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The Major Attack On Titan Cameo Only Hardcore Manga Fans Noticed Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/March 3, 2022 10:09 am EST “Attack on Titan” is not the first show that comes to mind when you think of Easter egg hunting or cameo catching. This is mostly due to the fact that the show is set in an alternate fantasy world, one that happens to feature giant, man-eating monsters. Sure, there are cities and technology that resemble our own, but the show is far enough removed from clear-cut parallels to avoid having to add historical figures or obvious connections to our reality....

Thor: Love And Thunder Teaser: Pay Attention, Thor’s Making A Speech Marvel Studios By Eric Vespe/June 20, 2022 10:16 pm EST Well, well, well. We’re only a couple of short weeks away from the release of Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” so of course the slow drip of footage to get all of us MCU nerds pumped up is going strong. This fine evening we have the release of a new mini-trailer with more glimpses of what’s in store for our favorite God of Thunder this time out....

Tony Scott Needed A New Perspective To Capture Top Gun’s Breakneck Speeds Paramount Pictures By Travis Yates/May 23, 2022 2:40 pm EST “Top Gun” arrived in theaters in May of 1986 with a sonic boom, offering audiences a scintillating and breathtaking look at likfe as a fighter pilot. One of the things that inspired the movie was the aerial photography discussed in a California Magazine article about the Navy’s Top Gun fighter pilot training program....

What Exactly Makes A Sam Raimi Movie A Sam Raimi Movie Rosebud Releasing Corporation By Devin Meenan/May 17, 2022 2:03 pm EST The king has returned! (Hail to the king, baby). After a nine-year hiatus from directing feature films, Sam Raimi returned to directing with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and delivered what might be the best-directed movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while reminding us what we’d been missing during his sabbatical....

Why Edward Norton Compared His Primal Fear Audition To The Nirvana Demo Tapes Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 12, 2022 10:59 am EST Gregory Hoblit’s 1996 legal thriller “Primal Fear” starred Richard Gere as a hotshot defense attorney who takes high-profile cases just so he can get his clients off on technicalities. He eagerly takes a salacious case involving a mild-mannered young man named Aaron (Edward Norton), who has been arrested for the murder of a local archbishop....

Why Has Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Never Been The Star Of His Own Movie? Sony Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 7, 2022 10:14 am EST As “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continues its theatrical rollout worldwide, more audiences are getting to experience the movie, which is really the eighth leg in the live-action Spider-Man film series, as opposed to just a continuation of Tom Holland’s Spidey adventures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In “No Way Home,” Holland, as Peter Parker, has to deal with a sudden influx of “multiversal trespassers,” supervillains from Sony movies past who are now encroaching on his MCU territory....

Year Of The Vampire: Dracula Dead And Loving It Doesn’t Suck Sony Pictures By Sarah Milner/April 30, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) Comedy legend Mel Brooks ended his career on low note, with his final film “Dracula Dead and Loving It” bombing at the box office in 1995 and going down as one of his worst-rated films....

Yellowjackets Season 2 Begins Filming Late Summer For A ‘Winter Storyline’ Showtime By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 3, 2022 11:53 am EST “Yellowjackets” positioned a terrifying survival horror mystery at its core, while balancing the central characters and their transitions into their adult counterparts with ease. Having been renewed for a second season, the next installment of “Yellowjackets” will begin filming “late summer,” and it will be “revisiting the winter storyline” (via Variety)....

10 Essential Bob’s Burgers Episodes You Have To Watch Before The Movie 20th Century Studios By BJ Colangelo/May 18, 2022 1:00 pm EST For over a decade, the animated series “Bob’s Burgers” has stolen the hearts of viewers all across the world, with Bob (H. Jon Benjamin), Linda (John Roberts), Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Louise Belcher (Kristen Schaal) becoming pop culture icons. As the 12th season chugs on and the team preps for the upcoming 13th, fans won’t have to wait long to reunite with their favorite burger flipping family, as “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” is heading to theaters faster than Speedo Guy on his roller skates....

What this all means Netflix What might all this mean for the Academy Awards? It’s not exactly cut and dry. The win for “CODA” marks a major upset, launching the title front and center in the Best Picture discussion. The next few weeks will see other guilds weighing in and putting Sunday night’s wins into perspective. It’ll be especially interesting to see how everything aligns with the Producers Guild Awards, which employs a preferential ballot system just like the Oscars....

5 Brilliant Sidney Poitier Movies And Where You Can Watch Them United Artists By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 7, 2022 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Activist, trailblazer, and acting icon Sidney Poitier has died, and what better way to honor his legacy than by watching some of his best performances? The Bahamian actor performed in dozens of movies, a handful of television shows, and he was even nominated for a Tony award for his work in theatre....

Cinemark Is Testing A Variable Pricing Model For Movie Tickets Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Feb. 25, 2022 1:13 pm EST It’s become crystal clear that the state of moviegoing must adapt or die in the pandemic era. Streaming became the dominant species in the movie business and theaters are looking for ways to evolve so that the box office can continue to be a viable part of the industry moving forward....

Eating Maggots In Rescue Dawn Was A Breeze For Christian Bale MGM Distribution Co. By Witney Seibold/June 21, 2022 4:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1997, Werner Herzog’s made a documentary film called “Little Dieter Needs to Fly.” The film told the true story of Dieter Dengler, a German soldier (only a few years Herzog’s senior), who emigrated to the United States, joined the Air Force, and who was shot down over the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War....

Every Easter Egg Carved Into That Wall In Obi-Wan Kenobi Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/June 15, 2022 6:13 pm EST Episode 5 of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is a powerful one, and if you haven’t watched it yet, I implore you to do so before you read further. There are spoilers ahead. This week, Obi-Wan, Leia, and the gang end up on Jabiim, the safehouse planet for the Path, the road that secrets away Jedi and Force sensitive people out of the reach of the Empire....

A very twisty spy game Megabox Plus M Lee does a commendable job as a first-time feature director, with a confinement sense of pace and framing that keeps “Hunt” thrilling and engaging despite its 131-minute runtime. Just when the film begins to slow down, a new twist is introduced, or a new character, or an entirely new storyline, and all of them get a proper pay-off before being replaced by new twists, characters, and storylines....

Jon Stewart’s Role In The First Wives Club Was Left On The Cutting Room Floor Paramount Pictures By Christian Gainey/April 13, 2022 8:46 am EST Hugh Wilson’s 1996 film, “The First Wives Club,” is a hysterical comedy about three middle-aged women who partner up to seek revenge on their ex-husbands after being dumped for younger women. Gentle Annie (Diane Keaton), superficial Elise (Goldie Hawn), and brazen Brenda (Bette Midler) make up the vengeful trio, and their differing personalities clash in hilarious ways that produce comedy gold....

No one’s ever really gone? Lucasfilm As for that entire trilogy of movies meant to be created by Rian Johnson, an ambitious production that has been repeatedly acknowledged throughout many different occasions on the record? Well, Kathleen Kennedy is at least able to offer up some more specifics there … though her response is equally as disappointing. Described by Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican as “back-burnered,” Kennedy offered up a very practical reason as to why:...

Michelle Yeoh Originally Wanted Daniels To Cut The ‘Hot Dog Hands’ Scene In Everything Everywhere All At Once A24 By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 15, 2022 10:48 am EST 2021 seems to be the year for bonkers cinematic multiverse hopping, with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)” being scheduled for release this year. Apart from these superhero shenanigans, there’s Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which offers a delightfully berserk multiverse with Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn at the center....

Moon Knight Trailer Preview Shows Marc Spector Getting In Touch With His Inner Chaos Marvel By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 15, 2022 12:07 pm EST The Marvel Studios TV shows on Disney+ are really starting to take off, giving creatives a chance to explore some of the comic book characters in longer storytelling formats. After the Christmas fun of “Hawkeye,” we’re set to dive into something much darker with Oscar Isaac in “Moon Knight....

Mr. Malcolm’s List Actor Zawe Ashton Taps Into The Feminine Mystique [Interview] Bleecker Street By Lyvie Scott/June 30, 2022 6:27 pm EST After watching her turn as the cunning Julia Thistlewaite in “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” one might expect Zawe Ashton to be similarly intimidating. She’s the kind of scene-stealing performer whose reputation definitely precedes her: Ashton’s career spans decades, following the actor-writer-filmmaker from the stage to the screen and back again....