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Here’s When You Can Watch Morbius At Home Sony Pictures By Jeff Ewing/May 2, 2022 3:05 pm EST “Morbius,” the newest Venom-verse outing, came to theaters and departed with a bit of a whimper, suffering a steep box office drop from first to second week. The long-delayed newest entry in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters sees the bloodthirsty Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) splice his DNA with a vampire bat to cure a rare blood disorder, only to discover it gives him barely controllable bloodlust and a host of powers that oddly neither humans nor bats have....

How Alfred Hitchcock Changed Horror Movies Forever Peter Dunne/Getty Images By Miyako Pleines/Feb. 15, 2022 8:57 am EST You would be hard pressed to find anyone even remotely interested in film who didn’t know who Alfred Hitchcock is. This famous filmmaker is as synonymous with cinematic history as the moon is important to the Earth we live on. His films often fall into the category of “thriller,” but some of them occasionally bleed over into the horror genre....

How American History X Made That Infamous Curb Stomp So Convincing New Line Cinema By Steven Ward/June 26, 2022 9:35 pm EST It’s rightfully considered a contender for being one of the most disturbing scenes ever filmed — yet, anyone who has watched “American History X” knows that its curb-stomp scene, though brutally visceral, is far from the only moment of discomfort and horror found in a tale about a Venice Beach gang of neo-Nazis, called the Disciples of Christ (D....

Indiana Jones 5 First Look: It’s Not The Years, It’s The Mileage Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai AND Ben Pearson/May 26, 2022 3:27 pm EST Indiana Jones has invaded Star Wars Celebration, and we couldn’t be more excited. That’s right: Well over a decade after Harrison Ford returned to his famous archaeologist role with “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” in what certainly seemed like the last adventure we’d ever see, the aged movie star is back in the saddle again for another go-around....

Last Night In Soho Comes To Digital And Blu-Ray In January Focus Features By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 28, 2021 10:51 am EST Despite some initial handwringing that the ongoing pandemic will have forever changed theatrical moviegoing (it undeniably has) for the worse (that remains to be seen!), 2021 has shaped up to be a very respectable year for movies in general. After much of the 2020 line-up experienced numerous delays and lengthy dry spells, this past year in film largely adapted to this new climate that we find ourselves in — we survived the great HBO Max day-and-date kerfuffle, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” served as a long-overdue return to theaters for much of the general public, and sprinkled throughout it all we received plenty of idiosyncratic, fascinating, and occasionally messy personal projects from established filmmakers....

Martin Scorsese Knew Scarface Would Never Fly With Film Critics Michael Tullberg/Getty Images By Shae Sennett/April 15, 2022 7:24 pm EST Some of the greatest artists almost seem like they can foretell the future, and renowned filmmaker Martin Scorsese has bordered on prophetic more than once. The “Taxi Driver” director has predicted the stardom of several huge names in show business, including household names like Laura Dern (via Indiewire). Actor Steven Bauer, known for his performance in Brian De Palma’s “Scarface,” recently revealed yet another of Scorsese’s prescient forecasts in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter....

Marvel And DC’s New 2022 Hallmark Christmas Ornaments Feature The Batman, Black Panther, Thor & More Hallmark By Ethan Anderton/June 11, 2022 9:00 am EST If you’re a fan of Marvel or DC Comics, Hallmark has a new collection of ornaments from your favorite superhero movies and comic books to get you in the holiday spirit. Along with a handful of new ornaments from the films of Marvel Studios, such as “Thor: Love & Thunder” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” there’s also a pair of decorations from “The Batman” and a certain canine superhero from “DC’s League of Super-Pets....

What else is in the Monkey’s Paw? Focus Features Not much else is known about “GOAT,” but given that Monkeypaw’s films usually have a theatrical run, this could see Aker and Bronkie crossing over to the big screen for the first time. They previously wrote and produced the “Limetown” podcast before adapting it for streaming television. The “Limetown” TV series, starring Jessica Biel and Stanley Tucci, premiered on Facebook Watch in 2019 and is currently streaming on Peacock....

Robert Pattinson Has Given Batman’s No-Kill Code A Lot Of Thought Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Jan. 25, 2022 6:57 pm EST Batman has one very important rule: he doesn’t kill people. Through almost every iteration of the character, save for a handful of grimdark Frank Miller books, Batman is not a killer. His primary goal is justice, which in his mind involves throwing the criminals in prison or Arkham Asylum, where they usually end up breaking out and going on to do more crimes....

Rory Kinnear On Playing All The Men Of Alex Garland’s Men [Interview] A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2022 5:00 pm EST Rory Kinnear is a man of many faces. Or in the case of “Men,” he’s many men of one face. In Alex Garland’s cryptic new film, Kinnear plays at least 90% of the cast, appearing as the face of multiple men (and one boy) encountered by Jessie Buckley’s Harper when she takes a trip to a rural cottage in an attempt to get some distance from a deeply traumatic event....

Slow Cinema To Quicken The Heart: The Films Of Tsai Ming-Liang Grasshopper Films By Witney Seibold/May 11, 2022 3:00 pm EST “Slow cinema” isn’t so much a movement as it is a style. As the name implies, Slow cinema is characterized by long, extended shots, often without music or dialogue, wherein the camera rests, simply observing for minutes at a time. Perhaps it will be a slow tracking shot of a muddy Eastern European farm, as in the works of Bela Tarr....

Super Pumped Season 2 Set At Showtime, Will Tell The Facebook Story Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 15, 2022 6:50 pm EST Weeks ahead of the anthology series’ first season, Showtime has ordered a second set of “Super Pumped” episodes. The show’s first season tackled the behind-the-scenes drama that followed Uber as it raced to the top of the rideshare industry, while THR reports that the second season is set to tell the story of the relationship between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg....

‘I like the wine, not the label.’ CBC Television “Schitt’s Creek” has received a lot of praise and accolades for its portrayal of the LGBTQ community, particularly the wry pansexual David Rose (Dan Levy). After an unexpected tryst with his female friend, Stevie, she attempts to ask David about his sexuality while the two are shopping for a bottle of wine. Once David realizes what she is getting at, he explains his sexuality using a wine metaphor that many of us can employ the next time we try to explain our dating life to a confused relative....

The Batman Funkos Help You Bring Vengeance Home In Toy Form Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Jan. 7, 2022 4:52 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We don’t have that much longer to wait until “The Batman” finally arrives (go away, pandemic, and let us watch movies). The film hits theaters on March 4, 2022, and today there’s some news about the Funko Pop! figures that you just might spend all your money on....

The Book Of Boba Fett Fixes One Of The Mandalorian Season 2’s Strangest Mistakes Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2022 11:43 am EST The second season of “The Mandalorian” brought the surprise appearance of Luke Skywalker. However, since Mark Hamill has aged quite a bit since filming “Return of the Jedi,” a hefty amount of visual effects were required in order to bring back the young Jedi Master. Unfortunately, as talented as the VFX artists at Industrial Light & Magic have been time and time again, their digitally de-aged version of a younger Mark Hamill wasn’t nearly as impressive as it should have been....

The Classic Star Trek Episodes That Inspired Strange New Worlds Episode 3 Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 19, 2022 11:00 am EST The third episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” — entitled “Ghosts of Illyria,” written by Akela Cooper and Bill Wolkoff — involves a mysterious contagious disease that infiltrates the Enterprise after an away team visits a seemingly abandoned planet called Illyria. Those infected find themselves, like moths, drawn toward and mesmerized by bright lights, likely due to a sudden lack of vitamin D....

The Reason Danny DeVito Had To Join It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia FXX By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 2, 2022 5:56 pm EST With fifteen seasons under its belt, it’s almost hard to remember an era of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” that didn’t include Danny DeVito. But longtime fans will recall that the FXX show was actually DeVito-less for its entire seven-episode first season. It turns out, the famed actor was actually brought on to play Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Dennis’ (Glenn Howerton) dad, Frank, in a move to save the still-burgeoning series....

The Surprising Influence H.R. Giger Had On Batman Forever Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Entertainment By Collier Jennings/Jan. 14, 2022 6:01 pm EST “Batman Forever” has gained something of an infamous reputation in the halls of comic book cinema. The 1995 film, helmed by the late Joel Schumacher and starring Val Kilmer as the Dark Knight, was a box office success upon its debut. It made $52.2 million on its opening weekend, which eventually led to a $336....

The Unassuming Origins Behind Bruce Willis’ Signature Die Hard Scene By Miyako Pleines/April 9, 2022 10:50 am EST It’s always great when a movie is quotable, when you can take catchy lines from a film and repurpose them to fit into your own daily life. Most likely, at one point or another, you have found yourself, in a moment of disorientation, telling someone, “I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!...

Situations I Hope to See with Michael Imperioli in Season 2 HBO Maybe it’s because Michael Imperioli recently stepped back into his Moltisanti roots for voiceover work in David Chase’s “The Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” but I’m now thinking of all of the perfectly ridiculous situations that could occur at the White Lotus that will only be improved by Imperioli’s smart mouth. Don’t worry, I’ve made a list....