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The Deep’s Herogasm Moment Was Harder On Chace Crawford Than You Might Realize Prime Video By Shania Russell/July 28, 2022 1:33 pm EST From an audience perspective, “The Boys” has a penchant for being uniquely traumatizing. Our first warning came in the pilot’s opening scene when a Flash-like superhero ran through a woman and splattered her boyfriend with her guts. If you managed to make it through that, stuck around for the Lucy the Whale fiasco, and also happened to survive the season 3 urethra explosion, then you know exactly what I’m talking about....

The fight to get Treasure Planet greenlit Walt Disney Animation After “The Little Mermaid” became a massive hit, winning a few Oscars and rebirthing the company, Musker and Clements went back to Eisner and Katzenberg to pitch “Treasure Planet” once more. Still, the studio wasn’t convinced, but they wanted to keep the directors who helped save the brand on board. So, they offered them one of three in-development projects: A new take on “Swan Lake,” a “Hamlet” reimagining involving lions called “King of the Jungle,” and the Arabic folktale “Aladdin....

The Muppets Mayhem Stars Lilly Singh, Taj Mowry, & Saara Chaudry Discuss The Inclusivity Of The Muppets Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 19, 2022 2:46 pm EST Before projects like “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Fresh Off The Boat,” or “Everything Everywhere All At Once” rose to prominence in Hollywood, Asian Americans were rarely represented in a big way in American film or television. Despite being the third highest group of Asians represented in the United States, Filipinos are among the least represented in the country’s media....

The True Story Behind The Great Escape United Artists By Lee Adams/Oct. 22, 2022 5:30 pm EST For many of us Brits, just the mere mention of “The Great Escape” provokes an urge to tuck into a large plate of turkey sandwiches. When I was growing up, John Sturges’ rousing prisoner-of-war thriller seemed like it was on telly every Boxing Day, and it is still regarded as a festive favorite in many U....

Thor: Love And Thunder Spoiler Review: A Disappointing Ragnarok Follow-Up Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/July 11, 2022 9:00 am EST “Thor: Love and Thunder” tries to recapture lightning in a bottle by taking a few pages out of one of the best and most celebrated comic book runs of all time, adding a terrifying and menacing villain, a new badass hero, and a story infuses tragedy with Taika Waititi’s brand of whimsical and electric sense of humor....

Unlike The First Movie, A Black Adam Sequel Won’t Take 15 Years To Make Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 21, 2022 7:15 am EST “Black Adam” has only just hit theaters today, but producers are already talking up a potential sequel. The Dwayne Johnson-led DC superhero film has earned mixed reviews so far, with our own calling it “a jumbled mess of a movie that grabs great fistfuls of all-too-familiar blockbuster beats and throws them into a whirling, noisy centrifuge....

Wall-E Moments That Go Right Over Kids’ Heads Pixar By Eric Pierce/Sept. 28, 2022 12:11 pm EST On the surface, “Wall-E” is a heart-warming adventure about an earnest robot that saves humanity and finds love along the way. The 2008 film is one of the best Pixar films ever made, worthy of its entry into the vaunted Criterion Collection. It offers simple entertainment for the kids and something meatier for adults, in true Pixar fashion....

What Made Shooting Scream 4 So Tough For Wes Craven Dimension Films By Michael Boyle/Nov. 24, 2022 3:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the entire “Scream” series so far. With “Scream” (2022) being a major financial and critical success (spawning a sequel that’s already wrapped up filming), it’s easy to overlook “Scream 4,” the standalone entry that failed to revive the series. The 2011 film was a box office disappointment, and with very few new characters surviving, it put the eventual sequel in a tough place....

Why Clint Eastwood Always Tries To Use The First Take As A Director Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Aug. 22, 2022 5:33 pm EST Director Stanley Kubrick — in the name of perfection — infamously required his actors to do as many takes as sanity permitted. Actor Philip Stone, who played the ghost of Mr. Grady in “The Shining,” reported to the Independent that to took 50 or 60 takes to shoot a single eight-minute scene....

Damon Lindelof sent a letter to Alan Moore during pre-production HBO Equally predictable, Moore hasn’t even seen the show. In fact, Moore wasn’t even aware the series was in development until creator Damon Lindelof sent him a letter about it during pre-production. “I think it opened with, ‘Dear Mr. Moore, I am one of the bastards currently destroying Watchmen.’ That wasn’t the best opener,” Moore said. “It went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling....

2022 Emmy Nominations Announced, Succession Leads With 25 Nods HBO By Ryan Scott/July 12, 2022 12:14 pm EST Alright, TV fans the moment has arrived! The 2022 Emmy nominations have been revealed. TV’s biggest night is just a couple of months away. We now know what shows will be competing in the major categories and what shows/stars got left out in the cold. Leading the pack is HBO’s hit drama “Succession” with the show landing a whopping 25 nominations overall, including one for Outstanding Drama Series....

Antonio Banderas Talks Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Bilingual Performances, And More [Exclusive Interview] DreamWorks Animation By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 19, 2022 10:00 am EST 2022 has truly been a great year for animation, from stop-motion making a comeback in films like Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” and Henry Selick’s “Wendell & Wild,” to Pixar’s “Turning Red” proving the studio is still willing to experiment, and Netflix’s “The Sea Beast” giving us thrilling seafaring action....

A life of wonder Marvel Comics For those who aren’t familiar with Wonder Man, he’s an Avenger that was created by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby in 1964. Real name Simon Williams, he was the heir to a munitions company called Williams Innovations that rivaled Stark Industries. While competing with Tony Stark in business, he also ended up as a foe on the battlefield as well when Williams gained ion-based powers while teaming with Baron Zemo prior to ultimately joining Earth’s Mightiest Heroes....

Bardo Review: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Felliniesque Fantasy Falls Flat [Venice] Netflix By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 1, 2022 2:59 pm EST Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who has been enabled with five Oscars, indulges his most frustrating tendencies in his latest film “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” It’s all the wallowing self-pity of “Biutiful” combined with the self-aggrandizing insistence on pure artistry from “Birdman,” filtered through the blank verse roving camera used to stupefying effect in “The Revenant....

Bob Odenkirk Wanted Better Call Saul To Finish After His Heart Attack, Even If They Had To Recast Him Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 6, 2022 1:39 pm EST Well over a year later, it still feels surreal to know just how close we came to losing Bob Odenkirk. In July of 2021, the immensely talented and popular actor collapsed during filming of the final season of “Better Call Saul” and had to be rushed for medical attention after suffering a heart attack....

Bodies Bodies Bodies Star Lee Pace On Making The Smartest Choice In The Movie [Interview] A24 By Jack Giroux/Aug. 12, 2022 1:39 pm EST Lee Pace makes the best decision in “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” If you’ve seen the film, you already know that says a lot. Pace plays Greg, a guy who simply wants to party with the friends of the younger woman (played by Rachel Sennott) he’s seeing. But when their hurricane party starts to take a turn for the worse, he’s wise enough to leave the party early and catch some shut-eye....

Bruce Lee Biopic From Director Ang Lee Will Star The Filmmaker’s Son Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Nov. 30, 2022 2:11 pm EST Martial arts legend Bruce Lee is getting the biopic treatment. Oscar-winner Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) is set to direct a film about the late actor, simply titled “Bruce Lee,” for Sony’s 3000 Pictures. What’s more, the filmmaker has actually tapped his own son, Mason Lee (“The Hangover Part II”) to star as the Hollywood icon in the upcoming biopic, making it a high-profile family affair....

Cecily Strong Is Leaving Saturday Night Live Halfway Through Season 48 NBC By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2022 11:44 pm EST “Saturday Night Live” has seen quite the exodus of cast members over the past year. At the end of season 47 back in May, the series bid farewell to Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, and Kyle Mooney. Then, before season 48 began this past fall, Alex Moffat and Melissa Villaseñor left the series along with featured player Aristotle Athari....

An indicent proposal Crunchyroll This POV sequence also helps recontextualize Himeno’s proposal to Denji as more than just an adult woman trying to be intimate with a minor, but a woman who has her own flaws and desires, a woman hurt by jealousy over Makima, who has both Denji and Aki drooling over her. Even though Makima is barely in the episode, she looms large over it, having emotional power over the main cast even when she is not present....

Constantine Ending Explained: He Works His Work In Mysterious Ways Warner Bros. Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 20, 2022 11:00 am EST For occult expert John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), exorcising demons on a freelance basis is as mundane as it gets. Intensely cynical and acutely aware of his loneliness, Constantine is forever caught in a war between Heaven and Hell, jilted by God and loathed by demons. However, Constantine’s motive to do what he does is not entirely selfless: He’s a dying man who has been marked for Hell, trudging through life and experiencing unimaginable horrors....