It doesn’t feel quite right to call Warfare a war movie. At least not in the traditional sense. War movies generally have arcs and scope; they search for meaning in the violence. Warfare’s aims are more direct. According to co-directors Alex Garland (Civil War, Annihilation, Ex Machina) and ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, the goal of the film was to put viewers in the shoes of its soldier characters, and communicate...

“Chicken jockey,” take a step back — it’s time for the official music video of “Steve’s Lava Chicken” to have a moment in the Minecraft movie spotlight. And by “official music video,” we mean “The Warner Bros. folks have released a 50-second clip from A Minecraft Movie and comically labeled it as an official music video.” As Steve, Jack Black sings a few little songs in A Minecraft Movie, but...

Black Mirror’s strain of science fiction is known primarily for three things: a bleak tone, twist endings, and a point to make about the current moment.  How creator Charlie Brooker checks those boxes isn’t always unpredictable; with a freshly released seventh season on Netflix, Black Mirror fans certainly know there’s something coming, and part of the trick to a good Mirror episode is how it feels like it boxes a...

There are two kinds of messy big-budget movies, and as of 2025, Ryan Coogler has made them both. There’s the Marvel kind (seen in Coogler’s Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), where directorial vision comes second to the studio machine, and to shared-universe requirements, VFX constraints, notes from audience test screenings, and a restrictive house style. And then there’s the Sinners kind, where no matter the studio process, the...

Jurassic Park III hails from a very different time in franchise moviemaking. When sequels could just have numbers, not increasingly long and abstruse subtitles, and the credits scene was but a twinkle in the eye of Kevin Feige. The first Jurassic Park movie to neither be directed by Steven Spielberg nor based on the plot of a Michael Crichton novel, Jurassic Park III made baby Brontosaurus steps into the realm...

A sequel to a beloved anthology TV episode might seem like a cash grab; two in one season could reek of desperation. Yet Charlie Brooker bests the skepticism in Black Mirror season 7 with a double whammy of “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” a follow-up to season 4’s Star Trek spoof, and “Plaything,” a sci-fi tragedy that returns to the timeline of the interactive special Bandersnatch — complete with a new...

The Last of Us season 2 is just days away, but it seems that HBO doesn’t want to leave everyone in suspense about what’s next for one of its most popular series. The network announced on Wednesday that the series has been renewed for season 3 via a short video teaser. It can’t be for nothing. Season 3 is coming. #TheLastOfUs pic.twitter.com/q5HxyvK9O6— Max (@StreamOnMax) April 9, 2025 For those that...

Part of the fun of cultural acceleration is that it’s now possible to feel nostalgia about things that happened as little as a few months ago. These days, fads and memes and modes of entertainment emerge in our shared zeitgeist like bubbles reaching the surface in boiling soup, and they pop almost as soon as they reach air. Most will be forgotten within three months. But one fad from an...

Apple is offering a rare discount on its ad-free Apple TV Plus streaming service through Thursday, April 24. New and returning subscribers can pay just $2.99 per month for three months (totaling $9) before the price goes back up to its normal $9.99 per month cost. Discounts for Apple TV Plus are typically tied to wireless carrier promotions, or reserved for those who buy new Apple hardware, so I suggest...

The first images from Murderbot, Apple TV’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series, lacked personality. In retrospect, this makes a certain amount of sense; the titular cyborg of the books is, after all, only just learning to express its personality in the first place. In hindsight, this also makes sense because the first trailer for the show, released Wednesday, is full of personality. The footage introduces Murderbot itself,...