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The Stranger Things Actor Playing Vecna Knew His Secrets From The Start Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 4, 2022 11:00 am EST Note: Spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 below. So far in “Stranger Things,” Vecna, who is an allegory for depression, is the most powerful villain to emerge from the Upside Down. Vecna’s origin story is the best-kept secret in all of Stranger Things." Named after the Dungeons & Dragons character, Vecna is a frightening, imposing figure that harbors a shocking secret identity — one we don’t learn about until the final few episodes of the fourth season....

Candy and the cast were always improv-ing Universal Pictures Buck’s relationship with his teenaged niece, Tia Russell (Jean Louisa Kelly), forms much of the emotional core of “Uncle Buck.” The latter, unlike her siblings, wants nothing to do with her uncle and frequently butts heads with him, not least of all when it comes to her spending time with her boyfriend (who Buck quickly recognizes as a jerk and predator). In time, of course, Tia comes to realize that Buck does, in fact, sincerely care for her and has a good heart beneath his crude exterior....

Wendell & Wild: Everything We Know So Far Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/March 22, 2022 4:41 pm EST Director Henry Selick has delighted and terrified multiple generations of kids — along with more than a few adults, no doubt — with his stop-motion animated fantasy movies “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Coraline.” He’s also the director behind the well-liked “James and the Giant Peach” and “Monkeybone,” which may be the most bizarre $75 million comedy you’ve never seen....

Why Sigourney Weaver Wanted Alien 3 To Be The End For Ellen Ripley 20th Century Studios By Anthony Orlando/May 12, 2022 4:32 pm EST “Alien 3” isn’t the most beloved film in its legendary sci-fi horror franchise. Nevertheless, it still seemed like the best film to end Ellen Ripley’s journey, and Sigourney Weaver, who played the iconic protagonist, felt the same way. In this third film, directed by David Fincher, Ripley wakes up from hypersleep 57 years after defeating the Alien Queen and finds herself on a maximum-security prison inhabited only by men....

‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ Surpasses ‘Let It Go’ To Become Biggest Disney Song In A Quarter Century Walt Disney Pictures By Shania Russell/Jan. 18, 2022 2:00 pm EST According to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, we will never stop talking about Bruno. On one hand, it’s comforting to know that “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” the song endlessly thrumming through my brain, is haunting everyone else too … but this also means we’ll never escape Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical clutches, doesn’t it?...

5 Marvel Characters We’d Love To See Nicolas Cage Play Lionsgate By Jamie Gerber/Dec. 21, 2021 1:14 pm EST Nicolas Cage has had a long and strange career, establishing himself as a singular talent who gives everything he has in every role. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand, it becomes more and more difficult to find big name actors who haven’t played some sort of part in it. Cage’s name has come up more than once — it’s just a matter of who he should play....

A Brief History Of Meta Storytelling In Horror Before The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent SlashFilm By Matt Donato/May 6, 2022 1:00 pm EST Met·a: (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential. In “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” meta storytelling becomes mainstream accessible. Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten not only allow Nicolas Cage to play himself — well, a version of himself born from the “Memeification of Nicolas Cage” — but they shoehorn a self-referential plot about predictable blockbuster narratives … by cheekily following a predictable blockbuster narrative....

AMC’s Orphan Black Sequel Series Lands Writer Anna Fishko BBC America By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 6, 2022 10:02 am EST The “Orphan Black” sequel series has officially opened its writers’ room, with Variety reporting that Anna Fishko has boarded the show as a writer and executive producer. The idea of an AMC “Orphan Black” continuation was first reported in 2019, though at this point very little is still known about the new series....

Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Are Teaming Up Again For An Untitled Nike Biopic About Sonny Vaccaro Lions Gate Films By Kaylee Dugan/April 19, 2022 10:00 pm EST Your favorite Boston boys are teaming up again to make a movie about Nike … your favorite sneaker? Look, I don’t know where you fall in the checks versus stripes debate. In fact, I don’t know much about Nike at all — I’ve only read the first page of Phil Knight’s “Shoe Dog” and I have no idea if I’ll ever go back and finish the rest....

Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s James Marsters Pulled Out All The Stops To Keep Spike Alive By Jamie Gerber/March 21, 2022 4:04 pm EST “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” featured a cast of unforgettable characters. The seminal series, which just turned 25 years old, preferred to work in shades of grey rather than the simple binary of good vs. evil. All of the show’s characters were flawed, complicated people, even the titular heroine....

David Dencik Talks Being The Mad Professor Of No Time To Die And Ruining Perfectly Good Soup [Interview] MGM By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 20, 2021 4:06 pm EST David Dencik may not be playing one of 007’s rivals in “No Time to Die,” but the “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” star still has a pivotal place in James Bond history. Dencik plays Valdo Obruchev, the scientist who is not only responsible for a deadly virus falling into the wrong hands, but the creator of the controversial concoction whose origin comes from a surprising place close to James Bond himself....

Edward Norton Did A Lot More Than Act For American History X New Line Cinema By Caroline Madden/June 23, 2022 5:36 pm EST “American History X” is a hard-hitting story about intergenerational racism. Edward Norton stars as Derek Vinyard, a reformed skinhead who tries to rescue his younger brother Danny, played by a pensive Edward Furlong, from the clutches of the neo-Nazi movement. “American History X” was critically hailed and Norton received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his formidable performance....

A casting idea very, very close to home A24 Directors and writers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have worked in the independent film space for the bulk of their careers, and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was to be no exception. Given Michelle Yeoh’s recent mainstream Hollywood success with films like “Crazy Rich Asians,” there was a possibility the production would not be able to work out a deal with her....

For One Star, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Was (Literally) Like Pulling Teeth Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/May 31, 2022 9:59 am EST John Huston’s 1948 classic “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” boasts one of the all-time great Humphrey Bogart roles. The Hollywood icon stars as Fred C. Dobbs, a drifter who struggles to make ends meet in 1920s Mexico. With the aid of a fellow American named Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) and a crusty prospector who goes by Howard (Walter Huston), Fred strikes it rich looking for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains....

Gentleman Jack Season 2 Trailer: Anne Lister Makes Her Long-Awaited Return In April BBC One/HBO By Sandy Schaefer/March 10, 2022 11:43 am EST Everyone’s favorite messy lesbian period romance is finally coming back! HBO has, at last, released an official trailer for “Gentleman Jack” season 2, once again starring Suranne Jones as Anne Lister, the real-life English landlord and industrialist often referred to as “The First Modern Lesbian” by historians. Sophie Rundle also returns as Ann Walker, Anne’s (with an “E” — and, yes, I’m aware I’ve made that joke in the past, but I haven’t tired of it just yet) love interest turned secret wife, who’s about to get a crash-course in just how wild life can be when you’re living under the same roof as “Gentleman Jack....

Grace And Frankie Season 7B Trailer: Together ‘Til The End Netflix By Danielle Ryan/April 14, 2022 5:45 pm EST Friendship can be a funny thing, but it’s especially funny on Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie,” starring Jane Fonda (Grace) and Lily Tomlin (Frankie) as two women whose lives are upended when their husbands divorce them for each other. The two women eventually bond over their shared experience and become best friends, living loud together in their twilight years....

Heartstopper Trailer: More Like Heartstarter! It’s Really Cute Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/April 15, 2022 11:23 am EST Netflix has really built out its own little (read: large) corner of the teen rom-com market, and its latest offering is no different. Based on a popular webcomic turned graphic novel and now turned Netflix series, “Heartstopper” is filled with the angst, longing, and euphoria (but not that kind of “Euphoria,” this seems like a happy show) that make up the best depictions of falling in teenage love....

The typical Stewart RKO Radio Pictures Some of Stewart’s most popular movies were made before WWII. These include “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Shop Around the Corner,” and “The Philadelphia Story,” which all featured the typical role he used to play. He was the gentle man the heroine fell in love with and the idealistic senator who arrived in Washington to stand up against corruption. It didn’t take long for audiences and critics to paint him as the all-American hero, and Stewart let it stick....

Jurassic World Dominion Trailer Breakdown: Dinosaurs Rule The Earth Once Again Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 28, 2022 2:31 pm EST It is a big day for fans of dinosaurs and, to be more specific, humans interacting with dinosaurs. Universal Pictures has released a brand new trailer for this summer’s “Jurassic World Dominion” following its debut at CinemaCon recently. This trailer was released just as advance tickets went on sale for the film, signaling that years after 2018’s “Fallen Kingdom” opened the floodgates, we are finally going to see how this trilogy wraps up....

Metal Lords Trailer: A Love Letter To Heavy Metal Netflix By Jenna Busch/March 10, 2022 3:43 pm EST Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming Netflix film “Metal Lords,” and it’s very close to my metallic little heart. This is the story of teenage misfits Hunter (Adrian Greensmith) and Kevin (Jaeden Martell), who are obsessed with heavy metal music. Their goal is to win the Battle of the Bands, and get out their metal side....