Author: Hanry Dawson

Neon released the first trailer for “Paper Tiger” this week, giving audiences their first extended look at James Gray’s latest return to his native New York, this time filtered through a 1980s crime story involving the Russian mafia. Written and directed by Gray, the film stars Adam Driver as Gary Pearl, an ex-cop turned city fixer, and Miles Teller as his younger brother Irwin, an engineer trying to provide for his family. According to Deadline, the story follows the two brothers as they get pulled into a business scheme in Queens that ultimately draws the attention of the Russian mob,…

A £430 million subsea power cable connecting Britain and Ireland has been rerouted mid-project after Harry Potter fans discovered its original path would cut straight through the makeshift grave of Dobby the house elf. The change was revealed this week by Simon Ludlam, chief executive of advisory firm Etchea Energy and a director on the Greenlink interconnector project, who discussed it on the Energy Revolution podcast, as reported by CNN. The 125-mile Greenlink cable was designed to transmit renewable energy from County Wexford in Ireland to Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire, Wales, the coastal location famously used to film Dobby’s death…

A two-hour horror movie has to earn its scares fast. A television season doesn’t have that constraint — it can spend eight or ten hours letting dread accumulate, forcing viewers to sit with characters long enough to actually care what happens to them before things go wrong. That extra runway is exactly why some of the most unsettling horror content of the last decade hasn’t come from theaters at all. These eight shows use the format’s patience to their advantage, building a kind of sustained fear that most feature films simply don’t have room for. ‘Hannibal’ NBC’s “Hannibal” remains one…

Spoilers ahead for the “House of the Dragon” Season 3 finale, which premiered Sunday, August 9, on HBO and HBO Max. The First Battle of Tumbleton had been building for weeks, and when it finally arrived in Sunday’s finale, it lived up to the dread. Oscar Tully’s Rivermen and Roddy the Ruin’s Winter Wolves marched on the market town to root out Ormund Hightower’s army — only for the fight to be blown wide open by two dragonseeds nobody could fully trust. Betrayal in the Sky According to NPR’s recap, the assault begins with Roddy the Ruin cutting through Tumbleton’s…

Two years after it left theaters, “Longlegs” is having a second life on streaming charts around the world. Collider reported this week that Osgood Perkins’s occult horror film is currently trending on the Apple TV Store in Bolivia and Ecuador, while remaining available to stream on Hulu in the United States — evidence, more than two years on, that the film’s original word-of-mouth hasn’t fully run its course. That staying power has shown up domestically, too. Per ScreenRant, “Longlegs” climbed to a top-three spot on Hulu’s most-watched list not long after it finally arrived on U.S. streaming, despite having already…

Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have a habit of making the medium itself part of the story. Their third feature, “Donkey Princess,” premiered in the main International Competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, and critics who caught it there describe a film that keeps shifting shape almost as much as its characters do. A Familiar Fairytale, Retold in Chile The film draws loosely from “Donkeyskin,” the centuries-old French fairytale most famously adapted by Jacques Demy in 1970. IndieWire’s review lays out the setup: Diana, played by Antonia Giesen, is a princess left suffocated by her father’s grief-driven…

“I used to be the youngest person in every group,” poet Ed Saxberger says at one point in “Late Fame.” “Then one day, I became the oldest.” That line, quoted in RogerEbert.com’s review, sits close to the emotional center of Kent Jones’s second narrative feature, which opened in theaters August 7 from Magnolia Pictures. A Postal Worker’s Forgotten Past Willem Dafoe plays Ed, a man who’s spent nearly 40 years working the same Manhattan mailroom. Decades earlier, in 1979, he published a slim poetry collection called “Way Past Go” that earned a handful of favorable reviews and then quietly disappeared…

Studio Dome dropped the official trailer for “Hate Thyself” this week, and it’s a quiet reminder of just how much unreleased work Tony Todd left behind when he died in late 2024. The psychological thriller, directed by Shivaan Makker, is set for a limited theatrical and digital release beginning September 1, according to Bloody Disgusting. The story follows Angelo Matteo, a deeply religious detective played by Oscar Torre, whose faith starts to crack as he and his partner Rufus chase down a killer preying on young men across the city. As the case drags on and the body count climbs,…

There’s a detail buried in the character breakdown for Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” that recontextualizes the entire cast list: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton aren’t playing humans at all. They’re the threat. That reveal came alongside the film’s very first poster, an image Deadline described as a moment of a rider on horseback seizing a young man by the collar in the depths of a forest, saving him as he’s pursued by something unseen. The production explained the poster captured a young man running from an alien threat before being pulled to safety — and confirmed, for…

Alligators are trading the Florida swamp for the New York subway system. Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd have signed on to lead “Crawl 2,” Paramount’s follow-up to Alexandre Aja’s 2019 creature feature, with production set to begin later this month in Hungary. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the casting, with JoBlo and ScreenRant confirming the details shortly after. Aja returns to direct, moving the action a long way from where the original left off. The first “Crawl” trapped Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper’s father-daughter duo in a flooded Florida crawl space during a Category 5 hurricane, fighting off alligators that…