From Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You to Jodie Foster in A Private Life, an onscreen parade of psychoanalysts are unravelling before us, tapping into our worst fears
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You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories ⊕⊕
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From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?
Thank heavens for cinema, that light in the darkness and th…
40 days ago
Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens strongly at box office as Obsession, Backrooms – and Michael – smash records ⊕
UFO thriller is on track to become director’s best performing original title in the US, taking just shy of $100m in global revenue after opening weekend
Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s thriller in…
49 days ago
How ‘Backrooms’ producer Peter Chernin thinks Hollywood needs to change ⊕
Franchise fatigue could drive an entertainment industry sea change as the appetite for fresh ideas grows and younger audiences make up more box office sales.
Horror’s Hollywood takeover is an exciting moment – but won’t someone think of the squeamish? ○
In this week’s newsletter: The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession has made stars of their creators. For the good of cinema, however, they’d do well to look beyond the genre going forwar…
53 days ago
Masters of the Universe review – Amazon’s He-Man adventure is a weak big-budget misfire ⊖
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A laboured attempt to resurrect toy IP very few people still care about is a $200m-budgeted waste of everyone’s time
It’s not just that He-Man himself is from the 80s that gives 2026’s Masters of the …
54 days ago
To YouTube and beyond: how online gen Z directors stormed Hollywood ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences want
At this time last year, the idea of a wide-…
Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms ⊖
Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24
Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box…
57 days ago
Endless yellow corridors started as an internet meme - now it's a Hollywood horror film ⊖
YouTuber Kane Parsons' eerie YouTube series has been adapted for a film called Backrooms.
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain
When architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwe…