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Tales Of The Walking Dead Teaser: Not Everyone Is Interested In Survival AMC By BJ Colangelo/April 12, 2022 3:59 pm EST With “The Walking Dead” coming to a close after 11 seasons, the mega-popular zombie franchise is continuing to expand its universe with another spinoff series. This time, in the form of the six-part episodic anthology, “Tales of the Walking Dead.” The series will explore six different stories set around the apocalypse, with new characters as well as some series favorites....

The 15 Best TV Shows Of 2021 Ranked HBO By Leah Marilla Thomas/Dec. 15, 2021 4:00 pm EST After a year of Zoom episodes, pandemic-shortened seasons, and a number of dry spells, television came roaring back to life in 2021. While TV discourse in 2020 was mostly just different people in your life getting around to binging “Tiger King” and “The Queen’s Gambit,” it seemed as if each month in 2021 brought a show that you couldn’t miss because the conversation surrounding it was just too juicy....

Erin — You’re Next Lionsgate I’ve always thought of Erin (Sharni Sinson) from Adam Wingard’s “You’re Next” as a natural extension of “Scream’s” Sidney Prescott. While Sidney endures the death of her mother and many of her friends to rise triumphant, Erin learns how to survive by spending her childhood on a survivalist compound. The comparisons practically write themselves. What sets Erin apart from (but on an equal footing with) Sidney is her ingenuity in the face of catastrophe....

The Book Of Boba Fett Promo Promises To Fill In The Blanks After Return Of The Jedi Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 22, 2021 11:39 am EST When Boba Fett made his long-awaited return in “The Mandalorian” season 2, it was an exciting if confusing development, given that he was last seen being munched down on by the Sarlacc in “Return of the Jedi.” The old “Star Wars” Expanded Universe, aka Star Wars Legends, provided an explanation for Boba’s miraculous escape from the Great Pit of Carkoon and explored what he got up in the years that came after, but those stories were erased from the official canon after Disney finalized its purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012....

The Comic Book Run You Need To Read Before Thor: Love And Thunder Marvel Comics By Rafael Motamayor/April 21, 2022 1:17 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe never really does direct adaptations. Though there are scenes that feel straight out of the comics, everything from “Civil War,” to “Infinity War” to “Thor: Ragnarok” are very, very loose adaptations of the comic storylines that inspired them. This brings us to the new trailer for “Thor: Love and Thunder....

Turning Red Ending Explained: Growing Up But Not Growing Apart Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 11, 2022 11:00 am EST Director Domee Shi really made something special with the latest Pixar release, “Turning Red.” Meilin “Mei” Lee (Rosalie Chiang) is your typical 13-year-old girl — she loves stickers, playing the flute, hanging with her best friends, eyeballing the cute clerk at the convenience store, and singing along to the boy band 4*Town....

Tyson’s Run: Release Date, Cast, And More Collide Media Group By Ryan Scott/Jan. 18, 2022 11:50 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) In an age of utter uncertainty when it comes to the future of film, you can bet that the “feel-good” movie is going to find a way to remain a staple of cinema, one way or another....

Why Jet Li Wanted Fearless To Be His Last Martial Arts Movie China Film Group By Steven Ward/April 29, 2022 2:10 pm EST As a legendary Wushu champion and actor, Jet Li has played a notable number of Chinese martial arts and folk heroes. Some of his most well-known portrayals include Master Wong Fei Hung in the “Once Upon a Time in China” films and his “Fong Sai Yuk” series. When Li finally broke into the international scene with an appearance as the villain in “Lethal Weapon 4,” an entirely new style of action films opened to the actor....

Yvette Nicole Brown Said Working On Community Was A Lot Like College NBC By Danielle Ryan/May 13, 2022 5:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the best things about college is the opportunity to explore and experiment with your identity. Whether you’re fresh out of high school or going back to school well into adulthood, college is a place where people figure themselves out and learn more than just advanced algebra and the perils of forgetting to wear shower shoes in the dorms....

Broker Review: Kore-Eda Returns With Another Moving Drama About Found Families [Cannes] CJ ENM By Rafael Motamayor/May 31, 2022 4:00 pm EST Hirokazu Kore-eda makes his return to filmmaking after three years with “Broker,” a film that continues his long tradition of movies about found families in all shapes and sizes learning how to live rather than just survive. This is a road-trip drama that is part “Little Miss Sunshine,” part “Raising Arizona,” while being inherently a Kore-eda joint, complete with yet another devastating finale....

Could The Book Of Boba Fett Feature The Return Of Ewoks? Disney+ By Jenna Busch/Jan. 21, 2022 3:53 pm EST If you know “Star Wars” at all, you’re familiar with the desert planet of Tatooine. It’s hot and dry and full of sand. There are many creatures there, some of them fuzzy like Banthas. What there are not, however, are Ewoks. At least none that we’ve seen so far. Perhaps that will change, according to a comment from “The Book of Boba Fett” star Temuera Morrison....

The cast of mortals and demons Netflix At its most poignant, the show focuses on the social grapplings within kids like Barney and Norma. Barney has compunctions about leaving his family (more on that) while he invests in the joy of making a new start and forging a found family. Though psyched to work in the theme park and loaded with ramble-worthy encyclopedic trivia of Pauline Phoenix’s filmography, Norma confronts social situations outside of her comfort zone (done with honesty to the neurodivergent experience) — and some reckoning the deeper she gets into the mystery....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Costume Designer On Experimentation And Her Influences [Interview] A24 By Jack Giroux/April 8, 2022 2:00 pm EST Shirley Kurata’s style tells a story. Whether it’s on film, on a runway, or a television show, the costume designer and stylist’s work gives a sense of history and the person behind the clothes. In the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Kurata helps establish universes, the film’s punk rock hero, and in one homage to “In the Mood for Love,” feelings of love and loss....

How Colin Trevorrow Recruited The Original Cast For Jurassic World Dominion Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/April 11, 2022 2:37 pm EST Can you remember a time when multiplexes across the world could sustain movies of all (genre) shapes and (budget) sizes? When smaller independent movies served as counter-programming to giant blockbuster behemoths, allowing both extremes (and everything in-between!) to flourish simultaneously? If you can (as I do), that just might make you — dare I say it — a dinosaur of sorts....

Very risky business Prime Video The actors playing Hughie (Jack Quaid), M.M. (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon), Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and Butcher were all on the speedboat, with Karl Urban doing the actual piloting. “Jack had it the worst ‘cause he was on the nose and they actually had to give him something to hold on to because he’s just holding on for dear life,” VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet said. “In hindsight, it was a little risky, but I think Karl was having the time of his life....

Iranian Court Finds Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi Guilty Of Plagiarism For A Hero The original story continues below. “We firmly believe that the court will dismiss Ms. Masihzadeh, who cannot claim ownership on matters in the public domain given that the prisoner’s story has been disclosed in both press articles and TV reports years before Mrs. Masihzadeh’s documentary was published … Various experts in Iran have already published articles analyzing this case and concluding in favor of Asghar … I think it is important to emphasize here that A Hero, like Asghar Farhadi’s other films, features complex situations where the lives of the characters are built upon one another … The story of this former prisoner finding gold in the street and giving it back to its owner is only the starting point of the plot of A Hero....

James Gunn Says Marvel And DC Don’t Push A Master Plan Or Story Mandates For Their Movies Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 13, 2022 10:24 am EST It’s not hard to find all sorts of opinions from fans about how Marvel or DC run their movies. One quick trip through social media and you’ll immediately be besieged with all sorts of grand proclamations and sweeping generalizations about how these major studios supposedly operate behind the scenes....

Lightyear Early Buzz: Does The Pixar Spin-Off Go To Infinity And Beyond? Pixar Animation By Shania Russell/June 9, 2022 11:53 am EST Buzz Lightyear has gone head-to-head with a cotton cowboy, escaped imprisonment in a cardboard box, and even survived the horrors of an incinerator but only now, nearly three decades after his first appearance, is he going on his most epic journey yet: into space! There’s just one difference — the Buzz we see in Pixar’s upcoming “Lightyear” isn’t the same action figure who befriended Woody....

Matt Damon Didn’t Need To Act For The Martian’s Emotional Climax By Travis Yates/June 30, 2022 10:22 pm EST “The Martian” might be best known as a sci-fi film, but at its core, it’s an exploration of loneliness and the will to live. The 2015 Ridley Scott film is based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir and stars Matt Damon as Mark Watney, a scientist mistakenly left on Mars during a 2035 mission....

Movies To Watch If You Loved Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Renaissance Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 8, 2022 9:24 pm EST It’s that time again. You’ve just seen the big, bold blockbuster of the month, and you’re hankering for more movies just like it. It happens to the best of us! Instead of turning to an algorithm that’ll just recommend another Marvel movie you’ve already seen, how about checking out something totally new to you?...