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Superhero Bits: Mr. Knight Arrives At Avengers Campus, Rare Captain America Comic Sells For A Fortune & More Laughing Place By Ryan Scott/April 8, 2022 6:17 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 Good Neighbor Trailer: An American Remake That Lays The Menace On Thick Screen Media Films By Jeremy Smith/May 18, 2022 6:00 pm EST In the not-so-grand tradition of “The Vanishing,” “The Grudge,” and “Delivery Man,” German filmmaker Stephan Rick has opted to step behind the camera for the English-language remake of his foreign-language original film. Fortunately for Rick, his 2011 thriller, “Unter Nachbarn,” never received a U.S. release; ergo, the twists and turns of this fiendish-looking yarn, now titled “The Good Neighbor,” will be completely new to the vast majority of audiences....

The Matrix’s Massive Influence Made It Tricky To Write Resurrections Warner Bros. By Bill Bria/June 28, 2022 7:41 pm EST For Lana Wachowski, the prospect of writing a fourth “Matrix” movie was daunting on a number of levels. For one, Lana and sister Lilly Wachowski left nearly everything on the table with “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions,” definitively ending the stories (and lives) of Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss)....

Human folly and the emptiness of false hopes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ridley Scott spoke in depth about the films that shaped his interest in science fiction, explaining that he was not enamored by the genre from the get-go. Describing “2001: A Space Odyssey” as a film that “really hits the gong,” Scott explains that one of the early (pre-Kubrickian) sci-fi films that left a lasting impact on him was Stanley Kramer’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi, “On the Beach,” which delves into the aftermath of a deadly nuclear war that ultimately leads to mass human extinction:...

The Reason Pixar Chose Those 5 Emotions For Inside Out The Reason Pixar Chose Those 5 Emotions For Inside Out Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Travis Yates/March 23, 2022 1:09 pm EST From futuristic robots to talking toys, Pixar Studios is responsible for some of Hollywood’s most beloved and memorable animated characters. Woody and Buzz Lightyear from “Toy Story,” Nemo from “Finding Nemo,” and Remy from “Ratatouille” are just a few favorites....

The SAG Awards Snubbed The Best Performance Of The Year Neon By Lex Briscuso/Jan. 12, 2022 10:22 pm EST Every year, there is an awards snub that cuts to the heart of who we are as human beings, and lays bare our deepest impulses to decry the “Academy” and whatever horse the lot of them rode in on. Truly, it happens every year. This year, it just so happened to be the one no one expected: the princess herself, Kristen Stewart....

Vince Gilligan Was Against Adding This Fan-Favorite Character To Better Call Saul Sony Pictures Television By Steven Ward/April 8, 2022 8:47 am EST Despite being arguably one of the standout characters to appear in “Better Call Saul,” it was never a certainty that Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) would surface in the show. This might seem strange given the two episodes from “Breaking Bad” that reference him, which felt like a tee-up for an eventual reveal....

Vortex Trailer: The Sadness Of Aging In Split Screen Utopia By Jenna Busch/March 11, 2022 3:28 pm EST Today we have a new trailer for the latest Gaspar Noé film, “Vortex.” This film looks like it will be beautiful and stick with you for a long time, but just know going in that it is very sad. I’m talking about the trailer, but with subject matter like this, I don’t think this is a misdirect....

Why All Your Better Call Saul Fan Theories About Walt And Jesse Are Wrong AMC By Jeremy Mathai/June 29, 2022 2:53 pm EST “Better Call Saul” is gearing up to conclude its acclaimed run with a bang, and co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan are pulling out all the stops. The first half of the sixth and final season ended on the most heart-pounding cliffhanger in the entire series (and if anyone wanted to include “Breaking Bad” in that argument, I’d be willing to listen!...

Blue Beetle Will Now Get A 2023 Theatrical Release Instead Of Hitting HBO Max Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 16, 2021 10:34 pm EST While plenty of huge films are being pushed toward streaming or later in the year to accommodate for the ongoing limitations of the pandemic, Warner Bros. and DC have made a massive change to their slate, with “Blue Beetle” moving from an exclusive streaming release to the big screen....

Christian Bale Thought This Part Of His Batsuit Was Impractical Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/April 1, 2022 9:28 am EST Batman is one of the most known and popular superheroes on the planet, and the Batsuit is amongst the most iconic super suits. This is a suit that strikes fear in the hearts of superstitious cowardly criminals, a symbol that inspires hope even amongst the citizens of the worst city in the world....

Cool Stuff: Boba Fett’s Trusty Blaster Is Now An Expensive NERF Gun Disney+ By Jenna Busch/Jan. 12, 2022 9:42 am EST Hasbro has released images for the Nerf LMTD Star Wars Boba Fett’s EE-3 Blaster on HasbroPulse. This little beauty is going to set you back a bit, though. Everyone’s favorite bounty hunter’s blaster is retailing for $109.99. Not only that, but it’s not going to be here in time for even the finale of “The Book of Boba Fett” season 1, which is airing on Disney+ right now....

Everything You Need To Remember Before You Watch Barry Season 3 HBO By Michael Boyle/April 17, 2022 9:00 am EST There’s no other show quite like HBO’s “Barry.” The dramedy series started off with a simple, absurd premise — an assassin suddenly decides he wants to become an actor — and turned this simple idea into both one of the funniest and the most emotionally gripping shows on television. Bill Hader’s serious performance as Barry is just as surprising and impressive as Bryan Cranston’s run as Walter White a decade earlier....

First Kill Review: The Sapphic Vampire Series Resurrects The Highs And Lows Of Soapy Paranormal Romance Netflix By Shania Russell/June 10, 2022 3:01 am EST The first episode of “First Kill” hits like a wave of nostalgia: totally normal, regular girl Juliette Fairmont (Sarah Catherine Hook) is monologuing about the woes of not fitting in at school and cycling through potential outfits while a moody indie-pop song winds up in the background....

Hawkeye Featurette Introduces The Very Good Girl Who Played Lucky The Pizza Dog Disney+ By Shania Russell/Jan. 10, 2022 3:52 pm EST Clint Barton this, Kate Bishop that — we all know that the two archers at the center of “Hawkeye” make an effectively heroic duo, but let’s not forget the third member of their squad (and the true hero of the series), Lucky The Pizza Dog! When we first meet the then-unnamed doggo, he’s caught up in some pretty serious danger and ends up in the middle of the street, where even more trouble awaits....

Did the weird finger puppet scene actually happen? Hulu One of the first questions I had watching “The Dropout” was whether or not Elizabeth Holmes would actually slip into the odd, childlike persona in the same way the dramatized version of her (played by Amanda Seyfried) did in the show. Specifically, I wondered if that bizarre finger puppet scene actually happened, or if it was a creative liberty taken to depict this alleged aspect of Holmes’ personality....

It’s Great That Moon Knight Gets To Be Gross Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 20, 2022 4:00 pm EST Let’s face it: by this point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is so expansive, it has genres of its own represented within the superhero genre. “WandaVision” is a tragic romance, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films are coming-of-age stories, and “Thor: Ragnarok” is a road trip buddy comedy. The massive franchise also clearly has fans covered on sci-fi, fantasy, and war stories....

John Hughes Wrote A National Lampoon Article That Launched His Career Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/March 24, 2022 9:33 am EST Long before he was entertaining audiences with “The Breakfast Club” and “Planes Trains and Automobiles,” John Hughes was a staff writer for one of the most chaotic American counter-cultural (if you can call a Harvard humor magazine spin-off such) outlets of the 21st century. “National Lampoon” magazine, during its run from 1970-1998, traded in bawdy jokes and stinging parody, and no subject was safe....

‘Wait. These are my ideas!’ Universal Pictures The give-Blue-a-baby suggestion appears to have become a significant plot point in “Jurassic World Dominion,” with the second official trailer framing it as though the baby’s kidnapping by dinosaur poachers is what sets the whole story in motion. Owen makes Blue a promise to get the baby back, and Blue even takes his hand by the tail, as if to shake on it — and we’re off to the races....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Trailer Reveals Gameplay And Launch Date Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 21, 2022 4:11 pm EST The Skywalker saga may have come to a divisive end on the big screen with 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker,” but fans are still able to enjoy nonstop adventures featuring all of the franchise’s iconic storylines in other mediums in the meantime. Ever wanted to play as Jedi Knights like Qui-Gon Jinn or Luke Skywalker or Rey, lovable rogues like Han Solo and Poe Dameron, legendary heroes like Princess General Leia, and all the galaxy-spanning characters from all three cinematic trilogies?...