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Robbie Coltrane Was Always The Big Beating Heart Of The Harry Potter Franchise Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 14, 2022 4:22 pm EST It’s impossible to talk about “Harry Potter” these days without addressing the elephant in the room. No, sadly, I’m not referring to Hedley Fleetwood’s wooly mammoth Patronus. I mean Wizarding World creator J.K.Rowling and the way she’s destroyed her own legacy over the years, culminating with her now well-documented transphobia....

Superhero Bits: Harley Quinn Season 4 Coming Sooner Than Expected, DC Comics Is In Hot Water & More DC Comics By Ryan Scott/Aug. 31, 2022 5:19 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....

Sylvester Stallone Has A Surprising Attitude Toward Guns On Film Sets Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/Nov. 7, 2022 2:36 pm EST Sylvester Stallone and the general filmgoing public seem to have very different views of John Rambo. Thanks to the bold, ultra-jingoistic attitudes of “Rambo: First Blood Part II” and “Rambo III,” the title character came to be, throughout the 1980s, a symbol for unstoppable American military might. Rambo was often seen charging shirtless into gunfire-heavy areas, heavy artillery draped around his body, firing bullets into anyone or anything that entered his field of vision....

Legend StudioCanal No, this isn’t the 1985 fantasy film starring Tom Cruise, as much as it would have been fun to see Hardy playing in the world of swords and sorcery. “Legend” is a 2015 biographical crime drama that tells the wild true story of the Kray twins, two legendary gangsters who dominated London in the 1960s. Hardy gives one of his most impressive performances ever as both brothers, capturing the fraught dynamic between the slick career criminal Reggie and his eccentric brother, Ronald....

The Batman Director Matt Reeves Is Planning Movies About The Dark Knight’s Villains Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Oct. 17, 2022 7:48 pm EST The world of “The Batman” is expanding. In their massive report detailing the recent moves being made at Warner Bros. with the DC brand, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Matt Reeves is currently discussing the potential for multiple “Batman” spinoffs based on the Caped Crusader’s rogues gallery. While no projects have been greenlit yet (or are even past the discussion stage), Reeves is speaking with several writers and directors in order to expand the version of Gotham he introduced earlier this year....

The Boys Season 3 Ending Explained: Toxicity And Trauma Pass Through Generations Prime Video By Devin Meenan/July 12, 2022 11:00 am EST Major spoilers for “The Boys” season 3 ahead. “The Boys” season 3 has wrapped, and the season finale, “The Instant White-Hot Wild,” is proving to be a divisive one. Scan fan forums and you’ll find some not-so-positive responses, with some even claiming it derailed a previously strong season. It certainly left us here at /Film with plenty of questions about where season 4 will go....

The Crown Season 5 Will Ask The Question, ‘Do We Need The Monarchy?’ Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Nov. 8, 2022 6:55 am EST “The Crown” season 5 is inching closer to its release and is packed with unprecedented drama that will dominate Internet discourse for the next few weeks. A new season brings an exciting new cast (changed every two years to depict naturally aging royals), and new characters take center stage, all to unravel a six-year period between 1991 and 1997 when the public was overwhelmingly critical of the monarchy and their doings....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Treats The Rings As The ‘Nuclear Bomb In Middle-Earth’ Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Oct. 27, 2022 6:37 pm EST Spoilers ahead for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Even if you’ve never read “The Hobbit” or “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien and somehow missed the Peter Jackson trilogies, you’ve surely heard someone repeat the quote, “One ring to rule them all....

The Santa Clauses Review: A Surprisingly Good Series That Avoids The Legacy Sequel Curse Disney/James Clark By Sarah Milner/Nov. 14, 2022 12:00 pm EST When I discovered Disney+ had a sequel miniseries in the works for the “Santa Clause” Christmas movie series, dread stirred deep in my inner being. So far, I did not have much luck with these properties: “Home Sweet Home Alone” was painfully unfunny, while the “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid” 2021 animated reboot was inconsequential and — dare I say?...

Tiny Cinema Clip Teases A Genre-Bending Trip Through The Multiverse [Exclusive] Dread By Erin Brady/Sept. 6, 2022 2:21 pm EST If you have been paying attention to 2022’s cinematic trends, you should know that multiverses are totally in vogue right now. Whether they are the cruxes of a major superhero franchise or a symbol for the complexities of relationships, multiverses offer an infinite amount of storytelling opportunities, as long as the core story allows for it....

What Mike Flanagan Loves About Collaborative Storytelling Netflix By Miyako Pleines/Oct. 24, 2022 3:07 pm EST If it’s one thing Mike Flanagan knows, it’s his horror. To be honest, though, I really expect nothing less from a person who was born in Salem, Massachusetts (Jealous!). He’s had spooky vibes in his bones from birth. Perhaps most well known for his Netflix projects like the supremely creepy 2018 series “The Haunting of Hill House” (an adaptation of the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name) and last year’s incredible “Midnight Mass” about Catholicism, sobriety, and vampires, Flanagan has proven he has what it takes to make scary stories for the screen....

The dub begins at ADV films Studio Khara You can’t fully appreciate the “Rebuild of Evangelion” films unless you’re familiar with the original TV series, “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” Likewise, you need to know the history of the “Neon Genesis” dubs to understand the decision-making behind the “Rebuild” dubs. “Neon Genesis Evangelion” was produced by Japanese animation studio Gainax and was primarily the creation of director Hideaki Anno. Its 26 episodes aired on TV Tokyo from 1995 to 1996 and were then released in the west by the Houston, Texas-based ADV Films....

Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas HBO Max The reason “A Christmas Story” has endured after all these years is because of how it washes away the Norman Rockwell-esque glimmer of Christmas in America. Rather than giving us an endlessly chipper family unconditionally loving each other in the 1940s and basking in the joy of togetherness during the holiday season, director/co-writer Bob Clark and the stories of author Jean Shepard give us the Parkers and a handful of neighborhood kids incessantly barking at each other in the days leading up to Christmas....

Andor Season 2 Will Dig Even More Into The Messiness Of Forming The Rebel Alliance [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Nov. 25, 2022 12:36 pm EST Major spoilers ahead for “Andor” season 1. “Andor” has finished its first season on Disney+, and it’s quite unlike any Star Wars series we’ve seen so far. We’ve followed “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” character Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) as he is radicalized (with very good reason) into the rebel we first met in the film....

Making The Mask funny New Line Cinema While “The Mask” is now known as one of Jim Carrey’s breakout film roles, he wasn’t always destined to don the mean green mug of Stanley Ipkiss. When talks first began about making a movie based on the “The Mask” comic book series by Dark Horse Comics, the big screen adaptation wasn’t meant to be the silly Carrey comedy vehicle it became. The comics, which were originally published in the early ’90s, were extremely violent and somewhat nihilistic, and original talks for the movie had it pegged as a gory horror flick, according to the 2019 Forbes oral history of “The Mask....

Cobra Kai Season 5 Has A Very Specific Robert Rodriguez Easter Egg Netflix By Jenna Busch/Sept. 9, 2022 8:00 am EST Spoilers ahead for the first episode of “Cobra Kai” season 5. You’re probably tired right now, after staying up all night to watch season 5 of the Netflix series “Cobra Kai.” It’s understandable. The show, which was originally created for YouTube Red, has become a huge hit, and was a pandemic binge for so many of us....

Seemingly pointless, but maybe not? Paramount Pictures Taken at face value, this very much seems like yet another attempt by a Hollywood studio to milk a beloved franchise for all it’s worth. ’80s nostalgia is running hot and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has endured in pop culture well beyond its initial, successful box office run (its post-credits scene inspired the now-ubiquitous trend in Marvel movies). Given what Paramount just experienced with “Top Gun: Maverick,” it makes every bit of sense for the studio to make more sequels (or sidequels) to ’80s classics....

Harrison Ford Unwittingly Inspired Daniel Radcliffe’s Post-Potter Career Path Saban Films By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 26, 2022 6:50 pm EST It’s impossible not to love Daniel Radcliffe. While he broke onto the scene with the career- and life-defining role of Harry Potter, Radcliffe has never rested on the laurels of being one of the most famous actors in history. In the years post-Potter, Radcliffe has actively chosen to star in a slew of challenging theatrical productions like “Equus” and a frenzy of odd films like playing a farting corpse in “Swiss Army Man” and the titular role in the upcoming biopic of Weird Al Yankovic....

How John Ford’s Fort Apache Saved John Wayne’s Flagging Film Career RKO By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 19, 2022 2:42 pm EST John Wayne might’ve been full of macho swagger on the big screen, but off-screen he was given to fretting. A large portion of the blame for this could be placed at John Ford’s doorstep. The A-list Hollywood filmmaker was nearly instrumental in making Wayne a full-fledged movie star, but he’d made the actor earn it over the course of a decade in bit parts and supporting roles....

In The Manchurian Candidate, Angela Lansbury Played The Most Evil Movie Mother Ever MGM By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 11, 2022 10:11 pm EST If Frank Sinatra had his way, Angela Lansbury would never have given her finest film performance. For the role of Eleanor Iselin, a dead-hearted Communist agent plotting a series of assassinations that will result in the ascension of her alcoholic, McCarthyite husband to the White House, the Chairman of the Board favored Lucille Ball....