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Details on Wallace & Gromit’s Next Adventure Aardman Animation Without “Wallace & Gromit” gracing our airwaves for the last decade and a half, movies like Laika Studios’ “Missing Link” and Aardman Animation’s “Early Man” have attempted to fill the gap, to varied success. But with so many live-action franchises receiving a second wind in recent years, I’d say it’s about time that Nick Park and his claymation experts come back to show everyone who’s at the top of the class once again....

Peaky Blinders Season 6 Trailer: The Shelby Gang Returns For One Last Fight Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 1, 2022 1:17 pm EST Take a little walk to the edge of town, go across the tracks… Now that the “Peaky Blinders” opening credits song (that would be “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, for those with itchy YouTube trigger fingers) is permanently stuck in your head again, I’ve hopefully set the perfect mood for everyone reading this to jump right in to the smoggy, filthy, cigarette-choked streets of Prohibition-era Birmingham....

Star Wars Brings Back John Williams To Compose The Obi-Wan Kenobi Theme Disney By Anya Stanley/Feb. 17, 2022 7:21 pm EST Commence the fanfare as conductor and multi-award-winning composer John Williams is returning to the “Star Wars” franchise for the tenth time. Two years past his ninth musical contribution to the extensive feature film series by providing the score for J.J. Abrams’ “The Rise of Skywalker” (plus “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and a theme for Disneyland’s “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” theme park), the 90-year-old pianist will be composing the theme for the new Disney+ series, “Obi-Wan Kenobi....

A worthy tribute 20th Century Studios Zegler — who plays Maria in the remake film — previously made a touching tribute to Sondheim on social media following his death. Ahead of the “West Side Story” release in December 2021, she shared a personal snapshot on Twitter of Sondheim and Spielberg sitting together in the recording studio. “My life would be nothing without Stephen Sondheim’s music,” she wrote. “One of my first memories of musical theatre exposure was listening to Michael Cervis and Patti LuPone sing ‘A Little Priest’ in the 2005 revival of ‘Sweeney Todd....

Superhero Bits: A New Marvel Video Game, The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Trailer Is Coming & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/May 18, 2022 5:13 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....

Superhero Bits: More The Batman Concept Art, Gotham Knights Finally Gets A Release Date & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 9, 2022 5:53 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 2022 Box Office Is Well Ahead Of 2021 With The Year’s Biggest Movies Still To Come Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 29, 2022 12:18 pm EST For obvious reasons, 2020 was an absolutely terrible year for the box office. 2021 was a big recovery year for the industry, but not one that came without its challenges. Hollywood had doubled down on streaming in a big way, the pandemic didn’t fade out as quickly as many of us hoped it would once vaccines started rolling out, and consumer habits had been irrevocably changed....

The Adam Project First Look: A Very Wounded Time-Travelling Ryan Reynolds Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 1, 2022 11:32 am EST Ryan Reynolds has made a career out of playing fast-talking, snarky characters, whether it’s the Merc with a Mouth (AKA Deadpool), the art thief Nolan Booth from “Red Notice,” or even the titular Pokémon from “Detective Pikachu.” He shed that persona to portray the earnest, wide-eyed non-playable video game character (or NPC) Guy in last year’s “Free Guy” but will return to his sassy, sardonic ways in the upcoming “The Adam Project....

Why It’s Essential Viewing United Artists “The Long Goodbye” is a mood, and it’s one that is especially relatable at the moment as so many of us are floating into a fresh year with the baggage of the last two not entirely behind us. If you are literally or figuratively hungover from New Year’s Eve and indeed all of 2020 and 2021, then you might be able to identify with the disheveled Marlowe, as he stirs in bed in his dingy apartment and immediately begins muttering to himself while his cat meows for food....

The Last-Minute Story Decision That Completely Changed Peaky Blinders BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Jan. 24, 2022 4:23 pm EST Steven Knight’s “Peaky Blinders” often kills off its characters and later resurrects them (sometimes, as ghosts). But one resurrection was a Hail Mary of sorts, for the show. Following Alfie Solomons’ (Tom Hardy) betrayal of Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) during the American mafia’s attempted takeover of the English crime world in season 4, he was shot by Tommy in the season finale....

By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 19, 2022 10:46 am EST The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Trailer “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay released a statement alongside the news, as well, further explaining their reasoning with this new title and setting expectations of what fans can expect from this series. “This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J....

The Never-Aired Star Wars Detours Would’ve Featured New Weird Al Songs Lucasfilm By Ben F. Silverio/March 23, 2022 5:09 pm EST A long time ago (2009, to be exact) in a galaxy far, far away, “Robot Chicken” creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich were working on “Star Wars Detours.” Similar to their fan-favorite stop motion animated sketch show on Adult Swim, they were taking one of the biggest franchises in all of pop culture and telling the story of what happened in the “Star Wars” universe between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy through an over-the-top and goofy lens....

The Office could be reinvented in a different workplace NBCUniversal The American version of “The Office” initially drew unfavorable comparisons to its British predecessor as it rehashed familiar season 1 scenarios, but over time it forged its own identity with a unique cast of characters. Ultimately, the show had a much longer life, running for nine full seasons on NBC (versus two 6-episode seasons and a two-part Christmas special for the BBC iteration)....

Meet K2-B4 Lucasfilm The character in question is named K2-B4 and is a droid that first appeared in an episode of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” specifically in the show’s third season. K2-B4 was part of a story arc titled “The Citadel,” with the first episode of that arc originally airing on February 18, 2011 during the show’s original run on Cartoon Network, long before it ever made its way to Netflix, and years before Disney+ would give fans a final season to wrap things up in proper fashion....

The Viridiana Controversy Explained Films Sans Frontières By Witney Seibold/Jan. 3, 2022 2:28 pm EST Luis Buñuel sought to provoke. The legendary filmmaker, often hailed as one of the world’s best, approached film as an opportunity to confront and outrage audiences, and, more importantly, critique the hypocrisies of the government, of the rich, and of the church. The famous story goes that Buñuel, along with co-director Salvador Dalí, filled his pockets with rocks in the likely chance that audiences would riot at the premiere of their 1929 film “Un Chien Andalou....

There Is No Longer Director’s Cut Of Men, Alex Garland Says A24 By Jeremy Mathai/May 16, 2022 4:41 pm EST Spring is here, the weather is finally heating up again, and those of us suffering from a little cabin fever during the dreary winter months can look forward to getting some fresh air again. But the real boon of this time of year, of course, comes from the fact that we’re about to get another Alex Garland movie....

15 True Crime Documentaries You Can Stream On Netflix Right Now Netflix By Gino Orlandini/March 31, 2022 1:09 pm EST True crime has taken over the world. Documentaries as a whole are the fastest-growing segment of the streaming market, and true crime is where most of that interest derives. It’s not exactly new. “Dateline” has been spinning yarns about shocking suburban murders for decades. But the technology is finally here for so many more upstart filmmakers to nab Netflix-approved cameras and dive into these stories....

A Particularly Tough Matrix Stunt Nearly Took Carrie-Anne Moss Out Of Commission Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 29, 2022 10:04 pm EST “The Matrix” was a mind-blowing film when it was first released. Now-famous aspects of the film, like the “bullet time” sequence, may no longer seem so exceptional, but they were like nothing that audiences of 1999 had ever seen. “The Matrix” broadened our perceptions of reality and kicked off a franchise with three sequels, including the recent film, “The Matrix Resurrections....

A Very British Scandal Trailer: We Need A Crown Crossover By Kaylee Dugan/March 22, 2022 9:41 pm EST Between the affairs and the drinking and the excellent costumes, there’s a lot to look forward to and think about here, and we’re going to do it all right now together. It’s cocktail hour, baby. “A Very British Scandal” tells the story of England’s infamous Argyll v. Argyll divorce case (which The Guardian delightfully refers to as “the only [case] any erstwhile law student ever remembers”), in which the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany) and the Duchess of Argyll (Foy) took it to the mat and were a part of one of the most notorious divorce cases in the country’s history....

Sense and sensibility Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Ang Lee’s first great successes were the “Father Knows Best” trilogy, beginning with “Pushing Hands” in 1991. These were comedy-dramas that directly explored familial contradictions in both the United States and Taiwan. His later films made in Hollywood, “Sense and Sensibility” and “The Ice Storm,” further established his reputation as a master of portraying interpersonal relationships on screen. An action film like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” was outside his personal experience and his skill-set....