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Zendaya will play legendary Ronettes singer Ronnie Spector in a biopic for A24, to be directed by Barry Jenkins.

Ben Affleck thinks his and Zack Snyder's take on Batman skewed "too old" and mature to appeal to younger viewers and comic book fans.

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday is coming next year and the project is slowly revealing its cast via a livestream.

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Movie theaters are considering discount pricing and investing in Imax and 4DX to attract audiences, but the 2025 box office is in a slump.

Ben Affleck is opening up about why playing Batman was "a really excruciating experience."

Pretty much the title. I have time to go see a movie this week, but can't decide between Novocaine and Mickey 17. No spoilers, please and thank you.

Edit: Thanks for the input all, I've decided to see Novocaine based on your comments.

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"Look, I'm 63 years old," the actor says. "I'm not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. That's not my job.

Got the week off just want to download eat popcorn and binge.

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Robert De Niro's crime drama "Alto Knights" is already one of the year's biggest box office misfires.

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Amanda Seyfried is forever indebted to 'Mean Girls'.

David Leitch is directing the film that is being produced by Imagine Entertainment and his 87North Productions.

There's a particular discomfort in discovering, after decades of historical education and over a hundred Holocaust-related films, that significant chapters of atrocity have remained invisible to me. "Dara of Jasenovac" delivers precisely this uncomfortable revelation, chronicling horrors at Croatia's Jasenovac concentration camp - a genocide I had never encountered in history books or cinema.

Predrag Antonijevic's unflinching film follows ten-year-old Dara through what was sometimes called "the Auschwitz of the Balkans", where the fascist Ustase regime murdered primarily Serbs, but also Jews, Roma, and political dissidents. That such a significant murder camp could remain relatively unknown in the Western conscious speaks to the politics of historical memory. What distinguishes this story is not just its focus on a lesser-known atrocity, but its disturbing examination of Croatia's independent enthusiasm for mass murder, without direct Nazi management.

"Dara of Jasenovac" functions as both historical correction and cold mirror. The film's most devastating insight is not historical but philosophical. Through Dara's eyes, we witness the seamless transformation of ordinary people into monsters. Unlike the bureaucratic, industrialized killing of Nazi death camps, Jasenovac reveals something more primal - the apparent eagerness with which humans will torture and murder their neighbors when given permission by authority.

The film's power comes largely from its uncompromising realism. Antonijevic's direction, the haunting cinematography, meticulously detailed sets, and the extraordinarily naturalistic performances - especially from Biljana Cekic as Dara - create an immersive historical world that feels horrifyingly authentic. Cekic's performance is remarkable for its restraint; her watchful eyes become our lens into this nightmare.

This movie raises the questions "How could this specific atrocity be forgotten?", and the more significant "What within human nature makes such cruelty possible?" Both these questions are terribly uncomfortable. The latter even more terrifying in the light of the rise of fascist power in the United States. That humans so readily inflict suffering on one another when ideologically sanctioned, casts the lens on the darkest side of our human nature.

"Dara of Jasenovac" is difficult, necessary cinema that reminds us that the phrase "never again" remains hollow so long as significant chapters of atrocity remain unacknowledged and the human capacity for cruelty remains unexamined.

Amanda Seyfried got offered Gamora but was certain "Guardians of the Galaxy" would be Marvel's first box office flop.

The Russo Brothers originally 'said no' to Robert Downey Jr. when he asked them to direct 'Avengers: Doomsday' and 'Secret Wars.'