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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Just Referenced A Famous Star Trek: The Next Generation Two-Parter Paramount By Witney Seibold/July 7, 2022 9:00 am EST This article contains major spoilers for the season finale of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has, until the season finale, titled “A Quality of Mercy,” handled its fan service quite gently. Seeing as the show is stocked with recognizable characters and settings (Spock, Pike, Number One, Uhura, Dr....

Thanos Wasn’t Supposed To Be The Big Bad Of The MCU Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/April 19, 2022 1:34 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is an unprecedented and still unmatched production, with multiple storylines and characters that cross over then diverge, culminating in the cultural and box office juggernauts that were “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.” The two-part movie not only brought together every character in the franchise up to that point, but it gave us the biggest adversary the MCU has introduced so far....

The 15 Best Historical Romance Movies Ranked Warner Bros. By Liam Gaughan/Feb. 24, 2022 4:45 pm EST Audiences can tell whether or not a relationship feels authentic. The chemistry between the stars must feel realistic, and the viewer should believe that a romance is either destined to succeed or doomed to fail. However, there’s more to a great romance movie than the performances. Even if a film has compelling characters, there also has to be a story that forces them to interact....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Hulu In March 2022 DEG By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 22, 2022 5:54 pm EST March is almost upon us. The month that’s long been described as going “in like a lion, out like a lamb” always feels like one of the longest of the year, as the harshest bits of winter in the northern hemisphere finally give way to the beginnings of spring. On Hulu, the month will go out a bit worse than it started, because plenty of good movies are about to leave the streamer in anticipation of spring and summer hits....

Embiggen and shapeshift Marvel Comics Kamala’s primary power in the comics is that she can shapeshift and transform her body by enlarging or elongating her limbs. This process, known as Embiggening, is markedly absent from the show, as the origin or source of her powers has been completely altered in the adaptation. In the comics, Black Bolt of the Inhumans (who makes an appearance as an Earth-838 variant in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”) releases the mutagenic Terrigen Mist into Earth’s atmosphere....

The Classic Stephen King Novel That Plays A Role In Stranger Things Season 4 Netflix By Eric Vespe/July 1, 2022 9:04 pm EST Stephen King has been deeply ingrained in “Stranger Things” from the very beginning. Actually, strike that. King has been a part of “Stranger Things” even before “Stranger Things” was “Stranger Things.” Bear with me, this will make sense in a second. “Stranger Things” was conceived directly in response to Matt and Ross Duffer getting shut out of a chance at making a movie based on Stephen King’s “It....

The Matrix Resurrections Star Jessica Henwick Helps Bring The Matrix Back To Life [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Dec. 24, 2021 1:14 pm EST Audiences couldn’t have asked for a much cooler tour guide through The Matrix than Bugs. The new hero, played by actress Jessica Henwick, helps ease viewers back into the Wachowskis’ world with a bang in “The Matrix Resurrections.” Bugs is, as Henwick says, the audience’s eyes, and the performer has a lot of heavy lifting to do, not only with the action, explaining the how and the why of this new movie, but she makes it all play cool and smooth....

The Peacemaker Finale Set A New Record For HBO Max HBO Max By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 18, 2022 9:38 pm EST “Peacemaker” has concluded its first season in style: as the #1 HBO Max series in terms of single-day viewership. The series, created by James Gunn, has continued to build up its audience from week to week since its debut on January 13, 2022. Viewership for the season finale, which hit the streamer on February 16, 2022, was up 23% compared to the penultimate episode, released the previous Thursday....

This Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Scene Was Actually Filmed In A Parking Lot New Line Cinema By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 4, 2022 10:47 am EST In his adaptation of “The Lord Of The Rings,” filmmaker Peter Jackson used several real-life locations to bring Middle-earth to life. From Mordor to Hobbiton, and the entrance to the realm of Lothlórien, Jackson and the cast filmed at over 150 locations in New Zealand to depict the unending beauty of Middle-earth....

We Need To Talk About Cosby Director W. Kamau Bell Talks Separating Art From The Artist [Interview] Showtime By Ben Pearson/Jan. 26, 2022 10:01 am EST If you subscribed to Showtime to see what all the “Yellowjackets” buzz was about, make sure you hang onto that subscription. The premium channel is about to be the home of “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” a four-part documentary series from comedian and director W....

Why Marisa Tomei Thanks Robert Downey Jr For Her Spider-Man Role Sony Pictures / Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 1, 2022 10:07 am EST When Marisa Tomei was cast as Peter Parker’s Aunt May in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans complained. They had grown accustomed to seeing Aunt May as a matronly woman — a sweet, white-haired older woman who was keen on cooking and was unaware of her nephew’s superhero identity....

Why Matt Reeves Was ‘Devastated’ When Robert Pattinson Joined Tenet Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/March 4, 2022 5:16 pm EST If you’ve kept up with Robert Pattinson’s career post-“Twilight,” then you know he’s mostly stayed away from acting in any movie that could be even remotely considered “mainstream.” Be it David Michôd’s “The Rover,” David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars,” the Safdie Brothers’ “Good Time,” Claire Denis’ “High Life,” or Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” R-Patz has preferred to keep it weird, in terms of both the films he makes and his performances therein....

12 Best Running Scenes In Movies For Global Running Day Paramount Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 2, 2022 1:00 pm EST June 1, 2022 was Global Running Day. As someone who runs six days a week, has completed five marathons, and talks about running ad nauseum, I wanted to celebrate by talking about it more. If you have a runner in your life, you know that this is a byproduct of choosing this form of exercise....

A Hero Review: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In The Complex New Film From Asghar Farhadi By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 5, 2022 1:34 pm EST Rahim seems to always have a smile on his face. Wherever he goes, he greets people warmly, and they react the same. We like him almost immediately, and we feel sorry for him when we learn he’s in prison. Heavy debts have landed him there, and as he explains to seemingly anyone who might listen, it’s not really his fault that he’s in debt: He and a business partner borrowed money and the partner ran off with it all, leaving Rahim to suffer the consequences....

All The People Who Almost Starred In Mad Max: Fury Road, Ranked From Weirdest To Potentially Awesome Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 11, 2022 12:00 pm EST “Mad Max: Fury Road” is one of the most heart-pounding, high-adrenaline movies ever made, and its performers have to do a lot of communicating with very little dialogue. That requires a special kind of talent, and someone who’s willing to get down and dirty in the desert in order to bring this post-apocalyptic masterpiece to life....

American Psycho Had To Make Some Cuts To Dodge The Dreaded NC-17 Rating Lionsgate Films By Natalia Keogan/April 18, 2022 2:26 pm EST 22 years after its U.S. release, Mary Harron’s “American Psycho” still has a tremendous amount of blunt-force bite. Two decades haven’t dulled the film’s horrifying impact, particularly because the central character of Patrick Bateman (played by Christian Bale in a career-defining performance) feels so steeped in the very real confines of American masculinity....

An Intimate Conversation With The Fraggles From Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ryan Scott/Jan. 21, 2022 4:48 pm EST Jim Henson truly thrived in the 1980s, and one of the legendary artist’s most beloved creations from that era is undoubtedly “Fraggle Rock.” The musical Muppets series about silly little creatures who live in a series of complex societies out of view of humans is unique within the Henson library....

Archive 81 Review: Analog Horrors Haunt Netflix’s Uneven New Supernatural Series Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 11, 2022 9:00 am EST Analog horror has slowly become a neat little sub-genre; tales of terrors that usually spring forth via some antiquated, outdated, pre-digital tech. Usually, this old tech is cursed in some way — think of the VHS tape that causes certain doom in “The Ring.” Or the device in use accidentally summons the forces of darkness — à la the reel-to-reel tape recorder that plays back dark incantations in “The Evil Dead....

More like Benedict Cow-berbatch (sorry) Netflix Actor, Oscar-nominee, and now real-life rancher. Benedict Cumberbatch can at least hold onto the fact that if he doesn’t ultimately win gold for Best Actor after her performance in “The Power of the Dog,” his work on the film at least helped him perform this one good deed. Later on in the episode, Cumberbatch explains to host Graham Norton that it was actually at writer/director Jane Campion’s urging that he stay fully in-character during production of the film....

Lights and mirrors Getting the glint to appear in a replicant’s eye, as it does at one point with Rachael (Sean Young) while she is smoking a cigarette in “Blade Runner,” involved angling a small light into a mirror off-camera. Scott explained: “You have a sheet of glass which is half mirror, and the mirror is mounted on the camera in front of the lens at a 45-degree angle. And on one side, just behind the camera, is what in those days we’d call a pup, a very small light which is on a dimmer....