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Oscar Directors: Spielberg on Hollywood’s Urgent Need for Original Stories
April 16, 2026 By EmanuelLevy
Spielberg Debuts Eerie New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer at CinemaCon
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Oscar Directors: Spielberg on Hollywood’s Urgent Need for Original Stories
Spielberg Debuts Eerie New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer at CinemaCon
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Digger: Iñárritu’s New Movie, Starring Tom Cruise as Oil Billionaire
“If we can’t control the course of nature, all that matters is who has got the balls to win this war,” Cruise’s Digger declares.
Reviews
Paper Tiger: James Gray’s New Indie Crime Picture, Starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson
Paper Tiger follows two brothers as they try to achieve the American dream, only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true.
Time Limit (1957): Karl Malden’s Only Directig Effort, Legal Drama Set in the Military
Richard Widmark co-produced and stars in this legal military drama, based on the 1956 Broadway play of the same name by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The: Animation Scores $69 Million in Second Weekend
Those ticket sales mark a 48% decline from its debut, a strong hold for a blockbuster of this scale.
After the Hunt: Guadagnino’s Muddled Melodrama about Cancel Culture, Starring Julia Roberts
On paper, the film seems “urgent and provocative,” but the execution is muddled due to an overload of expository scenes and plot contrivances.





