By Robert Scucci
| Updated 34 seconds ago

Whenever I plan a romantic getaway with the Missus, I have a very short list of win conditions. If the bar has an arcade, I’m playing Time Crisis II for an hour. If the hotel doesn’t have a continental breakfast schedule that allows me to sleep in, I’m eating the free soap. And if we’re going to renew our vows or do anything super cute like that, we can’t do it in the remote wilderness where feral teenagers with the home-field advantage think killing is a game. I’ve watched too many movies like Willow Creek (2013), Significant Other (2022), and 2008’s Eden Lake. At least in Backcountry (2014), all they had to run from was a bear, because in Eden Lake, the kids are far more terrifying.

A bear will eat your face because it thinks you’re invading its territory, calm down, and move on with its life. To the best of its knowledge, the bear was just defending itself and had no other choice. The teenagers in Eden Lake will set you on fire after they’ve already killed you so they can film it and show everybody what they’ve done for bragging rights.

Both are horrible outcomes, but at least with the bear, you die with dignity.

I Mean, They Were Asking For It

As much as I want to yell at Jenny Greengrass (Kelly Reilly) and Steve Taylor (Michael Fassbender) for taking the stupidest vacation they could possibly take, I have to remind myself that they’re characters living in this movie, which hopefully means they aren’t aware that their situation is a big old trope. I’m willing to forgive them and say they don’t deserve anything that happens to them in Eden Lake, and I’m willing to suspend disbelief because it’s a tried-and-true setup. We have to get them into the woods, or there’s no movie.

So they go to the woods, even though they both seem like inexperienced campers who probably should have rented an RV and parked it at a national park, and do the usual stuff: swimming, smoochies, fumbling with the tent when the sun’s already setting. The usual stuff happens here, and I’m still not really impressed because we’ve seen it all before.

Then we’re introduced to Brett (Jack O’Connell) and the gang of teenagers who are about to make the couple’s life a living hell. These kids are so awful that they make the events of Lord of the Flies look like Gilligan’s Island by comparison. It starts with loud music and a rowdy dog, but before you know it, Jenny and Steve’s car is stolen, their food is trashed, and their camp is destroyed. Not wanting to take matters into their own hands beyond retrieving their belongings and getting the hell out of dodge, they try to leave, but Brett and his goons continue terrorizing them while Paige (Finn Atkins), the only female in the group, films whatever happens on her cell phone.

Kids Will Be Kids

My kids aren’t quite teenagers yet, and hopefully I’m raising them well, because the teenagers in Eden Lake are the stuff of nightmares. Brett is clearly the alpha of the pack, and his menace is strong enough to make everybody bend to his will. It doesn’t matter if he wants them to vandalize property or slit somebody’s throat, they’ll do it if he pushes hard enough. Even more terrifying, anybody who disobeys him faces fatal consequences. When the group is at its most united, Jenny and Steve are no match for them because their only moral code is simple: there will be no consequences for their actions.

Rational adults, even the ones who want to camp in the remote wilderness despite their inexperience, are simply no match for unchecked teenagers who clearly don’t have any meaningful authority figures in their lives. They’re fully formed little humans, but they’ve grown up in conditions that nurtured their more animalistic impulses far more than their human ones. There’s no reasoning with that kind of terror, and Eden Lake leans into this social hierarchy without shame as Jenny and Steve fight for their lives, Steve wondering when he’s supposed to get down on one knee and pull out the engagement ring he’s been hiding.

Eden Lake is far from an easy watch, but it’s a shockingly effective thriller once things start heating up. It’s worth its weight in unease alone thanks to Jenny Greengrass handling herself like a boss and Jack O’Connell channeling some truly psychopathic energy to bring his character to life. If you think you can handle the suspense, which culminates in one of the most upsetting endings this kind of movie could have, Eden Lake is currently streaming free on Tubi.

UPDATE: Jun. 19, 2026, 12:13 p.m. Disney+ has posted an update on X at 10:06 p.m. ET / 7:06 p.m. stating that the issue has now been fixed. The cause of the outage has not yet been revealed.

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Disney‘s streaming service Disney+ is currently suffering a global outage, with users reporting that they’re seeing an error message when attempting to log in.

Crowdsourced outage tracker Downdetector began receiving reports of issues with Disney+ just after 6:40 p.m. ET / 3:40 p.m., with over 20,000 submitted by users in the U.S. alone by 7:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. (Disclosure: Mashable and Downdetector share the same parent company, Ziff Davis.) 

Though the cause of the Disney+ outage is currently unknown, Disney has acknowledged the issue in a post on the official Disney+ support X account.

“We’re currently investigating issues affecting login for some users and hope to have this resolved soon,” the official Disney+ support X account posted at 8:49 p.m. ET / 5:49 p.m. PT. “Thank you for your patience!”

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The account has also been responding to X users’ complaints by apologising and directing them to Disney+’s feedback form.

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Getting Disney+ back up soon is of the essence for many users, as the streaming service is airing the 2026 FIFA World Cup in some South American regions. Fortunately, it shouldn’t be too disruptive to these soccer fans. Though matches featuring Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador, and Uruguay will be aired on Disney+ Premium in their respective countries, none are scheduled for today. The match between Mexico and South Korea is currently scheduled to kick off at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.

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By Chris Snellgrove
| Updated 2 days ago

Lately, Marvel fans are feeling something they haven’t felt in a good, long time: hope. It’s been a rough half-decade or so as MCU films went from being boring (Eternals) to bizarre (Quantumania) to, shockingly, unprofitable (The Marvels). Meanwhile, Marvel TV gave us shows that went from ambitiously weird (Moon Knight) to weirdly controversial (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) to downright bad (Secret Invasion). As time went on, even the franchise’s biggest fans began to wonder if we’d get anything that could possibly match the glory days of Marvel.

However, late last year, the studio began releasing teaser trailers for Avengers: Doomsday, which (thanks especially to the trailer with Professor X, Magneto, and Cyclops) reignited Marvel hype for countless fans. This year, Daredevil: Born Again matched the quality of its breakout first season, and the early trailers have made it clear that Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be the hit film of the summer. With Avengers: Doomsday coming out on December 18, fans have plenty of awesome things coming out later this year. But would you believe that in just two weeks, a Marvel TV show with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is coming out? 

That show is X-Men ‘97, Season 2, which will be slicing its way onto Disney+ on July 1.

A Perfect Season Of Superhero Television

X-Men ‘97 Season 2 focuses primarily on the fight against Apocalypse, a villain who believes in nothing more than survival of the fittest. In his world, perfection is achieved by culling the weak. While things are a little less cutthroat in the real-world, X-Men ‘97 has still achieved perfection in its own right. On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Season 2 currently has a critical score of 100 percent. That’s good news for fans wondering if the show’s sophomore season would be nearly as good as the spectacular Season 1.

Based on the critics’ reviews, it sounds like X-Men ‘97 is going to be even better than we’d hoped. According to Empire Magazine’s Amon Warmann, “X-Men ’97’s second season continues to build on the mutants’ rich history in fresh, exciting and unpredictable ways. The years-long wait for its return was worth it.” Polygon’s Jake Kleinman agrees, writing that this season “is just as good, if not better, than anything I’ve seen before.” Additionally, IGN Movies’ Jesse Schedeen said that, “The series continues to be both a love letter to a particular era of the X-Men franchise and a source of deep, enjoyable character drama that can appeal to Marvel fans of all stripes.”

There’s Just One Big “But”

Now, there is a big but here, and I’m not talking about the one on Rogue. X-Men ‘97 Season 2 currently has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating, but the critics have only seen the first four episodes. Additionally, the show is universally beloved on Rotten Tomatoes, but there are (as of this writing) only 17 reviews. Is it possible the show will botch the landing, or that other reviewers will dislike the series and lower its score? Sure. But based on the show’s strong start and the extreme praise of these early reviewers, it looks like X-Men ‘97’s second season will be another one for the ages.

Like an Age of the Apocalypse? Nah. They gotta save that for Season 3!