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Anu Valia’s feature directorial debut “We Strangers” not only premiered at SXSW 2024, but soon became a critically acclaimed hit — even earning the coveted IndieWire Critics’ Pick title after its debut.

Now, with Quiver Distribution releasing the feature, audiences everywhere can experience the twisty genre-bender that is billed as being “Get Out” with a psychic twist. Kirby Howell-Baptiste stars as Rayelle Martin, a savvy commercial cleaner who soon realizes that there is more money to be had after privately working for one of her office clients (Hari Dhillon). Yet Rayelle’s ambition may have unforeseen consequences…

The official synopsis reads: “Inspired by director Valia’s own childhood in Gary, Indiana, where the film is set, ‘We Strangers’ follows Rayelle (Howell-Baptiste), a young commercial cleaning woman who is offered a second job cleaning the homes of several rich, suburban families. To blend into her new surroundings, she inadvertently tells one white lie,...

Who's ready to return to Split River High, aka the school where the living and the dead collide and the mysteries keep getting deeper? School Spirits season 3 is confirmed and will be headed to Paramount+ sometime in 2026. Now, we've just learned that production is officially underway in Vancouver. This just means we're one step closer to uncovering what happens next after that jaw-dropping season 2 finale.

The official School Spirits Instagram page was the first to announce the start of filming. A short video was shared on the page on July 21, showcasing rapid snapshots of the cast, with bold text appearing in the center that reads, "Season 3 now in production." School Spirits stars Sarah Yarkin and Kristian Ventura, who play Rhonda and Simon in the series, were quick to jump in the comment section. Their reaction to the video only got fans even more excited and eager for what’s coming next.

Jennifer Tilly will guest star on Paramount+’s supernatural teen drama series “School Spirits.”

The “Chucky” veteran will play superintendent Dr. Deborah Hunter-Price in the upcoming third season, which entered production today in Vancouver.

Peyton List (“Cobra Kai”) stars as Maddie Nears, a teenager who dies at her school and is unable to leave as she tries to discover who killed her. She must unite her friends in the spectral and living worlds in order to reclaim her stolen life.

Picking up from the shocking Season 2 finale, Season 3 follows Maddie as faces the dangerous mystery behind Split River High School in order to save her best friend who might be lost forever.

Kristian Ventura, Spencer MacPherson Kiara Pichardo, Sarah Yarkin, Nick Pugliese, Rainbow Wedell, Josh Zuckerman, Milo Manheim, Ci Hang Ma, and Miles Elliot round out the cast.

Other guest stars alongside Tilly include Maria Dizzia, Patrick Gilmore, Alex Zahara,...

Paramount+’s drama series School Spirits is bolstering its Season 3 cast, promoting Ci Hang Ma, who recurred as Quinn, and Miles Elliot, who plays Yuri, to series regular, and adding Jennifer Tilly (Chucky), Ari Dalbert (Friendship) and Erika Swayze (Davey & Jonesie’s Locker) in recurring roles. Production on Season 3 begins today in Vancouver.

The series stars Peyton List as Maddie Nears, along with Kristian Ventura as Simon Elroy, Spencer MacPherson as Xavier Baxter, Kiara Pichardo as Nicole Herrera, Sarah Yarkin as Rhonda, Nick Pugliese as Charley, Rainbow Wedell as Claire Zomer, Josh Zuckerman as Mr. Martin and Milo Manheim as Wally Clark.

Picking up from the shocking Season 2 finale, in Season 3 Maddie (List) must face the dangerous mystery behind Split River High School in order to save her best friend who might be lost forever.

Tilly recurs as Dr. Deborah Hunter-Price, Dalbert portrays Kyle and Swayze plays Livia.

Maria Dizzia,...

“School Spirits” has tapped Jennifer Tilly, Ari Dalbert and Erika Swayze as guest stars for its upcoming third season.

Tilly, Dalbert and Swayze will appear on the the Paramount+ series for the first time when it returns for Season 3, the streamer announced Monday. Tilly will play school superintendent Dr. Deborah Hunter-Price while Dalbert plays Kyle and Swayze plays Livia.

Season 3, which officially began production in Vancouver on Monday, also upped Ci Hang Ma and Miles Elliot to series regulars.

The new guest stars and new series regulars will join returning stars Peyton List, Kristian Ventura, Spencer MacPherson Kiara Pichardo, Sarah Yarkin, Nick Pugliese, Rainbow Wedell, Josh Zuckerman and Milo Manheim,

This season’s recurring guest stars include Maria Dizzia as Sandra Nears, Patrick Gilmore as Mr. Anderson, Alex Zahara as Principal Hartman, Ian Tracey as Sheriff Baxter, Jess Gabor as Janet Hamilton and Zack Calderon as Diego Herrera.

Picking up from the shocking Season 2 finale,...

Tracy Ifeachor and Ashley Walters are set to star in an upcoming new movie from M Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks!

The now former The Pitt actress and Adolescence star have joined the cast of Remain, which is an original story from the filmmaker and the best-selling author, per Deadline.

They, along with several others, join previously announced stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor.

Keep reading to find out more…

Also set to join the cast include Julie Hagerty, Jay O Sanders, Hannah James, Caleb Ruminer, Kieran Mulcare and Maria Dizzia.

The upcoming movie is a story co-created by M Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks, who are writing the film and an accompanying novel, respectively, based on the same original love story.

Both the movie and the novel will be based on the story’s concept and characters, but will be tailored to their respective platforms.

M Night will produce through his Blinding Edge Pictures,...

M. Night Shyamalan is moving on from Trap with something a little more romantic — but still plenty strange. Remain, his next supernatural thriller, is officially underway, and Deadline has confirmed the ensemble will include none other than Tracy Ifeachor, who broke out earlier this year as ER doctor Heather Collins on The Pitt. Ifeachor joins a packed cast that also includes Ashley Walters, Julie Hagerty, Jay O. Sanders, and Maria Dizzia, alongside previously announced leads Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor.

The twist? Remain isn’t just a movie. Shyamalan is teaming up with bestselling author Nicholas Sparks on a unique dual project — one story, told two ways: Shyamalan will direct and co-write the film, while Sparks pens a novel based on the same characters and concept. The film will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 23, 2026.

This marks Shyamalan’s first feature since Trap, an eerie, high-concept thriller about...

A while back, it was announced that The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan and The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks were teaming up for a supernatural romantic thriller called Remain. Shyamalan and Sparks created the original story together, with Shyamalan going off to write a screenplay based on the story while Sparks turned the idea into a novel. As was said at the time, “Both will be based on the same concept and set of characters but designed for their individual mediums.” The Sparks novel is scheduled to reach store shelves this year, on October 7th, and Amazon is already accepting pre-orders for the 352 page book at This Link. The Shyamalan film will reach theatres one year later, just in time for Halloween, as Warner Bros. Pictures has given it an October 23, 2026 release date. Filming began a few weeks ago, and now Deadline has confirmed that Julie Hagerty (Airplane), Jay O. Sanders...

M. Night Shyamalan has rounded out the cast of his supernatural romance thriller Remain, Deadline reports.

Julie Hagerty (Airplane), Jay O. Sanders (Along Came a Spider), Tracy Ifeachor (“The Pitt”), Hannah James (“Mercy Street”), Caleb Ruminer (“Finding Carter”), Kieran Mulcare (“Jessica Jones”), and Maria Dizzia (“Orange is the New Black”) have joined the production.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko), Phoebe Dynevor (“Bridgerton”), and Ashley Walters (“Adolescence”) lead the cast.

Currently shooting in Rhode Island, the film is due out on October 23, 2026 from Warner Bros.

Shyamalan co-created the story with author Nicholas Sparks, independently writing a screenplay and a novel based on the same concept and characters but tailored to their respective mediums.

Sparks’ Remain novel publishes on October 7, 2025 via Random House. Here’s the book’s synopsis:

When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start.

Exclusive: M. Night Shyamalan’s new supernatural romantic thriller, Remain, has added award-winning actor, producer, director and recording artist Ashley Walters, Julie Hagerty, Jay O. Sanders (His Three Daughters; When You Finishing Saving the World) and Tracy Ifeachor (The Pitt) to the cast.

Hannah James, Caleb Ruminer, Kieran Mulcare and Maria Dizzia round out the cast.

The group joins previously announced Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor in a story that 2x Oscar nominee Shyamalan co-created with bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks. Shyamalan and Sparks are independently writing a screenplay and a novel, respectively, based on the same original love story.

Both projects will be based on the same concept and set of characters, but tailored to their respective mediums.

Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan...

Spoiler Alert! This post contains details from Marvel’s Ironheart and Agatha All Along.

It was Mephisto all along!

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Mephisto makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in final episode of Ironheart, and fans have been waiting for this character to arrive for quite some time. While some speculated he may make an appearance in Agatha All Along, theories about his eventual introduction into the MCU have been picking up steam since WandaVision.

In Ironheart, we learn that Parker Robbins (Anthony Ramos) aka The Hood has been slowly corrupted by the red cape he wears throughout the six-episode series. It’s not until the finale that we understand why. As it turns out, the cape was imbued with its nefarious powers by Mephisto. He visits Parker in the final episode and, eventually, strikes a deal with Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) to combine her genius with his magic.

Many fans of the sci-fi genre are looking forward to seeing the sci-fi horror Alien franchise continue on the small screen with the “FX on Hulu” TV series called Alien: Earth, which stars Sydney Chandler and is coming our way from Fargo creator Noah Hawley. The 8-episode first season of the show is set to debut with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Et on Hulu and the FX linear channel, and via Disney+ internationally – and before we get to the premiere date, Chandler has already started working on another genre project, a sci-fi road trip movie called Anima. We’ve previously heard that she will be sharing the screen with Emmy-nominated Shōgun star Takehiro Hira in this film, and now Deadline has broken the news that they’re joined in the cast by three-time Emmy nominee Lili Taylor (American Crime), Marin Ireland (Dope Thief), Maria Dizzia (Orange Is the New Black...

Marvel's Agatha All Along introduced two powerful new characters who are sure to play significant roles in the magical/supernatural corner of the MCU down the line. A mysterious "Teen" (Joe Locke) who was confirmed to be Wanda Maximoff's (Elizabeth Olsen) son Billy Kaplan/Wiccan in the season finale (though it was one of the worst-kept secrets in the MCU), and the personification of Lady Death herself (Aubrey Plaza).

We've seen some early concept art for Wiccan and Death already, and we now have some more alternate designs from the recently-released Art of the Series book.

The costumes both characters ended up wearing in the show were arguably more comic-accurate than anything seen in this artwork, but there are some interesting looks here.

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Agatha: The Art of the Series is now on sale, and thanks to The Artbook Collector, we can take a look inside the book and see the many alternate costumes considered for Agatha All Along's leads.

As you'll see in the video below, several different designs were considered for Wiccan's costume. However, Marvel Studios' artists got really experimental with Death, considering some fantastical designs and others more in line with what we've seen in the comics over the years.

Then, there's Ghost Agatha, Agatha Harkness' new form after she sacrificed herself to save Billy Maximoff.

Agatha All Along strongly hinted at a romance between her and Rio Vidal/Death. They locked lips in the penultimate episode, but there was some disappointment over how the relationship was handled on screen. Marvel Studios is struggling to portray its LGBTQ characters in an authentic manner, but showrunner Jac Schaeffer has confirmed the intention...

Sundance didn’t have the plethora of late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, but a number of buzziest titles are actually closing deals late into the spring and into the early summer. Over 60 films came into this year’s Sundance looking for homes, and slowly but surely a number of those are finding homes. As we previously reported, the hope was that even more distributors could get creative.

Below we’ll update all the acquisitions following the festival as they arrive.

“Hal & Harper”

Section: Indie Episodics

Buyer: Mubi

Director: Cooper Raiff

Buzz: The “Shithouse” and “Cha Cha Real Smooth” writer/director’s serialized debut follows two tight-knit siblings forced to face a past tragedy when their dad decides to sell their childhood home. It’s got a strong cast, including Raiff himself, Mark Ruffalo, Betty Gilpin, and Lili Reinhart,...

Pedro Pascal has a chokehold on pop culture, and honestly, we’re not complaining. We loved him in The Mandalorian and The Last of Us, and every day there’s a new TikTok edit of him, so clearly, the internet’s obsession with Pascal has only increased.

But just when we thought that netizens couldn’t have another meltdown over the actor, a moment at Cannes has sent everyone ablaze. So let’s take a look at the actor’s affectionate encounter with Alexander Skarsgård and then his dating life.

Alexander Skarsgård kisses Pedro Pascal at Cannes Pedro Pascal in The Last of Us | Credits: HBO

The Cannes Film Festival is full of unforgettable moments, from red carpet entrances to phenomenal movies that are praised by everyone. But what happened during the premiere of Pillion on May 18, 2025, was extraordinary and one of the most-talked-about interactions from the event.

Related: Dakota Johnson...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey thriller Plainclothes from filmmaker Carmen Emmi.

Emmi’s directorial debut is set in 1990s Syracuse and follows a promising undercover officer (Blyth) who is assigned to lure and arrest gay men. He defies orders when he falls in love with a target (Tovey). The movie won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast when it world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and also stars Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, and Amy Forsyth. A fall theatrical release is planned. Magnify will represent international sales in Cannes.

At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party, Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. Amid the backdrop of the suffocating party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he’s tried to forget: months earlier,...

At just 25 years old (as of writing), Joey King has been featured in over 70 films and television shows dating as far back as 2006. Given the sheer volume of work she takes on, it's not shock that many of these have been critical and commercial duds you've either never heard of or wish you'd never heard of, like the "Final Destination" riff-off "Wish Upon," the middling ghost romance "The In Between," and the irredeemably pandering sci-fi thriller "Uglies."

At the same time, King has consistently turned high-quality performances in some memorable projects. Fans of "The Dark Knight Rises," "Crazy Stupid Love," and "The Conjuring" are proof that she's been ready for almost any acting challenge since she first appeared on a screen. From her extensive resume, we picked out our favorite roles and ranked them based on quality and how well they showcase King as an actor. 

These are the 10 best...

Jennifer Aniston, who rose to fame after portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, is one of the most loved actresses in the industry. Aniston is also regarded as one of the highest-paid actresses, who, with her work over the years, has solidified her space in the industry.

Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show | Credits: Apple TV+

Known as America’s sweetheart, Jennifer Aniston’s personal life has been a part of public discussion over the years. The actress’ highly publicized marriage with Brad Pitt, which ended in 2005, and her relationship and marriage with Justin Theroux, which ended in 2017, garnered a lot of attention. And now she has been linked to one of the hottest male celebrities out there, and reports claim it’s a perfect ‘revenge romance.’

Jennifer Aniston trying to give her former partners a message following her dinner date with Pedro Pascal?

Fans of...

Pedro Pascal is notoriously private about his love life and fans know little about his past girlfriends. His latest photos from a date night prove that The Last of Us actor has got game. He was photographed alongside none other than Jennifer Aniston, sparking dating rumors. Fans are super excited to learn more details regarding this new rumored relationship.

Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones | Credits: HBO

Pascal has been previously romantically linked to several of his co-stars as the actor tends to maintain a good friendship with them. He never confirmed a single one of those rumors. It is possible that Pascal may have met up with the Friends actress after she gave him an alleged role in The Morning Show Season 4.

Pedro Pascal and Jennifer Aniston’s dinner date sparks romance rumors Jennifer Aniston in a still from Friends | Credits: NBC

49-year-old Pedro Pascal and...

School Spirits will conclude its second season on Paramount+ in March, leaving just a few episodes left to go as the story continues to build up towards the finale. While the wait for episode 206 will be just a little longer, Cbr can exclusively unveil a sneak peek clip.

In the clip, Maddie (Peyton List) and the others begin to grow weary over the absence of Janet Hamilton (Jess Gabor). The tension is broken when visitors in "murder vans" arrive at the school, but this doesn't bring the answers that the group is expecting. Fans will have to check out the episode in full to see what happens when it starts streaming on Paramount+ on Feb. 20. For now, the new clip can be viewed below.

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The Graduates comes from that long line of modern-day movies where not many things happen; instead, you get to meet a few (mostly) relatable characters and follow them around for a while. However, if moody cinema is your thing, then I’m sure Hannah Peterson’s debut feature worked for you. Not sure if this information is relevant, but American indie cinema happens to be my favorite genre. In fact, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration if I said that I based my personality on the genre thanks to watching a lot of these movies during my formative years as a cinema enthusiast (not all that fond of the word ‘cinephile’). The most admirable thing about The Graduates is not using any flashback scene, which has to be a deliberate creative choice. It only ensures that the movie is really about the aftermath of the tragedy—that too a common one,...

Though there have been conflicting reports about how well the show actually performed on Disney+, Agatha All Along was said to be a pretty big success for Marvel (which is at least partially due to the fact that it's the least expensive Disney+ series yet), and it seems the studio is pleased enough with the viewership that plans are in place to continue these characters' journeys across several different projects.

Agatha - itself a spin-off of WandaVision - introduced a mysterious "Teen" (Joe Locke) who was confirmed to be Wanda Maximoff's (Elizabeth Olsen) son Billy Kaplan/Wiccan in the season finale (though it was one of the worst-kept secrets in the MCU).

A recent rumor claimed that a Wiccan solo show was in the works, which Marvel will develop along with the Scarlet Witch movie and a Young Avengers project (we still don't know if that'll be a movie or...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)

Following up her enigmatic, beautiful debut A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia shows an entirely different register with her dazzling Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner All We Imagine as Light. Luke Hicks said in his review, “Writer-director Payal Kapadia isn’t interested in the flashy world of Mumbai that gets so much global attention. Per its opening soundscape, All We Imagine as Light means to bask in the luminescence of life found among India’s lower classes, which means acknowledging the inequality and socio-economic injustice that defines their everyday as much as it means showcasing their intrinsic glow and dogged refusal to let the inalienable love, beauty, and camaraderie of existence be taken from them.

Severance has become one of the most critically acclaimed series of the 2020s, and fans adore its mixture of complex themes. The story involves Mark Scout, an employee of a fictional tech company called Lumon. Along with his other co-workers, he agrees to go through a procedure that separates his work-life memories and his personal memories. But when Scout discovers a mysterious employee outside of his workplace, he begins to question everything about his job.

Although this show has managed to win a wide selection of prestigious awards, it only has two seasons. Thus, fans are trying to savor every episode until the third season is inevitably announced. As such, a lot of audiences are seeking out a few new shows that handle the same sort of themes as Severance.

A Man Struggles to Get Back to His Ordinary Life Dark Matter

Dark Matter introduces fans to Jason Dessen, a physicist living in Chicago.

This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “School Spirits” Season 2.

In the first three episodes of “School Spirits” Season 2, Maddie Nears (Peyton List) realizes that while she’s stuck in limbo in the high school, her body, which has been possessed by the ghost of ’50s student Janet (Jess Gabor), is Awol.

Her friends, led by Simon (Kristian Ventura) and Xavier (Spencer MacPherson), track Janet-as-Maddie to her childhood home, but then lose her… until she unexpectedly turns up to Maddie’s very surprised mother (Maria Dizzia), who assumed that her daughter is probably dead.

The show’s creators, Oliver Goldstick, Megan Trinrud and Nate Trinrud, teased what happens in the next few episodes (which roll out on a weekly basis) and explained that huge “Veronica Mars” homage.

“School Spirits” producers Oliver Goldstick, Megan Trinrud and Nate Trinrud (Credit: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Paramount+)

TheWrap: We ended...

When it comes to movies, timing is everything. Sexy, scary, and occasionally clumsy, Carmen Emmi’s feature-length directorial debut, Plainclothes, is an anxious and unabashed gay drama about social repression and its impacts. Set in 1997, what might a mere few years ago have been an easily digestible snapshot of an ugly, less liberated gay past is now a bitter pill with something to say about our precarious present.

Lucas (Tom Blyth) is a young police officer tasked with targeting local cruising spots in Syracuse, New York, by luring men into bathroom stalls and charging them with public indecency. Struggling with the recent death of his father and gripped by crippling anxiety, Lucas nonetheless finds himself drawn to one of his targets, Andrew (Russell Tovey), an older, married man who slips Lucas his number after he fails to make the arrest. As their sexual relationship develops, Lucas’s romantic feelings toward...

It’s been about a year and a half since the Season 1 finale of “School Spirits,” so you might want a refresher before you watch the first three episodes of Season 2, which premiere on Thursday on Paramount+.

Peyton List stars in the series as Madison “Maddie” Nears, who suddenly finds herself haunting the halls of Split River high school along with several other students who died on campus over the past 60 years.

As she tries to piece together her last few days before she was (apparently) killed, we follow both her own investigation and that of the police. Meanwhile, her living friends suspect foul play when they discover her blood on some pipes in the school’s basement.

While it appears that several people, including her boyfriend and her own mother, might have had a motive to kill her, Maddie herself doesn’t remember exactly what happened that night. Here...

A movie all too palpably real for those of us who can remember years of shame, fear and secrecy, Plainclothes follows a young cop assigned to a sting operation, arresting gay men cruising for sex in a mall in Syracuse, New York. His willingness to pose as bait dissolves when he starts facing his own sexual identity while getting obsessive about a similarly closeted hook-up. First-time writer-director Carmen Emmi’s aesthetically overworked use of low-grade video and distorted sound is intrusive, but very fine performances from Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey keep you glued to this sexy, sad, authentically gritty drama.

The strains of Omc’s “How Bizarre” coming over the speakers in a shopping mall instantly position the story in the mid ‘90s. A young cop, Lucas (Blyth), sits in the food court, serving as the tasty bait for gay men on the prowl. An exchange of eye contact,...

Update: We previously reported that the first three episodes of the second season would be dropping at 12:00 a.m. Pt/3:00 a.m. Et on Jan. 30. This release time was wrong. The three episodes are available to stream on Paramount+ now.

The wait has been long, but it’s finally happening! School Spirits season 2 is set to premiere on Paramount+ very soon, and we're overflowing with excitement, not knowing whether to jump for joy or scream from the rooftops!

While Paramount+ might not have many original teen dramas, School Spirits has quickly become a fan-favorite, combining mystery, supernatural elements, and the perfect mix of suspense and emotional depth. Some might even consider it to be underrated, but we're positive that's about to change with its upcoming second season.

Like season 1, School Spirits season 2 is made up of eight episodes. This means fans can look forward to another compact yet...

As the LGBTQ community continues to face threats to their safety and rights as equal American citizens, the cast and creatives of “Plainclothes” were quick to admit that things feel “terrifying” right now. But that’s what makes their film so important for others to see, they shared.

Having its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, “Plainclothes” tells the story of a promising undercover police officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men, who defies those orders when he falls in love with a target. Starring “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and others, the film is set in the 1990s.

But stopping by TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt, Tovey said that it unfortunately doesn’t feel like a story of the past.

“The world moves in circles, and you would hope that,...

Marvel Studios' Agatha All Along was originally listed as a miniseries, but the fact that Disney submitted the show in the comedy categories for a number of awards events - including the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and this year’s Emmy race - led to speculation that a second batch of episodes might be in development.

The Television Academy’s criteria for limited series state: “The program must tell a complete, non-recurring story and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters in subsequent seasons.”

Though a second season hadn't been made official, several different sources claimed that it was only a matter of time, as plans for the show's return were already in place.

Now, star Patti LuPonse (Lilia Calderu) has seemingly dashed hopes of another season of Agatha by revealing that the popular series will not be back for more episodes.

“There won’t be one,” LuPone told...

With gay rights coming back into the crosshairs in almost every country across the globe, Carmen Emmi’s slow-burn drama is sobering reminder of just how far these things have progressed in the past 30 years. Taking place primarily in 1997 — unfolding in flashback from the framing device of a family New Year’s Eve party being held a few years later — it takes a little while to find its feet. Once the main players are established, though, and experimental flashes of harsh analog video become a more recognizable manifestation of its ugly-beautiful aesthetic, Plainclothes builds to a very satisfying conclusion, putting a torrid but meaningful gay love affair at the center of a universal coming-of-age story.

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart is an unlikely reference point, not because Plainclothes is a genre film — though it shares a tiny bit of DNA with William Friedkin’s much more...

These days, gay men can arrange sex by a smartphone app as easily as ordering a pizza. But back in the ’90s, when “Plainclothes” takes place, such trysts not only had to be coordinated in person, but could be punished by arrest. Audiences of a certain age and demographic almost certainly remember the risk and fear (not to mention the illicit excitement) of the hunt, back when undercover police monitored public “tearooms” for lewd behavior. In writer-director Carmen Emmi’s “we’ve come a long way, baby” debut, the cops take it one step further, luring frisky men into exposing themselves.

But what if the officer in question was closeted and one of these strangers slipped him his phone number? That’s the intriguing — if credulity-stretching — premise of “Plainclothes,” which casts Tom Blyth (the outlaw star of Epix’s “Billy the Kid”) as Lucas, a second-generation cop with all kinds of identity issues.

Like “Cruising” for the 1990s New Queer Cinema set, Carmen Emmi’s feature debut “Plainclothes” features the most emotionally (and physically) naked performance yet from rising British star Tom Blyth. He plays Lucas, a rookie cop somewhere outside Syracuse assigned to post up in one of those bland, sad Malls of America, hoping to lure men into a toilet stall — and into exposing themselves or more.

This clandestine, bait-and-catch operation was the sort of problematic police procedure that got people like George Michael into trouble for lewd conduct. Here, it forms the basis of a thriller — and one with shades of romance when Lucas’ own secret attraction to men starts overtaking him. And especially in the form of Russell Tovey, sparking a hesitant hook-up and possible romance after Lucas catches Andrew (Tovey) in the bathroom, only to end up lingering too long.

IndieWire shares an exclusive clip for the film in the video above.

One of the best teen drama series is set to make its comeback this month. We're talking about School Spirits, the show that captivated audiences with its mix of mystery, supernatural elements, and relatable high school drama. After an almost two-year wait, the long-awaited second season will finally hit Paramount+, and fans are eager to dive back into the gripping storyline and see what twists and turns await the characters.

Megan and Nate Trinrud, a talented sister and brother duo, created School Spirits. The first season premiered on Paramount+ back in March 2023. But instead of dropping all eight of its episodes at once, the first three were released on the premiere date, followed by one episode a week until its season finale. Paramount+ will follow the same release schedule for the upcoming School Spirits season 2.

The first three episodes of the second season are slated to be released on Paramount+ on Thursday,...

Paramount+ today revealed the official trailer and premiere date for season two of its hit original drama series School Spirits. Produced by Awesomeness TV, the new season will debut on Thursday, January 30, with three episodes in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

The season will also launch exclusively on Paramount+ in the UK and Australia on January 31, and later in the year in additional markets. Following the premiere, new episodes of the eight-episode season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays, on Paramount+.

Picking up from the shocking season one finale, the premiere episode “Whatever Happened to Maddie Nears?” follows Maddie Nears (Peyton List) as she works to bring a doubting Simon (Kristian Ventura), her only connection to the living world, back on board to help her track down and collect her missing body.

Throughout the season, Maddie Nears is still stuck in the afterlife with the knowledge...

The ghosts in Split River High School are scary enough already, but Paramount+ just pulled a move that is far scarier.

The streaming platform announced this morning that School Spirits Season 2 will premiere on Thursday, January 30, with a three-episode drop.

While we’re excited to get some much-needed resolution to the many mysteries School Spirits Season 1 threw our way, the fact that it premieres in just over a week is concerning.

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Promotion can make or break any project, so announcing a premiere date this close to the debut date doesn’t instill hope that many people will find it.

School Spirits Season 1 had a devoted audience, but it’s hard to tell whether they’ll get the message in time that new episodes are available to devour.

Genre shows are disappearing before our very eyes, and the last thing we need is for School Spirits to face a similar fate.

The first season of Paramount+’s School Spirits ended with Maddie finally uncovering the secret to her death…and it turns out she’s not really dead after all. Janet, a ghost, took over Maddie’s body so she’s stuck in the afterlife, hanging out with others who’ve died at the high school. The official trailer for season two shows Maddie’s friends, both the living and dead, teaming up to figure out how to get Maddie’s body back.

Season two will premiere on January 30, 2025 with the release of the first three episodes. New episodes stream on Thursdays.

Peyton List returns to lead the cast as Maddie Near. Kristian Ventura stars as Simon Elroy, Spencer MacPherson is Xavier Baxter, Kiara Pichardo is Nicole Herrera, Sarah Yarkin is Rhonda, and Nick Pugliese stars as Charley. Rainbow Wedell plays Claire Zomer, Josh Zuckerman is Mr. Martin, and Milo Manheim is Wally Clark.

Brady Corbet's historical epic, The Brutalist, earned rave reviews in 2024, and recently won some key Golden Globe Awards, leaving many to wonder what kind of movie The Brutalist is, and what to watch like it. Premiering at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, The Brutalist follows László Tóth, an architect and Jewish immigrant from Hungary who moves to America, hoping to find success after the devastation of World War II. After a chance meeting with a wealthy businessman, Tóth's luck begins to change. The Brutalist is rising in popularity due to its amazing reviews, but also its shocking runtime.

There are many aspects of watching The Brutalist that make it different from an average blockbuster. First, the movie is 215 minutes long, which is more than 3 1/2 hours. Movies of that length typically boast epic stories that take place over many years, and The Brutalist is no different. Furthermore, this movie...

Marvel Studios' Agatha All Along was originally listed as a miniseries, but the fact that Disney submitted the show in the comedy categories for the upcoming awards season led to speculation that a second batch of episodes might be in development.

Rumors that a second season is in the planning stages soon followed, and while Marvel has yet to make it official, we will almost certainly see Miss Harkness in the MCU again in some capacity.

Star Kathryn Hahn - who lost out on a Best Actress Golden Globe during Sunday's ceremony - was asked about the awards submissions and what they could mean for a second season while speaking to TV Line on the red carpet.

“It does suggest that,” the actress conceded. “I am as in-the-dark as you are. There’s going to be a Vision show, so that could be of a trilogy. But who knows?”

“Am...

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to balance high stakes, conflict, and healthy relationships in romantic movies. Toxic couples who fight all the time and break up and then get back together can be exciting in a movie, but there's something special about mature, functional relationships. Healthy couples respect each other's autonomy, communicate effectively, and appreciate each person's unique qualities.

A romance doesn't have to be boring to be mature and refreshingly kind. They exist in even the goofiest and most entertaining comedies, like George of the Jungle. There are many ways to depict happy relationships, and these movie couples prove that love on the big screen can be healthy and scintillating.

Updated on January 3, 2025, by Andrea Sandoval: While romance movies are some of people's favorite genres, they are often riddled with clichés, toxic tropes, and problematic relationships. Oftentimes, these films portray unrealistic and harmful ideals, like love at first sight,...

Recent rumors have claimed that Agatha All Along will return for a second batch of episodes, and while Marvel Studios has yet to make it official, the WandaVision spin-off - which was originally tagged as a miniseries - is now listed as "season 1" on Disney+.

We already had a pretty good idea that Marvel had plans to renew the series when Disney submitted it in the comedy categories for the upcoming awards season (star Kathryn Hahn was recently nominated for a Golden Globe), since the Television Academy’s criteria for limited series state: “The program must tell a complete, non-recurring story and not have an ongoing storyline or main characters in subsequent seasons.”

The season finale concluded with Agatha Harkness (Hahn) sacrificing herself to save Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) by planting a kiss on her former lover Rio Vidal, aka Death (Aubrey Plaza).

As we know, dying in the Marvel...

In episode 8 of Before, Eli sort of proved that he and Noah were “connected” because the child psychologist had a random nosebleed right when Noah smashed his face into a window to protest his shift from St. Benedict’s to a facility in Ithaca. Maybe that little stunt stalled the authorities, but it certainly didn’t stop Eli from taking a trip to the farmhouse that Noah kept referencing in all his artwork. Apparently, that was the last place that Benjamin and Lynn had gone to prior to his sudden death. Eli also met his end at that farmhouse, after witnessing a series of disjointed visuals, but since Cleo was with him, she decided to dial 911 and get the elderly child psychologist to a hospital. It wasn’t clear if the infected wound that he had sustained while throwing a temper tantrum in his house in the first episode was...

Top L–R: The Legend of Ochi, Rabbit Trap, East of Wall, Seeds Center Row L–R: Rebuilding, Together, Love, Brooklyn, Jimpa Bottom L–R: Hal & Harper, Selena y Los Dinos, The Dating Game, Brides screen at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival‘s lineup will include 87 feature films and six episodic projects. Sundance received 15,775 submissions from 156 countries, including 4,138 feature-length film submissions. The 87 films selected represent 33 countries and territories, with 36 of the chosen films coming from first-time feature filmmakers.

“The Sundance Film Festival remains steadfast in its commitment to elevating unique and urgent voices in independent storytelling. Audiences can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking globally,” stated Robert Redford, Sundance Institute Founder and President.

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will run January 23rd through February 2nd. For ticket information, visit festival.sundance.org.

“The Festival is our most significant public program as an Institute and builds...

Thanks to Apple TV+, we're excited to share with Daily Dead readers a sneak peek clip from this week's episode of the psychological thriller, Before, starring Billy Crystal. The ten-episode limited series is available exclusively on Apple TV+, with Episode 8 premiering on Friday, December 6th, followed by new episodes every Friday through December 20.

“Before” stars Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jacobi Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens, sparking haunting memories and unearthing unsettling secrets about the past. The ensemble cast also includes Rosie Perez, Maria Dizzia and Ava Lalezarzadeh.

The upcoming ten-episode atmospheric and character-driven psychological thriller is created by Sarah Thorp (“The Bounty Hunter”) who also serves as showrunner, writer and executive producer. Crystal executive produces alongside Eric Roth,...

The season finale of Agatha All Along concluded with Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) sacrificing herself to save Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) by planting a kiss on her former lover Rio Vidal, aka Death (Aubrey Plaza).

Of course, dying in the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn't necessarily mean the end of the road - especially for a powerful witch.

In the final moments of the episode, Harkness returns in spirit form and accompanies Wiccan on his quest to locate his brother Tommy. Showrunner Jac Schaeffer has already hinted at future plans for these characters, but if Hahn didn't get the chance to reprise her role, it sounds like she'd be very happy with her ghostly send-off.

“Even though obviously now Billy/Wiccan is not her son, there is some sort of hope for her that she’s able to maybe do for him what she couldn’t do for Nicky. I think...

Stephen King shares his praise for a new Apple TV+ thriller, matching the audience's sentiment. Apple TV+ has been on a run of consistently releasing new original shows over the past few years, with the genre frequently falling into the thriller category. Oftentimes, those thrillers will have a sci-bent, with Silo, Dark Matter, and Severance. But the preference for tense stories also extends beyond the science fiction realm.

Lady in the Lake, led by Natalie Portman, was a murder mystery presented as a thriller. The same is true for The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried, which was a crime drama that often veered into the direction of a paranoid and shaky narrative with an unreliable protagonist at the center. One of the newest thrillers from the streamer continues the trend, including another big actor, though responses have been split.

King Is A Fan Of Before The New...

Billy Crystal stars as you’ve never seen him before in Apple TV+’s “Before,” an atmospheric, character-driven psychological thriller.

Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip of Crystal unraveling the mystery from the upcoming seventh episode of the series, which premieres this Wednesday, November 27.

Created by Sarah Thorp, “Before” stars Crystal, Judith Light, Jacobi Jupe, Rosie Perez, Maria Dizzia, and Ava Lalezarzadeh.

Crystal plays Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, encounters a troubled young boy, Noah, who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past.

As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens.

New episodes of “Before” debut weekly through December 20 on Apple TV+.

The post Billy Crystal Unravels a Mystery in “Before” Exclusive Clip appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Artist Daniel Selon has taken to Instagram to share some of his concept art for Aubrey Plaza's Rio Vidal in the outfit she wore during her fight with Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) towards the end of the series premiere of Marvel Studios' Agatha All Along.

This design isn't a million miles away from the costume that made it to the screen, but there are a few subtle diffrences, with the hood pulled back to show more of Rio's hair and the sash slightly higher on her chest. The final look also reveals more of the character's ribs.

"This look needed to keep Rio’s identity mysterious and also show her as a formidable force (and also be sexy powerful)," writes Selon. "We needed to believe that what she’s wearing could exist in the real contemporary world but also hint at an otherworldly power. I turned to my...