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DC goes full ’90s with this brilliant playlist No mix CD required — introducing the official #DCLovesThe90s playlist: https://t.co/ZxJ26NzUzz pic.twitter.com/ppPzaoJo3n— DC (@DCComics) November 29, 2022 The DC social media team has been celebrating the decade that was the 1990s as of late. Their most recent bit of fun? They shared the above ’90s playlist connected to that particular era of DC on screen. I don’t want to spoil it, but fans of “Batman Forever” will probably be quite happy to throw this playlist on because it does include one heck of a banger....

Sylvester Stallone Wrote A Rocky Film That Never Saw The Light Of Day United Artists By Witney Seibold/Sept. 19, 2022 1:56 pm EST The persistence of the “Rocky” series is one of the strangest phenomena in mainstream Hollywood. To date, there have been eight films in the Rocky cinematic universe with a ninth set to be released on March 3, 2023, and they are mostly — a few entries notwithstanding — well-reviewed and well-received....

The 27 Best Simpsons One-Off Characters Ranked After 32 years on the air, it takes real mettle to appear in only one episode of “The Simpsons” and leave such an impression that the audience never forgets you. And yet, some characters make such a grand contribution to the series or provoke such a change in one of our beloved regulars that a single adventure is all we needed to see. In that spirit, we salute those magnificent one-timers who, even with their brief screen time, made an indelible mark on the greatest television show of all time....

The Accents Of Bullet Train Ranked Sony Pictures By Erin Brady/Aug. 5, 2022 11:00 am EST Note: this post contains spoilers for “Bullet Train.” After what seems like a lifetime of waiting and watching different variations of the same trailer, “Bullet Train” has finally arrived in theaters. David Leitch’s return to the director’s chair is bound to be pretty divisive, but there is a bit of fun that can be had if you know you’ll be watching some silly things unfold....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To HBO Max In December 2022 Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Nov. 23, 2022 11:44 am EST Are you someone like me who doesn’t feel the need to pack December with a barrage of films filled with holiday cheer? Look, I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas, but beyond that, my December doesn’t change much in the way of what I want to spend my time watching (the same could be said for me in October, when I do not entirely devote my screen time to horror)....

I had a draft that was so bonkers that no one can believe how bonkers it was Shudder What were some of the more old-school horror movies on your mind while making “The Cellar?” “The Amityville Horror,” maybe “The Omen,” and “The Haunting” are huge influences. There’s a homage to “The Haunting” in there. No one’s really noticed it yet, but it’s quite a big one. Which one is it? It’s when the mother is talking to her son in the cellar and then realizes he’s not in there....

A girl and her dog 20th Century Studios Coco is an American dingo, also known as a carolina dog, and they’re one of the oldest breeds in existence. The ancestors of today’s carolina dogs came across the Bering land bridge between Asia and Alaska with the Indigenous people who traveled east and then south to populate the Americas. They are incredibly smart, a little shy, and full of energy, with similar temperaments to the Australian dingo and Japanese native breeds like shiba inus and akitas....

The Simpsons’ Futurama Crossover Came With Some Serious Baggage By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 7, 2022 7:30 pm EST Whether the result of an exciting idea or a gimmick to boost ratings, crossovers are a time-honored tradition in television, especially in animation. When I was a kid, you better believe I was hyped for The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, and plenty of kids and adults loved when “The Flintstones” met “The Jetsons.” It can be fun to think about some of our favorite characters hopping from one show to the other for an episode or two....

Sirico is the most similar to his Sopranos character HBO Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri was not only written for Sirico, but some parts of Sirico’s life directly inspired his “Sopranos” character when the creative team was at a loss. “There was an episode where they were going to go to Paulie’s apartment, and the set designers and producers were racking their brains to figure out what the apartment would look like,” his co-star Steve Schirripa recalled....

The White Lotus Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 Set The Scene For Another Adventure In Intrigue HBO By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 6, 2022 10:00 pm EST Ready to check in again? Personally, my bags are packed, and I’m happy you’ll be joining me through the seven-episode arc that is the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” Consider me your concierge, and let’s get acquainted with this season’s offerings. If you’re joining us this time around, you probably eagerly lapped up the first Hawaii-set season of the show — and it would be hard to blame you....

There’s One Type Of Guest Star The Simpsons Has Never Quite Been Able To Land By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 25, 2022 5:45 pm EST No sitcom is complete without an occasional guest star popping in to shake things up. When it comes to “The Simpsons,” they’ve booked almost everyone in Hollywood at some point, whether it be Meryl Streep, Phil Hartman, Johnny Cash, Neil Gaiman, Billie Eilish, or Tom Hiddleston. Throw a rock in Los Angeles and you’ll likely hit someone who has done a guest spot on the animated sitcom....

What Josiah Saw Clip: Robert Patrick Wants You To Know Your Mother Is In The Hellfire [Exclusive] Shudder By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 1, 2022 10:00 am EST Horror festival favorite “What Josiah Saw” is making its Shudder debut this week, and /Film has an exclusive first look at an eerie scene from the movie. The film is a dark Southern gothic led by Scott Haze (“Jurassic World Dominion”) and Robert Patrick (“Peacemaker”), and the new clip shows the pair sharing some disturbing words outside a rural farmhouse....

An Early Version Of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Didn’t Make Scarlet Witch A Villain Right Away Disney By Witney Seibold/July 21, 2022 3:44 pm EST Michael Waldron, a writer on “Rick and Morty” and the screenwriter of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” said in an interview with /Film that assembling the script for the 28th MCU movie was akin to playing Frankenstein. He described sitting in a highly scrutinized writers’ room — the scrutiny coming from the sheer size and high profile of the project — and the process of writing down many desired plot points, characters, and potential script ideas on a board....

Blade Runner Was Scrambling To Find A Star Until Steven Spielberg Mentioned Harrison Ford Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Dec. 2, 2022 11:39 am EST Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” is one of the most seminal science-fiction films of its time. It took a genre that was dominated at the time by flashier, more optimistic franchises like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” and provided a unique, darker vision, both thematically and aesthetically. It also merged themes from both sci-fi and noir, popularizing a cyberpunk aesthetic that would influence all sorts of media from series like “Battlestar Galactica” and “Ghost in the Shell,” to video games like “Cyberpunk 2077” and “Deus Ex....

Bones And All Trailer: Timothée Chalamet And Taylor Russell Are Hungry For Love And Human Flesh United Artists Releasing Maren (Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) are able to find solace in one another over their shared condition, but as they fall deeper and deeper in love, the circumstances become more dangerous for each other and anyone who may cross their path. Doing their best to maintain a low profile, the young lovebirds try to make their way across America using back roads and hidden passageways, hoping to stave off their compulsion to consume for as long as possible....

Brendan Gleeson Reads Marilyn Monroe’s Worrisome Fan Mail In Saturday Night Live’s Blonde Parody NBC By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 9, 2022 2:02 pm EST With the uber-controversial “Blonde” making waves on Netflix, it was only a matter of time before “Saturday Night Live” writers picked up the film for sketch comedy inspiration and ran with it. An adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name, “Blonde” is a fictionalized take on Marilyn Monroe’s life....

Cillian Murphy Has A Theory About The Success Of Peaky Blinders Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 22, 2022 9:11 am EST Tommy Shelby is an ambitious madman … and one of the most fascinating characters on television. In “Peaky Blinders,” Irish actor Cillian Murphy portrays the patriarch of a gangster family dedicated to making their crime business legitimate. Tommy is seen plotting and scheming against his enemies, participating in intriguing conversations with his brothers, falling in love, and basically just being a badass when he’s not being a total nightmare to everyone in his life....

Comedy Horror Movies Most People Could Actually Survive Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/July 27, 2022 9:51 pm EST The horror genre is vast and expansive, containing countless subgenres guaranteed to keep fans coming back for more. Horror comedies are arguably the most popular subgenre, marrying the laughs with the screams that make for an accessible experience for even the biggest scaredy-cats. Some of the best horror films of all time fall under the horror comedy umbrella, like “The Evil Dead,” “An American Werewolf in London,” and “Shaun of the Dead....

Getting The Post Made Was A Dead Sprint For Steven Spielberg By Witney Seibold/Dec. 2, 2022 7:58 am EST Steven Spielberg’s film “The Post” might be considered part of a thematic series that will hereby be dubbed the Current Events Trilogy. In “Munich,” “Lincoln,” and “The Post,” Spielberg took significant moments from the past — Operation Wrath of God, the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the publication of the Pentagon Papers — and used them as clear metaphors for the dark milieu of the present....

Good Girls’ Superstore Connection Goes Deeper Than Its Cloud 9 Cameo NBCUniversal By Jamie Gerber/July 14, 2022 3:45 pm EST 2021 saw the cancelation of not one, but two great NBC shows when the network axed both “Good Girls” and “Superstore.” The former follows three Michigan moms who turn to a life of crime in order to make ends meet, while the latter centers on the exploits of a group of employees working at a fictional big-box store in Missouri called Cloud 9....