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The Flight Attendant Season 2 Review: Kaley Cuoco Shines In An Enticing, But Uneven Attempt To Recapture Previous Heights HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/April 13, 2022 3:00 am EST When HBO Max first launched in May of 2020, the range of original shows available on the new, upstart streaming service was limited to a mere handful. Within six months, however, “The Flight Attendant” came out of nowhere to announce itself as one of the most thoroughly entertaining new originals of any streaming service at the time....

The Girl From Plainville Review: Strong Performances Anchor A Difficult, Emotionally Draining Show Hulu By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2022 2:00 pm EST In 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III died by suicide, inhaling carbon monoxide fumes in his truck while parked in an empty K-mart parking lot. The teenager had a history of mental health issues and had attempted suicide once before. With that in mind, his death was considered at first blush to be a tragic but open and shut case....

The Hated: Female-Led Western Comic Is Getting Adapted At Netflix Solid Comix By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 17, 2021 11:39 am EST Netflix is getting a new western series, but it’s not like any old western. They’ve subbed out the genre conventions of your average John Wayne or Clint Eastwood storyline for something stranger, darker, and newer. Delightfully titled “The Hated,” this upcoming series follows bounty hunter Araminta Free as she hunts down war criminals in a world where the US has been split up into two countries and the Civil War ended much differently....

He Knows Kung Fu Warner Bros. So far, the reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Our very own Chris Evangelista had nothing but positive things to say about it: THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS is a total blast. Weird, romantic, extremely. meta, and consistently funny. I kind of loved it. (Also, everyone in this movie is ridiculously hot.) #TheMatrixResurrections — Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) December 17, 2021 Following that up with quite possibly the greatest feedback anyone could give:...

The National Treasure TV Series Has Begun Filming Walt Disney Studios By Kaylee Dugan/Feb. 15, 2022 10:31 am EST Pull out your mini copy of the Declaration of Independence and get your invisible ink ready, because Disney’s “National Treasure” TV spin-off has officially begun filming. The series will be heading straight to the streaming behemoth that is Disney+ as soon as it’s ready for human consumption, and I personally can’t wait to see if this leads to a weird “National Treasure” renaissance....

Tyra Banks Joins Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead Remake ABC By Jenna Busch/April 25, 2022 9:46 pm EST “Nice old lady inside. Died of natural causes.” Tyra Banks has joined the cast of the upcoming remake of “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead,” according to Deadline. The film comes to us from Treehouse Pictures and will begin production in July in Los Angeles. This film is based on the 1991 film which starred Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, Keith Coogan, John Getz, and Josh Charles....

20 Underrated Rom Coms You Need To Watch The Lonely Island By Molly Turner/Jan. 26, 2022 11:25 am EST Although the popularity of the genre has ebbed and flowed over time, the romantic comedy is a perennial favorite. Harkening back to classics like 1934’s “It Happened One Night,” rom-coms have been around nearly as long as cinema itself. For devoted fans of the genre, watching the same Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers movies over and over can be comforting, but there’s nothing like the thrill of seeing a new cast of characters finding their way in and out of love with each other....

Bye Bye Kitbag: Ridley Scott Very Wisely Renames His Napoleon Movie United Artists By Jenna Busch/Jan. 20, 2022 4:33 pm EST When you hear the movie title “Kitbag,” your first thought is probably not, “Oh, that’s absolutely about Napoleon. How could it be anything else?” Fear not, friends. You can rest easy. The title for the upcoming Ridley Scott biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte will now be called “Napoleon,” according to Deadline (via The Playlist)....

He was definitely engaged in that time Marvel Studios When we first meet Mordo in 2016’s “Doctor Strange,” he was working as a recruiter and trainer of sorcerers for the Ancient One. He grew disillusioned with the way the Ancient One played fast and loose with rules and made the ends justify the means. He disappeared at the end of the film, promising Stephen that the bill will eventually come due....

Does Thor: Love And Thunder Have An End Credits Scene? A Spoiler-Free Guide Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/July 5, 2022 8:00 am EST It has been nearly five years since Chris Hemsworth’s Thor had the chance to go on a solo adventure within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with “Thor: Ragnarok” hitting theaters in November 2017. That film, directed by Taika Waititi, changed the game for the God of Thunder as it gave him one of the best solo entries in the MCU to date, paving the way for more to come....

From the toy chest to the big screen HBO Hollywood’s continued desperation for franchises and movies based on recognizable IP to get an edge in the marketplace is as feverish as it’s ever been. Securing a box office hit is especially elusive in the pandemic era, and turning to the toy chest seems to be an increasingly popular way to go about it. A new “Masters of the Universe” movie is getting made at Netflix, and even a “Play-Doh” movie is in development, just as a couple of examples....

Horror Movie Mothers That Are Pure Terror United Artists By Bee Delores/May 10, 2022 3:26 pm EST Motherhood is hard. It’s even harder within the framework of a horror film. Women contend with not only new pressures of caring for a child, but perhaps they have yet to process long-buried traumas or addressed mental health issues. As a result, mothers birth their unique brand of terror upon the world. Their children and loved ones must then confront a special fear they never knew existed....

How Bullet Train Shifted From A Dark, Hard-R Action Film To A Comedy, According To Aaron Taylor-Johnson Sony By Rafael Motamayor/March 11, 2022 1:51 pm EST The first trailer for “Bullet Train” showed what looked like a “John Wick” style action thriller, but with the kind of humor you’d expect from the director of “Deadpool 2.” Sure, there are assassins on a bullet train trying to murder each other, and there seems to be quite a lot of violent action, but they also respect the quiet cart and fight to the rhythm of “Stayin’ Alive....

How Francis Ford Coppola Saved American Graffiti From TV Movie Mediocrity Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 18, 2022 5:42 pm EST It’s easy to forget nowadays, but “hangout movies” were once a novel concept. For those who are less familiar with the term, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Hangout films are movies about people, well, hanging out for some period of time, often before having to go their separate ways. It’s an ideal genre for directors who prefer to make low-budget films that reflect on the human condition, be it through comedy (“Dazed and Confused,” “Clerks”), emotional drama (Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy), or both (“Lost in Translation,” “Licorice Pizza”)....

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way United Artists Oof. “The Lord of the Rings” is certainly a property that you cannot do if you think it seems too long to read. Squeezing it into a single, live-action film would have absolutely destroyed it. It certainly wouldn’t have paved the way for the Peter Jackson trilogy. John Boorman, who wrote the single-movie script, made a great and very strange high-fantasy film in “Excalibur,” but you just can’t take this much material that means so much to people and squash it into two hours....

How Steven Spielberg’s Love Of James Bond Led To Indiana Jones (And A Few Cinematic Easter Eggs) Paramount Pictures By Caroline Madden/March 25, 2022 11:22 am EST As a producer of “The Goonies,” the rousing 1980s adventure about a band of misfits searching for pirate’s treasure, Steven Spielberg managed to sneak his love of James Bond into one of the props worn by one of the rascals in the titular gang of treasure hunters....

I Tried Alexander Skarsgård’s Viking Workout For The Northman And Survived (Barely) Focus Features By Jenna Busch/April 14, 2022 2:12 pm EST The new Focus Features film “The Northman,” starring Alexander Skarsgård as the titular unstoppable Norse warrior, will hit theaters on April 22, 2022, and I think it’s fair to say that he looks the part. Look at that picture of him. Gaze upon it, but maybe wear sunglasses, as your eyes may burn up from the level of fitness....

Lucy And Desi Director Amy Poehler On How The Legendary Couple Changed Television Forever [Interview] Prime Video/Bettmann By Jack Giroux/March 9, 2022 4:16 pm EST “Lucy and Desi” is a romantic comedy. It’s a documentary, yes, but a romantic comedy nevertheless, about the passion and laughs shared between two people. Those two people, of course, are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and the duo behind “I Love Lucy,” who were responsible for altering the world of television forever, are depicted with nothing but love by director Amy Poehler....

Moon Knight Shot In One Of Cinema’s Most Iconic Locations Marvel Studios By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 29, 2022 3:32 pm EST The highly anticipated “Moon Knight” series will be Marvel’s first foray into in-depth Egyptian mythology and lore, which is an integral part of the “Moon Knight” comics. Shooting in locations such as Hungary helped shape the tone and feel of the show, and get this — “Moon Knight” was also shot in one of cinema’s most iconic locations: The deserts of Jordan, where the seminal “Lawrence of Arabia” was shot....

The aspirational vampire Sony Pictures Entertainment Though Morbius is a snarling monster, screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and director Daniel Espinosa try to imbue him with aspirational qualities. In his human form, we’re told that he’s “saved more lives than penicillin” by developing synthetic blood. Naturally, he rejects the Nobel Prize, has a good bedside manner with sick kids, and is fluent in foreign languages. Both he and Smith’s character, Milo, undergo miraculous, hero-of-the-beach transformations that leave them each with the “constitution of an Olympic athlete,” prone to admiring their newfound muscles in the mirror, just like Tobey Maguire in the first “Spider-Man” movie....