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Peaky Blinders Gave Cillian Murphy Something He’s Never Experienced As An Actor Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 24, 2022 8:51 am EST There’s something special about Thomas Shelby that makes him so intimidating to people, and commands their attention. Is it a credit to his flattering three-piece suit and newsboy cap concealing a razor blade? His menacing strut or the unmissable aura of danger and unpredictability? The years of hard work put in by actor Cillian Murphy?...

Plenty Of Rejected Dragon Ball Ideas Still Found Their Way Into The Series Toei Animation By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 5, 2022 4:44 pm EST Akira Toriyama’s legacy and mark on the manga industry is not to be taken lightly. The mangaka is responsible for the creation of one of the most respected manga series of all time, “Dragon Ball” and its sequel series “Dragon Ball Z” and “Dragon Ball Super.” As a creator, Toriyama is still going strong to this day, with “Super” being an ongoing series and a “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” film on the way with a screenplay by Toriyama....

9 Focus Released in 2009, director Shane Acker and producer Tim Burton’s movie “9” is like “Watership Down” in that we’re not sure who the audience was supposed to be. It wasn’t marketed to kids, but they sure found it. With its creepy green-hued CGI world, it does look and feel like a kiddie movie but with a Guillermo del Toro sensibility. Taking place in a steampunky alternate universe, 9 is the story of an Earth ravaged by a robot apocalypse....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Directly Addresses One Of Starfleet’s Biggest Blindspots Paramount By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 20, 2022 9:47 am EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” With the sheer amount of quality “Star Trek” media at our fingerprints, one needs only an internet connection or a Blu-ray player (physical media collectors, for the win!) to tune in and enjoy the full range of what the classic sci-fi franchise has to offer....

Superhero Bits: Batman: The Audio Adventures Season 2 Trailer, Benedict Wong On A Wong Series & More HBO Max By Ryan Scott/Sept. 14, 2022 4:04 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....

Terry Gilliam Sees A ‘Blessing’ In His First Failure With The Man Who Killed Don Quixote IFC Films By Erin Brady/Nov. 14, 2022 2:58 pm EST “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is one of the most infamous films of all time. Premiering in 2018, it took a staggering 29 years for director Terry Gilliam to get it made. From natural disasters to dried-up funding, it seems like every possible obstacle that could plague the film’s production ended up happening....

The 14 Best Daniel Craig Movies, Ranked Sony Pictures By Jason Baxter/Nov. 21, 2022 1:48 pm EST With the upcoming release of Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” there’s no better time to discuss Daniel Craig’s acting career. He was so magnetic in “Knives Out” that fans all but demanded a sequel — leading Netflix to greenlight two Knives Out films for $400 million. Even before he (arguably) became the 21st century’s preeminent James Bond, Craig had several impressive performances....

The Predator works its way up the food chain Hulu This “moment” is a bit of a cheat, as this is a collection of moments instead of one singular moment. However, they all serve the same purpose: to show the Predator (portrayed brilliantly by Dane DiLiegro) working its way through the food chain. Each moment shows the Predator tackling a bigger prey than before, and each is stylized to show its brutality and efficiency in its hunting....

A funeral fit for a rebel Disney+/Lucasfilm It’s certainly not easy to recreate the classic themes from John Williams, but there is a large swath of material to choose from. Over 18 hours of recorded music is featured in the entire “Star Wars” film series, with literally thousands of pages of sheet music. It’s a rich collection that, sadly, is coming to an end seeing how Williams is planning to retire after “Indiana Jones 5” brings that other Lucasfilm franchise to a close....

The Daily Stream: Let Kaiba Fill The Hole In Your Heart With Love Crunchyroll By Adam Wescott/Dec. 10, 2022 11:00 am 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 Series: “Kaiba” (2008) Where You Can Stream It: Crunchyroll The Pitch: In the world of “Kaiba,” memories are transferable and bodies sell to the highest bidder....

The Daily Stream: The Kid Detective Is A Clever Genre Parody With A Dark Sense Of Humor Level Film By Shania Russell/Sept. 11, 2022 5:12 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 Series: “The Kid Detective” Where You Can Stream It: Starz The Pitch: Remember Nancy Drew?...

The Invitation Leads A Deathly Quiet Box Office Weekend With $6-7 Million Opening Sony Pictures Releasing By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 27, 2022 1:59 pm EST The August box office is set to end not with a bang but with a whimper, as initial numbers for this weekend indicate barely anyone is going to the movies right now. The weekend’s biggest earner is set to be “The Invitation,” a Gothic thriller from Sony starring “Game of Thrones” actor Nathalie Emmanuel....

The Walking Dead: Dead City: Everything We Know So Far About The Latest Spin-Off AMC By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 25, 2022 5:40 pm EST Here’s some exciting news if the real world isn’t quite miserable enough for your liking: There’s a new “The Walking Dead” spin-off coming to AMC in 2023, and it features two of the characters most likely to make one another’s lives hell. “The Walking Dead: Dead City” was originally titled “The Walking Dead: Isle of the Dead,” as the series will take place in Manhattan....

The White Lotus Season 3: Everything We Know So Far About The Return Of Mike White’s HBO Series HBO By Shae Sennett/Dec. 15, 2022 3:31 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” season 2 finale. “The White Lotus” has wrapped with another incredible season on the books, and fans are already chomping at the bit for more. The third installment of the series is still a ways away, but with each season promising an entirely new cast, location, and theme, there is much to look forward to....

Tony Gilroy Is Just As Involved In Andor Season 2 As He Was For Season 1 [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Nov. 23, 2022 7:45 am EST We’ve made it through the first season of arguably the best offering in the “Star Wars” universe for a very long time, “Andor.” The storytelling, while set in the world we’re so familiar with after decades of fandom, is a fantastic espionage thriller even without the Stormtroopers....

Why American Vandal was canceled Netflix “American Vandal” was a rare example of a show with a stellar first season whose follow-up season was somehow even better, so the news that season 3 wasn’t happening came as a shock. According to Netflix’s own stats, “American Vandal” season 1 was the streamer’s #1 most-binged show (by the metric of watching more than two hours a day) of 2017. Both seasons hold a near-perfect score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes....

Vecna’s Ties To The Mind Flayer In Stranger Things 4 Explained Netflix By BJ Colangelo/July 6, 2022 6:12 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Strange Things” season 4. Season 4 serves as the penultimate chapter of “Stranger Things,” and with the end on the horizon, the unexplained chaos known as The Upside Down has just started to make a bit more sense. As the monstrous, tentacle-wrapped muscle man known as Vecna unleashed a teenage killing spree across Hawkins, it was up to our favorites, spread across the globe, to figure out his origins and put a stop to him before he destroyed the world as we know it....

Why Deadstream’s Blend Of Horror, Comedy, And Found Footage Is So Effective Shudder By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 19, 2022 12:00 pm EST Directors Joseph and Vanessa Winter made something special with “Deadstream,” a thrilling and hilarious POV horror film about a disgraced YouTuber desperately attempting to win back his audience by pulling the most ridiculous stunt imaginable. Joseph Winter stars as the fictional Shawn Ruddy, an insufferable online personality armed with all of the hot new technological gadgets viewers assume (and often demand) all creators utilize, who breaks into a notorious haunted house called Death Manor to livestream his overnight stay....

An Andor Episode 5 Easter Egg Brings An Indiana Jones Artifact Into Star Wars Canon Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Oct. 5, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Andor.” We are nearly at the halfway point of “Andor” season 1 and it’s been an experience unlike any of the other “Star Wars” shows on Disney+ up to this point. One thing that really helps set the show apart is the fact that there are very few Easter eggs that jump right out at you....

Andor Thrives At Showing Us What The Star Wars Movies Never Could Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 5, 2022 2:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Andor” episode five. Be they overwhelming, underwhelming, or just whelming (“Solo,” anyone?), the “Star Wars” movies are always a ride. That they hit the ground running and rarely let up, so far as their pacing goes, has allowed the films to retain their broad appeal, even as they’ve begun to dig deeper and deeper into the minutiae of life in a galaxy far, far away....