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You may think it’s cute, but NFL players only shuffle like that when they’re distressed.

14 Damnocracy

A band based on TV ratings and wordplay is doomed to fail from the start. The short-lived VH1 show Supergroup stuffed Sebastian Bach, Jason Bonham, Scott Ian, Ted Nugent and Evan Seinfeld into a Las Vegas mansion. They produced seven episodes of television and exactly zero albums, despite staying together for four years.

13 Andrew W.K. x Glenn Beck

The rock-n-roller had a radio show on the perpetual fascist pedophile apologist’s radio network in 2015. Their little odd couple routine was intended partly to highlight conversations between folks with opposing viewpoints, and partly to launder TheBlaze’s dogshit reputation.

12 ‘The Counselor’

Written by Cormac McCarthy. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt. This is 2013 pop culture in a bottle, but they made Diaz hump a...

Finding a good movie to watch on Amazon Prime Video can be difficult to say the least. While Amazon’s robust library of titles is available to every Amazon Prime subscriber, they don’t exactly make it easy to find what you’re looking for. That’s where we come in. Below, we’ve assembled a growing list of the best movies on Amazon Prime right now. Our carefully curated selection runs the gamut from crowd-pleasing blockbusters to Oscar-winning dramas to delightful rom-coms and beyond. There’s a little something for everyone, so stop the endless scrolling and simply choose one of these great movies to watch.

Check out our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime video below. The list will be updated weekly with new titles.

Wicked Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in “Wicked” (Universal)

If you care to find “Wicked,” look to Prime Video at the end of the month.

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, New Regency has secured rights to “They’re Still Here,” a short story from Stephen Herman that he will adapt for film, with Phantom Four and Good Fear (Mulan) producing alongside New Regency.

They’re Still Here follows a family struggling to put their lives back together in the aftermath of a brutal home invasion.

News of the acquisition comes following a couple of recent hires at New Regency: Tesha Crawford as EVP, Head of International Television, and Colin Greten as Vice President of Film.

Herman is perhaps best known for writing Black Box, a 2020 sci-fi horror film starring Mamoudou Athie, which was exec produced by Jason Blum under his Blumhouse Television banner and released on Prime Video. He also currently has projects in development at Paramount and Netflix.

Phantom Four has worked on shows like Murderbot (Apple TV+) and The Sandman...

Fans everywhere are raving over Javier Bardem’s performance opposite Brad Pitt in F1: The Movie, but long before he ever joined the world of Formula 1, he starred in a contemporary Western that’s returned to streaming charts 18 years later. Bardem stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men, the 2007 psychological thriller telling the story of serial killer Anton Chigurh (Bardem) and Ed Tom Bell’s (Jones) mission to stop him. No Country for Old Men is currently streaming on Prime Video and Pluto TV in America and Paramount+ globally, where it’s charting in the top 10 in Canada, Italy, and even Bulgaria. The film earned strong scores of 93% from critics and 86% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $171 million at the box office against a modest $25 million budget.

No Country for Old Men is a product of the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan,...

Amazon Prime Video has just added a movie that many people see as one of the best thrillers ever made. The film, which also ranks as one of the top movies from the 2000s, is now available for streaming. The movie is none other than No Country for Old Men, the famous crime thriller directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

Back in 2008, No Country for Old Men dominated the Oscars. It won four major awards at the 80th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor.

It was the movie that took home the most wins that night, after getting a total of eight nominations. It also beat out other popular movies like There Will Be Blood, Atonement, and Juno.

No Country for Old Men is not just an awards favorite. The movie was also a box office success. Made on a budget of $25 million,...

Amazon Prime Video has just added a movie that many people call one of the greatest thrillers ever made. The film, which also ranks among the top movies of the 2000s, is now available for streaming. It’s called No Country for Old Men, and it’s a crime thriller directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. This movie originally came out in 2007 and was based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy.

When No Country for Old Men was first released, it was a huge hit with both critics and moviegoers. According to Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 93% rating from critics and 86% from audiences.

On Metacritic, it has an impressive score of 92 out of 100, showing that it was loved almost everywhere. The movie went on to win four Oscars at the 80th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor. It also had eight nominations in total,...

The results are in for the greatest Western of the 21st century, as No Country for Old Mencomes out on top in a major poll. This Best Picture-winning modern classic proved the Coen brothers were the perfect filmmakers to adapt to the gritty, crime-ridden vision of Americana that originated in Cormac McCarthy’s novel.

The New York Timeshas aggregated the opinions of more than 500 influential directors, actors, and notable Hollywood names to discover the best movies of the past 25 years. With Javier Bardem as the terrifying hitman Anton Chigurh, the powerful performances and dark aesthetic of No Country for Old Men mean its reputation has only grown since its 2007 release.

No Country For Old Men Is The Top Western Of The 21st Century The Film Clocked In At Number 6 Overall

No Country for Old Men clocked in at number six for this century and was the highest-ranked true Western on the list,...

July is here, and in between all the fireworks and swimming and running from the heat, there’s ample time to sit back, relax and watch a great movie. While it can be daunting to figure out what to watch on your favorite streaming service, we’ve created a curated selection of some of the best new movies streaming this month on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Disney+ and beyond. There’s plenty of new releases hitting streaming this month, like the Michael B. Jordan hit “Sinners” and Jenna Ortega’s “Death of a Unicorn,” alongside streaming originals starring Adam Sandler, John Cena and more.

Check out our picks for the top new movies streaming right now below.

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As we barrel towards the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest provocation “One Battle After Another,” why not take a moment to revisit his last movie,...

Western movies are almost as old as cinema itself, evolving out of the Wild West shows of the late 19th Century and transitioning to celluloid around the time that the adventures of the America frontier was fading into myth. It's fair to say that the genre has had a few rocky patches over the intervening 125 years or so (most notably in the '80s after the "Heaven's Gate" debacle) but these movies never truly go away –- Westerns are deeply ingrained into our cultural psyche. 21st Century filmmakers are always finding new ways to keep the genre relevant, whether it is using the spaghetti western format to tackle racism and slavery ("Django Unchained") or re-mapping the borders of a new frontier to address the ills of the modern world ("Sicario" and "Hell or High Water"). Meanwhile, the Coen Brothers used the classic white hats vs. blacks hats scenario as a...

Taylor Sheridan doesn’t take kindly to creative interference. The Yellowstone mastermind doesn’t suffer fools or meddling producers, gladly. Seventeen years after Harvey Weinstein chopped down the director’s cut of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses, Sheridan is still simmering with resentment.

He calls out the Hollywood machine for turning masterpieces into “mediocre” products, lamenting how Weinstein’s meddling crushed what could have been a majestic Western epic. “For anyone to dedicate that amount of time and energy and passion… and then not be in control of the finished product, I think that’s the resistance,” Sheridan recently told Deadline. He penned and directed Wind River with The Weinstein Company and experienced firsthand the toxic fallout when Weinstein’s empire reportedly imploded amid scandal.

Sheridan’s powerful film risked being swallowed by Weinstein’s disgrace. But he refused to let the film and its vital message fade quietly.

You might know Viggo Mortensen from his legendary turn as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but his filmography proves that he’s capable of playing far more than just Middle-earth royalty. The man has thrown himself into violent thrillers, quiet character dramas, and even foreign language gems.

Yet, most of us aren’t aware of his incredible range and the way he’s committed to his craft. Sure, his portrayal of Aragorn is one of cinema’s most beloved performances, but it’s time that we recognize Mortensen for the outstanding actor that he is. So, here are seven movies where the Lotr famed artist will surprise you with his versatility and talent!

1. A History of Violence Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence | Credits: New Line Cinema

In David Cronenberg’s gripping thriller from 2005, Viggo Mortensen plays Tom Stall, a man who owns a peaceful diner...

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This July, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the much-anticipated release of the final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty to John Cena and Idris Elba‘s fun-looking action comedy film Heads of State. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 14 best films that are coming to Prime Video in July 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

A Fish Called Wanda (July 1) Rt Score: 96% Credit – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A Fish Called Wanda is a heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Cleese. The 1988 film revolves around a group of diamond thieves who must backstab each other to get to the loot after their leader is jailed.

Taylor Sheridan doesn't like being told what to do. In the past, he's flat out rejected the idea of working with other writers on his projects, instead choosing to pen all of his scripts by himself, far away from the bright lights of Hollywood. Be that as it may, there have been moments where he's had to sacrifice his creative vision due to meddling studio executives -- an experience Sheridan's "Landman" star, Billy Bob Thornton, understands all too well.

In 2000, Thornton directed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" for Miramax, only to butt heads with Harvey Weinstein, the now-disgraced former film producer who co-founded the studio. The movie -- which follows two cowboys who get into trouble with the law during an employment-seeking journey to Mexico -- was originally envisioned as an epic with a 160 minute runtime, but Weinstein trimmed it down to a little under two hours,...

If you've ever seen "Sling Blade," the 1996 directorial feature debut of Billy Bob Thornton, you know the man isn't just a phenomenal actor but a damn good writer and director, too. "Sling Blade" is old-school, smart, and sensitive — it's poetry in motion in a way that very few films are. It couldn't be made today for several reasons, but at the time, Thornton received the recognition for it that he deserved. It brought him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, but more importantly, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

His career as a writer-director (in addition to being a busy actor) couldn't have had a better start. He was ambitious and creatively rich, having his own singular cinematic vision that had the potential to turn him into the type of actor-director that Clint Eastwood had become before him. But as it often happens in Hollywood, his next...

You can tell a lot about people by how they behave in a crisis. And it’s safe to say the voyage of the Carnival Triumph, better known as the Poop Cruise, was an icky, smelly, particularly grotesque kind of crisis — and that brought out some wild behavior.

It happened way back in 2013, but chances are some of the details are emblazoned in your memory. The Triumph, set to cruise from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, Mexico, suffered an electrical fire that knocked out the engine and air conditioning. And then,...

Season 3 of Yellowstone ran into serious issues during development. The initial scripts delivered by the writers didn’t live up to the bar set by the previous two seasons. The characters felt off, the pacing dragged, and the storyline lacked the tension and edge fans expected. The problems piled up to the point where Taylor Sheridan, who’d stepped back from full-time writing duties, was called in to fix it.

Sheridan rewrote the entire season to regain control of the narrative. His rewrite brought back the grit, intensity, and emotional weight that defined Yellowstone, ultimately rescuing the season from falling flat.

Taylor Sheridan saved Yellowstone from behind-the-scenes chaos Taylor Sheridan. | Credits: Yellowstone / Paramount Network.

Yellowstone Season 3 nearly derailed behind the scenes, until Taylor Sheridan jumped in like a one-man rescue team. The Yellowstone creator was supposed to take a step back. However, he found himself rewriting the entire season while...

Shamrock Capital has entered into a long-term partnership with New Regency that will see the Los Angeles-based investment firm’s content strategy division acquire participation in the cash flows of the production company’s film and television library.

“We are thrilled to partner with New Regency’s leadership team as they embark on their next phase of growth through this innovative financing transaction,” Shamrock Capital partners Jason Sklar and Patrick Russo said in a statement. “Our investment philosophy centers on supporting premium and evergreen content, and New Regency’s acclaimed film and television library, which includes iconic titles and award-winning stories, is Best In Class across the global landscape of independent studios.”

“New Regency has always taken a nimble, creator-first approach to the business,” New Regency Chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan added. “By aligning with Shamrock, a partner that shares our vision and values, we’re able to position the...

Multi Oscar winning producer New Regency has entered into a partnership with Los Angeles investment firm Shamrock Capital, whose Shamrock Content Strategy is taking a participation in the studio’s 35-year-old plus film and television library.

In addition, a standalone production credit facility was entered into by New Regency’s production arm to borrow in connection with new film, television, and media projects—including building on its past IP to create innovative content, alongside a new credit facility supporting its library. These credit facilities are provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

The partnership with Shamrock relates solely to the New Regency library participation and will not be used to fund the production arm. Also note, Shamrock isn’t taking an equity stake here in the New Regency library, rather it’s a long-term commitment in the studio’s library cash flows.

New Regency’s partnership with Shamrock ensures long-term...

New Regency has secured a library investment from Shamrock Capital as well as production and library credit facilities from a syndicate of banks led by Jp Morgan Chase.

Investment firm Shamrock’s Content Strategy division is making a long-term investment in New Regency’s film and TV library, which has been amassed over 35 years and includes Oscar-winning features such as The Revenant, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave. The arrangement is understood to give Shamrock a long-term participation in cash flows from the library.

The Jp Morgan syndicate is providing New Regency’s production arm with a credit facility for new film,...

Cormac McCarthy penned some pretty great books, and a couple of his more famous tales are Westerns. From "Blood Meridian" to "No Country for Old Men," the author's depiction of the Wild West is violent, ruthless, and nihilistic — and they have a fan in the form of Taylor Sheridan. Knowing that Sheridan's "Yellowstone" franchise is also full of bleak cowboy carnage, it's unsurprising to learn that he is a fan of McCarthy's work, but was his appreciation for the late author's work reciprocated?

In an interview with Gold Derby, Sheridan discussed his love for McCarthy's storytelling and how it's influenced his own style. What's more, he revealed what he heard about the "Blood Meridian" writer's views on his hit franchise. As he tells it:

"Turns out he was a huge fan of 'Yellowstone.' He never missed an episode. And you know 'Yellowstone' is a punk rock,...

Prime Target studio New Regency has hired Tesha Crawford as EVP, Head of International Television.

Former Universal International Studios (Uis) and Netflix executive Crawford will oversee the company’s international television slate from the London office and lead its international development and production strategy, reporting to New Regency Chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann, President of Motion Pictures and Television.

Ed Rubin, who was previously leading the New Regency international team, left a few weeks back, having overseen the likes of Apple TV+’s Prime Target and BritBox’s The Beast Must Die out of London.

Crawford was most recently a scripted SVP at The Day of the Jackal studio Uis and was involved with Uis picking up the rights to adapt Lucy Foley’s novel The Midnight Feast for TV. She was previously with the Netflix international team, where she worked on big, nascent hits for the...

Paramount+ is once again the home of one of the Coen Brothers' best movies. No Country for Old Men, based on the eponymous 2005 novel by author Cormac McCarthy, is now streaming on the platform.

Released in 2007, No Country for Old Men centers around Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran who discovers a briefcase containing $2 million in cash while hunting in the Texas desert and decides to take the money for himself, setting off a dramatic game of cat and mouse with the sociopathic hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) who is hired to retrieve the stolen money. Tommy Lee Jones also stars as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, who is investigating the crime scene of the drug deal gone wrong where Llewelyn first happened upon the briefcase.

No Country for Old Men was a major critical and commercial success upon its release in 2007, holding an approval rating of 93% on the...

Netflix recently released a new Nordic noir series, and viewers were quick to show their love. Dept. Q is based on the popular novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen with the same name, but is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is created by Scott Frank, the same guy who made Queen’s Gambit. Starring British actors Matthew Goode as Detective Carl Morck and Kelly Macdonald as Dr. Rachel Irving.

The series follows Detective Morck, who is dealing with personal trauma after a difficult case. He is assigned to lead a new cold case unit, where he works with a team to solve old, unsolved crimes. Its high-contrast colors, grim vibes, and suspenseful investigation made it appealing to hardcore crime drama fans. Viewers were quick to jump on Netflix to start binge-watching the show.

Everything was thrilling and fine, and the bingethon was on until something unexpected happened. The 9-episode series...

Matt Damon Posed During All The Pretty Horses Shoot ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Matt Damon stepped into Hollywood with the same hope as many actors. He wanted to build a career that lasts and leaves a mark. Early on, he knew that making a name in the film world means taking risks. The film industry often demands bold choices, with some artists willing to gamble everything to tell stories that matter deeply to them.

While many studios play it safe, others push boundaries by pouring their personal experiences into films that are meant to connect on a deeper level.

The Importance of Risk-Taking in Filmmaking

It is no secret by now that filmmaking itself is a risky business. Artists often invest everything- time, money, emotion, you name it, just to bring stories from their imagination to the screen. While many studios prefer to stick with safe, predictable projects aimed at guaranteed profits,...

Throughout his showbiz run, Kevin Costner has become notable for his prolific presence in the western landscape, which dates back to his initial days in the industry, starting with Silverado in ’85. Even though Silverado served as a breakout point for the actor, the movie that made his presence prominent within the genre was his directorial debut, which premiered 5 years later.

Interestingly, Taylor Sheridan’s inspiration for Yellowstone stemmed from Costner’s directorial feature, whose impact on the genre can’t be overstated.

Kevin Costner’s directorial debut shaped Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone years later Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan | Credit: Paramount+

Like Costner, Taylor Sheridan‘s fascination with westerns began at a very young age, especially from the media he consumed. This involved works from writers Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, and Toni Morrison, and as for what shaped his modern-day western epic, in addition to Clint Eastwood‘s Unforgiven, Sheridan also...

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This June, Paramount+ is a little light on original content as nothing new is coming out on the streaming service aside from the fourteenth season of SpongeBob SquarePants. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in June 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Boogie Nights (June 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% Credit – New Line Cinema

Boogie Nights is a drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The 1997 film is set in the 1970s, and it follows the rise and fall of Eddie Adams as he goes from being a nightclub dishwasher to a popular adult film star with a drug addiction. Boogie Nights stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore,...

Jacob Elordi’s performance in The Narrow Road Into the Deep North earned a last-minute shift onto the Primetime Emmy ballot, positioning the five-part Australian drama against heavyweight contenders in limited-series categories. Sony Pictures Television and Prime Video submitted the show just before the Television Academy’s May 8 deadline, moving it from the International branch into contention for Best Limited or Anthology Series, Lead Actor (Elordi), Directing (Justin Kurzel) and Writing (Shaun Grant).

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize–winning novel, The Narrow Road Into the Deep North follows an Australian surgeon before and after World War II. Elordi portrays the younger version of a doctor whose Pow experience is haunted by memories of a wartime affair (Odessa Young) and revisited decades later by Ciarán Hinds. Since its April 18 release on Prime Video, the series has achieved a perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating, edging past Netflix’s British import Adolescence.

Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp to bring Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Outer Dark’ to the screen Xmag UK Xmag Editorial

Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp lead ‘Outer Dark’, a haunting adaptation of McCarthy’s novel now heating up the…

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Ralph Fiennes to play President Snow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Ralph Fiennes, coming off his Oscar-nominated turn in Conclave, has taken a major role in Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping. He will play President Coriolanus Snow, the authoritarian leader of Panem. The role was played as an older man by Donald Sutherland in the 2010s Hunger Games films and as a young man by Tom Blyth in prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This will of course be Fiennes' second time playing the iconic villain from a massively popular young adult book franchise; he previously played Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies. "We wanted to honor Donald Sutherland by having one of this generation’s greatest actors play President Snow 24 years before Katniss Everdeen entered the arena," producer Nina Jacobson said in a statement announcing Fiennes' casting.

Outer Dark is a film that is already brewing much hype as the Cannes market as it is an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel and it will now sport two rising stars as the main leads. According to Deadline, Jacob Elordi of Saltburn and Priscilla has been tapped to star in the film with Nosferatu‘s Lily-Rose Depp. The original Cormac McCarthy novel has been described as a “dark fairytale,” and the screen adaptation is set to be the English-language debut of the Oscar-winning filmmaker Laszlo Nemes, known for Son of Saul.

Per Deadline, the description of the plot reads, “Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried.

There are heaps of new film projects heading to Cannes to find buyers and financiers. One of the more buzzy movies connected to the film market is “Outer Dark,” starring Jacob Elordi (“Saltburn”) and Lily Rose-Depp (“Nosferatu”), which is an adaptation of the 1968 novel by author Cormac McCarthy.

The package deal heading to buyers at Cannes, revealed by Deadline, will see the pic directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Laszlo Nemes of the Holocaust film “Son of Saul,” which will make “Outer Dark” his first English-language feature effort.

Continue reading ‘Outer Dark’: Jacob Elordi & Lily Rose-Depp Lead Depression-Era Grim Fantasy Thriller Based On Cormac McCarthy Novel at The Playlist.

Another Cormac McCarthy novel is finally getting a film adaptation. Two years after the acclaimed author's death at the age of 89, London-based production company Good Chaos and Oscar-winning filmmaker Laszlo Nemes have acquired the book-to-screen rights for McCarthy's second novel, Outer Dark.

Per Deadline, Outer Dark will mark the English-language debut of Nemes, whose debut feature, 2015's Son of Saul, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Hungary. "Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy’s evocative and cosmological work," the filmmaker said in a statement.

First published in 1968, Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...

Kicking things off with a small but enticing update, following last year’s incredible cine-memoir It’s Not Me, Leos Carax is finally prepping a 2026 shoot for his first narrative feature since Annette. While not much is known about the project, a casting call confirms Léa Seydoux and Adam Driver will star in the Paris-set feature. Speaking of Driver: he’s also set to soon shoot James Gray’s Paper Tigers, in which Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller stepped in for Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, respectively.

Last year, when we spoke to Albert Serra about his planned collaboration with Kristen Stewart for Out of This World, he seemed hesitant if the casting may come together and, indeed, it proved too good to be true. Variety now reports Riley Keough will lead the film alongside F. Murray Abraham and Liza Yankovskaia. The film follows “an American delegation traveling to...

Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp are in talks to play twisted siblings in Laszlo Nemes’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “Outer Dark.” Deadline reported that the feature will shoot in 2026, with “Son of Saul” and “Sunset” Oscar winner Nemes making his English-language debut with the project.

“Outer Dark” is billed as a “dark fairytale” that takes place in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Depp will play a young woman who gives birth to her brother’s (Elordi) baby. The brother tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes, but he secretly leaves the baby in the woods to die.

The logline teases that, as the siblings both search for the missing child for their own separate reasons, “three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear.” The novel was released in 1968. McCarthy’s other novels “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road...

Exclusive: Here’s a very cool project bubbling at this year’s Cannes market.

We can reveal that Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the industry’s buzziest young names, are set to star in Outer Dark, a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel.

The “dark fairytale”, which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning Son Of Saul filmmaker Laszlo Nemes.

Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside,...

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The late author Cormac McCarthy may have only had a dozen novels published in his lifetime, but he left an indelible mark on literature through his work. Often marked with graphic, unflinching violence and gruff characters living on the fringes of society, McCarthy grounded his stories in dogged realism. McCarthy's protagonists were often no-nonsense figures, sometimes the villains in their own stories, whether they recognized it or not. The author painted the world as a harsh and uncaring one, with survival as an unguaranteed reward for resilience.

More than just an influential presence in the literary world, a significant portion of McCarthy's work has been adapted into film. Many of these movies have similarly earned their fair share of fans and critical acclaim, including multiple Academy Awards. Regardless of the quality of the adaptations, McCarthy's work continues to stand the...

Few comic book readers might know about Jack Kirby's "Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth." The "Kamandi" property was created by Kirby (the comic book legend behind "Eternals") in 1972 and fell in line with the then-rising trend of post-apocalyptic stories like "Planet of the Apes," "I Am Legend," and the 1978 film version of "The Time Machine." The apocalypse was looming large, and pop culture tapped eagerly into those impulses to imagine distant sci-fi worlds where anything could happen.

Kirby's entrance into this genre fast-forwarded to a point in the far-flung future after Earth had been devastated by an unknown cataclysm. The planet has since been renamed Earth A.D. (After Disaster), and most of humanity had devolved into violent savagery. Some people were keeping civilization alive in underground bunkers, although they had to hide from multiple new species of anthropomorphic animal monsters. Indeed, animals had rapidly evolved thanks to...

Stephen King‘s “Constant Readers” have read about the character Holly Gibney in the pages of his Bill Hodges trilogy, the novel The Outsider, the If It Bleeds short story from the collection of the same name, and his crime novel Holly. Holly is also at the heart of his next novel, Never Flinch, which is set to reach store shelves on May 27th – and with that date just one month away, King has sat down to read a passage from the novel on the Simon & Schuster Books YouTube channel. You can check it out in the embed at the bottom of this article. Before getting to the reading, King discusses his inspiration for writing this particular book and reveals that this is one of the rare King novels that was plotted out before he started writing it.

A few years ago, King told The Kingcast hosts, “I could...

Keith Redmon, a veteran talent manager and Oscar-nominated producer, will depart Black Bear and join Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme, the Academy Award-winning banner behind “Coda.”

At Vendôme, Redmon will continue representing several of his longtime clients, including Morten Tyldum, John Hillcoat, Raine Allen-Miller (“Rye Lane”), Michaël Roskam and Kyle Killen. Redmon is also producing Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” which is being adapted by John Logan with Hillcoat directing for New Regency.

Vendôme and Black Bear have several projects they are developing together. In a statement, Black Bear CEO Teddy Schwarzman commented, “We wish Philippe and Keith the best of luck on their new endeavor and look forward to continued collaboration with our friends at Vendôme. We thank Keith and his exceptional clients for being a meaningful part of the Black Bear family.”

In a statement, Vendôme Chairman and co-ceo Philippe Rousselet said, “I have known Keith...

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This April, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of Law & Order: Organized Crime to the release of underrated films like Last Night in Soho and Trainspotting. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in April 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Face/Off (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Face/Off is a sci-fi action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay co-written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. The 1997 film follows FBI Special Agent Sean Archer, who catches the dangerous terrorist Castor Troy, but he soon discovers that Castor has planted a bomb. To get more information,...

Directing duo Joel and Ethan Coen's modern classic No Country for Old Men is finding a new streaming home. The 2007 film has continued to be an influential entry in the thriller and western genres, telling an intense and dark story that explored poignant themes about fate, chance, and the seeming loss of morality in the modern-day frontier. Featuring a stellar cast with the likes of Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, and Woody Harrelson, No Country for Old Men is a truly riveting picture, and while it is currently available to stream on FuboTV and MGM+, the film will have a new streaming home starting next month.

No Country for Old Men will be available to stream on Peacock starting on Apr. 1, as it joins a vast catalog of other critically acclaimed films. On its initial release, the film was distributed by Miramax Films in the United States...

Oscar-winning actors, Hollywood royalty, film auteurs – everyone wants a piece of that signature Taylor Sheridan action that will turn them into an instant classic. The part-cowboy, part-filmmaker identity of Sheridan is so deeply rooted in his pop culture reputation that he embeds the lost art of Westerns into every project that he spearheads.

Taylor Sheridan as Travis in Yellowstone [Credit: Paramount+]

However, while most reputed actors and directors in the field get stale beyond a certain limit if they keep working in a single genre, Sheridan only gets better with time. His initial frontier trilogy – Sicario, Hell or High Water, and Wind River – was nothing short of extraordinary, and his work in television is the same.

Taylor Sheridan: The most wanted man in Hollywood Hell or High Water feat. Chris Pine and Ben Foster [Credit: Lionsgate Films]

Storytelling comes easily to Taylor Sheridan. The actor-turned-scriptwriter credits his 20+ years as a struggling artist...

Ridley Scott is a visionary director known for his striking and meticulously crafted films across numerous genres. While he’s widely recognized for sci-fi spectacles like Alien and Blade Runner, and historical epics like Gladiator, he's had a notable action-packed dip into cinematic crime. Scott's crime dramas often focus on tense power struggles, moral dilemmas, and the high-stakes world of illegal enterprises. His 2007 film American Gangster was nominated for two Oscars for its gripping biographical drama of Frank Lucas, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

The award-winning director also helmed The Counselor, a neo-noir crime thriller written by Cormac McCarthy, which explored the consequences of greed in the Mexican drug trade. Black Rain brought Scott’s stylish visuals to a Yakuza crime story set in Japan, while Body of Lies followed high-octane espionage in the Middle East with a tense, politically charged thriller. Across these stories, Ridley Scott’s movies...

Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka is now showing on Mubi in many countries.Eureka.A three-part film spanning starkly different locales, eras, and genres, Eureka (2023) stands as Lisandro Alonso’s most ambitious feature to date. It is also quite possibly the director’s most dreamlike—nothing short of remarkable considering its predecessor Jauja (2014). In that spellbinding period piece, a Danish colonial officer (Viggo Mortensen) travels across nineteenth-century Patagonia in search of his missing daughter. Late into the quest, a strange encounter with a wizened Danish-speaking woman suggests the soldier had traveled through time as well as space; a present-day coda makes the film’s timeline and logic even more disorienting.Eureka features a handful of similar twists. Written by Alonso together with poet Fabián Casas and Martín Caamaño, it begins as a black-and-white western starring Chiara Mastroianni as an infallible gunslinger and Viggo Mortensen as a father searching for his abducted daughter (again). But that preamble,...

Fallout 3 stands as one of the most special titles crafted by Bethesda Game Studios. It was the first entry in the franchise that Todd Howard and his team developed after the studio obtained the rights to the post-apocalyptic franchise from Interplay Entertainment.

Todd Howard is the man leading the Bethesda Game Studios. (Image via Microsoft)

Even though Fallout 3 wasn’t flawless by any standards, it was a smash hit. Since its release, gamers have always wondered what exactly inspired Howard to craft such a title. You’ll be shocked to know that it was none other than the critically acclaimed ‘The Road‘ that steered the ship for Bethesda.

The iconic book that inspired Todd Howard’s Fallout 3 Fallout 3 packed quite an emotional punch. (Image via Microsoft)

A few years ago, Arthur Protasio got the opportunity to sit down with Fallout 3‘s lead designer and writer, Emil Pagliarulo. The Bethesda developer...

Even if you don’t do a whole lot of reading, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of Blood Meridian. It’s the most well-known Cormac McCarthy novel that’s yet to have a movie adaptation, partly because it’s especially harrowing, violent, grim, nightmarish, and abstract. There have been attempts at making a movie, but as of 2025 (the year the book itself turns 40), nothing’s come to fruition.

Spoiler Alert: This article contains major spoilers from “The Man Who Kept The Secrets,” the Season 1 finale of “Paradise,” now streaming on Hulu.

The first season of “Paradise” officially came to an end on March 4, with the killer being revealed as none other than… Trent.

You may be asking who Trent is. That’s because his name was mentioned very little in the first season of the show, but he was best known as the librarian. In Episode 7, specifically, Trent (Ian Merrigan) had a conversation with Cal (James Marsden), telling him where he could go to make a mixtape.

It was revealed during the finale that before the world as they knew it ended, Trent worked as the project manager helping to build the bunker. After alerting Anders (Erik Svedberg-Zelman), the architect building Paradise, that there was iron arsenic sulfide — a deathly mineral — on the work site, he was fired from his job.

What's so great about Westerns? Well, for starters, the genre's approach toward morality might seem clear-cut at a glance, but the best Westerns languish in morally grey landscapes and constantly redefine codes of honor. Violence is often at the heart of these stories because, without this component, we would be painting a sanitized and inauthentic picture of a society on the cusp of change. This violence can manifest in different forms and reflect bitter truths about human history, or it can simply highlight universal human traumas from a specific point of view. Moreover, lawless spaces demand lawless men who are in tune with the West and its ethos, and sometimes, these men undergo a transformation. The rich history of Westerns extends beyond the moving image, with writers like Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx having reshaped the definitions of how Westerns can reveal the worst impulses in humanity.

Deciding which Westerns...

A female CIA operative leads a dangerous undercover mission. A just-out-of-jail gangster relocates to the sticks. An oil company fixer deals with cartels, corporate intrigue and his chaotic ex-wife. A real-life cowboy, said to be the inspiration for The Lone Ranger, has his life more fully dramatized. And a man leading a private prison struggles to maintain order.

What all of these shows have in common – besides being massive hits for streaming service Paramount+ — is the involvement of one man: Taylor Sheridan. While TV remains an unpredictable business, Sheridan has become as close as a talent can get to representing a sure thing, launching one success after another. Sheridan often creates, executive produces and writes most of the episodes of every season. If his shows are cattle, he’s the lone cowboy.

And this is a rodeo people love to watch. During its most popular week, “Landman” was the second-most-watched title across streaming,...

Have sci-fi filmmakers stopped trying to imagine a hopeful future? A look at why grim dystopias may have taken hold in storytelling:

You may have heard a variation on a common complaint: “It’s the 21st century. We should be flying around with jet packs and eating food in pill form.”

It’s a sentiment – itself probably dying out now we’re 25 years into the 21st century – that says a lot about our collective, unrealised dreams of the future. Decades ago, science fiction writers, futurists and scientists once had utopian visions of what the 21st century might look like. In Things To Come (1936), which William Cameron Menzies directed from a story by Hg Wells, humanity survived the wars and pandemics of the 20th century and rebuilt itself into a glorious, Rome-inspired superstate in the new millennium, its sights set on conquering other planets.

Following the Second World War, a generation...