From the moment that he popped up as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, Marvel fans have absolutely loved Tom Holland. It’s hard not to, really: his Peter Parker is a humble, stumbling geek when he’s not thwipping his way through one supervillain fight after another. Offscreen, Holland always comes across just as affable as his onscreen persona, and he has more charisma than Spidey has web-fluid. So much charisma, in fact, that he managed to transform Zendaya, his onscreen love interest, into his real-life fiancée. But would you believe that Marvel’s most wholesome hero has a secret dark side?
No, I’m not talking about the Venom symbiote, which has yet to become a going concern in the MCU. But Tom Holland showed off his inner supervillain recently when he was confronted with an old, explosive quote of his: “If I’m playing Spider-Man after I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong.” Now that the actor is 30 years old, he admitted that he had a “strategy to create fear” among Sony executives so that he could get more money from the studio!
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Back in 2021, Tom Holland gave an interview to GQ Magazine. There, he made a very shocking statement: “If I’m playing Spider-Man after I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong.” What made the quote so shocking was the very idea that someone as young as Holland would voluntarily walk away from the biggest cinematic universe ever created. At the time, Marvel still had a well-earned reputation as a money-printing machine, and Holland was playing its most beloved superhero. While many thought he was foolish to toy with the idea of throwing it all away, some thought it was a sign of integrity that Holland might potentially turn away millions upon millions of dollars to avoid being typecast.
Everything came full circle when he gave a more recent interview to GQ. When asked about his old quote, he said that he had recently been “trying to remember what I meant” and clarified that his main point was “that I would love to pass the baton on.” Acknowledging that he should shift his Spider-Man retirement age to 37 instead of 30, he then threw out another possible motivation for his controversial quote. “I could also have been trying to leverage Sony and scare them into thinking I wasn’t going to do ‘Spider-Man 4’ now that I had a new deal on the horizon,” he said. “It could’ve been part of a strategy to create fear.”
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Tom Holland isn’t confirming this was his plan. Still, what he threw out is hilariously sinister coming from Marvel’s most wholesome actor. At the time, everyone thought that he was either really brave or really stupid to act like he was too good for a role most actors would kill to have. Now, he just casually admitted that this might have been a plan to land himself a bigger paycheck for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is coming out this summer. When he and Zendaya finally tie the knot, he might be able to treat her to an extravagant honeymoon, all because he secretly bullied Sony into giving him more money!
Now, though, the not-so-young man is past playing head games with the studio. In his most recent GQ interview, he admitted that “playing Spider-Man has been the joy of my life…I’ll do it for as long as they’ll have me.” That’s likely good news for Kevin Feige, as most assume Holland’s Spider-Man will be a central MCU character after Avengers: Secret Wars reboots this cinematic universe. After all, he’s still much younger than other Marvel stars like Hugh Jackman, who would probably never mouth off to the studio. In fact, if Jackman is still playing Wolverine when he’s 90, he’ll have done something very, very right!
Apple TV has been on a terrific run so far this year with shows such as Widow’s Bay and Star City, and the streamer hopes the biggest title on its summer roster will continue the momentum. Widow’s Bay is poised to conclude its first season after tremendous word-of-mouth success and widespread acclaim, and Star City is just about finding its feet after escaping from the shadow of For All Mankind. This gives Apple’s third new series of the summer perhaps the best shot at success from day one. Not only is it technically an IP play, it also features A-list stars and counts legends Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorseseas executive producers.
The two icons joined forces when the property was being reimagined as a feature film in the 1990s, with Spielberg initially eyeing to direct. The film was eventually taken over by Scorsese, who roped in his regular collaborator Robert De Niro to play the showy central role — a deranged stalker, fresh out of jail for a crime he claims he didn’t commit, seeking vengeance against the prosecutor who tried his case. De Niro’s performance received acclaim, although the movie was seen as something of a brief detour into populism for him and Scorsese. It ended up grossing a staggering $182 million worldwide against a reported budget of $35 million. Scorsese would return to this strategy of balancing out his commercial misfires with stylish thrillers — Shutter Island, The Departed — that earn both money for the studio and goodwill for him.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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Apple’s Easy-to-Binge New Series Is Outperforming Proven Hits
Apple’s new limited series remake, Cape Fear, features Javier Bardem in the role made famous by De Niro, and by the great Robert Mitchum before him in a 1962 version. The 10-episode series also features Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson, taking over the roles played by Jessica Lange and Nick Nolte in Scorsese’s film, and by Polly Bergenand Gregory Peck in the 1962 version. This time around, the character played by Adams has been significantly beefed up compared to the previous iterations. Created by Nick Antosca, Cape Fear holds a “Certified Fresh” 75% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “Elevated by Javier Bardem’s manic charisma and the genre’s best pulpy intricacies, Cape Fear revitalizes the revenge thriller and manages to make a noteworthy name for itself.” According to FlixPatrol, the series took the number two spot on Apple’s viewership charts upon release, trailing Your Friends & Neighbors and outperforming both Widow’s Bay and Star City. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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June 4, 2026
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Amanda Marsalis, Morten Tyldum, Stephen Williams, Jon S. Baird, Jonathan van Tulleken, Reed Morano, S.J. Clarkson, Trey Edward Shults
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Peter Blake, Alan Page Arriaga, Maria Jacquemetton
The jokes about Love Island USA‘s Gabriel Vasconcelos having sex with a woman nearly 30 years older than him kept on coming — and the Peacock show even got Leonardo DiCaprio involved.
During the Friday, June 5, episode, narrator Iain Stirling poked fun at Gabriel’s revelation by comparing him to a “reverse Leonardo DiCaprio” in reference to the actor’s dating history. The joke came after the Islanders had to read out sex facts and figure out which of them it was about.
One of the revelations was that an Islander slept with someone in their 50s.
“I was out and I was having a good time with my friends. She started talking to me and she was hot as f*** for her age,” Gabriel, who is 26 years old, said about his encounter with the 52-year-old. “We had a good night together. She had a lot of experience.”
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Love Island USAfollows a group of singles who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa in Fiji. The contestants — who are referred to as Islanders — live in isolation in a villa and are under constant video surveillance. They must be coupled up to remain on the show and to stand a chance to receive the prize of $100,000.
While the islanders are filming nonstop for weeks, viewers are watching daily episodes and even get to cast votes that affect couples and the fate of the contestants.
Before season 8 premiered, Love Island USA released a statement directed at the audience, which read, “The Villa runs on good vibes, and so does this community. We love seeing your reactions, opinions, and debates, but everyone deserves to feel safe and respected.”
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The statement continued: “This is a space for fun, not negativity – so keep it kind, keep it positive, and remember: this is LOVE Island!”
Love Island USA is all about coupling up — so which Islanders are currently together and which have already called it quits in the villa? Peacock’s popular dating show returned in June 2026 with contestants Aniya Harvey, Beatriz Hatz, Bryce Alakai Dettloff, KC Chandler, Mackenzie “Kenzie” Annis, Melanie Moreno, Sincere Rhea, Sean Reifel, Trinity Tatum […]
In addition to Gabriel, season 8 of Love Island USA features Aniya Harvey, Beatriz Hatz, Bryce Alakai Dettloff, KC Chandler, Mackenzie “Kenzie” Annis, Melanie Moreno, Sincere Rhea, Sean Reifel, Trinity Tatum, Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou.
New episodes of Love Island USA are released six days a week — except for Wednesdays — on Peacock.
According to a press release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office on Friday, June 4, Gledhill, 44, was charged after the Top Gun: Maverick actor was fatally stabbed outside a Tarzana home earlier this week.
“This is not how anyone’s life should end, stabbed in the chest and left dying in the front yard of a home,” said Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman via the press release. “The victim, James Handy, deserved to live out his later years enjoying what he had worked so hard for and enjoying it with those he loved and cared about. Like all murder victims, his life mattered and the person who inexplicably and violently took it must be held accountable for his actions.”
Los Angeles Police confirmed on Thursday, June 4, that they are investigating a stabbing that resulted in the death of Handy.
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According to police, the suspect called 911 and stated, “I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin.” Upon their arrival, officers discovered Handy in the front yard of the residence, unconscious and suffering from a stab wound to his chest. He was transported to an area hospital and pronounced dead.
“The suspect was identified as 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, a resident of Tarzana,” officials stated in a press release. “He was arrested and transported to Van Nuys Jail where he was booked for one count of murder.”
Police said that the suspect flagged down nearby responding officers, telling them he was the one they were looking for. He was arrested and held on $2 million bail. Information about Gledhill’s legal representation was not immediately available.
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James Handy.(Photo: Universal Studios / Everett Collection)
“The suspect resides at the location with his mother, who is the victim’s girlfriend,” officials said. “Detectives believe this is an isolated incident and there appears to be no danger to the public at this time.”
Top Gun: Maverick actor James Handy’s suspected killer was reportedly seen on security footage after the alleged murder. After Handy was killed on Wednesday, June 3, at the age of 81, local California police identified Michael Gledhill as a suspect after he was seen on Ring footage outside the actor’s house, according to footage obtained […]
“I can’t believe my son did it. I’m just trying to … ” she continued before stepping inside her Tarzana, California, home.
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Speaking to TMZ, Wendy claimed her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia but had stopped taking his medication amid his mental health struggles.
Handy, who had 150 acting credits to his name, was known for his roles in Jumanji, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills, 90210, Law & Order; Profiler, The Young and the Restless, 9-1-1 and more.
“With great sadness I can confirm that the gentleman who was attacked and killed on Wednesday in Tarzana was the actor James Handy,” Handy’s spokesperson told Us in a statement on Thursday.
All in all, the 2020s have been an excellent time for action movies. These are films all about constant movement, exciting combat sequences, and adrenaline-pumping explosions. From suspenseful thrillers to terrifying horror films to unexpectedly hilarious comedies, the action genre lends itself perfectly to being combined with other genres—and these combinations have resulted in some truly exceptional films over the course of the last six years. From 2021 to the present, audiences around the world have been treated both to huge action blockbusters and surprising action indie spectacles. By the time the 2030s roll in, these are bound to be remembered as some of the genre’s best recent outings.
Whether it’s a pure action flick like Nobody, an Oscar-winning masterpiece like Everything Everywhere All At Once, or an animated gem like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, these are some of the greatest action films of modern times that we’re talking about. The wonderful thing about this genre is just how incredibly versatile it is, and as a result, it shouldn’t be the least bit surprising to see how vastly different yet equally entertaining these genre-defining gems are.
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2021: ‘Nobody’
Bob Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell in ‘Nobody‘Image via Universal Pictures
In 2021, both the world in general, and the film industry more specifically, were still right in the middle of a global pandemic. As such, this year’s output of action films wasn’t the highest purely in terms of quantity, but as soon as the conversation veers toward quality, some excellent films emerge. Dunewas an incredible sci-fi epic, The Suicide Squadwas a surprise hit for the superhero genre, and No Time to Diebrought Daniel Craig‘s tenure as Bond to an exceptional (and at times considerably overhated) conclusion. But as the years have passed, the 2021 action spectacle that has aged the best is Ilya Naishuller‘s Nobody.
Only a handful of 2020s action movies are perfect. Nobody may not be one of them, but it sure is one of the most entertaining popcorn flicks that the 2020s have had to offer thus far. Led by an incredible Bob Odenkirk, the film introduced the world to Hutch Mansell, a refreshing action hero who knows how to take a hit just as well as he knows how to be a badass. John Wick copycats have been aplenty since the film’s release in 2014, but Nobody elevates the formula to the stratosphere with its compelling story, the powerhouse performance of its lead, and its commitment to some of the most entertainingly brutal and visceral action of any 2021 film.
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2022: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
Evelyn, fighting while paper sheets fly around her, in Everything Everywhere All at Once.Image via A24
Back when it originally came out, the Daniels‘ Everything Everywhere All At Once began to take the world by storm—somewhat quietly at first, and then, all at once. It became A24’s highest-grossing film at the time four months into its theatrical run, but that wasn’t the last surprise it had stored up its sleeve. At the 95th Academy Awards, the film achieved the tremendous feat of earning seven Oscar victories, and it probably deserved to win even more. Though blockbusters like The Batmanand Top Gun: Maverickare also guaranteed to go down in history as some of the 2020s’ best action films, it just doesn’t get better than this.
It’s one of the best martial arts movies of the 2020s, but it isn’t the kind of film that’s content with operating within a single genre. It’s an existentialist dramedy, a family drama, a sci-fi epic, and a surreal comedy. Dealing with themes of nihilism, absurdism, generational trauma, and immigration, it truly is one of the most complex and ambitious films that have been made at any point during this decade. It runs for just a little under two and a half hours, and every minute of that runtime is easily spent with a massive smile on one’s face—except for when the tears inevitably start coming.
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2023: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
Miles Morales shoots his web in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)Image via Sony Pictures Releasing
After Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Versetook Marvel fans, animation lovers, and the world in general by storm in 2018, the standard for its sequel was set sky-high. Somehow, not only did Across the Spider-Verse meet that bar, it even surpassed it by quite a bit. It remains the highest-rated film of the 2020s so far on both Letterboxd and IMDb, and for good reason. Though it’s logically best enjoyed by those who already love the Web-Slinger, it’s a film so fun that it should be more than enough to entertain even the most ardent superhero genre hater. As good as 2023 action flicks like Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Oneand John Wick: Chapter 4were, none of them were even remotely as perfect as this.
As one of the most ambitious superhero movies of all time, there’s no shortage of areas where Across the Spider-Verse excels. For one, it’s perhaps the single most visually stunning animated movie in history, full of eye-popping colors, adrenaline-pumping action sequences, and visual details that keep coming up in every rewatch. But what really makes this a masterpiece is that, aside from working flawlessly as a sci-fi action epic, it also works flawlessly as a deconstruction of both the Spider-Man mythos and the figure of the superhero. In a blockbuster scene that’s perhaps more full of superhero movies than it should be, masterpieces like this one are all the more appreciated.
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2024: ‘Dune: Part Two’
Before the 2020s, fans of Frank Herbert‘s Dune—easily one of the most groundbreaking and important works of science fiction literature of the entire 20th century—likely believed that no film could possibly live up to the legacy of Herbert’s work. That was before Denis Villeneuve came into the scene. The imagination of the Canadian auteur seemed to match Herbert’s vision like two pieces of the same puzzle, and though 2021’s Dune was as solid as any fan of the source material could have asked for, it’s Dune: Part Twothat really blew everyone away. 2024 had other great action spectacles, from Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagato Monkey Man, but Dune: Part Two is on a tier all of its own.
As far as sci-fi action blockbusters go, this is arguably this generation’s The Empire Strikes Back. At the very least, it’s one of the best sci-fi blockbusters of all time, packed with awe-inspiring sequences bolstered by stunning visuals, Hans Zimmer‘s best score of the decade so far, and adrenaline-pumping action scenes. The way that Villeneuve understands the tonal essence and thematic core of Herbert’s source material is worthy of the utmost admiration, and the way he elevates the material through some of the most perfect technical qualities of any action film of the 2020s is no less than what this legendary story deserved.
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2025: ‘Sinners’
Sinners – 2025 – Michael B. Jordan and a few others ready themselves for an attackImage via Warner Bros. Pictures
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Ryan Coogler has been delivering some of the greatest action movies of the 21st century over the course of his career, but he really outdid himself in virtually every sense imaginable with Sinners. Only a handful of 2020s horror movies are true masterpieces, and this one’s right up there, a complete revolution of the vampire genre that will likely only get better with age. Winner of four Academy Awards and anchored by its standout ensemble cast and Ludwig Göransson‘s legendary tunes, it’s one of the most near-perfect blockbusters of the decade so far. Films like Predator: Badlandsand Supermanare also worthy of praise, and One Battle After Anothermay even be a superior film overall, but purely in terms of what the action genre can achieve, there are few examples from this decade more notorious than this.
The wonderful part about Sinners is just how well it works on multiple different levels. It’s an incredibly entertaining and suspenseful action film, yes; but it’s also a very effectively scary horror film, a complete recontextualization of the vampire genre, and even a remarkably fun and catchy musical at times. This sort of genre juggling is something you don’t often see in modern action films, which only makes the achievements of Coogler and his team all the more worthy of admiration. All those who love horror action movies will find virtually nothing significant to complain about when they watch Sinners, which can already be counted among the best examples of its genres from the 21st century.
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2026: ‘Masters of the Universe’
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All in all, 2026 hasn’t really been a particularly prolific year for action cinema so far. Movies like The Ripand Mortal Kombat IIhave kept fans of the genre perfectly entertained so far, but it’s easy to tell that the action films that’ll end up being remembered as the best of the year still lie on the horizon, from The Odysseyto Dune: Part Three. But so far, the best action film of 2026 is one that probably not many people had on their bingo card as being even remotely as fun as it was: Travis Knight‘s Masters of the Universe, a nostalgia-fueled reimagining of Mattel’s media franchise.
This visually delightful sword-and-sorcery gem may be full of nostalgia aimed at those who grew up loving the adventures of He-Man, but it also sprinkles in plenty of its own modern magic and charm, perfect for young newcomers to fall in love with the franchise in the same way that the grown-ups did decades ago. It’s not particularly well-written and it relies a bit too much on CGI, so it very likely won’t end up being the year’s best action blockbuster by the time 2027 comes around; but as the first half of the year comes to a close, it’s a real treat that the best action flick we’ve had thus far is such an entertaining and energetic reinvention of such a beloved ’80s icon.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
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🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
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James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
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Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
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Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Posting via her Instagram Story on Friday, June 5, Richards, 57, defended HIlton, 67, after she stepped down as the grand marshal of the West Hollywood Pride Parade due to backlash from the LGBTQIA+ community.
“My sister Kathy has always been a supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community and will continue to be,” Richards wrote in the post. “As far as ‘MAGA ties’, just because you are acquainted with or associated with or associated with someone in the past or present, does not mean you share their political views.”
Richards continued, “The WeHo Pride Parade is a happy celebratory day. I respect my sister’s decision for not wanting to be a distraction on a day that belongs to the LGBTQIA+ community. Happy Pride!”
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Much of the criticism of Hilton’s was around her past association with President Donald Trump. Although she has never shared whether she has voted for Trump, 79, Kathy and her husband, Rick Hilton, socialized with the Trumps in the past.
Hilton announced on Wednesday, June 3, that she would relinquish her role in the annual pride parade.
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Kyle Richards and Kathy Hilton.(Photo by Todd Williamson/NBC via Getty Images)
“I am honored to have been considered for this recognition and appreciative of the support I have received from members of the community throughout the years,” Hilton said. “My reason for wanting to be involved in this year’s WeHo Pride weekend was simple: to celebrate, support, and share in the joy of a community that means a great deal to so many people. Pride is, and always will be, about celebrating and uplifting LGBTQ+ voices, experiences, and achievements.”
Family first. Kyle Richards put her drama with sisters Kathy Hilton and Kim Richards aside to celebrate her niece Whitney Davis’ upcoming nuptials. “My beautiful niece @whittlesdavis is getting married 💍💞,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 54, captioned an Instagram pic of herself posing with her sisters and nieces at Davis’ bridal shower […]
Her statement went on, “I respect the thoughtful conversations that have taken place and remain deeply committed to supporting LGBTQ+ causes and visibility, including through my participation in GLAAD initiatives and events, and longstanding support of organizations such as the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation since its inception, Dr. Mathilde Krim, God’s Love We Deliver, and Project Angel Food.”
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“My support for the community and WeHo Pride is unwavering. This monumentally important event has always had a special place in my heart, and I will always cherish the experience I had acting as Grand Marshal of the LA Pride parade with my daughter in 2005,” she continued. “Thank you to everyone who works so hard to make it happen, and I wish the community nothing but love, joy, and a fantastic WeHo Pride weekend.”
When Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the hottest show of the ‘90s, it transformed many of its young cast members (including Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan) into household names. Their performances were always strong, but it turns out they had a secret weapon: Anthony Stewart Head, the veteran British actor who played Buffy’s onscreen mentor, Giles. Offscreen, he still played mentor to his fellow actors, like when he helped the very American James Marsters master Spike’s trademark British accent. While Head had many great roles before and after this iconic show, countless fans will always remember him as Giles, the man who always helped the Slayer to save the world.
Sadly, Anthony Stewart Head has died at the age of 72. This is only six months after the death of his partner, Sarah Fisher, whom he had been with for over four decades. Head is survived by his daughters, Emily and Daisy Head. They released a statement to The Independent verifying that their acclaimed actor father had died from complications due to pneumonia. As the Buffy fandom grieves, they may take comfort in one thing: according to his daughters, “he passed away peacefully … surrounded by his family.”
Slay, King
Anthony Stewart Head was someone who was always reinventing his career in new and exciting ways. Like many great performers, he got his start in theatre, and he dazzled in plays like Godspell in the late ‘70s and The Rocky Horror Show in the early ‘90s, where he played Frank N. Furter. Musicals were a strength for Head because he had a beautiful voice and had trained himself to use it. In fact, when he wasn’t impressing everybody on the stage or screen in the ‘80s, he was providing the backing vocals for the band Red Box. In short, this is why Head was so good whenever Giles got to sing in Buffy!
His television career was especially quirky. While he had previously appeared in obscure British shows like Enemy at the Door, he didn’t become a very familiar face until he started selling coffee, of all things. Head starred in a series of memorable television ads for Nescafé’s Gold Blend; the coffee was renamed Taster’s Choice for America, where we continued to receive commercials featuring him until 1997. That was the same year that Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered, and the success of this hit genre show helped supercharge Giles actor Anthony Stewart Head’s career.
From Tweed To Leather
For seven years, Anthony Stewart Head was a stalwart presence on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The presence of an older, highly skilled actor helped all of the young performers effectively step up their game. Head’s presence arguably contributed to this TV show’s multi-generational appeal. Buffy appealed to younger audiences because of its younger cast, but older fans could see themselves in Giles, a wise, careworn mentor forced to save the world alongside a bunch of hormonal teens. While Head had a more limited presence in the last two seasons of Buffy (owing to his wanting to spend more time with his family in England), he continued making appearances through the series finale.
There were plans for a Buffy spinoff named Ripper, which would have focused on Giles, and Anthony Stewart Head would have been its leading man. Those plans ultimately fell through, but the actor continued enjoying an eclectic career doing things like narrating Doctor Who audiobooks. His musical chops in the Buffy episode “Once More With Feeling” helped him land a leading role in the bonkers film adaptation of Repo! The Genetic Opera. While he returned to the Slayer’s universe one more time to lend his voice to the Audible exclusive Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, his last major onscreen role was playing Rupert Mannion on the hit comedy Ted Lasso.
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Remembering The Father Of Fandom’s Found Family
Anthony Stewart Head leaves behind a rich creative legacy. A master of multiple trades, he has won fans over with his skills as a theatrical performer, an accomplished singer, and as one of television’s biggest icons. While nobody will miss him more than his loving daughters, the entire Buffy fandom mourns the loss of one of the show’s greatest actors. Sadly, he is the third shocking Buffy death in the last year and a half: Dawn actor Michelle Trachtenberg shockingly passed away last year, and Xander actor Nicholas Brendan passed away earlier this year.
In my own grief at Anthony Stewart Head’s passing, I can’t help but think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s most sobering advice: “the hardest thing in this world is to live in it.” It’s certainly harder to live in this world knowing that we have lost such a talented performer, one who has inspired many of us to push ourselves further than we ever thought possible, just as his onscreen Watcher inspired Buffy to become stronger by the day. Fortunately, we can revisit his most inspirational performances whenever we need more of Giles’ wisdom. In this way, the father of the biggest found family in all of fandom will always be a part of our lives.
The war movie genre has boasted some impressive, memorable, and complicated films over the years, going as far back as 1898 with the controversial propaganda picture Tearing Down the Spanish Flag. Genre classics such as Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and All Quiet on the Western Front tend to dominate war movie conversation, and oftentimes, newer installments to the genre rarely add something new and wind up feeling repetitive.
The moving 2023 WWII movieOne Life, which has a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, not only managed to inject an incredible amount of heartfelt emotion into the genre, but did so with minimal action. Through the fantastic performances of Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, who effortlessly convey their characters’ complicated pasts, the movie provides a relevant message about the power of human decency that feels incredibly necessary in today’s world.
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What Is the War Drama ‘One Life’ About?
With how expansive and destructive World War II was, there are likely hundreds of tales of bravery and extraordinary moments that have flown under the radar. One Life‘s narrative is one of those moments that is truly hard to believe. It explores the true story of Anthony Hopkins’ Nicholas Winton who, in his old age, looks back at when he arranged the evacuation of over 600 children from Czechoslovakia during Nazi occupation — almost single-handedly — while trying to find a home for his scrapbook that details his heroism. The way One Life focuses on Winton’s humility — as he has never been truly recognized for his achievements yet never wishes for them — makes Winton an instantly lovable hero, and Hopkins plays it perfectly. His soft demeanor, with a quiet, shuffling body language, conveys a sincerity that reflects his younger self.
The film switches between a young Winton (Johnny Flynn) and him in the present day, just as it does Ziggy Heath and Jonathan Pryce, who play Winton’s friend Martin Blake, the one who initially invites Winton to Prague to assist with humanitarian efforts. Whereas Flynn and Ziggy Heath play their younger versions with more urgency, due to the stakes, Pryce and Hopkins give their characters slower, more thoughtful deliveries, conveying the weight of their past and how they must have thought about this a thousand times.
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‘One Life’ Challenges the Audience and Proves How Powerful Human Decency Can Be
Other war films, such as Hacksaw Ridge, explore how much difference one person can make. In the case of that movie, Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) is committed from the start to simply save whoever he can, and the high-intensity action almost makes the decision for him on how he must act. Instead, One Life is a snowball effect, as Winton only slowly begins to put the pieces together of how difficult saving these children actually will be, and yet his drive to do the right thing shows how anything can be overcome or made possible. Whether it is the British government being incredibly unhelpful in providing visas for children to use to escape, or the Nazis providing a more sinister and urgent threat, Nicholas Winton is constantly told there is no hope, and he must rely on sheer relentless effort to save lives. In today’s world, where institutions fail people consistently, One Life shows how we should believe in making the world a better place one step at a time with our own actions, whether the systems in place are there to help us or not.
Nicholas Winton almost refuses to take credit for his heroism, insisting that he was only doing the right thing and that anyone would have done the same in his shoes. Even when faced with one of the most hateful, destructive threats the world has ever experienced, Nicholas Winton never backed down. He didn’t want money or fame, and he didn’t necessarily think his efforts would win the war and stop evil for good. He just believed it was simply the right thing to do, and there are very few war movies that truly embody this message as well as this one does. One Life is a war movie you don’t want to miss out on.
Nearly 40 years after it debuted, The Brave Little Toaster is available to stream on Disney+. For generations, the animated classic was lost media. The last time it was released for home media was in 2003, with a bare-bones DVD release, but before you congratulate Disney on restoring a lost classic, you should know, it’s their fault that it was locked away for decades. In 1987, most kids first came across the film on Disney VHS or on the Disney channel, but it’s not actually a Disney movie. Well it is, but … it gets complicated.
Millennials Can Rejoice: The Brave Little Toaster Is On Streaming
The Brave Little Toaster follows a group of appliances, a toaster, a blanket, a radio, a lamp, and a vacuum cleaner, as they leave a summer cabin to find their young master, Rob, who hasn’t come by in years. Going through forests, down a waterfall, and since it was the 80s, into swampy quicksand, they risk life, limb, and low battery to reach their master. What they don’t know is that it’s been so long that the now college-bound Rob and his girlfriend are trying to find them.
If it had been made 10 years later, The Brave Little Toaster wouldn’t be as traumatic a story as it is. Other appliances come across as deranged, starting with the air conditioner, voiced by Phil Hartman, that sets itself on fire, and culminating with a repair shop of old, busted appliances. A literal nightmare sequence of the Toaster includes insane clown firefighters and a giant tub of water. Not even the catchy musical numbers can fully offset the deranged nightmare visuals. Even then, it’s a favorite of Millennials for a reason, and you will have to wipe off a tear at the ending.
Disney Kept The Toaster In The Vault For Decades
Which raises the question, if The Brave Little Toaster is such a great, beloved film, why has Disney kept it trapped in the vault for decades? John Lasseter, the man who helped create Toy Story, wanted to turn the film into the first fully 3D CGI animated feature, over a decade before Buzz and Woody. The pitch was received so well by Disney executives that they fired Lasseter.
That gave an opening for two Disney employees, Tom Wilhite and Willard Carroll, to take over the film at their new company, Hyperion Pictures. Disney owned the rights to the film, and co-financed it alongside CBS and TDK (an electronics company), with a total budget of only $5.6 million, which was very, very low for a full animated feature.
Traumatize A New Generation
Disney had the home video and television rights, which is why they purposely moved the Disney Channel debut of the Brave Little Toaster to before its opening weekend in theaters. You think the movie release window is small now in the age of streaming, this was simply unheard of. If Disney wasn’t going to see any money from theaters, it wasn’t going to let anyone get money from a wide release.
On May 26, 2026, Disney finally released The Brave Little Toaster onto Disney+, and immediately, it landed in the top ten on the service. Those who were raised on Toaster and friends can now share the adventure with their own kids, or, and this is truly painful to type, grandkids. It’s one of the best animated films of the 80s and once you see it, you’ll know exactly where John Lasseter got the idea for Toy Story.
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The Brave Little Toaster is finally streaming on Disney+.
The sequels have been streaming for years, but we don’t talk about those.
When it comes to Star Wars, most fans agree that Darth Vader is the scariest guy in the entire galaxy far, far away. However, what’s scarier than this Dark Lord of the Sith? Simple answer: whatever scares Vader is scarier than Vader. Since he has access to an entire Empire and the Dark Side of the Force, there are few people he actually fears. One of the only people is Grand Moff Tarkin, who serves as the real Big Bad of the first Star Wars movie.
Sure, Tarkin didn’t look like a robot samurai, and he didn’t wield magical powers. But he’s the one guy, aside from the Emperor, who bosses Vader around. Leia is telling the truth later on: Tarkin really does hold the Sith Lord’s leash. If that sounds a little kinky for Star Wars, you don’t know the half of it. One relatively unknown Star Wars story makes it clear that Grand Moff Tarkin had a secret love affair with the Stormtrooper whose armor Luke Skywalker steals. Oh, and they send booty call messages with that little mouse droid from the Death Star!
Like A Moff To The Flame
Ok, this is a pretty weird tale, even by the standards of Star Wars. It begins with “Of MSE-6 and Men,” one of the short stories in the anthology book From A Certain Point Of View. Written by Glen Weldon, this story takes place on the Death Star and mostly focuses on two people: MSE-6-G735Y (the adorable mouse droid that Chewbacca roars at) and TK-421, a Stormtrooper. The trooper begins a gay relationship with an unnamed, high-ranking officer, whom the author later admitted was supposed to be Tarkin. Their secret, passionate affair ends when Luke Skywalker blasts the Stormtrooper, taking his armor and hiding the body in a crawlspace aboard the Millennium Falcon.
So, how do we know the unnamed officer is supposed to be Grand Moff Tarkin? “Of MSE-6 and Men” drops some heavy-handed hints, including the fact that this guy has Alpha One security clearance and a super-swanky office aboard the Death Star. Oh, and he has an even swankier penthouse back on Coruscant. Mostly, though, we know because of author Glen Weldon’s posts on X. He has frequently responded with shrugging memes when people ask if the officer is Tarkin and posted smirking Cersei Lannister pictures alongside his own internet search for “tarkin gay.” Weldon also posted a picture of Tarkin and TK-421 side by side and called it a “couples costume idea.”
He’s Here, He’s Queer
While people more interested in culture wars than Star Wars might freak out about this short story, Grand Moff Tarkin being gay doesn’t really change anything people like about the character. He’s still just as intimidating, thanks in large part to a masterful performance by Peter Cushing. The same is true for Darth Vader: knowing his sexuality doesn’t make him any less of a scary robot man. Although knowing that he was regularly bumping uglies with Natalie Portman before she died of sadness and his penis burned off in lava admittedly goes a long way towards explaining why he’s so angry all the time.
However, as with many of the short stories in From A Certain Point of View, “Of MSE-6 and Men” does force you to look at several aspects of A New Hope through fresh eyes. It’s wild to think Tarkin was on the down low with a random Stormtrooper (one who puts on a fake hick accent, no less) and sending texts via a droid. When Chewbacca yelled at this little droid, was he secretly c*ckblocking the scariest guy in the galaxy? As for Tarkin, did he refuse to evacuate the Death Star because he was obsessed with killing the Rebel hero who murdered his rough trade sidepiece in cold blood?
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There’s a lesson here, Star Wars fans: when you’re celebrating Pride Month this June, don’t forget Grand Moff Tarkin. Thanks to this bonkers short story, he’s now the most prominent gay icon in a galaxy far, far away, if only because Lucas and Disney just keep C-3PO in the closet. On the topic of Pride, though, “Of MSE-6 and Men” does leave me with one lingering question: do you think the Empire makes a big deal about their rainbow PFPs on social media in June, or do they keep everything gunmetal grey, all year long?
The success of HBO’s Chernobyl and Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit a few years ago reignited mainstream interest in Cold War-era politics. This interest was no doubt fueled further by Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, which revisited the tense years spent creating the world’s first atomic weapons, and ended up grossing nearly $1 billion worldwide. The Cold War was over, but Russia was once again emerging as a popular antagonist on the geopolitical stage. This streak continued last week with Star City, an austere spin-off to Apple TV’s For All Mankind, which takes place in an alternate history where the Space Race never ended. Star City presents the Soviet perspective of the contest, brimming with political intrigue and intense paranoia.
The Space Race remains perhaps the most well-known soft power showdown between the two warring nations and their allies during the Cold War. It was framed as though the nation that made the greatest advances in aerospace would gain an edge over the other. Other proxy battles were famously held in the arena of video games and sports. The Soviet ice hockey team emerged as the greatest in the world at the time. The Soviets also dominated the world of chess for the entirety of the Cold War, with grandmasters such as Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov picking up from where Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky left off. However, there was one notable exception in the history of chess where an American emerged as the world champion — the sole non-Soviet player to hold the world title in around five decades.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Here’s Where You Can Watch the Cold War-Era Sports Thriller for Free
He claimed the title in a legendary Cold War-era face-off against Spassky. This face-off was dramatized in a movie directed by Edward Zwickand released in 2014. The movie in question, Pawn Sacrifice, stars Tobey Maguireas the legendary Bobby Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Spassky. Both Fischer and Spassky were being used as pawns for their governments, which put immense pressure on them to secure prestige for their countries. Pawn Sacrifice underperformed commercially, grossing just $5 million worldwide. It now holds a “Certified Fresh” 73% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Anchored by a sensitive performance from Tobey Maguire, Pawn Sacrifice adds another solidly gripping drama to the list of films inspired by chess wiz Bobby Fischer.” The movie is currently streaming for free in the U.S. on Tubi. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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