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13 Action Movies That Were So Good, Hollywood Spent Decades Copying Them

• Collider lists 13 action films that shaped Hollywood's genre conventions.
• "Die Hard" (1988) set the template for confined-space heist thrillers.
• "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) redefined the post-apocalyptic action genre.

This Collider feature rounds up 13 action films whose techniques, structure or style became so influential that Hollywood has spent decades imitating them, showcasing how the genre has evolved through storytelling, choreography and technical innovation. It matters for film fans because these titles are presented as the genre's…

Valve says there’s no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: ‘Honestly, it’s still getting worse’

• Valve says the memory chip crisis is still worsening, not improving
• Prices for RAM and storage expected to rise further
• No clear end in sight for the ongoing shortage

Valve has warned that the ongoing global memory chip shortage shows no sign of easing, with prices for RAM and storage set to keep climbing rather than stabilise. The comments, made in the context of the company's hardware plans, underline how the crisis is squeezing the wider PC…

10 Sci-Fi Movies That Are Better the Second Time Around

• Collider lists ten sci-fi films better on a second watch
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" tops the list for its complexity
• "Arrival" is highlighted for its recontextualising twist

Collider has published a listicle recommending ten science fiction films that reward a second viewing, arguing that the genre's dense, high-concept storytelling often means key themes and plot details only click on a rewatch. The piece, written by senior writer Ryan Heffernan, frames these as either genre-defining classics…

Watch David Fincher’s Greatest Thriller Free Before Your Next ‘Mindhunter’ Binge

• Fincher hasn't made a theatrical film since Gone Girl (2014)
• Mindhunter, cancelled in 2019, holds a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score
• Article recommends Fincher's Zodiac, now streaming free

More than a decade after David Fincher's last theatrical release, Gone Girl in 2014, the director has worked exclusively with Netflix on projects including Mank, The Killer and the upcoming The Adventures of Cliff Booth, a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood due in IMAX later…

Forget Obsession, the bloodiest thriller of 2026 is officially 3 weeks away

• Eli Roth's "Ice Cream Man" releases internationally on 7 August
• First film under Roth's new Horror Section Banner company
• Standalone horror-comedy about a child-killing ice cream vendor

Director Eli Roth's new horror-comedy film "Ice Cream Man" will be released internationally on 7 August, roughly three weeks from now. It is the first film to launch under The Horror Section Banner, a media company Roth founded in March 2025 to build a library of horror content…

Remembering When Fatigue Set in for The Rolling Stones on ‘Goats Head Soup’ in 1973

• Goats Head Soup (1973) followed the Stones' incredible four-album creative peak.
• Drug use, guest musicians and touring fatigue sapped the album's inspiration.
• It still hit No.1 via "Angie", but signalled a mid-70s creative dip.

This retrospective from American Songwriter revisits the Rolling Stones' 1973 album Goats Head Soup, which followed an extraordinary run of four acclaimed records — Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. — and marked the point at which the band's creative momentum began…

‘The War of the Worlds’: the 1953 classic that was almost Alfred Hitchcock’s only sci-fi movie

Alfred Hitchcock was reportedly considered to direct the 1953 adaptation of H. G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’, which would have made it a rare science-fiction project in his career. The article argues that the film’s mix of spectacle, paranoia and ordinary people facing catastrophe could have…

The Odyssey’s Himesh Patel says he was surrounded by bees for his Cyclops scene, but it helped the “visceral reality” of Christopher Nolan’s epic

• Himesh Patel filmed his Cyclops scene surrounded by real bees.
• He says it added to the film's "visceral reality".
• Reflects Nolan's preference for practical over digital effects.

Himesh Patel, who appears in Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, has said he was surrounded by real bees while filming his scene as the Cyclops. The actor suggested that the presence of live insects on set, rather than being simulated digitally, contributed to the "visceral reality"…

The full Blood of Dawnwalker game will be released on disc, Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves confirm

• Blood of Dawnwalker will ship with full game data on disc
• Contrasts with Sony's PS5 disc phase-out and GTA 6's code-in-box approach
• Vampire RPG releases 3rd September; early impressions were positive

Bandai Namco and developer Rebel Wolves have confirmed that the upcoming vampire role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker will ship on disc containing the full game data, rather than a code merely unlocking a download. This matters because the games industry has recently moved towards discs that act…