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Every Main Character In Bullet Train Ranked Worst To Best Sony Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 5, 2022 5:25 pm EST Note: This post contains spoilers for “Bullet Train.” It’s safe to say that the summer movie season of 2022 has been a bit of a disappointment for action fans. While action buffs got a taste of great filmmaking earlier this year with “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the slate of films released since has been somewhat underwhelming....

What Is One Piece About? Toei Animation An adventure story, “One Piece,” takes place in an alternate universe, a world of five seas in the Golden Age of Pirates. The age began with the execution of the pirate king Gol D. Rogers, which the world government hoped would discourage piracy, but his last words started the Golden Age of Pirates instead. The legend passed on his flame to the world by declaring that anyone who found the One Piece, i....

Get Movie Tickets For Just $3 On September 3 With National Cinema Day Event New Line Cinema By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 28, 2022 5:06 pm EST If you’re old like me, you remember when a movie ticket was only a few bucks and you could get popcorn and a drink with it for less than 10. And now, for one day only, the movie ticket part of that will be true once more....

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Clip Invites Its Suspects To Solve A Puzzle (And A Murder) Netflix By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 24, 2022 2:47 pm EST It’s getting closer and closer to “Glass Onion” time, and honestly, it’s also getting harder and harder to wait for it. “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” had its world premiere screening at the Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks back, but the reality is, most of us have yet to see the full film....

How Kevin Conroy Brought Some Much-Needed Joy To 9/11 First Responders DC By Jenna Busch/Nov. 11, 2022 2:51 pm EST Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman in shows like “Batman: The Animated Series,” “Batman Beyond,” films like “Batman: The Killing Joke,” and “Batman: Gotham Knight,” and over two dozen video games, has died at the age of 66 after a brief battle with cancer. Conroy broke records with his performance, doing nearly 60 projects as the Caped Crusader....

Jacob’s Ladder Went Out Of Its Way To Invent A New Vision Of Heaven And Hell TriStar Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 2, 2022 7:00 pm EST The original “Jacob’s Ladder,” written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Adrien Lyne, conjures a vision of heaven and hell as hallucinatory experiences that seemingly overlap with living reality. Tim Robbins stars as Jacob Singer, a Vietnam veteran plagued by terrifying apparitions with no rational explanation....

Jodie Whittaker Says Her Final Doctor Who Episode Is ‘One For The Whovians’ BBC By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 26, 2022 2:23 pm EST Jodie Whittaker has spent the last five years playing one of the most beloved characters in television history as the 13th incarnation of the Time Lord on “Doctor Who.” Whittaker holds the distinction as the first woman to ever play The Doctor from planet Gallifrey, but will be saying goodbye in the upcoming 90-minute special “The Power Of The Doctor,” which will also mark the end of showrunner Chris Chibnall’s tenure....

Netflix Knows You Sickos Like True Crime, Orders More Monster And The Watcher Season 2 Netflix By Erin Brady/Nov. 7, 2022 1:04 pm EST When cartoonist Stan Kelly posted the comic “Painful Procedural” on The Onion in the spring of 2015, he likely had no idea that his depiction of a drug-loving and television detective-hating man stalking outside of honest viewers’ houses would alter Internet lingo forever. However, his ironic creation has inspired many online to view themselves proudly as sickos for various reasons, whether they enjoy David Cronenberg films or a well-scripted sex scene....

One Of Mel Brooks’ Favorite Spaceballs Gags Started Life With Blazing Saddles Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Sept. 28, 2022 11:25 am EST Mel Brooks’ 1974 Western “Blazing Saddles” takes place in a town called Rockridge, a peaceful and very, very racist berg out on the edge of the Western frontier. The citizens, as described by Jim (Gene Wilder), are the common clay of the New West. “You know,” he adds, “morons.” In a cute gag, the citizens are named Olson Johnson, Howard Johnson, Harriett Johnson, Gabby Johnson, the Reverend Johnson, and Anal Johnson....

Fa-La-La-La-La, La-La Ka-Ching Peacock Peacock has set up a website made to look like a Dunder Mifflin employee’s computer desktop (Andy Bernard’s username can be briefly glimpse as it loads), and there you can enter the sweepstakes to win a “Princess Unicorn” doll. It’s certainly better than overpaying for one from Dwight. The contest is open for entries until Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET, and the winner will be chosen on or around August 16....

Sin City’s Set Was Home To A Small Pulp Fiction Reunion Miramax/Dimension Films By Shae Sennett/July 23, 2022 11:59 pm EST “Sin City” and “Pulp Fiction” are both eclectic neo-noirs heavily influenced by classic cinema, but they have even more in common than meets the eye. “Sin City” was released in 2005, nine years after “Pulp Fiction,” and it employed many of the same talents, including Bruce Willis and Quentin Tarantino himself....

Superhero Bits: A Mystery Marvel Movie Gets Delayed, Doom Patrol Season 4 Details & More DC Comics By Ryan Scott/Sept. 16, 2022 5:07 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....

Superhero Bits: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Arrives On PC, The Dawn Of DC In 2023 & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Nov. 18, 2022 6:12 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....

Why it’s essential viewing Sony Pictures Releasing Almost exactly 10 years after its release in theaters, “Looper” remains a rarity in modern Hollywood. It’s never gotten a sequel, nor has writer/director Rian Johnson expressed any real desire to revisit its universe with a spinoff or TV series. That’s only fitting, too. The message at the core of the film — that you can’t reform toxic circles (or, as Joe calls them, bad paths), you just have to break them — runs contrary to the very idea of a franchise....

The Daily Stream: Paddington Will Win Your Heart And Make You Believe In The World Again StudioCanal By Jenna Busch/Oct. 12, 2022 4:00 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: “Paddington” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: There are apps for peace and meditation....

The Malignant Set-Piece James Wan Dropped Because It Was Too Much Like Saw Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/July 27, 2022 1:48 pm EST I think we can all agree that “Malignant” is a gift to humanity. Don’t believe me? Rewatch the jail cell scene. That should quell any doubts that you may have about James Wan’s film being a work of art. Okay, yes, there is a bit of hyperbole being thrown around here, but it’s for good reason....

Wonderful characters you won’t soon forget FX Events unfold slowly and methodically as we get to know more about Dr. Strauss and Sam. That’s not to say “The Patient” is boring — far from it, as tension is ratcheted up at every moment. There’s an impressive element of unpredictability written into Sam’s character that comes from frequently revealing new details about his life that begin to paint a more complete picture of him, but you also never know when he’ll suddenly lose his cool and become overwhelmed by a desperate need to kill....

The Rings Of Power Revealed The Origins Of The Orcs That J.R.R. Tolkien Was Never Clear About Prime Video By Marcos Melendez/Sept. 30, 2022 4:22 pm EST Spoilers follow for the sixth episode of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” aligns itself tightly with the heart of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work, but the latest episode gave clarity to one of the biggest mysteries that has plagued the canon since its inception....

Shut up and make it funny 20th Television Groening doesn’t seem concerned with a target audience or a demographic. That sort of thinking can drive a writer insane, as it’s going to be just as impossible to please a niche audience as it is to appeal to a universal one. As such, “Futurama” seems to have long ago adopted the practice of aiming to please the “Futurama” writers. If a room of kooky math nerds and sci-fi weirdos can laugh, it gets in the show....

TV, Interrupted: Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Bunheads Had Its Dance Recital Cut Short ABC Family By Caroline Madden/Aug. 14, 2022 11:00 am EST For one delightful yet short-lived season from 2012-2013, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Bunheads” appeared on ABC Family. According to Fast Company, the network was searching for their own version of the hit musical series “Glee,” but Sherman-Palladino convinced them to focus on dance instead. The title “Bunheads” is based on an obscure slang term for ballerinas, and perhaps it was this niche perspective that led to the series’ swift cancellation....