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How Halloween Became The Unofficial Sequel To Black Christmas Warner Bros. By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 17, 2021 11:12 am EST You might think of “Halloween” as the patriarch of the slasher film sub-genre, but John Carpenter’s iconic horror movie has a formidable older sister. Before Michael Meyers was stalking the streets of Haddonfield, there was a psycho prowling a college campus, killing off sorority sisters one by one. “Black Christmas” might not always get its due as one of the first slashers, but its influence can be felt everywhere because it informed one of the most important horror films ever made....

Killing Eve Season 4 First Look: The Final Season Is All About Eve (And Villanelle) BBC America By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 17, 2021 10:35 am EST “Killing Eve” may be coming to an end (YES, I HAVE CRIED ABOUT IT!), but after a nearly two year wait from the end of season 3, the fourth and final season is finally on the horizon. The creators have released a short teaser and it looks like season 4 is going to burn it all down, especially Villanelle’s pink Molly Goddard dress from season 1....

Let’s Revisit Gremlins 2’s Wonderfully Strange Cameos Comedy Central By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 9, 2022 3:18 pm EST Joe Dante’s “Gremlins” is one of the greatest holiday horror films in history and is partially responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating. “Gremlins 2: A New Batch” on the other hand, is a chaotic nightmare of fun and absurdity with cartoon-comedy, slapstick violence, and parodies of “Rambo,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Marathon Man,” “Of Mice and Men,” Donald Trump, and even “Gremlins” itself....

New Sandman Image Reveals Morpheus In All His Dreamy Glory Netflix By Jenna Busch/Feb. 16, 2022 4:03 pm EST Today we have a new look at the long-anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” on Netflix from Empire. The issue, which is focused on “Moon Knight,” will go on sale Thursday, February 17, 2022, and you can pre-order it right now. Gaiman’s comic series ran from 1989 to 1996, and though there have been several attempts to adapt it before, it has taken all this time for us to finally see it on a screen....

Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’ Is A Streaming Hit Now Thanks To The Batman Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/March 16, 2022 11:35 am EST Maybe this will help put a smile on the face of our favorite sadboi goth? On second thought, maybe not … but that feels fitting, somehow. Despite some typical examples of consternation among fans about an unexpected casting choice (“The ‘Twilight’ guy?” as most people, my own mom included, likely stated at one point or another), Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” has certainly lived up to expectations and done exactly what you’d expect a “Batman” movie to do at the box office....

Don’t You Want Nobody to Love? Universal Pictures “Nobody” director Ilya Naishuller confirmed last summer that a sequel script was in development, though as we previously reported, it had not been greenlit yet. At the time, Naishuller said, “There’s plenty of stories that can be told in this world, with the character Hutch. I know that [writer Kolstad] has begun work on the sequel.” He also suggested that the sequel would give Connie Nielsen more to do than just play Hutch’s wife....

Russell Crowe Joins Kraven the Hunter Marvel Comics Let’s get weird, people. Though many comic fans would argue that a “Kraven the Hunter” film can’t really work when divorced from, you know, Spider-Man himself, Sony is clearly pulling out all the stops to make this film as much of a hit as “Venom.” Russell Crowe’s casting only makes that ambition even clearer, although the THR report doesn’t include any story details or information on just who Crowe may be portraying in the film....

Safety Came Second To Special Effects In The Early Days Of Smallville The CW By Jamie Gerber/May 28, 2022 11:47 am EST It can be difficult to grasp just how influential “Smallville” was back in 2001. In 2022, a year when all screens big and small are dominated by superheroes, it’s strange to imagine a time when a Superman prequel show was anything but a safe bet. Somewhat miraculously, “Smallville” ran for a whopping 10 seasons, beginning its run on The WB and wrapping up on The CW in 2011....

Welcome to Tromaville Troma Entertainment Known for its over-the-top schlock, gore, and farce, Gunn found his time working at the micro-budget film production company Troma Entertainment to be far more worthwhile than earning an MFA from Columbia University. While making $400 a week, Gunn was given an on-hands crash course on the practicality of filmmaking. Gunn may have written the script for the trashy horror comedy “Tromeo and Juliet,” but Gunn says working on that film taught him how to write screenplays, produce films, scout locations, direct actors, distribute films, and create his own poster art....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In July 2022 Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/June 22, 2022 3:47 pm EST Another month arriving means the further thinning of the herd of catalog titles on Netflix. The economically hurting company needs to make way for the countless movies and television shows they have produced to join the service during the month of July, and sadly, a lot of wonderful works not produced by the company need to get the boot, presumably to be put on a more vertically integrated service at a later date....

The Book Of Boba Fett Features A Mandalorian Character Cameo You Probably Missed Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 12, 2022 4:02 pm EST Tatooine built a reputation as a crime-ridden, no-name wasteland of a planet located in the Outer Rim of the galaxy, light-years away from anything interesting. Well, that’s what “Star Wars” wants us to think, anyways. The reality, however, is that the desert world is home to two of the most powerful Jedi Knights to ever live (one of whom, you may remember, went on to become one of the most powerful Sith lords), a frequent stop for one of the most famous rogues/smugglers/Rebel leaders, the adopted home of yet another Jedi Knight in his years of exile, and the current base of operations for a certain bounty hunter-turned-crime lord....

The Clone Wars Lucasfilm The episode is framed around a flashback of Anakin and Obi-Wan in an epic sparring match on Coruscant. There’s no indication whether this happens just prior to the events of “Attack of the Clones” or just after, but as Anakin is elevated to the rank of Jedi Knight in the weeks after the events of that film, it could be anywhere in that range. In “Attack of the Clones,” Mace Windu mentions that Anakin and Obi-Wan have just returned from a border dispute on Ansion, so it could very well be in the days after their return and before their assignment to protect Senator Amidala....

The Independence Day Easter Egg In The X-Files Movie Explained By Witney Seibold/Jan. 21, 2022 11:39 am EST It’s curious that “The X-Files” has retained any level of popularity as late as 2022, as few pieces of pop media are more deeply rooted in the ethos of the 1990s. “The X-Files,” which debuted in September of 1993, took place in an America living through the end of the Cold War and the collapse of “worldwide Communism” as a go-to boogeyman for the U....

The Morning Watch: Designing The Dune Sandworm, Best Guest Stars In Friends & More Warner Bros. By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 14, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, find out how the massive sandworm from Denis Villenueve’s first chapter of “Dune” was designed for the big screen....

The Morning Watch: Peacemaker Gets A Podcast, Cobra Kai Cast Tests Martial Arts Gadgets & More HBO Max By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 14, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)...

Turning Red Gives Disney+ Its Best-Ever Movie Premiere Pixar By Jenna Busch/March 16, 2022 3:24 pm EST The Pixar film “Turning Red” has fans as wildly excited as the lead character Mei Lin when she sees the boy band 4*Town! The film has been widely praised for giving us a look at the minefield that is puberty, the Chinese Canadian community in early 2000s Toronto, dealing with the strong emotions we all have at that age, and what family and friends mean to a young girl....

Watching Barry Season 3 Was Too Intense For Its Own Writers HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 19, 2022 3:34 pm EST The third season of HBO’s much-loved, Emmy-winning series “Barry” returns soon, and it’s going to be intense. Like, very intense. “The series has entered a phase so dark, so disturbing, so unsettling that it might throw viewers for a loop,” Chris Evangelista wrote in his /Film review of the new episodes....

“You Can’t Get Better Than Alfred Molina as Doc Ock” Sony Pictures Although fans like nothing better than to endlessly debate over the quality of the previous “Spider-Man” movies, two villains — and their respective films, for that matter — stand out from all the rest in the eye of most audiences. That would be Willem Dafoe’s portrayal of the Green Goblin in 2002’s “Spider-Man” and Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in 2004’s “Spider-Man 2....

‘The One That Got Away’ FX The post-apocalyptic sci-fi series starred Amber Tamblyn, Olivia Thirlby, and Diane Lane in a world where a cataclysmic event destroyed every mammal with a Y chromosome, save for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The show followed the survivors as they attempted to restore order and try to make something better than what came before. Clark’s Twitter thread announcing the show’s lack of season 2 saving is a heartbreaking reminder that entertainment is a fickle industry, and that “Y: The Last Man” will always be “the one that got away....

30 Years After Its Release, My Cousin Vinny Is Still One Of The Best Legal Movies Of All Time A keen-eyed lawyer who might wince at the inaccuracies of cable legal dramas will feel comfort in this movie’s accurate portrayal of the justice system, and that was part of its design. Director Jonathan Lynn (“Clue”) chewed up the script from Dale Launer to pepper in as much accuracy as he was able....