Yellowstone Season 5 Trailer New Role Same Old Game

Watch the Yellowstone season 5 trailer The Dutton family has come a long way over the course of the last four seasons, and like other ambitious families before them (the ascension of the Underwoods to the White House in “House of Cards” comes to mind) it makes sense that their aspirations would end up becoming political. After all, eventually there’s just nowhere to go but up. The cornerstone of “Yellowstone” has always been family, so it’s no surprise that Dutton is bringing along his children, who are most times his closest confidantes, along for the ride....

December 18, 2022 · 5 min · 1014 words · Denise Dorch

A New Black Panther Wakanda Forever Featurette Gives Us Our Best Look Yet At Namor

A New Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Featurette Gives Us Our Best Look Yet At Namor Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Nov. 1, 2022 2:26 pm EST We’re getting close to the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and with it, the big screen debut of Namor. The underwater superhero first premiered back in 1939 in “Marvel Comics” #1, making him even older than another damp comics character, Aquaman. Today, Marvel Entertainment has released a new featurette about the formidable figure....

December 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1166 words · Sally Ambriz

Avatar The Way Of Water Was Defeated At The Japanese Box Office By A Basketball Anime

The power of anime Crunchyroll “Slam Dunk” tells the story of a high school basketball team, focusing on Hanamichi Sakuragi, a delinquent and former gang leader who joins the team to impress a girl but finds he is naturally gifted at the sport and falls in love with it. The franchise, including the 1993 anime, became a cultural phenomenon in Japan and is often cited as the cause for basketball becoming popular among Japanese teens in the 1990s as well as bringing sneaker culture (especially Air Jordans) and hip-hop into the country in a bigger way....

December 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1220 words · David Smith

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Ending Explained Are You Ready To Be Strong

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Ending Explained: Are You Ready To Be Strong? 20th Television By Jamie Gerber/Sept. 3, 2022 8:30 pm EST “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was predicated on the idea of the cute blonde who usually dies at the beginning of horror movies finally having the power to fight back. She may have looked like just another flaxen-haired damsel in distress, but Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) didn’t run from the demons in the alley: she annihilated them....

December 17, 2022 · 25 min · 5216 words · Mary Carrano

Casting Bits Kate Hudson In Everly Piper Perabo In Red Machine Common In Now You See Me

Casting Bits: Kate Hudson In ‘Everly’, Piper Perabo In ‘Red Machine’, Common In ‘Now You See Me’ andersphoto/Shutterstock Could romcom queen Kate Hudson be branching out at last? Earlier this week, she signed on for her first animated feature in DreamWorks’ Me & My Shadow, and she’s now gunning for action stardom with Everly. Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom) will direct from a 2010 Black List script by Yale Hannon. Hudson will play a woman trapped in her apartment as she fends off attacks from assassins hired by her ex, a ruthless mob boss....

December 17, 2022 · 3 min · 588 words · Todd Small

Cocaine Bear Isn T Quite A True Story But It Is A Bear S Revenge Story Inspired By A Real Event

’ … consumed 70 pounds of cocaine' Universal Pictures Banks told the audience about what really happened before she got into the film’s take. She says: " … it’s Andrew C. Thornton [the real person from the story], who threw drugs out of an airplane while he was doing drug runs from Columbia. He dropped drugs out of an airplane, and he was a paratrooper in the Army in one of his many careers before he became a drug runner....

December 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1881 words · Joyce Holt

Editing Days Of Heaven Was A Massive Undertaking For Terrence Malick

Editing Days Of Heaven Was A Massive Undertaking For Terrence Malick Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 20, 2022 6:30 am EST Terrence Malick first arrived on the scene as part of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s with his directorial debut “Badlands” and its 1978 follow-up “Days of Heaven,” and both are now listed in the National Film Registry for their historic significance. After making “Days of Heaven,” however, Malick disappeared from show business for two full decades....

December 17, 2022 · 8 min · 1653 words · Gina Hill

Evangelion 3 0 1 0 Thrice Upon A Time Is Coming To Imax In November For One Day Only

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time Is Coming To IMAX In November For One Day Only GKIDS By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 19, 2022 3:43 pm EST We’re living in a golden age of anime distribution. It’s never been easier to access anime both old and new, be they movies or TV shows. Long gone are the days where you’d have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS that only contained a couple of episodes, or seek out bootleg YouTube videos that split up every episode into tiny chunks (with the risk of one of the parts getting taken down) with fansubs that weren’t totally accurate....

December 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1082 words · Reginald Asmus

Fall Review This Nail Biting Survival Thriller Is Surprisingly Effective If Not Entirely Convincing

Fall Review: This Nail-Biting Survival Thriller Is Surprisingly Effective, If Not Entirely Convincing Lionsgate By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2022 11:00 am EST The one-location thriller is a tough nut to crack. When you trap your characters in one spot, you run the risk of the narrative growing stale and the pacing floundering. So how do you mix it up? You keep the audience (and the characters) on edge; you throw obstacles in the way, with things going from bad to worse to catastrophic....

December 17, 2022 · 12 min · 2494 words · Suzanna Watson

Five Days At Memorial Review A Harrowing Disturbing Mystery With No Good Answers

Five Days At Memorial Review: A Harrowing, Disturbing Mystery With No Good Answers Apple TV+ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 1, 2022 12:00 pm EST In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans, Louisiana. The media had played the hurricane up as a once-in-a-lifetime event; something that was sure to cause death and destruction. But eventually, the storm subsided. And while it caused damage and flooding, things didn’t seem nearly as bad as some residents had thought....

December 17, 2022 · 16 min · 3342 words · Donald Harrison

Genndy Tartakovsky Had To Scrap His Original Plan For Primal Season 2

Genndy Tartakovsky Had To Scrap His Original Plan For Primal Season 2 Adult Swim By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 30, 2022 4:11 pm EST Genndy Tartakovsky has kept busy in recent years. The “Samurai Jack” creator has found acclaim in his latest creation, “Primal,” which is in the middle of its second season on Adult Swim. “Primal” earned four Emmy awards and was praised for its high concept and visceral style with minimal dialogue....

December 17, 2022 · 12 min · 2378 words · Rosalie Sullivan

Here S Why You Can T Stream Or Buy Dogma According To Kevin Smith

Here’s Why You Can’t Stream Or Buy Dogma, According To Kevin Smith Lionsgate Films By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 20, 2022 12:52 pm EST They say you never forget your first Kevin Smith movie, and for a lot of people, that film is 1999’s “Dogma.” While Smith broke onto the scene with indie darlings like “Clerks,” “Mallrats,” and “Chasing Amy,” his religious satire came after the success of “Good Will Hunting,” which helped break View Askewniverse favorite Ben Affleck and his collaborative partner Matt Damon into a whole new category of fame and acclaim....

December 17, 2022 · 14 min · 2851 words · Minnie Hobson

How The Cowboy Bebop Team Tried To Make Every Episode Feel Unique

How The Cowboy Bebop Team Tried To Make Every Episode Feel Unique Sunrise Entertainment By Devin Meenan/Sept. 26, 2022 4:30 am EST Part of the tragedy of “Cowboy Bebop” is how the main characters are so weighed down by their pasts that they’re unable to live in the present. The creative team behind the classic anime series didn’t share this attitude though. When making the series, “Hajime Yatate” (their collective pseudonym) were all focused on the present, not what lay behind or ahead of them....

December 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1709 words · Emily Spaeth

How The Lost Boys Frog Brothers Kicked Off The Mainstreaming Of Comic Book Culture Exclusive

‘The Frog Brothers made it okay to be a comic book nerd’ SlashFilm It turns out that 35 years after “The Lost Boys” was released and became a smash hit, grossing over $32 million on an $8.5 million budget, the impact it had on comic book nerds has been substantial. Jamison Newlander confirmed as much to us: “So the thing is, I was talking to someone recently who said, ‘Look, I was a comic book nerd, and the Frog Brothers made it okay to be a comic book nerd and also to be tough....

December 17, 2022 · 8 min · 1681 words · Margaret Massie

How The Star Wars Crew Tried To Keep The Darth Vader Reveal Under Wraps

How The Star Wars Crew (Tried To) Keep The Darth Vader Reveal Under Wraps Lucasfilm By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 14, 2022 11:30 pm EST Spoiler culture is a big deal today. While certain studios have leveraged spoiler culture to influence audiences to rush to cinema halls on release day, others use it as means to create buzz and anticipation for a particular film. For obvious reasons, nobody likes spoilers because they most certainly ruin the excitement of watching a movie and take away from its ability to let surprises and secrets unravel naturally....

December 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1258 words · Jeffrey Gonzales

How Whoopi Goldberg Made Queen Constantina Uniquely Hers In Cinderella

How Whoopi Goldberg Made Queen Constantina Uniquely Hers In Cinderella Buena Vista Television, Inc. By J. Gabriel Ware/Aug. 27, 2022 12:12 pm EST In the ’90s, Whoopi Goldberg earned her way into the hearts of millennials with her performances in movies such as the “Sister Act” films, “The Lion King,” and “The Little Rascals.” The star-studded 1997 musical fantasy TV film “Cinderella” was another go-to movie for pizza parties during my elementary school days....

December 17, 2022 · 7 min · 1374 words · Scott Davenport

Is The 1994 Best Actor Race The Most Competitive Oscars Category Of All Time An Investigation

Is The 1994 Best Actor Race The Most Competitive Oscars Category Of All Time? An Investigation TriStar Pictures By Mike Shutt/Dec. 6, 2022 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we take a look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy’s winner stands the test of time.) Few times in the history of the Academy Awards is there a category where you can’t quibble with the slate of nominees....

December 17, 2022 · 30 min · 6359 words · Carole Bade

James Coburn Knew That Less Was More With His Magnificent Seven Role

James Coburn Knew That Less Was More With His Magnificent Seven Role United Artists By Jeff Kelly/Nov. 11, 2022 12:21 pm EST At this point, it would be hard not to know the story of “The Magnificent Seven,” even if you’ve never seen the original 1960 Western classic. Of course, that’s in large part due to the fact that the film itself was a remake of another classic, “Seven Samurai.”...

December 17, 2022 · 8 min · 1508 words · Tammy Rodvold

Jamie Lee Curtis Has Already Pitched A Freaky Friday Sequel To Disney

Jamie Lee Curtis Has Already Pitched A Freaky Friday Sequel To Disney Buena Vista Pictures By Witney Seibold/Oct. 10, 2022 9:03 pm EST There are more versions of “Freaky Friday” than the casual reader may realize. The original 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers (“Once Upon a Mattress”) is about a 13-year-old girl named Annabel and her put-upon mother as they are currently living through a period of antagonism. In what might be considered a grand cosmic joke, Annabel and her mother magically swap bodies for a day — a freaky Friday — forcing them to live one another’s lives and see how difficult the other has it....

December 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1716 words · Victoria Fuller

John Wick Chapter 4 First Look Say Your Prayers

John Wick Chapter 4 First Look: Say Your Prayers Lionsgate By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 21, 2022 12:46 pm EST The first look at “John Wick Chapter 4” is here, and our favorite un-retired assassin looks to be doing some soul searching. The photo comes courtesy of Lionsgate, and features Keanu Reeves’ Wick looking down – solemnly? With determination? Like he’s about to kill some people? It’s hard to say! The man is wearing his classic black suit and black tie combination, and is lit with a red sort of glow....

December 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1084 words · Jeff Pena