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Strange New Worlds Season 3 First Look Teases Answer to Lingering Star Trek Mystery

As a prequel to The Original Series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds squeezes a lot of references to that groundbreaking show in its season three trailer. We get to see Paul Wesley’s Kirk toast Martin Quinn’s Scotty. The team’s holodeck mystery feels closer to the gangsters of “A Piece of the Action” than they do […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games You Need to Play in 2025

It seems like only yesterday that the Nintendo Switch released to huge acclaim, not only due to its game-changing hybrid functionality as both a handheld and home console but also its award-winning flagship title—The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which was easily one of the very best games of the 2010s. A lot’s […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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A Follow-Up to Quentin Tarantino’s Celebration of Cinema Is Going… to Netflix?

Every good stuntman knows that getting knocked down is part of the job. Every time you hit the dirt, you’ve just got to get back up and keep going. With that in mind, it’s not too surprising that stuntman Cliff Booth would return for a sequel to Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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Daredevil: Born Again – How Muse Accidentally Predicted Episode 7’s Big Death

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has gone in a bold and bloody new direction with Daredevil: Born Again, and while the Netflix-era Daredevil was known for its gritty nature, that’s nothing compared to the violence already displayed in this Disney+ effort. Seven episodes in, and the freshman season’s nine-episode run has already seen the murders of […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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Link Tank: How Spotify Is Changing the Nature of Podcasting

At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry. Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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Nintendo Switch 2 Prices Are a Major Red Flag For the Future of Gaming

Discussions about Nintendo’s long-awaited full reveal of the Switch 2 are currently being dominated by the topic that has come to define most other aspects of modern life: how expensive everything is.  While Nintendo didn’t reveal many price points during their Switch 2 Direct presentation, gamers soon discovered the hard numbers behind the hype. The […]

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At South by Southwest we talked to a Spotify exec and two premiere podcasters about the future of the industry.

Put two podcasters in a room with a Spotify exec, and their infectious enthusiasm for long-form and short-form discussion content will quickly have you wondering where the medium is headed in the future. Such was the case at South by Southwest when we were visited in the Den of Geek studio by Spotify Senior Director of Content Partnerships Jordan Newman, who was flanked by two amazing hosts, Rachel Lindsay of Higher Learning and Morgan Absher of Two Hot Takes.

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Absher and Lindsay talked a bit about how their shows, which air on Spotify in both audio and video format, grew and transformed in the past five years, undeniably influenced by the pandemic and the changing audience preferences. Newman also chimed in with his thoughts about how podcasting has changed since the early days and where things might be going. The trio’s shared love of the medium is on display throughout the video, and you won’t want to miss some of the cool stories that podcasting allows them to explore.

Adolescence has managed to become one of Netflix‘s most popular series of all time in only three weeks on the streamer.

“The limited series amassed another 30.4M views from March 24 to 30, putting it at 96.7M views since its debut. That was good enough to land at No. 9 on the all-time Most Popular English TV list, bumping Bridgerton Season 2 from the list altogether and pushing Stranger Things 3 to tenth place.”

Read more at Deadline

The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried were on hand at CinemaCon to share a scene and the trailer for the thriller.

“Sydney Sweeney joined director Paul Feig and her fellow The Housemaid stars at CinemaCon to share the tense first footage. Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar also hit the stage for the Lionsgate presentation Tuesday to promote the psychological thriller and reveal its trailer, which has not yet been publicly shared. Hitting theaters on Christmas Day, the movie has a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine that adapts the 2022 best-selling novel from author Freida McFadden.”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

Kendrick Lamar fans will have to wait until 2026 to see his comedy collaboration with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

“Kendrick Lamar’s untitled comedy won’t debut on America’s birthday after all. Paramount, the studio behind the closely guarded movie from Lamar and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, has been delayed from July 4, 2025 to March 20, 2026… The change in release plans was announced ahead of CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners that’s unfolding this week in Las Vegas.”

Read more at Variety

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Netflix New Releases: April 2025

Netflix is kicking off the month strong with the release of their animated Devil May Cry series on April 3. Based on the video game series of the same name, Devil May Cry follows demon hunter Dante as he tries to keep the peace between the human and demon realms, not realizing he might be […]

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Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact. 

During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively successful first feature, Bring Her Back was shaped by a devastating loss in the Australian twins’ own lives. 

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“In the middle of writing Bring Her Back my cousin lost her two year old,” Danny Philippou shared. “We were in the hospital, and I was just seeing her on the bed, holding this kid, and the family were all around him, and they were holding his feet and his hands and his head and his arms, and eventually, over time, everyone let him go. My cousin was the last one to let him go.”

“The idea of her never being okay ever again after that, that was an inspiration point,” He continued. “And how far she would go to heal herself from it. The idea of a never-ending grief cycle is terrifying to me.”

If it seems like Talk to Me and Bring Her Back are atmospherically and thematically connected, that’s because they were developed concurrently, both inspired by the same losses, as well as Micheal’s love for The Exorcist.

“I think it’s the greatest film ever made so that makes me lean towards possession automatically,” Michael told a group of journalists. “There’s something so terrifying [about it], it feels so real to see somebody where something else is inhabiting their bodies. Connecting the stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable or nervous, or freaks you out and then express those things on screen.”

Danny added, “Then leaning into how far you’d go to bring someone back that you love. Those deep questions that you wonder and think about. That’s something that we didn’t fully get out with Talk to Me, so this is another iteration.”

As Bring Her Back went into pre-production another tragedy struck as a close family friend died at the age of only 23. Alerted by their mother, the twins were suddenly once again crafting a film while dealing with the death of a loved one.

“The grief was so raw that in the moment we didn’t really have time to properly process it,” Danny admitted. “We were doing pre-production meetings, then we started shooting, and there was no time to properly sort through those emotions. They sort of poured themselves out in the script and in conversations with Sally, so that bled into the character of Laura and scenes that were meant to be scary suddenly turned sad. So that just becomes part of the process, I think there’s a rawness in it that wasn’t in Talk to Me.”

To the brothers, horror offers a lighter way to explore dark themes and experiences like the loss of their cousin’s child, even becoming “fun” if they approach it in the right way. 

From what we saw—two clips and the recently released first full trailer—Bring Her Back is a far darker and more somber take on horror than their previous endeavor, which still freaked out audiences around the world. According to Micheal, horror was always in their blood and their unusual childhood meant that the brothers carved a bloody path to adulthood and filmmaking. 

“Our parents were never home,” he said. “Our grandfather raised us to a certain point, and he passed away when we were really young. And once he did, there was no parental supervision, and our childhood was Lord of the Flies. There’s footage of us as 10 year olds covered in blood, like actual blood, from backyard wrestling and fucking each other up that way, it just became our love language: violence and psychopathy-ness.” 

Perhaps that’s why Bring Her Back centers on three children, Andy, Piper, and Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips) thrown into a world of violence and ritual under the watchful—and potentially malevolent—eye of grieving mother Laura. Working with Hawkins was something of a dream come true for the brothers who eagerly gushed about her performance. And it marks a landmark moment for the actress too as she ventures into horror for the very first time. 

“We did not think she would say yes, we sent her the script, and then she got back right away and said she was in love with it, how much it meant to her, how much she connected to it.” Danny recalled. Her role was inspired by so-called “Psycho-biddy movies” like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lady in a Cage, and Straight Jacket. Thus Bring Her Back promises to show a side of Hawkins audiences have yet to see.

“I’m in awe of her. She’s genuinely incredible. And in certain scenes so terrifying as well,” Danny teased. 

Bring Her Back hits theaters on May 30 2025.

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HBO and Max New Releases: April 2025

One of HBO’s hottest series, The Last of Us, returns for a second season on April 13. Based on the video game series of the same name, this show is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a zombie-like fungal infection has wiped out a lot of the population and forever changed the world as we […]

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Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact. 

During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively successful first feature, Bring Her Back was shaped by a devastating loss in the Australian twins’ own lives. 

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“In the middle of writing Bring Her Back my cousin lost her two year old,” Danny Philippou shared. “We were in the hospital, and I was just seeing her on the bed, holding this kid, and the family were all around him, and they were holding his feet and his hands and his head and his arms, and eventually, over time, everyone let him go. My cousin was the last one to let him go.”

“The idea of her never being okay ever again after that, that was an inspiration point,” He continued. “And how far she would go to heal herself from it. The idea of a never-ending grief cycle is terrifying to me.”

If it seems like Talk to Me and Bring Her Back are atmospherically and thematically connected, that’s because they were developed concurrently, both inspired by the same losses, as well as Micheal’s love for The Exorcist.

“I think it’s the greatest film ever made so that makes me lean towards possession automatically,” Michael told a group of journalists. “There’s something so terrifying [about it], it feels so real to see somebody where something else is inhabiting their bodies. Connecting the stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable or nervous, or freaks you out and then express those things on screen.”

Danny added, “Then leaning into how far you’d go to bring someone back that you love. Those deep questions that you wonder and think about. That’s something that we didn’t fully get out with Talk to Me, so this is another iteration.”

As Bring Her Back went into pre-production another tragedy struck as a close family friend died at the age of only 23. Alerted by their mother, the twins were suddenly once again crafting a film while dealing with the death of a loved one.

“The grief was so raw that in the moment we didn’t really have time to properly process it,” Danny admitted. “We were doing pre-production meetings, then we started shooting, and there was no time to properly sort through those emotions. They sort of poured themselves out in the script and in conversations with Sally, so that bled into the character of Laura and scenes that were meant to be scary suddenly turned sad. So that just becomes part of the process, I think there’s a rawness in it that wasn’t in Talk to Me.”

To the brothers, horror offers a lighter way to explore dark themes and experiences like the loss of their cousin’s child, even becoming “fun” if they approach it in the right way. 

From what we saw—two clips and the recently released first full trailer—Bring Her Back is a far darker and more somber take on horror than their previous endeavor, which still freaked out audiences around the world. According to Micheal, horror was always in their blood and their unusual childhood meant that the brothers carved a bloody path to adulthood and filmmaking. 

“Our parents were never home,” he said. “Our grandfather raised us to a certain point, and he passed away when we were really young. And once he did, there was no parental supervision, and our childhood was Lord of the Flies. There’s footage of us as 10 year olds covered in blood, like actual blood, from backyard wrestling and fucking each other up that way, it just became our love language: violence and psychopathy-ness.” 

Perhaps that’s why Bring Her Back centers on three children, Andy, Piper, and Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips) thrown into a world of violence and ritual under the watchful—and potentially malevolent—eye of grieving mother Laura. Working with Hawkins was something of a dream come true for the brothers who eagerly gushed about her performance. And it marks a landmark moment for the actress too as she ventures into horror for the very first time. 

“We did not think she would say yes, we sent her the script, and then she got back right away and said she was in love with it, how much it meant to her, how much she connected to it.” Danny recalled. Her role was inspired by so-called “Psycho-biddy movies” like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lady in a Cage, and Straight Jacket. Thus Bring Her Back promises to show a side of Hawkins audiences have yet to see.

“I’m in awe of her. She’s genuinely incredible. And in certain scenes so terrifying as well,” Danny teased. 

Bring Her Back hits theaters on May 30 2025.

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I Will Find You: New Harlan Coben Adaptation Is a Netflix First

Lacrosse swapped for football. Guns for knives. Pants for trousers. Sidewalks for pavements. The leafy suburbs and grimy city streets of New Jersey swapped for the leafy suburbs and grimy city streets of Greater Manchester. A character named “Tripp” renamed “Doug”… Until now, all of the Netflix Harlan Coben TV adaptations have translated the books’ […]

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Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact. 

During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively successful first feature, Bring Her Back was shaped by a devastating loss in the Australian twins’ own lives. 

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“In the middle of writing Bring Her Back my cousin lost her two year old,” Danny Philippou shared. “We were in the hospital, and I was just seeing her on the bed, holding this kid, and the family were all around him, and they were holding his feet and his hands and his head and his arms, and eventually, over time, everyone let him go. My cousin was the last one to let him go.”

“The idea of her never being okay ever again after that, that was an inspiration point,” He continued. “And how far she would go to heal herself from it. The idea of a never-ending grief cycle is terrifying to me.”

If it seems like Talk to Me and Bring Her Back are atmospherically and thematically connected, that’s because they were developed concurrently, both inspired by the same losses, as well as Micheal’s love for The Exorcist.

“I think it’s the greatest film ever made so that makes me lean towards possession automatically,” Michael told a group of journalists. “There’s something so terrifying [about it], it feels so real to see somebody where something else is inhabiting their bodies. Connecting the stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable or nervous, or freaks you out and then express those things on screen.”

Danny added, “Then leaning into how far you’d go to bring someone back that you love. Those deep questions that you wonder and think about. That’s something that we didn’t fully get out with Talk to Me, so this is another iteration.”

As Bring Her Back went into pre-production another tragedy struck as a close family friend died at the age of only 23. Alerted by their mother, the twins were suddenly once again crafting a film while dealing with the death of a loved one.

“The grief was so raw that in the moment we didn’t really have time to properly process it,” Danny admitted. “We were doing pre-production meetings, then we started shooting, and there was no time to properly sort through those emotions. They sort of poured themselves out in the script and in conversations with Sally, so that bled into the character of Laura and scenes that were meant to be scary suddenly turned sad. So that just becomes part of the process, I think there’s a rawness in it that wasn’t in Talk to Me.”

To the brothers, horror offers a lighter way to explore dark themes and experiences like the loss of their cousin’s child, even becoming “fun” if they approach it in the right way. 

From what we saw—two clips and the recently released first full trailer—Bring Her Back is a far darker and more somber take on horror than their previous endeavor, which still freaked out audiences around the world. According to Micheal, horror was always in their blood and their unusual childhood meant that the brothers carved a bloody path to adulthood and filmmaking. 

“Our parents were never home,” he said. “Our grandfather raised us to a certain point, and he passed away when we were really young. And once he did, there was no parental supervision, and our childhood was Lord of the Flies. There’s footage of us as 10 year olds covered in blood, like actual blood, from backyard wrestling and fucking each other up that way, it just became our love language: violence and psychopathy-ness.” 

Perhaps that’s why Bring Her Back centers on three children, Andy, Piper, and Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips) thrown into a world of violence and ritual under the watchful—and potentially malevolent—eye of grieving mother Laura. Working with Hawkins was something of a dream come true for the brothers who eagerly gushed about her performance. And it marks a landmark moment for the actress too as she ventures into horror for the very first time. 

“We did not think she would say yes, we sent her the script, and then she got back right away and said she was in love with it, how much it meant to her, how much she connected to it.” Danny recalled. Her role was inspired by so-called “Psycho-biddy movies” like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lady in a Cage, and Straight Jacket. Thus Bring Her Back promises to show a side of Hawkins audiences have yet to see.

“I’m in awe of her. She’s genuinely incredible. And in certain scenes so terrifying as well,” Danny teased. 

Bring Her Back hits theaters on May 30 2025.

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Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact. 

During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively successful first feature, Bring Her Back was shaped by a devastating loss in the Australian twins’ own lives. 

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“In the middle of writing Bring Her Back my cousin lost her two year old,” Danny Philippou shared. “We were in the hospital, and I was just seeing her on the bed, holding this kid, and the family were all around him, and they were holding his feet and his hands and his head and his arms, and eventually, over time, everyone let him go. My cousin was the last one to let him go.”

“The idea of her never being okay ever again after that, that was an inspiration point,” He continued. “And how far she would go to heal herself from it. The idea of a never-ending grief cycle is terrifying to me.”

If it seems like Talk to Me and Bring Her Back are atmospherically and thematically connected, that’s because they were developed concurrently, both inspired by the same losses, as well as Micheal’s love for The Exorcist.

“I think it’s the greatest film ever made so that makes me lean towards possession automatically,” Michael told a group of journalists. “There’s something so terrifying [about it], it feels so real to see somebody where something else is inhabiting their bodies. Connecting the stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable or nervous, or freaks you out and then express those things on screen.”

Danny added, “Then leaning into how far you’d go to bring someone back that you love. Those deep questions that you wonder and think about. That’s something that we didn’t fully get out with Talk to Me, so this is another iteration.”

As Bring Her Back went into pre-production another tragedy struck as a close family friend died at the age of only 23. Alerted by their mother, the twins were suddenly once again crafting a film while dealing with the death of a loved one.

“The grief was so raw that in the moment we didn’t really have time to properly process it,” Danny admitted. “We were doing pre-production meetings, then we started shooting, and there was no time to properly sort through those emotions. They sort of poured themselves out in the script and in conversations with Sally, so that bled into the character of Laura and scenes that were meant to be scary suddenly turned sad. So that just becomes part of the process, I think there’s a rawness in it that wasn’t in Talk to Me.”

To the brothers, horror offers a lighter way to explore dark themes and experiences like the loss of their cousin’s child, even becoming “fun” if they approach it in the right way. 

From what we saw—two clips and the recently released first full trailer—Bring Her Back is a far darker and more somber take on horror than their previous endeavor, which still freaked out audiences around the world. According to Micheal, horror was always in their blood and their unusual childhood meant that the brothers carved a bloody path to adulthood and filmmaking. 

“Our parents were never home,” he said. “Our grandfather raised us to a certain point, and he passed away when we were really young. And once he did, there was no parental supervision, and our childhood was Lord of the Flies. There’s footage of us as 10 year olds covered in blood, like actual blood, from backyard wrestling and fucking each other up that way, it just became our love language: violence and psychopathy-ness.” 

Perhaps that’s why Bring Her Back centers on three children, Andy, Piper, and Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips) thrown into a world of violence and ritual under the watchful—and potentially malevolent—eye of grieving mother Laura. Working with Hawkins was something of a dream come true for the brothers who eagerly gushed about her performance. And it marks a landmark moment for the actress too as she ventures into horror for the very first time. 

“We did not think she would say yes, we sent her the script, and then she got back right away and said she was in love with it, how much it meant to her, how much she connected to it.” Danny recalled. Her role was inspired by so-called “Psycho-biddy movies” like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Lady in a Cage, and Straight Jacket. Thus Bring Her Back promises to show a side of Hawkins audiences have yet to see.

“I’m in awe of her. She’s genuinely incredible. And in certain scenes so terrifying as well,” Danny teased. 

Bring Her Back hits theaters on May 30 2025.

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