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Pearl: Everything We Know So Far About Ti West’s X Prequel A24 By Erin Brady/July 25, 2022 1:17 pm EST When it was announced this past March that Ti West had already shot a prequel to his throwback horror “X,” it’s fair to say that nobody had seen it coming. Even more intriguing was the fact that it would center around one of the villains of the film, an elderly and highly sexually repressed woman named Pearl (Mia Goth, who also starred as porn actress Maxine in the film)....

Richard Price Had To Start From Scratch When Adapting Stephen King’s The Outsider HBO By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 19, 2022 1:36 pm EST Richard Price wasn’t exactly the most obvious choice to adapt Stephen King’s 2018 book “The Outsider” into a TV mini-series. Far from a novice in this area, Price had already adapted novels like “The Color of Money” and even his own books “Clockers” and “Freedomland” into films. But his speciality had always been crime thrillers and mysteries that pit their leads against firmly human horrors, rather than fantastical foes like the creature at the heart of King’s story....

It follows It Follows (and other such fright flicks) Paramount Pictures Our own Chris Evangelista’s review of “Smile” out of Fantastic Fest, where the film made its world premiere, called it “somehow both effectively creepy and almost comically derivative.” He listed off other horror movies like “The Ring,” “The Grudge,” “Oculus,” “It Follows,” and “The Night House” as examples of some of the influences “Smile” wears on its sleeve. /Film’s Jacob Hall was slightly more positive in his appraisal, saying that what “Smile” lacks in originality, it makes up for by being “the best kind of pretty good, a horror movie that follows a well-trod formula but follows it so well that its predictability acts as a comfort....

Striking The Right Scare-To-Laugh Ratio Was Key To Making Tremors Universal Pictures By Anya Stanley/Nov. 26, 2022 6:00 am EST In the words of Kevin Bacon, “Funny-scary is a very difficult thing.” The star of Ron Underwood’s horror-comedy “Tremors” has spoken at length about the 1990 creature feature and his role as stubborn handyman Val McKee who, alongside Fred Ward’s Earl Bassett, tries to escape the doldrums of Perfection, Nevada when giant prehistoric underground monsters interrupt their flight....

Candice Patton hints that we may see The Flash family come to life in season 9 The CW “The Flash” season 9 is currently filming, with the abbreviated season set to bring the long-running show to a close. But what are we going to see in those final episodes? During a recent chat with TV Line, star Candice Patton suggested that we might see the start of the Flash family, as we know Iris and Barry have a couple of grown-up kids in the future....

Friends NBC In 2000, Willis appeared alongside Friends alum Matthew Perry in “The Whole Nine Yards.” Reportedly, Perry had a good feeling about the comedy and predicted it would be a hit with audiences, but Willis was far less optimistic. Perry decided to settle the difference of opinion with a bet, and Willis agreed to appear in an episode of “Friends” for free if the film hit the number one spot at the box office....

The 15 Best Love, Death & Robots Episodes That You Need To Watch Netflix By Nick Bartlett/July 21, 2022 4:45 pm EST More than any other anthology show, Netflix’s “Love, Death & Robots” has polarized audiences. It may be hit or miss, but you can’t deny that it’s an eclectic, ambitious series that pushes the boundaries of animation, and its best episodes are some of the most interesting, vital genre work to come out of Netflix....

Dwayne Johnson in The Rundown Universal Pictures Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is the hero of “The Rundown.” He doesn’t use guns. That’s made clear in the film’s opening sequence, in which Beck uses his fists, his wits, a henchman’s jewelry, and a DJ’s turntable to take out an entire football team’s worth of bad guys. This sequence rules. When Beck does use a gun, Peter Berg’s “The Rundown” transforms into the sort of mega-action epic you’d expect from the former WWE heavyweight....

What’s The Changeling about? “The Changeling” novel centers around Apollo Kagwa, Stanfield’s role in the series, who has recently become a father in New York City. Although Apollo is dedicated to raising his son, his wife Emma seems uninterested, seemingly suffering from post-partum depression. However, there are more sinister forces at work here, and when Emma disappears, Apollo must travel through a dangerously fantastical realm to find her. Based on the premise and the name, the series will presumably incorporate elements of the changeling myth from European folklore, which tells of a fairy (or spirit or devil or troll or any other sort of creature based on the location of origin) that kidnaps human infants and replaces them with one of their own....

The English Trailer: Emily Blunt Gets Bloody While Hunting For Revenge Prime Video By Shania Russell/Oct. 13, 2022 1:44 pm EST The mere presence of Emily Blunt should be enough to pique your interest in “The English,” but what if I told you that the beloved British actress will spend six episodes dressed as a gun-wielding aristocrat who is hellbent on getting revenge? If watching Blunt load a shotgun at the end of “A Quiet Place” gave you chills then this will send you over the edge: she may be wearing lots of fancy gowns, but they will absolutely end up splattered in blood because this co-production from BBC and Prime Video is a classic Western revenge drama....

The Good News Is The Oregon Trail Is Becoming A Movie Musical, The Bad News Is You Have Died Of Dysentery MECC By Erin Brady/Oct. 5, 2022 6:37 pm EST Do you know what all those movies about the famous Oregon Trail and the immigrants who traveled it needed? A few songs and maybe even some fantastical video game elements. If you follow this train of thought as well, then we’ve got the perfect news for you....

The Great American Baking Show, A Spin-Off Of Bake Off, Is Headed To Roku With Ellie Kemper Roku By Shania Russell/Aug. 17, 2022 1:12 pm EST Oh no — did you run out of episodes of “The Great British Bake Off,’ aka “The Great British Baking Show”? Are you mourning the days of kindhearted home cooks gathering in a tent for another season of custards, pies, and the occasional soggy bottom?...

‘Make it gross!’ 20th Century Studios Diverging away from current horror trends, one of the greatest strengths of “Barbarian” is its strong sense of dark humor. Since director Zach Cregger has an extensive sketch comedy background, it’s great to see him draw from that experience in his feature directorial debut. Humor not only breaks up the tension throughout the film, it also drives the story in a meta and clever way: capitalizing on Bill Skarsgård’s ominous qualities only for him to be completely innocent, and, in the context of the breastfeeding scene, adding a layer of intrigue and depth to our big movie “monster....

The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Pays Homage To One Of The Worst Christmas Movies Ever Made Disney By Witney Seibold/Nov. 26, 2022 10:00 am EST Running a mere 42 minutes, James Gunn’s “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” has a simple premise. The alien characters Mantis (Pom Klemetieff) and Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) have noticed that their friend, the human Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), has been sullen of late....

The Muppets Mayhem’s Human Stars Describe Their Characters & Surreal Moments On Set Disney By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 19, 2022 3:07 pm EST Since their creation in 1955, the Muppets have been making legions of fans laugh on television and in theaters. Whether through musical performances or sketch comedy, this ensemble created by Jim Henson and brought to life by a collection of insanely talented performers never fails to entertain their audiences....

TV Shows We Lost Too Soon In 2022 HBO By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 26, 2022 11:00 am EST When it comes to changes in the television landscape, 2022 has been rough. Almost every streaming service or major cable network seemed to have some kind of major loss or merger. The result was a whole lot of cost-cutting, which unfortunately meant that some beloved shows got the axe, many before their time. The CW ended many of its superhero shows as the network goes through a total re-brand, Warner Bros....

What We Want To See In The Community Movie Sony Pictures Releasing By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 1, 2022 3:55 pm EST When “Community” fans first heard the slogan “six seasons and a movie,” way back in 2011, it felt like a total pipe dream. Despite quickly evolving into the most original and offbeat comedy on TV, the show constantly faced the prospect of cancellation. Yet somehow, each year, it inched closer to the promise Abed (Danny Pudi) so confidently made about the short-lived NBC show “The Cape....

10 Marvel Characters We Expect To See Introduced In MCU Phase 5 Disney By Margaret David/Dec. 27, 2022 1:59 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe will officially enter its fifth phase with “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in February. After that, we’ll know, barring final adjustments, the rough shape of this arc. Along with the rise of Kang (Jonathan Majors), we’ll see stories focused on new kinds of paranoia. Captain America’s “New World Order” is an ominous phrase to any conspiracy theorist and a version of the comic event “Secret Invasion,” which saw villainous shape-shifting Skrulls throw the world into chaos....

Check out the trailer for 65 here Given the fact the only real information Sony Pictures has given anyone to work off of for the last two years has been the logline of “an astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he’s not alone,” this trailer is a godsend. Driver stars opposite youngsters Ariana Greenblatt (“Stuck in the Middle,” “Love and Monsters,” the upcoming “Barbie”) and Chloe Coleman (“My Spy,” “Gunpowder Milkshake,” “Marry Me”)....

‘Hmm, could it be?’ Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Far from strangers, Willis and Jackson had previously shared the screen in 1995’s “Die Hard with a Vengeance.” The pair had also co-starred in “Pulp Fiction” a year before that, although their characters in the film only briefly cross paths when fate deems to bring them together. In the same way, the two unexpectedly met up just as Shyamalan was getting to work on his script for “Unbreakable....