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My Hero Academia Is Back To Being A Must-Watch Anime With Its Own Take On Avengers: Endgame Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 15, 2022 1:00 pm EST Superhero stories are saturating the market, there is no denying it. While this is mostly an American thing, it also impacts Japan, where one of the biggest manga and anime franchises today centers around superheroes: “My Hero Academia.” The show is essentially “Sky High” the anime, as it takes place in a world of superheroes and focuses on a group of young students at an academy for future heroes....

Poker Face Teaser: Natasha Lyonne Leads A New Murder-Mystery Peacock Series From Rian Johnson Karolina Wojtasik/Peacock By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 26, 2022 12:03 pm EST After carving out a path to success from various high-concept indies and hit original films to the biggest canvas of them all in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” filmmaker Rian Johnson saw that he had no more worlds to conquer and wept. Just kidding! The writer/director promptly capitalized on his mainstream success by churning out “Knives Out,” the star-studded whodunnit that lit the box office on fire and almost singlehandedly breathed new life into the murder-mystery genre, which had been stagnant for far too many years....

Gao’s career as a comedy writer Marvel Studios Jessica Gao has previously written on shows like “Rick and Morty,” “Silicon Valley,” and “Robot Chicken.” She specializes in writing comedy, which makes her a good fit for “She-Hulk” in particular. Marvel has never shied away from including humor in its movies and shows — for better and for worse – but they’ve never done a full-on sitcom before. “She-Hulk” is described by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige as a “half-hour legal comedy,” making it unlike any of the other Disney+ series so far....

Skinamarink Review: An Experimental Kinder Trauma Horror Experience [Fantasia] Fantasia Film Festival By Matt Donato/Aug. 1, 2022 3:00 pm EST “Skinamarink” is a kinder trauma experiment put to screen with indescribable contents. Writer and director Kyle Edward Ball epitomizes arthouse classifiers while channeling childhood fears with marvelous rawness. Reader beware, because “Skinamarink” is exquisitely divisive — the kind of film that will balance zero and five-star reviews. That said, those seeking an abstract exploration of lights-out anxieties by lo-fi means should seek this shot-on-film-lookin’ curiosity that abides by no conventional filmmaking rules....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Revives One Of The Most Infamous Pieces Of Star Trek Merch Ever Paramount By Witney Seibold/Sept. 1, 2022 11:00 am EST In the opening scene of “The Least Dangerous Game” — the second episode of the third season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” — the show’s four main characters, in a rare moment of downtime, gather around a table to play a Klingon-based boardgame called “Bat’leths & bIHnuchs....

Steven Knight Knows Netflix Played A Big Part In The Success Of Peaky Blinders Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 26, 2022 8:53 am EST There’s a lot that went into making Steven Knight’s “Peaky Blinders” successful. The period drama series followed the exploits of Birmingham-based gangster Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) and his crime family, exploring their journey as they made their crime business legitimate. Murphy’s Tommy is enigmatic; he is as stylish as he is prone to violence, and the fascination surrounding his character has been significant....

The 10 Best ADAs In The Law & Order Universe Ranked NBCUniversal Syndication Studios By Chad Collins/Aug. 2, 2022 3:25 pm EST The original “Law & Order” is second only to spinoff “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as one of the longest-running scripted primetime television series ever. Twelve years after going off the air, the original series was revived in 2022, with a forthcoming season already announced. Love it or hate it, that’s an incredible feat, especially when accounting for the success of subsequent spinoffs....

The Bridge On The River Kwai Won Alec Guinness An Oscar, But It Wasn’t Always His Role Columbia Pictures By Jeff Kelly/Nov. 17, 2022 9:22 am EST The World War II film “The Bridge on the River Kwai” is considered a classic, and for good reason. The prisoner of war story is based on a novel (written by an actual former POW, Pierre Boulle), and was inspired by a true story....

Meet GLaDOS, the evil robot Disney+ and Valve K.E.V.I.N. bears a strong resemblance to GLaDOS, the villain in the “Portal” game series from Valve. Both are similar in design and nature and serve as the final boss to the protagonists (even their lairs look the same). Like her MCU counterpart, GLaDOS is a super-intelligent machine that hangs from above and dictates the course of the story. In “Portal,” the computer torments the human protagonist, Chell, with difficult puzzles to slowly lead her to her death....

The White Lotus Nails How We Struggle To Reassess Classic Cinema HBO By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 15, 2022 8:00 am EST Few cinematic cows are more sacred than Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” trilogy. Largely considered one of the greatest films ever put to screen, the mob drama is a staple of American film and a mainstay in Italian-American culture. Becoming obsessed with “The Godfather” is a generational rite of passage, and despite the film’s constant analysis ranging from the presence of oranges to the ridiculously true circumstances surrounding the film’s production process, “The Godfather” continues to pop up as a reference point in other forms of entertainment....

V/H/S/99 Directors Maggie Levin And Johannes Roberts Wish It Was Always This Easy [Exclusive Interview] Shudder By Jack Giroux/Oct. 20, 2022 5:02 pm EST The “V/H/S” series lets filmmakers go wild. It’s a part of the horror franchise’s appeal. Good or bad, the directors rarely pull any punches with their stories. The latest addition to “V/H/S” goes back to 1999, with directors such as Maggie Levin (“My Valentine”) and Johannes Roberts (“The Strangers: Prey at Night”) at the helm of its anthology entries....

‘Found and foraged’ Lucasfilm “It’s your classic ‘Lord of the Flies’ scenario, so they have this wild, primitive, feral kind of feel to it,” Wilkinson said of the costumes. “And maybe that explains a little bit of older Cassian’s innate wildness and rebellion.” If you rewatch the scenes on Kenari, you can see that some of the clothing was clearly made for older people, and some of it is cut and belted on....

11 Villain Origin Stories We Want Next From The Star Wars Universe Lucasfilm By Luke Y. Thompson/Nov. 1, 2022 8:03 pm EST With “Andor” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” the galaxy far, far away has given us its fair share of hero origin stories, revealing what the lives of some of our favorite good guys looked like before we met them first. Why, though, must the heroes be the only characters whose tales get told?...

A League Of Their Own Didn’t Leave The Legacy Geena Davis Had Hoped For Columbia Pictures By Joshua Meyer/July 30, 2022 10:12 am EST “A League of Their Own” is celebrating its 30th anniversary this summer, and in the intervening decades since its release, Penny Marshall’s baseball dramedy has found its way into the National Film Registry, while the immortal line, “There’s no crying in baseball,” has made it onto the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time....

A Star Trek Movie That Was Never Made Delayed Treasure Planet For Over A Decade Disney By Witney Seibold/Dec. 1, 2022 5:22 pm EST The pitch for John Musker and Rob Clements’ 2002 animated feature “Treasure Planet” couldn’t be simpler: “Treasure Island” in space. Made on a sizable budget of $140 million, “Treasure Planet” transformed the three-masted maritime sailing ships of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1882 novel into cosmos-dwelling, frigate-shaped spacecraft that soar on solar sails....

Andor Asks A Big Question: Can You Separate Star Wars From Disney’s Corporate Identity? Lucasfilm By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Nov. 23, 2022 4:30 pm EST Season 1 of “Andor” came to a thrilling end this week. For many jaded fans of “Star Wars,” this series was just the kind of reinvigorating spark the franchise has needed since it found itself in the middle of an unfortunate identity crisis. Showrunner Tony Gilroy (who also co-wrote “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) has taken Lucasfilm’s blank check and turned it into something unique for the classic pop culture franchise: a character study of a younger and disillusioned Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) finding his purpose in the humble beginnings of the Rebel Alliance....

Ash: Everything We Know So Far About The Sci-Fi Thriller From Flying Lotus Paramount Pictures By Erin Brady/Aug. 29, 2022 2:38 pm EST Get ready to witness something out of this world. It was recently announced that Flying Lotus, the pseudonym of music producer and director Steven Ellison, will return to filmmaking with a science-fiction thriller entitled “Ash.” While a tentative release date has not been announced, Variety reports that it will be shopped around to various distributors at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival and is eying a 2023 start date for production....

Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle Trailer: The Birdemic Is Back, But With Sea Eagles, Apparently Severin Films By Erin Brady/Aug. 17, 2022 4:16 pm EST Let’s get one thing clear; there actually is no such thing as a “so-bad-it’s-good” movie. If you enjoy a movie, regardless of its production value or quality, then it’s fine to say that you enjoy watching it. While it’s important to acknowledge flaws in a movie’s production, it’s also just as important that you enjoy watching a movie rather than masquerade that enjoyment under irony....

The quest for Vibranium Marvel Studios Rather than delay the inevitable, “Wakanda Forever” opens immediately with the (offscreen) death of T’Challa. The nation of Wakanda is heartbroken and shocked, none more so than T’Challa’s sister, the brilliant Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright), who blames herself for not being able to save her brother, and who shrugs off traditions that suggest her dead brother’s spirit is still out there, somewhere. A year after the death, Shuri is still grieving heavily....

Bodies Bodies Bodies Star Rachel Sennott On Anxiety And Toxic Friendships [Interview] A24 By Jack Giroux/Aug. 12, 2022 3:21 pm EST In “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” Rachel Sennott plays Alice, who just wants to have a good time with Greg (Lee Pace). She does not get her wish in Halina Reijn’s A24 horror-comedy, in which no one is safe. Characters drink, ingest drugs, and all their inner fears begin to tear everyone to pieces....