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We're living in a time of unprecedented media availability. If you have a hankering to watch an episode of The Love Boat that aired in 1979, you don't have to wait for a rerun; you just need to pull up Paramount+. But widespread availability also highlights what isn't available at the touch of a button, and the especially obscure stuff has been dubbed "lost media."

At a gas station en route, he tells inquisitive cops he's just traveling to attend the local Carnaval celebrations. But we suspect his mission is more urgent, a threat of discovery underlined not just by the officers' casual insistence on a bribe, but by the presence of a rotting corpse on the premises. The attendant says it's just a would-be robber who failed to get away.

At a moment when independent cinemas across Europe are dimming their lights for good, Louis Denavaut breathes new life into the historic venue of the Elysées Lincoln cinema in Paris, France. The architect creates a sequence of atmospheres for this project, reflected in three distinct interior worlds that are clad in various materials and colors, from hushed velvet greens to saturated pinks and soft pastel tones.

Steven Spielberg's got his 2026 set. The still-unnamed UFO project he's been working on since 2024 is coming out in June, according to a billboard in Times Square. The billboards (there's one in LA too) are stingy with details. It's the silhouette of a bird, with the tagline "All Will Be Disclosed. Spielberg. 6.12.26." But what, exactly will be disclosed?

I find it easy to relax. I think confidence has an awful lot to do with it, and a certain degree of accomplishment. I don't mean that in a pompous sense. If I were struggling as a craftsman, I would tend to walk around with the tools of the trade in my hand. Now that I feel more wedded to my craft, I can put my tools down.

If you Google 'Madame Morrible' the browser takes you to a page of results about the character. But at the top, where it would usually provide a suggestion if you've spelt something wrong in your search terms, the web page reads: "Flip it around... Did you mean: wicked witch." Users can click on 'Wicked Witch' where they are taken to a new page all about The Wicked Witch of the West.

Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are to appear in the new Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which is in production. The Hollywood Reporter said it confirmed the pair's return to the Hunger Games series, in what is the sixth film in the franchise. Both will play the same characters as in the original set of films Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark with the Hollywood Reporter suggesting they will likely appear in a flash-forward.

In the clip, the two actors sit for what appears to be an engagement photo shoot. It seems like they hardly know each other-despite a very funny Zoe Winters insisting otherwise while trying to get them to pose-and uncomfortable around each other. The few glimpses of their eventual wedding seems to be disastrous, with Zendaya's character taking swigs of liquor straight from the bottle and Pattinson's leaving the event with a bloodied face.

Nearly every Christmas film hinges on a seasonal, often kitschy surge of sentimentality in the final act. But for all the reunions, reconciliations and promises of renewal that occur at the end of the year, there is something to be said for the filmmakers who tap the rest of the winter months' potential as a backdrop for introspective, humanist storytelling.

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its massive 2026 slate, with a lineup that includes Olivia Wilde's directorial follow-up to her 2022 film Don't Worry Darling and a project starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega about a gallerist attempting to sell a dead body at Art Basel. Starry narrative slate, aside, the lineup also includes a small but mighty group of music projects, including docs on Courtney Love ( Antiheroine)

Perhaps the greatest difference between the 1956 Philip K. Dick novella "The Minority Report" and the 2002 film Minority Report is the fact that on the page, John Allison Anderton (Tom Cruise) is an old guy close to retirement, and in the film, he's a vibrant 40-year-old who looks 25. In fairness, Dick may have imagined a balding guy in his fourties when he wrote "The Minority Report," since, at the time, Dick was only 28.

In his recent podcast interview with the legendary controversial author Bret Easton Ellis and therefore perhaps in a mood to provoke and epater les bourgeois de la critique Tarantino unveiled his top 20 best films of the 21st century. Asked why Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was only at number 5, Tarantino declared that Dano was the problem: [Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister He's just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy.

Wicked: For Good is coming to Blu-ray after it finishes its box office run, and fans can look forward to multiple limited-edition versions, along with standard Blu-ray and DVD versions, all of which are available to preorder now. The most extravagant release is the Amazon-exclusive Wicked: For Good Gift Set, available for $230, which includes the film on 4K Blu-ray and a selection of exclusive collectibles.

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In 2012, Romanian thieves pulled seven paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and others from the walls of the Kunsthal Rotterdam. The job that seemed too easy turned out not to be. The men who were caught went to prison. The paintings, which they took to Romania, were never recovered. Investigators say the art was burned to destroy evidence.

It's the most wonderful time of year, and we at Defector are proud to bring back our series discussing some of the most, uh, available holiday movies. Sabrina Imbler: Thanks so much Kelsey and Alex for trudging through this "film" with me. Alex Sujong Laughlin: I am so excited to be here to talk about one man's sexual tension with Santa. Kelsey McKinney: Hello. I am here to discuss the queer film My Secret Santa, is this the correct place?

In the trailer for The Drama, a new movie from A24, Emma and Charlie (Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) meet with their wedding photographer, who's fighting tooth and nail to try to get some chemistry between a couple about to get married. She then asks the duo what they love about each other, and in between scenes of flirting and romance, the two look at each other with sweat and horror.

Divia, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is a haunting, meditative journey through Ukraine's wounded landscapes-told entirely without dialogue.

Russell Crowe has said that the makers of Gladiator II did not understand what made that first one special. In interview excerpts posted on social media by Australian radio station Triple J, Crowe said that the Gladiator sequel, which starred Paul Mescal and was released in 2024, was let down by the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made that first one special.

Released earlier this year, Tron: Ares was a box office bomb. The movie grossed only $142 million worldwide and received lukewarm critical reception at best. Audience reviews have been kinder, and while the film may not have reached the same heights as the original Tron or 2010's Tron: Legacy, there is still appreciation for how it pushes the franchise's concepts further and for its hard-hitting Nine Inch Nails soundtrack.

Paramount Pictures' official X account was hacked on Tuesday, briefly rebranded as a proud arm of a fascist regime message as it attempts a hostile takeover of Warner Bros Discovery. For several minutes, the pointed message was emblazoned on the account's bio. It quickly vanished restored to The official X account for Paramount Pictures but not before screenshots ricocheted across the internet.

The front of the Wheaties box has served as a hall of fame for some of the greatest athletes of all time, from baseball star Lou Gehrig to boxer Muhammid Ali, basketball legend Michael Jordan, and seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. Now, a fresh face is gracing the box's hallowed orange frame: Marty Mauser, the fictional ping-pong player played by Timothée Chalamet in A24's upcoming film Marty Supreme.

The Odyssey has always been a story passed down by oral tradition. Homer may be the author, but it was told by performers to audiences over and over. Now, millennia later, that story is being told by Christopher Nolan to its biggest audience yet. Nolan's Odyssey will be a large-scale epic that's already sold out some theaters months before its release, but if you're not patient enough to wait until July 2026, you can catch a sneak peek in certain movie screenings soon.

I decided to create the music video like it was a personal vlog - something I could link to my own memories and look back on years from now together with my child. In line with the album's concept, I considered my animation as my own 'answer' to the interview question. I look forward to watching it with my child in the future,

Great cinema has never died, but there's something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the viability of the theatrical experience, young people's slipping attention spans, and Hollywood's overreliance on franchises, unearths a diverse crop of gems. Many of my favorite films were major studio releases-blockbusters, even-that challenged audiences in innovative, surprising ways.

A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin' atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in The Secret Agent, director Kleber Mendonca Filho's momentous epic, a mercurial adventure in filmmaking that reminds us of how dangerous but important it can be to resist an unjust system. Secret Agent also urges us to be aware of the swath of corruption that settles in places high and low and to respect and embrace the bloodlines that flow through us.