Chris McPherson

Published Jun 16, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell upwards into a senior position despite his best efforts.

For reasons unknown, he enjoys analyzing box office receipts, giant sharks, and has become known as the go-to man for all things Bosch, Mission: Impossible and Christopher Nolan in Collider’s news division. Recently, he found himself yeehawing along to the Dutton saga on the Yellowstone Ranch.

He is proficient in sarcasm, wit, Photoshop and working unfeasibly long hours. Amongst his passions sit the likes of the history of the Walt Disney Company, the construction of theme parks, steam trains and binge-watching Gilmore Girls with a coffee that is just hot enough to scald him.

His obsession with the Apple TV+ series Silo is the subject of mockery within the Senior News channel, where his feelings about Taylor Sheridan’s work are enough to make his fellow writers roll their eyes.

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Not every World War II movie has to sell itself on its visceral battle scenes, its explosions, or its impassioned speeches as the battalions face a do-or-die moment. What makes the latest movie in the genre so remarkable is that it finds its tension in the impossible choices behind D-Day, focusing not on the beach landings themselves, but on the momentous predictions made by one man that could have cost the Allied Forces the war at its most vital stage. After becoming one of the year’s strongest underdog movies at the box office, it’s time to feel the Pressure at home.

Collider is delighted to exclusively reveal a new special feature clip from Pressure, just in time for the film’s digital release. *Pressure *will be available for purchase on all digital platforms beginning today, June 16, arriving just in time for Father’s Day — and we highly recommend this as a movie for all dads everywhere. It may be the definitive Dad movie. Our exclusive clip pulls back the curtain on one of the film’s more remarkable behind-the-scenes connections, explaining how the production coincidentally ended up working with the grandson of James Stagg, the real-life meteorologist whose weather forecast helped determine the timing of the D-Day invasion.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

Directed by Anthony Maras, Pressure was very well received by critics and viewers, unsurprisingly given how well it’s made and how good the cast is. The film currently holds an 86% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 95% audience score, which is hugely impressive given how crowded the World War II movie field actually is. What makes the movie stand out so much is how it doesn’t retell D-Day from the battlefield, but rather on the hours before the Normandy landings, when the weather was as vital as the soldiers themselves.

That different approach has also helped Pressure find momentum at the box office. The film recently overtook the domestic haul of Clint Eastwood’s** Letters from Iwo Jima**, another acclaimed WWII drama. That film earned nearly $70 million worldwide and four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, but Pressure has now pushed ahead of its $13.7 million domestic total. The cast includes Brendan Fraser (The Whale) as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) as James Stagg, Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) as Kay Summersby, Chris Messina (Air) as Irving P. Krick, Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers) as Bernard Montgomery, and David Haig (Killing Eve) as Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Haig also co-wrote the screenplay with Maras, adapting his own stage play.

Pressure will be available for purchase on all digital platforms beginning June 16. Stay tuned at Collider for more.

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