The Boys Is Ending Just in Time to Save Its Own Legacy
Five seasons. One finale to go. And anyone who thinks Amazon should have squeezed out Season 6 hasn't been paying attention. The Boys is going out at exactly the right moment — and pretending otherwise is the most superhero-movie thing a fan can do.
Mortal Kombat II Lost to a Holdover About Handbags — The R-Rated Video Game Ceiling Has Been This Low for 30 Years
Look, I'm going to say something nobody at a Hollywood pitch meeting wants to hear: Mortal Kombat II opened to $40 million this weekend — the best opening of the entire Mortal Kombat film franchise, by the way — and it still got out-grossed by a sequel about a fashion magazine editor. In its second weekend. A holdover. A legacy comedy. About clothes.
Stop Defending The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The Franchise Just Hit $2 Billion of Pure Nostalgia Bait.
Nintendo and Illumination just pushed the Mario film franchise past $2 billion in combined worldwide gross. Critics still landed on "mixed to negative" for Galaxy. And I'm tired of pretending the box office is the same thing as a defense.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Earns Its Existence — But Not For The Reason You Think
Look, I came in ready to write the "we didn't need this sequel" piece. The Devil Wears Prada 2 had every disadvantage a 20-year-old legacy comedy sequel could have. So why did I leave the theater thinking the only honest critique left is one nobody's saying out loud?
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Earns Its Existence — But Not For The Reason You Think
Look, I came in ready to write the "we didn't need this sequel" piece. The Devil Wears Prada 2 had every disadvantage a 20-year-old legacy comedy sequel could have. So why did I leave the theater thinking the only honest critique left is one nobody's saying out loud?
Stop Defending Euphoria. Season 3 Isn't Ambitious — It's Exhausted.
Euphoria Season 3 is the lowest-rated season in the show's history. 48% audience. 54% Popcornmeter. Episode 2 — 'America My Dream' — spent 55 minutes proving everyone right. Maybe the style really is the substance. And maybe that's finally the problem.
The Mummy Just Proved Blumhouse Can Resurrect Anything — But Should They?
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is sitting at 58% on Rotten Tomatoes — miles ahead of the 2017 Dark Universe disaster but nowhere near his own Evil Dead Rise. It's bloody, it's loud, and it can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be.
CinemaCon 2026 Just Showed Us Hollywood's Next Two Years — Here Are the Winners and Losers
Sony went all-in on gaming adaptations and Spider-Man. Warner Bros. dropped seven minutes of Dune 3 and announced a Game of Thrones movie. Two studios down, two to go — and CinemaCon already has a clear winner.
Supergirl Didn't Need Earth, Superman, or a Safety Net — And That's Why It Works
The DCU's second film sent its lead to space with a dog and a teenager instead of giving audiences another Metropolis slugfest. James Gunn just made the most confident creative bet in superhero cinema this year.
Toy Story 5 Didn't Need to Exist — But Does It Justify Itself?
Pixar had the perfect ending. Toy Story 4 wrapped everything up with a bow so clean it made grown adults sob in parking lots. So why are we here again? Because Disney smelled money, Pixar found a theme worth chasing, and somehow — against all odds — there might be a reason this movie exists.
Oscars 2026: The Academy Got It Wrong and We Need to Talk About It
Marty Supreme went home empty-handed after nine nominations. Sinners broke records but still lost Best Picture. And Sean Penn couldn't even be bothered to show up. The 98th Academy Awards were a mess — and I loved every second of it.