Avengers: Endgame Is Back in Cinemas — With New Connections to Doomsday
Marvel has done something unusual with one of the biggest movies ever made. Seven years after Avengers: Endgame brought the Infinity Saga to an emotional conclusion, the film has returned to cinemas as Avengers: Endgame Encore. But this isn't simply Marvel putting an old blockbuster back on the big screen. The new release contains additional material connecting Endgame with Avengers: Doomsday. In other words, Marvel has taken what was once the ending of its biggest story and turned it into part of the setup for its next one. Endgame isn't quite over anymore The original Avengers: Endgame felt remarkably final. Tony Stark sacrificed
Movie Villains Who Actually Had a Point (They Were Just… Very Dramatic About It)
Villains in movies have a habit of ruining their own argument. Not because their point is bad, but because somewhere between “I have a valid concern” and “here’s my plan,” they take a hard left into kidnapping, elaborate traps or trying to destroy civilisation. That’s the tragedy of a good villain. Sometimes, if they had just calmed down and spoken to someone — maybe over coffee, maybe in therapy — they could have resolved the whole thing in under an hour and saved everyone a lot of trouble. But then we wouldn’t have a movie. And if we are being
Wildwood looks like LAIKA’s biggest fantasy adventure yet
Seven years after Missing Link, LAIKA is finally returning to cinemas with another stop-motion feature. Wildwood opens on 23 October 2026, and the studio has now released its final trailer as tickets go on sale. For fans who fell in love with the eerie handmade worlds of Coraline, ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, that alone is an event. But Wildwood looks considerably bigger than a simple return to familiar territory. Into the Impassable Wilderness The story follows Prue McKeel, a young girl whose baby brother is taken by crows. Her search draws her into a hidden wilderness and
Has Resident Evil finally found the right way to become a movie?
Resident Evil has spent more than two decades trying to work out what it wants to be on the big screen. Paul W.S. Anderson's films turned the games into increasingly enormous action spectacles centred on Milla Jovovich's Alice. Welcome to Raccoon City attempted a more recognisable recreation of game locations and characters. Now Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger has taken a third route. His new Resident Evil opened in cinemas on 18 September 2026, starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier who finds himself entering a nightmare around Raccoon City. The crucial difference is that Cregger is not
The new Hunger Games trailer shows just how brutal Haymitch’s story will be
We have known Haymitch Abernathy for years as the cynical, damaged mentor who attempts to keep Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark alive. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is taking us back to the event that helped make him that man. A new trailer for the film arrived this week, giving fans another substantial look at Joseph Zada as the teenage Haymitch during the 50th Hunger Games, better known as the Second Quarter Quell. And this was not a normal year in the arena. Instead of the usual 24 tributes, the Capitol demanded 48. Haymitch before the drinking and
Alan Ritchson could replace Jason Momoa in the Helldivers movie – but the deal is not final
Sony's Helldivers movie has found a potential new recruit. Alan Ritchson, best known to many viewers as Jack Reacher in Prime Video's Reacher, is in talks to join the film adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios' enormously successful science-fiction shooter franchise. The important phrase is in talks. Ritchson has not, as of 25 September 2026, been formally announced by Sony as the movie's new lead. What happened to Jason Momoa? Jason Momoa was announced as the star of Helldivers earlier in 2026, with Sony setting a 10 November 2027 theatrical release. Fast & Furious filmmaker Justin Lin is directing. By June,
Stranger Things isn’t over: Tales From ’85 season 2 is already streaming
The live-action story of Stranger Things may have reached its enormous cultural moment, but Netflix is clearly not finished with Hawkins. Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 has returned for a second season, with the new episodes arriving on Netflix on 17 September 2026. The animated series takes viewers back to Hawkins and reunites us with younger versions of Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas and Max, along with Nikki and the rest of the Hawkins Investigators Club. This time, the gang has another paranormal problem to investigate. Because apparently nobody living in Hawkins is ever allowed to have a quiet school
Princess Mononoke is returning to cinemas in 4K this September
Few animated films become less relevant with age. Princess Mononoke certainly hasn't. Hayao Miyazaki's epic fantasy is returning to North American cinemas from 26 to 30 September 2026 as part of Studio Ghibli Fest, presented in its 4K remastered version. For fans who have never seen Ashitaka, San and the Forest Spirit on a cinema screen, this is a particularly good excuse. A clarification about the 4K version The 4K restoration itself is not brand new to 2026. GKIDS first brought the remaster to North American IMAX theatres in 2025 as part of Studio Ghibli's 40th anniversary celebrations. The remaster
Suikoden II is becoming an anime and we finally have an exact premiere date
One of the most beloved cult RPGs of the original PlayStation era is about to reach a completely different audience. Suikoden: The Anime will premiere in Japan on 3 October 2026, with its opening episode presented as a 60-minute special. The date was confirmed alongside the anime's third trailer. And in an interesting move, this adaptation is not beginning with the first Suikoden. It is adapting Suikoden II. Why start with Suikoden II? Konami released Suikoden II for the original PlayStation in 1998. The story centres on childhood friends Riliu and Jowy, young members of the Highland Kingdom's youth brigade
World War Z 2 is finally happening – and Brad Pitt is coming back
For years, World War Z 2 has been one of those sequels that seemed destined to remain a Hollywood “what if”. There were directors, scripts, development announcements and eventually silence. Now, more than a decade after Brad Pitt raced across the world trying to stay one step ahead of a zombie pandemic, Paramount is taking another shot at the franchise. Brad Pitt is officially set to return for a new World War Z film, with All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger attached to direct. Dennis Kelly is writing the screenplay, while Pitt will also produce