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Taika Waititi Wasn’t Given A Choice When It Came To His Jojo Rabbit Role TSG Entertainment By Michael Boyle/April 22, 2022 4:51 pm EST After the massive success that was “Thor: Ragnarok,” it may have been surprising to some when director Taika Waititi decided to work on a smaller-scale dark comedy about a wannabe Nazi kid in World War II era Germany. “Jojo Rabbit” follows a young boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) who idolizes Hitler and fully buys in to the anti-semitic tropes they’re teaching him at his Hitler Youth camp....

Season 3 Promises to Wrap Everything Up There are a few things we know about this new season, like that it’s the last season of the show (boo, hiss) and that all your favorite characters are coming back to wrap up their storylines. What will come of Rebecca and Sam? Will AFC Richmond come out on top or does winning not really matter as long as the characters are content and at peace?...

The Batman Clip: A Funeral Gets A Puzzling Interruption Warner Bros By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 31, 2022 8:38 am EST Riddle me this: If the team behind “The Batman” starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader is setting out to make “the best Batman ever made,” then why would you strip The Riddler down to his core and redress him as demented serial-killing agent of chaos? Of course, I say this as someone who has yet to see the movie featuring Matt Reeves’ take on The Dark Knight, but based on everything we’ve seen so far, Paul Dano’s version of the criminal mastermind with an affinity for puzzles makes it seem like it would be more fitting if the “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Ruby Sparks” star were playing a different member of Batman’s rogues gallery altogether....

The Book Of Boba Fett Goes Full ‘Mandalorian’ Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Jan. 26, 2022 9:45 am EST This article contains spoilers for the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Bryce Dallas Howard returns to direct the fifth episode of “The Book of Boba Fett,” titled “The Return of the Mandalorian.” It’s an appropriate title for the episode since it follows Din Djarin from “The Mandalorian” and does not feature a single frame of Boba Fett....

Yoda Jones, Sr. Lucasfilm Ford, who also starred in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, of course, said that an early concept for “The Last Crusade” envisioned Indy’s dad as more of “a wise old Yoda type.” Henry Jones, Sr., is still someone for whom the pen is mightier than the sword, at least when it comes to fighting Nazis “in the belly of that steel beast,” which is to say, a tank headed for a cliff dive....

The Main Difference Between Re-Animator’s R-Rated And Unrated Versions Empire International Pictures By Miyako Pleines/May 16, 2022 2:53 pm EST Stuart Gordon’s deliciously deranged “Re-Animator” is a wild ride into the mind of Herbert West, a mad scientist determined to perfect the ability to bring the dead back to life. Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story, “Herbert West: Reanimator,” Gordon’s first feature film stars a plucky Jeffrey Combs as West, following him on his quest to perfect his reagent serum (no green ever looked so good) that has the power to reanimate the dead, albeit a bit … incorrectly....

The Original Ben-Hur Action Sequences Were More Dangerous Than You Think Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Matthew Bilodeau/April 6, 2022 5:25 pm EST A good stretch of Hollywood history saw the movie-making capital go full force on the religious epic, which almost always featured a spectacularly huge cast, budget and runtime. For every “King of Kings,” there was a “Greatest Story Ever Told” right behind it. If one adaptation were produced in the silent era, a sprawling Technicolor remake would usually follow a few decades later (“The Ten Commandments”)....

The Scrubs Storyline The Series’ Creator Couldn’t Stop ABC By Michael Boyle/May 4, 2022 4:45 pm EST Pretty much every long-running sitcom has some kind of “will they/won’t they” storyline between two of its leads, and “Scrubs” was no exception. JD (Zach Braff) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) spent most of the first three seasons in varying states of angst over their romantic tension with each other, before seemingly breaking up for good near the end of season 3 in “My Self-Examination....

Tom Cruise Caused A Bidding War Over Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Polygram Filmed Entertainment By Joshua Meyer/March 24, 2022 11:33 am EST Guy Ritchie’s BAFTA Award-nominated crime comedy, “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” served as his directorial debut and the feature-film debut of Vinnie Jones and future action star Jason Statham. However, the movie and indeed their careers might have been confined to direct-to-video purgatory in 1998 if Tom Cruise hadn’t come to the rescue....

Whoopi Goldberg’s Suspension From The View Was Not Necessary (But Not For The Reason You Might Think) ABC By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 2, 2022 4:24 pm EST On the January 31, 2022 episode of ABC’s “The View,” the hosts were discussing the recent decision by a Tennessee school district to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning serialized nonfiction graphic novel “Maus.” Spiegelman wrote “Maus” by interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, the English as fish, the French as frogs, and the Swedish as deer....

10 Years Later, ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Has Aged Into Quentin Tarantino’s Best Movie By Joshua Meyer/July 23, 2019 10:00 am EST When a character in Inglorious Basterds looks down at the camera and says, “I think this just might be my masterpiece,” it’s clear that writer-director Quentin Tarantino is carving a self-congratulatory blurb for his own World War II film. Maybe he’s earned the right to gloat. As a viewer, when I think of Tarantino, I think of chapterized revenge....

Bounty Hunter: Galactic Gun For Hire Statue Proves Sideshow Can Do Originals [Exclusive] Max Evry By Max Evry/Feb. 11, 2022 10:37 am EST If you are a fan of Sideshow Collectibles like we are, then you know the company puts out incredible premium statues from popular IP like Marvel, DC, and Star Wars. However, if you’re a true blue fan of the brand, you also know they have been churning out original items of their own as well, including the elaborate mythos of the Court of the Dead....

Captain America’s 15 Greatest Moments In The MCU By Leah Marilla Thomas/May 20, 2022 2:06 pm EST With the fourth Captain America film still on the horizon, let’s take a moment to celebrate the best Captain America moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The star-spangled man with a plan had quite the run. To make things a little simpler, this list will focus on Steve Rogers played by Chris Evans. The MCU’s Captain America is currently Sam Wilson, who will be the protagonist of the upcoming fourth film....

Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Writers Doug Mand And Dan Gregor Talk About Creating A Spiritual Successor To Who Framed Roger Rabbit [Interview] Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/May 20, 2022 6:00 pm EST While it wasn’t around for a long time, “Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers” was certainly here for a good time. With only 65 episodes that aired from March 4, 1989, to November 19, 1990 during its initial run on The Disney Channel, the animated series about a team of pint-sized detectives found new life in syndication as part of the Disney Afternoon block of programming....

Coraline’s Soundtrack Could Have Been An Indie Rock Masterpiece Focus Features By Jamie Gerber/March 4, 2022 11:18 am EST Much like the other world discovered in “Coraline,” there is an alternate dimension in which in the indie rock band They Might Be Giants provided much more than a single track to the beloved 2009 stop-motion animated movie. Written and directed by Henry Selick (“The Nightmare Before Christmas”), the Laika film is based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman....

Damn The Man, Save The Empire: Why Empire Records Will Never Go Out Of Style Warner Bros. By Ben F. Silverio/April 10, 2022 4:14 pm EST For cinema and pop culture fans, a number of dates hold significance throughout the year. According to Miss Rhode Island in “Miss Congeniality,” April 25 is the perfect date because “it’s not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.” In “Back to the Future,” November 5, 1955 is the day when Doc Brown invented the Flux Capacitor....

Don’t Make Me Go Review: John Cho Steers A Father-Daughter Road Trip Into Surprising Emotional Depths [Tribeca] Prime Video By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 15, 2022 5:00 pm EST A dad gets diagnosed with cancer and decides to take his stubborn teenage daughter on a road trip to meet the mom who abandoned her as a child. You can probably tell where this is going, right? But despite the familiar turns and pit stops of the kind of sentimental road trip drama designed to tug at your heartstrings (and fill your tear ducts), “Don’t Make Me Go” is a trip well worth taking....

I’m Gumby, Damn It! NBC “Gumby” follows the adventures of the titular green clayboy exploring different lands and times throughout history. Joined by his sidekick and best friend Pokey, the talking orange pony, Gumby and Pokey’s adventures frequently put them at odds with the G & J Blockheads, antagonistic red humanoids with, you guessed it, block heads. Gumby’s other friends include Prickle, a yellow fire breathing dinosaur who dresses like Sherlock Holmes, Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo balls and can shape shift into any object, Nopey, Gumby’s dog who can only say “nope” like he’s a walking promo for Jordan Peele’s new movie, his sister Minga, a mastodon friend named Denali, and a chicken friend named Tilly....

The terrifying truth of children’s television Warner Bros. If you’ve never seen or heard of “Death to Smoochy,” it is a vastly underrated cult comedy about a greasy slimeball of a children’s TV show host (Williams) who gets replaced by a squeaky-clean doofus in a rhino costume (Norton). Catherine Keener stars as the network executive who works with (and falls for) them both, and Danny DeVito’s direction is about as pitch-perfect as can be for this twisted little gem....

Jordan Peele Teases An ‘Otherworldly Confrontation’ For Daniel Kaluuya In Nope Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/March 14, 2022 4:34 pm EST When Jordan Peele released the poster for his upcoming third foray into horror feature territory, “Nope,” we all immediately speculated that the “Get Out” and “Us” director was bringing us some sort of alien invasion. If the evocative image of the floating cloud (???) with a kite tail of the triangle flag banners usually seen outside every used car lot in America wasn’t enough to get our excitement brewing, the casting announcement of Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun was sure to do the trick....