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The Scariest Scene In Annabelle Comes Home Jumps Out Of A Creepy Cabinet Of Curiosities Warner Bros. By Ariel Fisher AND Matt Donato/April 15, 2022 9:00 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, Ariel has some fun with Annabelle and Matt agrees.) We like to have fun here, in case you couldn’t already tell....

The Sunset Blvd. Silent Film Scene Is More Significant Than You Thought Paramount By Anthony Crislip/March 24, 2022 9:45 am EST Among all of Hollywood’s reckonings with its own steadily shifting lore, where priorities shift according to novelty, few movies still feel as raw, dark, and funny as Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard.” The 1950 dark comedy, about a young writer who moves into the mansion of an effectively exiled silent film star, runs the tightest of lines between cruelty and empathy....

The Wheel Of Time Season 1 Ending Explained: The Dragon Reborn And The Dark One By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 28, 2021 11:00 am EST Rand al’Thor walked away from his loved ones to stop himself from pulling a Lews Therin Telamon (more on that later) in the future. The final scenes displayed the arrival of ships at an unknown location, and formidable, One Power-wielding women made a Tsunami loom over the continent’s western shores....

Top Gun: Maverick Star Miles Teller Has One Of The Greatest Tom Cruise Stories Ever Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/June 15, 2022 2:37 pm EST “Top Gun: Maverick” is responsible for many great developments from the past month: the biggest opening weekend of Tom Cruise’s career, a sharp reminder that we should all be paying attention to Glen Powell, a whopping $400 million made at the domestic box office, and best of all, a new supply of top-tier Tom Cruise stories....

Virus :32 Review: The Zombie Genre Is Still Kicking In The Latest From Gustavo Hernandez Shudder By Anya Stanley/April 20, 2022 1:00 pm EST The brief distance between life and death finds purchase in the genre most equipped to express it in “Virus :32,” a zombie thriller from director and co-writer Gustavo Hernandez. These zeds sprint, leap, and don’t necessarily need brain death to be put down, making life hell on earth — in this microcosm, Montevideo — for the uninfected....

Why Gilbert Gottfried Was One Of The Best Are You Afraid Of The Dark Villains Nickelodeon By BJ Colangelo/April 12, 2022 5:50 pm EST The 1990s were the perfect time to be a kid who liked all things scary. Thanks to shows like “Goosebumps,” “Eerie, Indiana,” “AAAHH!!! Real Monsters,” “The Addams Family,” “Mona the Vampire,” “The Real Ghostbusters,” and “Tales from the Crypt Keeper,” youth-friendly horror shows were plentiful. It feels unfair to pit the abundance of quality programming against one another, but if any show served as the king of the castle, the distinction belonged to Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark?...

Why Marty’s Money Laundering Technique In Ozark Doesn’t Actually Work Netflix By Shania Russell/Jan. 3, 2022 11:25 am EST Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: an ambitious criminal is forced into increasingly high stakes situations as they desperately scramble to survive an elaborate criminal enterprise that’s perpetually threatening their life. Toss in some constant concern about their loved ones, a drug cartel or two, and the story gets even more specific....

Shauna’s Having Horrifying Pregnancy Dreams Showtime 1996 Shauna’s subconscious is really putting her through the ringer, as she’s dreaming about giving birth in the attic with Jackie playing the supportive partner as she delivers a pulsing cornish game hen, still umbilically connected. Jackie described it as looking “just like his father,” and Shauna immediately devours it before waking up in a panic. This isn’t the first time this has happened, because her attic-mate Taissa asks if it was “a cheeseburger” again....

You Can Watch The Epic Batmobile Chase From The Batman Online Now Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/April 25, 2022 2:34 pm EST If you haven’t watched “The Batman” yet, it’s time to fix that. It’s currently streaming on HBO Max, so if you can just carve three whole hours out of your day, you can see it any time you wish. Robert Pattinson is really great as the caped crusader who is only at the beginning of his second year fighting crime....

Barry Returns For Its Third Season With A Chilling Premiere HBO By Josh Spiegel/April 24, 2022 10:30 pm EST It’s been three years in the real world since Bill Hader graced our screens as mentally unstable hitman/actor Barry Berkman (known to his actor friends as Barry Block) in the brilliant HBO show “Barry.” Actually, it’s been just over three years — even though HBO renewed the show for a third season in 2019, the pandemic being what it is, the show’s production was delayed for quite a while....

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Pushed Practical Effects To Their Limits Sony Pictures By Lyvie Scott/March 24, 2022 2:19 pm EST The art of moviemaking is an inarguably stressful pursuit, but once in a while, a film comes along that makes it all look easy. Ang Lee’s martial arts masterpiece “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is one such film. It’s an effortless exploration of themes that were, until that point, overlooked within the context of wuxia … and for Lee, that was entirely by design....

Have Moon Knight’s Closing Credits Been Hiding A Secret In Plain Sight? Marvel By Danielle Ryan/April 20, 2022 5:03 pm EST Spoilers for “Moon Knight” season 4 ahead. In the latest Disney+ Marvel series, “Moon Knight,” Oscar Isaac plays a man with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), splitting his mind into several distinct personalities. While the voice of the Egyptian Moon God Khonshu is an external force, the personalities of both Marc Spector and Steven Grant live inside of the same man....

House Of The Dragon Trailer: Time To Return To Westeros And House Targaryen HBO By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/May 5, 2022 11:11 am EST What’s coming three years after the controversial conclusion of “Game of Thrones” while simultaneously taking place 200 years before the events of the ill-fated series? It’s not winter, and it’s not author George R.R. Martin’s long-awaited sixth novel “Winds of Winter.” Instead, it’s “House of the Dragon....

Michael Mann Had To Get Creative When Adapting The Last Of The Mohicans By Adam Wescott/April 23, 2022 11:15 am EST “The Last of the Mohicans” is a potboiler written by James Fenimore Cooper and published in 1826. It tells the tale of Natty Bumppo, a white man raised by Native Americans who goes on rollicking adventures across the frontier. “The Last of the Mohicans” is book two of a five-part series, like if “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” was spectacularly boring and also required reading for American students....

Moon Knight Episode 4 Gets Real Trippy, Man Marvel/Disney+ By Vanessa Armstrong/April 20, 2022 4:00 am EST Just when you might have thought you had a handle on what Disney+’s “Moon Knight” is all about, we get this week’s episode. We’re finally at Ammit’s tomb, yes, but we get a whole lot more than killer mummies making their way through cobwebs to attack our protagonists. This episode is darker than those before it as well....

Natalie Portman Waited A Decade For Her Black Swan Role To Become A Reality By Mike Shutt/May 26, 2022 10:03 am EST When actors or directors become big household names, we like to think they have the ability to get whatever movie they have in their heads put on screen. Occasionally that happens, but it is a rarity. Most cinema artists have to scrape and claw and beg to get their movies made, spending years upon years developing and honing the material....

Noah Hawley Alien Series Is ‘Going Slowly,’ Will Be Built Around Corporate Warfare 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 5, 2022 2:05 pm EST Tragically, it seems Ridley Scott will never get to finish his “Alien” prequel film trilogy, between the second entry, “Alien: Covenant,” disappointing at the box office and Disney setting the franchise on a different course after buying Fox’s media assets in 2019. Still, while we may’ve seen the last of everyone’s favorite murderous android David, that doesn’t mean the property is dead in the water....

The Animal House Easter Egg You Probably Missed In The Twilight Zone Movie Universal By Bill Bria/Jan. 21, 2022 6:45 pm EST Easter eggs in movies can take numerous forms, and the best ones tend to work on multiple levels. Long before the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, filmmakers liked to have fun sneaking Easter eggs into their movies that built connections between films: Kevin Smith took his characters Jay and Silent Bob around the View Askewniverse, and Quentin Tarantino still has his fictional Red Apple cigarettes turn up in every one of his features....

The Halcyon Bryan Young On the surface, the Galactic Starcruiser feels very much like a Disney cruise ship. You book passage for a completely contained three days and two nights of a voyage aboard a luxury ship. The Halcyon itself is located just outside of Galaxy’s Edge on Disney World’s property, but as soon as you take the shuttle pod up to the ship, you’re wholly immersed in “Star Wars.” The crew of the Halcyon await you, ready to take your bags directly to your room and show you around the storied history of the ship....

Billy Summers Scribner Stephen King’s crime thriller “Billy Summers” pulls an emotional bait and switch. Following a hitman on his last job, Billy’s tale gradually morphs into a moving story about the healing powers of fiction and memory. The tonal shift occurs midway through with the introduction of Alice, a young woman Billy rescues from the side of the road. As the unlikely friends grow closer, they cautiously begin to trust each other and slowly find the strength to overcome their past traumas....