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Squid Gamefans are in for a massive update on the smash hit Korean series. Netflix has not only confirmed a release date forthe long-awaited second season, but the streaming giant has also confirmed that the show will also be getting a third and final season.Per a report from variety,Squid GameSeason 2 will premiere on December 26th, 2024, with Season 3 set to air only a year later in 2025. The news regardingSquid Game’s second and third seasons comes only hours afterNetflix released an ominous tease on their official X (Twitter) account....

WithJohn Wick: Chapter 2opening on February 10th, I got to sit down withLaurence Fishburnea few days ago for an exclusive video interview. In theJohn Wicksequel, Fishburne plays a mysterious character from Wick’s(Keanu Reeves) past named The Bowery King. During the interview Fishburne revealed how excited he was to join the franchise, how he was cast, if the script and his character changed during production, what it was like working with directorChad Stahelski, which of the many fights in the sequel was his favorite, andRichard Linklater’snext movie,Last Flag Flying, which he calls a road trip movie and a dramedy....

Get ready to head to Boston Harbor’s most terrifying island.Shutter Island,Paramount Pictures' 2010 psychological thriller film starringLeonardo DiCaprio,is finally making its way onto its studio’s namesake streaming platform.The film is available on Paramount+ as of August 1.This will give fans a chance to sample yet another one of the iconic team-ups between DiCaprio and directorMartin Scorsese. The film, based on the book of the same name byDennis Lehane,tells the story of Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), a pair of U....

While you don’t necessarily think ofManchester by the Seawhen considering movies with alternate endings, the Oscar-winning 2016 drama originally had a more elaborate finale that was too expensive to shoot. The film was a long time coming and had a complicated road to getting made. The initial idea for the movie was generated byJohn KrasinskiandMatt Damon, and Damon intended to make the film his directorial debut. He hiredKenneth Longerganto write the screenplay, but when Longergan turned in his draft, Damon realized this was a Kenneth Lonergan movie and Lonergan had to direct it....

Flight 828 passengers, fasten your seat belts because we’re about to land. After Netflix saved the NBC paranormal series from cancelation back in 2021, we now have an official date for the beginning of the end. Or, at least, half of it: Netflix decided to split Season 4 ofManifestin two parts of 10 episodes each, and the first batch premieres on November 4. The series will continue to chronicle the lives of the passengers of a plane that disappeared mid-flight and reappeared five years later as if it was never gone....

One of the shows I’ve recently gotten into is BBC America’sDirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Consisting of an eight-episode first season, the wonderfully weird series is adapted byMax Landisfrom the novels ofDouglas Adams(The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)andfollows the fast-talking, eccentric Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett), who is hired to investigate the case of a murdered millionaire. Dirk’s philosophy hinges on the interconnectedness of all things and, as a result, he believes that he and Todd Brotzman (Elijah Wood), a bellhop at the hotel where a body was found, are destined to untangle the mystery together, even though Todd may not be as willing to embrace that notion....

Famed directorMichael Mannhas recently joined fellow directorMartin Scorseseand a host of other cinephiles to post his list of favorite films onLetterboxd, the “social network for film lovers.“His is a diverse list, filled with films that are regular entries on favorite lists (Raging Bull,Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), foreign films (L’Atalante), and Oscar winners (The Hurt Locker). The list, as Mann himself adds, is “in no particular order,” with one exception: 1925’sBattleship Potemkin, his top selection....

Somewhere, it is written in the great Sci-Fi Handbook that every science fiction story—be it film or TV series—must under penalty of cancellation look at least a little bit likeBlade Runner. Them’s the rules, and it’s certainly a law that Youtube Premium’s new seriesOriginsticks to in its first episode. But the hodge-podge doesn’t quite end there; in the two episodes I watched, both directed byResident Evilfranchise-driverPaul W.S. Anderson, the show’s inspirations are so very clearly gleaned from everything likeAlienandThe Thingto much more recent entries likeThe Cloverfield Paradox—a very bad movie that at leastlookedvery cool—to the flashback-driven, twist-filled storytelling ofLost....

Just as we’re entering peak Awards season, the announcement of who will be the host of the most “important” movie awards - the Academy Awards - has come in, hot off the presses.Jimmy Kimmelwill be taking the reins of the extended broadcast this year, following in the footsteps of recent hosts ranging fromEllen DeGeneresandChris RocktoNeil Patrick Harrisand the insufferable duo ofJames FrancoandAnne Hathaway. Last year, he took hosting duties at the Emmy Awards and clearly he must have impressed someone who makes the decisions in these sort of situations....

Timur Bekmambetovmay be known for his epic blockbusters, but theBen-HurandAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunterfilmmaker is turning to more intimate means to tell stories these days. A passionate and vocal champion of the format he’s dubbed Screenlife, Bekmambetov has thrown his weight behind films presented entirely on computer screens and digital devices — a sometimes startlingly intimate form of filmmaking that embraces the fact that in the year 2018, most of us live as full a life online as we do in the physical world....

Previous adaptations ofJ. R. R.Tolkien’s work,Lord of the RingsandThe Hobbittrilogies, brought the world into close contact with the brave Hobbits of the Shire.Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a prequel series to the previous franchises, expands on this by introducing the Harfoots, one of the three breeds of Hobbits in Middle-earth’s Second age. InRings of Power, the audience spends time with the Harfoots and their Trailsman, Sadoc Burrows (Lenny Henry)....

Easily the most viral moment fromThe White LotusSeason 3 that remains burned in viewers' heads isSam Rockwell’s spellbinding, insane monologue about sex, Buddhism, and the feeling that he was born as the wrong race and gender. Opposite a hilariously aghastWalton Goggins, his character Frank gives all the intimate details of why he moved to Thailand and his countless nights sleeping with men and women while experimenting with the deeper feelings that, maybe, he was meant to be an Asian girl....

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A56 brings flagship features to the mid-range segment with impressive specs that rival its premium sibling, the Galaxy S25.The new A56 will match theGalaxy S25 Ultra‘s battery capacity and charging capabilities while offering up to seven years of software updates, making it a compelling alternative for budget-conscious consumers. Recent leaks reveal the Galaxy A56’s fresh design approach with flat sides, similar to the latest design trends. The phone incorporates Bluetooth 5....