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Bill Burr Says ‘Digger' Critics Are “Out of Their Minds," and Their Bad Reviews “Won’t Age Well”

Is Burr right? Will “Digger” be the ‘Big Lebowski’ of 2026, a misunderstood bomb that finds its audience on home video? ‘Lebowski’ is hardly alone: “Blade Runner,” “The Shining” and “Fight Club” all followed the same path.

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The 20 Greatest Horror Movies of All-Time; Is ‘The Exorcist' Still The King?

Is “The Exorcist” truly the greatest horror film ever made, or has time crowned a new champion of fear? Maybe it’s “The Shining,” ‘Texas Chainsaw,’ “Psycho,” or something entirely unexpected that still keeps you up at night.

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Matthew Libatique Says Darren Aronofsky’s Next Film Will “Experiment” With AI

Here we have Darren Aronofsky's longtime DP, Matthew Libatique, confirming the two are running AI tests before shooting their next feature together.

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Box Office: ‘You Can See Everything' ($2M), ‘Clayface' ($1.9M), ‘Wildwood' ($1.3M) Lead a Quiet Thursday

Thursday numbers are in, and they hint at a quiet weekend, especially with no big wide release, unless you count "Christmas at the Kringles" as one. It managed $200K in previews from around 1800 screens.

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Angel Studios Bans Sex, Nudity and F-Words (Violence is Okay) in Sweeping New Content Policy

The studio has unveiled "The Angel Promise," a sweeping new content policy that bans on-screen sex, nudity, F-words and any misuse of God's name in its films.

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August 19, 2019
3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
August 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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Shawn Levy Says He’s Been “Forced” To Rewrite and Reshoot ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Ending

December 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Why in the world would Levy even admit this? Now there are countless speculative think pieces questioning what’s going on with ‘Starfighter.’

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David Lowery’s ‘Mother Mary’ Finally Has A Release Date — Trailer Tomorrow

December 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Three posters for the film dropped this morning, stamped “In Theaters April.” A trailer arrives tomorrow, and I’ll share more about the film once it’s out.

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Scarlett Johansson Defends Woody Allen: “It’s Important to Stand Up for What You Believe In”

November 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Scarlett Johansson, one of the world’s most recognizable movie stars, has publicly defended Woody Allen, the director she collaborated with on three films.

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Box Office: ‘Zootopia 2’ Debuts With $560M Worldwide Over 5-Day Weekend

November 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What’s even more remarkable about these numbers is that “Zootopia 2” only earned $156M domestically, which means $400M internationally, including a record-breaking $272M in China alone.

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‘Dune: Part Three’ May Shift Release Date as Venice Premiere Becomes “Possibility”

November 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Watch out for “Dune: Part Three” to potentially hit theaters earlier than scheduled. An October or November switch would make a lot of sense, especially with the film having wrapped its shoot last month.

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Jodie Foster Wonders Why ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Wasn't an 8-Hour Limited Series

November 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Foster, who recently starred in HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country,” uses that show as an example of the “beauty of having a limited series” by “expanding” on a story.

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘All Of A Sudden’ Will Have A 3-Hour Runtime

November 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Set for release next year, with no doubt a Cannes premiere in mind, Virginie Efira says that Hamaguchi’s Paris-shot film has “astonishing formal choices.”

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‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Grosses $2.5M on 600 Screens This Weekend

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Just to compare, “Glass Onion,” the previous ‘Knives Out’ film released in 2022, opened on 696 screens and earned $13M. So that’s a steep drop for the third instalment.

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Quentin Tarantino Says “Scorsese Hasn’t Made a Film as Exciting as Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ This Century”

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Tarantino praised “West Side Story” (#20) for being the film that re-energized Spielberg as a filmmaker. Tarantino added: “This is the one where Steven shows he still has it.”

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Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’ Eyes Cannes 2026 as Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve Lead His Norway-Set Drama

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

For Mungiu, “Fjord” will be his sixth film, following a career that has established him as one of the most important voices in modern European cinema.

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Chloe Zhao Was Originally Supposed to Direct ‘Black Widow’

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

When asked if the studio had approached her and she merely signaled interest, Zhao interjected: “No, I called them,” she said, laughing.

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Bong Joon Ho Confirms His Untitled Animated Film Will Release in 2027

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The project is reportedly the most expensive production in Korean film history, with costs—translated into USD—estimated at around $60M. Sony Pictures is rumored to be circling the film.

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UPDATE on Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Thomas Crown Affair’

November 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The pieces continue to fall into place for what Amazon/MGM hopes will be a slick, star-driven reinvention of “The Thomas Crown Affair.”

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Rumor: Ridley Scott's ‘The Dog Stars' Pushed to Fall 2026?

November 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The film has been testing very well these last few months, and the result of that is it will most likely be changing its release date. 20th Century is eyeing an early fall release for ‘Dog Stars’

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Telegraph: Callum Turner “Strongly Rumored" To Play James Bond

November 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Turner, who recently starred in A24’s “Eternity,” is 35 and has been sporadically mentioned for Bond, but never to the point where now even The Telegraph is saying that the actor is “strongly rumored” to play the character.

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Cahiers du Cinéma’s Top 10 of 2025 Topped by Albert Serra’s ‘Afternoons of Solitude’

November 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Cahiers du Cinéma never cared about hive-mind or “groupthink”; they live in their own passionate world of auteur-driven moviegoing, and we should all be grateful for that.

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Lilly Wachowski Exits ‘Trash Mountain’ as the Wachowskis’ Hollywood Freefall Continues

November 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Lilly, and sister Lana, have burned many bridges in Hollywood over the last few decades. Studios are reluctant to fund their ultra-expensive and ambitious projects.

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Producer Claims ‘Paper Tiger' is “The Best James Gray Movie Ever"

November 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Now, of course, it’s obvious that a producer would tout his own movie; that’s inevitable. But I recently spoke to someone who also saw a cut of the film, and they had a similar reaction.

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Six-Minute Prologue of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Coming to Select IMAX 70mm Screenings December 12

November 27, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

A six-minute prologue of “The Odyssey” will be attached to 70mm IMAX screenings on December 12. The following week, a truncated version will be shown right before “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

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POLL: The 100 Best Korean Films, Ranked by 158 Film Critics

November 27, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

KoreanScreen had asked me to participate in a massive poll of international film critics. The aim was simple: to put together a “100 Greatest Korean Films Ever” list.

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CONFIRMED: Sadie Soverall Exits Brady Corbet's ‘The Origin of the World' Mid-Shoot, Lily McInerny Steps In Lead Role

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Ron Howard’s ‘Alone at Dawn’ Starring Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway Sets Christmas 2027 Release

This is the adaptation of the nonfiction book by Dan Schilling and Lori Longfritz. It wrapped production in February and has been in post-production ever since. The film test-screened a few months ago.

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Jemima Kirke and Alexi Wasser to Star in Woody Allen's Next Film

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

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Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

The results are in, and according to critics, this decade filled with cinematic riches did not have a better film than Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Nobody should be surprised by this result. “Citizen Kane” changed cinema forever.

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.

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Critics Poll: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Tops Our 1960s Critics Poll

We’ve already covered the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Now we have the results for the Best Films of the 1960s.

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