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Digital Trends
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
This Cillian Murphy underrated thriller is your next movie to watch on Netflix (July 18-20)
Every time I open Netflix, I find myself spending more time looking at movies than I do actually watching something. Forcing myself to pick something is usually more than half the battle, and part of the issue is that I make assumptions about movies I haven't seen. With that in mind, I've pulled together three movies that I think are worth checking out this weekend, if you've got the time. They're definitely underrated but well worth your time: Recommended Videos We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on HBO Max, and the best movies on Disney+. Red Eye (2005) One of the great underseen thrillers of the 21st century, Red Eye tells the story of a terrorist who threatens a hotel manager as they fly across the country together. His ultimate goal is to assassinate the head of Homeland Security, but in order to accomplish that, she has to reassign his room at the hotel she manages. Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy are both excellent in this taut thriller, but what makes this movie work is Wes Craven's tight, succinct directorial instincts. This is a thriller with an electric pace, and it knows how to get you from incident to incident. You can watch Red Eye on Netflix. A Star Is Born (2018) Bradley Cooper was already a major movie star when he helmed A Star Is Born, but that didn't make the movie any less of a gamble. This was his directorial debut, a remake of a movie that had already been made perfectly on more than one occasion, and oh yeah, he was also going to play a rock star. If the movie was even sort of good, it would be an achievement, but A Star Is Born is genuinely great and features Cooper and Lady Gaga at their absolute best. The Shallow sequence is one of the great musical sequences ever put to film, and the film knows how to capitalize on that momentum. You can watch A Star Is Born on Netflix. Burn After Reading (2008) Every Coen Brothers movie is great, but Burn After Reading is among the more underrated. This satire of Washington, D.C., and specifically of the intelligence state, tells the story of two gym employees who find themselves in possession of classified materials and decide to use that information to try to make a quick buck. Predictably, though, these employees find themselves in way over their heads, and things quickly spiral out of control. Thanks to a cast filled with brilliant performances, including one of Brad Pitt's funniest ever roles, Burn After Reading is both hilarious and an exercise in genuine nihilism. You can watch Burn After Reading on Netflix.
Digital Trends
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 rom-coms on Netflix you need to watch in July 2025
The romance section on Netflix has some heavy hitters in July. What's more romantic than The Notebook? The beautiful drama starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams has not aged one bit. Trust me, crying remains mandatory, especially at the end. Speaking of tears, A Star Is Born will have you riding the entire wave of emotions from start to finish. While those two movies are undoubtedly charming, they will leave you in a puddle. This article features three rom-coms that should put you in a better mood. Check out our picks and their streaming information below. Recommended Videos We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on HBO Max, and the best movies on Disney+. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) Nia Vardalos introduced the world to the loveable and chaotic Portokalos family in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Fast forward 14 years, and the family returns for more comedic antics in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. After getting everything she wanted in the first movie, Toula (Vardalos) is falling apart in the sequel. Toula's marriage to Ian (John Corbett) is stuck in the mud, while the relationship with her teenage daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris) is on life support. When her father, Gus (Michael Constantine), learns his marriage license was never signed by the priest, Toula must bring the entire family back together for another wild and crazy wedding. While the story is inferior to the original, the family charm remains at an all-time high in this feel-good movie. Stream My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 on Netflix. Life or Something Like It (2002) Sandwiched between two Tomb Raider movies, Angelina Jolie starred in this 2002 forgotten rom-com, Life or Something Like It. Superficial television reporter Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) receives a grim prediction from Jack (Tony Shalhoub), the self-proclaimed prophet. Jack says that Lanie will die in seven days. When Jack's other predictions come true, Lanie freaks out as one should. Material possessions can't save her or change her happiness. After getting a pep talk from a cameraman, Pete Scanlon (Edward Burns), Lanie takes the phrase 'live like we're dying' to the next level and starts to reevaluate her life. Life or Something Like It doesn't reinvent the rom-com formula, but a talented performer like Jolie at the center of the story elevates this predictable story. Stream Life or Something Like It on Netflix. Empire Records (1995) Empire Records is not a typical rom-com. It's more of a coming-of-age tale infused with some romance and comedy. That's good enough to make this list. The movie follows a day in the lives of the employees at Empire Records, an independent music store in Delaware. One of the employees, Joe (Anthony LaPaglia), learns that the owner is selling the business to a national record store chain. So begins a day of debauchery, confessions, and love. While Joe tries to keep the store independent, many of the store's employees use their time to be honest, including A.J. (Johnny Whitworth), who wants to woo his crush, Corey (Liv Tyler). Come for the early performances from Tyler and Renee Zellweger, and stay for the terrific soundtrack. Stream Empire Records on Netflix.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Red Eye' ending explained: Who wins Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams' face-off at 40,000 feet?
Red Eye, Wes Craven's 2005 thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, is now streaming on Netflix. EW's critic previously praised the film as a "quick-and-dirty suspense corker." Brian Cox and Jayma Mays round out the Murphy and Rachel McAdams were both recent breakout stars when horror maestro Wes Craven cast the pair in Red Eye, a trim 2005 thriller that recently arrived at Netflix. The movie begins like a rom-com, with McAdams' high-strung Lisa and Murphy's charming Jackson meeting in line at the Dallas airport before sharing a drink and being seated side-by-side for their overnight flight to Miami. Once they're in the air, however, things get weird. And then they get scary. "A good measure of the movie's white-knuckle fun comes from Craven's old-hand familiarity with the way thrillers tick, predicated on the smallest and most banal of missed connections, the kind that get an audience to go crazy," Entertainment Weekly's critic wrote in their review, calling Red Eye a "quick-and-dirty suspense corker." Murphy, however, may disagree. "I don't think it's a good movie," the Oscar-winning actor told GQ last year. "It's a good B movie." C'mon, Murph, they can't all be Oppenheimer. Ahead of the film's 20th anniversary next month — and with the streaming generation discovering it for the first time — let's unpack Red Eye's ending, from the identity of Murphy's peculiar Jackson to that explosive assassination attempt. Lisa is a self-described "people pleaser," the manager of a luxe Miami hotel where she's routinely bulldozed by high-end clientele. Jackson is a handsome stranger she meets at the airport while traveling back home from Dallas after her grandmother's funeral. At first, it seems as if fate has brought the two together, with the pair sharing a drink after meeting in line and then serendipitously ending up seated next to each other. But his charm curdles once he reveals a deep knowledge of her life. He needs her help, and if she doesn't give it to him, her oblivious father, Joe (Brian Cox), will be killed by a hit man waiting outside his home. Jackson's plan involves Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia), the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, who recently made waves with aggressive rhetoric regarding the United States' war on terror. (Remember, Red Eye was filmed in the wake of 9/11 and amid the Iraq War.) Keefe booked a stay at Lisa's hotel, and Jackson wants her to move him (and his family) to a different room so his employers can more easily assassinate him. During the overnight flight, Lisa makes several efforts to alert the flight attendants and other passengers that she's in danger — including writing in soap on the bathroom mirror that Jackson has a bomb — but he remains a step ahead of her at every turn. Finally, Lisa relents and makes the call, ordering her employee, Cynthia (Jayma Mays), to change Keefe's room assignment, as mandated by Jackson. Jackson Rippner — never "Jack," lest his name echo the 19th-century serial killer "Jack the Ripper" — denies being a spy, hit man, CIA agent, or member of the mafia. While his occupation is never explicitly stated, he calls himself a "manager" and says he specializes in "government overthrows [and] flashy, high-profile assassinations." If taken at his word, Jackson is a hired gun to help facilitate acts of terrorism. After all, he doesn't seem personally invested in Keefe's murder. "Somebody wants to send a big, brash message, that's their business," he tells Lisa. No, Keefe and his family survive the assassination attempt — a missile fired from a nearby fishing boat. Luckily for him, Lisa manages to flee Jackson, call Cynthia, and alert Keefe's security detail (which is led, oddly enough, by Survivor alum Colby Donaldson in one of his few film performances). The missile, however, meets its target, igniting the upper floors of the hotel and throwing debris. As the plane touches down in Miami, Lisa tells Jackson about a scar he noticed on her chest. She got it, she explains, from a sexual assault that occurred two years previously. "Ever since, I've been trying to convince myself of one thing over and over," she says. "That it was beyond your control," Jackson replies. "No, that it would never happen again." With that, she wields a pen stolen from another passenger and jams it into his windpipe. In the ensuing chaos, she makes a break for the exit and sprints into the airport. She's chased first by security and then by Jackson, who wraps a scarf around his wound and wheezes onward. Lisa then manages to elude her pursuers by hopping on a shuttle and stealing a car. She immediately drives to her father's home. There, she spots the hit man outside Joe's apartment and slams into him with the car, sending him flying through the front of the building and killing him. Though still alive, Joe is soon knocked unconscious by a bloodthirsty Jackson, who's determined to kill Lisa. The pair fight throughout the apartment, and Jackson is finally bested by two gunshots from the hit man's silenced pistol — one fired by Lisa and one by Joe, who wakes up to find his daughter in danger. Red Eye ends with Lisa going to her hotel, where Keefe thanks her for saving his family's life. She's then approached by a pair of rude hotel guests we first glimpsed in the film's opening scene. After complaining about the explosion, they demand that Lisa fire Cynthia. Related: The 25 best thriller movies on Netflix right now Lisa, who was previously quick to acquiesce to customers like these, tells the couple to fill out a comment card and shove it up their ass, a sign that she's no longer a pushover. Red Eye is currently available to stream on the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Daily Mirror
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Disney icon makes history as she's awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
The 2025-2026 Hollywood Walk of Fame honourees have been revealed. 35 stars including Miley Cyrus, Timothée Chalamet and Rachel McAdams are set to receive their place among legends. Find out the full list. The Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2026 has been announced by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. Recipients of the Star for the upcoming year were announced after careful consideration by the Walk of Fame Selection Panel. The new group of entertainment professionals being honoured with a star span the categories of Motion Pictures, Television, Live Theatre/Live Performance, Recording and Sports Entertainment. 35 famed individuals will receive their very own coveted star on the prestigious sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, as announced by actor Eugenio Derbez, radio personality Richard Blade, and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President Steven Nissen during a live press conference on Wednesday, July 2. Among those being honoured are pop icon Miley Cyrus, Academy Award winner Rami Malek, Oscar-nominated actors Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Emily Blunt, Rachel McAdams, and Stanley Tucci; celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay; legendary rock band Air Supply; Bollywood A-lister Deepika Padukone; Grammy-winning Beninese-French singer-songwriter and actress Angélique Kidjo; and basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal. Cyrus will be the first person born in the 1990s to receive a star in Hollywood Walk of Fame history. Director Tony Scott and Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi will be honoured posthumously. The 2025-2026 class of Hollywood Walk of Fame honourees were chosen at a meeting held on June 20, 2025, ratified by the Hollywood Chamber's Board of Directors on June 25, among hundreds of nominations that were made to the committee. Exact dates for the star ceremonies are yet to be scheduled and recipients of the star have up to two years to schedule their star ceremonies from the date of their selection, before they expire. Star ceremonies are usually announced on the official Hollywood Walk of Fame website, ten days prior to their scheduled date. The ceremonies are broadcast worldwide, and sponsors have to fund the star, the ceremony, as well as the maintenance of the legendary symbol. Chairman Peter Roth said in a statement: 'We are excited to announce the newest selections of 35 esteemed individuals who will be enshrined onto the Walk of Fame as part of the prestigious Class of 2026. These talented individuals have made significant contributions to the world of entertainment, and we are thrilled to honour them with this well-deserved recognition. Join us in celebrating their achievements and legacies as they take their place among the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.' Here's the full list of the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2025-2026. Sports Entertainment Shaquille O'Neal Motion Pictures Emily Blunt Timothée Chalamet Rami Malek Rachel McAdams Demi Moore Deepika Padukone Molly Ringwald Stanley Tucci Chris Columbus Marion Cotillard Keith David Franco Nero Carlo Rambaldi (Posthumous) Tony Scott (Posthumous) Television Sarah Michelle Gellar Greg Daniels Lucero Chef Gordon Ramsay Melody Thomas Scott Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos (double ceremony) Bradley Whitford Noah Wyle Recording Miley Cyrus Air Supply Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Paulinho Da Costa The Clark Sisters Josh Groban Grupo Intocable Angélique Kidjo Lyle Lovett Live Theatre / Live Performance
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rachel McAdams, 46, Receives Hollywood Honor
Rachel McAdams, 46, Receives Hollywood Honor originally appeared on Parade. On Wednesday morning, the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2026 was announced via press conference, with 35 honorees within the film, television, music and sports entertainment industries receiving stars. The list includes Miley Cyrus, Timothee Chalamet, Demi Moore, Shaquille O'Neal, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Deepika Padukone and others. Canadian actress Rachel McAdams, who broke out in the early 2000s thanks to her performances in Mean Girls and The Notebook, is part of this year's class of stars. After those standout roles, McAdams became a household name in the world of romantic comedies. She starred in other films of different genre such as Wedding Crashers and Red Eye in 2005, as well as the 2012 film The Vow and About Time in 2013. But then, she cemented her reputation as a serious drama actress in the film Spotlight, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2016. More recently, she played Christine Palmer in Marvel's Doctor Strange movies and played Margaret's mother, Barb in the 2023 film Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. The 46-year-old actress stepped away from Hollywood briefly in 2023 to focus raising her two children that she has with her partner, Jamie Linden. But, her newest film Send Help alongside Dylan O'Brien is set to be released on Jan. 30, McAdams is not on social media and has been laying low from the public eye for most of her career, she still has a lasting impact in the film industry and the audience that grew up watching her. As Regina George in Mean Girls, she delivered one of the most iconic performances of the early 2000s, which helped shaped pop culture for an entire generation. Then in The Notebook, she brought a beautiful performance to one of the most beloved romantic dramas of all time. Ever year, honorees are selected by a committee from hundreds of nominations submitted. Individual star ceremony dates are typically announced at a later time, and honorees have up to two years to schedule their ceremonies. Rachel McAdams, 46, Receives Hollywood Honor first appeared on Parade on Jul 3, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
