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Brand New Day Reframes Spider-Man’s MCU Path, Promising a Return to Classic Spidey

The next Spider-Man chapter in the MCU is pitched as a deliberate reset, steering the web-slinger back toward what fans know best. Feige and director Destin Daniel Cretton describe it as…

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Mina the Hollower: A Fresh Guide to Its Five Weapons and Their Upgrades

In Mina the Hollower, players can experiment with five distinct armaments, each offering a different approach to combat. Every weapon also unlocks two upgrade paths, expanding your arsenal as you push…

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Alan Hale Jr.’s Pre-Gilligan Western: The Casey Jones Syndicated Series

Long before he became the Skipper on Gilligan's Island, Alan Hale Jr. built a sturdy résumé in Westerns.In 1957 he led Casey Jones, a half-hour syndicated series centered on the real-life…

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Balinale 19th Opens With Euphoria, Closes With The End, While Elevating Indonesian Shorts

Balinale, Bali’s premier Oscar-qualifying festival, begins its 19th edition with Julian Rosefeldt’s Euphoria and wraps with Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, framing a program built to showcase world cinema on the island.…

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California on Screen: Cannes Panel Highlights the State as a Filmmaking Magnet

At Cannes, IndieWire’s Dana Harris-Bridson led a panel during the second California Day at The American Pavilion, where municipal leaders mapped out how California stays a hub for film and TV…

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New Trailer Unleashes a Metafictional Slasher Romance at Camp Miasma

Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson lead a daring new meta-horror from Jane Schoenbrun, arriving in theaters via Mubi on August 7. The film blends feverish atmosphere with a sharp, self-aware sensibility…

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Backrooms: Critics React to A24’s Horror Debut From a 20-Year-Old Filmmaker

Backrooms lands in theaters with Kane Parsons at the helm, a 20-year-old director whose debut is being shepherded to audiences by producers James Wan and Osgood Perkins. The cast includes Chiwetel…

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Robert Pattinson Plays Chris Hansen in A24’s Unsettling New Drama Teaser

Robert Pattinson headlines a new A24 project that leans into the era of televised sting operations. In Primetime, he embodies a heightened version of Dateline NBC's Chris Hansen, exploring a world…

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A Fresh Framework for Sustainable Indie Filmmaking

Indie cinema has long followed a patchwork route, guiding projects from development to distribution but leaving filmmakers to navigate a volatile system on their own. The result is bottlenecks that repeat…

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Mara Wilson Won’t Bend for Hollywood: Chooses Storytelling on Her Own Terms

Mara Wilson, the Matilda star who emerged as a child actor, has redirected her career away from constant screen work toward storytelling through audio. Over the years she has narrated roughly…