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If you haven’t seen Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966), imagine something way stranger and sweatier than your typical mid-sixties thriller. It’s like watching a town on the edge of a nervous breakdown, the kind of feverish drama that feels both old-fashioned and disturbingly ahead of its time. Sam Spiegel produced it, Lillian Hellman wrote the screenplay (based on Horton Foote's work), and the result is messy, ambitious, and totally gripping. There’s this wild clash: Old Hollywood glitz against the dark, chaotic mood of New Hollywood. In the middle stands Marlon Brando, looking tired, grounded, and quietly heroic while everyone else spirals into madness. Honestly, I couldn’t stop thinking about Ari Aster’s Eddington when I watched it, another film that dives headfirst into messy polarization. The story seems straightforward at first: Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) escapes prison. He’s not some sinister outlaw, just unlucky as hell, but his return to Tarl, Texas, basically rips the mask...

The 1994 cult classic The Stöned Age is joining the Vestron Video Collector’s Series as entry #38. Lionsgate Limited is releasing the Blu-ray debut on April 20th, the perfect date to celebrate a movie that may not have invented but certainly embraces the "one wild night" stoner comedy vibe. I first saw The Stöned Age back in high school, not long after discovering Dazed and Confused. At the time, I will be honest, I dismissed it. I wrote it off as another movie trying to capture the same 70's nostalgia vibe, cruising around, chasing girls, and killing time with friends. But over the years, I'd revisit it from time to time, and each time it hit a little differently. What I'd originally written off as just another copycat actually turned out to have its own thing going on. It is rougher around the edges, a little louder, and full of a particular kind of Southern California troublemaking. Eventually, it clicked for me that the film was not trying to be Dazed and Conf...

Brian Wilson’s Live at the Roxy has been described as "the spark that reignited" his touring career, and an impressive new collection is about to document the forest fire that followed. Did I push the metaphor too far on that one? Oglio Entertainment has announced the upcoming release of On Tour 1999–2007, an expansive live chronicle arriving exclusively for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026. This collection captures Wilson during what many consider his modern creative peak. After the triumph of those 2000 Roxy shows, Wilson and his now-legendary touring ensemble took that energy worldwide. Spanning nearly a decade of performances, the album features recordings from legendary venues like Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Festival Hall, and UCLA’s Royce Hall. It’s designed as a natural companion to the Live at the Roxy set, showing how those intimate "comeback" moments evolved into a globe-spanning renaissance. The tracklist appears to be curated with fans in mind, mixi...

Getty Images for Free Press Look, no matter where you fall politically... left, right, or somewhere in between, there’s one principle that should matter to everyone: a free society depends on a press that isn’t beholden to the people in power. The job of journalists is to question authority and hold leaders accountable, not echo whatever those leaders want the public to hear. That’s why the protests organized by Free Press during the Academy Awards have caught people’s attention. This weekend, a mobile billboard circling the Dolby Theatre is taking a jab at a proposed $110 billion merger involving Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. The protest is designed to be silly, sure, but the underlying concern is serious: critics worry that a deal this big could reshape the media landscape in ways that make the press less independent, not more. At the center of the controversy is David Ellison and the broader consolidation effort around Warner Bros. Discovery. If everything comes toget...

Lionsgate has released a skin-crawling new clip titled “I Hate Rats” from the upcoming horror film DO NOT ENTER, which is set to deliver a high-stakes, claustrophobic nightmare when it hits theaters, digital, and on-demand platforms on March 20, 2026. Based on the acclaimed book Creepers by David Morrell and directed by Marc Klasfeld, the film follows a group of thrill-seeking urban explorers known as the "Creepers" as they attempt to livestream from New Jersey’s abandoned Paragon Hotel. The newly released scene showcases the intense physical and psychological toll on the lead characters, including Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph, Francesca Reale, Shane Paul McGhie, and Laurence O’Fuarain, as they navigate a narrow, rusted drainage tunnel only to be swarmed by a massive flood of rats. This frantic scramble for safety highlights the film's R-rating for bloody violence and language, as the characters struggle to shield themselves from the deluge of vermin before a weary charac...

The New York indie scene is about to get a shot in the arm with the upcoming theatrical release of Fantasy Life. After cleaning up on the festival circuit, taking home the Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Amanda Peet at SXSW, this "smart New York romantic comedy" is finally heading to the big screen. The film kicks off its run in New York City on March 27th, followed by a nationwide expansion on April 3rd. The story follows Sam Stein (played by writer-director Matthew Shear), a down-on-his-luck paralegal who pivots from a mid-career panic attack into an unexpected gig babysitting for his own psychiatrist. The job takes him to Martha’s Vineyard for the summer, where he finds himself living in a crowded, high-energy house with the woman he’s falling for (Amanda Peet), her rock-bassist husband (Alessandro Nivola), and a revolving door of quirky grandparents. It’s a classic setup for a comedy of errors, grounded by what critics are already calling a powerhouse performa...

The box office hit Mercy is officially making the leap from the silver screen to your living room. Amazon MGM Studios and Alliance Home Entertainment have announced that the high-stakes sci-fi thriller, starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, will be available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD starting April 7th. After a dominant theatrical run that saw the film debut at #1 in January, home viewers can finally experience the "intense" and "suspenseful" ride that earned an impressive 82% on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter. The film follows Detective Chris Raven, played by Pratt, who finds himself in a digital nightmare when he is accused of murdering his wife. In a cruel twist of irony, he must stand trial before an advanced A.I. Judge, a system he once championed—portrayed by Ferguson. Raven is given a mere 90 minutes to argue for his life and convince the machine of his innocence. Directed by visionary filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, known for his work on Wanted an...

Breaking Glass Pictures is revving up for a high-octane season with the upcoming release of Trucker, an explosive action-horror thriller set to debut across major VOD platforms on March 10, 2026. Directed by Errol Sack and penned by Steven Shaffer, the film marks a relentless return to the gritty tradition of cult revenge cinema. Produced under the ES Films banner by Alexia Cirino, Chuck Cirino, Dennis McCarthy, and Steven Shaffer, the story follows a long-haul trucker who miraculously survives a fiery highway catastrophe that claims the lives of his entire family. After being nursed back to health by a mysterious benefactor, the grieving father transforms his trauma into a brutal, white-knuckle campaign of vigilante justice against the reckless teens responsible for the crash. The film boasts a seasoned ensemble cast featuring Katherine Gibson (Devil’s Game) and industry veteran Jim Palmer, known for his work in iconic franchises such as Terminator 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. Round...

Watching Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man felt a little strange at first, mostly because going back into that world after the series ended already carries a lot of weight. The Shelby story has always been tied to the smoke and grit of Birmingham and the trauma left behind by the First World War, and this movie really leans into that feeling again. But instead of trying to top the scale of the later seasons, it feels more reflective. It almost plays like a long look at Tommy Shelby as a person rather than just the legend everyone sees him as. Picking up after the finale, the story doesn’t rush to prove why it needs to exist. It takes its time, and that actually worked for me. The movie steps away from the big political games that dominated the later seasons and focuses much more on Tommy himself. There’s a sense that he’s carrying the full weight of everything that’s happened across the series, and the film lets that sit with you. The title, The Immortal Man, really stuck with me while ...