SEFCA 2018 Winners Has ROMA Leading the Pack as Best Film

The Southeastern Film Critics Association has announced its selections for 2018. Following in line with many other critics groups, SEFCA selectedROMAas the Best Film of the year withThe Favouritecoming in as the runner up.ROMAalso took home Best Director and Best Cinematography forAlfonso Cuaronalong with Best Foreign-Language Film. MeanwhileThe Favouritetook home Best Actress forOlivia Colman(who appears to be speeding towards an Oscar win) and Best Ensemble. Overall, I’m pretty happy with these choices....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 344 words · Mrs. Cynthia Marshall

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Renewed

The voyages of the starship Enterprise have just been extended!Star Trek: Strange New Worldshas been renewed for Season 3 ahead of its season two premiere. The show, which serves as a prequel toThe Original Series, followsAnson Mountas Christopher Pike the Captain of the USS Enterprise. The news comes as the third and final season ofStar Trek: Picardcomes to a close. Strange New Worldsis a spinoff series featuring characters fromStar Trek: Discovery’s second season that originally appeared in the un-airedStar Trekpilot “The Cage....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 452 words · Dana Lamb

Summertime Review: A Cinematic Spoken Word Revelation

For whatever reason, I’ve never been drawn to spoken word poetry. Perhaps this has a little something to do with limited exposure to the art form, but that didn’t stop me from making the assumption that I wouldn’t likeBlindspottingdirectorCarlos López Estrada’s second feature,Summertime. The movie puts the spotlight on 25 people whose lives intersect over the course of a July day in Los Angeles. Those roles are played by high school performers who also get writing credits because Estrada set out to make a “spoken-word showcase” where they could combine their own work in a loosely connected fashion....

July 25, 2025 · 4 min · 646 words · Amanda Ashley

Tales of the Jedi: What Is the Tree in the Jedi Temple?

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Tales of the Jedi.The world ofStar Warsanimation continues to expand with the new projects on Disney+.Star Wars: The Clone Warswas responsible for introducing a generation of fans to the franchise, and currently the spinoff seriesThe Bad Batchseeks to honor its legacy.Tales of the Jediisn’t the start of a new story as much as it is an amendment that deepens our knowledge of the saga....

July 25, 2025 · 4 min · 802 words · Heidi Thomas

The 'Polly Pocket' Movie Just Lost Its Big-Name Director

While the Mattel universe takes shape, the team behindPolly Pocketwill have to find another director to helm the project. In a lengthy and personal interview toThe New Yorker, HBO’sGirlscreator, director and starLena Dunhamrevealed that she’s decided to step down as director. The doll movie is yet to get a release date in theaters. While Dunham made it clear that the decision was extremely personal, she also hinted thatstudio interference might have been one of the reasonswhy she decided thatPolly Pocketwas not the right project for her at the moment....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 448 words · Donna Simmons

The 48 Best Movies on Max Right Now (July 2024)

Another streaming service means another vast library of titles to sift through to find what you want to watch.Maxis the streaming service from WarnerMedia, hosting not just titles from the pay cable channel HBO, but a bevy of films from the Warner Bros. library and other studios. There’s a great selection of classics, fairly new releases, quirky indies, and yes, superhero movies. The studio behindThe Dark KnightandMan of Steelhas a solid number of DC films available to stream....

July 25, 2025 · 40 min · 8432 words · Steven Burns

The Batman Sequel Could Include a "Grounded" Mr. Freeze, Says Matt Reeves

The Batman story has seen myriad adaptations for the screen, each one boasting its own tone and style: some are gritty and dark, like the Nolan trilogy, whereas the classicAdam Westiteration is best known for its gaudy, colorful campiness. (Clooney, and arguablyMichael Keaton, fell somewhere comfortably between the two.) And unlike Peacemaker, Batman has a broader coiterie of super villains to face, from The Joker and Bane through to lesser known foes like Clayface and Man-Bat....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Kyle Johnson

The Boys Showrunner Explains Soldier Boy and Homelander's Surprising Connection

Editor’s note: The below contains major spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of The Boys.The Boysare back and better than ever! With Season 3 of the hit Prime Video series in full swing and now officially rounding the corner to the finale, we’ve been treated to the ongoing misadventures of our favorite irreverent, disturbing, and often downrightnastysupes who couldn’t be further from heroic — as well as the group of resident misfits the show is named for who are determined to hold them accountable for previous and current slights against humanity....

July 25, 2025 · 4 min · 647 words · Roy Gates

The First Purge Trailer Teases the Violent Origin Story

Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures have released the first official trailer forThe First Purge. This is the fourth film in the popular horror franchise, which began in 2013 with filmmakerJames DeMonaco’s twist on a home invasion thriller: in the world ofThe Purge, one night a year in America all crime is legal, including murder. This premise was twisted further in the next two films, but nowThe Purge 4serves as a prequel, showing us how this all began....

July 25, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Jill Stanley

The Ins and Outs of Star Wars Celebration: How Collider Covered the Convention Directly From Tokyo

The 16th edition of theStar Wars Celebrationhappened in mid-April, and Collider had a front row seat to the latest announcements made about the galaxy far, far away. From sharing exclusive glimpses of all the action taking place at the convention to conducting interviews on the ground, the team ensured fans who couldn’t make it to Japan were well-informed. Weeks after theStar Warsevent, we are letting you in on our outlet’s behind-the-scenes work, preparing to cover the largest international celebration to date....

July 25, 2025 · 7 min · 1358 words · Daniel Davis

The Raid Remake Plot Details Revealed by Director Joe Carnahan

It’s been a couple of years since we last heard word about theThe Raidremake, but according to directorJoe Carnahan, it may finally be happening soon. Carnahan sat down with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub recently to talk about the upcoming filmEl Chicano, which he co-wrote and produced, and theSmokin’ Acesfilmmaker revealed that he’ll hopefully be starting prep onThe Raidin the next few weeks. The film is based on directorGareth Evans’ 2011 Indonesian action thriller of the same name, withFrank Grilloset in the starring role....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · Kevin Young

The Witcher: Blood Origin Creators on the Spinoff and The Witcher Season 4

Only 3 years since Netflix premiered the first season of their fantasy seriesThe Witcher, the original series’ showrunnerLauren Schmidt Hissrichand writerDeclan de Barraare taking fans back to the beginning inThe Witcher: Blood Origin. Based on the novels by authorAndrzej Sapkowski,Blood Originis set 1200 years before the events of Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), and will exploreThe Witchermultiverse before the monsters plagued the Continent, as well as how the proto-Witcher came to be....

July 25, 2025 · 4 min · 735 words · Vincent Chen

This Is What ‘Terminator Zero’ Has Planned for Season 2

Now thatTerminator Zerohas established itself as one of Netflix’s best new titles, fans of the sci-fi anime series are understandably looking forward towhat happens next. It’s still a little early to tell — the streamer hasn’t officially renewed the series for Season 2 yet — but the show’s creatorMattson Tomlintalked to The Hollywood Reporter and revealed what are his long-term plans for the series. During the interview, Tomlintalked about the responsibilityof delving into one of the mostpopular sci-fi franchisesever, and revealed that he decided to ignore theArnold SchwarzeneggerandLinda Hamiltonpart of that universe because out of the six movies and spin-off series thatThe Terminatorspawned, very little is explored about what happens in the rest of the world before and during Judgment Day....

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Jordan Wright