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Adapted from Donald Westlake's novel The Ax, No Other Choice captures - most delightfully and cathartically - the perpetual and unsolvable anxiety of living under an economic system built around extracting surplus value from its workers. Or the dark irony that if a corporation makes a person redundant, it is strategy; if a human does the same, it's a crime.

As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions it's taken against the AI spam polluting the platform. Combined, the channels - called Screen Culture, based in India, and KH Studio, based in the US - boasted over two million subscribers and more than one billion views.

Day one, when we were supposed to hear a distant, faint sound that could be the T-Rex, and we all had to listen to the sound at the same moment, Sir Richard Attenborough [who played park creator John Hammond] said, 'We're going to need a cue of some kind, there has to be something ominous about something in the distance and we're not sure we heard it,' and Steven said, 'Don't worry, don't worry,'

Reddit users angry about their overstuffed, overloud theatrical experiences swap stories of other guests illegally filming the screen for the 'gram, propping up laptops and participating in Zooms, bringing toddlers into R-rated movies and letting them watch their iPads without headphones, and yelling and screaming and throwing things. People are disgusting! Wouldn't it be better, one person wrote, to be at home, where you can pause Killers of the Flower Moon to pee and get dinner, rather than in a theater, "sitting in a chair some idiot was farting in for three hours"?

Paqui sits in a chair facing a house, close to the road, phone in hand. Paqui's official name is Francisca Jimenez Fernandez, she's 49 years old, and although her body exudes a certain listlessness and a sad smile plays across her face, her eyes sparkle: she has a knack for irony. I agreed to be in the film to get away from here, because I have a dream of making something of myself, she says.

What happens when two combatants of a massive conflict are isolated from their reasons for fighting each other? The idea that soldiers on opposite sides could find common ground because of an abrupt change of context is, by no means, a new idea. It wasn't new in 1985, and it's not new now. However, what the film did was to bring this trope to science fiction in a way that was both startlingly new and paradoxically timeless.

Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you've purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and YouTube became unavailable on Movies Anywhere on October 31st, but now they should sync to your account again. "Support for Google as a digital retailer has been re-enabled," Movies Anywhere says in a support page.

She discovers a gift-wrapped necklace in his coat pocket and assumes it will be her Christmas present. Instead, when she opens it, she finds a CD of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now , and the realisation that he has given the jewellery to another woman. She goes upstairs, puts the album on, and we watch for a few tense minutes as the weight of betrayal and deceit hangs over her.

Will Arnett uses stand-up comedy as therapy for his divorce from Laura Dern in the new dramedy "Is This Thing On?," directed by Bradley Cooper. It's a funny take on a topic that doesn't sound funny at first blush: divorce that's led by a superstar cast and Eyewitness News Entertainment Reporter calls the chemistry between Arnett and Dern 'perfection.' She sat down with them to talk about the making of the movie.

I don't think it's super kosher copacetic to just kind of rob freely under the auspices of acceleration or China,

Happy Birthday: Think twice before you follow through. Fine-tuning your plans is easier than fixing mistakes. Dedicate more time and effort to perfecting skills and formulating ideas that separate you from the competition. Think big, hone your skills and ideas, and carry out your intentions with dignity and grace. You'll outperform and replace what's outdated with something new, exciting and sought-after.

You could hardly ask for a better movie debut than Chase Infiniti's in One Battle After Another, even if the 24-year-old actor was very much thrown in at the deep end. As Willa, the teenage daughter of former revolutionaries, she was called on to do shoot-outs, car chases, karate, and to hold her own against heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Regina King.

The week before Christmas is always a flurry of holiday activity - last-minute gift purchases, travel, maybe a few batches of cookies waiting to be baked - but it's also when publications start scrambling to get all their year-in-review columns out the door. The best albums, the best movies, the best TV shows, even the best memes - as someone who's spent a good chunk of her life compiling such lists, I can tell you that there are typically a few clear front-runners or consensus favorites that emerge.

Josh Safdie's hectic new film Marty Supreme, set in 1952, mainly in New York, is, essentially, Uncut Gems but with a happy ending. That recklessly exuberant 2019 drama, which Safdie co-directed with his brother, Benny, stars Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer in Manhattan and a compulsive gambler who takes thrilling risks to pay off his creditors and learns that the house always wins. With Marty SupremeSafdie's first feature directed without Benny since 2008the happy ending follows logically from a happy beginning, so to speak.

First, Culkin pointed out that his sons can watch Disney Channel classic sitcom, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which starred his now-wife, Brenda Song, and the kids totally get it. "I'll put it on. Brenda hates it, but I'll put it on ... They're like, 'Yeah, that's mama.' So they get that. But when they see Kevin, they always just call him Kevin. Because the illusion's still there," Culkin began.

These films were funny, intimate, messy, thoughtful, and unapologetically horny; made by real people exploring desire on their own terms and trusting HUMP! audiences to come along for the ride. The winning films didn't just stand out. They sparked reactions, started conversations, and lingered long after the lights came back on. Didn't make it to a screening? No judgment. The full 2025 lineup is streaming now, so you can watch, rewind, and revisit your favorites anytime at humpfilmfest.com/streaming-library.

For the majority of The Housemaid, it's pretty clear that something's off with the picture-perfect family of the Winchesters. When Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried) hires the desperate Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) to be her housemaid, she seems sweet and normal, if a little airheaded. Pregnancy hormones, she reveals conspiratorially to Millie. But don't tell her husband, she wants it to be a surprise ...

The record also features a a duet from Andy Shauf and Madi Diaz, a pair of tracks from the bird and the bee (Inara George and Greg Kurstin, who also appear in the film), and a rendition of "The 12 Days Of Christmas" from cast member Dominic Sessa. Released by Mutant along with Sony Music Soundtracks, the special vinyl edition arrives on 140-gram candy cane color vinyl with exclusive artwork, plus liner notes written by Oh. What. Fun. director and co-writer Michael Showalter.

According to the trade outlet, the latest installment in the long running Jurassic Park franchise has grossed over $850 million globally, while the Wicked sequel has made over $450 million to date. Of course, Variety notes, neither film's success rode solely on Bailey's shoulders. Both are sequels based on massively popular intellectual property. And both featured Bailey appearing alongside mega stars like Scarlett Johanssen and Ariana Grande. It's also worth noting that neither film was particularly well-received by critics.

Laura Dern's starred in stories of marital disaster before - from her portrayal of a no-holds-barreddivorce lawyer in Marriage Story to her turn as a woman on the brink of a marriage breakdown in Big Little Lies. But her new film, Is This Thing On? (out Dec. 19), offers a brighter take on splitsville. Directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, the movie follows Tess (Dern) and Alex (Will Arnett, also the film's co-writer), parents navigating the beginning of a separation.

For most, filmmaking isn't a lucrative profession. But for a select few, it can really pay off. In an industry where few want to be a part of failures and seemingly everyone wants a piece of the successes, these five directors have risen above the fray to not just be master storytellers, but get paid like them. James Cameron, who has made the highest-grossing movies of all time on numerous occasions, is the latest to join the three-comma club.

In the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks played Captain John H. Miller, a citizen-soldier willing to die for his country.

"It is a movie where you have to be careful not to rush anything because the silences are important, and the time that passes is important," editor Affonso Goncalves said of the film, which he co-edited with director Chloe Zhao. "Chloe's first tendency is toward the wide shots and the masters, and we talk about when to keep some of that silence that exists in a master, not to go in but just to keep it that way, and when to stretch silences and pauses."