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One Bad Dad Warner Bros. Peacemaker (real name Christopher Smith) has some pretty serious daddy issues. That’s really not a surprise, given that his father is the hateful white supremacist supervillain known as the White Dragon. In “The Suicide Squad,” there’s a scene where Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), and Peacemaker all have a chat about dads. It turns out that both Bloodsport and Peacemaker have truly awful fathers, and that small moment led into Gunn developing the character of Auggie:...

The Morning Watch: The Matrix Resurrections Honest Trailer, Creating Dune’s Training Room & More Warner Bros. Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, watch the Honest Trailer jack into “The Matrix Resurrections” and find out how far up its own ass this sequel can get....

The Most Difficult Part Of Filming Tom And Greg’s Succession Scenes, According To Matthew Macfadyen HBO By Sandy Schaefer/June 14, 2022 11:45 am EST Is there any TV show currently on the air (or, rather, streaming) as quotable as HBO’s “Succession”? The only thing more stinging than creator Jesse Armstrong’s satirical portrait of America’s “one-percent” are the barbed comments the series’ characters fling at one another without blinking an eye. Still, more than anyone else in the Roy family’s orbit, it’s hapless son-in-law Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) and his one-on-ones with blundering cousin Greg Hirsch (Nicholas Braun) that I find myself thinking about on a weekly, if not daily, basis....

The National Association Of Theatre Owners Invites Netflix To Give The Big Screen A Try Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 26, 2022 6:28 pm EST This week, the annual film convention CinemaCon is putting representatives for the industry’s biggest companies in the same room. What’s the result of this meeting of the minds? Apparently, some major ideas for how to fix both the ailing theatrical model and the recently unstable streaming model....

The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder Gets A Season 2 Renewal From Disney+ Disney+ By Jenna Busch/April 18, 2022 10:57 pm EST The Disney+ reboot “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” is officially in production for a second season on the streaming service. The news comes right before the season one finale on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. The adventures of Penny Proud (Kyla Pratt) continue, giving us a look at her family, her friends, Puff the dog, and her neighbors....

Why Peter Jackson Cut Tom Bombadil From The Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema By Joshua Meyer/March 29, 2022 9:28 am EST When “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” hit theaters in December 2001, it was a breathtaking cinematic achievement that helped a new generation of fans discover the books of J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson’s film adapted Tolkien’s 1954 novel of the same name, the first in his three-volume “Lord of the Rings” epic....

Why The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers Was Missing A Few Key Players Disney By Collier Jennings/March 22, 2022 1:32 pm EST Of the many, many, MANY reboots and revivals hitting streaming services, “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” is a standout. The return of Emilio Estevez as Coach Gordon Bombay in the original “Mighty Ducks” trilogy, alongside original screenwriter Steven Brill, helped the series keep the same spirit as the original films....

A Love Letter To The Makeup Of Dune, Which Should’ve Won An Oscar Tonight Warner Bros. Pictures By Collier Jennings/March 27, 2022 8:15 pm EST The 94th annual Oscars opted to shake up its usual approach to presenting awards by choosing to exclude eight of those awards from live presentation. This has caused some contention among the film community, especially as many of those awards happen to be the technical areas that really make a movie shine....

Thieves gonna thieve Netflix Adding insult to injury, this also isn’t the first time “Lupin” has been at the center of a heist controversy. Last October, a man attempted to rob an Italian church oratory and told police he was inspired by the character on the Netflix show. He donned a similar leather jacket and claimed to have studied his methods, going as far as to wait for church bells to ring to help cover the sound of him smashing through the glass door to the oratory bar....

Christopher Lloyd Will Return As His Roseanne Character, Lou, In The Conners ABC By BJ Colangelo/April 15, 2022 9:52 am EST Living acting legend and borderline national treasure Christopher Lloyd has really been racking up the even more impressive additions to his resume as of late. Last month we learned that everyone’s favorite time-traveler would be joining the season 3 cast of “The Mandalorian,” and today we’ve learned that Lloyd will be reprising one of his fan-favorite TV characters, with “Lou” set to return for the upcoming episode of “The Conners....

Commander Cody And Gungi Are Returning In The Bad Batch Season 2 Lucasfilm By Caroline Cao/May 29, 2022 6:20 pm EST “The Bad Batch” are marching for their comeback. At Star Wars Celebration, host David Collins sat with executive producer and supervising director Brad Rau, executive producer and head writer Jen Corbett, story editor Matt Michnovetz, veteran clone voice actor Dee Bradley Baker, and Omega’s voice actress Michelle Ang to discuss season 1 and the Bad Batch’s future....

Don Cheadle And Adam Scott Team To Produce Voter Suppression TV Drama Quitman 10+2 HBO Max By Shania Russell/May 4, 2022 11:35 am EST Don Cheadle and Adam Scott are joining forces to produce a TV drama delving into the story behind the Quitman 10+2. The series will trace the 2010 arrest of a dozen Black politicians across Georgia who sought to fight against voter suppression but ended up charged with voter fraud....

Flux Gourmet Trailer: Sound Effects And Gastrointestinal Disorders Come Together IFC Films By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 25, 2022 1:22 pm EST Peter Strickland is back with yet-another twisted horror drenched in class-conscious dark humor, this time about a dubious “art collective” diving into the world of gastronomy. Another trailer for Strickland’s latest indie horror, “Flux Gourmet” just dropped, and the film seems to be as wild as any Strickland canvas, filled with absurd aspirations in an alternate universe of sorts, wherein a chunk of the character’s career goals revolve around the poetics and politics of food....

How Doctor Strange Fails America Chavez Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/May 12, 2022 11:00 am EST Naturally, a movie with a title like “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has a lot of moving parts. With all the interconnected storylines and a growing list of heroes, that’s a given in any recent Marvel movie — and certainly one that involves smashing through the multiverse while a powerful witch wields chaos magic....

Lupita Nyong’o’s Method Acting In Us Terrified Her Co-Stars Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/May 11, 2022 2:26 pm EST Many strange things are afoot in Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror film “Us.” The film’s opening scenes are a collage of seemingly unconnected nightmare images: A vintage TV set plays footage of the 1986 nationwide fundraiser Hands Across America. A wall of rabbits in cages. A carnival in the 1980s. A young girl in a hall of mirrors....

Rob Zombie Reveals First Look At Lester The Werewolf In The Munsters Rob Zombie By BJ Colangelo/April 26, 2022 12:04 am EST The casting announcements for Rob Zombie’s cinematic reimagining of “The Munsters” just keep getting better and … hairier. Zombie once again took to Instagram to give the first look at another branch of the Munsters monster family tree. Tomas Boykin, who previously worked with Zombie on his film “3 From Hell,” has joined the cast to play Lester, Lily Munster’s werewolf brother....

Saturday Night Live Cut Pete Davidson’s Hilarious Rap Tribute To Lorne Michaels, But You Can Watch It Now NBC By Ethan Anderton/May 22, 2022 2:33 pm EST Last night, Pete Davidson bid farewell to “Saturday Night Live” with one of his signature appearances at the Weekend Update desk. It was pretty much the only thing Davidson did for the show’s 47th season finale, but apparently that’s because a pre-recorded sketch somehow ended up being cut from the broadcast....

Squid Game Creator Developing Satire About Popularity Of Squid Game, Because Why Not Netflix By Shania Russell/May 19, 2022 4:41 pm EST Despite the fact that everyone and their mom has been pestering “Squid Game” writer, director, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk about getting a second season of the hit show on screen as soon as humanly possible, Hwang can’t help but make alternate plans. But if it makes you feel any better, this one is related to “Squid Game,” in a meta-fiction sort of way....

Steven Spielberg Shut Down A Colin Trevorrow Complaint About Jurassic World Dominion In Hilarious Fashion Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/June 10, 2022 9:22 pm EST As you can see from the photo above, there are seven protagonists in a big scene in “Jurassic World Dominion.” That’s not only a whole lot of cast members to keep straight in the story, but if you’re putting them in one place, particularly a small place, the blocking is going to rival a Broadway dance number....

And that’s how you bend and snap … “Legally Blonde” fans have been bending and snapping ever since the 2001 movie was released, but the origin of the incredible (and apparently effective) move is not well known. For the unfamiliar, the “bend and snap” move was introduced in the film when Elle tells her manicurist Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge) about a move that is guaranteed to get you a date. Elle sees that Paulette is desperate to woo the cute UPS guy who often stops by her salon and makes conversation with her, but she’s always shy and can hardly say two words to him without melting into the ground....