It’s finally time to witness the first collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson. The movie is One Battle After Another, PTA’s first action movie that carries the biggest budget of his career.
One of Anderson’s earlier films, Punch-Drunk Love, is streaming for free on Pluto TV. If you’re looking for more free movies, scroll below.
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Mark Wahlberg is an Academy Award-nominated actor. In 1996, Wahlberg was desperately trying to shed his “Marky Mark” persona. So, he went to Hollywood and starred as the villain in Fear, a psychological thriller about a family under fire. Teenager Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) falls in love with the older David McCall (Wahlberg).
To Nicole and most of her family, David is a nice guy with a good heart. To Nicole’s father (William Petersen), David is a menace. Turns out Dad was right, as David exudes psychopathic tendencies to be with Nicole. Fear is a little campy and ridiculous, but Wahlberg’s commitment and Witherspoon’s charm make for an entertaining thriller.
With One Battle After Another now in theaters, it’s only right to honor Anderson with one of his earlier releases. After Magnolia, Anderson could have made anything he wanted, so he recruited Adam Sandler to star in the unconventional rom-com, Punch-Drunk Love. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a business owner with social anxiety that leads to violent blowups.
Barry begins to open up his heart when he meets his sister’s co-worker, Lena Leonard (Emily Watson). However, an extortion plot threatens to ruin Barry’s budding relationship with Lena. Anderson deserves a ton of credit for casting Sandler, who perfectly captures male loneliness in a career-changing performance.
Stream Punch-Drunk Love on Pluto TV.
On September 16, the world lost an icon, Robert Redford, who died at the age of 89. Redford is one of the most legendary stars to ever grace the big screen. He’s best known for his work in the ’70s, but in 1984, Redford grabbed a bat and played baseball player Roy Hobbs in The Natural.
The Barry Levinson sports drama might be the greatest baseball movie ever made. The Best There Ever Was is a documentary about the making of The Natural, featuring interviews with Redford and the majority of the cast. It’s a fascinating look into an all-time movie.
Stream The Natural: The Best There Ever Was on Tubi.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.