that first introduced readers to Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and Steve…
Lynette Howell Taylor Re-Elected As President Of Movie Academy
Lynette Howell Taylor has been re-elected to a second term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars. The news Wednesday comes as AMPAS' board of governors revealed election results for…
As a Classicist, I've Defended Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation. I Can't Defend Her Review of Nolan's Movie.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Emily Wilson, like Odysseus, is terribly clever. In comments about Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, and in a…
Movie Theater Stocks Are So Hot That Even AMC Is Crushing the Market
If you're one of those perpetual bashers of multiplex operators, don't sleep on a plot twist of M. Night Shyamalan proportions. Exhibitors worldwide are doing something they haven't done since 2019. With The Odyssey cruising to $666 million in…
Petrol bombs, drugs and Bradley from S Club 7: inside the wild 00s hood movie that the police seized
The story of the making of the 2005 British film Breakin' the Cycle is surely more compelling than the film itself. Nobody can say for sure, because a rough cut was confiscated by the Met police and the raw footage was considered lost. But the…
Daredevil Walker Babington is living the dream, as an artist and a movie stuntman
Walker Babington first made his mark on New Orleans 12 years ago when he set himself on fire near the corner of Royal and Kerlerec Streets. Surrounded by a crowd, he donned a fire-resistant suit, was slathered with accelerant and, whoosh, became a…
Every Movie Coming To Theaters In August 2026
Summer of 2026 is gaining force when it comes to theatrical releases, and August 2026 will bring a variety of movies, such as a slasher movie, a biographical movie about a beloved author, a long-awaited comedy starring well-known animated…
5 Sci-Fi Movies That Are Practically Guaranteed To Bring You To Tears
Epic sci-fi movies with their futuristic fantasies and evolved technologies of all sorts can often deliver a poignancy that even the best tearjerker dramas cannot. Whether that's on account of time travel, parallel universes, bleak dystopias, or an…
10 Family Movies That Were Secretly Made For Adults
Some movies never really leave us. We grow older, our tastes change, and we discover entirely new favorites, yet there are always a handful of family movies we come back to without thinking twice. Maybe it's nostalgia, or maybe it's because these…
Every Confirmed Upcoming MCU Movie
As Phase Six continues after Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has some genuinely exciting upcoming projects. While the Multiverse Saga is building toward its climactic Avengers films, Marvel Studios has also confirmed…
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