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Mr. Robot Ending Explained: Elliot Finally Learns To Let Go USA Network By Michael Boyle/March 4, 2022 8:30 am EST It’s been over two years since “Mr. Robot” ended and left behind a complicated yet ultimately positive legacy. Although ratings declined in season 2, which was heavily criticized for being overly-convoluted and slow, the show’s fast-paced, climactic third season not only won back the acclaim of critics and fans, but retroactively improved everything that came before....

Nirvana Inspired The Batman Even More Than You Think Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/April 19, 2022 3:44 pm EST We’ve had a lot of fun over the last few months dissecting Robert Pattinson’s brooding, emo, shaggy-haired version of Bruce Wayne in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” but thanks to the release of “The Art of the Batman” by James Field (available today), we now have some definitive information to help enhance our speculations....

No Exit Trailer Here’s the official synopsis: In “No Exit,” Havana Rose Liu (“Mayday”) makes her feature film leading role debut as Darby, a young woman en route to a family emergency who is stranded by a blizzard and forced to find shelter at a highway rest area with a group of strangers. When she stumbles across an abducted girl in a van in the parking lot, it sets her on a terrifying life-or-death struggle to discover who among them is the kidnapper....

Pachinko EPs Wanted To Give An Intimate Immigrant Saga The Prestige TV Treatment [Interview] Apple TV+ By Shania Russell/March 25, 2022 3:06 pm EST More often than not, immigrant tales arrive to our screens as intimate portrayals of strength, zoomed in on their lead characters for small-scale exploration. This is not entirely untrue of “Pachinko,” the new Apple TV+ series based on the Min Jin Lee novel of the same name: It traces the journey of a single family through time, chronicling the hopes and dreams across four generations as they journey from Korea to Japan to America across more than 70 years....

HBO By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 19, 2022 7:38 pm EST HBO cancelling “Raised by Wolves” after two seasons was disappointing for fans since the show tackled dense topics within the structure of a tense, thought-provoking drama about humans and androids. Showrunner Aaron Guzikowski had first conceived the idea for the show in form of a spec script, which gradually evolved into an emotionally-resonant, breathtaking saga with compelling characters. In fact, Guzikowski’s script was so good that Ridley Scott himself was convinced that he had to absolutely come on board and direct the pilot episode (and serve as executive producer), despite the director’s initial hesitation of returning to the android theme....

Robin Williams Had Some Regrets About His Popeye Performance Paramount By Jeremy Smith/June 28, 2022 2:25 pm EST 42 years ago, Robin Williams was not at the top of anyone’s list to bring E.C. Segar’s one-eyed comic strip sailor to life. Though “Mork and Mindy” had turned the stand-up comic into a major television star, he had yet to prove himself as a big-screen draw. Producer Robert Evans initially wanted Dustin Hoffman to top-line his live-action adaptation, but when the temperamental actor dropped out after clashing with screenwriter Jules Feiffer, he took a risk on the up-and-coming funnyman....

Shining Girls Actor Jamie Bell On Getting Into The Head Of A Serial Killer [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ben Pearson/April 29, 2022 1:00 pm EST You may know Jamie Bell as the good-natured protagonist from Spielberg’s “The Adventure of Tintin,” the hero of the AMC series “Turn: Washington’s Spies,” or as the title character in “Billy Elliot.” But in the new Apple TV+ mystery series “Shining Girls,” Bell swings to the complete other end of the spectrum to play a creepy serial killer harboring a secret: He’s seemingly able to exist across time without aging....

Superhero Bits: Black Adam Funko Pop! Figures, A Fantastic Four Update & More DC Comics By Ryan Scott/June 2, 2022 5:03 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....

Alice Guy-Blaché Donaldson Collection/Getty Images Not only is Alice Guy-Blaché the first female director, she is one of, if not the, first person to use film to tell a narrative story. Guy-Blaché made her first film, “La Fée aux choux” (which translates to “The Cabbage Fairy”), in 1896. There is some dispute about whether her film or the Lumiere brothers’ “L’Arroseur arrosé” came first, but Guy was a pioneer nonetheless. She started as a secretary for an inventor named Léon Gaumont and, after directing and acting in a few films, was promoted to head of film production at his company....

The Cellar Trailer: Elisha Cuthbert Finds Out What Lies Beneath Shudder By Rafael Motamayor/March 16, 2022 3:49 pm EST You don’t need a horror movie to tell you that cellars and attics are scary places to know that, well, cellars and attics are scary places — and they should be avoided at all costs. It’s one of those constants in life, like going camping in the woods and mentally preparing yourself to meet the Blair Witch....

The Princess Review: The Tragic Princess Diana Story Is Retold Yet Again [Sundance 2022] Kent Gavin By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2022 11:50 am EST Will we ever be able to let go of Princess Diana? Nearly 25 years after her tragic death, the former Princess of Wales remains in the spotlight. There’s a rather dreadful musical about her life that you can watch on Netflix. On that same streaming service, you can watch Emma Corrin play Diana on “The Crown” — and Elizabeth Debicki will be stepping into the same role in an upcoming season....

The Real-Life Chess Matches That Inspired A Famous Cowboy Bebop Episode Sunrise By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Feb. 15, 2022 10:39 am EST Unlike the ill-fated live-action series, the original “Cowboy Bebop” remains a favorite among anime fans. One of the most popular episodes of the series features the crew of interstellar bounty hunters searching for an elusive mastermind known simply as “Chessmaster Hex.” As his name would suggest, the guy really likes chess, and the entire episode, entitled “Bohemian Rhapsody,” is rife with chess metaphors and references....

The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window Review: Kristen Bell Tries To Solve A Mystery In This Uneven Thriller Parody Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2022 3:01 am EST One of the key ingredients to a good parody is to have an actual endearment for the thing being parodied. Only when we love something are we free to mock it adequately; not cruelly, but in an all-in-good-fun sort of way....

This Was The Hardest Part Of Persuading Keith Richards To Be In Pirates Of The Caribbean Disney By Leigh Giangreco/June 22, 2022 10:22 am EST Johnny Depp owes a great debt to Keith Richards, the inspiration for his swishy, eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp cobbled together Sparrow’s sexually ambiguous swashbuckler from fictional and historical references, from Pepé Le Pew to B. R. Burg’s “Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition.” Still, it’s Richards who is known as the figurative — and literal — father of Sparrow....

Why Jeff Daniels Almost Turned Down His Role In Speed It’s a time-honored question asked by audiences and critics alike: “how did [well-respected serious actor] end up starring in [big, noisy tentpole movie]?” While the question has the exact same answer every time (that’s “money,” to be clear), it doesn’t account for the specific nuances of why, for instance, Joaquin Phoenix took a role in “Joker” over “Doctor Strange.” While there are a number of factors for actors signing onto a film in addition to needing to put food on the table, sometimes it’s less about the personnel behind the camera or even the material — the ultimate decision may come down to sheer screentime....

/Film Showdown: Magneto Vs Agent Smith 20th Century Studios By Danielle Ryan/May 13, 2022 1:14 pm EST Welcome back to the /Film showdown, where we pit two major genre characters against one another in a battle of brains, brawn, and badassery just because we can. Genre fans have been arguing about their own dream battles for years — many a sleepover has turned into a brutal debate about battles like Batman versus Superman, Wolverine versus the Hulk, Obi-Wan Kenobi versus Spock, and more....

5 Of Fred Ward’s Best Roles, And Where You Can Watch Them Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By BJ Colangelo/May 13, 2022 5:06 pm EST We lost one of the all-time great character actors today, as the consistently fantastic Fred Ward passed away at the age of 79. For just shy of 50 years, Ward performed across just about every genre possible on both the big and small screens. Trying to encapsulate someone’s life’s work with a short listicle is already an impossible task, made even more difficult when there’s a multitude of incredible performances to choose from....

Better Call Saul Season 6 Trailer Breakdown: It’s Not Gonna Go Down The Way You Think It Is AMC By Jeremy Mathai/March 10, 2022 6:00 pm EST After taking the past 2 years off, “Better Call Saul” is finally just about back to re-establish itself as one of the greatest, most well-written television shows of the last decade or so — essentially taking the crown from its original parent series, “Breaking Bad....

Cillian Murphy Hates This Aspect Of His Peaky Blinders Preparation BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 24, 2022 4:18 pm EST With the sixth season of Steven Knight’s British crime drama series “Peaky Blinders” airing now on BBC iPlayer (and coming to Netflix on June 10), the countdown to the end has officially begun. Cillian Murphy’s enigmatic leading character — the soft-spoken gang leader and Shelby family patriarch, Thomas Shelby — has much to lose, but he’s well-prepared to take down the fascist leader Oswald Mosley (portrayed by Sam Claflin)....

Crimes of the Future footage Neon Cronenberg himself took the stage at Caesar’s Palace and joked that it seemed like an appropriate place to “launch our attack on the world” with the film, which a Neon representative called Cronenberg’s “highly anticipated return to the horror genre” and an evolution of the director’s work that includes “key references” to his previous films. Cronenberg shared that he wrote the screenplay for “Crimes of the Future” more than 20 years ago, and that he originally wrote it for Toronto as he saw it in that time....