Friday, September 30, 2022

Latest ‘Star Wars’ News: Fans debate Luke’s original trilogy power levels as we rank the clones of Jango Fett

Latest ‘Star Wars’ News: Fans debate Luke’s original trilogy power levels as we rank the clones of Jango Fett
It’s been a quiet day for Star Wars fans, but as always there’s much to debate. Today fans have spent time figuring out the age-old question of how powerful a Jedi Luke was during the original trilogy, while one of our resident experts picks through the prequel-era movies...

Latest Marvel News: As one of the studio’s Disney Plus series is cancelled, the MCU might’ve landed its biggest star ever

Latest Marvel News: As one of the studio’s Disney Plus series is cancelled, the MCU might’ve landed its biggest star ever
Change is in the air for the Marvel universe today, as the MCU’s longest-gestating Disney Plus project has finally had its plug pulled, but don’t despair just yet as there’s a big silver lining to this news. What’s more, the franchise may have secretly landed one of its...

Review: ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ lets the witches run amok, amok, amok along with its plot

Review: ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ lets the witches run amok, amok, amok along with its plot
I smell… a sequel that should have never made it past the gates of Walt Disney Studios. Yes, yes, Hocus Pocus 2 is here, and the Sanderson sisters are back to exact revenge on Salem. But while the witches do manage to put a spell on us, their bewitching skills have taken...

‘Nosferatu’ remake casts two surprising stars as it finally rises from the grave

‘Nosferatu’ remake casts two surprising stars as it finally rises from the grave
The Northman director Robert Eggers has found his next movie, and it’s one he’s been trying to drag out of development hell for years. The acclaimed filmmaker first announced he was working on a remake of seminal silent horror film Nosferatu way back in 2015, but the project...

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ News: The internet calls Elizabeth Olsen’s bluff on those ‘House’ rumors as Spanish outlet reveals season 2’s filming date

Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ News: The internet calls Elizabeth Olsen’s bluff on those ‘House’ rumors as Spanish outlet reveals season 2’s filming date
It goes without saying that if House of the Dragon was even half as successful as it is now, HBO would’ve probably greenlit a second and even a third season. But with the prequel series breaking records left and right, the Westerosi crew is pushing ahead with preparations...

The wait is finally over: MCU’s first sidekick is finally getting their own movie

The wait is finally over: MCU’s first sidekick is finally getting their own movie
When multiple Marvel announcements were made at various conventions over the summer, one notably absent title was Armor Wars, which last we heard was a Disney Plus show that was supposedly starring Don Cheadle as James Rhodes AKA War Machine. The project is still in the...

‘AND’ is the next movie by Yorgos Lanthimos and it once again stars Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe

‘AND’ is the next movie by Yorgos Lanthimos and it once again stars Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe
The unrivaled creative talent behind acclaimed flicks such as The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and The Favourite is returning soon with his next flick, titled AND. Per Deadline, Yorgos Lanthimos is reuniting with Searchlight Pictures, which has just greenlit...

‘Smile’ director was worried nobody would notice the ingenious viral marketing

‘Smile’ director was worried nobody would notice the ingenious viral marketing
Smile is notable not only for being destined to be this year’s horror crowd-pleaser just in time for Halloween, but also for Paramount’s ingenious marketing campaign backing it. However, one marketing stunt was so subtle and dependent on word-of-mouth that writer-director...

Streaming viewers peer in at an overblown thriller that substituted star power for stupidity

Streaming viewers peer in at an overblown thriller that substituted star power for stupidity
If filmmaking was as easy as pointing a camera at a star-studded cast and then letting their undoubted talent do all the work, maybe co-writer and director Antti Jokinen’s The Resident wouldn’t have been so interminably uninteresting. After all, the psychological thriller...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ News: People lose their cool over Elizabeth Olsen fan art as other viewers find new creative ways to roast Ser Criston

Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ News: People lose their cool over Elizabeth Olsen fan art as other viewers find new creative ways to roast Ser Criston
We’ve barely been introduced to the two new leads replacing Rhaenyra and Alicent in House of the Dragon, and only just adjusted to the staggering 10-year time jump the show made between episodes five and six, but some fans are already looking beyond season one and towards...

A bright new Marvel star spotlights which co-star shines at improv as ‘Thor’ thunders into 4K and Blu-ray

A bright new Marvel star spotlights which co-star shines at improv as ‘Thor’ thunders into 4K and Blu-ray
The movie Thor: Love and Thunder featured a number of regular Thor-movie characters but it also featured some new ones. Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) was introduced as the antagonist and part of his evil plan is to kidnap all the children in New Asgard. However,...

A seasoned lip-reader thinks he’s cracked ‘Deadpool 3’ teaser video

A seasoned lip-reader thinks he’s cracked ‘Deadpool 3’ teaser video
A popular YouTuber known for his breakdowns of baseball games has used his years of experience lip-reading players, coaches, and referees to decipher what Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman said during their recent Deadpool 3 tease. Reynolds effectively broke the internet...

Read J.R.R. Tolkien shred this ’50s ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation script into pieces

Read J.R.R. Tolkien shred this ’50s ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation script into pieces
The Lord of the Rings fans have unearthed Tolkien’s critique of a ’50s adaptation script and are now wondering what the author would really think of Peter Jackson’s works, much less Amazon’s The Rings of Power series. There’s recently been a lot of criticisms aimed at...

Tubi’s releases the trailer for the movie that nobody asked for, ‘Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial’

Tubi’s releases the trailer for the movie that nobody asked for, ‘Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial’
It has been less than four months since a jury reached a decision in the acrimonious defamation trial between former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, which was broadcast live for the world to watch. And though many of us are understandably still fatigued over the coverage...

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The MCU’s love of a fake-out death means nobody believes in an ambiguous demise anymore

The MCU’s love of a fake-out death means nobody believes in an ambiguous demise anymore
Fans of the MCU are starting to feel a little skeptical when it comes to characters’ deaths on screen. Though there have been plenty of deaths, not a whole lot of them are sticking with characters finding ways to come back, whether through the multiverse, through time...

When does Deadpool 3 come out? Deadpool 3 release date confirmed

When does Deadpool 3 come out? Deadpool 3 release date confirmed
The long-awaited return of Deadpool 3 is finally in sight! The highly anticipated threequel will be the first of the Deadpool movies to take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, a fact that’s been looming over...

Hugh Jackman’s bombshell ‘Deadpool 3’ announcement is causing a Marvel meltdown

Hugh Jackman’s bombshell ‘Deadpool 3’ announcement is causing a Marvel meltdown
Now that Ryan Reynolds has confirmed what many superhero movie fans thought was impossible — that Hugh Jackman is returning to the role of Wolverine for the upcoming Deadpool 3 — devotees of the self-healing mutant are understandably freaking out. Not only did we get Jackman’s...

Kyle MacLachlan really committed to his latest role by learning what EDM is

Kyle MacLachlan really committed to his latest role by learning what EDM is
What comes to mind when you think about electronic dance music (EDM)? Is it Kyle MacLachlan? Probably not, but it turns out Maclachlan knows his way around the genre pretty well thanks to his role as Horan in the movie Confess, Fletch. The film, which stars Jon Hamm as...

Netflix subscribers are about to start a mass exodus, according to a new poll

Netflix subscribers are about to start a mass exodus, according to a new poll
It sounds a lot like Netflix is about to about a big subscriber problem on its hands. Coinciding with the streamer’s TUDUM global fan event last week, a new survey found that one in four Netflix users are planning to leave the platform by the end of the year. That’s on...

Elizabeth Olsen further terrorizes MCU multiverse by calling Avengers ‘selfish’

Elizabeth Olsen further terrorizes MCU multiverse by calling Avengers ‘selfish’
Art has now imitated life, kind of, as Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen, who has won critical acclaim and a string of award nominations for her role as sometime Avengers nemesis Wanda Maximoff, is taking that feud to the streets. Or more specifically, to the pages of Variety,...

‘Multiverse of Madness’ fans ponder Sinister Strange mystery defeat

‘Multiverse of Madness’ fans ponder Sinister Strange mystery defeat
A seemingly straightforward question that contains a hidden plothole is spurring fan discussion related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. “Who defeated Sinister Strange?” was the question posed...

Monday, September 26, 2022

‘Star Wars’ supporters wonder how much Obi-Wan knew of Anakin’s forbidden love

‘Star Wars’ supporters wonder how much Obi-Wan knew of Anakin’s forbidden love
One of the Star Wars universe’s famous flings, Anakin and Padmé’s love affair was as scandalous as it was cringey. As a Jedi, Anakin was forbidden to engage in romantic relationships or get married, but that didn’t stop the young Jedi from falling head over heels for the...

We refuse to believe that we’ve been hearing this ‘Hocus Pocus’ line wrong for 30 years

We refuse to believe that we’ve been hearing this ‘Hocus Pocus’ line wrong for 30 years
It’s been 29 years, two months, and seven days — right down to the day, and the witches are almost back, so there’ll be hell to pay. That’s right, in just a few spooky sleeps, Hocus Pocus 2 makes it’s long-awaited debut to an audience of adoring fans worldwide.  So...