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The 20 Most Influential Comedy Stars In Movie History BAKOUNINE/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/March 29, 2022 12:41 pm EST Nothing is more fun than laughing with an audience in a packed movie theater. Cinema is best enjoyed as a collective experience. Even if you never see them again, you bond with your seatmates when you laugh together. While there have been many great, recent comedy films, many of them were released directly to streaming services or only received limited theatrical distribution....

The Batman’s Penguin Spin-Off Will Be ‘Like A Scarface Story’ Warner Bros. Pictures By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Feb. 27, 2022 12:17 pm EST It looks like the Penguin will be getting ultimate antihero treatment in the classic Batman villain’s upcoming HBO Max spinoff series. Dylan Clark, the show’s producer, recently revealed in an interview with SFX Magazine that the “Penguin” series will be an origin story of sorts, focusing on Oswald Cobblepot’s (played by Colin Farrell) journey to becoming the “Gentleman of Crime....

The Boys Actors Anthony Starr And Erin Moriarty On Homelander And Starlight’s Dynamic [Interview] Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/June 6, 2022 5:27 pm EST “The Boys” is back with a vengeance in season 3, bloodier, funnier, and more poignant than ever. The show is also scarier than ever before, which is saying something since it tackled actual nazis in season 2. Now Homelander, everyone’s favorite psychopath supes, has become unchained after appealing to like-minded supremacists during an unscripted speech....

The Connection Between Doctor Who And Stranger Things You May Have Missed Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/May 18, 2022 12:33 pm EST After a three-year break that feels much longer, “Stranger Things” is finally coming back. Season 4 of the Duffer brothers’ love letter to the 1980s is going heavier on the horror than seasons past, bringing seemingly haunted houses and nods to “A Nightmare on Elm Street” into the mix. The show is even adding Freddy Krueger himself, actor Robert Englund, to its cast as Victor Creel, a “disturbed and intimidating” man who’s been kept in a psychiatric hospital since his role in a “gruesome murder” in the 1950s....

The Death Of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Birthed A Bizarre Eddie Murphy Movie Shout! Factory/20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/March 24, 2022 11:19 am EST When the cult hit “Mystery Science Theater 3000” drew to a close in 1999, most of the show’s writers and cast members pretty swiftly re-assembled to repeat the show’s shtick in other forms. The show’s creator, Joel Hodgson, assembled “Cinematic Titanic,” while Mike Nelson spun off into “The Film Crew” and “Rifftrax....

The Planned Heathers Sequel We’ll Sadly Never See New World Entertainment By Miyako Pleines/Jan. 13, 2022 1:16 pm EST Hey, Dan Waters! What’s your damage? We want a “Heathers” sequel! If you’re one of the many fans of this ’80s cult classic, you may have spent a lot of time agonizing over not just which plaid blazer to wear to school (never the red unless your name is Heather Chandler) but also the unknown possibility of whether Veronica and the Heathers will finally get a sequel to their teen angst body count....

The X-Files Season 2 Episode ‘The Host’ Was More Important Than You Realized 20th Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 3, 2022 10:00 am EST “The X-Files” went through a lot of tonal shifts throughout its eleven season run. The sci-fi series had its monster-of-the-week format, in which Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) chased down sundry beasties, arguing about whether or not they could be scientifically explained all the while....

What Stephen King thinks Warner Bros. In an interview with Rolling Stone, King admits that he doesn’t like his book “Dreamcatcher” very much, and chalks up its poor quality to the circumstances under which it was written. King started writing “Dreamcatcher” in 1999, shortly after a horrible accident when a man driving a van ran over King on the sidewalk. King suffered a punctured lung, a crushed hip and leg, a head injury, and broken ribs....

All The Old Knives Director Janus Metz On His ‘Intense Mind Game’ Of A Movie [Interview] Prime Video By Ben Pearson/April 7, 2022 2:00 pm EST “All the Old Knives” is the type of movie we often decry as not getting made anymore in the era of mega-budget blockbusters and micro-budget indies. But Janus Metz, the Danish filmmaker whose credits include “Borg vs. McEnroe” and episodes of hard-nosed shows like “True Detective” and “ZeroZeroZero,” did the thing we always say we want: He grabbed a group of big names (in this case, Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, and Jonathan Pryce) and made a mid-budget thriller aimed directly at adults....

AMC Is Developing An Alan Wake TV Series, So Stock Up On Batteries Remedy Entertainment By Kaylee Dugan/May 12, 2022 9:12 pm EST The video game adaptation box has been opened, and it will not be closed! Now that movies based on video games are hot again (think “Uncharted” versus anything Uwe Boll has made), it feels like every network and production company is chomping at the bit to release its own....

Archive 81 Ending Explained: What Happened To Dan And Melody? Netflix By Ryan Leston/Feb. 10, 2022 3:21 pm EST Growing up in the era of VHS, there was always something creepy about a broken tape. The hiss, the crackles, and the static … a well-worn cassette could be absolutely terrifying. “Archive 81” brings this age-old terror into the modern world thanks to Dan (played by Mamoudou Athie), a professional archivist who has been hired to restore some old tapes....

David Cronenberg To Direct Film Based On His Book Consumed NEON By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 16, 2022 5:59 pm EST Body horror master David Cronenberg is having a busy year. His latest film, “Crimes of the Future,” is set to debut at Cannes this month. He also has a movie called “The Shrouds” in the works, with Vincent Cassel set to star. But in an interview with Variety ahead of Cannes, the filmmaker has revealed that he’s actually working on yet another project, this one based on his own novel, “Consumed....

Every Season Of Dexter Ranked Worst To Best Showtime Networks By Jenn Adams/June 15, 2022 10:43 am EST Showtime’s “Dexter” made a name for itself by combining police procedurals and America’s obsession with true crime. Adapted from Jeff Lindsay’s novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter,” the scripted drama featured a new kind of monster, the psychopath with a heart of gold. Dexter Morgan is a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department by day and a serial killer by night....

Game Of Thrones Ending Explained: A Story Told In The Wrong Order HBO By Michael Boyle/April 1, 2022 3:47 pm EST There really was nothing more exciting than that final six-episode run of “Game of Thrones.” Over ten million viewers were tuning in live to each episode, blowing pretty much every other show on TV out of the water. At the time, if you needed to make small talk with a complete stranger, “What do you think’s gonna happen on ‘Game of Thrones?...

How Alien Defined Sigourney Weaver — And How Sigourney Weaver Defined Alien 20 Century Studios By Travis Yates/May 18, 2022 10:43 am EST “In space, no one can hear you scream” is the tagline from 1979’s “Alien” but in Sigourney Weaver’s case, it might have been “I am woman, hear me roar.” Few actors have done as much for women in cinema as Weaver. As the ass-kicking female protagonist Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s horror/action/sci-fi film “Alien,” Weaver paved the way for today’s female action stars....

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Finale Defines The Past, Present, And Future Of The Gang FXX By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 23, 2021 6:08 pm EST It’s all been leading to this. The gang from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have dropped the penultimate and final episodes of their record-breaking fifteenth season, and they are some doozies. “Always Sunny” season 15 has been all about interrogating the past and the gang’s total inability to mature, and its final two episodes bring those themes to a head....

Misunderstanding The Nature of Jackass Paramount Pictures The primary argument against something like “Jackass: The Movie,” “Jackass: Number Two” or “Jackass 3D” is likely that they are almost completely centered around lowbrow toilet humor and, well, jackassery. On the surface, that is most certainly true. One needs to look no further than the following bit to find evidence of that. As objectively hilarious as that is, it’s not exactly the kind of thing that good students of cinema might look at and say, “Yes....

Late Show With Stephen Colbert Crew Detained At Capitol While Filming Comedy Skits CBS By Joshua Meyer/June 18, 2022 9:40 am EST When police at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. found Triumph the Insult Comic Dog roaming their halls with a camera crew, they thought, “Here’s a party … for us to poop on.” It’s as if Triumph’s catchphrase entered their heads as they arrested creator Robert Smigel and eight other crew members, who were shooting a comedy segment for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” featuring the cigar-chomping puppet....

Martin Scorsese Didn’t Expect The Departed To Find Any Success Warner Bros. Pictures By Shae Sennett/June 23, 2022 2:01 pm EST “The Departed” is one of the most memorable films that Hollywood has produced in the 21st century. The action-packed crime drama is led by a star-studded cast and directed by the renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese, but the director himself had low expectations for the movie before it came out. Luckily for him, his intuition was totally wrong....

‘As independent filmmakers, there’s this temptation that if Marvel comes knocking…’ Marvel Studios I can only assume that the Shtty Carl Universe really made you prime candidates to tackle something as complex as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Benson: Yeah, it’s kind of shocking how we have five films that are all within a tiny little micro budget: The Shtty Carl Universe, as you said. And multiverse, I guess you could also say....