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Spotify’s Wrapped feature is now being copied by more and more streamers.

As the year draws to a close, social media platforms are flooded with pictures of users’ Spotify Wrapped statistics. People love the communal feel they get from sharing their most-listened-to music genres and artists, and now streaming services are trying to harness some of that energy for themselves. Warner Bros. Discovery’s streamer Max is the latest to make this attempt, having rolled out its new Rewind feature to show viewers what they watched most this year.

Key Details: The Max Rewind feature is available now. Viewers can see their most-watched genres, how often they completed a new series and more. A third-party website is helping users create a version of this feature for Netflix, as well. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video

Max’s Rewind feature is available to subscribers now. Once you log into the streamer,...

HBO has joined the movement of providing users with a year-end overview of everything they watched in 2024, with the launch of the Spotify Wrapped-like campaign “Max Rewind.”

“Your 2024 Rewind is here,” the official Instagram page for Max posted on Thursday. “Open your Max app to see how you spent your year streaming.”

The campaign has been described as a “shareable and colorful lookback” at users’ “watch history and community trends throughout the year,” per reports. Max users with adult profiles will have access to their personal viewing information through in-app notifications from the streamer.

As Max reportedly details, “Each user will be assigned a character according to their watch history and will be given access to a curated collection page of recommendations for each Max character. Other elements that will be shared in the rewind include a subscriber’s top brand and genre, Max’s seasonal title highlights, their viewing pattern and top avatars.

In May 2023, it was announced that Yellowstone would end after airing the second part of Season 5. While there were rumors that the series may continue beyond the current season, Paramount never officially confirmed a sixth season. However, fans were quick to notice one detail in the latest preview for the show’s penultimate episode.

A still from Yellowstone | Credits: Paramount Network

It was announced during the preview that the series only had one episode left until the “season finale” of Yellowstone. Fans found it weird that it wasn’t mentioned as a series finale. It has sparked widespread speculation among fans that Sheridan and Paramount could be secretly planning a sixth season.

A Sixth Season Of Yellowstone Might Happen After The Show’s Latest Hint Wes Bentley as Jamie Dutton in Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 | Credits: Paramount Network

Episode 12 of Yellowstone‘s fifth season was a tearjerker as fans mourned the...

Kevin Kreider might be a multi-hyphenate, but he considers his role in Hello, Love, Again, now the Philippines’ highest-grossing film in history, as his first proper acting gig.

As of December 2, the film has grossed a total of 1.4B Philippine pesos ($23.9M) at the global box office.

After his breakout appearance in Netflix reality series Bling Empire, as well as a role in feature film Asian Persuasion, which he also executive produced, Kreider has been busy running his own production outfit, Asian Lead Love Stories (Alls) Production, while also launching a 50-episode webtoon and helping others develop reality shows. Kreider has also been cast in an upcoming American sci-fi thriller feature, as well as a Filipino medical drama.

However, it’s the magic of the cinema that makes him see Hello, Love, Again differently to his other on screen work. “The reason why I consider this my first proper acting...

Upon release in 2019, the romantic drama “Hello, Love, Goodbye” was the highest-grossing Philippine film of all time. (It was surpassed by the time-traveling romance “Rewind” earlier this year.) Directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana, the film chronicles the struggles of overseas Filipino worker Joy (Kathryn Bernardo) who wishes to earn enough money as a domestic helper in Hong Kong so she can move to Canada for better employment opportunities. She eventually meets the cocky but sweet bartender Ethan (Alden Richards) whose growing affection for Joy puts an end to his wayward womanizing. The two bond over their respective familial woes and professional dreams as expats with fluid conceptions of “home.” Before Joy departs for Canada, they confess their love and promise to meet again.

The film’s sequel, also helmed by Garcia-Sampana, fulfills the promise that Joy and Ethan made to each other, but predictably not without its share of complications. Primarily...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is all set to bring back the true Call of Duty experience with its exciting multiplayer and zombies modes. In an official blog post, Activision has revealed 16 different multiplayer maps along with its brand new zombies map called Terminus Island. Indeed, these new maps are exciting but many diehard fans of the franchise were expecting to see one classic map from the Black Ops franchise: Raid.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be released on 25th October (Image via Activision)

With Black Ops 6, we get to see the return of the round-based mode on two new maps: Terminus and Liberty Falls. A third map was confirmed during CoD Next in August, which is certainly exciting but fans also want to see the return of TranZit from Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Players Want Classic Black Ops Maps In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

As of now,...

Charli Xcx has unveiled Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, a remix version of her 2024 smash LP.

The stacked take on Brat features the previously released remixes: “Von dutch” with A.G. Cook and Addison Rae, “360” with Robyn and Yung Lean, the “Girl, so confusing” remix with Lorde, “Guess” with Billie Eilish, and “Talk Talk” featuring Troye Sivan. The project is rounded out by reimagined versions of all the other songs on Brat, including a new take on “Sympathy is a knife” with Ariana Grande and “I might say something stupid” with The 1975, where her fiancé, George Daniel, serves as drummer.

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The album also welcomes Bon Iver for one of the more introspective songs on the LP, “I think about it all the time.” Longtime collaborator A.G. Cook also appears on the new version of “So I,” while Consequence CoSign...

Updated to clarify that Little, Big, and Far is a hybrid fiction-nonfiction film. Exclusive: Grasshopper Film has acquired North American distribution rights to Little, Big, and Far ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.

The hybrid fiction-nonfiction film from award-winning director Jem Cohen will bow on Saturday evening as the Centerpiece selection of NYFF’s Currents section.

“Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using the cinematic form to patiently interrogate ways of seeing and being,” the festival writes in its program. “The principal subject of Cohen’s film is an Austrian astronomer named Karl who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, and who travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos. Yet the real matter of the singular Little,...

The countdown to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6‘s official release has begun, and fans are eagerly awaiting the chance to dive headfirst into Treyarch’s latest offering after the four-year hiatus. With a staggering 16 maps available at launch, it’s clear that the developers are pulling out all the stops to deliver an unforgettable (and less repetitive) multiplayer experience.

Just one of the many unique maps in Black Ops 6. | Image Credit: Activision

But amidst the usual collection of military bases, urban warzones, and exotic locales, one map looks to stand out as a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Enter “Rewind,” a 1991-themed map set in a strip mall complete with a video store packed with VHS tapes. Yes, you read that right—VHS tapes.

A “Blast” from the Past

In a recent interview with GamesBeat, Miles Leslie, Associate Creative Director at Treyarch, shed some light on the inspiration behind...

Washington is a big state in the American games industry, so the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle has traditionally been a great convention for smaller games and niche releases. For every Nintendo or Capcom that’s drawing all the attention, there are traditionally 6 to 12 independent developers somewhere else in the venue who’re there to look for a publisher, show off a passion project, and/or make you wonder if you’ve gone insane.

For whatever reason, 2024 was a banner year for horror at Pax West. Every time I went back into the venue, I found another half-dozen games from all over the world, which ranged from escape room simulators to revivals of classic survival horror to tongue-in-cheek parodies. It was a great four days to be a fan of the genre.

I made an effort to check out everything I could while I was at the show. Some of...

After the disastrous critical failure of Modern Warfare 3 for the Call of Duty franchise, Treyarch has returned to redeem this IP with what may be one of the best installments in many years of mediocre to average entries.

Currently, the Black Ops 6 open multiplayer beta is live, and it seems that all the changes the studio has made to the game are paying off, with fans more than satisfied with the results. New features like omni-movement, weapon adjustments, new game modes, and other additions are exciting players.

Is Call of Duty Back? The new Black Ops 6 mechanics are on point.

Despite the promise from all the videos we’ve seen so far, which differ from Modern Warfare 3 last year, there was no guarantee Call of Duty would regain its previous quality.

Fortunately, the Black Ops 6 open beta and its multiplayer mode suggest that fans can confidently anticipate the return of greatness to this saga.

After notching box office successes with Rewind and A Very Good Girl, Abs-cbn has produced another hit: Un/Happy For You.

In its opening five days, the romance film has grossed 150M Philippine pesos ($2.65M), with over 450,000 admissions.

The film will open across the U.S. and Canada on August 23 and in Australia on August 22. Un/Happy For You has also secured theatrical releases in New Zealand, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Italy, Cambodia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Malta.

Produced by Abs-cbn Studios, Star Cinema and Viva Films, the film stars Joshua Garcia and Julia Barretto in the leading roles. They last acted together in 2020 action film Block Z.

The three production companies have made some of the highest-grossing films since the pandemic with hits like Deleter (2022) and A Very Good Girl (2023). Star Cinema, the film arm of Abs-cbn, produced the top-grossing Philippine film of all time with Rewind last year,...

If you log into your Sling TV account today, you’ll notice that the live TV streamer is offering a chance to see your year-in-review, similar to Spotify Wrapped. They call it “Rewind,” and it also offers a discount code you can share with friends.

See Sling Rewind $40+ / month sling.com Subscribers can save friends $10/month for 3 months

If you’re not a subscriber, you’ll see generic information about what programs Sling TV users watch most. If you do subscribe, you’ll learn more about your viewing habits. In my case, I got three “badges” — “Info Junkie” (because I watch a lot of news), “Hall of Famer” (because I watch sports), and “football diehard” (because I love the NFL).

Scroll down to get your “streaming companion.” In my case, Sling suggests NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson. That makes sense, since he guides me through seven hours of commercial-free football every Sunday.

Mubi has unveiled their November 2023 lineup, featuring notable new releases such as Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty and Alain Gomis’ Thelonious Monk documentary Rewind & Play. Also in the lineup is three stellar earlier films from Christian Petzold––Yella, Jerichow, and The State I Am In––along with John Cassavetes’ Husbands and Gloria, a Hayao Miyazaki short, and a retrospective dedicated to Argentinian-born, French-educated filmmaker and theorist Nelly Kaplan.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

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A Very Curious Girl, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

The Pleasure of Love, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Charles and Lucie, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Papa the Little Boats, directed by Nelly Kaplan | A Mischievous Rebellion: Films by Nelly Kaplan

Yella, directed by Christian Petzold | Phantoms Among Us: The Films of Christian Petzold

Jerichow,...

The International Documentary Association (IDA) on Tuesday announced its best feature and short shortlists for the 2023 IDA Documentary Awards.

The ceremony will be held during the week of Dec. 11 in Los Angeles — venue information is set to follow. Starting Nov. 7, IDA members will be able to view each of the shortlisted films on IDA Virtual Cinema, and up to 10 nominees from each category will be selected. The nominees will be announced on Nov. 21.

“The 39th IDA Documentary Awards continues the tradition of celebrating the best of international nonfiction media of the year,” said Ken Ikeda, IDA’s interim executive director. “This year’s best feature documentary and best short documentary shortlists reflect important work from twenty-one countries. We are excited to celebrate the work of our community and present winners this December in Los Angeles.”

280 documentary filmmakers, curators, critics and industry experts from 40 countries selected the shortlists. IDA received 669 total submissions from 48 countries.

The 39th International Documentary Awards have announced their shortlists for the best nonfiction entries of the year, with a ceremony to take place during the week of Dec. 11 in Los Angeles in a venue to be named. The films were selected by independent committees comprised of 280 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40 countries. IDA received 669 total submissions in all categories from 48 countries.

New York Times Op-Docs dominated the Documentary Short category with seven mentions, including entries from the Netherlands (“Neighbour Abdi”), Mexico (“Victoria”) and Hungary (“Away”) among the shortlisted selections. The Documentary Feature category appeared to favor less-buzzy international titles this season.

What is surprising about the IDA shortlist is how many of the year’s presumed top contenders are not included. Of the 21 nonfiction films that have been nominated by the Critics Choice Documentary Awards or placed on the Doc NYC shortlist of likely awards titles, only...

Debuting a bigger and better Funkoville experience, the “funnest little town in the USA” offered attending fans the opportunity to shop in designated Funko Games, Loungefly and Mondo stores, as well as visit a Bitty Pop! storefront and throwback to the ‘90s and ‘00s through a Blockbuster-inspired experience in celebration of Funko’s launch of Rewind.

Encased in VHS-type packaging unique to each featured IP, Rewind will include 3.75” collectible vinyl figures and packaging fashioned around the iconic Blockbuster design, giving fans the opportunity to relive the cherished memory of renting a movie on a Friday night with family and friends. The collectible will also come with a membership card designed to mirror Blockbuster’s memorable design.

Funko featured plenty of exclusives for San Diego Comic Con 2023 and fans were eager to get their hands on as many as possible! They included Pop! figures from Disney, Marvel, Jurassic Park, and Transformers to only name a few.

This year’s Funkoville (Booth #5341) experience is double the 2022 footprint, including Funko Games, Loungefly, Mondo and more.

Leaning into innovation and Funko’s 25th anniversary, the newest addition to Funkoville includes a Blockbuster Rewind video store, allowing fans to jump back to the ’90s and relive the nostalgic experience of visiting their neighborhood store as they browse and purchase the company’s new, innovative collectibles based on iconic films. The throwback experience showcases the first collection of the new VHS-themed collectibles, Rewind.

Fans will be able to journey through the streets of “Funkoville” to discover new interactive experiences, brand storefronts and more in the “funnest city in the USA!” Fan-favorite shops, including a donut shop, bowling alley, Loungefly boutique and Mondo gas station will welcome fans and serve as the go-to destination for new and exclusive pop culture collectibles. Funko will also offer fans the coolest Con exclusives from beloved lines on-site and via Funko.

Image courtesy: Funko

Funko, in partnership with iconic home video retailer Blockbuster, has officially announced the launch of their newest innovative product line, Rewind! The first full collection will be available to fans in fall 2023.

Image courtesy: Funko

The retro entertainment product line focuses on delivering nostalgia directly to consumers through collectibles and packaging fashioned around the iconic Blockbuster design. Each newly designed collectible figure comes encased in VHS-type packaging unique to each IP and a membership card designed to mirror Blockbuster’s memorable design.

“With the resurgence of ‘80s and ‘90s trends, Funko is bringing the best pop culture film moments home with Rewind, helping fans connect over shared memories, while simultaneously complementing the product options from our most sought-after product line,” said CEO Brian Mariotti.

Rewind stands as the latest addition to Funko’s extensive range of collectible products, offering fans yet another innovative way to connect with their favorite fandoms.

Last week, we shared the news that the 1985 creature feature Ghoulies (watch it Here) is getting a Blu-ray and 4K Uhd release, courtesy of Mvd Rewind Collection, on September 12th. Now we can confirm that Mvd Rewind Collection is also giving the 1988 sequel Ghoulies II (watch that one Here) a new Blu-ray and DVD release on that same date. The company is hoping to give the film a 4K Uhd release as well, but they can’t say for sure when that is going to happen.

Albert Band (the father of Full Moon founder Charles Band) directed Ghoulies II from a script by Charlie Dolan and Dennis Paoli, telling the following story: The Ghoulies are back and more devilish than ever, as they turn an unsuspecting carnival into a house of pandemonium in this wildly outrageous sequel to the original smash hit “Ghoulies”! “Satan’s Den” has received its final...

When I was in high school, one of my first jobs was working at a big chain video store. While it was fun to be around movies and movie fans all day, it did have all the pitfalls of any public facing customer service job. Weird customers, understaffing, and repetitive work were all par for the course, but the worst part was the eerie feeling that would sometimes creep over you as you were closing. There’s something about the liminal time where the store is no longer open, but you’ve still got stuff to do before you leave. You feel strangely exposed when someone comes knocking on your door after hours, still feeling obligated to respond to them but without the protections of the social norms of an active public space. This is the feeling that Rewind or Die, the latest game published by Torture Star Video and developed by Comp-3 Interactive,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Swamp Thing 4K Uhd from Mvd

Swamp Thing will be released on 4K Ultra HD on July 25 via Mvd, leading its new 4K LaserVision Collection. (A Blu-ray edition will also be available as part of the Mvd Rewind Collection.) A slipcover and mini poster are included.

Both the PG-rated US version and the unrated international version of the film have been newly restored in 16-bit 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby VIsion/Hdr and DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Mono.

Based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, the 1982 superhero horror film is written and directed by master of horror Wes Craven. Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau star with Ray Wise,...

Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the magical world of Mozart’s famed opera.

This Harry Potter-ish adventure fantasy stars Jack Wolfe as Tim Walker, who passes from school into the world of the opera and its many adventures as hero Prince Tamino. Wide releases may be picking up steam and Scream, but in terms of new specialty, and family fare, these isn’t much new competition this weekend.

Melissa Boag, EVP of Family Entertainment at Shout! Studios, hopes it will play with fans of magical adventure, Harry Potter, and classical music. Wolfe is a star of Netflix YA series Shadow & Bone.

Publisher Torture Star Video is back again with another dirty little slasher with PS1-inspired graphics with Comp-3 Interactive’s Rewind or Die. Releasing April 14th on Steam, Rewind or Die turns the mundane job of video rental store clerk on its head with a serial killer lurking in the background.

Taking a cue from Scythe Dev Team’s Happy’s Humble Burger Farm, Rewind or Die is part job simulation, part Survival Horror. The story has you playing as Tony, who is covering for your co-worker after they skip out on their shift at Video 2 Go. That means you’ll be dealing with irate customers, horrible bosses and keeping the store clean. You’ll have to deal with the occasional creepy phone call, and as luck would have it, there just so happens to be a serial killer named Slaw lurking about who’s been staking their claim in the area.

The Park: "XYZ Films is proud to announce that they will be releasing Shal Ngo's dystopian thriller The Park on North American VOD March 2nd. A tale of apocalyptic adventure and survival set within a long-abandoned amusement park, the thriller, which occurs in a world without adults, stars an amazing ensemble of young talent.

Filmmaker Shal Ngo's feature debut is a thrilling, dark journey through a dystopian world where children rule - and life is fleeting.

When a mysterious virus starts killing all adults, society is left to be governed by children living on borrowed time. After the adult population is wiped out, rival kids battle for control of an abandoned theme park. Danger lurks around every corner, and they must do whatever it takes to survive their hellish Neverland.

James Emanuel Shapiro, XYZ Films' Executive Vice President of U.S. Distribution, notes, "The Park is one of the...

The cringe-inducing rushes comprising the documentary portrait “Rewind and Play,” carefully stitched together from a decades-old French TV interview with American jazz pianist Thelonius Monk, are supposed to make your skin crawl with discomfort.

And it’s supposed to not fit inside the neat little pre-packaged format box for consumer-ready documentaries.

In his 65-minute film which forms part of the documentary slate at the 5th Joburg Film Festival, the 50-year-old French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis simultaneously does an exposition of Monk’s jazz genius while exposing a Paris media’s stereotyped coaxing of what it wanted – what it needed – a black interview subject to be and say in 1969.

For Gomis’ first foray into the documentary genre, he uses unseen outtakes to craft a celluloid mosaic carefully culled from the rolls of takes and retakes for a TV program that never aired.

The silence is often deafening as interviewer Henri Renaud unsuccessfully...

In the latest in his series of Rewind reviews looking back at the career of writer/director Ben Wheatley, Chris takes a look at his 2017 film, Free Fire.

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Sam Riley, Jack Reynor | Written by Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump | Directed by Ben Wheatley

Ben Wheatley is one of my favourite directors working today. He combines an eye for natural, realistic social situations with an extraordinary ability to create not only straight up horror but also the texture of horror in the context of other genres. Whilst in previous Rewind columns I’ve gone back and re-watched Wheatley’s films Kill List and High Rise, with Free Fire I am watching the film for the very first time…

Free Fire is an action film and a black comedy. The premise is extremely simple. The Ira are looking to buy some M...

In the latest in his series of Rewind reviews looking back at the career of writer/director Ben Wheatley, Chris takes a look at his 2015 film, High Rise.

Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Peter Ferdinando, Sienna Guillory, Reece Shearsmith | Written by Amy Jump | Directed by Bean Wheatley

Ben Wheatley films are rather good, so I have been re-watching them. The latest is High Rise, which is based on the 1975 novel by J.G Ballard. I was a big fan of the novel, and this is an excellent telling of a wonderfully chilling story. Dr Lang (Tom Hiddleston) is newly arrived at a new high-rise development (Canary Wharf… before Canary Wharf was a thing). Lang can put on whatever mask is required to fit into his circumstances. As he moves in, he is introduced to a love interest, Charlotte Melville (Sienna...

Sanaa Lathan will be among the first actors to step into Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone. The Nappily Ever After star has booked a role in one of the CBS All Access reboot's early episodes.

Lathan has been a TV and film fixture ever since her starring turn in the feature Love & Basketball in 2000. Her latest credits include dramas The Affair and Shots Fired, as well as features American Assassin and Now You See Me Too.

Not much info is available on the gig, only that she will appear in the episode titled "Rewind."

Peele's upcoming reboot of the famous ...