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Timed entry, location, and sightlines Joshua Meyer Due to its ongoing popularity, Super Nintendo World uses a timed entry system to regulate crowd flow. Our entry time ended up being at night, so we spent the afternoon riding the last surviving “Jaws” attraction at any Universal theme park and then riding both pairs of Express Pass attractions in Jurassic Park and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Joshua Meyer Our day was filled with a lot of John Williams music....

Jack Black Just Might Be Waterworld’s Biggest Fan Universal Pictures By Matt Rainis/Nov. 26, 2022 3:00 pm EST “Waterworld” is almost universally regarded as one of the biggest movie flops of all time (just don’t let Kevin Costner catch you saying that). The movie was made with an absolutely massive budget. I’m talking about a “GDP of a small nation” budget of around 175 million dollars. Even though the film actually managed to earn back its budget in combined domestic and international box office earnings, the reputation of it as a massive flop has lingered like a pungent smell, making anybody who even speaks about the movie crinkle their nose....

Jack Nicholson Had A Hand In Danny Devito Becoming The Penguin In Batman Returns Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Dec. 6, 2022 9:14 pm EST If there’s anything “Batman Returns” is lacking, it ain’t villains. Michelle Pfieffer’s Catwoman and Christopher Walken’s Max Shreck would have been enough of a challenge for the Dark Knight by themselves. But director Tim Burton wanted to make his second go-round with Batman one to remember, adding Danny DeVito as the Penguin to complete the movie’s antagonist triumvirate....

Jameela Jamil’s Star Trek: Prodigy Character Continues Her Streak Of Playing A ‘Pain In The Ass’ Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 24, 2022 3:08 pm EST The second half of “Star Trek: Prodigy” season 1 will begin airing on Paramount+ on October 27, and the series has already taken several dramatic turns. The show’s central ship, the U.S.S. Protostar, will soon make contact with actual Federation officers for the very first time....

Anarchy in the U.K. A24 Unsurprisingly, “Nope” managed to make its biggest landing here in the U.K., the home turf of star Daniel Kaluuya, with a $2.1 million opening weekend (compared to $2.6 million for “Get Out” and $3.6 million for “Us”). Before his breakout Hollywood role in Peele’s first feature horror film, Kaluuya was already well-established on British television screens through shows like “Skins,” “Psychoville,” “Ruddy Hell! It’s Paul and Harry,” and the memorable “Black Mirror” episode “Fifteen Million Merits....

Sam Raimi’s Signature Car Actually Has A Second Cameo In Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Disney By Witney Seibold/July 21, 2022 2:30 pm EST As previously featured in the virtual pages of /Film, Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” — currently available on Dinsey+ — featured one of the director’s notable trademarks: The appearance of his own yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Both Raimi and his frequent collaborator Bruce Campbell have gone on record multiple times confirming what fans have seen with their own eyes: that the Oldsmobile has made its way into almost every single one of Raimi’s movies but one....

Sean Astin Had A Rude Awakening After Filming On The Goonies Had Wrapped Warner Bros. By Caroline Madden/Sept. 20, 2022 9:47 am EST “The Goonies” is known for the vivacious energy of its young cast, including Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, and Ke Huy Quan. These “goonies,” actually a group of kids who live in the blue-collar section of Astoria, Oregon, search for a legendary pirate’s hidden treasure to save their homes from foreclosure....

Superhero Bits: Emma Roberts Talks The Madame Web Movie, More Gotham Knights Gameplay & More James Gunn Twitter By Ryan Scott/Sept. 1, 2022 5:47 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The movie: Looper Sony Pictures Sometimes it’s fun to talk about how a movie got made because there is a tantalizing story behind its production. A total mess behind the scenes, lots of drama, a harrowing journey. Really, “Looper” is a pretty standard success story in some ways, in acknowledging that getting any good movie made — especially an original, mid-budget sci-fi movie, is a minor miracle. Johnson had conceived of the idea as a short film years before it would ever actually get made, and for a long time it sat in a drawer collecting dust....

Twins Universal Pictures Schwarzenegger’s first attempt at comedy remains one of his best. Granted, that’s not saying a lot, but “Twins” is not without its charms. Besides, the Austrian Oak is a better comedic actor than he is given credit for. Here, Schwarzenegger proved that, despite being a seven-time Mr. Olympia winner with a higher body count than just about any other Hollywood actor, he is also capable of being Julius Benedict, an amiable dork and twin brother to Vincent (Danny DeVito), a diminutive but wily con artist....

The Actor Behind One Of The Seven Will Play A ‘Whole New Character’ In The Boys Season 4 If you haven’t seen the season 3 finale of “The Boys,” read no further, because we’re about to delve into some major spoilers for the fate of one character. “The Boys” season 3 finale marked the end of the line for one member of the Seven, the decidedly unheroic superhero group sponsored by Vought International....

So what happens in Matilda again? Sony Pictures Releasing Child genius Matilda (Mara Wilson) has the misfortune to be the daughter of used car salesman Harry Wormwood (Danny DeVito) and his wife Zinnia (Rhea Perlman), an ignorant and materialistic couple with a gaudy fashion sense who neglects her while doting on their oafish son Michael (Brian Levinson). From an early age, Matilda has a prodigious appetite for reading, swiftly graduating from children’s books to classic novels at her nearest public library....

Art on a living canvas Netflix On top of being progressive, warm, and uplifting, “Glow Up” also features the work of some truly talented artists. In the most recent season, several of the artists use prosthetics in many of their designs, stepping up the game from two-dimensional skin painting to something even more evocative. Each of the designs has some kind of story behind it, and learning of the inspirations behind each piece is part of the fun....

The Front Room: Everything We Know About The Eggers Brothers’ A24 Movie A24 By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 26, 2022 3:00 pm EST Did you know “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” director Robert Eggers has not just one but two brothers? And they’re both in the business of making films themselves? Well, if you didn’t before, you do know. Max and Sam Eggers are joining forces as “The Egger Brothers” to make their directorial debut on “The Front Room,” a thriller that pairs them with their sibling Robert’s frequent studio A24....

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 Ending Explained: Justice Is Served Hulu By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 27, 2022 9:30 pm EST For the longest time, “The Handmaid’s Tale” viewers have maintained that getting out of Gilead would solve all of June’s (Elisabeth Moss) problems. After a tumultuous fourth season, we’ve seen June finally enjoy a taste of freedom after many years of being subjected to rigorous systemic injustice and violent ordeals. On a more shocking note, June carried out her own form of justice when she avenged herself and countless other women by orchestrating a plan to take down her abuser Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), for good....

The Invitation Review: A Defanged Twist On Dracula Sony By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 26, 2022 12:59 am EST You’re invited to the wedding of the season! Set in a beautiful English mansion, the guests include old weirdos in masks, obscenely wealthy creeps, racist butlers, disposable hired help, and oh yeah, vampires. “The Invitation,” a moody but poorly paced modern-day take on “Dracula” from director Jessica M. Thompson, plays its cards pretty close to the vest and doesn’t let on that it’s a vampire movie right away....

HBO Max reorganizes Warner Bros. Discovery In addition to this positional restructuring, the various divisions throughout HBO Max will also undergo an organizational overhaul, according to the Variety report. This will end up affecting Max Originals in drama, comedy, live-action family productions, and especially non-fiction, a term that mostly applies to reality television. Given that Discovery+ already hosts similar programming, those calling the shots have apparently decided that HBO Max will no longer focus on that area....

The Real-Life Killer Who Inspired Keyser Soze In The Usual Suspects Gramercy Pictures By Lee Adams/Nov. 4, 2022 1:31 pm EST Casablanca, 1941: You’re a small-time crook eyeing up a wealthy-looking gentleman at the bazaar who is paying more attention to his lady friend than what is happening around him. Suddenly, a car pulls up next to you and three police officers hustle you into the back of the vehicle. A few minutes later you’re in a cell, but no one tells you why....

Why Gentleman Jack Was Canceled After Two Seasons HBO By Sandy Schaefer/July 8, 2022 11:39 am EST Sadly, it seems we’ve seen the last of our favorite chaotic lesbian couple, Anne Lister and Ann Walker. HBO has declined to renew “Gentleman Jack” for season 3, axing the period drama after two eight-episode seasons. The TV show, for those not familiar, is based on the 19th-century diaries of the real-life Anne Lister (played by the magnificent Suranne Jones), an English landowner and industrialist dubbed “The First Modern Lesbian” by historians....

Why The Upcoming Election Sequel Is More Necessary Than Ever Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 8, 2022 7:00 pm EST As a self-confessed former teenage overachiever with an insufferable drive for success and a hypersexualized approach to the world around me, there are few characters in cinema that speak to me as loudly as Tracy Enid Flick. Alexander Payne’s biting satire of midwest teenage politics based on Tom Perrotta’s brilliant novel of the same name, “Election,” remains a seminal favorite, and quite possibly one of the most honest films about the corruption of the American electoral system....