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8 Movie Trilogies That Are Perfectly Structured
There are trilogies where all three movies are good. There are trilogies where one movie is a masterpiece and the other two survive on reflected light. And then there are the rare ones where you can feel structure itself becoming part of the pleasure. Not just plot. Not just quality. Structure. The first film opens the wound, the second complicates it without cheating, the third lands the emotional and thematic bill in a way that makes the whole thing feel preordained. That is a special high. You finish those trilogies and feel the eerie satisfaction of watching three separate films lock into one completed shape.
And that shape matters to fans more than people admit. We do not just love trilogies for iconography or quotable scenes or box-office myth. We love them when they build correctly. When escalation is real. When character movement is cumulative. When the middle chapter deepens instead of stalling. When the ending does not merely go bigger but goes truer. These eight all understand that, just in wildly different ways.
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‘Fear Street Trilogy’ (2021)
I will always respect how brazenly Fear Street understood its own assignment. It did not waste time pretending it was above pulp. It knew it was serving slasher blood, teen panic, cursed-town mythology, and chain-reaction storytelling, and then it built the structure with real care. The first film is pure ignition. Shadyside already feels doomed, the killers are already part of local nightmare folklore, and the movie moves with the confidence of something that knows the audience wants immediate threat. But it also plants just enough unresolved poison, the witch story, the town divide, the buried history, the “this is bigger than one massacre” feeling, to make the trilogy engine kick in early.
Then the real structural pleasure starts. Part Two folds backward. It turns campfire legend into embodied memory and suddenly gives the mythology blood and adolescent tragedy instead of just slasher fun. And then Part Three pulls the smartest move of all: it goes back far enough to reveal the original sin, then slams back into the present to settle the debt. That is satisfying trilogy design. Each entry changes the function of the one before it. The first gives you the curse. The second gives you the emotional folklore. The third gives you the mechanism and the release. It is tight, nasty, and way more elegantly built than people gave it credit for.
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‘Three Colours Trilogy’ (1993–1994)
This is one of those trilogies that feels like it should be impossible to rank alongside blockbuster architecture, and yet its structure is so beautiful it absolutely belongs here. The miracle is that the films are not sequels in the usual sense. They do not operate through cliffhangers or direct continuation. They operate through moral echo. Blue, White, and Red are separate emotional climates, separate wounds, separate ways of moving through modern life, and still they keep touching each other through theme, coincidence, and the quiet suggestion that human beings are living beside one another inside invisible design.
The reason it feels perfectly structured is that the trilogy keeps widening without bloating. Blue is grief turned inward until freedom starts resembling emotional self-erasure. White flips the temperature completely and gives you humiliation, revenge, and bitter comic reinvention. Then Red somehow makes the whole thing feel spiritually linked, not through lecture, but through mood and encounter and that final astonishing sense of lives crossing inside a larger pattern. It is elegant in a way that almost makes you angry. No wasted expansion. No false crescendo. Just three films deepening the same human questions from different emotional angles until the final cumulative effect sneaks up on you and feels enormous.
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‘Before Trilogy’ (1995–2013)
Most trilogies rely on escalation. Bigger stakes. Bigger enemies. Bigger wounds. The Before trilogy does something much riskier. It relies on time itself. Real time. Time as erosion, seduction, pressure, memory, regret, comfort, repetition, intimacy, irritation, and accumulated tenderness. That is such a dangerous way to structure a trilogy, because if the characters do not stay alive to you, or if the writing ever blinks, the whole thing dies immediately. But this trilogy never dies.
The first film, Before Sunrise, gives you possibility in its purest form, the all-night emotional intoxication of meeting someone who seems to rearrange the air around you. The second film, Before Sunset does not go bigger, not louder, just sadder and sharper, because it understands that unfinished connection often gets more powerful in memory than completed love ever could. Then the third film, Before Midnight, does the bravest structural thing imaginable: it refuses to preserve Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in longing amber. It puts them inside the ordinary wars of long love. Resentment, repetition, old sacrifices, sexual frustration, the weaponizing of intimacy, the terror that the person who knows you best also knows exactly where to wound you. That is perfect structure to me. Youthful spark. Midlife ache. Mature collision. Nothing romanticized, nothing betrayed. Heads up: it’s a story of two people walking, and talking, for three films straight, and it’s still brilliant.
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‘Back to the Future Trilogy’ (1985–1990)
Back to the Future trilogy is so joyous people sometimes forget how freakishly well-engineered it is. The first movie already feels like a miracle box, every setup paying off, every character trait boomeranging back into plot, every comic beat tightening the causal spring. Then the trilogy makes the insane decision to keep playing with time travel’s structural possibilities instead of shrinking away from them. That was the correct call. The films keep folding family history back onto itself, turning ancestry into character architecture and consequences into play.
What I adore structurally is how each installment changes the relationship between Marty (Michael J. Fox) and the idea of inheritance. In the first, he is trying to preserve his own existence and accidentally discovering his parents as real people. In the second, the trilogy gets nastier and more intricate, showing how one timeline corruption can infect an entire family’s destiny and force Marty to confront the parts of himself, especially pride, that will someday calcify into adult weakness. Then the third gives Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) the emotional center and lets the whole saga exhale into a western-romantic finale that still lands as true closure rather than bonus content. It is one of the few trilogies where fun and precision are inseparable. That is why it holds like steel.
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‘The Dark Knight Trilogy’ (2005–2012)
What gives this trilogy its structural strength is that it is not really built as a simple rise-middle-fall superhero arc. It is built as a long argument whether any human can become a superhero or not. Spider-man requires a supernatural spider’s bite. Tony Stark requires Elon Musk-like neuro-cardiac inventions in addition to money. Batman just requires pain that every human goes through, a relentless mind, and a spirit to make a whole lot of money. And anybody can be Batman. The Dark Knight trilogy is about whether Bruce Wayne can ever create a form of justice that does not destroy the man required to sustain it. That is a much richer spine. Batman Begins is origin, yes, but more importantly it is philosophical foundation. Fear, theatricality, corruption, class rot, the usefulness and danger of symbol-making. It is asking what Batman is for before it asks how cool Batman looks.
Then The Dark Knight detonates that foundation by introducing the one force designed to expose the limits of Batman’s whole operating logic. The Joker (Heath Ledger) threatens Gotham and dismantles everything that the city built. He attacks structure itself, legal, moral, psychological, narrative. That is why the second film works as such a brutal middle chapter. It destabilizes the trilogy’s worldview and grounds it in realism. And then The Dark Knight Rises does something people underrate structurally: it makes the third film about physical, political, and spiritual exhaustion. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is older, Gotham is complacent, the symbol has been compromised by its own history, and the ending only works because the first two films built his character so structurally. If the first two films weren’t exactly how they were, and how they forged Bruce, Bruce wouldn’t be able to escape that dark prison. There’s not a better Batman series.
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‘Planet of the Apes Reboot Trilogy’ (2011–2017)
This is one of the most satisfying modern trilogies structurally since every film changes scale without losing the same emotional center. A lot of trilogies start intimate and then get bigger at the cost of what made the first one hurt. This one does the opposite. It keeps expanding the world while making Caesar (Andy Serkis) more and more tragically legible. Rise is the most personal of the three, a story about intelligence, captivity, tenderness, and awakening through a single ape’s bond with a human family and his eventual recognition that love does not cancel domination. It is a prison-break origin story with a soul.
Then Dawn pulls the smartest possible middle-chapter move: it does not rush to apocalyptic emptiness. It places fragile civilization against fragile civilization. Human survivors. Ape society. Trust trying to exist under historical and biological suspicion. Koba (Toby Kebbell) poisoning coexistence from one side, human fear poisoning it from the other. That is perfect middle-film architecture. The bridge between possibility and catastrophe. Then War narrows again in a fascinating way. It sounds like the biggest title, but emotionally it becomes the grimmest and most sacrificial. Caesar turns from revolutionary father into a haunted Moses figure dragging his people toward a future he will not truly inhabit. That is structured with tragic intelligence. Birth. Fracture. Exodus.
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‘Star Wars Original Trilogy’ (1977–1983)
There is something almost annoyingly clean about the structure of the original Star Wars trilogy. It has been absorbed so completely into culture that people forget how elegantly it moves. The first film is not only a hit. It is one of the greatest myth-delivery ever pulled off in popular cinema. It takes farm-boy yearning, fascist machinery, rogue charisma, spiritual mystery, princess-fire, old-war melancholy, and turns them into a complete heroic ignition. It ends with victory, yes, though the world still feels open enough that the story can darken.
And darken it does. The Empire Strikes Back is still maybe the best second chapter anyone ever built for a blockbuster saga. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)’s training becomes spiritually destabilizing rather than triumphantly empowering. Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher)’s romance gets sharpened under pressure and real risk. The Rebellion starts looking fragile. Vader stops being a great villain and becomes something worse, a family wound at galactic scale. Then Return of the Jedi lands the most difficult thing: emotional closure without amputating myth. The throne room confrontation is the key. The trilogy has been moving toward external victory, sure, but its real climax is filial and spiritual, whether Luke becomes his father, rejects his father, or reaches something human still buried inside him. That is why the structure feels immortal. Adventure opens it. Revelation deepens it. Redemption completes it.
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‘The Lord of the Rings Trilogy’ (2001–2003)
This is number one since it is not just perfectly structured in the technical sense. It is perfectly structured in the emotional sense, which is much rarer. A lot of trilogies can map escalation. Very few understand how to distribute hope, dread, separation, temptation, warfare, grief, and closure over three films without exhausting the audience or cheating the characters. The Fellowship of the Ring does the essential first-film miracle: it makes the world feel boundless and the quest feel intimate at the same time. The fellowship forms not as a franchise checklist but as a fragile answer to encroaching darkness. By the time it breaks, the trilogy has already taught you the emotional cost of fracture.
Then The Two Towers does exactly what a middle chapter of this story must do: it splinters the narrative, deepens the war, and lets every character arc darken differently. Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) get spiritually cornered. Merry Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin Took (Billy Boyd) wander into the politics of the forest. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) stops being merely the hidden king and starts becoming the man who might be able to carry inherited greatness without being swallowed by it. Then The Return of the King arrives and somehow pays all of it off. Not by just getting bigger, though it absolutely gets bigger, but by staying faithful to every emotional bill the trilogy has been quietly running up. Sam’s devotion. Frodo’s depletion. Théoden (Bernard Hill)’s doomed nobility. Éowyn (Miranda Otto)’s hunger to matter. Aragorn’s acceptance. Gollum (Andy Serkis) as fate and ruin fused together. And then the ending keeps going, wisely. The trilogy even acknowledges that victory is not the same thing as restoration. Evil can be defeated and the wound can remain. That is why it is number one. Perfect structure is not just building to climax. It is knowing exactly how long the heart needs after the climax to understand what was lost and what was saved.
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After days of deliberation, Lil Durk’s high-profile legal case has reached its long-awaited conclusion. The jury has now reached a verdict in the rapper’s murder-for-hire trial. And, Lil Durk has learned his fate.
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Lil Durk Learns His Fate
On Friday afternoon, jurors reached a verdict in the murder-for-hire trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in connection with a deadly shooting near a Los Angeles shopping center. Lil Durk has been found NOT GUILTY on all counts.
Additionally, prosecutors charged Durk and two others with allegedly stalking and killing a man in an ambush near the Beverly Center four years ago. Prosecutors accused Durk of setting in motion a plan to kill Tyquian Bowman, a rival Atlanta rapper known as Quando Rondo. The federal jury began deliberating on Wednesday after both sides delivered their closing arguments. Jurors then spent several days weighing the evidence presented throughout the trial.
The Charges At The Center Of Lil Durk’s Trial
Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, faces five primary federal counts stemming from an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting rapper Quando Rondo in August 2022. The charges included conspiracy to commit a violent crime, stalking Rondo using a dangerous weapon, stalking Saviay’a Robinson, also known as Lul Pab, resulting in his death, using interstate facilities to commit murder-for-hire resulting in death, and using, carrying, and discharging firearms and a machine gun in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death.
His Courtroom Demeanor Sparked Attention Amid Deliberations
Furthermore, just one day before the reported verdict, Lil Durk’s courtroom behavior had some people wondering what was going on as the jury continued deliberating. According to journalist Michael Blackshire, who appears to be attending the trial, the rapper walked into court smiling on Thursday and exchanged warm interactions with members of his legal team and others in the courtroom.
His attorney, Drew Findling, reportedly patted him on the back and complimentedhis tie. Durk also hugged Brian Steel and Christy O’Connor and shook hands with attorneys representing OTF Dede and David Lindsey before taking his seat. Shortly afterward, Durk reportedly spotted his mother in the audience and smiled at her. She smiled back, creating a brief but seemingly meaningful moment between mother and son as Durk awaited the jury’s decision.
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A high school teacher in Louisiana was arrested after he allegedly showed nude photos of himself to a student.
The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into the matter on August 25 after they received reports of alleged inappropriate communication that took place between teacher Demetric A. Preston and an underage student, according to WDAM.
Authorities said the student told school officials that Preston, 28, showed the images during the first week of school.
Detectives seized Preston’s cell phone and gathered statements amid the investigation. Authorities were then able to determine that there was sufficient evidence to arrest him.
A 29-year-old Louisiana biology teacher is facing serious criminal allegations after allegedly sexually abusing one of her students. Teddi Page, who is no longer working at Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls Catholic school in New Orleans, turned herself into police on Thursday, February 5. She was subsequently charged with a single count of […]
He was later booked into the Caddo Correctional Center and was charged with indecent behavior with juveniles.
It’s not currently clear if Preston has entered a plea or retained legal counsel following his arrest. The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Us’ request for comment regarding the case.
Preston was placed on administrative leave and was removed from the classroom when the investigation first began. The investigation into the allegations against him remains ongoing. It’s not currently clear if police believe Preston shared inappropriate photos with any other underage students.
Following his arrest, the Caddo Parish Public Schools district issued a statement about the situation.
“We understand that incidents like these are deeply concerning for our families and community. Caddo Schools takes our responsibility seriously to provide a safe environment for every student, and any allegation of inappropriate conduct requires immediate attention,” the statement began.
A teacher in Pinellas Park, Florida, has been arrested after he allegedly exchanged sexually explicit text messages with some of his students, even calling one minor “mommy” in a disturbing exchange. Detectives with the Pinellas Park Police Department began an investigation in December 2025 after they received reports that teacher Brett Caskey had inappropriate conduct […]
The school district went on to say that “every employee must complete a rigorous criminal background check and meet all applicable state employment and compliance requirements before being hired.”
“Our safeguards do not stop there. We maintain clear standards of employee conduct, reporting requirements, and procedures to respond quickly when concerns are raised,” the statement continued. “When allegations surface, we act, cooperate fully with law enforcement, and take appropriate personnel action.”
The school district said that the allegations made against Preston “do not reflect the expectations we have for the thousands of dedicated professionals serving Caddo students each day.”
“We will continue reviewing our practices, strengthening safeguards where needed, and doing everything within our authority to protect the students entrusted to our care,” the district concluded.
Parents, teachers, and guardians interested in learning more about protecting children from exploitation can find useful tools and information at Know2Protect.
“The Matrix” director Lilly Wachowski issued blunt comments about J.K. Rowling in a new interview, accusing the “Harry Potter” writer of funding transgender genocide. Now, the prolific author has responded via a statement from a representative, highlighting the right to free speech.
Following Wachowski accusing Rowling of “funding trans genocide” and lumping her in with Nazis, her agent, Neil Blair, issued a response to the filmmaker via Entertainment Weekly. Blair began, “Freedom of speech is a principle we should all cherish.”
The statement continued, “What matters is that J.K. Rowling’s views, as with anyone else’s, are represented accurately, fairly and respectfully and that individual opinion does not detract from those views.”
In addressing the “Matrix” director directly, the agent noted, “To correct Lilly Wachowski, through The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, J.K Rowling supports women taking legal action in the UK to preserve their existing rights under the Equality Act 2010, which are often overlooked or threatened.”
The statement debunked the “trans genocide” claim by highlighting, “She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people or efforts to limit trans rights.”
Rowling’s agent then defended the “Harry Potter” author, saying, “People are free to disagree with her views, but seriously defamatory allegations of this nature, even outrageously invoking the Nazi’s and the genocide that they committed, should never be presented as fact when they are clearly fabricated and not based on any evidence.”
Lilly Wachowski Initially Called Out Both J.K. Rowling And Elon Musk
Wachowski is currently promoting her upcoming political thriller “The Hunted.” She recently spoke to Variety, with the reporter mentioning not only Rowling but also Elon Musk, noting “cultural damage” to the trans community from both figures.
Regarding her thoughts on them, Wachowski said, “I mean… these people are Nazis. They’re literal Nazis. There is a one-to-one connection between Elon Musk and the Nazi community.” After that, the reporter mentioned the upcoming “Harry Potter” HBO series and the various opinions surrounding it because of Rowling’s views on trans people.
Wachowski stated, “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support “Harry Potter,” you’re supporting trans genocide.”
The filmmaker continued, “The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling, and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world.”
After that, she expounded, saying, “In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don’t buy Tesla; and if you’re against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It’s simple math.”
She added, “So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.”
J.K. Rowling Has Been Vocal About Her Thoughts On Trans People Since 2018
Rowling first drew backlash in 2018 when, according to The Week, she liked a post on social media where transgender women were referred to as “men in dresses.” After that, in 2019, she publicly supported Maya Forstater, a researcher who lost her position over anti trans comments.
Since then, the author has been vocal about her beliefs on social media and in interviews. In 2023, she spoke out on her “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” podcast, revealing that she wasn’t surprised by the backlash she’d received up until that point for her beliefs.
She said, “I could see that they believed they were living the values that I had espoused in those books. I could tell that they believed they were fighting for underdogs and difference and fairness.”
Rowling then discussed feeling concerned for her safety. She then said, “Time will tell whether I’ve got this wrong. I can only say that I’ve thought about it deeply and hard and long, and I’ve listened, I promise, to the other side. And I believe absolutely that there is something dangerous about this movement, and it must be challenged.”
The Author Said She’s Embodying The Principles Of ‘Harry Potter’
Rowling continued her podcast comments by saying that she’d been caught off guard by being called out by left-leaning fans instead of more conservative people, saying, “I would assume we share certain values,” and that the criticism “hit differently” than if it had come from republicans.
After that, Rowling responded to claims that she had “betrayed [her] own books.” She said, “My position is that I am absolutely upholding the positions that I took in ‘Potter.’ My position is that this activist movement, in the form that it’s currently taking, echoes the very thing that I was warning against in ‘Harry Potter.’”
She Has A New Book Coming Out
Rowling’s literary career remains active as she has a new book coming out under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, “Sleep Tight, Evangeline.” Per the offical website, Rowling announced the novel in February 2026 but has yet to reveal the release date.
Notably, the upcoming book will be her 9th in the popular Cormoran Strike detective series.
If Shanna Moakler could turn back time, she may have said no to participating in ex-husband Travis Barker’s documentary.
“I regret a lot. I wish I didn’t do it,” Moakler, 51, shared on the Thursday, September 10, episode of iHeartRadio’s “I Do, Part 2” podcast. “I don’t know how he got me to go and do this documentary. I think it was before he was with his wife [Kourtney Kardashian]. I’m pretty sure. And I just wish I hadn’t done it because I knew in my heart I wasn’t going to be portrayed the way that I felt I deserved.”
Although Moakler hasn’t watched Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, which premiered on Hulu in August, the bits and pieces that people have shared with her are more than enough for her to come to a conclusion.
“I just was like, ‘Yeah, that’s kind of what I thought was going to happen,’” she told podcast host Jana Kramer. “I’m a little disappointed with myself for participating.”
Barker, 50, and Moakler were married from 2004 to 2008 and share son Landon, 22, and daughter Alabama, 20.
Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler Charley Gallay/Getty Images
Moakler is expected to share more about her past relationships in her upcoming memoir, Blink of an Eye. She hopes to provide a narrative that may be different from what some fans developed all the way back in 2005 when she appeared on Meet the Barkers.
“It’s not just about Travis. Travis has a couple chapters, but it’s not just about chapters,” she said. “I want this book to be one that inspires women to learn about trauma, trauma bonding, how to get over living through embarrassing things in the public eye, but more than anything, kind of finding that journey back to yourself. It’s more about inspiring women.”
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During her candid interview with Kramer, 42, Moakler was also asked about being friends with your exes and their new significant others.
Shanna Moakler is getting honest about where she stands with ex-husband Travis Barker. “We don’t speak anymore,” Moakler, 49, told People in a new profile published Monday, June 24. “I don’t have a relationship with Travis, but I think that’s OK. I don’t feel like it’ll be like that forever, but I feel like right […]
“Sadly the opportunity, I guess, with my exes and their particular new partners just didn’t end well with me with those people,” she said. “And so it’s just never been an option, and it’s nothing I’ve ever wanted to do.”
At the same time, she is grateful for one rule she and Barker created after their split.
“The one thing my ex and I agree on — it’s the only thing my ex and I agree on because we don’t agree on anything else — was our children. That was putting our children first,” Moakler shared. “You really need to sit down with yourself and say, ‘My priority is giving my children the healthiest and best future possible.’ At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, your child deserves to know their father. Your child deserves to know their mother. Whether you respect them or not, it’s their parent. You have to allow your children to know their other parent.”
Stephen King has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on the latest movies and television shows, especially when an adaptation of his work is involved. His recommendations have helped draw attention to everything from major studio releases to smaller projects that might otherwise escape notice. However, the legendary author admits that he rarely goes out of his way to promote original horror movies.
One upcoming release has convinced him to make an exception. King recently praised The Cycle, an independent horror movie starring Daredevil: Born Again actor Deborah Ann Woll, in an unusually enthusiastic social media post. “I don’t usually pump up horror movies (unless they are mine, haha), but this is special,” King wrote before telling his followers to put it on their calendars. That endorsement gives The Cycle a significant boost ahead of its exclusive Shudder debut on October 23. King did not explain precisely what impressed him about the movie, leaving horror fans to discover its appeal for themselves. Still, describing another creator’s original horror story as “special” is substantial praise from the mind behind The Shining, It, and Carrie.
What Is Stephen King’s New Horror Recommendation About?
The Cycle follows Meg, played by Woll, after her father’s body is discovered at a horrific crime scene 36 years after he disappeared. The discovery forces her to investigate his past and confront disturbing questions about what happened to him. Its trailer suggests that his return may have a supernatural explanation, although it also leaves open the possibility that Meg cannot trust her own perception.
Jordan Downey directed the movie after previously contributing a segment to the horror anthology V/H/S/Beyond. He co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Stewart, while Jeffrey Donovan, Gretchen Corbett, Will Hochman, Dana Millican, Phillip Andrew Botello, and Jack Doolan round out the cast. Its mixture of buried family secrets, psychological uncertainty, and potentially reanimated corpses makes King’s interest easy to understand. Downey described The Cycle as a love letter to King and said the author helped shape his entire upbringing as a movie fan. That connection made King’s public approval especially meaningful for the filmmaker, who called the moment almost impossible to comprehend.
The Cycle releases October 23 on Shudder.
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Andrew Garfield found himself at the center of an unexpected Hollywood travel story after a flight carrying him and several other familiar faces was forced to make an emergency landing.
What started as a stressful delay took a surprising turn when the stranded celebrities ended up spending time together in Albuquerque, turning the travel mishap into an unlikely Hollywood hangout.
Andrew Garfield rose to fame as Peter Parker in “The Amazing Spider-Man” before taking on acclaimed roles in “Hacksaw Ridge,” “Tick, Tick… Boom!” and “Under the Banner of Heaven.” The British-American actor has moved comfortably between major Hollywood productions and critically praised performances.
What began as an unexpected flight disruption quickly became a bizarre celebrity meet-up, with Andrew Garfield suddenly stranded in Albuquerque alongside a group of fellow stars.
The passenger list alone made the detour feel like one of those Hollywood coincidences you could not script. “Jurassic World” actor Nick Robinson, “Love Island USA” contestant Dylan Wrona, “Adults” star Owen Thiele and singer Mark Ambor were all suddenly in the same boat, or more accurately, the same grounded airport.
And instead of spending hours sitting around waiting for another flight, the group apparently decided to make a night of it. What followed included drinks, a trip into town, a Dave & Buster’s outing, and the kind of random bonding that can only happen when a completely ordinary travel day goes spectacularly off schedule.
A ‘Smoky Odor’ Mishap Turned Into A Celebrity Night Out
The chaos started when the Delta flight from Los Angeles to New York was diverted to Albuquerque after a “smoky odor” was detected in the aircraft. Delta later confirmed the plane landed safely and said passengers were being moved onto other flights to continue their journeys.
With hours suddenly added to their travel day, the celebrity passengers began documenting the strange situation. According to The Daily Mail, Dylan Wrona, 24, shared an airport selfie with Garfield, 43, captioning it, “Our plane is here to save us.”
Thiele began documenting the increasingly random turn the trip was taking, even showing himself heading into town with people he had never met before the flight.
By the time they were waiting to leave Albuquerque, the accidental group had seemingly gone from strangers to something resembling a temporary friend circle.
Thiele later told his followers they were all in a group chat, proving the strangest part of the whole ordeal may not have been the emergency landing, but how quickly a plane full of strangers turned into an unexpected Hollywood social club.
Andrew Garfield Has A Thing For Fun Plane Experiences
Garfield once shared a bizarre story about a plane ride that became much more sociable after he microdosed on a hallucinogenic substance. In the YouTube Short, he explained that the experience helped ease his usual shyness, leaving him feeling more comfortable striking up a conversation with the passenger sitting beside him.
That conversation quickly turned into a game of Bananagrams, with Garfield asking the woman next to him to join him. The simple game became the kind of unexpected travel interaction that might have ended there, but Garfield later joked that she was the “mother and wife” of his children.
Garfield clarified that the comment was only a joke and said they simply had a wonderful time playing together. The funny part, according to his story, was that the woman did not realize he was under the influence of hallucinogens at the time, making the whole encounter an especially unusual airplane memory.
The Internet Still Can’t Get Enough Of The Actor
Long before the latest travel mishap, the actor had already become a familiar face in some of the internet’s most unexpected moments, from thirsty fan posts to playful celebrity interviews.
The Blast highlighted his encounter with a fan at Glastonbury 2025 whose outrageous tweet about him had previously left him speechless. Seeing the woman in the audience years later turned an old internet post into a hilariously awkward real-life moment.
Rather than shy away from the awkward encounter, Garfield leaned into it with his trademark humor, admitting he could barely look at her while joking about the outrageous tweet.
From viral fan interactions to his flirty “Chicken Shop Date” appearance and candid interviews, the actor has somehow turned his willingness to laugh at himself into a major part of his online appeal.
Andrew Garfield Has Never Been Afraid To Take On Very Different Roles
Garfield has built a career by moving between wildly different kinds of characters, from blockbuster superheroes to deeply dramatic real-life figures. His range has helped keep him in the spotlight well beyond his years as Peter Parker.
The actor earned an Academy Award nomination for “Hacksaw Ridge” and another for “Tick, Tick… Boom!”, while his stage work brought another major milestone when he won a Tony Award for “Angels in America.” His filmography has since stretched across romance, crime, musical drama and fantasy adventure.
With Garfield now juggling another ambitious historical project alongside his growing list of memorable roles, his latest off-screen stories are giving fans just as much to talk about as the characters he plays on screen.
From an emergency landing that turned into an unlikely celebrity hangout to his candid stories, viral fan encounters, and demanding film roles, could Andrew Garfield be having his most unexpectedly entertaining moment yet?
It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since the tragic events that occurred on September 11, 2001.
It’s a moment in time most Americans won’t forget, and the whole world recognizes as an event that changed everything forever.
Watch With Us has curated a list of all the news specials taking place today and over the weekend honoring the solemn anniversary, as well as the many non-fiction and fiction movies, shows, docuseries and documentaries that have been made about the historical tragedy.
From streamers like Netflix and Hulu to news channels like Fox and ABC, there’s no shortage of 9/11 programs to watch right now.
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NBC Nightly News (6:30 pm ET): Tom Llamas hosts special editions of NBC Nightly News and Top Story from Ground Zero
NBC Nightly News Presents: Great Americans: Service and Sacrifice (10:30 pm ET): A special featuring Americans who were inspired to help their country after the attacks
Facing Ground Zero: A Dateline Special (10 pm ET): Hosted by Lester Holt, this one-hour special features never-before-seen footage of the 9/11 attacks. “Dateline‘s new 9/11 documentary profiles New Yorkers whose experiences were captured, moment by moment in real time, by NBC News cameras on September 11, 2001. In powerful new interviews, they reflect on what they saw, what they survived and how the attacks indelibly shaped their lives and the country.”
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ABC
ABC News Live Prime (7:00 pm ET): ABC News Live will stream a one-hour special edition from Ground Zero, hosted by Linsey Davis, Sade Baderinwa and Mike Marza.
9/11: United We Stand: 25 Years Later: Michael Strahan hosts this special looking back on Sept. 11.
9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan (8 pm ET): ABC News anchors Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts and David Muir will host live coverage that culminates with “Tribute in Light,” a public art installation that’s lit up the New York City skyline every 9/11 since the attacks.
Disney+
9/11 Reunited: A three-episode docuseries that features some of the survivors of the 9/11 attack and how it changed their lives forever.
CBS
CBS Evening News (6:30 pm ET): Regular CBS news anchor Tony Dokoupil will host the nightly program from Ground Zero
9/11: We Remember (8 p.m. ET): Dokoupil will also lead a CBS News special from Ground Zero that features three stories: Lesley Stahl looks back at the first 60 Minutes 9/11 story, which focused on Summit, N.J., a small town that lost nine residents in the attacks; Dokoupil interviews a family who escaped the World Trade Center; and O’Donnell interviews General Dan Caine, who had the daunting responsibility of shooting down commercial planes on 9/11 if they were a legitimate threat.
Daughters of 9/11 (9:00-11:00 pm, ET/PT): Elizabeth Miller and Jessica Trant, who lost their fathers on 9/11, team up with FBI Special Agent Frank Pellegrino, who hunted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of masterminding the attacks.
Fox News
The Story (3-4 pm ET): Martha McCallum will report live from the Hyatt House and interview Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the New York Police Department (NYPD) co-chief chaplain, and Jessica Tisch, the NYPD Commissioner.
The Will Cain Show (4-5 pm ET) will feature 9/11 survivors and spotlight how the event impacted their lives then and now.
Paul Mauro’s Notes from Ground Zero: This special “spotlights FNC contributor and former NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro — who was working the morning of 9/11 — as he returns to Ground Zero for the first time in 25 years. Mauro, who scribbled down notes in the days following the attacks, reunites with fellow officers and shares never-before-seen photos and video.”
Born on 9/11: 25 Years with Harris Faulkner: This program explores “the lives of people born on September 11th, 2001, the hope they brought to the country, and where they are now. The platform will also livestream the official ceremonies at the NYC memorial site and the Pentagon on September 11th.”
NewsNation
NewsNation Live (3 pm ET): Connell McShane will host a special three-hour edition of NewsNation Live from the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.
Cuomo (8 pm ET): Chris Cuomo will dedicate his show to 9/11, sharing his personal memories of the event.
9/11 Remembered: 25 Years Later (9 pm ET): This documentary will feature new interviews with President Trump and Rudy Giuliani, who will share their personal reflections on 9/11. The special will also feature archival footage depicting the event happening in real time.
On Balance with Leland Vittert (10 pm ET)
Katie Pavlich Tonight (11 pm ET)
Netflix
Turning Point: Generation 9/11: This recently released documentary, which has a fresh critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, “explores how a single day shaped the next generation. From children who lost their parents in the attacks to journalists who cut their teeth on the original War on Terror to young Afghans and Marines forced to deal with the fallout of America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan – their gripping stories reveal that the legacy of 9/11 is measured not only by history, but by the lives it continues to shape.”
Tribeca 25: Ostensibly celebrating 25 years of the Tribeca Film Festival, Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary explores how storytelling helped rebuild a community in the aftermath of 9/11.
Hulu
9/11: Escape From the Towers
9/11: Four Planes
9/11: I Was There
Paramount+
Daughters of 9/11
Paramount+ “will also showcase a selection of 60 Minutes’ best reporting on the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath over the past 25 years.”
YouTube
World Trade Center: Oliver Stone’s 2006 movie dramatizes the event by telling the story of two Port Authority officers, played by Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, who try to save people trapped in the damaged World Trade Center building.
Peacock
United 93: Paul Greengrass’ gripping fictionalized account of the hijacking of United Airlines 93, which was the only plane not to hit its target thanks to the heroic efforts of some of the passengers on board.
TNT
High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam: This eight-episode TNT limited series focuses on the aftermath of 9/11, when the race to capture Saddam Hussein and retrieve Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq dominated the Bush administration. Joel Kinnaman stars as John Nixon, a CIA agent who eagerly joins the cause to apprehend the embattled Iraqi president. The first episode of High Value Target airs on September 13.
The History Channel
102 Minutes Inside The Twin Towers: Utilizing new first-person interviews and carefully crafted visual effects that illuminate locations and movement within the towers, this special faithfully recreates 9/11 with accuracy and respect for the victims and survivors of the tragedy.
We’ve got your Big Brother Week 10 Head of Household winner results. And for those that hate the icons, this may not be a good week for you. We’ve got those results plus some live feeds fallout after Angela Murray‘s eviction, stolen wine and who is going on the block.
Big Brother Spoilers: Who Won HOH?
Many fans are saying that Taylor Brown and Yash Patel made the worst possible move keeping Dee Valladares. Other people are saying it was Taylor and Yash’s best move. I think Dee Jedi mind-tricked them into keeping her.
In the end we have two icons still left in the house and here’s your big spoiler alert: Yash won the Head of Household comp for week 10. Sounds crazy that he would win it given the BB Bribe but I see the strategy.
They’re at Final 7 and it’s not until Final 5 that he’s guaranteed to be able to put an icon on the block. And Rick Devens and Dee might gun for Yash before he can come for them. Side note: Dee was in second place in the HOH.
That’s okay because Yash is likely going to put up the exact people that Dee was going to nominate. The three she called out on eviction night: Melody Morris, Barrett Pfeiffer, and Drew Campbell. The thing is Yash hates Drew…
Big Brother 28: Have-Nots in the House
Barrett and Devens are Have-Nots because Drew has the Never-Not pass. This should be the last week of both Have-Nots and the Blockbuster. Devens shared some September 11th memories on the live feeds today since no one else in the house is really old enough to fully remember it.
This week, Yash can’t directly nominate Dee and Devens. However, there’s some chatter that Yash might pull a fast one. He talked to Taylor about putting her up and leaving Barrett off the block.
Because, if Taylor’s on the block, and Barrett wins veto, Yash thinks he can get him to use the veto on Taylor, then Yash can renominate Devens. But Taylor pushed back because she can pull someone down if she wins veto, same as Barrett.
But Yash thinks Barrett has a better chance to win. I expect Taylor to press Yash to leave her off and then if Taylor wins, she can pull someone down. In that case, Yash can renominate Dee or Devens.
PoV Comp Takes Special Type of Brawn on BB28
The POV this week is the pressure cooker. And that veto, three out of four times was won by women. The last time, Vince Panaro won it and he’s not muscular. It’s about lean arm muscle endurance. Aside from Devens and Melody, it’s anyone’s comp.
Devens’ forte isn’t physical comps and Melody’s not won anything yet. Wednesday and Thursday this week are two-hour episodes. Wednesday likely because of the pressure cooker and Thursday for the double eviction.
The double eviction should be interesting since Yash can’t play HOH and his bribe has been fulfilled. He may be the house target on the double eviction.
Whine About Wine
We’ve also got wine-gate. It’s been a while since there was something to investigate in Big Brother 28 and Detective Dee is on the case. Apparently, there was some red wine in the fridge.
Dee said that Barrett had saved for her. And Dee went to get some and it was all gone. But Barrett actually said that he’d save the wine for Dee and Melody for when they got off Have-Nots.
So, Dee suspects Melody chugged it and confronted her. Dee’s certain her wine was hijacked. Melody’s a top suspect as a self-professed wine enthusiast. Dee is too though. And since Melody hates Dee, she might’ve drunk it on purpose.
Big Brother: Angela Murray is Out!
Melody and Barrett griped after Angela was evicted which ruined Barrett’s HOH. Melody said, at this rate, Taylor is going to win this whole thing. Barrett agreed, at this point I wouldn’t be shocked.
Melody also had one of her fits of rage over the Survivors both staying. Dan Gheesling went on TikTok saying help me understand it because it made no sense to him they kept Dee when they had her locked and loaded for eviction.
Mallory Aurichio was at a live episode viewing and lost her mind over Dee not being evicted. Mallory was name calling and everything. Barrett comforted and cuddled Melody last night and said she’d be safe because he and Drew are bigger targets.
Melody then complained to Drew she doesn’t want to be in jury with Lala and Angela. Also, last night, while Drew was doing a Diary Room session, Taylor told Melody the vote flip happened because Drew ratted the Ceasefire to Angela and Dee.
Taylor said that Drew told them let’s target Taylor and Yash. Given how mad Melody stays with Drew, she got all fired up and later went off with Yash about it. Also, pre-eviction, Yash and Angela trash-talked Drew and called him Littlefinger.
Yash wants Drew out so bad but Big Brother 28 is a season of HOH blindsides, so Yash may not get what he wants.
After years of controversy and a seemingly endless wait for its final chapter, HBO finally brought its popular coming-of-age drama Euphoria to an end in May 2026. The series, created by Sam Levinson, premiered in 2019 and quickly became one of HBO’s most influential shows, helping turn its young ensemble, namely Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Jacob Elordi, into some of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars. The controversies haven’t quite overshadowed just how successful the series has been, with 9 wins from 32 Emmy nominations and another potentially to come thanks to Zendaya’s pending nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Euphoria Seasons 1 and 2 were well received by critics. The series earned praise for its willingness to tackle mature subjects and its grounded portrayal of the struggles facing young adults. Season 1 holds an 80% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, while Season 2 dipped slightly to 78%. Season 3, however, marked a much sharper decline in critical reception, earning just 44%. However, its fan-powered 56% Popcornmeter score suggests that viewers didn’t find the final chapter quite as disappointing. The final season was also a ratings success, with Nielsen reporting that it accumulated 666 million minutes watched during the week following its finale.
Now that Euphoria has reached the end of its run, HBO is giving fans the chance to own a physical copy of the acclaimed series. Seasons 1 and 2 were previously released individually on Blu-ray and DVD, but rather than release Season 3 on its own, HBO and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are bringing the entire series together in a complete-series collection. The Blu-ray set will span 10 discs, while the DVD collection will contain 8. Both editions will also include several special features, including the three special episodes “Trouble Don’t Last Always,” “F*** Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob,” and “Euphoria: A Look Back,” the latter of which was previously released on HBO Max. The collection will also include more than four hours of bonus content, featuring behind-the-scenes featurettes such as “Unfiltered with the Cast of Euphoria,” “Enter Euphoria: An Inside Look at the Episodes,” “Costumes, Fashion and Looks of Euphoria,” and “House Tour and Set Tour With Sydney
Will ‘Euphoria’ Get a Spin-off?
Euphoria ended on a grim note for many of its main characters, but not everyone met a tragic fate. While series creator Sam Levinson has confirmed that the story is over, Sweeney, who played Cassie Howard, isn’t quite ready to close the door on her character. In a recent interview, the actress said, “I know there is more to tell of Cassie’s story,” adding, “I’ll always be wondering what Cassie is up to in the Euphoria-verse.” For now, though, a Euphoria spin-off seems far from guaranteed. Between Levinson’s comments about the story being finished, the controversies that have surrounded the series, and the definitive fates handed to several characters in the finale, finding a natural path forward could prove difficult, and perhaps things are best left as they are for obvious reasons.
Euphoria: The Complete Set Blu-ray will be released on December 15. The full season is also available to stream on HBO Max and to buy/rent on digital storefronts. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich was “failed” by those around him when he collapsed and was hospitalized after a controversial outdoor workout last month, the Professional Hockey Players’ Association said in a blistering statement.
“The recent tragedy in collegiate hockey should force everyone in sport to confront a fundamental issue: no athlete should ever believe that protecting their health and safety could cost them ice time, their place on a team, a scholarship or their future in the game,” PHPA Executive Director Brian Ramsay said on Wednesday, September 9. “When athletes feel pressure to remain silent about an injury, illness, exhaustion, or concern because they fear the consequences of speaking up, the system has failed them.”
Ramsay continued, “Athletes should never have to choose between their health and their careers. Period.”
Mayich, 21, suffered a heat stroke during a military-style team workout on August 20. The athlete has been hospitalized since, with the family’s attorney, Robert Carey, saying Mayich has “zero chance for recovery.”
Arizona State head hockey coach Greg Powers appears to have taken a drastic step amid the investigation into the hospitalization of sophomore defenseman Matthew Mayich. The X account belonging to Powers, 49, which is listed on his official Arizona State bio page, has seemingly been deleted. Us has reached out to Powers for comment. Mayich, […]
“I believe we have an obligation to this young man and his family, to keep pushing for a culture across hockey — and across sport — where speaking up about one’s health and wellness is viewed as an act of strength, not weakness,” said the PHPA, which represents all players in the American Hockey League and ECHL. “That young man, on the cusp of his career in professional hockey, was failed by the system, the system that should have protected him.”
The statement continued, “The president must conduct an inquiry and meet with players who will tell the truth about that day, but they must also guarantee that no player will suffer any repercussions or retaliation. No game, roster spot, scholarship or career is worth compromising an athlete’s health or safety. We owe all athletes an environment that makes that principle absolute.”
Mayich, a sophomore defenseman, had recently transferred to Arizona State after playing his freshman year at Clarkson University. He was a sixth round pick by the St. Louis Blues in the 2023 NHL Draft.
The Arizona State Police Department opened a formal investigation into Mayich’s collapse earlier this month. In an exclusive interview with Us, Carey said fear within the hockey program was palpable.
Matthew Mayich’s family has acknowledged the tragic road ahead after the NHL prospect collapsed and was hospitalized following an intense outdoor workout that resulted in a heat stroke. “The family really appreciates all the support they’re getting,” the Mayichs’ attorney, Rob Carey, exclusively told Us on Thursday, September 3. “It matters to them. They’re in […]
“These kids are scared,” Mayich’s family attorney said on September 3. “The ones that are still there, they’re scared. They think they might lose their scholarships. They think the program might crumble. They might not get playing time if they cross the coach.”
In a statement to Us on September 3, a spokesperson for Arizona State said, “The morning outdoor workout was a team event at which coaches and training staff were present along with a third party who had previously worked with the ASU Hockey team.”
“Sun Devil Athletics also has heat-illness guidelines in place; these guidelines are informed by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association,” the statement added. “SDA student-athletes regularly practice and train outside, under coach and trainer supervision.”
Arizona State is scheduled to open their season on October 2 at Lindenwood.
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