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Michael Caine Will Never Consider Himself A ‘Retired’ Actor MGM By Devin Meenan/Sept. 25, 2022 11:30 pm EST In October 2021, news broke that Sir Michael Caine would be retiring from acting. In an interview with Kermode & Mayo, he described the then-upcoming “Best Sellers” as his last part. Considering Caine is in his late 80s and has already made more than 100 films, his choosing to retire wouldn’t be that surprising … if the news was correct, that is....

Modernizing Wednesday Addams’ Look Was Key To Evolving The Character Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 24, 2022 3:02 pm EST There’s something different about Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series “Wednesday.” No, it’s not that she’s played by Jenna Ortega, although the “Scream” and “X” veteran is, in fact, the first person to portray the Addams Family’s death-fixated daughter in live-action since the 1990s. More recently, Chloë Grace Moretz lent her voice to the character in Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon’s animated “Addams Family” films....

Ms. Marvel Directors On Kamala Khan’s Real Superpower And The Finale’s Best Kept Secret [Interview] Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 14, 2022 6:04 pm EST Yesterday, Marvel Studios wrapped up the first season of its emotional, family-friendly superhero series “Ms. Marvel” with “No Normal.” This is the first mainstream superhero property led by a Pakistani-American Muslim character. Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a New Jersey-based teenager, is unapologetically Brown and Muslim; she freely allows her faith and culture to shape her....

One Young Frankenstein Scene With Cloris Leachman Was Too Funny For Gene Wilder To Film When you’re as much of a comedic genius as Mel Brooks, you draw the other great comedy minds of your generation to work with you like moths to a hilarious flame. Over the course of his long and storied career, Brooks had the opportunity to work with such talents as John Candy, Richard Pryor, and Gene Wilder....

She-Hulk Director Kat Coiro Has No Regrets Over The Show’s The Sopranos Spoilers Disney By Jenna Busch/Sept. 8, 2022 10:00 am EST Spoilers ahead through episode 4 of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.” If you’ve watched the fourth episode of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” you might be fuming right now. If you haven’t, I promise you only mild “She-Hulk” spoilers. The director of the series, Cat Koiro, made no such promise about spoiling a different series, “The Sopranos,” in the episode....

Casey Becker in Scream Dimension Films This is perhaps the go-to example of a horror death that absolutely no one saw coming, and it’s for very good reason. Nineties it-girl Drew Barrymore was practically set up to look like the prospective protagonist of “Scream,” only to be killed by Ghostface before the title card pops up. Director Wes Craven executed one of the greatest bait-and-switches in horror history by having Barrymore’s character, Casey, ruthlessly stabbed and gutted, signaling that absolutely no one is safe with this masked murderer on the loose....

The 12 Best Star Wars Easter Eggs In Andor Season 1 Lucasfilm By Eric Pierce/Nov. 23, 2022 7:00 pm EST Spoilers for season 1 of “Andor,” including the finale, follow. Of all the Star Wars shows that Disney announced, “Andor” was the one that nobody was excited about. It’s a prequel about a character from a spin-off film who — spoiler alert! — dies at the end of the movie. There is literally nowhere for this character to go; traveling to his past feels like, well, going backwards....

The 14 Best Nathan For You Episodes, Ranked Comedy Central By Kyle Milner/Oct. 31, 2022 1:07 pm EST One of the greatest things to grace our televisions in 2022 was HBO’s “The Rehearsal,” the devastatingly funny and complex comedy series by Nathan Fielder. It’s the spiritual successor to the Canadian entertainer’s previous series, “Nathan For You,” in which he poses as a ‘business expert’ looking to help out struggling businesses. The twist, of course, is that his ideas are terrible....

The Good Nurse Continues Netflix’s True Crime Fascination, For Better Or Worse Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 3, 2022 8:00 am EST It feels inappropriate to call the true crime genre “entertainment,” but it’s never been more evident that audiences can’t get enough of dark stories based on real-life events. The true crime bubble keeps getting bigger, and Netflix is cashing in on these stories in a very big way. Despite the protests from the living family members of the victims of Jeffrey Dahmer, Netflix forged through with Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” and the show was a massive success....

Unicorn Wars Review: A Gnarly Animated Film About The Horrors Of War Starring Cuddly Teddy Bears [Fantastic Fest] GKIDS By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 23, 2022 2:26 pm EST What if “Happy Tree Friends” came back in 2022, but it was a gritty war film about the horrors of fascism and religious zealotry? You’d get something like “Unicorn Wars,” a brutal, disturbing war film disguised as a candy-colored cartoon about cuddly teddy bears....

Why Sylvester Stallone Agreed To Bring Back Rocky For A Sixth Movie MGM By Joe Roberts/Dec. 10, 2022 12:07 pm EST In the early 2000s, the gritty reboot trend was in full effect. 2005 saw Christopher Nolan pretty much invent the whole concept with “Batman Begins” and a year later, James Bond would get a similar treatment with the excellent “Casino Royale.” But somewhere in there, a less likely hero returned to the screen....

16 Movies Like Taken That You Should Check Out 20th Century Studios By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 3, 2022 1:42 pm EST “I have a very particular set of skills”; Liam Neeson’s iconic threat in “Taken” spawned many internet memes, two disastrous sequels, and a complete career shift for one of Hollywood’s most respected dramatic actors. Prior to “Taken,” Neeson had dabbled in the action genre with films like “Darkman” and “Batman Begins,” but he was best known for his more serious projects....

Andor Episode 4 Nods To A Deep Cut In Star Wars Lore Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/Sept. 28, 2022 4:38 pm EST “Andor” has established itself as a series that offers a fresh perspective on the “Star Wars” galaxy. On one hand, it’s adamant about changing the way fans look at the decades-spanning franchise — but on the other, it’s refreshingly light on Easter eggs, references or cameos from other “Star Wars” projects....

Bob Odenkirk Almost Got Out Of Comedy After Seeing Chris Farley’s Improv Chops Universal Pictures By Joe Roberts/Nov. 11, 2022 1:22 pm EST With “Better Call Saul” in the can, Bob Odenkirk has established himself as not just a convincing dramatic actor but a bankable one. The former “SNL” writer and co-creator/star of the sketch series “Mr Show” has embraced his serious side in the last decade to great effect, even venturing into “John Wick” territory and scoring himself an action hit with 2021’s “Nobody....

Cool Stuff: Classic Loki, Jimmy Woo, He Who Remains, Zombie Iron Man & More Are Getting Marvel Legends Figures Hasbro By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2022 12:27 pm EST With a wealth of Marvel Comics history and an ever-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe, I think it’s safe to say that Hasbro will never stop making Marvel Legends action figures. Whether they come from the pages of comic books or the frames of films and television, there are always new superhero and super villain action figures....

A treasure trove of behind-the-scenes content Titan Books/AMC Networks Publishing The new book by Titan Books and AMC Networks Publishing will be available just in time for Halloween, but in the meantime, here’s an exclusive first look at some of the spooky and entertaining treats it includes. In a storyboard (above) for Rob Schrab’s World War II story “Bad Wolf Down,” the second episode of Shudder’s “Creepshow,” fans can see an impressively illustrated scene outline featuring a werewolf ripping a soldier’s jaw clean off....

Coppola made a bloody mess Columbia Pictures Speaking of labor, it had taken Hart 15 long years to get his “Dracula” before cameras. He thought he’d hit the jackpot when Ryder convinced Coppola to take a crack at his adaptation of Stoker’s novel. The director of “The Godfather” signing on to make your script was just about every screenwriter’s dream! Hart’s reverie was short-lived. Principal photography had turned sour early when Oldman and Ryder stopped talking to each other....

Greg Berlanti’s HBO Max Green Lantern Series Is Still Happening, But It’s Being Completely Reworked DC Entertainment By Lex Briscuso/Oct. 26, 2022 11:27 am EST HBO Max’s “Green Lantern” series will have to relight its torch, because it is now being completely reworked despite being in development since late 2019. The DC series will now focus on John Stewart, one of the comic brand’s first Black superheroes. The show was initially set to follow Guy Gardner and Alan Scott, with “American Horror Story” star Finn Wittrock and “Treadstone” star Jeremy Irvine already cast in those respective Green Lantern roles....

Here’s When You Can Watch Bullet Train At Home Sony Pictures By Jeff Ewing/Sept. 19, 2022 4:32 pm EST David Leitch’s “Bullet Train” has chugged along to a tidy $222 global box office take, a surprisingly profitable accomplishment these days for a non-franchise film. Adapted by Zak Olkewicz from the novel by Kōtarō Isaka, the action film sees Brad Pitt play an unlucky criminal known as “Ladybug” (everyone here has codenames), a man who’s been largely out of his life of crime in order to work on himself....

How Futurama Found The Right Balance Of Comedy And Sci-Fi 20th Television By Witney Seibold/July 8, 2022 4:25 pm EST It’s important to remember that one can love something and still mock it relentlessly. That seems to be the attitude of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, creators of “Futurama,” in regards to science fiction. The makers of the long-running and seemingly unkillable animated series are clearly intimately familiar with the tropes of the genre, and they appear to be having a wonderful time writing stories of spatial phenomenon, intelligent robots, inter-dimensional travel, and weird space aliens....