The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 3 Kicks Things Up A Notch HBO By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 13, 2022 10:00 pm EST Another day in Sicily. Welcome back! The third episode of season 2 of “The White Lotus” starts off with a bit more interaction than anyone would want with their morning coffee. Hotel manager Valentina is approached by a man trying to get to know her while she downs her morning espresso at a local cafe on her way to the hotel....
There’s A Nugget Of Naruto’s Creator In Its Titular Character Viz Media By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 11, 2022 2:32 pm EST In Masashi Kishimoto’s manga series, “Naruto,” the titular hero wears a bright orange jumpsuit, which is the opposite of what a stealthy ninja would wear. Instead of lurking in the shadows, Naruto Uzumaki announces his presence to his enemies and unabashedly boasts about his skills. After being bested in battle, Naruto is doubly determined to train harder and does not stop until he claims victory....
There Will Be More Star Trek Shows With Female Leads, According To Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman Paramount By Jenna Busch/July 23, 2022 5:28 pm EST The San Diego Comic-Con train is making no stops, so hold on tight! The big panel happening right now is all about “Star Trek.” /Film is on the ground as we speak to get all the news and information you need to keep your geeky brain enthralled....
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts trailer According to Paramount+, this film is also just the first of a “planned” three-part series. A “CG animated Transformers theatrical film” is also arriving in 2024, directed by “Toy Story 4” head Josh Cooley from a script by “Ant-Man and the Wasp” scribes Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. The studio claims that the prequel movie “takes place primarily on Cybertron and explores the origins of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons....
Why Dance Is Such A Prominent Part Of RRR Director S. S. Rajamouli’s Filmmaking DVV Entertainment By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 5, 2022 12:34 pm EST If you’ve had the distinct pleasure of watching (or rewatching) S.S. Rajamouli’s mind-blowing “RRR,” you might agree that the “Naatu Naatu” dance sequence hits different. “RRR” brims with heartfelt spectacle and over-the-top action that works seamlessly with gorgeous visuals, but this particular dance number cements a climactic moment in the arcs of Raju (Ram Charan) and Bheem (N....
Why The Final Scene Of White Christmas Was Reshot Without Bing Crosby…and Without Film Paramount Pictures By Sarah Musnicky/Dec. 3, 2022 9:00 pm EST We all have our go-to holiday movie classics. “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Home Alone” quickly come to mind, but another holiday staple for me is “White Christmas.” Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, the film follows singers Bob Wallace (Crosby) and Phil Davis (Kaye), who have been pounding the pavement as successful producers post-World War II....
Year Of The Vampire: Hold Your Breath For The Hopping Undead In Mr. Vampire Golden Harvest By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 27, 2022 12:00 pm EST “If you meet a vampire, don’t breathe.” This is the sage advice that Master Kau, the Taoist priest played by Lam Ching-ying, gives to his bumbling apprentices, Man-choi (Ricky Hui) and Chau-sang (Chin Siu-ho), in the 1985 Hong Kong action comedy “Mr. Vampire.” Forget everything you know about bloodsuckers; the undead specimens in “Mr....
A Near-Fatal Lee Ermey Injury Put Full Metal Jacket On Pause For Months Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Nov. 12, 2022 7:30 pm EST He’s been the Sheriff of a Texas town and oversaw the investigation of John Doe, but to scores of moviegoers, the late R. Lee Ermey was America’s favorite dehumanizing leader. A United States Marine Corps staff sergeant with experience in South Vietnam from 1968 through 1969, Ermey was medically discharged in 1972 but found a second life as an intimidating authority figure on the big screen....
Andor Episode 10 Improves On One Of The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy’s Worst Missteps Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 9, 2022 1:30 pm EST There’s only one way out for those avoiding spoilers for “Andor.” Turn back now if you haven’t watched the latest episode. The morning after a new episode of a buzzy new show releases is hardly the time to make grand proclamations or sweeping statements about quality. But sometimes, one just has to make an exception....
The Devil and Rosemary Paramount Pictures Ari Aster had good reason to find an unconventional sort of demon for “Hereditary.” The Devil, painted for centuries as the source of all earthly evil, has little novelty anymore. He is a figure common to cinematic history, whether in comedic appearances like “Little Nicky” and “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” or as a terrifying evil goo in John Carpenter’s “Prince of Darkness....
Chainsaw Man Episode 7 Is When The Prologue Ends And The Real Show Begins Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 23, 2022 6:56 am EST Here it is, the episode “Chainsaw Man” has been building towards, the one that will filter out normies and find the real degenerates who are the target audience, the moment the prologue ends and the real show begins. So far, the anime has been doing a good job of introducing its idiosyncratic world and characters and showing off its eclectic influences....
Clerks 3: Everything We Know So Far Lionsgate By Ben F. Silverio/July 7, 2022 5:49 pm EST Following the release of “Clerks II” in 2006, fan-favorite writer/director/podcaster Kevin Smith started branching out from his View Askewniverse in 2008 with projects like “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” “Cop Out,” and “Red State.” However, it never felt like the cinematic universe that birthed Jay and Silent Bob was ever that far away from the New Jersey native....
Cobra Kai’s Sean Kanan Had A Terrifying Medical Emergency While Filming Karate Kid Part III Columbia Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Oct. 19, 2022 7:58 pm EST “Cobra Kai” shocked everyone with its unbelievable return to “The Karate Kid” universe. The show, which was created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, is essentially one giant love letter to the original films. Not only is it smart, original, and funny, but it’s also done an incredible job of tying in many of the characters from the first three films....
Colin Farrell Was Not A Fan Of The Underwater Sequences In Thirteen Lives Prime Video By Jenna Busch/July 30, 2022 6:36 pm EST In 2018, a junior association football (soccer) team of 12 children, ages 11-16, and their 25-year-old assistant coach decided to go spelunking in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand. While they were in there, heavy rains began to fall, and they became trapped by a flash flood....
Darren Star Doesn’t See Uncoupled As A Story ‘About Gay Characters’ Netflix By Erin Brady/Aug. 8, 2022 4:36 pm EST The state of LGBTQ+ representation in media is a bit strange. Sure, there are more movies and television shows with LGBTQ+ characters than ever before, but the complexity of these characters is debatable depending on who you ask. Despite some outliers, LGBTQ+ characters being promoted strictly based on their sexuality and not on other aspects of their personality is a phenomenon that hasn’t quite ended amidst the ongoing push for media inclusion....
Everywhere Superman Wanted To Film, Marlon Brando And Guy Hamilton Were Banned Warner Bros. By Bill Bria/Aug. 14, 2022 11:00 pm EST Established during the early heyday of motion pictures, the “star system” is an informal rule of thumb that most movie producers still swear by, even though the elements of a film’s package deal in order to get a green light and raise funds have changed in the last 20-odd years....
Bringing Ghost Story to life wasn’t easy Universal Pictures “Ghost Story” dabbles in the world of nightmares, as the community elders of Milburn, Vermont find themselves stalked by devastating imagery. Lawyer Sears James (John Houseman), retired physician Dr. John Jaffrey (Melvyn Douglas), businessman Ricky Hawthorne (Fred Astaire), and mayor of Milburn Edward Charles Wanderley (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) are all afflicted by these incessant nightmares, as the lifelong friends are forced to reckon with the sins of their past....
Here’s What We Know About Ryan Coogler’s Original Black Panther 2 Script With T’Challa Marvel Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 19, 2022 4:02 pm EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a film with a lot riding on it. Not only is the movie set to mark the end of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it’s also a follow-up to 2018’s “Black Panther,” a massively successful film both critically and financially....
How Sam Mendes’ Road To Perdition Influenced Peaky Blinders Season 5 Netflix By Anya Stanley/Dec. 15, 2022 1:08 pm EST The fifth season of the post-WWI BBC/Netflix series “Peaky Blinders” sees crime boss Tommy Shelby in a Sisyphean struggle to maintain his hold on the power he’s gained. Rising from Birmingham gang leader to a member of the House of Commons, Tommy (Cillian Murphy) wrestles with a formidable Scottish gang, a rising fascist with dirt on Shelby, and the fallout of the stock market crash of 1929....
How The Birds Changed Tippi Hedren Forever Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 12, 2022 12:08 pm EST Daphne du Maurier’s unsettling horror story, “The Birds,” was the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock’s 1963 horror-thriller film of the same name. Hitchcock effectively utilized the premise of violent, inexplicable bird attacks to underline the themes of love and violence and how the two were connected within the context of the narrative. The onus of bringing this unique story to life fell on Tippi Hedren, who plays Melanie, the protagonist whose presence becomes an inadvertent threat to those around her....
