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Netflix New Releases: October 2025

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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A gruesome retelling of the crimes of Ed Gein; a boat-based thriller packed with British thespians; the third season of ratings magnet The Diplomat; another glimpse behind the scenes at the NBA through five new stars; an investigation into what led to the demise of the Montreal Expos; a hotly anticipated new season of the internet’s favorite rom-com Nobody Wants This; and new films from Oscar-winners Kathryn Bigelow and Edward Berger are among the highlights of the new film and TV projects hitting Netflix in October.

The big series launch for Netflix in October is the latest entry in Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology franchise. Monster: The Ed Gein Story debuts on Oct. 3 and stars Charlie Hunnam as the serial killer Ed Gein. It follows the harrowing Jeffrey Dahmer Story and the impactful Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, respectively. Each cycle of the Monster franchise tackles a different true-crime story, following the massive success of the series’ 2022 debut. The Ed Gein Story tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, became “history’s most singular ghoul,” says the streamer, revealing to the world “the most horrific truth of all — that monsters aren’t born, they’re made … by us.” The cast also includes Tom Hollander, Laurie Metcalf and Suzanna Son, with Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Joey Pollari, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill and Robin Weigert.

On Oct. 10, Netflix drops Simon Stone’s psychological thriller The Woman in Cabin 10. The feature, based on the 2016 novel by Ruth Ware, has all the ingredients of the perfect midweek movie, a delicious cast full of classy Brit actors, a dollop of mystery and a scrumptious 1 hour and 30 minute runtime. The film stars Keira Knightley as a travel journalist who is aboard a luxury yacht when she sees a passenger thrown overboard in the middle of the night. When the crew insists that it never happened, she attempts to uncover the truth and finds her own safety at risk. The cast also includes Guy Pearce, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings and Hannah Waddingham.

The eagerly anticipated third season of Netflix‘s The Diplomat drops on Oct. 16. The thriller series was left on a cliffhanger, with President Rayburn (Michael McKean) dying at the end of season two. The action resumes in the aftermath of Rayburn’s death with Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney) taking over, much to the fear of U.K. ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) and her husband Hal (Rufus Sewell). Earlier this month, Netflix confirmed that Janney and her screen husband Bradley Whitford had been upped to series regulars for season four so expect both to be at the center of all the series intrigue this season.

Also on Oct. 16, the second season of NBA docuseries Starting 5 debuts. Launching days before the start of the new NBA season, the next chapter of Starting 5 will once again take us behind the scenes of the world’s most glamourous basketball league, but this time we’ll be following the exploits of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyrese Haliburton, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Jaylen Brown during the 2024-2025 season. Notably, adding to the drama and intrigue, two of the five stars in the docuseries, SGA and Haliburton, went all the way to the last NBA Finals.

On Oct. 21, Netflix releases the sports documentary Who Killed the Montreal Expos? A real gift to baseball nuts, although not necessarily great viewing for Expos fans, the doc examines the demise of the Canadian team who played their last game in 2004. Hall of Famers and former Expos players Pedro Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero Sr. and Larry Walker are interviewed for the documentary, along with former manager Felipe Alou and a number of journalists, fans and team employees who all offer their perspectives of what went wrong for the team.

The second season of Erin Foster’s hit series Nobody Wants This hits Netflix on Oct. 23. The first season of the show was the talk of the internet and inspired several newspaper columns about the exploits of Adam Brody’s hot rabbi Noah and Kristen Bell’s agnostic Joanne. We rejoin the action with Noah and Joanne as a still-in-love couple, who are going strong despite how the first season ended. Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky, Arian Moayed and Kate Berlant are also season two guest stars. Stephanie Faracy, Michael Hitchcock, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Emily Arlook, Sherry Cola, D’Arcy Carden and Shiloh Berman round out the cast. New additions include guest stars Leighton Meester and Seth Rogen.

Oct. 24 will see the launch of Netflix’s big film release of the month, Kathryn Bigelow’s hotly anticipated A House of Dynamite. The star-studded thriller debuted in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year, where it received an 11-minute standing ovation from the audience. Written by Noah Oppenheim, the film captures from multiple perspectives the White House response to an unattributed missile launch headed for a major U.S. city in the harrowing 20 minutes until projected impact. The cast includes Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke.

Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger’s new film, Ballad of a Small Player, drops on Netflix on Oct. 29. The redemption drama, based on the book by Bangkok-based British author Lawrence Osborne, stars Colin Farrell as a gambling addict hiding from the authorities and his debtors in the casinos of Macau. Ballad of a Small Player debuted at Telluride with strong praise for Farrell’s performance. The film also stars Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, Alex Jennings and Tilda Swinton.

Movies added to Netflix in October include Austin Powers in Goldmember, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blue Crush, The Book Club Murders, Casper, The Christmas Contract, Coach Carter, Coming to America, Daddy Day Care, Death Becomes Her, Dirty Dancing, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Dracula, Elysium, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed, Fifty Shades of Grey, Friends with Benefits, The Goonies, Hacksaw Ridge, The Hurt Locker, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Law Abiding Citizen, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Mask, Meet Joe Black, Molly’s Game, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Pineapple Express, Point Break, Red Dragon, Scarface, Sinister 2, Sister Act, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Slender Man, The Strangers, Taxi Driver and Training Day.

Missed what came to Netflix last month? Check out the September additions here.

Read on for the complete list of titles hitting Netflix in October.

Oct. 1

Love Is Blind: Season 9
RIV4LRIES (IT)
About My Father
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Blue Crush
The Book Club Murders
Casper
The Christmas Contract
Coach Carter
Coming to America
Daddy Day Care
Death Becomes Her
Dirty Dancing
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Dracula
Eddie Murphy: Raw
Elysium
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades of Grey
Friends with Benefits
The Goonies
Hacksaw Ridge
Halo: Seasons 1-2
The Hurt Locker
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Law Abiding Citizen
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Mask
Meet Joe Black
Molly’s Game
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
NCIS: Seasons 18-19
Pineapple Express
Point Break
Red Dragon
Scarface
Sinister 2
Sister Act
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Slender Man
The Strangers
Taxi Driver
Training Day
The Way Home: Seasons 1-2
When a Stranger Calls
The Wrath of Becky

Oct. 2

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Dudes (DE)
The Game: You Never Play Alone (IN)
The Martian
Rockstar: DUKI from the End of the World (AR)

Oct. 3

Genie, Make a Wish (KR)
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
The New Force (SE)
Old Dog, New Tricks (ES)
Rhythm + Flow France: After the Beat (FR)
Steve (GB)

Oct. 4

Angel Has Fallen
Night of the Living Dead
Ranma 1/2: Season 2 (JP)

Oct. 5

Despicable Me 3
Ip Man
Ip Man 2
Ip Man 3
Ip Man 4: The Finale

Oct. 6

Dr. Seuss’s Horton!

Oct. 7

Matt McCusker: A Humble Offering
Nurse Jackie: Seasons 1-7
True Haunting (GB)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Oct. 8

Caramelo (BR)
Is It Cake? Halloween
Néro the Assassin (FR)

Oct. 9

Boots
The Maze Runner
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Maze Runner: Death Cure
The Resurrected (TW)
Victoria Beckham (GB)

Oct. 10

Kurukshetra: The War of Mahabharata (IN)
My Father, the BTK Killer
Old Money (TR)
Swim to Me (CL)
The Woman in Cabin 10

Oct. 11

Typhoon Family (KR)

Oct. 14

Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead (TH)
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

Oct. 15

Held Hostage in My House
Inside Furioza (PL)
No One Saw Us Leave (MX)
Six Kings Slam 2025
Taken in Plain Sight

Oct. 16

The A Team
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Diplomat: Season 3
Romantics Anonymous (JP)
Starting 5: Season 2
The Time That Remains (PH)

Oct. 17

27 Nights (AR)
Good News (KR)
The Perfect Neighbor
She Walks in Darkness (ES)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Turn of the Tide: Season 2 (PT)
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe (PT)
The Twits

Oct. 18

Don’t Say a Word

Oct. 21

Michelle Wolf: The Well
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Season 2
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (CA)

Oct. 22

Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia
The Monster of Florence (IT)

Oct. 23

The Elixir (ID)
Nobody Wants This: Season 2

Oct. 24

A House of Dynamite
Parish: Season 1

Oct. 25

The Dream Life of Mr. Kim (KR)

Oct. 27

The Asset (DK)
Dark Winds: Season 3
Sliding Doors

Oct. 28

Babo: The Haftbefehl Story (DE)
Mo Amer: Wild World
Nightmares of Nature: Lost in the Jungle

Oct. 29

Ballad of a Small Player (GB)
NOS4A2: Seasons 1-2
Rulers of Fortune (BR)
Selling Sunset: Season 9

Oct. 30

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers (GB)
Amsterdam Empire (NL)
Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will (MX)
Son of a Donkey (AU)
The Witcher: Season 4

Oct. 31

Bad Influencer (ZA)
Breathless: Season 2 (ES)
Rhythm + Flow France: Season 4 (FR)

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Jamie Lee Curtis reveals why her new film The Lost Bus is the most important one she will ever do

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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One of the most striking of those stories was that of the heroic bus driver Kevin McKay and school teacher Mary Ludwig, who helped rescue 22 elementary students to safety from the fire.

The inspiring story has now been brought to life by Apple in new film The Lost Bus – directed by Paul Greengrass and led by Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, with Hollywood icon Jamie Lee Curtis serving as a producer.

“I first heard the story of Kevin McKay from the Washington Post, when they were doing a review of Lizzie Johnson’s book [Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire],” Curtis explained during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com.

“They highlighted his story, and I remember I said to my husband, kind of flippantly… ‘Well, there’s the movie.’ Because of course, you could tell that very interpersonal, human story amid this inferno that would be almost impossible to imagine filming.

“I didn’t do anything that day, and the next day, I was driving in my car in the mountains,” she continued. “And there was an NPR interview of Scott Simon interviewing Lizzie Johnson, the author of the book. And he said… ‘Lizzie, the story that got me was Kevin McKay and Mary Ludwig.’

“And I pulled my car over on the side of the road. I called Jason Blum, who’s my business partner, and I said, Jason, I want to buy this book. I’m sending you links. It’s going to be expensive to buy, but I believe it’ll be the most important thing either one of us do in the movie business.”

In the film, Kevin McKay is portrayed by one of the most celebrated actors of our generation – Matthew McConaughey. And the Oscar winner explained that playing a real hero was both a responsibility and an honour.

“I say there’s a responsibility because you’re not only dealing with the portrayal of those people, but also an entire communal experience where people died,” he said. “Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers died – so how you tell that story [is important.]

He added: “Even though we made it a piece of entertainment and we took our dramatic license, it’s inspired by those events and it kept to the spirit of what happened and who these people were and where they ended up after this film.”

It was the job of acclaimed director and screenwriter Greengrass – known for his work on the Bourne films and a number of true story dramas including United 93 – to bring this true story of heroism to life, and Ferrera called the filmmaker’s approach “masterful”.

“As an actor, I wasn’t worried about my part in making a big movie,” she explained “My job and my lane was to tell the story of this character.

“What is so beautiful about how Paul works is that I felt I had everything I needed to be clear about what my character’s journey was and then what he asks is complete and utter trust, let it all go.

Paul Greengrass on the set of The Lost Bus. Apple

The trust that Greengrass required from his actors was crucial for telling the epic story, as he would immerse the actors in the drama with 30-minute-long takes that saw 6 to 10 cameras rolling simultaneously.

“At a certain point, you can’t keep track of what’s going on, you just have to know and trust that Paul and this incredible crew are making a big movie and my job is to be present and be in the moment and tell the character’s journey,” said Ferrera.

“It’s very easy with Paul to get out of your head,” added McConaughey. “It’s actually impossible to stay in your head because there’s so much going on and every time a camera is at a different spot. Okay, he’s corralling this thing; let me just handle what I’m doing. I don’t need to look for a mark, I don’t need to look for a light, I don’t have to be technical. Let me just behave.”

While preparing for the role, McConaughey was also faced with a pertinent question: what is the definition of a hero? Though there isn’t one definitive answer, he came to the conclusion that it was someone who consistently “runs towards the crisis, not away from it.”

The selfless acts of bravery that McKay and Ludwig exhibited were something that lingered with both McConaughey and Ferrera long after filming commenced as they tried to truly understand what these people were thinking in the moments of crisis.

“[When] someone who is doing the best to save their immediate family, what is it that makes someone [make that choice] when they get the call to take care of 22 kids that they’re not related to. Is it the right thing to do? What was it that made Kevin make that choice? He didn’t have to pick up, he could have got his mom and son,” said McConaughey.

America Ferrera and Matthew McConaughey in The Lost Bus. Apple

Ferrera echoed this sentiment, explaining that it was something that would be hard for “many of us to imagine” and that being a parent was the only context that she had for this selfless bravery.

“[When you’re a parent], you don’t have a choice to run from the crisis, you have to run to the crisis. Both of these characters make such a counter-intuitive choice which is they choose to run towards dangers and away from their duty as parents,” she said.

“That moment for both of them is that they chose against their deepest instincts as parents to rescue their children and save what is most precious to them and instead, the selflessness of showing up for a community that you don’t know because that’s a sense of duty that you feel in that moment. That’s something that is hard for so many of us to imagine.”

The end of the movie shows the devastation caused by the fire and the impact it had on the Butte County community of Paradise. However, it also showed a potential for a brighter future and hope for a rebirth.

“The town of Paradise lost 85 members of their community and it burned the entire community,” said Curtis. “But today, it’s a thriving and surviving community. They are a robust and rebuilding group of people.”

Curtis added that she was most proud that the cast and crew of helped support the creation of a permanent memorial to the people of Paradise, which will “give significant support to that permanent memorial once the movie is done and gone”.

The Hope Plaza is a landmark dedicated to the memory of the Camp Fire and is a place of honour for the first responders and those who perished, as people come together to reflect and inspire hope for the future of the community.

The Lost Bus is on Apple TV+ from Friday 3rd October 2025 – sign up to Apple TV+ now.

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Carol Burnett Reveals ‘Misogynistic’ Reason She Never Hosted ‘SNL’

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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In a new interview, comedy legend Carol Burnett opened up about never being invited to host Saturday Night Live and gave her insights on why she has been overlooked for decades. Burnett believes that it has something to do with show creator Lorne Michaels and wondered out loud if she has ever done anything to upset him.

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Marion Cotillard Casts a Spell

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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Editor’s Note: This review originally ran during the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. “The Ice Tower” opens from Yellow Veil Pictures in select theaters on Friday, October 3, 2025.

Gorgeous and glacial in equally frosty measure, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s “The Ice Tower” is all art-film-only vibes, a wintry 1970s fairy tale about a screen actress who casts a potentially dangerous spell. It’s anchored by an actress, Marion Cotillard, who has one of the great faces, and a classical sophistication with a glamorous, out-of-reach noirish beauty that pairs wonderfully with a creature cut out of Hans Christian Andersen: amorous, elusive, but wounded.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 30: Stellan Skarsgård attends the "Sentimental Value" Red Carpet during the 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on September 30, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage)

Shot gorgeously in France and Northern Italy by cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg — this is truly the most visually astonishing movie so far to premiere at the 2025 Berlinale — “The Ice Tower” will prove an uneasy catch for commercially minded audiences looking for anything more than a mood in feature form. But those wanting to be hypnotized by cinema, as this film really does put you in a state of trance, will enjoy a unique experience from the director of “Innocence” and “Evolution,” and wife and creative partner of Gaspar Noé, who cameos in this film as a director running a ’70s film set production led by an enigmatic star.

Hadžihalilović and screenwriter Geoff Cox graft the basics of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” into a less mythic but more contemporary story about the power and pull of artifice. Newcomer Clara Pacini stars as Jeanne, a 16-year-old orphaned after the death of her mother, the only memory of which exists in the form of a handful of beads she purloined from the mother’s dead body. She’s whisked off to an orphanage high away in the mountains — and where, exactly, “The Ice Tower” is set never really matters, as even though it’s set in the ’70s, the setting feels firmly out of time and place. Jeanne, though, ends up running away, first stumbling upon an ice rink where a woman named Bianca is skating to “It’s Five O’Clock” by Aphrodite’s Child. Or is it actually set in the ’70s, or just a cinematic space meant to evoke the time period?

Jeanne, whom we are meant to understand as prudish and just a bit sheltered with a face whose inscrutability suggests she hasn’t seen much of life at all, is struck by the skater and the sexuality she potentially wields. Like Hadžihalilović’s 2004 “Innocence,” set at an all-girls boarding school where the new students are brought in inside coffins, “The Ice Tower” is at its heart (and not that it has much of one) a coming-of-age story about female sexuality and agency. So when Jeanne, who’s now going by Bianca, accidentally winds up in a film studio where a production of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” is taking place, it’s hard to tell whether her fascination for Cristina (Cotillard) is more sexual or mother-daughter. Perhaps it can be both.

Cristina and Jeanne’s first introduction is an eerily staged scene that announces what a hall of mirrors “The Ice Tower” will be, and how appropriate given that the framing device of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale is in fact around a mirror, which here Hadžihalilović utilizes the camera in place of. Jeanne peers through an aperture in the wall where she’s fallen asleep to see a floating, ethereal Cristina as snow falls down upon her, only for that floating figure to be just an actress, that snowfall to be fake movie set stuff, as a director calls cut and what Jeanne was actually watching was a film take.

What follows is a perverse folie à deux between Cristina/The Snow Queen and Jeanne/Bianca, whose relationship borders on erotic but hovers closer somewhere to a mentorship, at first, once Cristina starts taking Jeanne under her wing, and Jeanne upstages another one of the young extras on set. Their relationship never crystallizes into anything concrete, which keeps “The Ice Tower” firmly in the realm of moody dream space rather than anything melodramatic that’s even slightly giving in terms of emotion.

At one point, Cristina tells Jeanne that they can be together forever, or leave tomorrow and never look back, but Jeanne chickens out on the offer while they stare off over a cliff, putting a sense of doom over where their dynamic is headed. At another, Cristina invites Jeanne to a drink only to ghost her on the promise entirely, leaving Jeanne standing alone in the cold and starting to sense the delusion she’s caught over how much this woman might actually be interested in her. That their relationship takes a turn towards sexual assault recalls an earlier moment in the film where Jeanne is picked up on the side of the road by a man in a van who promises to drop her off “after a brief detour.” The world of adults is a dangerous one.

In terms of mood and tone and its own artifices and surfaces, “The Ice Tower” is a stunner, shot with Cinemascope framing that brings a hugely dramatic power to many long, languid close-ups, especially as Cristina watches the dailies of her movie. A soundtrack created with the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument that sounds much like a theremin, creates a dreamlike spell that only adds to the film’s trance-making allure. The understated performances and coolly detached, shivery hypnotic vibes of this film won’t be for anyone looking for a story, but “The Ice Tower” casts a creepy spell that lingers and even deepens in the mind long after it’s over. As only the best spells do.

Grade: B+

“The Ice Tower” premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. Yellow Veil Pictures releases it on October 3, 2025.

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Jacob Elordi’s Monster Revealed in New Look

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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As the calendar turns to the month of Halloween, Netflix has unleashed a new trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein,” including a closer look at (and plenty of voiceover from) Jacob Elordi‘s resurrected monster, who has been kept heavily cloaked in previously revealed footage.

Along with Elordi, the new trailer also features additional looks at Oscar Isaac as Victor Von Frankenstein and Mia Goth as Elizabeth Lavenza, the mad scientist’s bride to be, as well as the film’s various lavish fantasy sets, from a harbored ship in a frozen ocean to a well-attended ballroom party.

“Frankenstein” is coming off a warm reception on the fall festival circuit. The epic-length adaptation of the seminal Mary Shelley novel premiered at Venice Film Festival before enjoying surprise screenings at Telluride Film Festival and another red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival. At TIFF, the film came in as the runner-up for the fest’s coveted people’s choice award — an accolade that’s traditionally a key bellwether for the Oscar race.

Guillermo del Toro had been developing a “Frankenstein” adaptation for decades before Netflix ultimately issued a greenlight. In Variety’s cover story for Venice Film Festival, the Oscar-winning director explained that, “The usual discourse of Frankenstein has to do with science gone awry. But for me, it’s about the human spirit. It’s not a cautionary tale: It’s about forgiveness, understanding and the importance of listening to each other.”

Netflix is giving “Frankenstein” a limited, awards-qualifying theatrical release on Oct. 17, with a streaming debut to follow on Nov. 7. Watch the new trailer below.

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Martin Scorsese Gets Real In Documentary Series

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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Apple TV+ on Wednesday released the trailer for Mr. Scorsese, its five-part documentary series from Rebecca Miller about 11-time Oscar-nominated director-writer-producer Martin Scorsese.

The docuseries is gearing up for its world premiere Saturday in the Spotlight section of Scorsese’s hometown New York Film Festival. That comes ahead of an October 17 release date on the streamer.

Mr. Scorsese features never-before-seen footage and in-depth interviews with those closest to Scorsese, with a talking-heads list that includes his frequent leading actors Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio along with Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto; his children; wife Helen Morris; and childhood friends.

Along with interviews with Scorsese, the interviewees and his own artistic output will help paint a picture of the man whose singular filmography grapples with the question of whether humans are intrinsically good or evil (“I struggle with that all the time,” he says in the trailer), beginning with 1967’s Who’s That Knocking at My Door starring Harvey Keitel and includes such wide-ranging titles as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed (his only Oscar Best Director win so far), The Wolf of Wall Street and his last pic, 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee Killers of the Flower Moon.

(Upcoming addition to the list: As Deadline broke earlier this month, Scorsese just locked in his next film, with DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence set to star in the ghost story thriller What Happens at Night.)

“I knew I could express myself with pictures,” Scorsese says. “But I had to find my own way.”

Executive producers of Mr. Scorsese include Miller and Damon Cardasis, Cindy Tolan, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly and Julie Yorn. Ron Burkle is producer of the docuseries, which is presented by Expanded Media and Round Films in association with LBI Entertainment and Moxie Pictures.

Check out the trailer above.

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All Scores, Lauren Jauregui Eliminated

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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[This story contains spoilers from episode three of Dancing With the Stars season 34.]

Tuesday kicked off TikTok night on Dancing with the Stars, and luckily enough, there were quite a few social media stars in the ballroom.

Lauren Jauregui and Brandon Armstrong were eliminated from the competition at the end of the night. When asked how she was feeling about the results, the Fifth Harmony star replied, “Pissed.”

Last week, couples danced to one-hit wonders, resulting in a four-way tie for the top of the leaderboard, comprised of celebrities Jordan Chiles, Jen Affleck, Robert Irwin and Whitney Leavitt. At the end of the third episode, Corey Feldman and Baron Davis were simultaneously sent home in a double elimination.

Having a night’s worth of competition solely devoted to TikTok paired perfectly with the cast of season 34, which notably includes social media stars Affleck, Leavitt and Alix Earle. Not to mention, a large majority of the competitors have large presences online, including Irwin (with over 8 million Instagram followers), Olympic gymnast Chiles, author-influencer Hilaria Baldwin, season three winner of The Traitors Dylan Efron, Fifth Harmony’s Jauregui, actress Danielle Fishel and Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying.

With growing online showings thanks to DWTS, Elaine Hendrix and Andy Richter round out the cast list.

Jauregui notably danced to Fifth Harmony’s “Work from Home,” with her fellow members of the girl group in the audience there to cheer her on. Chiles took an early lead on TikTok night with her tango to Doechii’s “Anxiety,” which was scored a 24/30, marking the first time three consecutive eights were handed out in season 34.

However, Leavitt swiftly tied the Olympian’s score, earning a 24/30 for her samba to “Shake Ya Ass” by Mystikal. Following close behind was Earle and Efron, who both scored a 23/30.

Aside from the celebrities, the slate of professional dancers are also social media stars in their own right. When reflecting on the newfound virality of DWTS, Rylee Arnold told The Hollywood Reporter she believes her tendency to post online during her first season as a pro in season 32 is where social media began to majorly change the show.

“I feel like that really picked up and resonated with the rest of the pros, with the show, with people online, and we got together a younger demographic of people, and the people who go on TikTok every day, they [saw] the Dancing with the Stars content,” she said. “It only brought more young people to the show. And then the next season, Ezra [Sosa] came on [as a pro dancer] and did the same thing. He really got so engaged, and I think really just kind of showed that people love it. People love when we share stuff online.”

During one-hit wonders night, Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli all took to the judges panel for the first time during season 34 after Inaba missed the premiere due to an illness.

See the full list of scores for week three of DWTS season 34 (aka TikTok night) below.

Jen Affleck and Jan Ravnik: 19/30
Lauren Jauregui and Brandon Armstrong: 18/30 (ELIMINATED)
Danielle Fishel and Pasha Pashkov: 21/30
Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa: 24/30
Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach: 23/30
Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten: 21/30
Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas: 24/30
Scott Hoying and Rylee Arnold: 22/30
Hilaria Baldwin and Gleb Savchenko: 22/30
Andy Richter and Emma Slater: 18/30
Robert Irwin and Witney Carson: 22/30
Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy: 23/30

Season 34 of DWTS airs and streams simultaneously on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays, with new episodes available to stream on Wednesdays on Hulu.

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Alan Partridge writers on “awful” Katherine Kelly role in How Are You?

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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For Alan, life is something of a mixed bag at the moment, having lost his cushty BBC presenting gig (see This Time), but finding companionship with new girlfriend Katrina (Kelly).

Speaking at the press launch of the series, How Are You? co-writer Neil Gibbons explained that the team has moved on from the era of Alan as a “kicked puppy”, as seen in the travel tavern days of I’m Alan Partridge.

But they’ve found a “new flavour” of torment for the character from Katrina.

“On the face of it, he sort of has everything. He’s got quite a good house, he’s got quite a good car. He’s getting a lot of low-level, but quite lucrative work,” continued Neil, who co-writes with brother Rob Gibbons and Coogan himself.

Steve Coogan plays Alan Partridge in How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) BBC / Baby Cow / Ollie Upton

“And he’s got a girlfriend who’s younger than him, who’s beautiful, who’s quite a figure in the community. But [she’s] just an awful, awful woman. And as the series goes on, you do see Alan struggling with what – on paper – is clearly a good deal for him souring quite badly.”

Coogan added that they were looking to create a female character who would be able to easily deflect Alan’s misogynistic tendencies and challenge him in ways neither Lynn (Felicity Montagu) nor ex-girlfriend Sonja (Amelia Bullmore) ever could.

“Alan bullies Lynn quite a bit, although Lynn does actually get the better of Alan sometimes,” explained Coogan. “But we wanted someone who would have Alan on the back foot in a way he’s not with Lynn.

“We wanted someone who ‘wore the trousers’ and who he was obviously attracted to, but she was mercurial to him [and] he couldn’t quite understand who she was.”

Coogan went on to praise his modern Partridge collaborators, Neil and Rob Gibbons, for their work transforming Alan from a fairly broad comedy character to a more “three-dimensional” figure.

“Rob and Neil are really, totally comfortable with poignancy or pathos,” he concluded.

“Alan evolved under their stewardship to be more three-dimensional. So sometimes you can actually feel sorry for Alan, feel compassion for him and that is a much more humane execution of the character. That’s given it longevity.”

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) premieres on BBC One and iPlayer on Friday 3rd October 2025.

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Lauren Jauregui Is Eliminated and Her Reaction Is Defended by Fans

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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[WARNING: This post contains MAJOR spoilers from Dancing With the Stars, Season 34, Week 3.]

Just three weeks into the competition, Dancing With the Stars Season 34 has already had a shocking elimination. Lauren Jauregui and Brandon Armstrong were the couple eliminated during Week 3 of the competition.

Jauregui tied with Andy Richter at the bottom of the leaderboard with a score of 18/30 (they both danced the foxtrot this week). The judges were hard on Jauregui, noting that she needed to add more “pop” and “power” to her performances. Still, tying with Richter, who has done his best, but struggled with the dances so far, was quite a shock.

At the end of the day, Jauregui received less viewer votes than the comedian, and she was sent home. It came down to her, Richter, and Elaine Hendrix as the last three to learn their fate (although Richter and Hendrix were not necessarily in the bottom three, as the results are not called in order).

Lauren Jauregui could not be more right AND SHE SHOULD SAY THAT 👏🏽😤#DWTS pic.twitter.com/wdnUgwGeHq
— 𝙶𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎//💥⏳ 💍💫 (@giselleb1234) October 1, 2025

When host Julianne Hough asked Jauregui how she was feeling afterwards, she had a one-word response: “Pissed.” It was extremely candid, and fans praised her for not holding back. “Lauren Jauregui could not be more right AND SHE SHOULD SAY THAT 👏🏽😤#DWTS,” one person wrote on X.

Someone else said, “And one thing about Lauren Jauregui is she will tell NO LIES. You could feel how upset she was just watching #DWTS #DWTS34.” Other fans expressed their frustrations at Jauregui being eliminated so early, with many noting that they felt Richter should have been the one to go home instead.

“lauren jauregui eliminated week THREE. Andy is STILL IN THE COMPETITION,” someone tweeted. “this is just as rigged as runext idc idc idc wtf was that #dwts.” Another fan wrote, “SERIOUSLY I’M DEVASTATED SHE DIDN’T DESERVE THIS THESE PEOPLE DON’T DESERVE YOU LAUREN JAUREGUI #LaurenOnDWTS,” and someone else said, “Im so devastated & so heartbroken that Lauren Jauregui got eliminated! I’m so pissed! Brandon Armstrong didn’t deserve this! I’m furious that Lauren was horribly robbed! Andy Richter should have went home instead of her! Hilaria Baldwin should not have been saved again! 💔 #DWTS.”

our honest reaction. pic.twitter.com/SkMzSw0jE6
— Lauren Jauregui Updates (@LMJUpdates) October 1, 2025

Despite her blunt and candid reaction to the elimination, Jauregui also made sure to gush over working with Armstrong. Meanwhile, the cameras also cut to Jauregui’s fellow Fifth Harmony members Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, and Dinah Jane in the audience, and their reactions also looked disappointed and frustrated.

Do you think Jauregui should have been eliminated? What did you think of her reaction afterwards? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Dancing With the Stars, Season 34, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC and Disney+ (Streaming Next Day on Hulu)

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Vets PTSD Doc Makes Case for Psychedelics

by jummy84 October 1, 2025

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Editor’s Note: “In Waves and War” originally debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in 2024. It opens at the Laemmle Monica in Los Angeles on Friday, October 3, 2025 before a Netflix debut on November 3.

Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen‘s at times emotionally overwhelming documentary gets its title via a quote from “The Odyssey” that opens the film.

“By now, I am used to suffering. I have endured so much in waves and war. Let this next adventure follow.”

The Navy SEALs who are the subjects of “In Waves and War” aren’t just used to suffering. Many long thought that bearing the emotional cost of suffering was their only option. Multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq over years left unseen scars as wall as visible ones, and PTSD can be so intractable an enemy, despite multiple therapies and prescription drugs, that a lot are left to think that just “bearing it” is all they can do.

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Shenk and Cohen‘s film makes a powerful case that there may be another option: Psychedelic drugs, not approved for use in the U.S., may help break through these vets’ psychological barriers and offer a reset. It makes the case so forcefully that there are moments “In Waves and War” almost feels like a commercial: No downside to these drugs, ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT, is mentioned other than that they may help “crack you open” and face your unresolved traumas and guilt and grief directly — and then it’s up to you lay a new foundation to live a different way after treatment, or you might revert to the way you were before. It’s unclear in the film just how advisable this treatment — which usually involves vets traveling to a clinic in Mexico to receive it — is for everyone. And maybe it isn’t for everyone. But the key is that it offers hope.

The SEALs we meet in “In Waves and War” had each reached a point where they’d given up on hope. Their stories of their years and years fighting overseas, being away from their families for 300+ days a year, and witnessing unspeakable horrors, makes up the spine of the film. These are riveting stories. There’s Marcus Capone, described a couple times as looking like an NFL linebacker, but whose wife says had become “a monster” upon his return from multiple tours of duty. He becomes the leading evangelist for psychedelic treatments for veterans through his foundation VETS (Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions), and is a producer on the film. D.J. Shipley movingly talks about how he met his wife, Patsy, who had been widowed in her early 20s when her first husband, Danny Dietz, was killed in 2005 in the Operation Red Wings crash in Afghanistan. Shipley wanted to visit Dietz’s grave to “ask him permission” to court Patsy. But by the end of almost 20 years in the SEALs, he had nearly wrecked the life he had built with her.

And finally, there’s Matty Roberts, whose journey to Mexico to receive his first treatment is captured in “In Waves and War.” Matty suffered a major wound in his arm during one firefight and was convinced, initially, that his arm had been blown off altogether. With animations from London-based commercial animation company Studio AKA, each of these vets’ traumas come to life. The animation style is fluid and boundary-less, images just made out as they morph into something else: A helicopter hovering over a dusty landscape; a row of SEALs in nightvision goggles approaching a target; fire exchanged over a tractor tire. The images are as hazy as memory, and a very effective way of getting inside the heads of these vets — who otherwise tell their stories direct-to-camera, and are never less than compelling in doing so.

The animation particularly hammers home the individualized experiences of going through the psychedelic treatment: For Marcus, it felt like he was flying through a void with memories from his life floating like a swirl of Polaroids around him; for Matty, he ended up face to face staring down a version of himself, as if learning to confront and let go of his own ego.

It’s all very meaningful to watch and never less than engaging, even if “In Waves and War” comes across like a pharmaceutical infomercial at times as much as a film. Fundamentally, Shenk and Cohen are trying to argue for a particular solution here, and it might be promising indeed, but it’s also presented as a little too much of a silver-bullet for the issues they’ve identified. A truer, more valuable review of “In Waves and War” is one that hopefully will be written in a medical journal rather than IndieWire. At least it offers hope to these American heroes that there can be more to life than “being used to suffering.”

Grade: B-

“In Waves and War” world premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. It opens at the Laemmle Monica in Los Angeles on Friday, October 3, 2025 before a Netflix debut on November 3.

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