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Clayface Opens to $24M — DC's Proof-of-Concept, Not Its Triumph

A $44M body-horror villain origin film wins the domestic box office with $24M and an A- CinemaScore. The win matters less than what the budget tells us about DC's only viable path forward.

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Tom Skerritt (1933–2026): The Quiet Authority Hollywood Kept Handing the Controls

Captain of the Nostromo, Top Gun's Viper, the Reverend of A River Runs Through It, the Emmy-winning sheriff of Picket Fences: Tom Skerritt, who has died at 93, made quiet authority into a six-decade career.

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Yuri!!! on ICE at Ten: What the Show That Couldn't Get Its Movie Still Means

A decade after twelve episodes permanently changed sports anime, queer representation, and MAPPA's trajectory, the one-night theatrical anniversary that arrives without the promised film forces a reckoning with what "unfinished" actually means.

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Spirited Away at 25: The Monument and Its Shadow

Twenty-five years of Western critical deference to Spirited Away has calcified it into a monument rather than a film. What that canonization cost — to Ghibli's other work, and to the broader anime it displaced — is the story the anniversary should actually be telling.

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Eva Marie Saint (1924–2026): The Actress Who Made Goodness the Boldest Choice in the Room

Eva Marie Saint, the oldest living Oscar winner, has died at 102. Between On the Waterfront and North by Northwest she played the two women 1950s Hollywood kept apart, and refused the cliché inside each.

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The Departed at 20: The Oscar It Took, and What It Reveals About Hollywood's Comfort With Cynicism

Twenty years on, The Departed endures not just as a crime masterpiece but as a symptom — of what Hollywood calls wisdom when it really means despair, and why the Academy finally said yes to Scorsese for his most morally vacant film.

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Midnight Universe Issue 5 Solicitations Map the Line's Real Test

Marvel's February 2027 solicitations confirm Midnight Spider-Man, Midnight Fantastic Four, and Midnight X-Men are each deepening their independent horror logics ahead of a crossover still months away.

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