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The Subtle Way Ozark Kept A Dead Character (Sort Of) Alive Netflix By Shania Russell/March 31, 2022 12:36 pm EST Netflix’s “Ozark” isn’t exactly overflowing with likable characters. The crime-ridden series follows a family so complex that from certain angles they quickly become the villains of the story. Across four increasingly dire seasons, the Byrdes have gone from suburban sweethearts in over their heads to fully-fledged criminals — blackmailing politicians, swindling wealthy innocents, and even getting in with Big Pharma — all for the sake of laundering money for a very dangerous drug cartel....

The Trait Captain Pike Shares With Another Beloved Star Trek Captain Paramount By Danielle Ryan/May 12, 2022 7:00 am EST This post contains minor spoilers for episode 2 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” Each “Star Trek” Captain has a different style of leadership, but something that Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike does in the second episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” gives us a good idea of what his might be....

Who is Morbius, anyway? Marvel Comics The first indication that the “Morbius” movie will at least have horror elements lies in the film’s comic book counterpart. According to the official Marvel website: Dr. Michael Morbius is a biochemist-turned-bloodsucker. After years of experimentation to eliminate his rare blood disease, Morbius gained a cure … and an acute case of vampirism. The side effects? Enhanced senses, an aversion to light, and an insatiable thirst for blood....

Banana Split Vertical Entertainment High school romances can sometimes feel like soap operas, and teen movies often struggle to showcase what those intense emotions can look like without insulting the very characters caught up in the chaos. Fortunately, this is not the case for Benjamin Kasulke’s directorial debut, “Banana Split.” Written by Joey Power and the film’s star Hannah Marks, “Banana Split” is a charming romantic-comedy/friendship tale about a girl named April (Marks) who after a messy breakup with her high school boyfriend Nick (Dylan Sprouse) develops an unlikely friendship with his new girlfriend, Clara (Liana Liberato)....

Daniel Day-Lewis Made This Important Pledge To Himself After His Early Film Career Focus Features By Joshua Meyer/May 10, 2022 9:59 am EST In the two decades from 2002 to 2022, Daniel Day-Lewis has only appeared in half a dozen films, beginning with “Gangs of New York” and ending with “Phantom Thread,” which was preceded by the announcement of his retirement in 2017. Day-Lewis had already gone into semi-retirement once after starring in “The Boxer” in 1997....

Doctor Strange 2 Merchandise Reveals A New Variant Of The Best Marvel Character Disney By Ben F. Silverio/April 5, 2022 11:46 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe has opened a few doors to the multiverse already. Thanks to “Loki” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” true believers have experienced a few of the many worlds that inhabit the MCU and the Variants that live there. In just about a month’s time, we’re going to take a full-on dive into the deep end courtesy of Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Trailer: A Bigger, Crazier Sequel Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Feb. 13, 2022 6:20 pm EST For many people, today is about the big game and only the big game. For movie fans, it’s about trailers for big movies, which is something that not even the pandemic can take away from us during the Super Bowl. Case in point, Marvel has dropped a new look at the much-anticipated “Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness” for us to enjoy in addition to the football shenanigans....

Edgar Wright’s Signature Soundtracks Originally Served A More Practical Purpose Cubankite/Shutterstock By Christian Gainey/April 7, 2022 11:44 am EST As a movie-going, TV-watching society, we have become obsessed with picture quality. Deep down, we all want a 70 inch 4K screen in our living rooms that will squeeze every color and texture out of each frame of a movie. Because of our fixation on image, we can often forget the importance of sound in film....

Everything We Know About The Boys In The Boat So Far Paramount Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 7, 2022 1:32 pm EST He’s still fresh off of “The Tender Bar,” but George Clooney is already looking to get right back into the director’s chair. This time he’s set his sights on a historical drama based on Daniel James Brown’s nonfiction book “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics....

Ewan McGregor Is Just Like Us, Uses A Jedi Hand Motion To Open Supermarket Doors Lucasfilm By Danielle Ryan/March 22, 2022 3:42 pm EST There are two kinds of people in this world: people who love Ewan McGregor, and people who are wrong. The Scottish actor has been dropping trou, breaking hearts, and making us laugh on the big and small screens since 1993, though he got his big break as Mark Renton in Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” in 1996....

Folk Horror World Tour: 10 International Titles From The Last 100 Years A24 By Joshua Meyer/June 13, 2022 10:59 am EST Folk horror is more than just pagan cults in the British Isles immolating Christians, or Christian cults in the American Midwest crucifying people on corn crosses. The genre is all about the old ways resurfacing. As the summer solstice approaches, and as films like “Men” and “You Won’t Be Alone” keep folk horror alive, it seems appropriate, then, to unearth some older recommendations, dating all the way back to 1922, just as we’ve been doing with our “Year of the Vampire” series....

Futurama’s Portrayal Of Nixon Wasn’t Always Well-Received 20th Television By Witney Seibold/July 5, 2022 1:39 pm EST Matt Groening’s and David X. Cohen’s frequently resurrected sci-fi comedy series “Futurama” — a show set in the 31st century — had a clever conceit for incorporating modern-day celebrity cameos. In the future, it turns out, severed human heads can be kept alive in jars of mysterious, life-giving fluid, and an unseen team of enterprising head archivists collect history’s celebrities’ heads in a Head Museum....

Here’s How Time Works In Stranger Things’ Upside Down Netflix By Steven Ward/June 29, 2022 4:25 pm EST If you’re like me, you’ve been biding your time waiting for part 2 of season 4 of “Stranger Things” by pouring over the first seven episodes. Not to mention trying to drown out the noise of bones snapping in half by and listening to way more Kate Bush than I normally do. The source of all the terror and empty eye sockets is of course Vecna, the newest enemy to attack Hawkins from the Upside Down....

Lynch’s mysterious return The Samuel Goldwyn Company Per Variety, the project will feature Lynch favorite Laura Dern, along with “some other Lynch regulars.” It’s unclear at this time whether Dern will play a key role or simply cameo in the project, and no plot details are available at this time. The outlet also clarifies that the project is a feature film, which muddles the likelihood that it is “Wisteria,” as early reporting on the latter indicated it may be a series....

Laura Dern Joined Jurassic Park Thanks To A Push From Nicolas Cage Universal Pictures By Erin Brady/June 8, 2022 9:55 am EST It is hard to imagine a world where Laura Dern was not a part of “Jurassic Park.” Just try and imagine Ellie Sattler played by anyone other than her. Difficult, right? After all, Dr. Sattler is arguably the most recognizable character in the entire franchise outside of the dinosaurs and Dr....

A live-action adaptation of beloved franchise that’s long overdue Netflix “Voltron” was an immediate hit upon release in the States, and has since enjoyed a cult following for decades. The Nickelodeon branch NickToon rebooted the series in 2011 with Netflix doing the same in 2016. “Voltron” is also one of the most popularly marketed animated series from the 1980s, with many playground fist fights taking place over who got to control the Blazing Sword attachment to the Voltron toys....

Crop Duster in a Cornfield MGM While on the run, Thornhill searches for George Kaplan, the spy he’s accused of being. He ends up on a train ride to Chicago, where he meets a young blonde woman named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint). Attraction immediately follows, but there’s a complication: Kendall is working for Vandamm. Kendall arranges for Thornhill to meet “Kaplan” at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere....

Not Even The Writers Knew The Cylons’ Plan In Battlestar Galactica NBCUniversal By Mike Williams/April 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST Both iterations of “Battlestar Galactica” were based on the same premise: the last survivors of the Twelve Colonies are on the run from the Cylons, a race of cybernetic beings that want to destroy them. With the Galactica at its head, the Colonial Fleet does its best to stay ahead of the Cylons and find a new home....

Olympic Speed Skater Allegedly Ripped Off Covid Relief Funds To Bankroll Elijah Wood Movie, We Swear We’re Not Making This Up Company X By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 21, 2021 11:49 am EST Yes, that headline sounds like the plot of a surprisingly mundane dream you once had and, yes, it’s completely true. Allison Baver, former Olympic speed skater and the founder of Allison Baver Entertainment (shocker), fraudulently applied for $10 million of Covid relief funds and funneled some of those funds into Elijah Wood’s production company for his 2021 film “No Man of God....

Prehistoric Planet Trailer: Walk With Dinosaurs In This Apple TV+ Docuseries Apple TV+ By Sandy Schaefer/May 19, 2022 12:12 pm EST Did the five-minute prologue to “Jurassic World Dominion” leave you wishing you could simply watch an entire film or show about an ancient world populated by dinosaurs without all those pesky humans running amok? If so, you’re in luck! Executive producers Jon Favreau (“The Mandalorian”) and Mike Gunton (“Planet Earth II”) have teamed up with Apple TV+ to make “Prehistoric Planet,” a nature docuseries that explores precisely that....