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How’s The Despair: The Banshees Of Inisherin And The Emotional Fallout Of Depression [Fantastic Fest] Searchlight Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2022 5:00 pm EST Spoilers for “The Banshees of Inisherin” follow. “How’s the despair?” the priest asks Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) during confession. Colm replies it’s been not so great lately, to which the priest asks: “But you’re not going to do anything about it, right?” Colm replies that no, he’s not going to do anything about it....

Power Rangers’ Jason David Frank Once Had A Playground Brawl With Fellow ’90s Icon Steve Urkel CBS By Cameron Roy Hall/Nov. 22, 2022 3:17 pm EST Tragedy breeds fond reminiscence. In November 2022, Jason David Frank, who starred as Tommy Oliver in the 1993 live-action superhero series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and almost every subsequent “Power Rangers” story, died at the age of 49. Other Rangers came and went with each fantastical iteration, but fans could confidently rely on the Green Ranger — or the White Ranger....

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods Director Hopes To Co-Exist With Avatar 2 At The Box Office Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt AND Ryan Scott/July 23, 2022 8:01 pm EST The domestic box office has finally begun seeing quite the resurgence since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Box office hits have not been relegated solely to Marvel films. Of course, it still helps to be a part of a franchise (no films in the top ten of 2022 are original stories), but films like “Elvis” and “The Lost City” have managed to gross over $100 million....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Shows Off The Series’ Greatest Strength Paramount By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 1, 2022 4:00 pm EST “Star Trek: Lower Decks” is kind of an oddity. It is both an animated workplace comedy and a true “Star Trek” series, balancing humor with the important themes of the franchise. The half-hour format is a bit different for “Trek,” too, forcing stories and character arcs to move a little more quickly....

Superhero Bits: Wakanda Forever Passes The Batman At The Box Office, Henry Cavill’s Superman Cameo Salary & More Hot Toys By Ryan Scott/Dec. 16, 2022 4:27 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 15 Best Jesse Pinkman Moments In The Breaking Bad Franchise Netflix By Liam Gaughan/July 20, 2022 4:41 pm EST “Breaking Bad” was a true phenomenon. It is one of the rare modern television shows that maintained a consistent level of quality throughout. The show was nearly perfect from its captivating pilot to the devastating series finale, “Felina.” Although the ending of the series was extremely satisfying, the “Breaking Bad” universe has expanded in recent years....

Respect your elders…or else Netflix The movie is so conceptually wild that it confirms how good horror fans have it these days — there was a time when folks would have to search every nerdy nook and cranny to find a movie wherein a neglected grandfather bludgeons a bride and groom on their wedding night. It’s part of a wave of elderly repulsion that’s shown up in a few horror movies of late; elderly bodies, often presented as grotesque in some way, have wreaked havoc in Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” Natalie Erika James’ “Relic,” and “Anything For Jackson,” all the way up to the unhinged, pitchfork-wielding Pearl in Ti West’s “X....

The Inspection Review: Jeremy Pope Gives A Powerful Performance In Elegance Bratton’s Emotional Drama [TIFF] A24 By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 10, 2022 4:38 pm EST Ellis French is a gay Black man going through a particularly brutal Marine Corps boot camp (is there any other kind?). His fellow recruits have figured out that he is gay despite his best efforts, and his life has become a living hell. When he’s finally asked why he’s even bothering with all of this torment, he tearfully replies, “If I die in this uniform, I’m a hero....

The Regulators Is The Latest Stephen King Novel To Get A Film Adaptation Dutton By Anya Stanley/Aug. 10, 2022 5:07 pm EST “When there’s no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth.” Finally — one of the most epic Stephen King/Richard Bachman stories outside of “The Stand” gets a proper adaptation. Twenty-six years from the release of King’s novel “The Regulators,” a movie is on the way....

A little more on ‘Demolition Man’ Warner Bros. The premise of “Demolition Man” is excellent B-movie fodder. Stallone plays John Spartan, a cop in the near future of 1996 who has gained a reputation — and the film’s titular nickname — for causing a great deal of collateral damage on his S.W.A.T.-like stings. In the film’s opening operation, Spartan confronts his rival, Simon Phoenix (Snipes), who kills a group of hostages in response....

Who we know are safe HBO We know for certain that Valentina, Daphne (Meghann Fahy), and Rocco are all going to survive the week, because we saw each of them alive and well in the flash forward. Rather, the real question is: Do any of these three know more than they let on? Valentina and Rocco, at least, seem perfectly innocent. Valentina may be having a series of increasingly uncomfortable, controlling interactions with her front desk worker Isabella, but she hasn’t done anything yet to suggest she’d be down to kill anyone....

Why You Should Keeping Watching The Sandman After The First Episode Netflix By Michael Boyle/Aug. 5, 2022 10:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for the first episode of “The Sandman,” as well as the opening issue of “The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes.” When getting into the “Sandman” comics, a lot of fans will warn first-time readers to stick with the series even if the first few issues don’t grab you....

Amsterdam Trailer: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington And Murder 20th Century Studios By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 6, 2022 12:16 pm EST I genuinely have no clue as to what’s going down in David O. Russell’s upcoming film, “Amsterdam,” but the newly-released trailer looks rather intriguing. Weaving in history with fictional dramatization, “Amsterdam” follows three friends — Valerie (Margot Robbie), Burt (Christian Bale), and Harold (John David Washington) — who witness a brutal murder and immediately become suspects....

Babylon Editor Reveals How He Helped Shape The Film’s ‘Controlled Chaos’ [Exclusive] Paramount Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Dec. 19, 2022 2:26 pm EST Every film is made by a team of individuals with mighty aspirations who push themselves to unfathomable heights to do what they do best and make it look easy for the viewing audience. But as anyone behind the scenes of any production will tell you, it’s never quite that simple....

Becoming Bane For The Dark Knight Rises Took Its Toll On Tom Hardy Warner Bros. Pictures By Steven Ward/Aug. 20, 2022 9:30 pm EST Tom Hardy is no stranger to putting his body through workout hell in order to bulk up for a role. His performances in “Warrior” and “Bronson” are testaments to that, as they are to his ability to wield the physicality in mesmerizing ways in action scenes. It’s one of the reasons why his portrayal of Batman’s nemesis Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises” is both menacing and magnetic — not to mention the carefully crafted voice Hardy created for the part....

Black Adam’s Justice Society Have Ideas About Who Should Join The Team Next Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 20, 2022 4:02 pm EST Everybody knows about the Justice League, but have you heard of the Justice Society of America? In the DC Comics universe, they’re another superhero supergroup, and they’ve finally made their DCEU appearance in the latest DC film, “Black Adam.” In “Black Adam,” the JSA are led by Hawkman, played by Aldis Hodge, who faces off against Dwayne Johnson’s antihero character, Black Adam....

‘I’d probably say: Yeah, let’s go for it’ Paramount Pictures Earlier this year, at Paramount’s Investors Day presentation, J.J. Abrams confirmed a new “Star Trek” film set in the Kelvin Timeline is once again moving forward. This current iteration of the project has “The Great” and “WandaVision” alum Matt Shakman attached to direct, with Chris Pine and most of the 2009 “Star Trek” cast in early talks to return. As for Chris Hemsworth?...

Clerks Star Jeff Anderson Has An Idea For Randal To Make The Perfect Cameo In Mallrats 2 [Exclusive] Lionsgate By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 6, 2022 8:39 pm EST Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson have been in plenty of films over the years, but most people know them best as Dante Hicks and Randal Graves in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse films, in particular, his “Clerks” trilogy. Smith skyrocketed to superstardom after his 1994 breakout hit, “Clerks,” which perfectly encapsulated the budding Gen X slacker culture of the 1990s....

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Paramount Pictures The eighth installment in a horror franchise that was never particularly well-loved by critics was always going to fight an uphill battle for respectability. That being said, people really, really disliked “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.” It has the unfortunate distinction of being the second-lowest-rated “Friday the 13th” entry on Rotten Tomatoes, scoring a paltry 11% fresh rating....

Dwayne Johnson’s Wrestling Background Gave Black Adam’s Action Scenes A Big Leg Up [Exclusive] Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 25, 2022 3:22 pm EST When you’re an action star like Dwayne Johnson, your acting process can be twice as involved as it is for an ordinary dramatic actor. Given his background in the physically grueling realm of sports entertainment, audiences expect to see Johnson perform his own stunts. This means he has to spend a tremendous amount of time rehearsing his intricate fight choreography to the extent that it appears seamless when cameras roll....