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Ms. Marvel Is The Rare Marvel Show That Justified Not Being A Movie Marvel Studios By Rafael Motamayor/July 13, 2022 3:00 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for the entire first season of “Ms. Marvel.” We are now six live-action shows deep into Marvel Studios’ Disney+ TV experiment, and there is one big trend that is becoming noticeable: The six-episode format doesn’t work. The shows have allowed Marvel to deepen characters that didn’t get their due in the films, like Wanda and Hawkeye, and introduce characters that may never have had their own film, like Moon Knight, but oftentimes these shows have felt like movies stretched out over six hours....

She-Hulk’s Head Writer Once Pitched A Black Widow Movie With She-Hulk In It Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 15, 2022 4:56 pm EST This week, She-Hulk will join the ever-growing list of Marvel Comics superheroes who have made the leap to the big screen. Tatiana Maslany takes on the role of Jenn Walters, the ultra-strong green woman who specializes in superhero law. Behind the scenes, “The Mighty B!” and “Robot Chicken” writer Jessica Gao takes the reigns as the creator and head writer of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law....

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Teaser: The Final Season Brings Back Familiar Faces CBS Studios By Joshua Meyer/July 23, 2022 4:04 pm EST “Star Trek: Picard” has dropped the trailer for its third and final season, which will bring an end to the Paramount+ adventures of Patrick Stewart’s beloved character, Jean-Luc Picard — at least until they decide to digitally recreate his face by superimposing it over that of a mo-cap performer....

Star Wars Bits: Andor, Rian Johnson, Light & Magic, Galaxy’s Edge, The High Republic, LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation, And More! Lucasfilm By Adam Frazier/Aug. 5, 2022 9:53 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Andor” Updates Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics Rian Johnson Headlines Podathon 2022 Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Updates And More! Andor updates Check out the new trailer for “Andor,” the upcoming Disney+ series, above....

The 15 Best Jim Carrey Movies, Ranked New Line Cinema. By Simon Bland/Oct. 10, 2022 1:20 pm EST For kids who grew up in the ’90s, there was no bigger star in the world than Jim Carrey. Bursting onto our radar as the larger-than-life pet detective Ace Ventura in 1994, Carrey launched full pelt into a string of movies that not only pushed his early career into overdrive but forever cemented his status as a bona fide comedy megastar....

The Daily Stream: Evil Is Small-Screen Horror At Its Best And Strangest Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 7, 2022 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Evil” Where You Can Stream It: Paramount+ The Pitch: In the simplest of terms, “Evil” is a case-of-the-week procedural in the vein of “The X Files” or “Fringe....

The Mist And The Shawshank Redemption Are Two Very Different Films About The Importance Of Hope Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 23, 2022 7:00 pm EST Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella “The Shawshank Redemption” begins at the end of Andy Dufresne’s life. The Portland, Maine banker has just been sentenced to prison for the rest of his days for murdering his wife and her lover and arrives at Shawshank State Penitentiary a fresh-faced shell of a man....

The New Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Poster Features Art From The Wrong Roleplaying Game Paramount Pictures Oh. Oh, goodness. Oh goodness, no. Look, mistakes happen to the best of us, but it’s not often that a mistake happens that likely required approval from an entire board of marketing executives and some producers before being made. San Diego Comic-Con kicked off yesterday with huge news regarding “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves....

Tina Turner’s Mad Max Character Had To Be More Than Just Another Villain Warner Bros. By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 7, 2022 3:39 pm EST “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” allowed George Miller’s insane action universe to expand into more adventurous territory when it came out in 1985. The previous entry, “The Road Warrior,” did well to establish clear-cut villains for Max (Mel Gibson) to battle — even if the characters of Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and Wez (Vernon Wells) were a little one dimensional....

Why Rutherford Falls was canceled Peacock On Friday, TVLine broke the news that “Rutherford Falls” was canceled. While the outlet didn’t share a reason for the cancellation, Deadline pointed out that it was the second Peacock show by Mike Schur to get the axe this summer, after his “Field of Dreams” reboot was scrapped a month before it was set to begin production. This pattern likely has less to do with Schur himself and more to do with Peacock’s overall struggles within the crowded streaming service lineup....

Why The Old Man Was A ‘Nice Change’ From Marvel Movies For Spider-Man Director Jon Watts FX By Jenna Busch/Aug. 15, 2022 2:57 pm EST If you frequent social media sites, you’ve likely seen a bit of backlash against the juggernaut that is the MCU. It seems like there is always another film or Disney+ series on the horizon. At San Diego Comic-Con in July, we learned about Marvel’s massive Phase 5 and 6 slate through 2025....

12 Underrated Musical Movies You Need To Check Out Parc Film By Barry Levitt/Sept. 28, 2022 12:11 pm EST Ah, the musical! When sound became a part of the movies, the genre was all the rage, absolutely dominating the 1940s and ’50s. Then, there was an exceptionally long period when musicals were few and far between. Thankfully, for those who love them, musicals have made a pretty strong comeback in the 21st century, with “Chicago” winning a best picture Oscar and films like “La La Land,” “Dreamgirls,” Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” and “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” making an impact at the box office....

A Christmas Story Technically Has A Lot More Sequels Than You Think MGM / UA By Witney Seibold/Nov. 14, 2022 8:00 am EST The irony of Bob Clark’s 1983 film “A Christmas Story” was that it was initially intended to be a satire, a wicked deconstruction of the placid, false, Normal Rockwell-ian idyll of 1950s Americana. Christmastime was not a time of peace and ease in “A Christmas Story,” but a bitter world of selfishness, childhood greed, bullying, and disappointment....

What you need to know about Doctor Who BBC “Doctor Who” is about an alien who travels through time and space (though more often than not, to 21st century Britain) with his/her spunky human companions in a spaceship shaped like a 1960s British police box. Known as only the Doctor, this alien has the ability to change into an entirely different person every time he dies in a process called regeneration — a neat trick that basically grants him immortality, and grants the series an eternal lifespan with 13 actors (plus a few extra ones) having played the Doctor....

A Legendary Batman Performance Inspired Superman & Lois’ Bizarro Jon The CW By Marcos Melendez/Aug. 9, 2022 2:57 pm EST Although a live-action Superman has not graced movie theaters in quite some time, the Kryptonian currently appears on the small screen in one of the better superhero TV shows on the air. Starring Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch, “Superman and Lois” is the latest attempt at adapting an iconic comic book character from The CW, but it confidently separates itself from other shows on the network....

Cocaine Bear Is About America’s Failed War On Drugs, Says Director Elizabeth Banks Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/Nov. 30, 2022 4:44 pm EST Back in the 1980s, America was in the middle of its so-called “war” on drugs. It didn’t work very well. Then-First Lady Nancy Reagan had a campaign called “Just Say No,” which was immediately turned into a joke at schools (it certainly did at mine). The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, shortened to D....

Designing Will Ferrell’s Elf Costume Came With Its Own Set Of Challenges New Line Cinema By Miyako Pleines/Nov. 27, 2022 1:00 pm EST There are many charming things about Jon Favreau’s “Elf.” The Christmas movie about a man who is unintentionally raised by North Pole elves and eventually returns to New York to find his biological father has become required holiday viewing, joining the ranks of seasonal classics like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Story....

Get A Sneak Peek At A New Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Set Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 11, 2022 4:52 pm EST The first season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” may have just ended, but the Paramount+ show isn’t stopping to take a breath: Production on season 2 has reportedly already wrapped. While we don’t know when the second season will debut, cast and crew members have already been dropping some juicy behind-the-scenes details about fan-favorite supporting characters like Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) and Christine Chapel (Jess Bush)....

The sexuality of Hellraiser New World Pictures In both 1987’s “Hellraiser” and Barker’s 1986 novella “The Hellbound Heart” on which it was based, the Lament Configuration is a tool that curious souls use to deliberately summon the Cenobites. In their original iteration, the Cenobites were supernaturally enhanced S&M enthusiasts whose expertise was blending pain and pleasure. They had reached a plane of sexual sensory overload so extreme, they lost their human identity....

‘It’s a potent moment in history’ Disney+/Lucasfilm Despite what its name suggests, “Andor” is not just Cassian Andor’s origin story. It’s a series about the role so many residents of the “Star Wars” galaxy — some of them familiar faces, many of them not — played in forming the Rebellion that would one day lead to the downfall of the Empire, from Mon Mothma’s political machinations behind closed doors in the Imperial Senate to Luthen Rael teaming up with Saw Gerrera’s insurgents to battle the Empire via not-so-diplomatic measures....