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Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania Won’t Be A Small Movie; It’s ‘Central To The Future Of The MCU’ Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 13, 2022 7:07 am EST With heavy hitters like the Hulk still relegated to the status of supporting characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man was never the most obvious choice to lead a superhero film, let alone a whole trilogy from Marvel Studios. With “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” however, Paul Rudd’s intermittently pint-sized protagonist, Scott Lang, is getting the threequel treatment, which puts him in fine company with the core Avengers: Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor, all of whom have received three or more solo films now....

The Scouts Are Scattered Funimation We start things off by resolving the huge cliffhanger from last year, the fate of Levi Ackerman, who we last saw literally blowing up after the Beast Titan triggered a thunder spear. He is alive, kind of, as a quick shot of two severed fingers holding a sword makes it clear the beloved Titan-slayer won’t exactly be leading a charge anytime soon. The rest of the Levi squad isn’t much better off, as they are still imprisoned and bewildered by Eren’s actions and his harsh words against Armin and Mikasa last season....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Is About More Than A Single Marvel Superhero Disney By Witney Seibold/Nov. 11, 2022 12:00 pm EST The character of Black Panther, as played by the late Chadwick Boseman, was first introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 2016 film “Captain America: Civil War.” That film was about a conflict between two factions of superheroes over whether or not superpowered freelance vigilantes should be allowed to continue their regular operations without oversight....

What Makes It Great Funimation Each episode uses a sepia color palette, with washed out colors and an ever-present fog filter that makes the show look like a dream (or a nightmare) where things are never what they seem. If David Lynch decides to make an anime, it would probably feel a lot like “Boogiepop Phantom.” Likewise, the sound design goes a long way in giving the show an eerie atmosphere of dread, with a disorienting, vibrating pulse constantly ringing in the background as if to put the audience in a trance....

Casa Susanna Review: A Documentary That Travels Back In Time To Witness Transgender History [TIFF] TIFF By Sarah Milner/Sept. 19, 2022 11:29 am EST Do you remember the first time you saw a “cross-dresser”? For me, I believe it was either “Rocky Horror Picture Show” or maybe even the original “The Producers.” I don’t really remember because it wasn’t of major consequence for me and my identity. But for the women featured in “Casa Susanna,” seeing any sort of man in drag was a revelation — a life-changing, and life-saving, discovery....

Dwayne Johnson Envisions A More Cohesive DCEU After Black Adam Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 18, 2022 11:56 am EST Nobody needs any reminding of all the twists and turns it’s taken for Warner Bros. and their flagship DC brand to make it to this point, but do you know what would be the biggest twist of all? If after the release of “Black Adam,” the hierarchy of power in the DC universe really does change....

Guillermo Del Toro Considers Pinocchio As Part Of A Trilogy With Devil’s Backbone And Pan’s Labyrinth Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 10, 2022 8:30 am EST For a long time, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” seemed doomed to become one of his many, many unrealized projects. Announced in 2008, this new take on Carlo Collodi’s novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” was penned by del Toro and his frequent co-writer Matthew Robinson (“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” “Crimson Peak”), with del Toro also splitting helming duties with “Fantastic Mr....

Henry Jackman Points To Seth Rogen And Evan Goldberg’s This Is The End For His ‘Most Ironic Use Of Music Ever’ [Exclusive] Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 23, 2022 3:13 pm EST Henry Jackman is one of the most prolific composers working in cinema today, with his musical prowess popping up in films across a wide spectrum of subgenres. He’s provided the scores for superhero fare like “Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class,” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” family-friendly animated films like “Ron’s Gone Wrong,” “Wreck-It Ralph,” and “Puss in Boots,” and other high-profile releases like “Kong: Skull Island,” “The Gray Man,” and “Captain Phillips....

How George R.R. Martin Defines A Good King [Comic-Con] HBO By Shania Russell/July 23, 2022 4:30 pm EST Hundreds of years before the crown was shuffled from Baratheon to Lannister to Targaryen to … Bran, the Targaryen dynasty was going strong, but the question of succession remained contentious as ever. “House of the Dragon” will see the question settled with fire and blood, as forces within the Targaryen family fight for their chance to wear the crown....

Jordan Peele Knew That Nope Had To Nail Its Sound Design Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/July 22, 2022 9:55 pm EST Jordan Peele’s new sci-fi nightmare “Nope” has finally arrived, and it’s exactly as terrifying as you’ve been led to believe. You’ll be sure to think twice the next time you look into the sky, just as Spielberg made the water feel like a treacherous abyss ready to swallow you whole in “Jaws....

Lightyear Won’t Stream On Disney+ In The Middle East Pixar By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 5, 2022 10:11 am EST “Lightyear” isn’t the greatest film Pixar has ever produced in its storied history (or even really close to it), but the story is undeniably a sincere one that’s largely about inclusivity, acceptance, and coming together to overcome the odds. It’s a shame, then, that not all worldwide audiences will be able to catch the space-faring blockbuster on Disney+....

Love Of The Art Wasn’t What Led Cary Grant To Become An Actor Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/Sept. 25, 2022 5:30 pm EST The question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is incredibly unfair. Sure, it helps receptive parents usher their children into classes and programs that suit their child’s current interests of the day, but I feel like there is this undercurrent of prepping children for the workforce at a far too early age, locking them into whatever they loved at a certain moment in time....

Moonage Daydream: Release Date, Cast, And More Neon By BJ Colangelo/July 11, 2022 3:13 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.) “Keep your ’lectric eye on me, babe. Put your ray gun to my head. Press your space face close to mine, love. Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!...

Shia LaBeouf Can’t Escape The News, Joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Epic Megalopolis A24 By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 31, 2022 7:40 pm EST This is a very precarious time to be getting into the Shia LaBeouf business. The gifted actor, who’s veered from the commercial crap of Michael Bay’s “Transformers” movies to daringly non-mainstream films like Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” was accused in 2020 by ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs of sexual battery, assault, and affliction of emotional distress....

Thankfully it didn’t take owl night Having been pushed to his breaking point, Vinny, now staying in a cabin similar to the creepy abode from “The Evil Dead,” loads a pistol and fires aimlessly into the black of night. The owl continues to screech, which prompts him and his fiancée Lisa to sleep in their car somewhere else instead. According to Lynn, that shot of Vinny and the owl was incredibly difficult to set up....

Edward Norton is Miles Bron Netflix We live in a world where the eccentric, egotistical billionaire are becoming omnipresent and all the more destructive. Edward Norton’s Miles Bron fits right alongside these deluded new money men. He is the co-founder and CEO of a tech company whose latest endeavor is fuel innovation. The reason for this get together of the Disrupters is at the behest of Miles, who invites everyone to his private island off the coast of Greece for a murder mystery party....

¡Líik’ik Talokan! Marvel Studios On multiple occasions, the 500-year old mutant king Namor makes a distinct gesture, taking the form of a sea monster’s jaws with his hands open and bent towards each other. His people respond in kind and shout, “¡Líik’ik Talokan!” It turns out Namor’s hand gesture is not a reference to the Egyptian god Ammit, who is the villain of Marvel’s “Moon Knight,” nor does it have anything to do with Talokan being a sea-faring society....

The Original Texas Chain Saw Massacre House Will Live On As New Owners Promise To Preserve It Bryanston Distributing Company By Anya Stanley/Nov. 14, 2022 5:13 pm EST In the conversations about the scariest horror movie moments ever, Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” tends to land in the top ten, usually for its jarring introduction to slasher icon Leatherface. Beyond the chainsaw and the dysfunctional cannibal family who revere it, the “Texas Chain Saw” franchise has put great stock in its stifling Lone Star state setting, particularly the Sawyer family home which so many victims stumble onto....

The Pale Blue Eye Review: Christian Bale Teams Up With Edgar Allan Poe To Solve A Mystery Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 22, 2022 12:00 pm EST What if Edgar Allan Poe, the man who created the detective fiction genre, had to solve a mystery in real life? That’s a premise that’s been used several times over — the quite bad film “The Raven,” which had a miscast John Cusack as Poe, crafts its story around Poe trying to catch a killer using his stories for inspiration, and the novel “Nevermore” has Poe team up with Davy Crockett (!...

Building Helm’s Deep New Line Cinema “This is more to my liking,” said the dwarf, stamping on the stones. “Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains. There is good rock here. This country has tough bones. I felt them in my feet as we came up from the dike. Give me a year and a hundred of my kin and I would make this a place that armies would break upon like water....