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Superhero Bits: Black Widow Was Pirated Like Crazy, Steven DeKnight Wants To Make A Superman Movie & More Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Jan. 5, 2022 6:21 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Suzume No Tojimari Trailer: Your Name Director Makoto Shinkai Returns With A Story About Closure Toho By Joshua Meyer/April 11, 2022 7:22 am EST Director Makoto Shinkai is back this year with the follow-up to his global anime hits, “Your Name” and “Weathering with You.” The Japanese title of his next feature is “Suzume no Tojimari,” and now the first teaser trailer for it is here. “Suzume no Tojimari,” which has no confirmed English title yet, will debut in Japanese theaters on November 11, 2022....

The 20 Best Ben Affleck Movies Ranked DFree/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/Feb. 14, 2022 1:11 pm EST No recent Hollywood star has had the public highs and lows of Ben Affleck. Throughout his twenty-plus years in the film industry, Affleck has been a figure of acclaim, derision, and controversy. But at the end of the day, we’re still rooting for Affleck as he continues surprising us. Affleck broke out with his childhood friend Matt Damon thanks to their award-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting,” a film they also starred in together....

America in 1915 Epoch Producing Company Griffith’s film is full of racist lies that a racist white public was eager to hear in 1915. While the United States had experienced an enormous economic boom at the turn of the century, and the nation appeared to be on the upswing in terms of technological innovation, sports, and science, by ‘15 a lot of the manufacturing jobs had dried up (per BLS) – the industrialization bubble had burst, essentially — and the unemployment rate had risen to nearly 10%....

The Book Of Boba Fett Got Good Only When Other Characters Hijacked The Show Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 2, 2022 1:21 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” For me, the first four episodes of “The Book of Boba Fett” weren’t “bad” so much as “frustrating.” The story of Boba’s ongoing search for family on the series — a carryover of his arc as a young boy on the animated “Clone Wars” series — is compelling, as is the way the TV show has built upon “The Mandalorian” and continued to transform the Tusken Raiders from thinly-veiled racist caricatures to a multifaceted non-human race with their own beliefs and culture....

The fall of spoof movies Dimension Films The spoof movie trend had played itself out by the end of the 1990s, as audiences gradually tired of the genre; a lot of spoofy slapstick was simply outside of the realm of popular taste. The fall of the genre began in earnest with what was, ironically, its third wave of popularity. In 2000, Keenan Ivory Wayans made a spoof of “Scream” called “Scary Movie” that was immensely popular, and passingly funny, but seemed to be missing the “zip” of the ultra-joke-dense heyday of the genre....

This Child Actor Had No Idea They Were In A Horror Movie By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 28, 2022 2:22 pm EST Horror movies cover a wide spectrum of the things that scare us, and creepy kids are responsible for some of the most haunting and iconic moments in movie history. Linda Blair terrified audiences as Regan MacNeil in “The Exorcist,” Lisa and Louise Burns as The Grady Sisters in “The Shining” are so recognizable, even people who have never seen the movie are afraid of them, and most people can’t look at Haley Joel Osment without thinking of his memorable line, “I see dead people,” from “The Sixth Sense....

Warrior Nun Season 2 Teaser: The Fight Against Evil Continues Netflix By Shania Russell/June 7, 2022 10:32 am EST Sometimes everything you need to know about a series is right there in the title: “Warrior Nun” is such an example because it very literally delivers on the badass implications of its title. The series stars Alba Baptista as Ava, a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue to discover she’s been granted incredible chosen one-esque powers....

Alexander Skarsgård Is Ready For Battle In A New Image From Robert Eggers’ The Northman Focus Features By Debopriyaa Dutta/Feb. 3, 2022 12:21 pm EST “I will avenge you, father. I will save you, mother. I will kill you, Fjölnir.” This repeated mantra dominates Amleth’s (Alexander Skarsgärd) journey in “The Northman,” the upcoming historical epic from “The Lighthouse” director Robert Eggers. A new image of Skarsgärd as Prince Amleth has just been released exclusively by Total Film, courtesy of Focus Features....

AMC’s Interview With The Vampire Series Casts Assad Zaman As Rashid BritBoxUK By Joshua Meyer/March 5, 2022 4:47 pm EST Assad Zaman is the latest actor to join the cast of AMC’s upcoming “Interview with the Vampire” series. Zaman, who recently co-starred in the 6-episode British period drama, “Hotel Portofino” (coming to PBS in the U.S.) will play the character Rashid. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, it might be because Rashid did not appear in the 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s original “Interview with the Vampire” novel....

Eddie Redmayne’s Unexpected Inspiration For His Fantastic Beasts Performance Warner Bros. Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/April 14, 2022 8:56 am EST Following the tremendous success of the “Harry Potter” franchise, Warner Bros. greenlit an adaptation of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a five-part spinoff film series based on a Hogwarts textbook. Where “Harry Potter” lore is concerned, the textbook is written by a magizoologist (a witch or wizard who professionally studies magical creatures) named Newt Scamander....

Every Jane Campion Film, Ranked Jan Chapman Productions By Molly Turner/Jan. 13, 2022 11:58 am EST New Zealander Jane Campion is one of Hollywood’s true iconoclasts. From the beginning of her film career in the 1980s, her work has been critically and internationally acclaimed, receiving such laudable awards as the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or for “The Piano” (1993), which made her the first woman to ever win the prize....

Every Song In Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 Netflix By Christian Gainey/July 1, 2022 3:26 pm EST Beware! “Stranger Things 4 Volume 2” spoilers ahead!! The wait is finally over! After a cliffhanger that left all of us balancing on the narrowest edge of our seats, Netflix’s “Stranger Things 4” has returned with Volume 2, and what a return it is! We finally learned what was painted on the canvas Will’s been carrying around, why Papa made Eleven search the darkness, and that nobody knows exactly what to call Vecna/Henry/001....

Fire Of Love Review: A Mesmerizing Portrait Of The World’s Best Volcanologist Power Couple [Sundance 2022] Sundance Film Festival By Ben Pearson/Jan. 21, 2022 1:23 pm EST “Once you see an eruption, you can’t live without it,” Katia Krafft once wrote. And when you see the jaw-dropping footage she and her husband Maurice captured of volcanoes around the world, you’ll understand why the two became obsessed with studying these natural phenomena....

Gaming Wall Street Trailer: ‘A Bunch Of Nerds On Reddit’ Take On The Stock Market HBO Max By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 25, 2022 12:40 pm EST The hilarious improvised comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” always began with the host (Drew Carey and, later, Aisha Tyler) explaining how this was a show where “everything’s made up and the points don’t matter,” leading to even more laughs as they handed out imaginary points to performers like Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles, and Colin Mochrie based on how well they did with each of their skits....

Hawkeye Is Built For Casual Marvel Fans, And That’s Why It Works Marvel Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 15, 2021 3:14 pm EST There are hardcore Marvel fans, and then there are people like me. People like me catch every new Marvel release, but maybe not during opening weekend. Maybe we sit through a few like they’re homework, just to make the next “Avengers” movie make sense. We are the non-committal Marvel fans, the ones who are mostly here for the vibes....

Honor Society: Release Date, Cast, And More Michael Courtney/Nickelodeon/Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 6, 2022 8:54 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.) Summer movie season used to be a time for going to the movies, but with the rise of original streaming titles, it’s just as easy to find something great at home....

How Star Trek: Lower Decks Animators Sneak Easter Eggs Into The Show ViacomCBS By Witney Seibold/Feb. 14, 2022 10:57 am EST At its heart, “Star Trek” is a workplace drama. While we may become attached to the characters and their relationships, or enjoy the little hits of philosophy taken from the miniature morality plays in “Trek,” at the end of the day, its the ship or station — and its complex operational machinations — that bring us back....

Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre Has The Same Narrator As The 1974 Original Legendary Pictures By Anya Stanley/Jan. 27, 2022 5:59 pm EST The new “Scream” brought back a killer’s house from Wes Craven’s original1996 meta-slasher with the same title. Last year, Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” had composer Robert A.A. Lowe conjuring up the tragic melodies of Philip Glass’ 1991 score for the franchise original when the moment called for a throwback. Now, David Blue Garcia’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is invoking the spirits of the past in hopes of conjuring up some of the runaway success of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original slasher....

One Stunt On The Set Of Aeon Flux Almost Paralyzed Charlize Theron Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/May 31, 2022 3:36 pm EST Every year it feels like film buffs call for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create an Oscar for stunt work, and every year it doesn’t come to pass. But just because the Academy fails to heed those calls, it doesn’t make stunt performers any less deserving of the credit they’re long overdue for risking life and limb in the pursuit of movie magic....