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The Daily Stream: Death To Smoochy Is A Comedy Masterpiece That Deserves Reappraisal Warner Bros. Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 13, 2022 3:24 pm EST The Movie: “Death to Smoochy” Where you can stream it: Free with ads on YouTube The pitch: Kids’ show host Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) finds himself going from the high life to the gutters after he’s caught taking bribes from parents to get their kids on his show....

The Hellraiser Reboot Is Not A Remake, And Is Set The Original Franchise’s Universe Entertainment Film Distributors By Anya Stanley/Sept. 1, 2022 3:39 pm EST Among the wave of horror franchise reboots, sequels (like “Candyman”), and prequels (like “The Munsters”), it can be hard for moviegoers to orient themselves in the face of a new, reimagined horror classic. With the release of the 11th installment in the Clive Barker-created “Hellraiser” film series on its way come October, David Bruckner’s “Hellraiser,” fans are sure to have the same question: Where does this sit in the ‘Hellraiser" universe?...

The Truman Show Ending Explained: Freeing Yourself From Fear Of Reality Paramount Pictures By Devin Meenan/Oct. 23, 2022 8:30 am EST “The Truman Show” is a movie so high-concept that its title has become a colloquialism. The lead Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) discovers that his life as he’s known it for his 30 years is a lie. His hometown of Seahaven Island is contained within a dome, outfitted with complex camera and sound systems that document his life day-in-day-out....

Where You’ve Seen The Midnight Club Cast Before In Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Shows Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 9, 2022 4:55 pm EST The Mike Flanagan small-screen universe — or Flanaverse, as Netflix has officially dubbed it – is always growing. After impressing viewers with the emotional one-two punch of literary adaptations “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” the filmmaker created a profound and sweeping original story last year with the limited series “Midnight Mass....

Why Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doesn’t Have An End-Credits Scene Marvel Studios By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 30, 2022 12:57 pm EST Going into “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” carries with it a lot of emotions. There’s an air of finality. Grief and all of its complications is a predominant theme going into this latest chapter. Not since “Avengers: Endgame” has a Marvel Cinematic Universe film arrived with such a feeling of heaviness going in....

A Days Of Thunder Montage Helped Inspire One Of Top Gun: Maverick’s Dogfight Scenes [Exclusive] Paramount By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 10, 2022 9:43 pm EST When “Top Gun: Maverick” was first announced, few thought that a legacy sequel to the original Tony Scott-directed classic could possibly be a good idea. While many of a certain age fell for the 1986 film in a big way when it first released, those who only came to “Top Gun” in preparation for the sequel quickly discovered that it was … well, let’s diplomatically call it “a product of its time....

A Major Part Of Fullmetal Alchemist Had Its Meaning Lost In Translation Viz Media By Devin Meenan/Aug. 6, 2022 7:00 pm EST My preferred way to watch “Fullmetal Alchemist” is the English dub. Scripted and recorded by Funimation, both iterations of the classic anime series feature some of the best dubbing around, just behind “Cowboy Bebop.” All the voice actors fit their characters like a glove and their performances burn with passion....

Bill Lawrence Had To Rein In Sarah Chalke’s Scrubs Performance NBC By Matt Rainis/Oct. 15, 2022 11:00 pm EST Shows about doctors typically aren’t comedies. It makes sense; working in a hospital is an exhausting and often bleak life where you need to work day and night trying to save patients, many of whom are just going to die regardless. There’s a reason shows like “ER” and “Grey’s Anatomy” are some of the melodramatic shows out there....

Black Adam Pulls A Hat Trick At The Box Office, One Piece Film: Red Brings Out The Anime Crowd Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Nov. 7, 2022 11:16 am EST It was one of those relative “calm-before-the-storm” weekends at the box office, with many in the industry awaiting the arrival of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” this week, which will undoubtedly put a great deal of meat in seats. This past weekend, however, “Black Adam” got to enjoy one more (albeit modest) stay atop the charts, while “One Piece Film: Red” once again proved that anime is increasingly viable in the U....

Clint Eastwood Saw One Very Important Difference Between Don Siegel And Sergio Leone Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 5, 2022 4:09 pm EST Director Don Siegel started his filmmaking career back in the 1940s, directing montages for high-profile studio pictures like “Now, Voyager” and “Casablanca.” He eventually made a name for himself in the 1950s with hard-boiled crime dramas like “The Verdict” and “Riot in Cell Block 11” as well as the indelible sci-fi classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers....

Composer Henry Jackman Praises A Key Moment In John Williams’ Empire Strikes Back Score [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 25, 2022 8:10 pm EST Few composers have shaped the soundscape of Hollywood cinema for the past 30 years quite like Hans Zimmer. From “The Lion King” to “The Thin Red Line,” “Gladiator,” “Dune: Part One,” and his work on Christopher Nolan’s films, Zimmer’s best soundtracks are capable of telling gripping stories all on their own....

‘A weird case from the start’ Netflix Again, only Netflix will know the exact box office numbers for certain, and some estimates from rival studios put its gross at a slightly lower $12 million for the five-day weekend. Regardless, this strong opening from a limited number of screens is strong evidence that the latest comedy-mystery from Rian Johnson had the potential to repeat the precedent started by “Knives Out.” Of course, it could be argued that so many people saw “Glass Onion” out of the scarcity fears that it was only available for one week, but given how many people would have killed to see the film in a theater but were traveling for the holiday or were unable to see it for any number of reasons in the short timeframe (myself included), there was certainly more money to be made....

All in the family Warner Bros. Pictures If you’ve seen the film, you know that Atom Smasher’s uncle (godfather in the comics) Al Pratt is played by none other than “Happy Days” and “Barry” actor Henry Winkler. Al Pratt is the superhero Atom, once a regular college student who gained size-changing superpowers. (Rothstein’s grandfather is also part of this world as the supervillain Cyclotron.) Atom was a founding member of the JSA in the comics....

Not the first time someone lost their memory BBC In an interview between showrunners Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies, Moffat pointed out another time in “Doctor Who” where a companion had their memory wiped: the 1969 story “The War Games,” centering around the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. Moffat read about the famous episode as a kid before he got to see it and remarked to Davies in the June 2020 issue of Doctor Who magazine about how different the episode was from his expectations:...

Lou Review: A Well-Trod Action-Thriller That Neither Flies Nor Fails Netflix By Jeff Ewing/Sept. 22, 2022 9:07 pm EST Hollywood history is replete with examples of characters whose past comes back to haunt them in one way or another: the return of an old nemesis, falling back into an old life, a character realizing their buried sins won’t remain that way. It’s a family of tropes that have fueled many an action-thriller from Darth Vader’s connection to Obi-Wan Kenobi to a number of James Bond and “Mission: Impossible” villains, and in “Lou,” these classic tropes once again find traction in a simple story that’s elevated by solid performances, but not quite enough to escape the limitations of well-tread territory....

Rian Johnson And Daniel Craig Think Benoit Blanc’s Backstory Is A Mystery Best Left Unsolved Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 8, 2022 10:46 am EST “Knives Out” is a near perfect movie. There, I said it. Rian Johnson’s love letter to the whodunit genre has everything you would want in a murder mystery; it is brilliantly written, full of surprises, has an exquisite ensemble cast you could easily watch just interacting for hours at a time, a gallery of suspects you love to hate, and some lovely cameos....

Straight Man: Everything We Know So Far About Bob Odenkirk’s New AMC Series AMC By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 28, 2022 8:13 pm EST National treasure Bob Odenkirk isn’t saying goodbye to AMC after the completion of “Better Call Saul,” as his next project, “Straight Man,” is well into production. Many assumed Odenkirk would take a step back from the acting world after he endured a heart attack, but you can’t keep a Goodman down....

The 12 Best Mr. Robot Episodes, Ranked NBCUniversal Television Distribution By Liam Gaughan/Sept. 5, 2022 12:21 pm EST The USA Network hacking thriller “Mr. Robot” is one of the best and most underrated dramas of the past decade. Initially, “Mr. Robot” seemed like a risky project. While writer-director Sam Esmail established his merits as a creator with his highly underrated feature film directorial debut, “Comet,” he had yet to prove himself as the showrunner of a complex narrative series....

The 20 Best Movies About Being Single, Ranked Embassy Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Dec. 3, 2022 11:59 am EST Ever since the earliest days of cinema, Hollywood has loved celebrating the romantic genre. Rom-coms are a quintessential part of film history; the “Golden Age of Hollywood” featured the sly, romantic classics “It Happened One Night,” “Roman Holiday,” and “The Apartment.” While it’s fun to see an idealized couple enjoying each other’s company on screen, movie fans have to recognize that what they’re seeing doesn’t reflect reality....

The 27 Best Game Of Thrones Episodes, Ranked HBO By Nick Bartlett/Sept. 26, 2022 5:05 pm EST “Game Of Thrones” is something of an anomaly. The cultural phenomenon had four seasons of the highest quality fantasy television, until a final season so rushed, so generic, and so poorly made, many theorized the show would disappear from cultural discourse. However, the release of the prequel series “The House Of The Dragon” brought renewed interest to the world of Westeros, leading to the original series becoming one of HBO Max’s most in-demand shows....