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gizmodo.com - Germain Lussier - Our 16 Favorite Holiday Genre Movies, Ranked
Our 16 Favorite Holiday Genre Movies, Ranked
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

In most cases, a list of great holiday movies would be incomplete without classics such as A Christmas Story, Die Hard, or Home Alone. This isn't one of those cases. Those films, while certainly dramatic and excellent, are not quite genre movies.

slate.com - Dana Stevens - The 10 Best Movies of 2025
The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Slate

I'm not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that's easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the year's best movies. This has been a 12-month period of daily pummeling by the forces of history and fate, of waking up to…

buzzfeed.com - Audrey Engvalson - Which Christmas Movie Trope Are You?
Which Christmas Movie Trope Are You?
BuzzFeed

Christmas movies are predictable, but that's what I feel makes them so easy to watch. I know what's going to happen, there aren't any plot twists, and it's just light, fun Christmas brain candy. So, what Christmas movie trope are you? Get ready to…

complex.com - Stephanye R. Watts - The Best Rappers In Movies Over The Years (2025)
The Best Rappers In Movies Over The Years (2025)
Complex

As hip-hop continues to grow globally, we would be remiss to gloss over the power of the moving image in cementing the genre as a cultural phenomenon. Music videos were the first introduction to the ways hip-hop so beautifully tells stories.

businessinsider.com - Lucia Moses - What Warner Bros. Discovery sale means for Hollywood jobs, streaming prices, and movies
What Warner Bros. Discovery sale means for Hollywood jobs, streaming prices, and movies
Business Insider

The Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount-Netflix drama has Hollywood in a tizzy this week — but it's missing one big thing: What about you? Americans are deep in a new era of entertainment and are increasingly likely to get their fix on YouTube…

gizmodo.com - Cheryl Eddy - Just in Time for Christmas, Nic Cage's Jesus Horror Movie Comes Home
Just in Time for Christmas, Nic Cage's Jesus Horror Movie Comes Home
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Sometimes, a Nicolas Cage-starring oddity will break through and catch mainstream attention. That happened with Mandy and Pig, keeping Cage's cult bona fides alive even as he starred in bigger (but still weird) films with heftier marketing budgets…

gizmodo.com - Sabina Graves - The Directors of 'Elio' and 'KPop Demon Hunters' Talk About the Reality of Selling Diverse Movies
The Directors of 'Elio' and 'KPop Demon Hunters' Talk About the Reality of Selling Diverse Movies
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

In a recent Hollywood Reporter animation roundtable, KPop Demon Hunters filmmaker Maggie Kang and Elio co-director Domee Shi (Turning Red) discussed pushing for representation in a time when studios seem to be playing it safe with sequels. It's a…

people.com - Skyler Caruso - 37 of the Best Christmas Movies for Kids (and Where to Stream Them!)
37 of the Best Christmas Movies for Kids (and Where to Stream Them!)
PEOPLE

While there are plenty of Christmas films for adults, any merry movie marathon needs a few options for kids, too. Festive flicks like 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and 2003's Love Actually are solid choices when there are teens and…

esquire.com - Eric Francisco - The 26 Best Action Movies of 2025
The 26 Best Action Movies of 2025
Esquire

Fistfights, explosions, car chases, Tom Cruise running in a straight line —there's nothing like a good action movie. However much of a nightmare the world was in 2025, the year in action cinema was practically heaven. While superhero films…

hollywoodreporter.com - David Rooney - The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2025
The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2025
The Hollywood Reporter

The French-Tunisian actor packs a stealthy emotional wallop in this terrific, underseen thriller, playing a Syrian exile tracking down his former torturer in France. With dreamy, almond-shaped eyes and high-cut cheekbones, Bessa has a soulful…

mentalfloss.com - Meagan Bojarski - Quiz: Prove Your Disney Knowledge by Matching the Couple to Their Movie
Quiz: Prove Your Disney Knowledge by Matching the Couple to Their Movie
Mental Floss

Disney movies are often understood as having defined our childhood, but some of them have value far into adulthood. Whether you're looking at the earliest Disney animated films, their Pixar collaborations, or the Disney Channel Original Movies that…

wsj.com - Jason L. Riley - Opinion | It Will Soon Be Curtains for the Movie Theater
Opinion | It Will Soon Be Curtains for the Movie Theater
Wall Street Journal

Most weeks, this column labors to avoid sentimentality. But 'tis the holiday season, and our subject is the future of movie theaters. Indulge me. Jerry Seinfeld, who presumably knows a thing or two about show business, has said the film industry as…

gizmodo.com - Justin Carter - From 'Sinners' to 'Frankenstein,' 2025 Put Twins All Over the Movies
From 'Sinners' to 'Frankenstein,' 2025 Put Twins All Over the Movies
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Just think, if Twisters had come out this year instead of 2024, we'd be inundated with memes of Brandon Perea's “We got twins! Twiiiiiiins!!!” There was a surprising trend to crop up throughout the genre movies of 2025: actors doing…

slashfilm.com - Rob Hunter - 10 Best '70s Conspiracy Thriller Movies, Ranked
10 Best '70s Conspiracy Thriller Movies, Ranked
SlashFilm

The thriller genre can be pretty broad, as evidenced by our big list of the best thriller movies, but the conspiracy thriller is a very particular subgenre within. There's still a need for thrills, obviously, in the form of suspense sequences…

ign.com - Simon Cardy - The Top 10 Best Licensed Games Based on Movies
The Top 10 Best Licensed Games Based on Movies
IGN

Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that's you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, E.T., that's you), we've seen an uptick in…

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