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When and where to watch The Spiderwick Chronicles Disney+ “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is coming to the Disney+ streaming service … eventually. The streamer announced the series as part of the Disney+ Day debacle, but without a release date or even a year, indicating that it may still be in very early development. Paramount Television Studios and 20th Television are producing the series for Disney, so we know for sure that the show will debut to the streamer....

Don’t get in the robot! Studio Sunrise Indeed, “Gundam” is far from the likes of “Star Wars,” or “Mazinger Z,” and instead leans more heavily into hard sci-fi, with giant robots that need to be repaired and maintained, a bigger focus on making the reality of living in outer space feel real, and robots being parts of a military-industrial complex. Though the series does occasionally fall victim to making its fight scenes so cool that they distract from the atrocities committed, Tomino and his subsequent writers also made sure the audience got to know and care about the regular humans that inhabit this world, and how war affects them all....

If You Think Nothing Is Happening On The White Lotus Season 2, You’re Not Paying Attention HBO By Shae Sennett/Nov. 23, 2022 11:00 am EST Both seasons of “The White Lotus” kick off with a bang. A flash-forward reveals a mysterious murder at the end of a week-long vacation at the high-end resort. The first season was set in Hawai’i and focused heavily on themes of colonialism and class divides. The second season, set in Sicily, turns its attention to sex, romance, and “The Godfather....

It Shines, Still: On Its 15th Anniversary, Stardust Still Carries That Secret Magic Paramount Pictures By Nguyen Le/July 29, 2022 9:00 am EST A lad. A lass. Spells. Swords. Then, brotherly ghosts, goat man, pirate in drag, and breasts that could sag! These are the sights to see in the lovable and shiny “Stardust,” Matthew Vaughn and company’s adaptation of Neil Gailman’s 1999 novel. When the film came to Vietnamese theaters, which wouldn’t be until Christmas of 2007 was a week out, I had already had experience with “fairy tales that won’t behave....

Hawks v. Hughes United Artists Hughes’ attorney Lloyd Wright contacted Edward Small, a major investor in “Red River,” to arrange a screening of the disputed footage for the eccentric industrialist. Sure enough, Hughes dug in on his objections, and threatened an injunction that would delay the film’s planned September 1, 1948 release indefinitely. Small, who’d worked with Hughes before, knew the businessman wouldn’t back down until he got his way, so he arranged a showdown of sorts between the contentious parties....

Nayola Review: An Animated Spectacle On The Harrowing Effects Of War [London Film Festival] Mukixe Producoes By Barry Levitt/Oct. 18, 2022 11:02 am EST A woman walks past the burning husk of a car. She looks out into a vast field, where a once peaceful valley is covered in dark clouds of smoke. Suddenly, the sounds of explosions and gunshots permeate the air. The woman is Nayola, on a seemingly impossible mission to find her husband in the wake of a civil war(?...

Neither Steven Spielberg Or Tobe Hooper Can Take Full Credit For Poltergeist MGM Studios By Miyako Pleines/Sept. 29, 2022 11:57 am EST One of the hotly debated topics in horror movie history is who exactly directed the 1982 film, “Poltergeist” about a suburban family who moves in to a house that is very much haunted. Official records credit Tobe Hooper as the director in question, but there are those who believe it was really Steven Spielberg who called all the shots on set....

No, They Didn’t Dance In Milk On The Set Of Singin’ In The Rain MGM By Mike Shutt/Aug. 27, 2022 5:00 pm EST I have been living a lie. To be fair to myself, I didn’t know I was living a lie, but I was. When I was a teenager, I got really into classic Hollywood cinema, as many of us movie lovers do. Pretty early in my cinematic education I watched Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s 1952 movie musical “Singin’ in the Rain....

Hanks is wowed by Woody Pixar Animation Studios It’s hard to maybe imagine the frame of mind Hanks was in when he was first shown what his character would look like in “Toy Story.” This is a time before Pixar’s ground-breaking leaps in animation or the waves of fully computer-generated films that have become a norm. “There were two things about it. One: it was like, ‘I’m not sure what this is,’” Hanks told BBC Radio 1....

Robert Pattinson Kept A Surprise In Store For His First Day On The Devil All The Time Set Netflix By Andrew Korpan/Sept. 14, 2022 10:39 am EST Robert Pattinson has been on a tear since his “Twilight” days, going from the likes of the Safdie brothers’ “Good Time,” to Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse.” After spending time on the indie scene, Pattinson would eventually make a return to blockbuster franchises as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” from earlier this year....

Steven Moffat Has Conflicting Thoughts About His ‘Best’ Doctor Who Episode BBC By Michael Boyle/July 14, 2022 9:41 pm EST When “Doctor Who” fans talk about their favorite episodes of the show, season 3’s “Blink” is an obvious choice. The standalone episode introduced some of the most memorable aliens of the whole show, the Weeping Angels, who can only move when you’re not looking at them. It’s also one of the first episodes to really expand on the time travel aspect of the show, centering its plot around a time paradox that seemed really fresh at the time....

Steven Spielberg Had To Step In To Sell John Lithgow On Harry And The Hendersons Universal By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 14, 2022 2:53 pm EST The old showbiz maxim holds that actors should avoid working with kids or animals. They’re difficult to direct, unpredictable scene partners, and more than likely to upstage you. This should also go for animatronic creations, people in creature, suits and animated characters. It’s difficult work, and, even if done to perfection (i....

Superhero Bits: Blue Beetle Confirmed For Theatrical Release, The Making Of She-Hulk & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Nov. 3, 2022 5:34 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....

Superhero Bits: Thor: Love And Thunder’s Rotten Tomatoes Score, The Boys Season 3 Finale Trailer & More By Ryan Scott/July 5, 2022 5:38 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....

Preludes and Nocturnes DC Comics It’s not that anything in this first volume is bad, exactly; it’s just that it’s far more straightforward than the rest, and far less innovative than the series would become. It also feels a little disjointed from the other volume. In this book, Dream visits Arkham Asylum as part of his quest, something it’d be hard to imagine him doing at pretty much any other part in the story....

The Biggest Unanswered Questions From Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 5, 2022 10:45 pm EST There are spoilers ahead for the entire fourth season of “Stranger Things,” so consider this your only warning. “Stranger Things” season 4, volume 2 broke Netflix when it was released on July 1, 2022. We lost our beloved Eddie (Joseph Quinn), Max (Sadie Sink) is in a coma after having clinically died for a full minute, the entire town of Hawkins was split open with some of the residents blaming it on an earthquake and others on a satanic cult, and Hopper (David Harbour) and Joyce (Winona Ryder) made it back from Russia just in time for Upside Down spores to start falling on Hawkins, killing every plant in sight....

Why it’s essential viewing NBC At its heart, “Superstore” is about the absurdities of late capitalism, the nonsensical world of retail, and the real people trying to get by in the middle of it all. This manifests in hilarious ways, such as transitional scenes that show customers doing things like shoveling bulk foods straight into their open mouths, or in a screamingly funny sequence in which the team tries to distract customers from a news bulletin revealing that the Cloud 9 mascot is a serial killer....

The Greatest Blockbuster Movie Moments Of 2022 Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 20, 2022 5:00 pm EST While 2021 was a dramatic improvement over 2020 in terms of actual big screen moviegoing, the industry was still very much on a slow climb out of the pit of despair. Luckily, 2022 has been far closer to normal in that regard, with a number of big blockbusters arriving throughout the year to serve us, the moviegoing masses....

The Third Act Twist Of The Rings Of Power Episode 6 Is A Callback To J.R.R. Tolkien’s Greatest Unfilmed Tragedy Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 30, 2022 4:00 pm EST One does not simply walk into this article without having seen the latest episode of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” first. Major spoilers follow! Darkness is everywhere, even within our heroes. War has devastating effects, no matter how righteous the cause....

WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton ‘Wasn’t Trying To Predict The Future’ (But He Did Anyway) [Exclusive] Disney-Pixar By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Nov. 7, 2022 6:30 pm EST To the surprise of many cinephiles, Disney-Pixar’s sci-fi masterpiece “WALL-E” is getting a Criterion Collection release this month. This is huge for many reasons. For one, it’s the very first Disney produced film to join the pantheon of culturally significant classic and contemporary films. Second, it will be the seventh animated film to join the collection — a very rare occasion, as the Criterion canon comprises over 1,700 films....