There are historical thrillers that use the past as decoration, and then there are movies that make history feel like a loaded gun sitting on the table. The Weight (2026) looks firmly planted in the second category. Directed by Padraic McKinley and led by Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe, this bleak Depression-era thriller takes place…
There are some movies that look interesting because of a giant franchise logo, a ridiculous budget, or a cast packed with superheroes. The Weight is interesting for a completely different reason: it sounds like the kind of grim, nasty thriller you discover on a Friday night, watch almost by accident, and then spend the next…
Dark Matter Season 2 has finally arrived, and thankfully, Apple TV+ has not treated the return as an excuse to simply repeat Jason Dessen’s nightmare with a slightly different coat of paint. The second season premiered on August 28, 2026, and immediately pushes the story into territory the original novel never explored. That decision comes…
Dark Matter Season 2 has barely gotten started, and already I have the feeling that we need to throw out half of what we thought we understood about the multiverse. That might sound dramatic, but after watching the opening episodes, I honestly don’t know how else to put it. The first season gave us a…
Dark Matter Season 2 has already done something I honestly did not expect: it has made the Box itself feel more frightening than the alternate versions of Jason Dessen. When the first season of Apple’s mind-bending sci-fi thriller introduced the Box, it was easy to think of it as a very complicated plot device. A…
There is always a dangerous moment when a beloved television franchise decides it wants another life. Fans get nervous. Studios get ambitious. Suddenly, everyone starts talking about legacy, nostalgia, and whether a new show can possibly live up to something that already feels untouchable. That was exactly the problem facing The Paper. Nobody needed another…
There was always a slightly dangerous question hanging over The Paper after its first season: could this actually become its own show, or would it forever live in the shadow of The Office? After watching where the first season took the Toledo Truth Teller, I’m leaning strongly toward the former. The series has the same…
There was always going to be a problem with making another show set in the world of The Office. That show became so deeply tied to a particular time, place, and group of characters that almost any attempt to revisit it could have felt like a cheap nostalgia play. That is why I was pleasantly…
There is a moment in Hope when you realize Na Hong-jin has no intention of giving you the movie you thought you were watching. That is either thrilling or infuriating, depending on how much patience you have for a director deliberately pulling the floor out from under his audience. The film begins like a grimy…
Warning: Major spoilers for Hope (2026) below. There are movies that leave you thinking about the story on the drive home. Then there are movies like Hope, which leave you wondering whether you watched the same film as everyone sitting around you. Na Hong-jin’s Hope starts out looking like a grimy rural monster thriller. A…
There are movies you casually put on your watchlist, and then there are movies like Hope (2026), where the question isn’t really whether you’re going to watch it. It’s when. Na Hong-jin’s latest film has been one of the more intriguing cinematic stories of 2026. The director behind The Chaser, The Yellow Sea, and The…
Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness Season 3 is finally here, and yes, the big question is still the simplest one: how many episodes are there? The answer is eight. No surprise there. Paramount+ is sticking with the format used by the first two seasons, giving viewers one new episode per week instead of dumping the entire season…