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The Dog Stars keeps a runway
Ridley Scott's Heller adaptation is in theatres after 28 August. Elordi flies. Brolin holds the strip. Grief, with pockets of hope. 118 minutes.
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Carpenter’s station is still the coldest workplace
The Thing opened 25 June 1982. Universal. 109 minutes. Bill Lancaster from Campbell’s 1938 novella. Rob Bottin’s creature work. Dean Cundey’s ice light. The picture holds.
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Dark Matter season two opened the Box again on Friday
Apple TV put the first of ten new episodes on 28 August. Blake Crouch’s novel is ten this year. The machine is still a room.
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Lang’s Metropolis is 99 years old and still a working drawing
Fritz Lang’s 1927 film opened a city of organ-pipe towers and a machine that is also a cathedral. Watch it in 2026 and the shock is not nitrate. The shock is how much downtown is still trying to become that set.