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Starstruck Season 2 First Look: The Underrated BBC Rom-Com Returns Next Month HBO Max By Shania Russell/Jan. 11, 2022 3:14 pm EST The “Starstruck”-shaped hole in your heart will soon be filled because BBC’s hit rom-com series is almost back! In lieu of an official premiere date, we got word from series creator and star Rose Matafeo that the romantic absurdity will continue next month when Jessie (Matafeo) and Tom (Nikesh Patel) return to our screens....

The Boys’ Erin Moriarty On The ‘Amazing, Hilarious, And Scarring’ Herogasm Episode [Exclusive] Prime Video This article contains potential spoilers for current and future episodes of “The Boys” season 3. Season 3 of “The Boys” and its shrinkable new superhero, Termite, have already given us their own disturbing explode-a-butt rendition of a certain Ant-Man and Thanos meme, but if you thought that was graphic, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The upcoming sixth episode of “The Boys” season 3 will be adapting the controversial “Herogasm” storyline from the “Boys” comics by Garth Ennis and John McCrea, and let’s just say it involves the Boys infiltrating a superhero orgy....

The Daily Stream: You’re The Worst Is Actually The Best FX By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 2, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “You’re the Worst” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: An anti-love story, Stephen Falk’s “You’re the Worst” chronicles the caustic, messed-up, darkly funny, and begrudgingly romantic relationship between two self-destructive cynics....

The Duffer Brothers Want To ‘Pass The Baton’ To Someone Else For The Stranger Things Spin-Off, But Remain ‘Very Involved’ Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 4, 2022 4:06 pm EST Netflix has been floating the idea of a “Stranger Things” spin-off for a while now, and a continuation of the wildly successful big-budget saga feels like a no-brainer. Now, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer have shared details about the future of the “Stranger Things” world, revealing that they plan to take more of a backseat in the upcoming project....

The Equalizer 3 Already Has A Script, And Denzel Washington Is Returning To Star Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 12, 2022 5:30 pm EST Great news for anyone who loves movies where Denzel Washington gets to beat the brakes off bad guys (see: everyone), as the third installment of Antoine Fuqua’s “The Equalizer” series is said to be on its way with the star returning and a script already written....

The Failure Of The Halo Movie Gave Us A Sci-Fi Classic Sony Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/March 17, 2022 8:45 am EST “Halo” will be bursting onto your TV screen in a completely unplayable way (read: as a TV show) on March 24 when the series finally hits Paramount+, and my has the road leading up to this moment been a bumpy one. If you’ve been checked out from the nonplayable “Halo” saga, which has not seen the success of the very playable “Halo” series (read: the video games), this might come as a surprise, but Microsoft has been courting movie and TV execs with the allure of Master Chief’s popularity for well over a decade....

The Harry Potter Great Hall Props That Were Surprisingly Real Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 1, 2022 11:49 am EST “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts” is streaming on HBO Max, and it has renewed interest in the making of the “Harry Potter” films. Back in 2009, there was a documentary called “Creating the World of Harry Potter: The Magic Begins,” where a surprising bit of info about the first film was revealed – info that the reunion elaborated on....

The Release Of Stranger Things Season 4 Vol. 2 Broke Netflix This Morning Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 1, 2022 12:47 pm EST The Upside Down has managed to break the internet. “Stranger Things 4” volume 2 is currently streaming on Netflix, leaving fans of the show to scramble and click on the play button as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this led to the entire platform crashing around the time the new volumed dropped, around 3 a....

The Sci-Fi Classic Featured In Star Trek: Strange New World Has A Cool Trek Connection Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 5, 2022 9:15 am EST This post contains minor spoilers for the first episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” begins with a mission statement. It’s not Captain Kirk’s traditional spiel about “boldly going where no man has gone before.” It’s also not series protagonist Captain Pike’s (Anson Mount) words of wisdom that introduce the newest “Trek” series....

The UK Ratings Blunder That Traumatized A Generation Nepenthe Productions By Lee Adams/March 21, 2022 4:43 pm EST The early days of video rental in the United Kingdom was like the wild west of home entertainment. For people in the UK, at least. Long before Blockbuster arrived and edged out local outlets, you were just as likely to find a few shelves of VHS tapes behind a curtain at a petrol station or tucked away beside the meat counter in a grocery store....

How Michael Dorn Helped To Create Star Trek’s Klingon Culture Paramount By Andrew Housman/May 4, 2022 12:09 pm EST “Star Trek” has introduced an endless array of alien cultures over its decades-spanning history, but perhaps none are as immediately recognizable as the Klingons. Even to those uninitiated in the world of “Trek,” the Klingons have become a symbol of the franchise itself, playing significant roles in all of the series since the original....

How Ti West Recreated X’s Retro-Horror Aesthetic A24 By Caroline Madden/April 8, 2022 10:17 am EST “X” marks Ti West’s first horror feature in nearly 10 years, and the articulate genre filmmaker delivers a splashy and reflective take on the slasher genre. Set in 1979, “X” follows a group of filmmakers with artistic and economic aspirations who travel to a rural farmhouse in Texas to create a low-budget porn film, “The Farmer’s Daughter....

Jennifer Jason Leigh And Ariana DeBose Join Chris Pine’s Directorial Debut, Poolman 20th Century Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 16, 2022 2:44 pm EST Chris Pine’s directorial debut is shaping up, and the Los Angeles-set film has just added two smajor names to its cast. Variety is reporting that “The Hateful Eight” star Jennifer Jason Leigh is now on board for the film, titled “Poolman.” Newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) will also be joining her in the film....

Jodie Comer To Star In The End We Start From, An Apocalyptic Feminist Thriller BBCA By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 10, 2022 10:18 am EST Fresh off winning a BAFTA for “Help” in the Leading Actress category, Jodie Comer is already moving on to her next big project, in which things are about to get extremely apocalyptic. Comer is set to play the role of a mother navigating the end of the world in the upcoming feminist thriller, “The End We Start From,” Deadline reports (via The A....

Mission: Impossible Vinyl Soundtracks Giveaway: Win Mondo’s M:I Volume 1 Soundtracks & Slipcase Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/May 4, 2022 2:24 pm EST It’s been far too long since we last saw Tom Cruise do dangerous stunts on an enormous screen but luckily, he’s heading back to theaters soon with two biggies on the way. First there’s Top Gun: Maverick," a followup to his classic ’80s film, then comes the latest entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise, 2023’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1....

Netflix Seems Like It Will Finally Crack Down On Password Sharing Elliott Cowand Jr. / Shutterstock By Witney Seibold/April 19, 2022 5:31 pm EST Netflix estimates that “over 100 million” of their subscribers worldwide and 30 million in the United States and Canada are engaged in password sharing. That is: One subscriber will pay for the service (Netflix costs $9.99, $15.49, or $19.99 a month, depending on the package you select), and will allow another user to sign in at a different location using the same password....

Our Father Trailer: A New Netflix Documentary Sheds Light On A Fertility Doctor’s Dark Secret Netflix By Danielle Ryan/April 14, 2022 2:21 pm EST Content warning: The following contains discussion and descriptions of medical malpractice and sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised. Imagine taking an ancestry DNA test and discovering that the man who raised you wasn’t your biological father, as you had always believed. Now imagine finding half-sibling matches all over your city, with new ones popping up each day as more people take more tests out of sheer curiosity....

Pedro Pascal Perfects His Nicolas Cage Impression In Deleted Scene From The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Lionsgate By Joshua Meyer/April 30, 2022 11:46 am EST “What do you say we cut the chit-chat, a-hole?” That’s a line from Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, played by Nicolas Cage, in Michael Bay’s 1996 blockbuster, “The Rock.” Maybe you already knew that — and were even thinking it as you clicked on this article — but it might help to have a refresher on the origin of that line as you head into a new deleted scene from “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” which also stars Cage as a fictionalized version of himself....

Robert Pattinson Has Mapped Out Batman’s Psychology For Several Sequels Warner Bros. By Jeff Ewing/Dec. 20, 2021 3:41 pm EST Robert Pattinson is one of the most exciting actors working today, working with exceptional directors in the last few years like the Safdie brothers (“Good Time”), Claire Denis (“High Life”), Christopher Nolan (“Tenet”), and Robert Eggers (“The Lighthouse”). He’s become known for the extensive preparation and intensity he brings to each role (like how he stayed drunk, ate mud, and pissed himself for “The Lighthouse”), so it’s easy to explain the excitement surrounding his turn as Bruce Wayne for Matt Reeves’ forthcoming superhero-noir epic “The Batman....

The 15 Best Iron Man Comics You Need To Read Marvel Comics By Joe Garza/June 28, 2022 3:01 pm EST Because of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man is experiencing a level of mainstream love and recognition he’s never had outside of devoted comic book circles. While it may seem hard to believe today, Kevin Feige’s decision to kick off an expansive film franchise with Iron Man in 2008 was considered a pretty risky move, as the character was never really seen as an A-lister like Hulk or Wolverine....