2 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Film Archive

Archives for June 2025

28 Years Later is a bleak fever dream with rage pumping through its veins

The new 28 Days Later sequel’s infected ghouls aren’t all that scary, but the film’s Brexit-y undertones sure are.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos

Primordial Soup’s new short film feels like a snapshot of everything that’s disappointing about gen AI.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
An original 1977 print of Star Wars was screened recently, and it looked “terrible.”

That’s according to The Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin, who also said, “It felt less like watching a blockbuster in the modern sense than the greatest game of dressing up in the desert anyone ever played.”

The Hollywood Reporter points out that George Lucas has been tweaking the flick going back to its rerelease in theaters in 1981, along with this YouTube report from Cinema Savvy detailing “so many little things” that are different. If you want a better blend of the updates without CG fluff and “Greedo shot first,” you may have to wait for Harmy to get back from his honeymoon.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Max chicken jockey.

A Minecraft Movie will start streaming on Max on June 20th, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. The movie was a huge hit in theaters.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ancestra makes the AI film hype feel pretty premature.

Director Eliza McNitt’s new short film produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind, uses generative AI to tell the story of a woman going through a difficult birth. The project’s meant to be a testament to the potential of AI video generation models, but...well, you can see the results for yourself. We’ll have more to say on this soon.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Batman’s taking on the Yakuza League this summer.

If you’ve been waiting for Warner Bros. Japan’s follow-up to Batman Ninja, some good news: (HBO) Max announced today that Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is set to make its streaming debut this summer on July 3rd.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Watch out for ParaNorman activity this fall.

I’m dead excited to see Laika’s spooky 2012 stop-motion movie return to theaters for a one-week limited run, starting on October 25th in the US and October 23rd for other global screens. The re-run also includes the premiere of “ParaNorman: The Thrifting,” a new CG short film starring Finn Wolfhard and Anna Kendrick, who reprises her role as Norman’s sister, Courtney.

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to TubiKickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
While Craig Federighi suffers through Siri questions at WWDC...

Apple CEO Tim Cook got to appear in a shiny Variety profile about F1 and Apple’s entertainment efforts. Poor Craig.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
All You Need is a theatrical release date.

The distribution rights to Warner Bros. Japan’s animated adaptation of All You Need Is Kill — Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 sci-fi novel that inspired Edge of Tomorrow — have been acquired acquired by Gkids. The company plans to put the film in theaters “soon.”

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Apple has released a haptic F1 trailer enhanced with iPhone vibrations.

If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 18.4 or later, the Apple TV Plus tab of the TV app now features a trailer for the upcoming Brad Pitt F1 movie that’s now enhanced with vibrations created by the modern iPhone’s Taptic Engine.

You can not only feel an F1 car’s engine revving, but subtler events in the trailer like the click of a seatbelt being fastened, and buttons being pressed on a steering wheel.

An image of Brad Pitt with text promoting a trailer for Apple’s F1 movie.
Screenshot: Apple TV
Predator: Killer of Killers is a short and sweet joyride through the franchise’s secret past

Hulu’s animated Predator prequel film feels like a perfect pre-Badlands appetizer.

Charles Pulliam-Moore