This article contains massive Resident Evil spoilers. The ending of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is its most twisted and ambitious element. After a mean, lean, mutated-heart-on-its-sleeve B-movie where we watch a hapless millennial named Bryan (Austin Abrams) bungle his way through the zombie apocalypse consuming Raccoon City, the final act of is where everything comes to a gooey head. Determined initially to reach Raccoon City General Hospital to deliver what he is led to believe is an organ that will save a child’s life, poor Bryan in the end must realize that he’s attempting to save his own skin instead.…

This article contains Resident Evil movie spoilers. One of the greatest jump scares in all of video game history occurred during the early movements of the original 1996 Resident Evil classic. As either Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield, players would wander tentatively and fitfully through a big spooky mansion where they know the animated remains of human corpses are slowly shuffling about. What most gamers back then did not realize though is that humans weren’t the only danger. It is thus the perfect jump scare when a dog pounces with extreme speed and agility through a window, shattering glass everywhere…

There are countless things happening around us that most people will never see in person. Some are hidden inside familiar objects, others happen in places normally closed to the public, and some are simply rare moments that exist for only a few seconds. That is what makes photographs of them so fascinating. A picture can reveal the inside of something we use every day, show an unusual stage of a natural process, or offer a glimpse into a world that usually remains completely out of sight. These images are not necessarily spectacular, but they give us access to moments and…

Most photographs seem easy to understand at first glance. You see a street, a group of people, a family gathering, or an ordinary moment and think you know exactly what is happening. Then one tiny detail catches your attention, and suddenly the entire image feels different. Maybe someone in the background is doing something completely unexpected, an object is where it should not be, or two unrelated things line up in a strangely perfect way. These are the photographs that reward a second look. Nothing about them seems unusual at first, but once you notice that one little detail, it…

Even if you’re not into Zodiac signs at all, it’s still a fun exercise to see what is being arbitrarily assigned to you based on your birth date. It doesn’t hurt anyone to have a little bit of fun after all, and that’s what we’re doing today: selecting a movie we believe you would love based solely on your Zodiac sign. We’ve got a classic twin-swap comedy that’s perfect for a certain two-faced sign, a famously intense psychological thriller for the zodiac’s most mysterious members, and even a controversial ’80s satire for the ambitious workaholics. Are these matches written in…

FocusFest is returning this fall on October 10 in Los Angeles after its successful debut in 2025, which featured an advance screening of the global phenomenon Obsession. The festival will be hosted by television personality Justin Sylvester and will feature special guest appearances from Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed‑Miles, the stars of Sense and Sensibility.  Hosted by indie film studio Focus Features, this year’s one-day festival follows on the heels of last year’s sold out event and has now expanded with more screenings and themed food and beverages. FocusFest continues to celebrate filmmakers and successful films from the Focus catalogue…

Ever since Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*, we’ve known that the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently has two sets of Avengers, two versions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, who don’t necessarily get along. Sam Wilson’s Avengers and the New Avengers are sure to clash in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. But for years now, a group of youthful heroes have been assembling to join the fight, a group that will eventually become the Young Avengers. The end of The Marvels showed Ms. Marvel meeting up with Kate Bishop a.k.a. Hawkeye to recruit her to the team, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania…

The New Hollywood movement may have broken the classic studio system and opened the way for the smaller, more personal films of the 1960s and ’70s, but they never forgot about genre movies. In fact, the first proper New Hollywood film was Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a crime movie. It’s not hard to see why crime movies would capture the imagination of filmmakers at the time: New Hollywood movies tended to focus on complicated men at the bottom rungs of society, men who had to make hard decisions. Throw in the general unease that Americans felt after the…

Some of the cleverest ideas are not the result of careful planning. They happen because someone runs into a problem, grabs whatever is nearby, and tries something that probably should not work. Sometimes the result is a temporary fix that is surprisingly effective, while other times an accidental combination creates something genuinely ingenious. These moments are especially satisfying because they show creativity without the pressure to invent something groundbreaking. A strange workaround, an improvised tool, or an unexpected use for an ordinary object can suddenly solve a problem in the simplest possible way. The people behind these ideas may not…

Some everyday problems are so specific that you almost have to see them to understand just how bad they can get. A small inconvenience can turn into a ridiculous mess, a simple repair can create an even bigger problem, and something that should take five minutes can suddenly require an entirely new solution. These moments are funny because they are familiar, but also strangely extreme. We have all dealt with broken objects, bad design, unfortunate timing, or a shortcut that clearly did not work as planned. The difference is that these people happened to capture the evidence. Each photo offers…

For years now, film fans have been complaining about the lack of sex in movies. As writer RS Benedict perfectly put it in the essay, “Everyone is Beautiful and No One Is Horny,” Marvel movies in particular feature people with idealized, perfect bodies, but no signs of sexual desire. “Even when they have sex, no one is horny,” writes Benedict. “No one is attracted to anyone else. No one is hungry for anyone else.” Several others have echoed Benedict’s sentiments, most recently, director Zack Snyder, who told Variety, “Sex in movies is weirdly gone. I don’t understand it.” Snyder continued…

Alfred Hitchcock once mused surprise is a bomb going off beneath a table that neither the characters nor the audience knows is there. Suspense is the public knowing about the bomb whilst the characters sit blissfully unaware.  Zach Cregger knows about suspense as much or more as he does a well-timed jump scare. The wunderkind genre filmmaker—who became the toast of midnight madness festivals after the demented Barbarian, and improbably Oscar voters via the political allegory film he claims is only coincidentally incendiary, Weapons—appreciates that you remember and most likely care about Resident Evil. Many of us have played at…

Anime NYC has finished this year, with New York Film Festival and New York Comic Con yet to come. But for those who love the strange and the macabre, the region’s big event is the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, October 15–22, at the Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg. To celebrate its 11th edition, the 2026 Brooklyn Horror Fest will kick off with the U.S. Premiere of the vampire mockumentary I Love Paris, directed by Nick Murphy. From there, the festival offers horror fans an unmissable mix of new masterpieces and old favorites. In addition to the domestic debut of I Love Paris,…

Ahead of its season 6 release in September 2026, Apple TV renewed Slow Horses for an eighth season. The renewal made the British spy thriller series the longest-running show on the streamer, and fans seemed pretty happy. Why wouldn’t they be? While other great shows are getting canceled or wrapping up their stories, Slow Horses just keeps on running, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Yet season 8 could inspire some big behind-the-scenes decisions for those shepherding the TV version of Mick Herron’s bestselling book series onto the small screen, as it will adapt the events…

Were action stars considered classic at the start of their careers? That’s a trick question; of course they weren’t. While they certainly made blockbuster hits here and there, to become an action icon you need perspective, and that can only be gained through the passage of time. As such, we’re left wondering: who will become the classics of the future? Their careers are being built right now, with movies and shows that are already hits. Here, we’ve gathered the faces that, at least to us, will become the icons of the future of action cinema. IMDb Karl Urban From Éomer…

With Lanterns doing great numbers for HBO and anticipation for Man of Tomorrow building every day, James Gunn has become one of the most recognizable and bankable figures in media today. Of course, no one starts out as a successful blockbuster filmmaker and studio co-head, but Gunn’s rise to the top of DC Studios is particularly shocking. After all, he started out writing for the notorious B-movie studio Troma Entertainment and penning scripts for two Scooby-Doo movies. His earliest directorial works were edgy cheapies, an attitude that briefly got him fired from Disney, even after making two hit Marvel films.…

“I grew up online at probably too young of an age trying to find people to talk about the things that I liked,” reflects Amy Roberts, the manager of business development at Theorist Media and creative director and host of its fashion-forward brand Style Theory. “Being able to do that for a living is a huge gift. It really just makes you excited to be able to hop onto a mic and have those conversations that hopefully the audience will carry on even after you’ve stepped out of it. It’s such an exciting thing to do. It really is a…

Fifty years ago, Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was startling for how prescient it appeared. In the era of Woodward and Bernstein, and Walter Cronkite, here was a film about a blossoming rot undergirding American news media, and a capitalistic profit-motive that threatened to write doom across the future of serious journalism and the public it served. Now, I will be the first to admit that serious journalism is not necessarily a term I associate with Chris Hansen, the once ubiquitous face of To Catch a Predator, Dateline NBC’s voyeuristic pedophile profiler. But there is an unexpected symmetry in…

Sitcoms are the comfort food of television, at least the healthy kind when compared to reality shows. You know the characters, understand the rhythm, and generally have a pretty good idea what kind of joke is coming next. That is, unless the show decides to throw that formula straight out the window. Basically every sitcom has that one episode where we raise an eyebrow at least, yet there are some shows with moments so out there that it can’t help but to generate discussions online. From what we could find, these are the episodes that reminded viewers sitcoms can get…

For the most part, the latest trailer for the Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake tells us what we already knew. Set in 1971, the series stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, a few years after her son Jason drowned to death at Camp Crystal Lake, but a few years before she started killing counselors who tried to reopen the camp in 1980. Along the way, we get looks at important characters, such as Nick Cordileone as local cook Crazy Ralph and William Catlett as Levon Brooks, the beleaguered town sheriff. But the real interesting part of the trailer…