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Let’s Talk About The Book Of Boba Fett Finale’s Mid-Credits Scene Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Feb. 9, 2022 1:13 pm EST That’s a wrap on “The Book of Boba Fett!” The latest live-action “Star Wars” show has reached its conclusion on Disney+ with Chapter 7 now available to stream. As expected, it left much to discuss and, as has become a big franchise tradition these days, there was a little something extra during the credits — something that answered a major question lingering on the minds of fans following the show’s penultimate episode....

Meryl Streep’s Julie & Julia Character Isn’t Quite Who She Seems Columbia Pictures By Shania Russell/April 28, 2022 4:56 pm EST Julia Child has been a source of wonder and joy ever since she rose to fame in the 1960s, becoming the first celebrity chef with her personality-forward cooking show, ‘The French Chef." Just like that, she was invited into people’s homes through their screens, changing the way people cooked in their own kitchens by introducing Americans to French cuisine....

Nope Trailer: A New Terror From Jordan Peele Universal Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 13, 2022 4:40 am EST Jordan Peele is back with “Nope,” his latest mysterious project. It’s Peele’s third feature, following the excellent one-two punch of “Get Out” and “Us.” Featuring a cast that includes Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Barbie Ferreira, Brandon Perea, and Michael Wincott, “Nope” has remained shrouded in secrecy. In fact, for a while there, the only thing we really had to go on was a vague but admittedly cool poster that dropped seemingly out of nowhere last year....

Peter Dinklage Defends Game Of Thrones Finale: ‘Move On’ HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 27, 2021 11:14 am EST Before anyone even thinks of coming after Peter Dinklage for this, remember that this is simply what his character on “Game of Thrones” does: he drinks, and he knows things. In this case, that knowledge extends to diagnosing the hang-ups over the controversial finale that fans are still preoccupied with over two years later....

Prey Will Give Viewers The Option To Watch The Film In The Comanche Language Hulu By BJ Colangelo/June 7, 2022 10:05 am EST It’s hard to overestimate how popular the “Predator” series is, which means Dan Trachtenberg (“10 Cloverfield Lane,” “Black Mirror,” “The Boys”) had his work cut out for him when tackling the highly-anticipated “Predator” prequel, “Prey.” The film takes place 300 years ago on the land of the Comanche Nation and follows Naru, an impressive warrior who does all she can to protect her tribe against the threat of the alien predator....

That’s a lot of money Netflix “Squid Game: The Challenge” will be a 10-episode competition series co-produced by Studio Lambert (“The Circle”) and The Garden (“24 Hours in A&E”), part of ITV Studios, and it will be filmed in the UK. Stephen Lambert, Tim Harcourt, and Toni Ireland from Studio Lambert and John Hay, Nicola Hill, and Nicola Brown from The Garden will serve as executive producers. The original hit series from Hwang Dong-hyuk was greenlit for a second season on June 12, 2022, with an expected return in late 2023 or early 2024....

Robert Eggers Was Concerned The Witch Could Traumatize Its Cast A24 By Miyako Pleines/April 15, 2022 4:16 pm EST In 2015, Robert Eggers blew us all away with his directorial debut, “The Witch” (or “The VVitch,” if you’re fancy). Set in a puritanical New England village, a family is banished from their colony and forced to start a new life for themselves alone in the wilderness. It is the 1600s and everyone is suspicious of anyone who goes against dominant beliefs....

Saturday Night Live Returns With West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose Set To Host Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 7, 2022 1:07 pm EST The show must go on. Just 28 days after airing its Omicron-impacted mid-season finale, “Saturday Night Live” is set to return with the first new episode of the year. The news was posted on the long-running live show’s official Twitter page, along with an announcement about the host and musical guest....

Shining Girls Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Hunts An Impossible Killer In This Apple TV+ Thriller Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 4, 2022 10:40 pm EST Apple TV+ has released the trailer for the eight-episode series “Shining Girls.” If you, like me, have yet to read the critically-acclaimed book that this is based on, you can be forgiven for not quite understanding it. I watched it several times, and though I was intrigued, I couldn’t figure it out....

So Wait, Does The MCU’s Kingpin Have Superpowers? Marvel By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 22, 2021 1:48 pm EST In the finale of the Disney+ series “Hawkeye,” Marvel fans were finally treated to seeing Vincent D’Onofrio back in the role of the Kingpin, Wilson Fisk. Sure, we saw him in a teeny, grainy cellphone video last week, but that was only a tiny taste of all of the broad-shouldered goodness delivered in the finale....

Superhero Bits: New Ms. Marvel Poster, Wonder Woman 3 Update & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/April 19, 2022 5:08 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.)...

The ‘Gruesome’ Version Of Event Horizon We’ll Sadly Never Get To See Paramount Pictures By Mike Williams/April 1, 2022 8:50 am EST “Event Horizon” is a bonafide cult classic now. The science-fiction horror extravaganza wasn’t a winner at the box office, making only $42 million on a $60 million budget. But something about it has stuck with audiences, and it even taught them a tiny bit of Latin. Directed by Paul W....

The Breaking Bad Reference You Missed In Better Call Saul’s Theme Song AMC By Lindsay Duke/Jan. 7, 2022 11:07 am EST Music has always been important in the “Breaking Bad” universe. Several pivotal scenes are hard to divorce from the soundtrack that played underneath them. There’s the moment Jesse navigates both an emotional breakdown and a go-kart track to the tune of Fever Ray’s “If I Had a Heart.” The haunting tune “Goodbye” by Apparat plays as Gus Fring takes his final meeting at the end of fourth season of “Breaking Bad....

The Cast Of Barbie Kicked Off Filming With A Sleepover, Because Of Course They Did Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/July 5, 2022 1:04 pm EST Whatever Greta Gerwig’s got cooking in the (presumably hot pink) oven with “Barbie,” it’s going to be hard-pressed to compete with the wild set images and videos that’ve leaked during filming. The first official photos for the movie have been equally magnificent, not least of all the image of Ryan Gosling as the himbo Ken to Margot Robbie’s Barbie, complete with white-blonde hair that makes him look like an alternate universe version of Gosling’s somber stuntman Luke Glanton from “The Place Beyond the Pines....

The Dark Knight Was Christopher Nolan’s Bond Film Warner Bros. By Lyvie Scott/Feb. 15, 2022 12:08 pm EST It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” Trilogy left a lasting mark on modern cinema as we know it. “Batman Begins” (and, more notably, “The Dark Knight”) was one of the first films to launch the now-infamous trend of a gritty reboot, and signaled a major shift from the campy action of the early aughts to the darker fare of the post-9/11 landscape....

The Art of the Celeb Super Bowl Commercial The commercial is a cute attempt at a quick story, which a lot of Super Bowl commercials tend to do. After all, the intention is not only to sell whatever product you’re pedaling. The main objective for these brands is to stand out and be remembered as a highlight of the night, and using celebrity cameos are a great way to make that happen....

Why Robert Pattinson Was Scared While Working On David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis Alfama Films By Christian Gainey/April 22, 2022 3:21 pm EST “Cosmopolis” is an odd movie. Most of the film is spent in 28-year-old Wall Street wizard Eric Packer’s (Robert Pattinson) stretch limousine on his way to an unnecessary haircut. As he sits in bumper-to-bumper traffic, he is losing millions of dollars on the stock market, but he doesn’t seem to care....

Coco Found Its Emotional Core In A British Coming Of Age Classic Pixar By Sandy Schaefer/June 30, 2022 12:00 pm EST At its heart, Pixar’s “Coco” is a story about a young person whose passion for an art form puts them at odds with their family. It’s an all too common tale that’s been told again and again in different parts of the world throughout history and will continue to be told long into the future....

Don’t Look Up Contains An Intentional Editing Mistake Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 30, 2021 10:43 am EST Writer-director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” now streaming on Netflix, has earned mixed-to-negative reviews, with our own Chris Evangelista calling it “a smug, shrill disaster movie satire.” Despite its star-studded cast, led by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, the knives and pitchforks — and plastic social media sporks — are out for this film....

Halo Episode 8: Allegiances Are Forged And Shattered As Halo Finally Hits Its Stride Paramount+ By Jeremy Mathai/May 12, 2022 3:00 am EST Here’s a question I’ve kept in mind throughout every episode of “Halo” so far: how long are audiences expected to stick it out with a new series, wallowing through uneven results in the early going while waiting for the story to become appointment television? In an ideal world, most shows would be as immediately arresting as “Breaking Bad” or “Lost,” dropping viewers headfirst into an unfamiliar story and never letting up, all but daring us to even think about losing interest....