Author: Hanry Dawson

Twenty-five years after five fake Vermont state troopers turned highway patrol into an elaborate prank show, Broken Lizard is back in uniform. “Super Troopers 3,” officially subtitled “Farva’s Wedding,” opened in theaters August 7 under returning director Jay Chandrasekhar — and critics seem largely agreed on one thing: this is a movie made entirely for people who already know exactly what they’re getting. The Setup The plot, per Rotten Tomatoes’ official synopsis, centers on Rod Farva’s wildly over-the-top engagement to Thorny’s sister, which spirals into chaos as the Super Troopers try to navigate Thorny’s scheming to sabotage the relationship —…

A storm rolls in over a Seattle-area house. By the time it clears, the family inside can’t get out — not through the doors, not through the windows, not through anything. That’s the setup for “The Last House,” which began streaming on Netflix on Friday, August 7. Directed by Louis Leterrier, the “Now You See Me” and “Lupin” filmmaker, the film follows married parents Jason and Ann — played by Wagner Moura and Greta Lee — alongside their two children, Graham and Ruth, played by Noah Alexander Sosnowski and Riley Chung. According to Netflix’s Tudum, a mysterious force seals every…

Nearly five years have passed since Peter Parker made the heartbreaking decision to have Doctor Strange erase his identity from the memories of everyone around him—including MJ and Ned—to protect them from the consequences of his secret life. Released on July 31, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, explores the emotional aftermath of that sacrifice. Rather than centering on large-scale superhero action, the film focuses on an older Peter as he struggles with the loneliness and emotional toll of being forgotten by the people he once loved. That premise has produced one of the more divisive Spider-Man…

Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis have been circling each other’s orbit for decades without ever actually working together, which makes “The Shards” feel less like a new project than an overdue one. FX and Hulu’s nine-episode adaptation of Ellis’s 2023 novel premiered August 5, and it arrives exactly as advertised: gorgeous, indulgent, occasionally unsettling, and never quite as smart as it thinks it is. The premise pairs two men whose careers have circled the same obsessions for thirty years. Ellis made his name writing about beautiful, empty people doing terrible things in “Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho.” Murphy…

Duke doesn’t hack anyone. He doesn’t need to. All it takes, according to the new trailer for “Appofeniacs,” is a phone and a few taps — and by the time the fake footage starts circulating, somebody’s life is already unraveling. That premise sits at the center of writer-director Chris Marrs Piliero’s feature debut, which Bloody Disgusting describes as a dark horror satire built entirely around AI misuse. Duke, played by Aaron Holliday, treats deepfake tools like a party trick — until the videos he churns out start getting people hurt, and worse. The film isn’t structured as one continuous chase.…

Gareth Edwards won’t be going back to the island. The director, who steered last year’s “Jurassic World Rebirth” to an $869 million global haul, has exited the franchise’s next installment over what Universal is calling, simply, “creative differences.” The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Thursday, and Variety confirmed it independently shortly after. Nobody involved is saying much more than that. In a statement, a Universal spokesperson praised the collaboration with Gareth on Jurassic World Rebirth, echoing remarks that have appeared in nearly identical form across multiple reports covering the split. What actually caused the break remains unstated. THR notes that…

George Jetson finally has a face, and it’s Jim Carrey’s. Warner Bros. Discovery slipped the confirmation into its second-quarter 2026 shareholder letter rather than making a formal announcement — a live-action “Jetsons” film starring Carrey is officially part of the studio’s release slate, positioned for sometime “beyond 2027.” It’s a quiet way to confirm what the trades had been reporting for close to a year, but per MovieWeb, it’s also the first time Warner Bros. itself has attached Carrey’s name to the project on paper. Interestingly, the letter doesn’t mention a director. Colin Trevorrow, the “Jurassic World Dominion” filmmaker who…

Every year, Toronto’s Midnight Madness section sends festivalgoers stumbling out of the Royal Alexandra Theatre at some ungodly hour, half-delighted and half-traumatized. Last year, that section produced “Obsession,” a film that went on to become the highest-grossing festival acquisition ever after Focus Features snapped it up. So when TIFF unveiled its 2026 Midnight Madness slate on Thursday, the question hanging over the announcement, as Variety put it, was simple: does this lineup have another “Obsession” in it? Ten films make up the section this year, all screening at 11:59 p.m. at the Royal Alexandra — a venue Midnight Madness regulars…

An analyst on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Thursday earnings call put it plainly to CEO David Zaslav: “You haven’t talked about DC for a while. I know with films, sometimes they perform, sometimes they don’t. But is there any change in strategy?” Zaslav’s answer never mentioned “Supergirl” by name. Instead, according to Deadline, he pivoted straight to James Gunn’s “Man of Tomorrow.” “James is focused on Man of Tomorrow,” Zaslav told analysts. “I saw some pictures yesterday that looked amazing. She noted that the previous day had been James’ birthday, but he had spent it working. He’s working 16, 18 hours…

That line, delivered by Robert Pattinson in a flat, unsettling tone, closes out the new trailer A24 dropped Thursday for “Primetime,” and it tells you most of what you need to know about the movie’s approach. This isn’t a warm nostalgia piece about a 2000s TV phenomenon. It’s something colder. Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, the man who became a household name hosting “To Catch a Predator,” the “Dateline NBC” segment that ran sting operations luring adult men to a house where they expected to meet a minor, only to be confronted on camera by Hansen and a waiting police unit.…