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Moon Knight Merges Superhero Storytelling With Horror Imagery To Thrilling Results Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 30, 2022 11:00 am EST Warning: this article contains major spoilers for episode 1 of “Moon Knight.” Marvel’s “Moon Knight” is a superhero origin story like no other, in the sense that it expertly melds its central mystery with genuinely unsettling horror aspects that help elevate the narrative. The horror-esque vibe of the show is introduced right from the first frame, in which Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) carries out a ritual that seems like some sort of offering to the gods, replete with corporal mortification (he fills his shoes with glass shards as an act of penance)....

Moon Knight’s Layla Has Unique Roots In Marvel Comics Disney By Jamie Gerber/April 20, 2022 11:12 am EST One of the most exciting aspects of “Moon Knight” might be the freedom it has had to reinterpret the source material of a lesser known character. So much has changed from page to screen that many comic fans have had to put aside their expectations for Marc Spector and just enjoy the ride....

Moon Knight Wasn’t Really Flying, He Was Falling With Style, Head Writer Clarifies Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 13, 2022 10:52 am EST Is he gliding through the air, oh wait — is he actually flying? This was my knee-jerk reaction to seeing Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac) fly his way to Cairo (with Khonshu’s aid) in the season finale of the recently-wrapped Disney+ show. Moon Knight, as a character, has always been one full of surprises — as the character has not been an integral part of the popular consciousness until now — allowing great leeway for the extent of his powers, courtesy of being the Fist of Khonshu....

One Ozark Scene Was A Little Too Real For Julia Garner Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/May 25, 2022 9:08 am EST Who says acting isn’t hard? Between learning a new dialect, working with weaponry, or participating in some wild stunts, there’s some aspects of the job that would stress out or frighten anyone. Especially on a show like “Ozark,” which has no problem dipping into the darker side of life. While there is plenty of murder, mayhem, and general lawlessness taking place in any given episode of the Netflix hit, one scene in particular was especially frightening to Julia Garner, the undeniable star behind the character Ruth Langmore....

Pachinko Directors Justin Chon And Kogonada On Uniting Their Styles For The Series [Interview] Apple TV+ By Shania Russell/March 25, 2022 5:30 pm EST The multi-generational saga of the new Apple TV+ series “Pachinko” takes special care to strike a delicate balance between an epic scope and an intimate tone. Telling the tale of a Korean family struggling to thrive in a hostile environment, the show chronicles the disparate hopes and dreams of four generations, each faced with their own set of challenges and existential questions....

Paramount And Nickelodeon To Smurf Up Multiple Smurfy New Movies In The Smurfs Franchise Sony Pictures By Jeff Ewing/Feb. 7, 2022 2:36 pm EST Paramount has been making waves over the last several months with massive deals for new orders of “South Park” and “Star Trek,” but today brings an announcement of a different color. The studio has set yet another new content deal for a whole lot more of your favorite diminutive blue humanoids: Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation will now be joining LAFIG Belgium and IMPS in a deal to produce more multi-media content based on “The Smurfs” franchise....

Petite Maman Director Céline Sciamma On Filming In Her Hometown And Telling Smaller Stories [Interview] NEON By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 21, 2022 4:14 pm EST “Petite Maman” is a small film, in more ways than one. It’s got a slight runtime that barely clocks in at over an hour, and it’s got an even slighter story — at least on the surface. Directed by Céline Sciamma, “Petite Maman” follows an 8-year-old girl named Nelly (Josephine Sanz) who, while accompanying her mom to clean out her recently-passed grandmother’s house, wanders through a nearby wood that takes her back in time....

Rick And Morty Is Getting A Giant Box Set For Its First Five Seasons Adult Swim By Debopriyaa Dutta/Jan. 26, 2022 1:18 pm EST Justin Roiland’s “Back to the Future” parody short led to the creation of the explosively popular adult animated series, “Rick and Morty,” which has churned out five seasons so far. Roiland, of course, leads the voice cast as the titular characters, whose distinct conversational style and speech patterns have become a part of the cultural phenomenon elicited by the show....

Robin Hood Is Getting Reimagined As A Modern Hip-Hop Series From Hotline Bling Director Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 31, 2022 7:43 pm EST The tale of a vigilante hero of the people named Robin Hood stealing from the rich to help provide for the poor has been told and retold since the 13th century. Now in the 21st century, when we are living in a bleak timeline of wealth inequality and one of the most staggering unequal distribution of assets in history, the story of Robin Hood is getting an updated and modernized retelling from Director X, the prolific director of such music videos as “Bootylicious” by Destiny’s Child, “Work” by Rihanna, “Thong Song” by Sisqó, “Yeah” by Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, and “Hotline Bling” by Drake....

Sony Is Developing Thread From Moon Knight Scribe Jeremy Slater And It Sounds Incredible Marvel Studios/Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 14, 2022 2:35 pm EST “Thread” is an original movie that Deadline has described as “‘Back to The Future’ meets ‘Aliens.’” That’s all we know about the plot at this stage, but the mere idea of a film that combines two beloved classics about, respectively, time-travel and other-worldly monsters ought to be enough on its own to get most people to sit up and take notice....

Spirited First Look: Will Ferrell And Ryan Reynolds Retell A Christmas Carol Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/March 8, 2022 3:41 pm EST After a low-key viral marketing campaign featuring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell duetting Mika’s “Grace Kelly” on TikTok, we’ve finally got our first look at their musical project “Spirited,” a retelling of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” for Apple TV+. The classic story is being reimagined for a modern audience, featuring music from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (known professionally as Pasek and Paul), the duo behind the music of “Dear Evan Hansen,” “The Greatest Showman,” “La La Land....

Strange New Worlds’ Coolest Costume Is An Homage To Two Star Trek Classics Paramount By Witney Seibold/June 9, 2022 1:34 pm EST The third episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” titled “Ghosts of Illyria,” employs a common Trek plot: It was an episode about a virus that infiltrated the Enterprise, and the race against time to find a cure before disaster befell the ship. While the episode was taut and well-constructed — and offered some personal backstory for Commander Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) — detail-obsessed Trekkies (and that’s most Trekkies) were taken by a new Starfleet uniform accessory: Those awesome pleather away mission jackets....

Superhero Porn Parodies Are Giving The Fans Exactly What They Want, In More Ways Than One Axel Braun / Wicked Pictures By BJ Colangelo/April 12, 2022 12:00 pm EST Roughly eight years ago, an image of the Marvel superhero Quicksilver went viral, with fans celebrating a superhero costume that finally resembled something straight out of a comic book. However, it wasn’t the one worn by Evan Peters in “X-Men: Apocalypse” or Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” it was the one worn by the late Bill Bailey in Axel Braun’s “Captain America XXX” porn parody....

The Best Anime Of The Spring 2022 Season Crunchyroll By Adam Wescott AND Rafael Motamayor/June 30, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to I Didn’t Know What Seasonal Anime to Watch, So I Asked Slashfilm for Help and They Gave Me a List, a regular column dedicated to helping choose what anime shows to watch each season.) Another season of anime has come and gone. The spring 2022 season brought a record number of new shows, way too many for any one person to watch....

The Bizarre Reason Disney’s The Reluctant Dragon Was Censored Disney By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 7, 2022 3:43 pm EST The House of Mouse has long prided itself on providing wholesome entertainment for the masses with its feature films. Yet, as you might expect, there have been plenty of exceptions to that rule dating back to the company’s early days — from Disney movies that featured racially and/or culturally insensitive depictions of certain people and places (like “Song of the South” and “Peter Pan”) to films that included grisly acts of violence (like 2013’s “The Lone Ranger,” where one of the villains is a cannibalistic outlaw)....

The Halo TV Show Will Reveal Master Chief’s Face For The First Time Paramount+ By Ryan Scott/Feb. 21, 2022 11:15 am EST Something that “Halo” fans will surely have thoughts about one way or the other is confirmed to be happening in the upcoming TV series adaptation for Paramount+. It has now been confirmed that Master Chief, the protagonist of the highly popular video games since the franchise’s inception in 2001, will take his helmet off, revealing his face to the world for the first time (insert gasp noises)....

Love Conquers All Warner Bros. For its meta slant, a number of reviewers have likened “The Matrix Resurrections” to “Lana Wachowski’s New Nightmare,” a reference to the seventh “Nightmare on Elm Street” film, “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.” However, another key aspect of “The Matrix Resurrections” is the revived romance between Anderson/Neo and Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss. Some, such as our own Jeremy Mathai, have argued that “The Matrix” has “always been a love story....

‘Nobody trusts anybody now, and we’re all very tired.’ Universal Pictures Quentin Tarantino went on to reveal that he consciously infused the screenplay of his debut feature, the 1992 indie crime film “Reservoir Dogs,” with the paranoia of “The Thing.” In “Reservoir Dogs,” a group of diamond thieves holes up in a warehouse after a heist goes bad. With no one knowing anyone’s true identity, the tense atmosphere is similar to that of “The Thing....

The Search Party Creators Reveal Why The Series Is Ending With Season 5 HBO By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 7, 2022 11:03 am EST There’s nothing on television quite like “Search Party.” If you ever watched “Degrassi,” you might be familiar with the tagline “Degrassi: It goes there,” but no show goes there like “Search Party.” Sure, a surreal series like “Twin Peaks” might surprise you with an alternate dimension and “The Leftovers” has their religion-on-acid thing, but the story beats and plot lines of other TV series cannot compare to the wild ride that is “Search Party....

Turning Red Is The Most Anime Pixar Has Ever Been — What This Could Mean For CG Animation Disney+ By Adam Wescott/March 18, 2022 10:00 am EST The history of Pixar runs in parallel with the history of CG animation in the United States. “Toy Story” broke ground as the first feature-length computer animated film. “Monsters Inc.” pioneered fur, “Finding Nemo” water. “The Incredibles” figured out how to create charming three-dimensional human characters....