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Superhero Bits: When Captain America: New World Order Begins Filming, Secret Wars Rumors & More Corridor YouTube By Ryan Scott/Nov. 14, 2022 6:45 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Occulonimbus edoequus in Nope Universal Pictures For Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” the creative team consulted Ph.D. candidate and fish researcher Kelsi Rutledge to give their alien — the Occulonimbus edoequus — a unique design with realistic bodily functions. Curious why the alien’s limbs billow on-screen? That effect mirrors how cuttlefish balloon into gorgeous and trance-inducing states to attract prey. Wondering why the creature, at times, feels cloaked in invisibility? As Rutledge pointed out to Nerdist, cephalopods have the “amazing ability to camouflage against any surface” thanks to their “color-changing pigment cells....

The Best Movies Starring The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Cast That You Need To See Marvel Studios By Scott Thomas/Nov. 1, 2022 3:36 pm EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is all about its cast. It can’t help but be. Both the returning actors and the new additions are working in and around the void left by Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death at the age of 43. Boseman was the Black Panther in every sense, and like T’Challa, he became a hero to many....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Hulu And Disney+ In November 2022 Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 19, 2022 8:16 am EST As we all mourn the end of the Halloween season and brace ourselves for the seemingly unending parade of holidays based on familial obligations or gross displays of capitalism, November is here to serve as a little respite. Many of the horror movies that disappeared off streaming platforms to try and snag some extra Halloween funds in October are returning to their respective platforms, but the trickling in of cheesy Christmas fare is also coming in fast....

The Most Brilliant Moment In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Comes Via A Surprise Character Disney By Witney Seibold/Nov. 14, 2022 10:00 am EST Warning: The post contains spoilers for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Ryan Coolger’s 2018 “Black Panther” is one of the better films to have been made in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Eschewing many of the more traditional good-guy-vs.-bad-guy trappings of the superhero genre, “Black Panther” pitted its title hero against a rival with a legitimate grievance....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Part 3: Release Date, Cast, And More AMC By BJ Colangelo/July 22, 2022 11:39 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel … like crying? Over a decade since the series’ debut, “The Walking Dead” is finally coming to an end, and the show is going out with a bang....

The Watcher True Story: Did The Events Of The Creepy New Netflix Show Really Happen? Netflix By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 14, 2022 1:06 pm EST Potential spoilers for “The Watcher” follow. Between “Dahmer” and “The Watcher,” Netflix’s recent wave of true crime shows are getting a lot of attention. After all, there’s just something deeply chilling about watching real-life cases play out. As someone who has zero tolerance for horror and still remembers being terrified when a middle school teacher forced my class to watch Disney’s “The Watcher in the Woods” (I probably spent half the movie hiding in the bathroom — so much for movies in class being fun), true crime brings its own unnerving addition: the knowledge that the events on-screen could happen to just about anyone....

Uncoupled Trailer: Neil Patrick Harris Suits Up To Search For Love In NYC Netflix By Shania Russell/July 13, 2022 1:40 pm EST Neil Patrick Harris is single and searching for love in New York City. This isn’t his first time suiting up to explore the Big Apple’s dating scene, but other than being well-dressed and unattached, I’m guessing Michael Lawson and Barney Stinson don’t have much in common. Although Barney had no trouble earning nine seasons worth of laughs, Harris’ “How I Met Your Mother” character was best known as a despicable womanizer who was terrified of commitment and perfectly happy to live out an endless string of one night stands....

Who Invited Them Review: The Charming Home Invasion Thriller Overstays Its Welcome Shudder By Cass Clarke/Sept. 2, 2022 2:00 pm EST Imagine if a filmmaker mixed the creeping dread of 2007’s “Funny Games” with the natural cast chemistry of 2019’s “Villains.” At its best, Duncan Birmingham’s “Who Invited Them” succeeds in becoming something akin to that killer home invasion recipe. Written and directed by Birmingham, “Who Invited Them” is at once a familiar and seemingly predictable horror film and one that aspires to put a darkly romantic spin on its cautionary tale....

Andor Episode 9 Name Drops A Planet That Will Help Lead Us Right Into Rogue One By Bryan Young/Nov. 2, 2022 2:18 pm EST There will be spoilers for “Andor” Episode IX – “Nobody’s Listening!” It’s been no secret that the plan for “Andor” has been to lead seamlessly in to the events of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” We still have four years of narrative mileage to cover before we get there, but “Andor” is already giving us hints and clues that deepen our understanding of key locations, characters, and events in “Rogue One”, but never spoon feeding us....

Andor Finally Justifies Our Longtime Obsession With Mon Mothma Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Sept. 28, 2022 9:00 am EST When the first “Star Wars” trilogy came out, there weren’t many women in lead roles. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) was a role model for so many young women at the time, but the rest of the heroes were men. In “Return of the Jedi,” however, we saw another woman in a leadership role....

Black Christmas (1974) Ending Explained: A Bleak End To The Blackest Of Christmases Warner Bros. By Lee Adams/Dec. 10, 2022 10:00 pm EST “They’re all the same. Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door.” When Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) gave her famous critique of slasher movies in Wes Craven’s “Scream,” she summed up everything that had become so corny and predictable about the genre in the ’80s....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Continues One Unfortunate Marvel Cinematic Universe Trend Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 11, 2022 3:30 pm EST After years of criticism in some corners that the Marvel Cinematic Universe had fallen into a stale pattern of formula and familiarity, Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has felt like the most experimental the superhero studio has ever been. Naturally, this has led to some of the most divisive reactions that these crowd-pleasing blockbusters have ever received....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever TV Spot Reveals Namor Is ‘Covered In’ Vibranium Marvel Studios By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Oct. 21, 2022 6:44 am EST A new challenger is rising from the ocean in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and his armor has an interesting connection to the technologically advanced nation. Wakanda’s prosperity and security is largely owed to it being the only place on the planet where vibranium can be mined. The virtually indestructible metal was used to create Captain America’s shield, and was also woven into T’Challa’s Black Panther suit to give him near-invulnerability and lethal claws....

Brewster’s Millions Was A Very Different Movie Prior To Casting Richard Pryor Universal Pictures By Jeff Kelly/Dec. 10, 2022 1:00 pm EST If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember a time in which Richard Pryor movies aired on cable networks seemingly around the clock. Maybe it was “The Toy,” or any of his numerous collaborations with Gene Wilder. But perhaps the most famous, and cable-friendly, was Pryor’s 1985 film “Brewster’s Millions....

Christopher Nolan Used A Tried-And-True Trick To Send Interstellar’s Ships Into ‘Space’ Paramount Pictures By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 2, 2022 2:49 pm EST Christopher Nolan is one of the biggest filmmakers in modern Hollywood that makes enough returns on his blockbusters to actively preserve his old-fashioned filmmaking instincts. Going against the grain of current trends, he prides himself on his utilization of 70mm film, minimal usage of CGI, and his very firm stance that his films demand to be exhibited in a proper theatrical environment....

Cool Stuff: Thor: Love And Thunder Poster And Collector Cards Are Coming To The D23 Expo [Exclusive] Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 7, 2022 10:00 am EST This week, Disney fans from around the world will be flocking to Anaheim, California for D23 Expo. The massive convention celebrating all things Disney typically happens every two years, but since the last event in 2019, there’s been a bit of a global pandemic that we’ve had to deal with, so it’s now been three years since the last House of Mouse gathering....

Eragon TV Series Announced For Disney+, Will Hopefully Get It Right This Time By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 25, 2022 7:00 pm EST Finally, fans of “The Inheritance Cycle” might get an adaptation worth watching. The popular Christopher Paolini young adult books are about to get the Disney+ treatment according to Variety, with the first book, “Eragon,” slated for adaptation at the streamer. This is great news for fans of the four-book fantasy series, who would be the first to tell you that the 2006 film adaptation is among the weakest book-to-screen translations ever made....

Frank Oz Just ‘Didn’t Get’ The Pitch For Little Shop Of Horrors Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Nov. 5, 2022 3:00 pm EST Frank Oz does not get nearly enough respect as a director. For a couple of decades, Oz put out a consistent run of off-beat, inventive comedies, and as is often the case with filmmakers mostly looking for humor, his work is taken for granted. But when you come out of the school of Jim Henson and The Muppets, nothing about what you do is ordinary, and no film demonstrates that better than his 1986 adaptation of the phenomenal off-Broadway musical “Little Shop of Horrors....

How Steven Spielberg Talked Michael Bay Into Making Transformers Paramount By Anthony Crislip/July 30, 2022 5:00 pm EST For good or for ill, Michael Bay’s run of films in the “Transformers” series, from the first in 2007 to 2017’s “Transformers: The Last Knight,” defined that era of the blockbuster. He took the Hasbro toy line (and associated media) and blew it up to massive proportions, with each successive movie somehow expanding the scale even more....