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Come for the king, best not miss Warner Bros. For the uninitiated, the movie follows Lee as he infiltrates the territory of crime boss Han (Shih Kien). Things go south as he investigates the compound and eventually, Lee is at the mercy of Han’s neverending horde of guards. Using fists, feet, and whatever weaponry he wrests from the guards, the martial arts instructor must fight his way out. One of these guards is a pre-“Rush Hour” Jackie Chan, who enters a world of pain in his boss’ lair....

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Is The Start Of A Planned Trilogy IDW By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 16, 2022 10:59 am EST I think I speak for everyone at /Film when I say we’re still recovering from the avalanche of news that came out of Paramount’s investor event on February 15, 2022. (Or, as David Harbour’s character in “No Sudden Move” so eloquently put it, “My God … it’s only Tuesday.” Wait, no, it’s Wednesday....

TV, Interrupted: Wonderfalls Deserved To Keep Licking The Light Switch FOX By Sandy Schaefer/June 5, 2022 12:33 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) Poor Bryan Fuller. A frequent guest on /Film’s TV, Interrupted column, the “Hannibal” and “Pushing Daisies” creator’s beautiful, weird TV shows are dripping with style, full of lovably messy characters, and queer as f***....

Westworld Season 4 Teaser: You’re Going To Reap Just What You Sow HBO By Joshua Meyer/May 9, 2022 9:26 pm EST If you’re still watching HBO’s “Westworld,” get ready to reap what you sow, as the network has just dropped a teaser for season 4, which is due to arrive this summer. Season 3 of “Westworld” premiered in March of 2020, and cards on the table, though I watched it, I would need to go back and do a serious refresher on it, because so much has happened since then in the real world and on the show (which also moved out of the titular theme park and into a fictional, futuristic real world in season 3)....

Why George Takei’s Twilight Zone Appearance Went Unaired For Decades CBS Television Distribution By Witney Seibold/May 17, 2022 5:21 pm EST “Two men alone in an attic, a young Japanese-American and a seasoned veteran of yesterday’s war. It’s twenty odd years since Pearl Harbor, but two ancient opponents are moving into position for a battle in an attic crammed with skeletons, souvenirs, mementos, old uniforms, and rusted medals. Ghosts from the dim reaches of the past, that will lead us into the Twilight Zone....

Why Tom Holland Found Spider-Man: No Way Home Such An Emotional Experience Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Jan. 27, 2022 4:37 pm EST Warning: spoilers for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” follow! Spider-Man is a character that hits close to home (sorry) for a lot of us. He’s the nearest any of us will ever come to having superpowers. A geeky kid who isn’t super popular or good with romantic interests gets accidentally bitten by a spider and sews his own costume....

Winning An Oscar Kept Francis Ford Coppola From Getting Fired From The Godfather Paramount Pictures By Devin Meenan/March 29, 2022 8:20 am EST Even the most versatile directors have one film they’ll be remembered for above all else. For Francis Ford Coppola, that film is “The Godfather.” Coppola has other classics to his name, from “The Conversation” to “Apocalypse Now,” but none have permeated pop culture in the same way that the 50-year-old mafia epic has....

Year Of The Vampire: The Transfiguration Brings Blood-Sucking Down To Earth By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Jan. 15, 2022 2:42 pm EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) As a forever fan of fellows with fangs, there’s little I won’t watch as long as vampires are involved. In my quest to consume all things vampire, there have been disappointments, joys, and hidden gems....

Yellowjackets Season 2 Will Explore The Fundamental Mystery Of How Trauma Changes People [ATX] Showtime By BJ Colangelo/June 3, 2022 4:20 pm EST Following the chilling (literally) first season, Showtime’s sleeper-hit “Yellowjackets” is gearing up to begin shooting its highly-anticipated second season. Half period piece half modern thriller, “Yellowjackets” tells the story of what happened when the members of the 1996 Wiskayok High School girls’ soccer team were stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a tragic plane crash, and how they managed to survive and endure after all these years....

You Don’t Really Need To See WandaVision Before Doctor Strange 2, But Is That A Good Thing? Marvel Studios By Sarah Milner/May 6, 2022 11:00 am EST Although Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” continues directly from the events of the Disney+ series “WandaVision,” the feature film is carefully constructed to work as an independent story — sort of. Even as the Marvel Cinematic Universe becomes increasingly complex, with each movie being intertextually bound to those that came before (and those it is setting up), there are efforts made to ensure that each title works as a standalone entry....

5 Marvel Characters We’d Love To See Jason Momoa Play Warner Bros. By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 25, 2022 11:50 am EST Jason Momoa is a man of many badass roles — he’s played Khal Drogo in “Game of Thrones,” Aquaman in the DCEU, Duncan Idaho in “Dune,” among others. The actor has brought to life some intriguing, complex characters throughout his career. So, to learn that he almost joined the MCU doesn’t come as a surprise....

According To Guillermo Del Toro, We Have The Universe To Thank For Pan’s Labyrinth Warner Bros. Entertainment By Anya Stanley/Feb. 14, 2022 2:50 pm EST Guillermo del Toro sat at a crossroads in 2005. The heat was still palpable from the pair of Hollywood tentpole films he made, “Blade II” and “Hellboy.” The University of Guadalajara alum had gotten offers to stay on the superhero path, working with big studio properties, or he could embark on an intensely personal project with less money, but fewer creative restrictions....

Alex Garland Isn’t Annihilation’s Only Connection To Men Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/May 9, 2022 10:44 am EST Calling your movie “Men” isn’t exactly the most subtle way of telling the world you’ve made a film that looks at masculinity. But for writer and director Alex Garland, it’s been a long time coming. The first movie he ever wrote, the 2002 pandemic thriller “28 Days Later,” climaxes in a third act where rage-fueled, zombie-like entities become a backburner concern to a pack of violent military men with a vile plan for how to rebuild the world’s population....

Beast Footage Reaction: Idris Elba Punches A Lion In The Face [CinemaCon 2022] Netflix By Jenna Busch/April 27, 2022 8:22 pm EST CinemaCon is happening right now in Las Vegas, with footage from upcoming films being shown to press and distributors to get us all excited for what’s on the way. This time around we have “Beast” starring Idris Elba as a man with his teenage daughter being hunted by a lion in South Africa....

Bridgerton Season 2 Ending Explained: An Ending With The Promise Of A New Beginning Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 25, 2022 9:00 am EST Warning: major spoilers ahead for “Bridgerton” season 2. Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” based on Julia Quinn’s Regency-era romance series, opened a Jane Austen-esque portal when the show first aired in 2020. The raw appeal of the series understandably resided in the portrayal of flawed characters struggling to fit in with the society of the time, and the show’s central romance between Simon (Rege-Jean Page) and Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) was something truly special to behold....

Easter Sunday Trailer: A Comedian Returns Home In The Filipino Version Of Friday Universal Pictures By Ben F. Silverio/May 9, 2022 8:44 am EST Who would have thought that Steven Spielberg would be a champion for Filipino Americans in Hollywood? In his 1991 film “Hook,” the acclaimed filmmaker introduced the world to Rufio, Peter Pan’s successor as the leader of the Lost Boys in Neverland. The character was played by Dante Basco and, for many in the audience, it was the very first time they were seeing a Filipino American performer in a leading role in a Hollywood production....

Goodbye, C.W. Longbottom Apple TV+ “Mythic Quest” season 3 will continue to explore the workplace dynamics at headquarters for a popular MMORPG game. The series focuses most of its attention on arrogant creative genius Ian (Rob McElhenney, also the show’s co-creator) and his stubborn, equally genius co-creative director Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao). The second season of “Mythic Quest,” though, included not one but two episodes entirely about old-school writer C.W. Longbottom. One explored his early days as a science fiction novelist, with “Silicon Valley” actor Josh Brener playing his younger self, while the other saw a modern-day C....

Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Oscar Isaac Suited Up As Marvel’s Moon Knight Marvel Studios/Empire By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 11, 2022 2:05 pm EST Marvel is about to go truly supernatural on us. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe started out with plausibly scientific (a phrase I use extremely loosely) explanations for superheroes and their powers: Thor and the Asgardians are merely aliens turned into human myth; Hulk was a super-soldier serum gone horribly wrong; Tony Stark was able to build his suits in a cave with a box of scraps, etc....

How A Busy Department Store Inspired Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre Bryanston Distributing Company By Miyako Pleines/April 29, 2022 3:27 pm EST Every good slasher villain has their weapon of choice. Michael is very into kitchen knives. Jason loves the machete. Freddy has his extremely unique and oh-so-terrifying glove knives, and Leatherface, the misunderstood murderer of Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” has his chainsaw. It’s an iconic chainsaw, yellow and sufficiently greased up, and when you see it on screen, you just know it’s helped carve up a lot of bodies — animal and human — in its lifetime....

Kimi Ending Explained: Can You Hear Me Now? Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Feb. 14, 2022 11:04 am EST Steven Soderbergh has, once again, dropped another gripping, terrific film on a streaming service. His seventh film after his so-called retirement, the paranoid surveillance thriller “Kimi” sees the director/cinematographer/editor once again grabbing ahold of a traditional genre piece and transforming it into a thoughtful, stylish picture, never losing the inherent pulpiness of the material....