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Taylor Sheridan’s Latest Yellowstone Spin-Off 1932 Switches Digits, Is Now Titled 1923 Paramount+ By Eric Vespe/June 20, 2022 10:24 pm EST One of the crazier success stories in all of TV and film is just how Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” has set the small screen on fire. This series is like crack for dads and grandparents and it’s quickly becoming the Boomer MCU as we get more and more spin-off series surrounding the Kevin Costner-starring “Yellowstone....

The 13 Best The Expanse Characters Ranked Prime Video By Caroline Cao/Feb. 10, 2022 7:11 pm EST Set in a galaxy inhabited by billions of human bodies, the cast of “The Expanse” is populated by people from all walks of life. Focusing on the challenges of space colonization in the 24th century and the rise of a mysterious and powerful alien substance known as the protomolecule, the “The Expanse” was an enthralling six-season series with a fanbase so dedicated that it convinced Prime Video to revive the show after its initial cancelation....

A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson Simon and Schuster Elim Garak isn’t special to “Star Trek” fans alone. He’s also part of actor Andrew Robinson in a unique way. The charming-yet-wily Cardassian tailor (and spy) called Deep Space Nine his home, but Garak’s too big a personality to be contained by its steel corridors (or with a word from Dr. Bashir, his unlikely best friend.) Robinson grew him that way from the start, creating an in-character diary to guide him through Garak’s behavior....

…The eff did you just say to me? The SubGenius Foundation The above nonsense is a brief rundown on the central tenets of The Church of the SubGenius, a religion that worships a 1950s salesman named “Bob,” and involves a lot of aliens, sub-deities, bizarro iconography, and pop culture saints. The Church was born of an outsider’s resentment of the mainstream, a general hate of organized religion, and an abiding affection for kitsch....

The Daily Stream: Go To War With Urgh! A Music War Filmways Pictures By Witney Seibold/March 30, 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 Movie: “Urgh! A Music War” Where You Can Stream It: Kanopy The Pitch: The late ’70s and early ’80s were a wonderfully odd, arty, experimental time for pop music....

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Release Date and Where To Watch It “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” comes back around for its fourth season early in 2022, with two episodes dropping every week starting on February 18, 2022. The streaming service continues to take a different approach from competitor Netflix, which drops entire seasons at once for maximum binge-watching efficiency; instead, Prime Video originals release one or two episodes at a time with the aim of hooking viewers to return week after week....

The Morning Watch: Behind The VFX Of Marvel’s WandaVision, Michelle Yeoh Career Breakdown & More By Rafael Motamayor/April 7, 2022 8:20 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, see how visual effects artists brought “WandaVision” to life in both grand and subtle ways....

The Taxi Driver Controversy Explained: How Martin Scorsese’s Ultra-Violent Ending Shocked Audiences Columbia Pictures By Caroline Madden/Feb. 3, 2022 2:36 pm EST In Martin Scorsese’s gritty drama “Taxi Driver,” Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle, an unhinged, insomniac veteran and New York City cab driver. Travis channels his violent urges and obsession with a presidential campaign worker named Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) into a mission to remove the city of its sleaze and corruption, first by saving a twelve-year-old prostitute named Iris (Jodie Foster)....

The Umbrella Academy Movie We’ll Never Get To See Netflix By Collier Jennings/Jan. 24, 2022 12:36 pm EST “The Umbrella Academy” is one of the more intriguing comic book adapatations currently running. Based on the Dark Horse Comics series by writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Bá, the show follows the exploits of the Hargreeves family, a group of seven super-powered siblings who gather together after their father’s death to prevent the end of the world....

Upcoming Sequels To Keep On Your Radar In 2022 Sony Pictures Animation By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 27, 2022 10:55 am EST (Welcome to On Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.) Like many of you readers out there, I wish Hollywood would focus less on making sequels, spinoffs, and/or prequels to every movie that enjoys a modicum of box office success and more on crafting original films that takes risks or strive to avoid recycling the same elements (narrative or technical) over and over....

William vs. The Man in Black HBO The Man in Black’s identity was revealed in a shocking twist at the end of season 1, when the relatively mild-mannered and sweet-hearted William (Jimmi Simpson) turned out to have become the Man in Black as he aged. The first season deals with morality in very binary, computer hacker-inspired terms, with visitors deciding upon entering the park whether they want to be a “white hat” or a “black hat,” symbolically representing good and evil through haberdashery....

Why Lon Chaney’s London After Midnight Is The Holy Grail Of Lost Cinema Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Anya Stanley/Feb. 2, 2022 11:26 am EST You know “Dracula,” Tod Browning’s landmark Universal horror film, but have you seen the director’s first dip into vampiric waters? It was 1927, years before Bela Lugosi would make horror history as Count Dracula; amid the opening of the Holland Tunnel and the advent of talkies with “The Jazz Singer,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures released “London After Midnight,” also known as “The Hypnotist....

Why Servant Season 4 Will End The Series, According To M. Night Shyamalan Apple TV+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 21, 2022 2:34 pm EST The third season of Apple TV+’s dark thriller “Servant” drops today, and it’s already been renewed for a fourth and final season ahead of its premiere. Now, series creator M. Night Shyamalan is explaining his decision to end the show after forty episodes. The showrunner spoke with TVLine about the show’s final season, which does not yet have a premiere date....

Why The Batman Director Matt Reeves Passed On Ben Affleck’s ‘James Bondian’ Script Warner Bros. It’s well-known that Ben Affleck was going to co-write, direct, and star in “The Batman” before he stepped away from the movie for a myriad of reasons (many of them personal). According to Joe Manganiello, who was originally lined up to reprise his “Justice League” role as the super-villain Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke, in the film, Affleck’s script had a lot of similarities to David Fincher’s 1997 thriller “The Game....

Al Pacino Bit Off More Than He Could Chew Preparing For Serpico Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/April 4, 2022 9:43 am EST Thanks to Sidney Lumet’s classic 1973 film “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino, the Serpico name has become shorthand for a lone honest cop struggling against a corrupt system. This trope of the individual versus the system is a recurring one in Lumet’s films, with Pacino’s bank robber in “Dog Day Afternoon” and Peter Finch’s “mad-as-hell” newscaster in “Network” being two other prominent ’70s examples....

Björk Played A Key Role In Crafting Her Character For The Northman Focus Features By Mike Shutt/April 20, 2022 9:29 am EST We never thought we would ever see Björk in a film ever again. While her performance in Lars von Trier’s 2000 musical “Dancer in the Dark” is spellbinding, her experience on the film was anything but that. Von Trier has rarely received the greatest word of mouth in how he treats the people he works with, and back in a 2017 Facebook post, Björk accused him (not by name but by nationality) of sexually harassing her during the making of that movie....

Clips Round-Up: Boon Intimidates, So Cold The River Washes You In Fear, & More! [Exclusive] Cinedigm By Max Evry/March 24, 2022 5:48 pm EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: “Boon” “So Cold the River” “Godforsaken” “The Institute” Boon First up we have Tommy Flanagan and Gabrielle Carteris having a confrontational moment at a restaurant in an exclusive clip from the new action flick “Boon....

Don’t Expect Stranger Things Season 5 To Be As Long As Season 4 Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/July 4, 2022 4:50 pm EST This season of “Stranger Things” followed the movie trend of making everything about as big as portion sizes in American restaurants: excessively big. Season 4 had a lot of good things about it, from brilliant uses of ’80s songs, one of the coolest, most metal TV characters of the year, and also Sadie Sink giving an incredible dramatic performance....

Every Season Of The Walking Dead, Ranked Worst To Best Gene Page/AMC By Leah Marilla Thomas/Jan. 5, 2022 1:01 pm EST “The Walking Dead” is moving into the final stretch of its final season, ending an era. Did you make it through all 11 seasons of this wildly popular apocalypse series, or did you drop off after your favorite character got killed off or a storyline took a wacky turn? The show has had a healthy run with ups and downs....

Horror Movie Child Stars You Wouldn’t Recognize Today Warner Bros. Pictures By Joe Garza/May 26, 2022 1:13 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Children are often used to great effect in horror movies. When they’re potential victims, they can really get the audience invested in the story as no one wants to see harm come to something so harmless. Likewise, children can make perfect monsters because who would expect an innocent little kid to be the personification of evil?...