Film Review: A Good Cast Can't Save Contrived 'gringo'

“Stranger Things” has (almost) come to an end. Production has wrapped on the fifth and final season of Netflix’s hit series, the streamer announced Friday. A release date for the finale hasn’t been revealed yet, but Netflix has confirmed the show will be back in 2025. “That’s a wrap on ‘Stranger Things,'” Netflix posted on […]

They might not be “Wicked” and “Gladiator II,” but “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and “Mufasa: The Lion King” will face off for another high-powered weekend at the box office. Paramount’s “Sonic” threequel has made $6.5 million in Thursday previews at the box office. Disney’s “Lion King” prequel will report its preview grosses later this morning.

Spotify has made an official statement denying Drake’s claims in a legal filing last month that the streaming numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us,” which took powerful verbal shots at the Canadian rapper, were “artificially inflated.” Last month, Drake, through his company Frozen Moments, accused the streaming giant and his own label, Universal Music Group, of […]

“The Possessed,” the third feature film from Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević and her English-language debut, has been greenlit and is set to shoot in Spain at the start of 2026. The project, which was selected for Cinemart last year, will be presented to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

“The Talk” executive producer Rob Crabbe is getting a little too familiar with TV goodbyes. A year and a half after his previous talker, “The Late Late Show With James Corden,” signed off, he’s now doing the same thing on Friday with “The Talk.” It’s a different kind of show, and therefore a different kind […]

Indian production house Maddock Films, led by Dinesh Vijan, has delivered a series of successful genre films in 2024, including the breakout horror-comedy “Munjya” and the franchise continuation “Stree 2.” The studio began the year with hit sci-fi rom-com “Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya,” where Kriti Sanon plays SIFRA (Super Intelligent Female Robot Automation), […]