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Thor: Love And Thunder Will Fully Explore Why Thor And Jane Broke Up Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/June 9, 2022 10:51 am EST Ending a relationship is never easy, least of all when one of the concerned parties is a human scientist and the other is a super-powerful alien from another planet whose race inspired the gods of Norse mythology. Such was the case with former lovebirds Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth), who broke up at some point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe between the events of 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World” and 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok....

Tragic Stranger Things Deaths We Still Haven’t Recovered From Netflix By Bee Delores/June 15, 2022 3:25 pm EST “Stranger Things” is a popular culture hit and streaming giant for countless reasons. Everything from the perfectly-crafted ’80s aesthetic to the soundtrack fires on all cylinders to transport viewers back 30-plus years to a time when shopping malls were still a thing and the worst trouble you could get into was video games....

Uncharted Clip: Tom Holland Has Some Mid-Flight Turbulence Sony Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 5, 2022 10:18 am EST How many Marvel movies have we seen where a superhero goes diving out the back of a plane? “Uncharted,” based on the popular PlayStation game series, is not one of those movies, but it does star Tom Holland, and in a newly released clip, it does put a different spin on the old plane-diving trick....

X Trailer: ‘Hollywood, Here We Come’ A24 / Christopher Moss By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 12, 2022 9:01 am EST Welcome back to big-screen horror, Ti West. The filmmaker behind “The House of the Devil” is returning to feature filmmaking for the first time since 2016 with “X” from A24. The film, which West also wrote, has been mostly kept under wraps until its poster dropped yesterday. But with the release of its first trailer, “X” is leaping high up on our list of the most anticipated horror of 2022....

Stephen King Hive Assemble Warner Bros. Television It turns out that 22% of those polled are most excited to see the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot,” a story about returning to your childhood hometown only to find it infested with vampires. It’s no surprise that another movie based on one of King’s novels is highly anticipated — let us never forget the undying devotion and high levels of success that director Andy Muschietti’s “It” adaptation rendered — and the fact that Gary Dauberman is directing this first foray to Jerusalem’s Lot has a lot of fans extremely excited....

Don Wong Triumphant On her Instagram page, Ali Wong broke the news that she would be making her long-awaited return to Netflix for another stand-up comedy special titled “Don Wong” later this month. The announcement came with a 15-second teaser featuring Wong clad in a super boss looking fur coat and posing in front of a low-rider convertible. Netflix later shared the teaser on their main YouTube page as well, along with the official synopsis for the special....

Bill Nighy Is The New David Bowie In Showtime’s The Man Who Fell To Earth Roadside Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 3, 2022 6:02 pm EST The Showtime series “The Man Who Fell to Earth” has cast its Thomas Newton. Played in the original film by the late David Bowie, Newton is a humanoid alien looking for a way to ship water back to his home planet from Earth, but he becomes entangled in human affairs and becomes trapped....

Bringing Blade Runner Back To Life Was A Tough Sell For Everyone Involved Warner Bros. By Steven Ward/May 18, 2022 10:53 am EST No one likes to see their favorite childhood film or cult classic implode because of a bad sequel. Like the incessant habit of remakes and reboots, spinning endless follow-ups for any commercially viable film is pretty common practice. But even successful films that court audiences and critics alike are in danger of essentially ruining a good thing....

Clean First up we have the kickass pairing of Oscar-winner Adrian Brody (“The Pianist”) with hip hop superstar RZA (“The Man With the Iron Fists”) in the crime drama “Clean,” having a cool “buying the weapons” moment together. Extra props to RZA for rocking that very on-brand “Spiritual Gangster” sweatshirt while he gives Brody a flare gun on the house. The film is directed by Paul Solet, who previously helmed Brody in 2017’s thriller “Bullet Head,” and arrives in theaters and everywhere you rent and buy movies on January 28, 2022....

Doomsday Machine: Everything We Know So Far Sony Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/March 2, 2022 12:08 pm EST Should Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher ever get/choose to make a sequel to “The Social Network,” then they certainly won’t be hurting for material to mine for inspiration. In the years since their hit film came out in 2010, Facebook’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in the movie as a contemptible, if pitiable, tech prodigy — has basically evolved into a real-world super-villain....

Harold And Kumar’s Creators Had Grand Ambitions From The Very Beginning New Line Cinema By Sandy Schaefer/May 31, 2022 8:56 am EST 2004’s “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” is a thinly plotted and often crass stoner comedy about the hijinks that ensue when two friends smoke pot, get the munchies, and try to buy some hamburgers. It was also radical in the way it subverted ethnic stereotypes while commenting on racism in the United States and the experiences of second-generation immigrants in the context of the early 2000s....

HBO Max Greenlights Julia Season 2 HBO By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 5, 2022 11:23 am EST Looks like we are going to see more about Julia Child’s life as a television chef, as season 2 of “Julia” has been given the go-ahead by HBO Max. As per a recent press release by Warner Media, “Julia,” which will finish its first season on May 5, has been renewed for another installment, most likely due to the rave reviews the show has received so far....

How Moon Knight Handles Marc Spector’s Mental Health Struggles Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Feb. 14, 2022 1:06 pm EST The next big adventure for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is “Moon Knight,” which arrives on Disney+ in late March. The trailers have made it crystal clear that this is going to be a pretty bizarre addition to the MCU, with Oscar Isaac playing a superhero with a strange multiple personality disorder. But how exactly are these mental health issues going to be handled on screen?...

Hulu’s Mike: Release Date, Cast, And More Hulu By BJ Colangelo/June 9, 2022 6:40 pm EST Few celebrity figures have brought on more controversy than Mike Tyson. One of the most impressive and celebrated boxers in history, Tyson served as the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion from 1987 to 1990, and remains the youngest boxer to ever win the heavyweight title, earning the belt at only 20 years old. Shortly after his title reign came to a close, following a two-week trial that monopolized the attention of the media across the world, Tyson was found guilty of rape in 1992 and sentenced to 10 years in jail....

Jurassic Park’s Mr. DNA Mascot Solved A Major Problem With The Script Universal Pictures By Steven Ward/May 27, 2022 8:35 am EST One of the biggest challenges in adapting a novel into a movie is figuring out how to cram all the exposition into a decently moderate run time. Such was the problem Steven Spielberg faced when Universal won the bidding war to turn Michael Crichton’s 448-page novel “Jurassic Park” into a film....

Kevin Feige’s MCU Ambitions Started With Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Marvel Enterprises By Joshua Meyer/June 9, 2022 9:18 pm EST Though Kevin Feige is now known as the uber-producer behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe, his history with the House of Ideas dates back well before 2008, when Marvel Studios began producing its own films with “Iron Man” and “The Incredible Hulk.” In fact, Feige’s grand design to build a shared universe with Marvel characters onscreen may have started as far back as the early 2000s when he was an assistant to Marvel Studios founder Avi Arad on the first live-action Spider-Man film, directed by Sam Raimi....

Time dilation, baby! The new trailer for “Lightyear” finally tells us more about the story of the film beyond “It’s Buzz, and he’s in space!” with the biggest reveal being that Buzz Lightyear is a man out of time. While on a routine mission, Lightyear finds himself on a hostile alien planet far away from home, but to make matters worse, he lands 62 years into the future. Time dilation is a classic sci-fi trope, especially in animation....

Love On The Spectrum U.S. Trailer: Looking For Love Without Judgment Netflix By Danielle Ryan/May 5, 2022 3:45 pm EST Netflix has had some success with “Love on the Spectrum,” a series that originated in Australia but soon found its international home on the streaming platform. (“Moon Knight” star Oscar Isaac is a huge fan, and his portrayal of Steven Grant was partially based on the series.) Now, Netflix has announced the next “Love on the Spectrum” series, and this time, it’s taking place stateside....

‘Let’s rattle his cage’ Warner Bros. Hanna has multiple outbursts in “Heat,” with a couple of them being directed at his informant, Albert, played by the late comedian, Ricky Harris. It’s the kind of thing where he’s liable to yell “Gimme all ya got!” or even break out into song. Yet Mann has no regrets about that aspect of his character, and in fact, there’s only one thing he would change about Pacino’s “Heat” performance....

Noonan’s: Everything We Know So Far About The Harley Quinn Spinoff HBO Max By Sandy Schaefer/April 27, 2022 5:47 pm EST With all due respect to Margot Robbie, who’s stellar as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe, the animated “Harley Quinn” series is easily my favorite recent DC project. It’s a show that digs deeply into the psychology of Batman’s rogues, revealing them for the very flawed yet very human beings they are, and following them as they try to make something better of their lives in the crime-infested quagmire that is Gotham City....