Movies & TV Watchlist Here Are All the Genre Movies Premiering in September! A magical sequel and a host of horror films kick off the start of spooky season… By Petrana Radulovic | Published on August 26, 2026 Image credits: Warner Bros. Pictures; Columbia Pictures; Plus M Entertainment Comment 0 Share New Share Image credits: Warner Bros. Pictures; Columbia Pictures; Plus M Entertainment There is a lot of entertainment out there these days, and a lot of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror titles to parse through. So we’re rounding up the genre movies coming out each month.  The long-awaited Practical Magic sequel hits theaters this month—just in time to kick off spooky season. In addition to some more traditional horror movies, like the newest Resident Evil reboot, there is also a Shaun the Sheep monster flick for those out there who love Halloween but don’t really want to be scared. Also DreamWorks’ latest movie—a fantasy-adventure set on an island full of mythical Filipino creatures—premieres at the end of September.  Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass — in theaters September 4 A Tom and Jerry movie? In the year 2026? Exploring a fantastical world inspired by Chinese mythology? Let’s go! The cat and mouse duo find themselves transported to another realm via magical compass. They have to put aside their differences and work together in order to return home. Parasomnia — on Shudder September 4 This Shudder original follows a woman with a tragic past who is constantly tormented by night terrors. After her best friend goes missing, she realizes that the demonic figure lurking in her dreams might’ve slipped into the real world…  Onslaught — in theaters September 4 Adria Ajorna stars as an army sniper who must protect her daughter after a group of soldiers goes rogue in the desert. But they’re not just regular military personnel: this battalion is full of genetically engineered super soldiers who broke out of a secret experimental military facility. Director Adam Wingard says that the movie is a “spiritual sequel” to his 2014 horror movie The Guest. Dark Hollow — available on VOD September 4 If claustrophobic coal mines weren’t already terrifying enough, this one’s got a terrifying monster that’s recently broken free from the depths. After her husband goes missing during a partial collapse, one young mother must venture down into the mines and face off against a nightmarish creature in order to save her family.  Hope — in limited theaters September 9 A mysterious creature has been destroying portions of a remote mountain village in Korea. Authorities begin to investigate, but then realize that the threat isn’t just rogue wildlife… but some sort of strange, otherworldly monsters.  Practical Magic 2 — in theaters September 11  The witchy Owens family returns—and this time, they’ll finally rid themselves of the curse that kills their love interests! Well, they can hope. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as Sally and Gillian Owens. After Sally’s oldest daughter begins digging into the family’s past, the Owens women travel to England to find the source of the family magic and finally break the curse. If that wasn’t intriguing enough, Lee Pace stars as Sally’s potential new love interest. Resident Evil — in theaters September 18 Zach Cregger, the director behind Barbarian and Weapons, takes on the hit horror franchise Resident Evil. After the first six films (helmed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich), the series was already rebooted once with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City in 2021—so let’s see if this reboot sticks. Cregger’s film parallels the events of the 1998 video game Resident Evil 2, but set in the modern era. It stars Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom — in theaters September 18 In the third Shaun the Sheep feature film, the Farmer goes missing… so the lovable flock of sheep must search for him in the nearby woods! But what’s that? A mysterious beast roaming the forest! Shaun and the rest of the flock need to band together and be brave in order to save the farm and the day. April X — in select theaters September 18 Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie stars as Bax, a young man in a futuristic cityscape. After his twin sister goes missing, he searches every corner of the neon-lit metropolis’ criminal underworld to find her. But as he spirals, he might lose more than just his twin. Forgotten Island — in theaters September 25 The directors of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish return with an original animated fantasy adventure. Set in the Philippines in the 1990s, two best friends party one last time before one of them moves to the United States for college. But when they wake up the next day, they find themselves on a strange, magical island full of creatures from Filipino mythology. They have to find a way to escape—especially because the longer they stay, the more their memories fade…[end-mark] The post Here Are All the Genre Movies Premiering in September! appeared first on Reactor.

News Lanterns Grant Morrison Wants More Sci-Fi in Lanterns: “Why Try to Make a Green Lantern Show on a Budget?” “Too much tell, not enough show” By Matthew Byrd | Published on August 26, 2026 Image: John Johnson/HBO Max Comment 0 Share New Share Image: John Johnson/HBO Max HBO’s Lanterns has, by most metrics, been a smash hit. The series that is often more True Detective than DCU has already caught quite a few people by surprise with its grounded tone, character-driven narrative, and exceptional performances. It’s slowly revealing its mythology, but if it wasn’t for the name on the box, you could almost hide the fact it’s a Green Lantern show. However, that approach hasn’t quite worked for everyone. Comics writer Grant Morrison (whose many notable works include a legendary run on the Green Lantern) has long been one of the show’s most notable critics, and previously got into a bit of a back-and-forth with Lanterns co-showrunner Damon Lindelof over the series’ creative direction. Well, Morrison has finally watched Lanterns‘ first episode and recently shared his thoughts about it on his blog. While he came away from the series with a largely mixed opinion, his central criticism of the show remains largely unchanged. “Otherwise on this outing, way too much tell, not enough show, and those comparisons to True Detective, invoking season 1 of that, show, only worked against Lanterns,” Morrison writes. “The lack of costumes and ring effects was glaring but easily explained by budgetary constraints and a desire to create some distance between this and the unsuccessful Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern film… which only begs the question of why try to make a Green Lantern show on a budget at all? DC has a ton of ‘ground level’ heroes, or characters with low level gimmick powers to choose from, so why take this low-fi route with a franchise that should be competing with Star Trek or Star Wars?” Morrison’s criticisms are, of course, ultimately his opinion, though they do bring up a few interesting talking points. Namely, the recent emphasis on ground or street level heroics (something the Spider-Man: Brand New Day team also expressed an interest in emphasizing) and the general concern that we may not get a grander and more bombastic take on The Green Lantern while Lanterns remains a hit for DC. While asking why you would make a Green Lantern show on a budget at all is a hyperbolic question, it will be interesting to see if this is the definitive live-action tonal take we get of the character in the James Gunn era for the studio. It is also, of course, worth pointing out that we’re only two episodes into Lanterns, and all signs point to the show getting much bigger and bolder as it goes on in terms of the character’s more sci-fi qualities. How far it goes in that direction remains to be seen. Besides, Morrison also had quite a few nice things to say about the show, including praise for Kyle Chandler (who Morrison says gives a very “Doctor McCoy” performance) and Aaron Pierre’s “quiet and uptight performance as John Stewart.” We’ll just have to see whether the rest of the series ultimately veers a little closer to the cosmic adventure the character is more often associated with, especially in Morrison’s own works.[end-mark] The post Grant Morrison Wants More Sci-Fi in <i>Lanterns</i>: “Why Try to Make a Green Lantern Show on a Budget?” appeared first on Reactor.

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MS NOW/SnapStream On Wednesday, Morning Joe reacted to an ABC Good Morning America interview with the family of Alex Pretti and continued to decry ICE in the lead-up to the midterms. In the show’s return to the Minneapolis unrest discussion, host Joe Scarborough decided to make a historical comparison and compared the shooting’s aftermath to “what happened in the Jim Crow South when a Black man would be shot.”Scabrorough began: “There are a lot of people in Minneapolis, a lot of people across America, a lot of people across the world who saw what happened on that videotape and believe he was murdered, believe he was shot for no reason, execution style.”He added that Pretti did “what we would want our children to do” because “He was trying to help a woman up, pick a woman up who had been knocked down by these thugs, these untrained thugs, knocked down in the snow.” On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough compared the aftermath of the Alex Pretti shooting amid the unrest against ICE in Minnesota to “what happened in the Jim Crow South when a Black man would be shot.” pic.twitter.com/IWs9T0gRA8— Nick (@nspin310) August 26, 2026 Scarborough then showed his desire for criminal prosecutions: “Why are these men that shot him execution style not in prison today?”Co-host Willie Geist, who was one of the rare employees after the Versant divorce to still work for both NBC and MS NOW, then stated the ICE agents were “being protected by the Trump Administration.” He added, “ICE can’t run from this. We saw what he did. He raced like we would hope our sons would do, Joe, to step in to a woman who was being pushed down and said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't push somebody down like that.’ And for that, he was on his knees and shot in the head. And after that, he was called a domestic terrorist without evidence.”Scabrorough jumped in to make his own historical comparison to the events, and compared it to coverups in the Jim Crow South:You know, Willie, this is what happened in Jim Crow South when a Black man would be shot. Like in another lifetime, justice would not be served. You know, we saw this happen to civil rights workers. We saw this happen to Black men. We saw this happen time and again where somebody would be shot dead, and no justice would follow, or a jury would acquit. That's now happening in 2026? That's now happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, because the Trump Administration is trying to protect people that gunned down an American citizen in the streets of America.Scarborough continued as he posed a question to Geist: “Willie, this is a perverse throwback to an uglier, horrible time in this country where certain people can be gunned down and shot, killed, and no justice follows. Justice has to follow here, Willie, doesn't it?”Geist responded and said, “And the difference is, back then they could do those things under the cover of darkness. Today we have video.” Then, Geist worried about a potential uptick in immigration enforcement: “There is an ongoing and maybe enhanced push for ICE to be more aggressive, to get the numbers up, to meet the quotas, to get people out of this country. Hopefully not to the point where they're shooting peaceful protesters in the head. But this has maybe restrained ICE to some degree for a while, but it's clear that the mission continues.”The Morning Joe crew, especially Scarborough, have really liked to make historical comparisons of ICE actions and many Trump Administration-related events to the KKK, Nazis, and the Soviet Union.The transcript is below. Click "expand":MS NOW’s Morning JoeAugust 26, 20266:11:27 AM Eastern(...)JOE SCARBOROUGH: There are a lot of people in Minneapolis, a lot of people across America, a lot of people across the world who saw what happened on that videotape and believe he was murdered, believe he was shot for no reason, execution style. And Alex Pretti’s mom asks, what did my son do? What did he do? Well, Willie, what he was doing was doing what we would want our children to do. He was trying to help a woman up, pick a woman up who had been knocked down by these thugs, these untrained thugs, knocked down in the snow. And he went away from the police officers toward the woman to pick her up after she had been brutally knocked down in the snow. And for that, he's pulled back out, and he is shot in what looks like execution style in America, in the streets of America, and still no justice for those who shot him, who the mother said murdered him, who a lot of us look and say, looks like got shot execution style for helping a woman out of the snow.Why are these men that shot him execution style not in prison today?WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. These masked men, who are masked for a reason so that they can't be identified, and in a case like this, they're not - they're being protected by the federal government. They're being protected by the Trump administration. The FBI finally did share information with Hennepin County. Keith Ellison, the attorney general in Minnesota, says that's a good development. At least we're beginning to get the evidence we need to pursue this case. But as Miss Pretti said in those heartbreaking words, it's been seven months, and they're not getting any comfort from the government when their son was shot in the head in the streets by a federal agent. They're not getting any information from the government after that happened. And I'm glad you pointed out the full video. We've all seen it. ICE can't run from this. We saw what he did. He raced like we would hope our sons would do, Joe, to step in to a woman who was being pushed down and said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't push somebody down like that.’ And for that, he was on his knees and shot in the head. And after that, he was called a domestic terrorist without evidence. The attorney general now, Todd Blanche, has backed off that, saying there's no evidence he was a domestic terrorist. But just think the first reflex to watching a man shot in the head by federal agents in a video, the whole world saw, is to say it was his fault. He was a domestic terrorist, which he clearly was not.SCARBOROUGH: You know, Willie, this is what happened in Jim Crow South when a black man would be shot. Like in another lifetime, justice would not be served. You know, we saw this happen to civil rights workers. We saw this happen to Black men. We saw this happen time and again where somebody would be shot dead and no justice would follow, or a jury would acquit. That's now happening in 2026? That's now happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, because the Trump Administration is trying to protect people that gunned down an American citizen in the streets of America.Willie, this is a perverse throwback to an uglier, horrible time in this country where certain people can be gunned down and shot, killed, and no justice follows. Justice has to follow here, Willie, doesn't it?GEIST: Yeah. And the difference is, back then they could do those things under the cover of darkness. Today we have video.MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.We watched Renee Good get shot in the face. We watched Alex get shot in the head. And, Jonathan Lemire, there's got to be justice for Alex Pretti as his family is now publicly asking. But, as you've been reporting, there is an ongoing and maybe enhanced push for ICE to be more aggressive, to get the numbers up, to meet the quotas, to get people out of this country. Hopefully not to the point where they're shooting peaceful protesters in the head. But this has maybe restrained ICE to some degree for a while, but it's clear that the mission continues.(...)

Last week, a major Silicon Valley company placed a bet on the future looking unrecognizable.Stripe announced that it had agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that gives developers one interface for accessing more than 400 AI models from more than 80 providers. OpenRouter can route requests based on price, speed, reliability, and the complexity of the task. Instead of tying everything to one AI provider, developers can pick the model that makes the most sense for the job.Humanity has not handed civilization over to a superintelligence.The online payments giant has grown fast. Reuters reported that OpenRouter now serves more than 10 million developers and companies and processes more than 10 trillion tokens per day.And Stripe is, apparently, paying a fortune for it. Neither company disclosed the purchase price. Axios reported that the deal was worth more than $8 billion, mostly in stock, while Reuters cited a source who also put it at just over $8 billion. So $8 billion is not an official number, but Stripe has clearly agreed to make a multibillion-dollar bet on the plumbing that connects businesses to AI models.Why the enormous outlay? Not just because of the usual calculations of expected income and revenue. Stripe is gambling on a whole new world.Rolling the diceThe company told investors that the beginning of this year marked the “singularity,” according to an investor letter obtained by Axios.Stripe is not using the loaded term exactly the way science fiction writers traditionally have. Theirs is not a claim that some superintelligent machine woke up on New Year’s Day and left humanity in the dust. Stripe means something closer to an economic turning point, a moment when "thinking" machines have started changing old patterns fast enough that businesses need to operate differently going forward.CEO Patrick Collison had already been talking this way months before the investor letter surfaced. At Stripe Sessions on April 29, Collison opened his keynote by calling it “day 119 of the singularity.” The next day, during a conversation with investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Collison explicitly put the starting date at January 1.Stripe thinks it can see the change in its own numbers. The company says it powers more than 5 million businesses, and businesses running on Stripe generated $1.9 trillion in total payment volume in 2025, up 34% from the previous year. It also has plenty of exposure to the AI boom. Stripe says 88% of the 2026 Forbes AI 50 use its infrastructure.According to the investor letter reported by Axios, Stripe revenue grew 41% year over year during the first half of 2026, while free cash flow increased 43%. And now Stripe is putting serious money behind its theory.RELATED: Is this shadowy startup to blame for Silicon Valley's scariest cyberattacks? Jorm Sangsorn/Getty Images The bet fits neatly with Stripe’s existing business. Stripe already sits between businesses and money, helping companies process payments, fight fraud, improve authorization rates, bill customers, and figure out how money should move. OpenRouter does something similar with AI usage.AI companies may send millions of requests to different models, each with different capabilities, speeds, and prices. Using an expensive model for every task can burn cash. Using a cheap model for everything can produce lousy results. OpenRouter helps decide where those requests should go.“Tokens are the central currency for companies building with AI,” Collison said in Stripe’s acquisition announcement. Currency is doing a little work there. Tokens are units of data processed by AI models, not actual money. But model usage can be one of the biggest expenses for a company building an AI product, and picking the right model for each request can directly affect whether the thing makes money.Stripe wants to be in the middle of that too.The ultimate hedge?The deal also assumes there will not be one AI model that wins everything. OpenRouter is built for a world where businesses use several models and switch among them depending on the job. One may be better at coding. Another may be cheaper. Another may be faster. Another may handle a particular kind of reasoning better. If companies really do end up juggling models that way, routing all that traffic becomes a pretty good business.None of this means the technological singularity has arrived in the traditional sense. Humanity has not handed civilization over to a superintelligence, and January 1 did not feel like some obvious dividing line for most people. Stripe’s claim is less dramatic than the name. It thinks AI has crossed from interesting new technology into something that is starting to change how businesses are created, how they operate, what they spend money on, and how they make money.Maybe calling that “the" singularity is another instance of Silicon Valley getting carried away with itself. But Stripe has now agreed to spend somewhere around $8 billion, betting that the change underneath the hype is real. And when they bet, few expect them to miss.

President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Mike Mazzei in Oklahoma's GOP gubernatorial primary runoff, which evidently helped the former state senator over the finish line on Tuesday.While the president's backing certainly had much to do with the politics and character of Mazzei — whom former Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, now Trump's Department of Homeland Security secretary, and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders had also endorsed — it appears to have also had much to do with the politics and character of Mazzei's unsuccessful opponent, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.'This is what Drummond, and his equally Liberal wife, Wendy, supported at levels that are shameful.'A week ahead of the runoff primary election, the president explained his issues with Drummond. Trump called him a "FAKE Republican, who donated to SLEEPY Joe Biden, and the totally corrupt and anti-American 'Lincoln Project,' which is now in shambles because of their views on Open Borders, Men playing in Women’s Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children."Federal Election Commission records show that a $1,000 donation was made in Drummond's name to the Biden for President committee in August 2020. Matthew Parker, the chairman of the state AG's doomed gubernatorial campaign, claimed, however, that the contribution was made by Drummond's wife, Wendy, the Frontier reported.According to a Sept. 4, 2020, email obtained by the Frontier, Wendy Drummond requested that ActBlue change the name on the contribution to hers. The Biden committee reportedly refunded Gentner Drummond the full amount four days later.In a previous statement to Blaze News, Parker said: "The Biden contribution lie has been debunked repeatedly. Gentner Drummond gave nothing to Joe Biden. In fact, Gentner was one of President Trump’s largest Oklahoma donors. Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true."RELATED: GOP Oklahoma governor candidate wants to stop voter ID and invites Dems to help — campaign says the clips are deceptive Win McNamee/Getty ImagesIn September 2020, Wendy Drummond also donated $1,000 to the Lincoln Project, a group founded by George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson to "stem the damage [Trump] and his followers are doing to the rule of law, the Constitution, and the American character."The Lincoln Project staged a white supremacy rally, bankrolled efforts to torpedo Trump-aligned Republicans, and churned out pro-Kamala Harris content, including the "Be a Man, Vote for a Woman" ad. The group largely imploded after its co-founder John Weaver was accused by over 20 young men of predatory sexual misconduct.Trump noted further in his takedown, "This is what Drummond, and his equally Liberal wife, Wendy, supported at levels that are shameful and, frankly, that makes them both Radical Left Dumocrats."In addition to faulting Drummond for blocking a proposed aluminum plant in Oklahoma, Trump noted that Drummond "stated publicly he had 'no opinion'" on Trump's 2021 impeachment and that Drummond "even SUED to BLOCK a religious based charter school strongly supported by my Administration — Very troubling for Educational Freedom, and an outright attack on Christianity!"While it was clear from the post that Trump already had ample cause to champion Mazzei over Drummond in the Republican runoff, audio recording of Drummond's commentary about voter ID may have helped convince those still uncertain about his real political outlook.In the audio recording, Drummond can be heard calling on Democrats and independents to help kill a pair of ballot questions that showed up on the Aug. 25 ballot. One of those questions would "require proof of identity to vote in any election authorized by law and conducted by a county election board or the State Election Board.""We have to vote 'no' on both state questions," Drummond said in the recording.Parker previously told Blaze News that the clips had been "stripped of context and selectively edited to manufacture a false narrative."Drummond noted on Tuesday that the runoff "election comes down to trust," but evidently, not enough trust was on his side. With 99% of the ballots counted, Mazzei had 50.3% of the vote and Drummond had 49.7%.The voter ID question also passed.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Target is once again at the center of a culture-war firestorm after apologizing for a children's Halloween clown costume that resembles blackface and 19-century minstrel shows.While Target immediately pulled their “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t convinced that it wasn’t an inside job.“Who’s that outfit for? Who’s wearing that outfit? Is there any demand? Would anybody even know what they’re looking at?” Whitlock asks.“Someone within Target wants DEI to return. So it’s not the CEO. It’s not the board. Or maybe it is a board member, who knows, but someone high up in Target wants DEI to return. Trust me, they have some LGBTQ soldiers and some BLM soldiers within Target high up who are irate,” he continues.“Someone is orchestrating a hoax against Target from within Target,” he adds.However, Dre Baldwin disagrees with Whitlock.“I think that’s too much of an extrapolation,” he argues.“I think this is just a Halloween costume. Somebody saw it. Someone within the racial grievance industry saw it. They found that picture to compare it to and said, ‘Hey, here’s racism.’ ... People who work in the racial grievance industry, as I call them, race hustlers, they go looking around for stuff like this because it gets a certain group of people excited,” he explains.“It can lead to job offers, opportunities, etc. ... but I don’t think this was manufactured from within Target. I think it’s just a costume,” he continues, adding, “Somebody decided to see something in it that wasn’t there.”Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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