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Lance Henriksen’s Android Performance In Aliens Was Centered On One Simple Philosophy By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 29, 2022 5:00 pm EST Lance Henriksen is one of the few actors besides Sigourney Weaver whose character lived to return for another installment in the “Alien” franchise. Ridley Scott’s first “Alien” movie taught audiences and space survivor Ripley, played by Weaver, not to trust androids. Then, James Cameron’s sequel, “Aliens,” subverted that by introducing Henriksen’s android Bishop, and casting doubt on his motives through Ripley, only to show that he was actually a trustworthy and loyal ally....

Lower Decks Season 3 Wanted To Highlight The ‘Unspoken Hierarchy’ Of Star Trek Paramount By Witney Seibold/Nov. 11, 2022 4:00 pm EST “Star Trek” famously takes place in a post-capitalist society. Starfleet officers receive no paychecks, and their shifts are dictated by their stamina rather than their monetary benefits. Several times throughout “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” characters from the 20th or 21st centuries appear on the Enterprise to be told in no uncertain terms that money is a thing of the past....

‘I’m really happy about that’ 20th Century Television Part of the reason she came around, in the end, is that the episodes were no longer constrained by network episode time limits. As Johnson Jerald put it: “We are delivering movies to you and I am extremely happy about that. I was wrong to be upset about the move.” Her co-star Anne Winters who plays Ensign Charly Burke was also positive about where the show is going now: “Seeing the green screen come to life, every episode is fun for us to watch, too....

Queer For Fear: The History Of Queer Horror Review: The Gayest Genre Gains A Vital Docuseries Shudder By Cass Clarke/Sept. 26, 2022 11:24 am EST Executive produced by Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”), Fangoria’s Phil Noble Jr., Kelly Ryan, and Steakhaus Productions, Shudder’s “Queer For Fear: The History of Queer Horror” is a formidable four-part docuseries unveiling and gleefully celebrating the genre’s queer roots. Asking any docuseries to embody, explain, and dissect the entirety of queer horror cinema is a lot, honey!...

Secret Invasion Is Undergoing Story-Focused Reshoots With A New Writer Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/July 30, 2022 11:00 am EST Reshoots and rewrites are par for the course in Hollywood, and can be particularly extensive where the Marvel Cinematic Universe is concerned. While the haphazard nature of some last-minute changes to MCU movies and streaming shows may have hard-working VFX artists fed up with the studio at present, the general public can rest assured that this is all part of the normal process — just another day at the Marvel factory, so to speak....

See How They Run Review: A Breezy, Winking Caper That Knows What It Owes To Whodunits Before Searchlight Pictures By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2022 11:00 am EST Agatha Christie may have been the best and worst thing to happen to whodunits. Her works were the blueprint for the crime genre — so much so that her name has become synonymous with that particular brand of detective fiction. But we’ve come to the point as readers, and audiences, that we know what to expect in an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery: The murder is committed, the suspects are gathered, and the eccentric detective slowly pieces together the clues....

What is Shotgun Wedding? Prime Video “Shotgun Wedding” tells a tale of typical wedding day drama. A couple gathers their loved ones for the ultimate destination wedding, but between their opinionated family members and the general stress of getting married, they get cold feet. Is it too late to call the whole thing off? Maybe not. Or maybe yes, seeing as the entire wedding party is taken hostage before the wedding can begin....

The Best And Worst Moments In Thor: Love And Thunder Marvel Studios By Cass Clarke/July 11, 2022 2:21 pm EST Warning: This article contains major plot spoilers for “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” has the honor of bringing Jason Aaron’s beloved Mighty Thor into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While Waititi pulls some story beats and characters from Aaron’s decade-long run, which shapes Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) into the Goddess of Thunder, a Valkyrie, and then into a unique mixture of both, the latest Thor film doesn’t wholly embrace its source material....

The Box Office Is Suffering Right Now And Hollywood Has Only Itself To Blame Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Aug. 29, 2022 4:00 pm EST The past couple of years have largely been about taking the good with the bad at the box office. Ever since movies like “Tenet” and “The New Mutants” tried (and failed) to get theaters back on their feet, it’s been a bumpy ride with a few very big highs, like “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and pretty major lows, like this past weekend when “The Invitation” topped the charts with a mere $7 million....

The Daily Stream: Throne Of Blood Transforms The Bard’s Prose Into Visual Poetry Toho By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 1, 2022 6:00 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: “Throne of Blood” (1957) Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: A warrior returning from battle is told by a mysterious supernatural entity he is destined to rule the realm he defends, leading him down a dark path of betrayal and murder from which there is no escape....

The Phantom Of The Opera Was A Role Gerard Butler Never Expected To Actually Land Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Dec. 2, 2022 2:00 pm EST The classic tale of “The Phantom of the Opera,” about a man with facial differences living in a secret lair under the Paris opera house, has been turned into several films and a wildly successful Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the 1910 French novel “Le Fantôme de l’Opera” by Gaston Leroux, the story revolves around a young singer named Christine Daaé who has been vocally coached by a mysterious opera ghost, her romance with Count Raoul de Chagny, and the phantom who will go to any lengths to have her for his own....

The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Release Date, Cast, & More For Peacock’s Insightful Doc Peacock By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 12, 2022 3:31 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Known in history as the woman who once refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, Rosa Parks is the mother of the civil rights movement....

The Scream Franchise Timeline Explained Dimension Films By Bee Delores/July 21, 2022 2:21 pm EST “Scream” is unlike most major horror franchises in every way. Where “Friday the 13th,” for example, never embraced a single female character long-term (often killing the Final Girl at the beginning of the next film), “Scream” became Sidney Prescott’s story. She’s survived five attacks and has grown stronger and more resilient because of it. Then, take “Halloween....

The Stranger Things 4 Finale Almost Killed Off A Completely Different Character Netflix By Shania Russell/July 6, 2022 3:20 pm EST There are spoilers ahead for the entire fourth season of “Stranger Things,” so consider this your only warning. The wait for the final season of “Stranger Things” will be long, but in the meantime, there will be exactly one song playing on a loop, lots of time to speculate about what comes next, and plenty of opportunities to badger the Duffer Brothers about the eventful fourth season of their epic sci-fi series....

Titans Season 4: Release Date, Cast, And More For The Returning DC Comics Show HBO Max By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 20, 2022 1:55 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) If there is one superhero show that has outlasted its expiration date, it may be “Titans.” After three seasons, it seems the gritty affair will indefinitely struggle to land its lofty ambitions in a satisfying way....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Release Date, Cast, And More Roku By Lex Briscuso/July 27, 2022 12:06 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Weird Al Yankovic has been a staple in comedy music for as long as I can remember, and certainly since before I was born....

Why Angel Season 5 Was The Best In The Series 20th Television By Jamie Gerber/Sept. 26, 2022 1:54 am EST Not too many series make it to five seasons and those that do often feel like they’ve run out of gas by the time they get there. It’s incredibly rare for a show’s final season to be its best and yet, that’s somehow the case with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spinoff, “Angel....

The Living Daylights MGM It’s cool that George Lazenby doesn’t get unfairly dunked on as much anymore. It’s not cool that Timothy Dalton now seems to be as divisive for many fans. After “A View to a Kill,” we can hardly blame the Broccolis for going in the opposite direction of campy, past-his-prime Roger Moore. Dalton remains arguably the only Bond not to play the role as a movie star, but as a character actor....

Blonde Review: Ana De Armas’ Powerhouse Performance Tries Hard To Save An Ambitious Mess [Venice] Netflix By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 8, 2022 1:58 pm EST Revisionist history can, in the right context, be quite fun. Movies like “Inglorious Basterds” come to mind: exciting, surprising, and bold works that expand on — and in some cases, make better — the reality of our world and history. As for Andrew Dominik’s latest feature, “Blonde,” it could’ve been a masterpiece in the same vein, but the film (adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel of the same name) comes off as a half-baked fever dream that asserts a lot of good ideas and solid performances without the strength of the cinematic flair it needs behind it....

Dan Harmon Believes Donald Glover Will Come Back For The Community Movie NBC By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 7, 2022 5:38 pm EST When the news was announced earlier this week that the cult-favorite community college comedy “Community” would finally be getting a movie, fans were both thrilled and a bit nervous, because two very important faces were missing from the cast. Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Christian supermom Shirley, and Donald Glover, who plays dim-witted but big-hearted former footballer Troy, were absent from the cast list....