How to Know If You’re Blocked by Someone on Instagram

Noticing someone has disappeared from your Instagram feed can leave you wondering if they’ve blocked you or simply deleted their account. This confusion is common among Instagram users who suddenly find they can’t access a specific profile.If you can’t find someone’s profile when searching their username, can’t see their posts or comments, and direct messages to them appear differently, these arestrong signsyou’ve been blocked on Instagram. Instagram doesn’t notify users when they’re blocked, making it difficult to know for certain what happened....

July 13, 2025 · 14 min · 2857 words · Tamara Thompson

I, Tonya Trailer Reveals Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding

Fresh off of receiving two Gotham Awards nominations for Best Feature and Best Actress, the first teaser trailer for the darkly comedicTonya HardingbiopicI, Tonyahas been released online. Directed byCraig Gillespie(Lars and the Real Girl), the film chronicles the life of figure skater Tonya Harding from her rough upbringing to Olympic infamy, tracking the path that led to the violent incident withNancy Kerrigan. This teaser offers just a simple taste of what you’ll find in the full film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to a pretty positive response....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Joseph Smith

Jeff Baena, Acclaimed Director and Husband of Aubrey Plaza, Dead at 47

Jeff Baena, the acclaimed filmmaker known for his work on indie hits likeLife After BethandThe Little Hours, has passed away at the age of 47, having been found yesterday morning in his Los Angeles home. Law enforcement has ruled his death a suicide. Baena was married to actressAubrey Plaza,getting together in 2011 before tying the knot officially a decade later, in 2021. The couple frequently worked together after getting married, with Plaza starring in several of Baena’s films, includingLife After BethandSpin Me Round(2022), which proved to be Baena’s final film....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · David Mccarthy

Joan Allen on Lisey’s Story, Stephen King, and Her Fate in the Bourne Movies

Based on the novel byStephen King, who has adapted the story himself, and directed byPablo Larraín, the Apple TV+ limited seriesLisey’s Storyfollows Lisey Landon (Julianne Moore) as she continues to find her footing after the death of her husband, beloved novelist Scott Landon (Clive Owen). Still unsure of how to put all the pieces of her life back together, Lisey must also contend with a rabid fan (Dane DeHaan) that’s dangerously obsessed with Scott’s work while trying to understand the world that her sister Amanda (Joan Allen) has retreated into....

July 13, 2025 · 6 min · 1225 words · Donald Levine

LEGO Welcomes 'Lord of the Rings' Fans to The Shire With New Set Featuring Frodo & Bilbo

The Lord of the Ringshas made a bit of a resurgence recently with last year’s animated featureThe War of Rohirrimhitting theaters. That has caused fans to reminisce overPeter Jackson’s original trilogy which set pop culture a blaze in the early 2000s. An endless sea of merchandise came with the films as well. LEGO, for example, helped giveThe Lord of the Ringsa larger outreach to a demographic that were too young to watch the darker adventures....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Thomas Watson

Leonardo DiCaprio Introduced Martin Scorsese to the Films of One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time

Film fans tend to listen toMartin Scorsesewhenever hegives his opinions on cinema, as he’s one of the greatest living filmmakers on the planet. Sometimes those opinions are relatable, like when Scorsese revealedthe reason why he doesn’t go to movie theaters anymore. Others, such as the infamous interview where he referred to Marvel movies as “theme park rides”, caused discourse that has lasted to this day. But Scorsese’s deep love of movies cannot be denied....

July 13, 2025 · 4 min · 686 words · Jacob Shaffer

Lord of the Rings TV Show: Season 1 to Cost Amazon Nearly $500 Million

The first season of Amazon’sLord of the Ringsseries will cost the streamer nearly $500 million before New Zealand’s tax credit is taken into consideration. “Amazon is going to spend about NZ$650 million in Season 1 alone,“Stuart Nash, the country’s Minister for Economic Development and Tourism, told Morning Report. “This is fantastic, it really is … this will be the largest television series ever made.” The equivalent of $650 million in New Zealand would be roughly $465 million U....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 559 words · Theodore Miller

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Writers on Season 5, Series Finale

If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest season ofMarvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.on ABC, you have a couple of days to remedy that before the newly space-based series' return this Friday. The show made quite the leap this season, taking the title team way out of their depths and giving the action-drama a whole new tone from the previous four seasons. I’m very excited to see where things end up in Season 5–and to see what the creative team has in store for viewers in Episode 100, arriving Friday, March 9th–but many are wondering if this season will be the last for the Agents....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Jeffrey Thompson

Michael Mann to Direct Vietnam War Limited Series for FX

FilmmakerMichael Mannis looking to return to the small screen in a big way. While Mann got his start as a writer/producer on shows likeStarsky and HutchandMiami Vice, his directorial efforts on TV have been limited to a single episode each of 1977’sPolice Womanand 1987’sCrime Story, and then the pilot for HBO’s short-lived drama seriesLuckin 2011. Now, however, theHeatandCollateraldirector is aiming to enter the popular fray of “limited series” efforts on TV with a Vietnam War-centric effort for FX....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Heather Brock

Minority Report Pilot Review:

Check out our full review coverage of new and returning fall TVhere. Though its views on incarceration, drugs, and technology remained woefully underdeveloped,Minority Reportended up being one ofSteven Spielberg’s most notable works as of late, as good, in its way, as Munich and Lincoln.Tom Cruisegave one of his better action-centric performances, backed potently bySamantha Morton,Colin Farrell, andMax Von Sydow, and film was paced with a startling efficiency that never felt overworked; the glimmering production owed quite a lot toScott FrankandJon Cohen’s sturdy, smart adaptation of aPhilip K....

July 13, 2025 · 3 min · 497 words · Janice Payne

Movies Like Godzilla vs. Kong to Watch After Adam Wingard's Monster Fight

Godzilla vs. Konghas finally stomped its way onto HBO Max, and whileAdam Wingard’s film delivers on its monster-brawling promises, its under-two-hour runtime might leave you hankering for more city-leveling action. Luckily, your old pals at Collider know a thing or two about movies in which one monster punches another monster straight in the dang face (among other, less important genres) and compiled a list of the best movies to watch afterGodzilla vs....

July 13, 2025 · 7 min · 1353 words · Theresa Rasmussen

New Godzilla vs. Kong Poster and Trailer Release Date Revealed

Now that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ sequelGodzilla vs. Kongis being releasedmuch earlier than expected, a brand new poster for the film has been unveiled – along with the news that thefirst trailerwill debut on Sunday, January 24th. The poster, of course, teases the epic battle between these two titular monsters, but the tagline drills down an inevitability that could lead to a bummer of an ending: “One Will Fall.” When all is said and done, if one of these chunky monsters wins the battle, that means the other loses....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 369 words · Amanda Hunter

Okja Viral Video Finds Tilda Swinton Talking Pig Nightmares

Folks have been anticipatingOkjaever since it was announced as directorBong Joon Ho’s next film afterSnowpiercer, but it just kept getting better and better. First there wasJake GyllenhaalandTilda Swintonsigning on to lead the cast, then the logline: It’s the story of a young girl named Mija (An Seo Hyun) who has spent her entire life as caretaker and companion to a massive animal named Okja in the mountains of South Korea, only to find the beast stolen by the conglomerate Mirando Corporation....

July 13, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Anthony Lam