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nytimes.com - Geoffrey Morrison - How to DIY Your Own Outdoor Movie Theater
How to DIY Your Own Outdoor Movie Theater
The New York Times

Though it's possible to set up a TV outside for the occasional movie night, it's not going to have the “wow” factor of a big-screen projection system. Modern home-theater projectors offer excellent picture quality, and a brighter…

gizmodo.com - Cheryl Eddy - The 'Hello Kitty' Movie Is Apparently Really Happening
The 'Hello Kitty' Movie Is Apparently Really Happening
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

The animated Hello Kitty movie has been in the works since at least 2019, when Sanrio and New Line signed a deal along with FlynnPictureCo to bring the bow-rocking icon to the big screen. But it's taken a while to see forward movement. A big update…

gizmodo.com - Justin Carter - The First 'Hope' Trailer Looks Like a Helluva Monster Movie
The First 'Hope' Trailer Looks Like a Helluva Monster Movie
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

The Cannes Film Festival is currently going on right now, meaning we're getting an idea of what movies await us this year and potentially the next. On the genre front, a real promising one looks to be Hope, which just got its first trailer.

distractify.com - Chrissy Bobic - The Top 5 Horror Movies Trend on TikTok Isn't About Actual Scary Movies
The Top 5 Horror Movies Trend on TikTok Isn't About Actual Scary Movies
Distractify

Some TikTok trends are more serious than others, but when it comes to the 'top 5 horror movies' trend, it can go either way, depending on who makes the video. The trend is really a quintessential Gen Z way to either deal with trauma or make jokes…

upi.com - Fred Topel - Movie review: 'Terminator 2' re-release returns humanity to robot saga
Movie review: 'Terminator 2' re-release returns humanity to robot saga
UPI

Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen at the 2025 premiere of Season 2 of his Netflix show 'FUBAR' in Los Angeles, starred in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day.' File Photo by Greg Grudt/UPI Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen at the 1997 premiere of 'Batman & Robin' in…

collider.com - Safwan Azeem - 5 Movie Trilogies With the Most Disappointing Third Movies
5 Movie Trilogies With the Most Disappointing Third Movies
Collider

There's a certain point in a trilogy where we kind of know what is going to happen, and that is, everything going downhill. Anyway, we hope for every entry of a trilogy to just be better than the previous one. By the time the third film comes…

theguardian.com - Mike McCahill - Voidance review - very British sci-fi movie is like Miss Marple with a space blaster
Voidance review - very British sci-fi movie is like Miss Marple with a space blaster
The Guardian

There's plenty of charm in the low-budget inventiveness of this low-budget murder mystery set in a Wetherspoon's for interstellar truckers Its eyes and aspirations eternally bigger than its budget and reach, this British sci-fi film provides the…

bgr.com - Nick Staniforth - Mark Hamill's 5 Best Movie Roles (Not Including Luke Skywalker), Ranked
Mark Hamill's 5 Best Movie Roles (Not Including Luke Skywalker), Ranked
BGR

Mark Hamill's breakthrough role came in 1977 in a galaxy far, far away — and honestly, he could've done the two sequels that followed and called it a day with his acting career there and then. And yet, ever the thespian, and determined not…

mentalfloss.com - Suhaib Adeel - The Best Sci-Fi Movie From Every Year in the 1980s
The Best Sci-Fi Movie From Every Year in the 1980s
Mental Floss

Sci-fi in the 1980s was something of an 'Auteur Blockbuster' era, where directors like James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and Paul Verhoeven (to name a few) often used big studio budgets to explore cynical and anti-authoritarian themes. This was also the…

hollywoodreporter.com - Borys Kit - 'The Transformers: The Movie' Getting Theatrical Re-Release From Fathom (Exclusive)
'The Transformers: The Movie' Getting Theatrical Re-Release From Fathom (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Reporter

When it was first released in 1986, The Transformers: The Movie was a box office bomb. The worse and more lasting fate, however, was the (so-called) trauma thrust upon unsuspecting kid moviegoers thanks to the death of one of the lead characters.

slashfilm.com - Jeremy Smith - Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon May Truly Be The Greatest Movie Never Made
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon May Truly Be The Greatest Movie Never Made
SlashFilm

Stanley Kubrick had been dreaming of a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic long before he acquired the clout to make it. All it took to get investors on the hook was the massive global success of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' However, after Kubrick had just…

slashfilm.com - Russell Murray - 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies For People Who Hate Sci-Fi
15 Best Sci-Fi Movies For People Who Hate Sci-Fi
SlashFilm

There's something special about 21st-century science fiction. Its dominance over pop culture, which can sometimes feel exhausting, has nonetheless led to some of the most unpredictable films of the contemporary era. The speculative genre exploded…

indiewire.com - Christian Zilko - At The American Pavilion, Cannes Publicists Got Candid About What Actually Does (and Doesn't) Sell a Movie
At The American Pavilion, Cannes Publicists Got Candid About What Actually Does (and Doesn't) Sell a Movie
IndieWire

At IndieWire's 'What No One Tells You: The Secrets of PR Pros,' some of the industry's best publicists explained how the game has changed. For many filmmakers, the dream of a festival premiere where publicists handle the remainder of the workload…

collider.com - Eddie Possehl - The 10 Greatest Superhero Movie Climaxes, Ranked
The 10 Greatest Superhero Movie Climaxes, Ranked
Collider

A good film climax can completely define or redefine the viewing experience as the audience knows it. It's an incredibly important part of every project that brings the conflicts of the movie to a head and makes or breaks the story as a whole. A…

hollywoodreporter.com - Patrick Brzeski - Kiyoshi Kurosawa Has Finally Made His Samurai Movie
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Has Finally Made His Samurai Movie
The Hollywood Reporter

If there's a great crime of recent world cinema, it's that Kiyoshi Kurosawa hasn't been granted bigger budgets. The 70-year-old Japanese auteur has consistently spun masterful moviemaking from a relative shoestring over the four and a half decades…

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