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Nicolas Cage’s Horrific Crime Thriller Officially Haunts a New Streaming Home
Serial killer thrillers and supernatural horror don’t always make comfortable bedfellows, but Osgood Perkins found a particularly disturbing way to combine the two. Two years ago, Perkins made a film that paired the procedural hunt for a killer like Silence of the Lambs into something a lot more horrifying, while also burying Nicolas Cage beneath a mountain of prosthetics and, in doing so, giving him one of the best showcases of his career.
Two years later, Longlegs has officially discovered a new streaming home. The horror hit from Neon has landed on Hulu in the United States, just in time for those who want something new and pants-soilingly terrifying to watch in the spooky season. Longlegs is also available through Disney+ for subscribers with the appropriate Hulu access.
Longlegs sees us follow Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), an FBI agent who’s assigned to investigate a mysterious serial killer (Cage) who is linked to a string of, it would appear, inexplicable family murders. At first, she begins uncovering occult clues that seem to link them all together, but the investigation gets a lot more disturbing for her, and us, when she starts to realize that she has a connection to the killer that makes things a lot more personal than she could have ever contemplated.
The cast also features Blair Underwood (L.A. Law) as Agent Carter, Alicia Witt (Dune) as Ruth Harker, Michelle Choi-Lee (Yellowjackets) as Agent Browning, Dakota Daulby (Billy the Kid) as Agent Fisk, Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Carrie Anne Camera, and Jason William Day (The Last of Us) as Father Camera.
‘Longlegs’ Was One of 2024’s Biggest Horror Hits
For the most part, critics adored what Perkins did with Longlegs, which currently has a score of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, from more than 300 reviews, with particular praise going to the oppressive atmosphere and, of course, Cage himself. Audiences were a bit put off, though, giving it a 61% Popcornmeter score. But that’s not something that stopped it from becoming a sleeper hit, as it earned more than $74 million domestically alone. The film also did wonders for Monroe, once again cementing her as a scream queen in the making following her breakout roles in The Guest and It Follows.
Longlegs is streaming now on Hulu.
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July 12, 2024
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101 Minutes
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Netflix’s Latest Release Officially Takes Over Streaming, and It’s Not a Movie or Series
Netflix has a history of putting its finger on the pulse of what matters, from Stranger Things to Squid Game. The newest hot ticket item, however, is not a movie or television series. As everyone came down with Grand Theft Auto fever, the streamer followed suit. Grand Theft Auto VI is imminent after 13 years of waiting, and Netflix has just the thing to tide fans over before its release. The 23-minute-long featurette, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, has exploded in the pop culture zeitgeist.
As Netflix continues to find its niche in the new world order of streaming, the early look at the new video game has driven viewers to the platform in droves. According to FlixPatrol, the short feature has had 14,000 hours of viewership in just one week. This bodes well for the game that is one of the most anticipated of the year. Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look gives viewers a hint at what is to come, and it does not disappoint.
‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ May Be the Crowning Achievement For the Video Game Series
It goes without saying that in the decade that fans have been waiting for a new Grand Theft Auto game to be released, there have been some major achievements in the industry. When Grand Theft Auto V first came out, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt had not been released. Since then, it won Game of the Year, while The Last of Us Part I was remade, and The Last of Us Part II was released. It is a brave new world, and the extended look into Grand Theft Auto VI seems to indicate that there is a reward for patience.
The featurette introduces Jason and Lucia, partners in crime – and in life if gamers choose to do so. This game marks the return to Vice City, a fictionalized version of Miami. Together, they try to rise through the ranks of the criminal world while maintaining personal relationships and even their own physique, depending on how gamers play.
The upcoming game has outdone itself in comparison to all other Grand Theft Auto ventures, if the brief hint at the gameplay is any indication. The details present in the short are nothing short of miraculous. The animation seems to be worth the wait, as are the complexities of gameplay. Players have the option to romance their partner and can choose options like holding hands and texting each other.
They can also switch back and forth between Jason and Lucia at will. Players can also take their avatars to the gym if that is how they desire to spend their time. This new Grand Theft Auto adventure is more than dabbling in realism. The attention to detail is mind-blowing and far exceeds the potential of previous games. The inside look at this new iteration is more than a gameplay trailer. It shows off the lengths Rockstar went to impress potential gamers. Those who may not have initially had a mind to play the game may want to after its exposure on Netflix. It seems that video games are back, and many people will be taking the day off when this one is released on November 19.
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November 19, 2026
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Rating Pending – Likely Mature 17+
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Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)
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Online Multiplayer
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Grand Theft Auto 5
Romantic comedies often get reduced to their own surface mechanics, possibly more than any other genre. Aspects such as the meet-cute, the misunderstanding, the airport dash, the happy ending and countless others. But ironically, some of the most enduring entries in this category are not about falling in love at all. They are more about loss, the grief that comes with it, and losing a relationship, or a version of yourself and using romance as the vehicle to process it rather than the core driving force of the narrative. With two rom-com classics in About Time and Sleepless in Seattle hitting Netflix on September 1st, now feels like the right moment to revisit why films like these two have held up so much longer than their genre peers.
This distinction is crucial because it explains why certain entries have stuck around decades after their initial release while flashier, more conventional entries have faded into the abyss. Grief gives these movies a certain level of emotional stakes that the genre’s traditionally comedic structuring doesn’t allow for. It forces their characters to change in ways a simple obstacle-to-love plot rarely demands. The comedy still exits just in a more clever and sporadic manner. But look at all seven of these films, and it is actually rarely ever romance driving the plot itself.
But what truly separates this list from other well-known romantic comedies is how little their central romances actually resolve the grief driving them. A death, a divorce, an illness, a memory slipping away. None of these things gets neatly tied up by the arrival of a new partner, no matter how satisfying the ending feels. Instead, love becomes the space where these characters finally let themselves feel what they had been avoiding. That’s the true difference the movies encompassing this list have, that has allowed space for them to stay in the cultural zeitgeist long after many of their peers have mostly been forgotten. Revisiting them with that lens changes almost everything about how their famous scenes actually land.
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‘Notting Hill’ (1999)
On the surface, Notting Hill is a straightforward fish-out-of-water romance between an ordinary bookshop owner and a famous movie star. But, the arc of bookkeeper William Thacker, played by Hugh Grant, only makes sense once you notice how much he is feeling loss and how it has already been defining the majority of his life. He is divorced, his travel bookshop is barely staying afloat, and his social circle is a small, tightly bonded group of friends that were built as a replacement family for a life that didn’t go as planned. His hesitation throughout the film is not really about Anna’s (Julia Roberts) fame or even the tabloid chaos that seems to follow her everywhere. It is really about a man who has already been disappointed before, and has arranged his entire existence — his eccentric roommate Spike and his low-stakes bookshop routine — around never being disappointed again.
That undercut of a quiet resignation that he holds, is what gives the films more famous, sweeping moments their weight. William’s growth in the movie is really about relearning how to risk loss again after already absorbing one. All culminating in his decision to chase Anna down instead of letting his old ways get the best of him. The romantic optimism the project exudes, crystallized in that final Notting Hill garden scene, resonates so acutely because it is fighting against a real lived-in grief. Divorce rarely gets this much screen time in a genre built on first loves.
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‘About Time’ (2013)
About Time wears its premise as a time-travel romance, but the film’s actual emotional center has pretty much nothing to do with its central couple. Tim’s relationship with his father, played by Bill Nighy, and the years he spends trying to appreciate ordinary moments before being able to revisit them, is the story the film is actually telling. The romance with Mary (Rachel McAdams), functions as the backdrop against which Tim learns to value the time he has, useful and sweet in its own right, but never the film’s true stakes. It is that devastating gut punch when Tim learns he can no longer travel back once his father has died. That, his journey has really been about a version of mortality and fatherhood rather than pure romantic love.
By the end, About Time has largely abandoned its central love story, choosing to sit with the grief behind the narrative directly. It shows Tim reliving ordinary days with his father, playing ping pong, walking on the beach, lone last time before accepting he cannot anymore. Richard Curtis structures the entirety of the back half of the film around that farewell and not any romantic climax one might have expected. Its a clear example of a movie using that romcom structure as a Trojan Horse of sorts, to build a narrative focused on loss. Audiences walk in expecting a love story and walk out having cried over a father-son relationship instead.
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‘The Big Sick’ (2017)
The Big Sick complicates its own marriage structure by removing its female lead from most of the film’s runtime. It places Emily in a medically induced coma and forces Kumail to fall in love with her parents, Terry and Beth instead while confronting the very real possibility that she might die. This movie never lets the audience forget how close its central relationship comes to ending before it ever truly begins. It turns what could have been a standard culture-clash romance about Kumail’s Pakistani family and arranged marriage expectations into something closer to a meditation on anticipatory grief. Since it’s based on the real courtship of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the movie treats the medical crisis with an attention and care most romcoms never attempt.
It is a tension that is constantly overshadowed by the threat of loss, which gives the movie’s comedic beats real meaning and a weight beyond traditional genre-infused bits. And Kumail’s growing bond with Emily’s parents becomes its own kind of grief-adjacent relationship, constructed out of a shared fear and long hospital waiting-room silences. It makes the eventual resolution to the story feel earned and lived in rather than just another simple, sweet romantic comedy entry. By the time Emily wakes up, The Big Sick has already done the emotional heavy lifting of grieving a relationship that technically never ended. It makes its actual reunion almost secondary to everything before it, cleverly side-stepping a massive genre stereotype.
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‘Marley & Me’ (2008)
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Marley & Me is really a film about marriage, even though its true emotional architecture is built around a dog’s lifespan. And, by extension, the couple’s own passage through young adulthood into middle age and eventual loss. John and Jennifer’s relationship survives job changes, career disappointments, and multiple children, but the movie frames all of it through Marley’s aging body. Director David Frankel uses the destructive, exuberant Labrador as a clock counting down toward an ending the audience knows is coming from the opening scenes. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston play the marriage itself with a genuine and relatable warmth, but the film’s subject is how a family measures time through a dog who ages vastly quicker than they do.
It is that structure which turns what could have been a fairly conventional marriage dramedy into a heart-breaking story about the intricacies of what keeps a family together. The harder, more mournful moments weaved between the lighter and happier comedic beats: Marley eating jewelry, terrorizing the vet, destroying furniture, all to disarm the audience before delivering one of the genre’s most devastating final acts. It is a form of grief that is inventively disguised as a family comedy for the majority of its runtime, only revealing its real intentions in the final fifteen minutes when Marley’s decline becomes impossible to ignore. Few films marketed this directly to families have ever been willing to sit with a beloved animal’s death this directly.
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‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook uses romance as a mechanism through which two deeply wounded people process very different kinds of loss. For Pat (Bradley Cooper), it’s his marriage, his mental stability, and the life he had before a bipolar breakdown landed him in a psychiatric hospital. And for Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), it’s the loss of her husband and her own sense of self and struggle with mental illness after his sudden death. Neither character is remotely ready for a conventional relationship, and David O. Russell‘s film is honest about that. He lets their connection slowly and methodically develop through shared damage, blunt honesty and mutual recognition instead of your typical romcom chemistry. Their courtship, built around a dance competition neither one of them is qualified for, becomes less about romance and more about two people learning to function again.
But what makes this one truly work is its refusal to treat either character’s grief as something a relationship simply cures. Their bond is messy, halting and forged on real emotional wreckage, complete with restraining orders, family dysfunction and a mental illness handled without much sentimentality. The films ultimately hopeful ending is enhanced through how their grief doesn’t pretend to ever be fully resolved, only that they have found someone equipped to sit inside it with them. That distinction is what separates it from far tidier films about recovery.
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‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ (2004)
Eternal Sunshine takes the genre’s usual approach to loss and inverts it entirely, following a couple who choose to erase the memory of their relationship rather than simply mourn its end. The film becomes a meditation on grief experienced in reverse, watching Joel (Jim Carrey) relive and lose his memories of Clementine (Cate Blanchett) in real time as the erasure procedure takes hold. It forces him to confront exactly what he is giving up as it disappears piece by piece. Michel Gondry’s disorienting visual style makes that process feel unsettling, the memories collapsing and rearranging as Joel fights to keep pieces of Clementine alive in his own mind.
That structural choice makes the film’s eventual, cautious optimism feel hard-won rather than saccharine. Instead of a couple falling in love for the first time, as in many straightforward romance movies this one ends with two people choosing to risk the same loss again, fully aware of what heartbreak costs after literally watching it happen on screen. Their final “okay” is one of the more loaded one-word endings in the genre due to all of what the audience just witnessed them lose and rebuild. It reframes the entire genre’s usual assumption that love is inherently worth the risk into something the characters have to actively, consciously choose.
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‘Sleepless in Seattle’ (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle spends most of its runtime pretending to be about a meet-cute that hasn’t happened yet. The true emotional core of the movie is Sam’s (Tom Hanks) grief for his late wife Maggie and his young son Jonah’s inability to process losing his mother. The film’s famous long-distance romantic tension between Sam and Annie (Meg Ryan) works because it is built on top of real, carefully depicted mourning. It follows a widower slowly, hesitantly opening himself back up to the possibility of love without ever suggesting his grief had an expiration date. Nora Ephron gives Sam’s late-night radio confession real vulnerability rather than treating it as just a cute plot device, and it becomes the emotional catalyst for everything that follows.
The movie has endured as one of the genre’s defining entries decades later, precisely because of its handling of grief in such a mature, realistic manner. Its romance feels earned rather than convenient because the film takes real time to sit with loss first, letting Sam’s healing, not his falling in love, become the actual engine driving the story toward its famous Empire State Building ending. Annie and Sam barely speak to each other for most of the film, which only underscores that the real story was always about a father and a son learning how to move forward. The romance, when it finally arrives, feels like a natural byproduct of that healing rather than its whole point.
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June 24, 1993
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105 minutes
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Nora Ephron
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David S. Ward, Nora Ephron, Jeff Arch
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Gary Foster
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‘Sopranos’ Meets ‘Yellowstone’ in Hulu’s 7-Part Crime Drama Now Climbing the Streaming Charts
If there’s one thing television has taught audiences time and time again, it’s to never mix family with business — especially when it involves crime. Back in the ’90s, The Sopranos showed the psychological toll being in the mob had on Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and how it nearly cost him his family. More recently, Yellowstone showed how past family demons can rise from the grave while the Duttons protect the legacy of their land.
In between the two hits, there’s the biker crime drama Sons of Anarchy. Following SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club) Vice President Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the leading man has always envisioned the organization as a symbol of freedom and brotherhood, which is what his late father would have wanted. But with SAMCRO now operating as a money-making enterprise — illegal, of course — Jax begins to question his purpose within the club, leading certain family members to become concerned about where he’s taking SAMCRO moving forward.
What Is ‘Sons of Anarchy’ About?
Sons of Anarchy follows the day-to-day operations of SAMCRO in Charming, California, as told through the eyes of Jax. Since the passing of its original leader, a.k.a. Jax’s father, John Teller (Nicholas Guest), SAMCRO has been led by President Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman), who is also Jax’s stepfather. The motorcycle club has its own hierarchy, with level-headed Bobby Munson (Mark Boone Junior), violent Sergeant-at-Arms Tig Trager (Kim Coates), and fellow founding member Piney Winston (William Lucking), to name a few. Despite the strict hierarchy within the club, split loyalties and betrayals eventually sees SAMCRO fall apart as, one by one, the most long-standing members of the club are taken out.
On the outside, SAMCRO operates a repair shop under Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair. However, the legitimate business is merely a front for its criminal activities, serving as a base to orchestrate illegal gunrunning, supply firearms to other groups, and make deals with rival gangs. As the son of the founder, Jax is naturally SAMCRO’s protégé. But when he discovers a hidden manuscript from his late father detailing the motorcycle club’s early years, before it became the criminal enterprise it is today, Jax begins having second thoughts about the direction his fellow members have taken. His growing doubts eventually put him at odds with certain members and force him to reconsider the future of SAMCRO.
‘Sons of Anarchy’ Is a Modern-Day Take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Shakespeare fans might be quick to notice just how similar Sons of Anarchy is to Hamlet. There’s the relationship between Jax and his late father, John, as well as his current stepfather, Clay. Unsurprisingly, Clay doesn’t agree with John’s vision for SAMCRO. Although the two are founding members of the club, Clay rejects John’s pacifist approach, instead believing in ruling with an iron fist and embracing the criminal underworld. Jax’s mother, Gemma (Katey Sagal), shares the same vision as Clay. But like Hamlet, Jax is guided by the spirit of his father and begins to see SAMCRO through John’s eyes.
By the time Jax finally gets the opportunity to run the club the way he wants to, however, he realizes that the biker dynasty he has inherited is a rotten apple. No matter how hard Jax tries to eradicate the evil within the club, he ironically can only do so through violence, trapping him in a vicious cycle of toxicity. The more he tries to reclaim his father’s original vision, the more he destroys himself in an attempt to make it whole again. This cycle escalates throughout the series, which becomes increasingly apparent in Jax’s transformation. Audiences first see him as a bright and hopeful member of SAMCRO, but over the seasons, he grows into a darker and more ruthless figure whom they can barely recognize anymore.
‘Sons of Anarchy’ Pushes Each Season to Even Greater Extremes
Sons of Anarchy starts humbly with Jax’s existential crisis within the club, but the problems facing SAMCRO quickly grow beyond its own walls. As the seasons progress, the club faces increasingly dangerous enemies, including a white supremacist group, a corrupt IRA leader, and a possible RICO investigation threatening the club’s livelihood. As threats increase, SAMCRO slowly starts to unravel as members are forced to choose between the club and their own lives and the lives of their loved ones.
Jax also struggles with his own family, both with Wendy (Drea de Matteo), his ex-wife and the mother of his son, Abel, and with Tara (Maggie Siff). While Wendy struggles with addiction in the early seasons of the show, its Tara’s influence on Jax that makes him reconsider his role in the club, resulting in Gemma turning on her son and Tara in brutal retaliation. As these personal and criminal conflicts clash, the series delivers disturbingly upsetting scenes and shocking deaths that will keep fans of The Sopranos on the edge of their seat. With seven seasons and plenty of drama, it’s no surprise that Sons of Anarchy continues to climb the charts on the Apple TV store.
Sons of Anarchy
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2008 – 2014
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Paris Barclay, Guy Ferland, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Peter Weller, Billy Gierhart, Kurt Sutter, Stephen Kay, Adam Arkin, Paul Maibaum, Phil Abraham, Terrence O’Hara, Allen Coulter, Charles Haid, Charles Murray, Karen Gaviola, Mario Van Peebles, Michael Dinner, Seith Mann, Tim Hunter
Luke Evans is opening up about a touching letter he sent to Tim Curry just before his death.
Evans, 47, took on the Dr. Frank-N-Furter role for his 2026 Broadway debut — a role made famous by Curry in the original 1975 film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Friday, September 11, Evans shared that he sent correspondence to Curry to thank and compliment him for his performance that was so inspiring.
“He was very appreciative,” Evans told the outlet. “I think he was very sick when he got the letter — he was struggling a lot — and I’ve spoken to his publisher since. He struggled to speak and talk, so I think he was really in a bad place, but what a legacy.”
Tim Curry, best known for his scene-stealing role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died on Tuesday, August 25. He was 80. The Los Angeles Police Department tells Us that officers responded to a radio call for a “death investigation” at Curry’s home at 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday. Curry’s cause of death was not immediately […]
Evans added that he felt a connection to the late star due to their shared character, even though they portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter decades apart.
“What was very strange was the day that he did die, the news — of all the incredible things he did, and he did many incredible, iconic roles — it always started with the same person: Frank-N-Furter,” Evans reflected. “And I had just played him, so there was this real deep connection that I had, even though I’d never met the man. It was a strange, beautiful, tragic way to end my New York experience, but I’ll never forget it.”
Luke Evans. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
News broke on August 26 that Curry died at age 80. The Los Angeles Police Department’s North Hollywood Division told Us at the time that officers responded to a call for a rescue ambulance to Curry’s home around 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday, August 25. (Us reached out to Curry’s rep for comment.)
Following Curry’s death, Evans shared the touching letter via an Instagram post, captioning it, “RIP Tim Curry. And thank you x.”
“Although we’ve never met, you’ve been part of this journey from the very beginning. Every actor who puts on Frank inevitably walks into a conversation that started with you, and I’ve felt that every night,” part of the letter read.
The letter continued, “Being compared to you has been one of the greatest compliments I’ve ever received, even though it’s a compliment no one could ever hope to live up to. There is, and always will be, only one Tim Curry.”
While previously reflecting on his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter with LA Magazine, Curry said he looked back at the 1975 film “with a sort of bemused tolerance” after it launched his career in the industry. “It’s neither a blessing nor a curse,” he said. “I was lucky to get it.”
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Finding a slimming black dress is harder than it looks, but not once you see Penélope Cruz‘s genius outfit. The Bunker actress wore a classy dress that flattered from every angle, and we found the luxe look on sale for only $44!
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It’s time to clamber out of the center of the world and set sail for — or rather submerge into — a world where magnificent underwater creatures and humans alike threaten your voyage. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is arguably Jules Verne’s most famous book, and its story has returned to the screen with AMC’s 10-episode sci-fi series Nautilus.
Originally developed by Disney Entertainment before AMC Networks licensed the U.S. and Canadian rights, Nautilus revives Captain Nemo’s (Shazad Latif) futuristic submarine and its rowdy crew, serving as a prequel that provides a backstory for the enigmatic captain. It essentially acts as an allegory against British imperialism, and though that message is powerful, it isn’t the main reason the show is worth watching. Nautilus‘ ability to beautifully emulate the sense of adventure in Verne’s tale is what makes it stand out.
‘Nautilus’ Is a ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ Adaptation
In the pilot, we are introduced to the plight of Nemo and his radicalized crew. They are fleeing the tyranny of a menacing governing body dubbed “The Company,” which represents British imperialism, and head out to open water to escape rather than with a specific destination in mind. The show also fleshes out the source material by depicting Nemo as Indian, restoring an important part of the character’s identity that Verne later made explicit in The Mysterious Island. The force Nemo is escaping from is also given a much more tangible presence here.
Like in the source material, there is also a ship that comes across Nemo’s submarine and mistakes it for a sea monster. When the ship tries to attack it, Nemo is forced to fight back, resulting in a shipwreck. He manages to save a number of the occupants, including the voracious daughter of an English engineer, Humility (Georgia Flood), and her fiercely protective chaperone (Céline Menville). But unbeknownst to Nemo, Humility has ties with The Company, essentially ensuring they will continue to pursue the submarine to save her and thus complicating his efforts to escape.
‘Nautilus’ Is Driven by Immersive and Gripping Adventure
Now, the political commentary in Nautilus is important and powerful, but it only works because the adventure is engaging and spiritually faithful to Verne’s writing. Like the book, the show is full of rich imagery, bringing Verne’s vivid descriptions to life with a bright color palette, detailed sets, and thoughtful costumes. It’s as striking as it is immersive, drawing you in immediately and making the prospect of an adventure in this world inviting. But this isn’t merely a setup for the treacherous voyage ahead; Nautilus maintains this level of vitality throughout its 10 episodes, making every narrative beat as visually stimulating as the last.
What’s more exciting is that the inevitable sea monsters are treated with the same care and detail. And what’s an underwater adventure series without a cool sea monster? From giant squids to electric eels, they are all terrifying while peering from the circular window in the submarine, even more so when the characters are in the water with only a helmet between them and the creature. These creatures are not just for show, as heart-pounding action sequences follow each perilous appearance of an underwater dweller.
Nautilus keeps us hooked on the voyage by sustaining its stakes and creating a real sense of danger that makes us worry about our favorite characters. That danger isn’t only reserved for the fights against fantastical creatures, but also comes from the humans themselves, whether that be those on the crew or those chasing them down on behalf of The Company. With potential threats constantly emerging from the fogginess of the deep blue, its plunging pace delivers the novelty and anticipation that make adventure stories so enticing.
Captain Nemo and Humility’s Relationship Heightens the Stakes in ‘Nautilus’
The sense of adventure in Nautilus is also created by the performances, which heighten the stakes and keep us invested in this twisty voyage. Nemo is naturally at the center of this, putting much of the pressure on Latif’s shoulders as he takes on one of Verne’s most famous characters. The series also restores Nemo’s Indian identity, a part of his history made explicit by Verne in The Mysterious Island but omitted from several previous screen adaptations. Luckily, Latif strikes a compelling balance between enigma and vulnerability in his performance as Nemo, ensuring he remains the mercurial, mysterious captain of this futuristic submarine while peeling back enough layers to hook us into the character even more.
As such, the political strife is practically the perfect backdrop to this story. It informs Nemo’s motivations and yearning for freedom while grounding the fantastical adventure in a real point of history: British colonial rule over India. Next to Nemo, Humility’s motivations onboard are also tied to the political climate. Where Nemo is driven by escape, Humility is bound by duty to her father and country. Flood’s performance reflects this conflict, as the plucky, resourceful noblewoman who is handy with a wrench finds herself torn between her obligation to return home and her evolving relationship with Nemo and his crew.
Latif and Flood’s on-screen chemistry is light-hearted, fun, and warm, making us root for them as their unlikely bond evolves during the hilarious antics on board the submarine. But more importantly, it fleshes out the stakes of the adventure, heightening the sense of real, palpable danger as we encounter new and unfamiliar perils. After all, we certainly cannot have an adventure series without genuinely fearing for our characters’ lives. Nautilus definitely has a powerful anti-colonial message running through it, but it isn’t driven by politics; it is propelled forward by the excitement and novelty of venturing into the unknown, making it a thrilling sci-fi adaptation of Verne’s famous book.
Nautilus
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2024 – 2023
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Prime Video
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Michael Matthews, Ben C. Lucas, Isabelle Sieb
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Matthew Parkhill, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, James Dormer, Melissa Bubnic, Sonya Desai
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Richard E. Grant
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Audiences are already floating theories about M. Night Shyamalan‘s new movie, Remain, which will be released theatrically next year. It’s Shyamalan’s first new film since 2024’s Trap, marking his longest gap between movies in more than four decades. Warner Bros. unveiled the mysterious first trailer for Remain this week, prompting comparisons to Shyamalan’s masterpiece, The Sixth Sense. Released in 1999, The Sixth Sense immediately catapulted the filmmaker to the A-list and earned him comparisons to Steven Spielberg. While the jury’s out on whether he has lived up to the promise he showed early in his career, Shyamalan has certainly created a unique identity for himself, so much so that every time someone mentions twist endings, one of his movies likely comes up. That said, three years before The Sixth Sense, another movie delivered a twist so memorable that it earned its breakout star an Oscar nomination. The movie in question is currently streaming for free in the United States.
It was released in 1996 and directed by Gregory Hoblit. The thriller follows a criminal defense lawyer who agrees to represent an altar boy accused of murdering a priest. Richard Gere starred as the lawyer, while Edward Norton played the altar boy in a star-making supporting performance. It was Norton’s feature film debut, and he won a Golden Globe for his work in addition to scoring nominations at the Oscars and the BAFTAs. The film also featured Laura Linney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Andre Braugher.
Here’s Where You Can Watch the Thriller for Free
By now you’ve probably guessed that we’re talking about Primal Fear. Those who’ve seen the movie know that it ends with an unforgettable twist, and those who haven’t seen it are in for a fun ride. Primal Fear was part of a particularly strong wave of psychological thrillers made in the 1990s, along with Se7en, Copycat, The Bone Collector, and The Silence of the Lambs. It’s a style of filmmaking that the recent Netflix title The Whisper Man paid homage to. Primal Fear grossed more than $100 million at the box office against a reported budget of $30 million, and it now holds a “Certified Fresh” 77% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Primal Fear is a straightforward yet entertaining thriller elevated by a crackerjack performance from Edward Norton.” The movie is currently streaming for free on Pluto TV. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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March 6, 1996
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129 minutes
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Gregory Hoblit
Supriya Ganesh just revealed whether she plans to watch The Pitt after her surprise exit from the show.
“I mean, fan for life,” Ganesh, 28, told E! News on Thursday, September 10. “They also gave me such a start to my career. I will watch it to the extent that I watched season 1 and season 2.”
She added: “I might watch it more. I get self-conscious about my work so now I don’t have the barrier of watching myself.”
Ganesh also reflected on the lessons she learned from working with Noah Wyle, saying, “He was really great about talking about his experience and what it was like being on ER and I feel like I learned a lot about that through him.”
News broke in April that Ganesh would be written out of the show after season 2. The decision received backlash from fans who were still upset about Tracy Ifeachor‘s exit after season 1. Both departures were referred to as a creative choice.
“It’s sort of the nature of the show. Unfortunately, the way the medical profession works, you come in, you learn, you move on, and we want to try and be as truthful to that process as possible,” creator R. Scott Gemmill explained to Us at the time. “So we’re going to turn over our cast. But I think it’s a great launching pad for people, and that’s the best we can do.”
In a separate interview, Gemmill addressed the criticism surrounding multiple women of color leaving The Pitt.
Shabana Azeez, Supriya Ganesh, and Noah Wyle. Warrick Page/HBO Max
“It eliminates the false jeopardy some shows have,” he told Vulture. “[Mohan] is somebody who doesn’t have a job lined up and might not know where she’s going next, and we’re trying to build up the uncertainty that these young physicians face.”
The interviewer pointed out to Gemmill that the show’s two major departures have both been women of color. In response, Gemmill called it “just a by-product of having a diverse cast,” adding, “We have a lot of women, and a lot of women of color. It’s just a coincidence more than anything else.”
Wyle, 55, also defended the casting shakeup.
“Emergency rooms have a high revolving door,” Wyle told Variety at PaleyFest’s screening of The Pitt earlier this month. “As always, we try to bring in new characters or promote from within as we go through these cast changes and try to keep the story lines fresh.”
Wyle didn’t rule out more departures before the show starts filming season 3, adding, “It’s an inevitability that’s going to happen every season with this show, because as writers we’re hard-pressed to figure out what a lapse of time we can have and keep most of the ensemble together realistically.”
He concluded: “Obviously Supriya has been a huge part of our show since the beginning. Dr. Mohan is a beloved character, and I love playing with her and working with Supriya, and we wish her all the best in her next endeavors, and we’re going to miss her.”
The Pitt is currently streaming on HBO Max.
In early summer 2026, the horror headlines were dominated by Focus Features’ Obsession. Former YouTuber Curry Barker made his filmmaking debut with this breakout masterpiece, as scary as it is poignant. Key to the film’s success was a viral lead performance by Inde Navarrette, which is already an early favorite to earn Oscars gold in 2027, alongside other major category pushes for Obsession.
Not only has Obsession been labeled one of the finest debuts of this decade, but it has also smashed many box office records. This includes becoming the highest-grossing original horror movie of this century and the only genre film in history to stay in the box office top ten for over 40 days in a row, with Obsession turning a sub-$1 million budget into more than $500 million worldwide. But Obsession wasn’t the only horror hit breaking box office records in May 2026.
Released alongside Barker’s breakout was Backrooms, which itself broke an impressive box office record as 20-year-old Kane Parsons became the youngest director ever to claim the #1 spot on the North American box office charts. Like Barker, Parsons was also making the move from YouTube to filmmaking with his directorial debut, which saw him adapt the viral online creepypasta into a mind-boggling feature-length success. Against a reported production budget of just $10 million, Backrooms earned an impressive $393 million in global revenue, but its success isn’t limited to a strong theatrical run. Four months later, Parsons’ horror smash is still proving popular, officially ranking as the most-watched movie on Amazon in the U.S., even outperforming the second-placed Obsession.
What Did Critics Say About ‘Backrooms’?
Although it didn’t earn quite the unfiltered praise of Obsession, Backrooms was still the recipient of widespread acclaim upon arrival. The film drew comparisons to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch in Aidan Kelley‘s review for Collider, in which he called it a “near-flawless film that demands to be seen.” Backrooms scored highly on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, earning a “certified fresh” score of 87%, just 6% short of Obsession. Backrooms is led by Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and features a script by Will Soodik, who had previously penned the Homeland episode “Tower of David.”
The Backrooms are ready to be explored on streaming now. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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May 27, 2026
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110 minutes
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Kane Parsons
Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, are ready to let go of their Malibu mansion after almost three decades of calling it home.
Speaking to U.K. publication The Times on Friday, September 11, the actor, 73, explained why it might be time for the couple to move on from their $100 million home.
“We’ve been spared by the fires a few times now. But I think it’s time to move. Everything changes, everything falls apart,” he told the outlet. “We live by this body of earth’s water on a fault in a ring of earthquakes. That creates a fear.”
The MobLand star continued, “I think the two of us are somewhat reclusive. It’s a long way into town. We have a small circle of friends here [but] people get divorced, they die, they move on. And we’re still here.”
Pierce Brosnan‘s life led him to a lasting marriage with Keely Shaye Smith. Brosnan was previously married to Cassandra Harris from 1980 until her death in 1991. Brosnan and Harris welcomed son Sean (born in September 1983), and he adopted Harris’ daughter Charlotte and son Chris, whom she shared with her late ex. Harris died […]
In January 2025, the Palisades Fire burned more than 23,000 acres across L.A. and its surrounding suburbs, including Brosnan’s neighborhood. According to CalFire, more than 6,500 structures were destroyed, 975 were damaged and at least 27 people lost their lives.
Many celebrities, such as Billy Crystal, Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Tyra Banks and more, were among those who were affected by the severe weather disaster.
Although Brosnan and Smith’s home was “spared” during this event, they went through an ordeal a decade prior.
In February 2015, Us confirmed that their Malibu home sustained approximately $1 million in damage after a fire spread from his garage to one of the rooms in his home. According to the L.A. County Fire Department at the time, it took nearly 40 minutes for 50 firefighters to respond, contain, and extinguish the blaze.
Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Brosnan and Smith’s marriage has continued to burn bright since they tied the knot in 2001.
Brosnan met Smith in 1994, three years after his first wife, Cassandra Harris, died of ovarian cancer. Prior to Harris’ death, she and Brosnan welcomed son Sean in 1983. (Brosnan also adopted Harris’ daughter, Charlotte, and son, Chris, whom she shared with her late ex.)
The James Bond star opened up about the secret to the longevity of his marriage to Smith during an interview with Fox News in December 2023.
“We like each other a lot. We love each other a lot,” he told the outlet at the time. “And we’ve been down the road, and we’ve seen many, many hardships as families do, as we all do.”
He added, “But watching someone grow up with you and grow old with you is a very spiritual journey. To watch each other change … whatever it may be, the hair [or] the waist … it’s [about] the love in the heart.”
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