Tony Hale’s Anxiety Made Filming A Scene On The Sopranos Particularly Difficult HBO We all know “The Sopranos” was one of the best shows in history, but we don’t talk enough about how it also had some of the best cameos in TV history. Many of the great ones involved famous figures playing themselves, like when Christopher (Michael Imperioli) pitches a project to Sir Ben Kingsley or when Frank Sinatra Jr....
Universal Studios Adds An Entire Set From Jordan Peele’s Nope As A Permanent Attraction Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/July 7, 2022 2:03 pm EST Jordan Peele’s highly-anticipated third horror feature “Nope” hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but one of the film’s largest set pieces has already become a permanent fixture on the world-famous Universal Studios Hollywood studio tour. The original set of Jupiter’s Claim will join the tour on Friday, July 22, 2022 to coincide with the film’s theatrical debut....
Unsolved Mysteries Season 3 Review: The Well-Produced Revival Unleashes More Inexplicable Stories Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 18, 2022 1:00 pm EST There’s a certain nostalgia that comes with “Unsolved Mysteries.” The show, in its original incarnation, brought mysterious tales of murders, disappearances, and of course, the supernatural. These stories were hosted by the singular presence of Robert Stack, who stalked around fog machine-heavy sets wearing a trench coat, as if he were really pounding the pavement and investigating these mysteries himself....
Vol. 3 will likely be a trilogy ender There are a few signs that point to “Vol. 3” being the last film to focus on the Guardians. Back in May, Gunn wrote in a Twitter post that filming on the third entry had wrapped. While the original tweet has been deleted, our embed of it still displays the original text. “And that’s a picture wrap on the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ trilogy,” wrote Gunn....
An underrated gem Netflix On first watch, “Metalhead” initially feels like “White Bear,” another episode that drops us in the middle of a confusing apocalypse. The difference is that here the terrifying world turns out to be exactly what it seems, and the episode has no tricks up its sleeve. The closest thing to a twist is the closing reveal that the box our main characters all died trying to get was filled with teddy bears, not anything valuable....
Out with the old Netflix Most of the DC superhero cameos in “The Sandman” comic books are fairly superfluous to their plot, making it all-too-easy for the TV show to drop them — with the exception of John Constantine. In that case, the Hellblazer has been replaced with another occult detective in the form of Johanna Constantine (a character whose ancestor, Lady Johanna Constantine, also plays a key role in the original comics)....
No place for stags HBO Dragonstone is the birthplace of Aegon Targaryen I, who would go on to be known as Aegon the Conqueror when he united the seven kingdoms of Westeros for the first time. Many of the houses had been there for centuries before the Targaryens ever crossed the narrow sea, but they soon fell in line with their dragon-riding rulers. While the Targaryen kings ruled out of King’s Landing, as the other Westerosi kings had done before, their true ancestral home was still Dragonstone....
A Love Letter To CD, The Hellraiser Franchise’s Goofiest Cenobite Miramax By Erin Brady/Oct. 3, 2022 9:00 am EST When you think of the Cenobites from the “Hellraiser” films, you undoubtedly think of Pinhead (Doug Bradley). Maybe you think about the gang of other enlightened souls he hangs out with from the first two films, which include the terrifying Chatterer (Nicholas Vince) and the mysterious Female (Grace Kirby/Barbie Wilde). If you’re a completionist, then you may think about the various low-budget iterations of these characters, including the aforementioned Chatterer in “Hellraiser: Judgment....
All eyes on Hemsworth Universal Pictures Chris Hemsworth knew in advance what the role would require of him. First off, it demanded a completely different physique than what audiences had come to expect from him. Hemsworth shared during an interview with Today that he had shed 30 pounds to get the racer’s lean physique, especially since he had to fit his body into those tight Formula One cars. But that wasn’t the only hurdle for him....
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Tops The Box Office, Proves Audiences Are Starved For Big Movies Crunchyroll By Ryan Scott/Aug. 22, 2022 1:34 pm EST Despite the presence of two big new wide release movies that were cut from wildly different cloths, it was yet another relatively quiet weekend at the box office. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” arrived to give the anime crowd something to enjoy, while Idris Elba’s “Beast” was going after the thriller crowd....
Dune Nearly Stopped Ridley Scott From Directing Blade Runner Universal Pictures By Michael Boyle/Dec. 11, 2022 2:00 pm EST David Lynch has made a lot of wonderful movies over his filmmaking career, but “Dune” (1984) was not one of them. It was a film that was both severely limited by the quality of special effects available in the early ’80s, and it had a script that tried to cram a dense 700+ page book into a single two and a half hour movie....
The Hawkins High School basketball team Netflix In the grand tradition of jocks from the 1980s being the absolute worst, the non-Jason/Lucas players on the Hawkins High School Basketball Team desperately need to go to therapy, learn to think for themselves, and learn to call out their garbage friends when they’re acting like absolute maniacs. Look, I get it. Guy-code loyalty is very much a thing, but in terms of usefulness, this basketball team spends an entire season getting in the way and being one-note pricks....
Godzilla’s Terrifying Name Might Have Had A Not-So-Terrifying Origin Toho By Erin Brady/Nov. 13, 2022 6:00 pm EST Whether you refer to it as Godzilla or Gojira, Toho’s monstrous creature is able to stir fear in the hearts of many just by mentioning its name alone. After all, who wouldn’t be intimidated by a massive lizard-like creature with atomic breath? Even when ignoring the poignant anti-war and anti-nuclear weapon messaging that was essential in developing Godzilla as a character, the beast is one scary SOB, and you certainly wouldn’t want your city to be the subject of his ire....
How Mad God Got Revived After Decades On The Shelf Shudder By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 20, 2022 1:55 pm EST Phil Tippett is one of the unsung heroes of modern cinema. Though not everyone knows his name, everyone knows his work: the AT-AT in “Empire Strikes Back,” the titular dragon from “Dragonslayer,” the robot sequences in “RoboCop,” and some of the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park.” Tippett helped revolutionize visual effects and stop-motion, as we recently saw in the excellent ILM doc “Light and Magic....
Jason Blum Says The Last Paranormal Activity Movie Was ‘Terrible’ And It’s Time To End The Franchise Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/Aug. 6, 2022 1:48 pm EST “Paranormal Activity” wasn’t the first film to make waves with found footage horror tropes, but it still played a crucial role in popularizing the subgenre. Its shaky camcorders and hyper-realistic performances became a roadmap, as did its masterful approach to slowly building tension, filling its audience with fear and raising their blood pressure just in time for the big finale....
King Of The Hill Based Arlen, Texas On A Very Real Location FOX By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 4, 2022 9:00 pm EST Created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, the animated series “King of the Hill” is remembered for its hilarious, down-to-earth depiction of the everyday life of salesman Hank Hill, who lives in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, with his family. The comedy series paints a refreshing and relatable picture of suburban Texas life and is recognized for its enduring legacy, and the influence it created on sitcom history....
Letting Naruto Age Was ‘Extraordinary’ For Voice Actress Maile Flanagan VIZ Media By Devin Meenan/Dec. 17, 2022 10:00 am EST Shōnen manga is Japan’s equivalent to American superhero comics, but comes with a few more storytelling advantages. Manga is more creator-driven; instead of different writers and artists rotating shifts on staple characters like at Marvel and DC, mangakas (manga artists) pitch and create the stories for their publisher. While Shōnen manga is primarily comprised of boys’ adventure books, they tend to feature different types of adventurers: Shōnen heroes can be pirates, hunters, shinigami, alchemists, or ninjas....
Man Of Steel Wasn’t Henry Cavill’s First Run-In With Russell Crowe Warner Bros. Pictures By Matt Rainis/Oct. 20, 2022 1:19 pm EST While plenty of DC’s superhero movie endeavors have fallen flat, Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” is generally considered to be one of the franchise’s strongest efforts. Our own “Man of Steel” review from 2013 credits star Henry Cavill with a lot of the movie’s success. In his first foray as Superman, Cavill proved that he has the star power to anchor even one of the world’s biggest comic book movie franchises....
The 40-year-old pivot TriStar Pictures So, what happened when Meryl Streep turned 38? She got nominated for another Oscar. This was for the film “Ironweed,” in which she starred alongside the also-nominated Jack Nicholson. Then she turned 39 … and got another Oscar nomination for her performance in “Evil Angels” (released as “A Cry in the Dark” in the US), which you probably know as the “dingo took my baby!” movie....
One Of Avatar: The Way Of Water’s Biggest Technical Achievements Got Its Start In The Sports World 20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/Dec. 21, 2022 2:30 pm EST Back in 2001, with the release of Peter Jackson’s fantasy film “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” the filmmakers faced a unique visual challenge. Multiple characters in the film were hobbits, a species of humanoids that stand about three feet, and they had to regularly interact with human characters double their height....
