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Horror Villains Who Were More Right Than We Want To Admit Paramount By Bee Delores/June 3, 2022 7:59 pm EST Horror villains are rarely worthy of our empathy. Most often, the genre’s greatest transgressors are simply, unequivocally evil for no good reason, and they commit murders strictly for mayhem’s sake. On occasion, however, the big baddies’ evil-doing stems from deep-seated pain, trauma, and tragedy incurred earlier in their lives. These characters unleash terror upon the world as a way to achieve some sort of justice and retribution....

How Quentin Tarantino Cobbled Together Christopher Walken’s Famous Pulp Fiction Scene Miramax Films By Miyako Pleines/Feb. 22, 2022 10:12 am EST There are many memorable moments in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Royales with cheese. Jules’ majestic watch. Jack Rabbit Slim’s. Poor, poor Marvin. But one moment that often stands out above all the rest is The Watch Scene. You know the one, where a serious-faced Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) delivers the most impeccable speech to a young Butch Coolidge about the watch that has been passed down by the Coolidge men from generation to generation as a family heirloom that has seen and survived three of America’s greatest wars....

Inception Ending Explained: Why It Doesn’t Matter If The Spinning Top Falls Warner Bros. By Lex Briscuso/Jan. 13, 2022 3:55 pm EST When I first saw “Inception” in theatres in 2010, the 2-hour-and-28-minute dreamscape felt like it was five minutes long. It was so engaging, layered, and nuanced that I found it extremely difficult to not give myself over to its story completely. Before I knew it, I was glancing at the time (shut up, we all do it) and nearly two hours had already gone by....

Mickey Rourke Had An Accent In Iron Man 2 Because Mickey Rourke Demanded It Marvel Studios By Andrew Housman/May 6, 2022 5:39 pm EST “Iron Man 2” is an awkward entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, continuing the story of Tony Stark while following up on the big Avengers promise that the previous film’s post-credits scene teased. The characterization of the vengeful tech genius Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash, was unfortunately one of the casualties of this uneven balancing act....

Moon Knight Hired Oscar Isaac’s Brother To Help Act Out The Split Personalities On Set Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 21, 2022 5:42 pm EST With the debut of the Marvel and Disney+ series “Moon Knight” just around the corner, we can’t get enough of Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, and all things Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight. While all superheroes have their “normal/civilian” alter egos, the human conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu is a human man suffering from blackouts and memories from another life due to his dissociative identity disorder....

Mrs. Harris lives for a day After terrorizing us with her steely gaze and no-nonsense attitude in “Phantom Thread,” Lesley Manville turns around to play a frumpy cleaning lady in “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (it’s pronounced Par-EE). Wasting her life away cleaning houses and waiting for her soldier husband to return, Mrs. Harris decides to gather up all her savings and head to Paris, where she makes an immediate impact on those French snobs, including Isabelle Huppert, who this time plays the steely haute couture expert who wants to throw Mrs....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Finally Explains One Of The Oldest Star Wars Relationships Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/May 27, 2022 4:00 pm EST The following contains spoilers for the first two episodes of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” If you’re a “Star Wars” fan (heck, even if you aren’t) you know that line like the back of your head. It’s since become a calling card for Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), as it’s without a doubt her most famous line from any “Star Wars” movie she appeared in....

Outlander Prequel Series In The Works At Starz Starz By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 26, 2022 11:05 am EST “Outlander” is getting ready to premiere its sixth season on Starz next week, and ahead of its arrival comes the news of an “Outlander” prequel. Following in the footsteps of “House of the Dragons,” the upcoming “Game of Thrones” prequel at HBO, “Outlander” will go back in time — or perhaps forward in time, but before the events of the current series — in a new series on Starz....

Pierce Brosnan Turned Down His Chance To Be Batman Because Of The Underpants MGM By Jenna Busch/May 19, 2022 8:51 am EST Before superhero films became the dominant form of entertainment, not everyone looked at them the same way. Costumes that were often created to pop on the page didn’t necessarily translate to live action. Think about the green Hulk with the purple shorts that, no matter how hard anyone has tried, doesn’t really work that well on screen....

Steven Spielberg Introduced Clint Eastwood To The T-Rex From Jurassic Park Universal By Rafael Motamayor/June 8, 2022 4:10 pm EST Everyone remembers the first time they saw a dinosaur, the wonder and the awe of the Brachiosaurus, the terror of the Velociraptors and the T-Rex. While most of us only got to see dinosaurs on the screen during “Jurassic Park” and its many sequels, a lucky few got to see them in person....

The 20 Best Feel-Bad Movies You Need To Watch British Lion Films By Margaret David/Jan. 4, 2022 12:54 pm EST Watching a film is always an emotional commitment. We empathize with the characters, good and bad, and we stay invested in what happens to them. With many movies, we’re looking to feel something positive as the credits roll. A sense of victory, or relief, or, frequently, happiness depending on the type of film....

The impending sale of The CW approaches The CW So, why does it appear as though The CW is cleaning house? Well, as we learned back in January, the network is apparently going to be put up for sale by Paramount and Warner Bros., meaning that it could soon have a new owner. Nexstar Media Group is said to be the major contender and, odds are, if they do buy the network, things are going to change dramatically for all involved....

The Expanse Actor Frankie Adams Talks About Bobbie’s Most Memorable Season 6 Scenes [Interview] Prime Video By Vanessa Armstrong/Jan. 19, 2022 11:50 am EST “The Expanse” had their series finale last week, and packed a whole lot into the last episode, including an amazing action sequence with Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams), Amos Burton (Wes Chatham), and some rail guns. /Film had the chance to talk with Adams about that intense sequence as well as about other aspects of the season (including what Bobbie did after her heart-to-heart with Amos on Ceres) and the show as a whole....

The Girl From Plainville: Release Date, Trailer, And More Hulu By BJ Colangelo/March 2, 2022 5:32 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) In 2014, a teen boy from Massachusetts named Conrad Roy III died by suicide in a K-Mart parking lot. Three years later, his at-the-time girlfriend Michelle Carter was thrust into a very public and heavily scrutinized trial after it was revealed that in the 60,000 text messages the two had exchanged, Carter had on multiple occasions, encouraged Roy to take his own life....

The Nirvana Song In The Batman, Explained Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/March 1, 2022 5:00 pm EST Whenever a new “Batman” movie rolls around, there is a checklist of cinematic items you usually expect to run through. Gothic atmosphere. A colorful rogues’ gallery. High-tech gadgets. Brooding, moody moments. Darkness, no parents, etc. One thing you don’t normally expect to find in a Bat-movie, though, is a Nirvana song. And yet, the very first teaser for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” featured a re-arrangement of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” which appeared on the iconic grunge band’s 1991 album “Nevermind....

The Old Man Trailer: Jeff Bridges Is A Man With A Past, On The Run From The Law 20th Century Television By Jenna Busch/May 16, 2022 3:00 pm EST Today we have a new trailer for the upcoming FX series “The Old Man.” The series stars some pretty heavy hitters including John Lithgow, Jeff Bridges, and Amy Brenneman, and is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry about a man with a past — you know the sort of story I’m talking about....

The untold truth of The Social Network Columbia Pictures Do Final Clubs really exist? And if so, are they as portrayed in the film? Vulture has an interview with an anonymous former-Final Club member/Harvard grad which clears up many of the questions you may have. But the basic gist is that they are like a frat but are “not affiliated with a larger national organization, and nobody lives in them.” The name Final Club is “a relic of a different era” because “back in the day, you would join the freshman club, then I forget what the middle stage was, and then you join the final club your senior year....

The making of an iconic moment Universal Pictures At the end of “The Breakfast Club,” all five of the students serving detention leave the school profoundly changed in some way. Weirdly, a few of them even share passionate kisses outside of the school as their parents pull in to pick them up. Eventually, Brian “The Brain” Johnson begins a voiceover as we watch Vice Principal Vernon read the letter they have left for him in lieu of completing their “assignment....

Why A Key Peacemaker Character Was Recast Halfway Through Filming HBO Max By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 11, 2022 11:45 am EST The streaming premiere of James Gunn’s “Peacemaker” is almost upon us, and as the series approaches its HBO Max debut, details are trickling in about a major casting change that occurred behind-the-scenes and resulted in significant reshoots. “Peacemaker” is a spin-off of “The Suicide Squad” and features John Cena reprising his role as the title antihero, who goes by the name Christopher Smith in his civilian identity....

Why Stanley Kubrick’s Epic Napoleon Film Was Never Made Evening Standard/Getty Images By Devin Meenan/Feb. 10, 2022 6:00 pm EST Even the greatest filmmakers have careers blotted by failure and unrealized projects. Stanley Kubrick’s 13 films made him into one of the most acclaimed directors in cinema history, but his effort to tell the life story of Napoleon Bonaparte was left unrealized. As documented by BBC Culture, Kubrick intended “Napoleon” to be his ninth film, set to be released in the early 1970s....