“High concept” used to be industry terminology for movies whose premise was precise, succinct and intriguing, but these days it’s used interchangeably as shorthand to describe ones that just sound lazy, instead of creative. Take “Locked” for a timely example: It’s about a thief who
“Saturday Night Live” alum Vanessa Bayer made a surprise appearance during this week’s episode of “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney,” playing Netflix’s new AI assistant. During a break in the interview, which featured Ben Stiller, Quinta Brunson and Nick Kroll, Bayer was introduced in a
“Balatro” won Game of the Year at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) on Wednesday, just after “Consume Me” received the top prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGFA). From LocalThunk and Playstack, “Balatro” is a indie roguelike deckbuilding game that has a
Disney’s popular Polynesian heroine is back on the big screen with “Moana 2,” and the Mouse House celebrated big box office numbers when the film hit theaters over Thanksgiving. As the animated film arrives on Disney+ this month, Disney has more to celebrate, with new
Warner Bros. enacted some significant housekeeping around its film release schedule on Wednesday, including a new date for the highly anticipated Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Now officially titled “One Battle After Another,” the Anderson project is shrouded in mystery but said to
SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 13, Episode 6 of “The Masked Singer,” “Grand Ole Opry Night,” which aired March 19 on Fox. I don’t want to wait, for this episode to be over. I want to know right now who will it be… and
Hong Kong’s Phoenix Waters Productions and South Korea’s Studio Target have inked a memorandum of understanding to bolster cross-border collaboration spanning Hong Kong, Korea and the U.K. The strategic alliance, revealed during Hong Kong FilMart, will focus on jointly developing, financing and producing films, series
At a New York Imax screening of “Spring Breakers,” Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco crashed the party, saying hello to hundreds of fans who showed up to watch A24’s bikini-clad drug bonanza on the nation’s second-largest screen. Moviegoers shrieked as Gomez and Blanco made their