A film analysis piece from No Film School argues that The Departed is more thematically rich than its reputation as a Scorsese comeback Oscar suggests the focus falls on a brief late-film exchange between Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio

Actors are escalating their war against AI over their most personal asset: their own voice and face. New reporting reveals the true fault line isn't the A-list, whose contracts protect them, but the roughly 80 percent of voice work that's freelance and exposed.

A fast roundup of the smaller stories moving through film and television this week. Brands and A-list producers pile into vertical microdramas, major book and franchise adaptations fill the production pipeline, and studios quietly rewrite how they pay their top creators.