Apple TV+ Rings in the New Year With a Free Treat for the First Weekend of 2025

Apple TV+is entering the year 2025 on a positive note. The streaming giant,known for its selection of acclaimed original movies and television shows, is making its extensive catalog available for free for a short time only. During the first weekend of 2025, from January 4 to 5, the streamer will be giving everyone free access to its original content, including hits likeFor All Mankind,Slow Horses,Ted Lasso,Severance,Bad Sisters, and a whole lot more....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Brandi Mcconnell

Best Horror Movies of 2016: The Witch, Don't Breathe & More

There’s a popular belief that 2016 was a bad year for movies. Not so much. True, the summer was a grim season packed to the brim with unwelcome reboots and sequels, but overall, if you branched out from the Top 10 box office contenders, there has been plenty to love. Nowhere is that truer than in the horror genre, which utterly thrived in 2016 with a year-long calendar packed with one surprising, thrilling release after the next....

August 4, 2025 · 10 min · 2087 words · Robert Rose

Cobra Kai Could Be Moving to Netflix or Hulu as YouTube Lets Go of Series

YouTube is shopping (what I imagine is) its most popular original seriesCobra Kai, which has all kinds of buyers lined up, with – naturally – Netflix and Hulu the presumed frontrunners. Season 3 ofCobra Kaihad been slated to air on YouTube, and Sony Pictures Television asked for permission to shop the show when YouTube declined to order Season 4, but what’s interesting is that the streamer only agreed to let go of the series provided Sony TV could find another home for it....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Peter Garcia

Consider Yourself a Serious Movie Fan? Here's the Why — and What — Behind Mubi, the Streaming Service That You Deserve

Imagine yourself at the end of a long day. You’re finished with work, and you want to unwind on the couch while watching a great film. But, when you open up your preferredstreaming service, you end upspending more time aimlessly scrolling through their catalog in search of something interesting than actually watching a movie. By the time you find something that sort of piques your interest, you feel it’s too late to embark on a two-hour viewing experience....

August 4, 2025 · 4 min · 730 words · John Jenkins

Cooking with Paris Trailer: Paris Hilton Hosts New Netflix Cooking Show

Netflix has released the official trailer for the upcomingCooking with Parisseries, but from the first few seconds, it’s clear this will not be a typical cooking show where the audience might learn how to prepare various dishes. Indeed, American socialite and businesswomanParis Hiltonis not by any means a trained chef, nor does she claim to be one.Cooking with Pariswill launch all six episodes August 4 on Netflix. The initial tone of the trailer is evocative of a 50’s cooking show and it makes no attempt in hiding its satirical quality....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 348 words · Anthony Schneider

Criterion Collection 24-Hour Flash Sale

As much as physical media may be on its way out of the mainstream, what with the ease and relative cheapness of iTunes and similar services, there’s nothing quite like a beautiful blu-ray package. For me, it’s not unlike spending money for certain albums on vinyl, as pretentious as that may sound; “Madvillainy” and “Amnesiac” just sound so much better that way. Similarly, no movie looks quite as good on home video as the releases from the venerable Criterion Collection do, and this has been true since they were only putting out DVDs....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Ashley White

Dark Phoenix International Trailer Trades Spoilers for Footage

very specific spoilers, somehow, forDark Phoenix If you caught themost recent trailerfor 20th Century Fox’s latest X-Men movie,Dark Phoenix, you might have been surprised to see what looked like confirmation that Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique dies in the film. Like, they showed that, then went on the internet toconfirmthat yes, they showed that. Luckily, the just-released international trailer for directorSimon Kinberg’s film didn’t go with a close-up ofMichael Fassbendergetting shot in the face, instead opting for a decent amount of new footage....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 308 words · Nicholas Moore MD

Dickinson Season 2 Star Anna Baryshnikov on Lynn Shelton and the Spider Dance

From show creatorAlena Smith, the Apple TV+ original seriesDickinsonfollows Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) on her road to being a published poet and the promise of fame that will follow. When Sam Bowles (Finn Jones), the ambitious editor ofThe Springfield Republican, does his best to convince her to take her work a step beyond letting just Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt), her brother’s wife who she also happens to be in love with, read them, it tests Emily in ways that she never could have imagined....

August 4, 2025 · 10 min · 2074 words · Kelsey Watkins

Emily in Paris Season 3 Images: Lily Collins Lights up the City of Love

Emily Cooper is living the life of her dreams in Paris, but that dream life has gotten more complex — and the new behind-the-scenes images tease Emily entangled in a new complicated love affair. The third season of the Emmy-nominated comedy-drama,Emily in Paris, is just under a month away from its Netflix debut. Following the recent first looks and the season three teaser, Netflix has yet again released another set of new photos, showing Emily as she navigates her romantic life and career in the French city....

August 4, 2025 · 3 min · 503 words · Amanda Burns

Free Sonic DLC Pack Now Available for Two Point Hospital

Looks like everyone’s favorite hedgehog and his friends have made their way toTwo Point Hospital. The game has released a free DLC released on July 30 as Sega’s way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of theSonic the Hedgehogfranchise. A spiritual successor to the 1997 game,ThemeHospital,Two Point Hospitalis a single-player/multiplayer business simulation game developed by Two Point Studios and published by Sega. The gameplay is relatively simple, as players serve as the manager of a hospital and are responsible for constructing and improving the building, as well as tending to the needs of patients and staff....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Brandi Freeman

Gaslit Cast & Character Guide: Who's Playing Who in the Thriller Series?

The truth is all that matters inGaslit,a limited series on Starz that aims to correct the many wrongs that were dealt toMartha Mitchell, a woman many consider to be the whistleblower in the Watergate scandal. On August 24, 2025, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s Headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington D.C under the direction of theRichard Nixonadministration. What followed was a messy, failed cover-up that led President Richard Nixon to resign from the presidency in 1974 after he was found to have participated in trying to cover up the scandal alongside his administration....

August 4, 2025 · 7 min · 1381 words · Jessica Mcclure

George RR Martin Hosts Showing of Neil Gaiman Documentary

When we learned that Vimeo would be releasing a documentary about the life and career of international superstar writerNeil Gaiman, they had our curiosity. Then, when we learned that world-renowned authorGeorge R.R. Martinwould be hosting a screening of that documentary followed by a Q&A at his own New Mexico theater, they had our attention. We’re happy to bring this exclusive bit of information to you in the hopes that you’ll share our enthusiasm over this once-in-a-lifetime cultural event....

August 4, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Stephen Morrison

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Cast on Making Marvel's New Epic

From Marvel Studios, the highly anticipated sequelGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2has more action, more laughs and more heart than the first installment (which already had a lot!), adding intriguing new allies and unexpected new enemies, all while further expanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This time around, the story follows the ragtag team as they protect the universe doing mercenary work for hire around the cosmos, and Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), finally unravels the mysteries of his true parentage....

August 4, 2025 · 18 min · 3683 words · Logan Mitchell