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It is a generally accepted trope that the most effective horror movies are the ones that never show you the monster. It holds for classics like Alien and Rosemary's Baby, and is still used to great effect today in franchises like A Quiet Place. However, one of Netflix&
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It probably says a lot about our culture that the most successful female director in 2025 is one known for making super hardcore war films. American director Kathryn Bigelow became the only woman to ever win an Academy Award for directing with The Hurt Locker, a movie based on the
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The Alien series has many originators, but a crotchety British director bears responsibility for the serene but chilling atmosphere that helped propel the slasher-in-space original to global, enduring franchise status. Ridley Scott had only made one other film when he took us onboard the USCSS Nostromo, a towing spacecraft populated
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The name Kathryn Bigelow may not be instantly recognizable to those outside the entertainment industry, but most people have probably seen her films. The first woman to ever win an Academy Award for Best Director, she took home that honor in 2009 for the Iraq War film, The Hurt Locker,
Better Late Than Never
I have something a tad bit upsetting to share with you. It’s quite possible that you missed an entire TV series centered around Idris Elba as an action hero. It’s not entirely your fault. Hijack ran on AppleTV+ during the summer of 2023. As they say in the
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When the first installment in the "young adult romantic fantasy" Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, Children of Blood & Bone, was published in 2018, it already had a deal with a major studio to turn the story into a feature film. Despite the first installment of the series being
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The producers behind storied indie producer A24 have announced the company's next foray into the small screen space, with Things Fall Apart, a limited TV series based on the critically adored novel of the same name by Chinua Achebe. Published in 1958, the book was Nigerian-born Achebe'
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Fans of Luther may be sweating the return of the brown jacket and red tie, but over on Apple TV+, Idris Elba is already back in action as filming gets underway for the second season of Hijack. Plot details for the second season are being kept tightly under wraps, which
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that when a series is popular, it's likely to get a second season, whether or not it was necessarily originally created with a renewal in mind. Such is the case with Apple TV+'s Hijack, a fast-paced thriller starring Idris
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Idris Elba may have put to bed any James Bond rumors with his Luther: The Fallen Sun refusal to drink a martini, but just because he has no interest in being handed a license to kill or a double-0 number doesn't mean he's about to retire
Luther
Luther, the psychological detective series that ran on BBC in fits and starts across the 2010s, earned acclaim from critics and audiences that helped propel its lead actor to stardom. Since Luther first graced the small screen in 2010, Idris Elba has gone on to play the heel for the
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It is said that success can go to the head of actors and celebrities and that they forget where they come from. However, Idris Elba not only keeps it real, one might argue that he has trouble letting go. Luther, the show which put him on the map, ran its