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Tales From The Box Office: Magic Mike Made Bank As A Trojan Horse Stripper Movie Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/July 2, 2022 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) There are movies that are hits and nothing more. They arrive in theaters, make their money, and sort of disappear into the wind....

Botanik Space Cowboys Price: $24.99 (Walmart) Part of building a board game collection is knowing your preferred mode of competition. For example, I like games that require me to focus more on my decision tree than my opponent’s actions. If I wanted to play the person and not the game, I would dedicate my free time to online poker. So, on paper, a game like “Botanik” seems perfect for me — I can focus on my moves while still enjoying a little strategic theater....

The 7 Best And 7 Worst True Detective Episodes HBO By Liam Gaughan/June 28, 2022 3:07 pm EST HBO is responsible for some of the most influential television shows of all time. The current Golden Age of Television that we are living in now began with “The Sopranos” in 1999. However, “True Detective” was something completely different. The eight-episode detective series premiered in 2014, and changed television forever. There was a longstanding notion that television was somehow a lesser medium when compared to film....

The Daily Stream: Ratatouille Is A Reminder To Slow Down And Appreciate Life Disney/Pixar By Jenna Busch/June 17, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Ratatouille” Where You Can Stream It: Disney+ The Pitch: Back in 2007, we got a movie about a rat that cooks....

The Daily Stream: The Catharsis Of Girl, Interrupted On Bad Mental Health Days Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 17, 2022 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Girl, Interrupted” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Hollywood has never had a problem exploring or exploiting mental illness on screen, but seldom do they ever get it “right,” for however you want to interpret what that means....

The Ice Adventures Of Buck Wild Star Simon Pegg On His Long-Awaited Spin-Off [Interview] Disney+ By Ryan Scott/Jan. 27, 2022 12:10 pm EST The “Ice Age” franchise has, rather amazingly, been around for just shy of 20 years. What started as a fairly straightforward movie has since blossomed into a series that not only won’t quit, but is now expanding into spin-off territory under Disney’s leadership, potentially paving the way for many more installments to come....

The Kettlemans’ Return To Better Call Saul Was A Long Time Coming AMC By Joshua Meyer/April 25, 2022 8:19 am EST The sixth and final season of AMC’s “Better Call Saul” has brought back two familiar but long-absent faces: Craig and Betsy Kettleman, played by Jeremy Shamos and Julie Ann Emery, respectively. The Kettlemans first appeared in “Uno,” the very first episode of “Better Call Saul,” back in 2015. They were a fixture of the show’s first season, as Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) and Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn) found themselves tangled up in their legal troubles....

The Matrix Resurrections Crosses $100 Million At The Box Office, But It’s Still A Major Disappointment Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Jan. 3, 2022 2:44 pm EST Even just a handful of years ago, if Warner Bros. had said a fourth “Matrix” movie was happening, it would have seemed like the biggest deal on the planet. And, for a time, when the movie that became “The Matrix Resurrections” was initially coming together, it did, indeed, seem like a huge deal....

The Meaning Of Ruth’s Cookie Jar In Ozark Season 4 Explained Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 31, 2022 1:13 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the new season of “Ozark.” Julia Garner’s Ruth Langmore has always been a bright spot in the dark world of “Ozark.” It’s not that she’s particularly happy — her family has been through one tragedy of their own making after another — but that she’s worth rooting for....

The Morning Watch: Boba Fett’s Journey Across The Star Wars Galaxy, Don’t Look Up Scene Breakdown & More Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2021 8:15 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

The Northman Review: Robert Eggers Spins A Brutal Viking Epic With A Dash Of Eerie Shakespearean Tragedy Focus Features By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 11, 2022 12:00 pm EST They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Robert Eggers makes the very good case that revenge is best served on the bloodied backs of hulking Viking brutes, whose feral howls of rage cut through the gray, icy, unforgiving Nordic tundras, and whose quests for vengeance are besieged by witches and war on all sides....

The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder Clip: Penny Is A Young Lady, Whether Dad Likes It Or Not Disney+ By Shania Russell/Jan. 26, 2022 3:02 pm EST If you grew up a Disney kid in the 2000s, then hearing Oscar Proud shout “PENNY!” is like music to your ears. Continuing their general business plan of tapping into nostalgia, Disney+ is hitting us right in the feels with another revival series: “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder....

The Scariest Scene In Curse Of Chucky Really Bites Back Universal By Matt Donato AND Ariel Fisher/May 6, 2022 8:00 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition, Matt welcomes Chucky’s shift into gothic horror while Ariel makes it clear that the Good Guy doll is never welcome in her house....

The Thief Collector: Did A Seemingly Normal Married Couple Pull Off A Major Art Heist? [SXSW] SXSW By Chris Evangelista/March 14, 2022 11:40 am EST In 2017, antique dealer David Van Auker purchased a house and all its contents at an estate auction. Van Auker and his team headed out to the extremely secluded home, located in the ultra-small town of Cliff, New Mexico, and began to take inventory. The domicile was filled with what appeared to be a random assortment of art, varying in style, but all of it paled to what the group ultimately discovered: “Woman-Ochre,” a painting by expressionist artist Willem de Kooning....

Unforgiven Ending Explained: Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 13, 2022 11:17 am EST Nearly 30 years after its release, 1992’s “Unforgiven” remains the benchmark by which other revisionist westerns are judged. It’s a movie that even its prolific director and star, Clint Eastwood, has never quite topped as a filmmaker, although his most recent offering, “Cry Macho,” made for a surprisingly decent thematic epilogue to the brooding, melancholic tale of William Munny....

The Headless Horseman rides again Paramount Pictures Lindsey Beer schedule is rapidly filling up, as the writer will soon make her directing debut with the upcoming “Pet Semetary” movie. She’s previously worked on a previous draft of “Star Trek 4” and is currently attached to the “Hello Kitty” film, Disney’s “Bambi” remake, and even a “Fast & Furious” spin-off. “Sleepy Hollow” will only be the latest major project to keep Beer busy in the months and years ahead, slated to become the second feature film under her direction....

Where Does Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Fit On The Trek Timeline? Paramount+ By Witney Seibold/May 2, 2022 11:00 am EST With the debut of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” on May 5, 2022, Trekkies are now facing the fourth “Star Trek” series to take place prior to the events of 1966’s “Star Trek.” Over 55 years of the franchise’s history, “Star Trek” has — generally speaking, and not counting multiple instances of time travel and/or parallel universes — covered a span of time that begins as early as 2151 (the time frame of “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and as late as 2400 (the time frame of “Star Trek: Picard”)....

Without The Golden Girls, We Might Not Have Reservoir Dogs Miramax By Travis Yates/March 23, 2022 3:31 pm EST Hollywood is a funny place. The stories behind how films get made are often times worthy of their own movie. Some projects languish in developmental hell for years without ever being made, and others lead to downright bizarre tales. In Quentin Tarantino’s case, he can point to a beloved TV sitcom to credit for the debut film that launched his career in Hollywood....

Wonka Footage Reaction: Timothée Chalamet Inspires More Pure Imagination [CinemaCon 2022] Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo AND Valerie Ettenhofer/April 26, 2022 8:32 pm EST Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with chocolate, and a miracle or two? Apparently, Timothée Chalamet can! Willy Wonka, the beloved, eccentric chocolatier from Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” has made his way onto the big screen twice before, with Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005....

Enter the Dragon (1973) Warner Bros. At one time, Jumbo Kingdom consisted of three different floating restaurant barges. The third one, the Sea Palace, was reportedly towed to Manila in 2000, where it spent the next eight years operating as Jumbo Kingdom Manila. Both it and Tai Pak Floating Restaurant predate the larger Jumbo Floating Restaurant, and it’s them you can spot in “Enter the Dragon.” Released posthumously in 1973, “Enter the Dragon” was Bruce Lee’s final finished film before his death....