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The Filipino Princess of Film Paramount According to Pascual’s findings, Jurado became a kindergarten teacher after her career onscreen had wrapped up. She also divorced Ira Jones and married Andrew James Wingate, with whom she had a son. After a second divorce, Elena J. Wingate would pass away in a Los Angeles nursing home on May 19, 1974, her 73rd birthday. While she isn’t a household name with a memorable career, Jurado was a pioneer in the film industry....

Midnight Club Teaser: Spooky Mike Flanagan Series Toasts The Seen Or Unseen, Here Or Not Here Netflix By Erin Brady/June 6, 2022 1:10 pm EST The newest Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House”) project has finally revealed itself, and it’s already giving us major “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” vibes. Netflix premiered the teaser trailer for “The Midnight Club” during the first livestream of Netflix Geeked Week showcase. The adaptation of the 1994 Christopher Pike novel still does not have a release date, but we can already tell that it’s going to be a blast to watch when it finally does drop....

More Bat-Music From The Batman Is Coming To Bat-Streaming This Bat-Friday Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 1, 2022 2:38 pm EST Sometimes, a movie is only as good as its music. Robert Pattinson’s take on Bruce Wayne in “The Batman” looks epic and emo in all the right ways, but the clips we’ve seen so far have mostly been assembled into trailer form, without the context of their specific original score....

Ms. Marvel Is Getting A Special Theatrical Release In Pakistan Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/May 3, 2022 12:22 pm EST The impending release of a new movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — in this case, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which /Film’s Hoai-Tran Bui reviewed here — gives us a good excuse to ask ourselves why these superhero stories continue to hold audiences in thrall. Is it the unrelenting optimism on display from characters who never fail to find solutions to their world-ending problems, particularly at a time when our own everyday reality feels so dark and draconian?...

New Ghostbusters Animated Series Coming To Netflix From Afterlife Team Sony Pictures Releasing By Lex Briscuso/June 8, 2022 11:31 am EST It’s Ghostbusters Day, so it’s only appropriate that we get word of some new “Ghostbusters” coming to your neighborhood. A new “Ghostbusters” animated series is in development within the franchise with Netflix, according to Variety. The series will be a Sony Pictures Animation production with Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan (“Monster House”) of Ghost Corps, Inc....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Returns In First-Look Images From The Disney+ Series Lucasfilm By Rafael Motamayor/March 9, 2022 9:34 am EST It may be that only a Sith deals in absolutes, but we finally have our first look at the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” TV series and it is absolutely worth the wait. It’s been almost 17 years since we last saw Ewan McGregor as Kenobi, and time has not been kind to the Jedi Master, but of course, who can blame him?...

Resident Evil teaser trailer The series tackles two different timelines. The first sees teenage sisters Jade and Billie Wesker after they are sent to New Raccoon City, a manufactured community in a world soon to be ravaged by the sins of the Umbrella Corporation. While all appears normal on the surface, the longer the girls live in the city, the more the harrowing truth becomes visible. What secrets has their father been hiding, and how deep is his involvement with the impending T-virus outbreak?...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Just Showcased One Of Its Most Effective Metaphors Yet Paramount By Danielle Ryan/June 17, 2022 6:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” episode 7. Vulcans are by their very nature binary creatures. Their culture revolves around logic, using structured methods of deduction to arrive at the most rational conclusion. Things are either just or unjust, logical or illogical, correct or incorrect, with no shades of gray between....

Swan Song Director Benjamin Cleary On Envisioning The Future In His Sci-Fi Drama [Interview] AppleTV+ By Ben Pearson/Dec. 16, 2021 3:46 pm EST In 2016, writer/director Benjamin Cleary joined fellow countryman Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) on the short list of Irish filmmakers who have won an Oscar for directing a live-action short film. Five years and another short film later, Cleary is making his feature directorial debut with “Swan Song,” a sci-fi drama set 20 years in the future....

Jude Warner Bros. Jude is the worst by design. He is the creative director of Deus Ex Machina, the video game company that Neo works for. He’s also in Warner Brothers’ pocket, having left integrity entirely behind. His entire function is to be awful, and to embody everything that is atrocious about soulless assembly-line art. He’s less of a character, and more one note played derisively. Does that make him a bad character?...

A Surprisingly Basic and Predictable Story Universal Pictures It doesn’t help that “The 355” has a story with twists that are far too easy to guess too early on. This story isn’t designed to make you puzzle out some surprises, to be clear. But for the stacked cast on the side of the good guys, you can naturally wonder who might be behind the destabilizing weapon that the good guys are trying to stop....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Netflix In March 2022 Focus Features By Lex Briscuso/Feb. 22, 2022 7:20 pm EST You might be experiencing what I’m experiencing lately: the slow-burn dread of my shows coming to an end for the season. Everything I’ve been watching lately — “Euphoria” is an especially good example here — is about to come to a close, or I’ve already binged watched it to death....

The Cult-Classic Action Flicks That Inspired Attack The Block StudioCanal UK By Collier Jennings/April 13, 2022 4:42 pm EST If you haven’t watched “Attack The Block,” you’re missing out. The film takes a novel approach to the alien invasion genre, from its protagonists being a gang of juvenile delinquents to its notable lack of apocalyptic destruction (the aliens are mostly confined to a single South London tower block, and the teens have to dispatch them using makeshift weapons)....

The Daily Stream: Galavant Is The Best Comedy Musical You Haven’t Seen ABC By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 29, 2021 2:25 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: “Galavant” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Way back in days of old, there was a legend told about a hero known as Galavant....

The Sting’s Screenplay Sparked A Laundry List Of Lawsuits Universal Pictures By Lee Adams/June 7, 2022 11:39 am EST Who doesn’t love “The Sting?” It’s one of those ultimate rainy Sunday afternoon movies, or something easygoing to throw on when you’re sick, the cinematic equivalent of a nice hot bowl of chicken noodle soup; comforting, satisfying, and full of tasty goodness. Like all the best crime capers, “The Sting” welcomes us into the gang for two hours while withholding a few key pieces of the puzzle, so we’re in on the scam but also feel the twist in the tale, too....

The Survivor: Release Date, Cast, And More HBO By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 16, 2022 9:14 am 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.) Following the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, HBO Films acquired the exclusive North American rights for Barry Levinson’s “The Survivor” in an eight-figure deal, one of the largest in TIFF history....

Professor X is the Kenny of the X-Men universe 20th Century Studios Indeed, despite being one of the smartest people in the universe (and Reed Richards was there too), Xavier utterly failed to predict that Scarlet Witch Wanda would pose a bigger threat than … Doctor Stephen Strange M.D.? Which results in a gruesome sequence where Wanda breaks Xavier’s neck and turns Mr. Fantastic into linguini. This marks the fourth time we see Charles Xavier die in a Marvel movie, so either Sir Patrick Stewart (or PatStew for short) really loves doing death scenes, or someone at Marvel really hates his guts....

Uncharted Final Trailer: Tom Holland’s Hunt For Treasure Edges Closer To Release Sony Pictures By Shania Russell/Jan. 27, 2022 11:06 am EST The much-anticipated adaptation of Sony’s megapopular “Uncharted” video game series is finally nearing its arrival. This close to the finish line, surely there’s nothing left to get in their way … then again, this movie already has one of those special Wikipedia pages with an entire subsection dedicated to just how many times it’s been pushed back....

The Inciting Incident New Line Cinema “Blade Trinity” introduces movie fans to the Nightstalkers, a group of vampire hunters that includes Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King, Jessica Biel as Abigail (the daughter of Kris Kristofferson’s Whistler character from the first two films), and many more. One member of the team, the researcher Hedges, was played by Patton Oswalt. In an interview with the AV Club in 2012, Oswalt detailed the chaotic shoot and explained what kicked off the feud between Snipes and Goyer:...

It’s TV with a blockbuster budget Prime Video “We think it’s important to keep the budget in context,” Payne says. “Really, this [season] is an eight-hour movie.” We’ve all heard the “this show is actually an eight-hour movie” argument before, and it’s typically used in an attempt to try to elevate a story to some intangible artistic level that isn’t always associated with television. But that’s not what Payne is saying here, and he might actually have a point....