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Paul Verhoeven Credits Chaos At Columbia Pictures For Starship Troopers Getting Made Columbia Pictures By Devin Meenan/Nov. 14, 2022 11:32 am EST Paul Verhoeven grew up in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands and that’s why he and his films have such a distaste for authoritarians. Even with years spent working in the U.S., the filmmaker has never adopted the black and white moral framing of America. “I have a hard time believing in all these hero stories,” he once told The Independent....

Paul Verhoeven Used An Unorthodox Method For Casting Total Recall TriStar Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/Nov. 12, 2022 4:49 pm EST While “Starship Troopers” may have solidified Paul Verhoeven’s status as a cinematic satirist, and I unashamedly have a bias for “RoboCop” because it’s set in my hometown of Detroit, “Total Recall” certainly ranks as one of the director’s finest works. The 1990 science fiction action film is one of those ahead-of-its-time movies that force you to put on your thinking cap....

‘It’s cruel’ Netflix Following the show’s premiere, Eric Perry, cousin of Jeffrey Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey, took to social media to voice his disgust with Netflix and the creative choices in “Dahmer.” In a quote tweet that compares a scene from the Netflix series to the real courtroom footage from Dahmer’s trial, Perry condemned the show, arguing “it’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need?...

The 10 Spookiest Moments In Wednesday Season 1, Ranked Netflix By Jessica Scott/Dec. 2, 2022 2:12 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Wednesday.” “Wednesday,” the latest pop culture iteration of America’s favorite creepy and kooky family, focuses on the titular Addams daughter. The series follows the trials and tribulations of Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) at the prestigious yet mysterious Nevermore Academy, where she discovers that a monster is on the loose....

The 12 Most Underrated South Park Characters Comedy Central By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 2, 2022 1:00 pm EST “South Park” has been on the air for 25 years, and because I make incredibly good decisions with my time, I recently sat down and watched all 25 seasons of the show in honor of the anniversary. Okay, that’s a lie. I thought it would be a fun way to kill time and it coincidentally happened to be right before the show’s anniversary....

A changed man AMC “Seeing him with Mike and with Walt and then with Chuck, it’s an interesting structure,” Gould explains. “In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge gets visited by three ghosts who change his perspective on life. And so in a weird way, maybe there’s an echo of that in this episode where there are these three ghosts of three dead men who all made a huge impact on Jimmy’s life in one way or another....

The Boys Season 3 Gives Jensen Ackles The Spotlight He Deserves Prime Video By Shania Russell/July 6, 2022 3:00 pm EST At long last, when I sing the praises of Jensen Ackles, I no longer have to direct people to a 15-season saga about two brothers stabbing demons and dating angels. After moving on from his longtime stint as a star of the CW’s “Supernatural,” Jensen Ackles is carving out a new rep for himself as Soldier Boy, the latest twist on superhero culture from “The Boys....

The Major Reason GRRM Was Nervous About House Of The Dragon [Comic-Con] HBO By Ben F. Silverio/July 23, 2022 4:31 pm EST Three years after the end of “Game of Thrones,” HBO is bringing fans back to Westeros with an all-new series set in George R.R. Martin’s fantastical world. Ahead of the show’s premiere next month, “House of the Dragon” made a stop at Hall H for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con to give fans a special sneak peek....

T’lyn returns Paramount The USS Cerritos has a brand-new member of its crew and nobody’s happier about it than Ensign D’ Vana Tendi (Noël Wells). After a job well done in following Starfleet protocol to the letter and helping the Cerritos come out on top in its impromptu race against Admiral Buenamigo’s fully autonomous ship, Tendi’s actions are rewarded when a new science officer is brought on board for training. It isn’t just any random officer, either....

The Wonder Trailer: Florence Pugh And A Starving Child Get Creepy On Netflix Netflix By Ryan Scott/Oct. 4, 2022 11:09 am EST Florence Pugh has established herself as one of our most compelling actresses in a relatively short period of time, with awards-worthy performances in movies like “Little Women” and “Midsommar.” But it’s not just “Don’t Worry Darling” that will give Pugh the spotlight this year as she is also headlining “The Wonder” for Netflix, which looks to be an atmospheric, mystery-filled thriller set in the 1800s just to add to the whole thing....

Translation begets division Gainax/Khara Another reason “Evangelion” has so many different interpretations is because of how it’s spread all over the globe. Many who watch it have to rely on subtitles to understand its Japanese dialogue or just watch it dubbed. Anime dubs are rarely precise translations of the originals, since Japanese wordplay or cultural contexts can’t always carry over to English. How you interpret “Evangelion” will depend on which version of it you view....

Warner Bros. Eyeing Man Of Steel Sequel, Henry Cavill Would Return As Superman Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 17, 2022 7:36 pm EST The future of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) could be described as chaotic at best. While their chief competitor, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is helmed by President Kevin Feige, the DCEU doesn’t have that kind of leadership. Things at Warner Bros. are even more uncertain because of the recent Discovery merger and a change in direction from Discovery CEO David Zaslav, but it appears that there is some good news on the horizon for fans of these tentpole comic book franchises....

What If…? Director Reacts To Captain Carter’s Death In Multiverse Of Madness [Comic-Con] Marvel Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 22, 2022 6:16 pm EST Before “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” debuted, fans speculated that the MCU’s first foray into the multiverse would be a chance to cover some ground previously tread in the pages of Marvel Comics, exploring variations of pre-existing characters and the alternate realities they populate. It turned out that the Sam Raimi-directed flick had something much more shocking and less crowd-pleasing up its sleeve: Introducing some of those long-awaited variations, but then killing them off pretty much instantly....

Will We See A Sequel To Confess, Fletch? Miramax Films By Witney Seibold/Sept. 22, 2022 6:56 pm EST The path to bring Greg Mottola’s “Confess, Fletch” to the screen was long and circuitous. The character of I.M. Fletcher, a flip and funny investigative reporter, was first introduced in Gregory McDonald’s 1974 novel “Fletch,” and first appeared in cinemas in the 1985 feature film of the same name starring Chevy Chase. That film was followed by a sequel — four long years later — called “Fletch Lives,” also starring Chase....

What It Brought to the Genre Prana Film Over the years, the vampire has functioned as a many-sided metaphor on celluloid. Prior to “Nosferatu,” the vamp was a seductive figure, usually a woman who brought about a man’s downfall in keeping with the retrograde gender politics of the time. “Nosferatu” brought out the more monstrous aspects of the vampire. In Stoker’s novel — which is in the public domain and available online for free via Project Gutenberg — the author gives a detailed physical description of Orlok’s literary analog, Count Dracula, just prior to the famous line, “Listen to them—the children of the night....

Zazie Beetz In Talks To Return In Joker: Folie à Deux, Confirming Her Character Is Probably Not Dead Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 9, 2022 9:57 am EST Were you under the impression that circumstances over at Warner Bros. have been a little … chaotic … lately? Well, what better way to try and spin the PR cycle into something more positive than by engaging the services of the agent of chaos himself!...

12 Shows Like The Witcher You Really Need To See Netflix By Margaret David/Aug. 31, 2022 11:42 am EST The first short story in Andrzej Sapkowski’s epic saga was simply titled “The Witcher.” It was printed in the Polish fantasy and sci-fi magazine Nowa Fantastyka in 1986, as part of a contest. Sapkowski didn’t win the top prize then, but readers were attracted to Geralt of Rivia’s struggle to free a princess from an unfair curse....

‘We need movies that dare to piss people off’ Dimension Films “The Mist” could have employed a more Hollywood ending, where the survivors head for Hartford in their car and live to hope another day. But as Darabont also put it, “Life doesn’t always hand you a happy ending, does it?” One person who fully supported Darabont’s decision to deviate from the original “Mist” book ending was Stephen King himself. “When Steve read the script,” Darabont continued, “and I said, ‘I won’t make it if you don’t want me to,’ he said, ‘We need movies that dare to piss people off....

Batman: The Animated Series Was A Success Before A Single Episode Made It To Air Warner Bros. Animation By Marcos Melendez/Dec. 4, 2022 8:00 am EST “Batman: The Animated Series” is undoubtedly the founding father of DC Comics animation. Its success is exemplified by the cultural impact the series has had on the titular character and the genre itself. The show jumpstarted an interconnected animated universe, introduced Kevin Conroy as the definitive voice of the Dark Knight, and served as the entryway for many into the vast world of superheroes....

[In Vin Diesel voice] I don’t have friends, I got family Warner Bros. Pictures “Unforgiven” is a somber, contemplative revisionist Western that takes place in small-town Wyoming and the open plains of Kansas circa 1881. Why then did Clint Eastwood and Jack N. Green shoot the picture in Alberta? Well, it’s because Canada was willing to let the duo skirt the rules put in place by the country’s filmmaking unions, making for a far more efficient production....