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Mattel’s Mission To Bring The Big And Small Screen To Life For All [Comic-Con] Mattel By Ryan Scott/July 27, 2022 2:22 pm EST Mattel has been around for decades as one of the premier toy makers in the industry. From Barbie to Hot Wheels, and, of course, Masters of the Universe, they control a significant number of brands that have had a huge impact on the pop culture landscape. Beyond that, they are also one of the biggest purveyors of licensed collectibles out there, including “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” and even “Minecraft....

Nanny Actor Sinqua Walls On Showing Up And Advancing Untold Narratives [Exclusive Interview] By Lyvie Scott/Dec. 7, 2022 10:00 am EST Patience has been the name of the game for so many involved in “Nanny.” The cast and crew of Nikyatu Jusu’s debut feature have been working tirelessly for years, but the release of the film has created something of a watershed moment for each of them. One cast member on a particular hot streak is Sinqua Walls, who previously broke out in “Teen Wolf” (as the series’ first Black werewolf) and “Once Upon A Time” (as television’s first Black Lancelot)....

Pirates Of The Caribbean 6 Is Bringing Back Some Familiar Behind-The-Scenes Talent Disney By Ryan Scott/Sept. 9, 2022 4:54 pm EST It has been a handful of years since we’ve seen a “Pirates of the Caribbean” grace the screen, but Disney has every intention of amending that in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future. A fresh take on the franchise is currently in development, with Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Birds of Prey”) eyed to star in the lead role....

Pop Culture Imports: Happening, Money Heist: Korea & More Foreign Movies And TV Streaming Now Wild Bunch By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 11, 2022 5:00 pm EST The summer heat has reached the point of being unbearable, so you know what that means: time to head inside, blast the AC, and pretend you’re huddled in the cold European countryside. This month’s Pop Culture Imports has everything: a painfully relevant French drama, a wistful anti-romantic comedy, a sweet slice-of-life anime, and more....

Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2 Miramax The “Kill Bill” soundtracks are very eclectic, featuring everything from RZA’s edgy score, contemporary Latin songs, Ennio Morricone, and country music by Johnny Cash and Charlie Feathers. For “Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” Tarantino’s friend and collaborator Robert Rodriguez creates an exciting soundscape by mixing electronic sounds with a traditional orchestral score. Both soundtracks have a wild, brassy energy that fits the film’s gory action sequences with intricate stunts....

Reservation Dogs Season 2 Trailer: Growing Up Ain’t Easy, Even With A Spirit Guide FX By Danielle Ryan/July 6, 2022 1:39 pm EST “Reservation Dogs” might be the best coming-of-age series in a long, long time, and season 2 of the acclaimed series is coming soon, with a brand-new trailer to show fans what’s to come. The first season ended on kind of a cliffhanger, with Alora (Devery Jacobs) and Jackie (Elva Guerra) running away to California and leaving the rest of the gang behind to deal with life on the reservation....

A thank-you scroll frees up some speech time HBO Max Ralph told THR she used her 350 characters to thank the network and the show’s behind-the-scenes team, saying: “I just wanted to make sure that I thanked everybody at ABC, thanked everybody at Warner Bros. and thanked everybody at Disney. It’s so easy to forget the people who literally support this show that are not seen.” Not every actor has implemented the strategy the same way: “A Black Lady Sketch Show” co-creator and star Robin Thede said she put some jokes in her thank you scroll, while “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder says she included a link to information about the abortion pill....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Adds Carol Kane As New Engineer, First Clip Gives Us More Ortegas Paramount By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 8, 2022 7:02 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 1. Live long and prosper, and happy “Star Trek” day to all of my fellow “Trek”-loving fans. Today brought both an exciting announcement and a new clip for season 2 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which makes this Trekker happier than Quark in a literal lake of latinum....

Steven Spielberg Made A ‘Compromise’ He’d Come To Regret On Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/Sept. 26, 2022 5:30 am EST To think there was a time when Steven Spielberg had to compromise seems laughable. This is the most successful director in the history of the medium. His five-decade filmography is filled with timeless classics, genre-defining works, and movies that remain as powerful as the day they were released....

Surface Stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw And Oliver Jackson-Cohen On The Complexities Of Their Noir Thriller [Interview] Apple TV+ By Vanessa Armstrong/July 26, 2022 2:00 pm EST In the new Apple TV+ series “Surface,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Loki”) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (“The Haunting of Hill House”) play a married couple living a life of the ultra-rich in San Francisco. Their marriage, however, is strained (to put it mildly) because Mbatha-Raw’s character, Sophie, has lost her memory after an apparent suicide attempt....

The 14 Most Brutal Moments In Stranger Things Ranked Netflix By Nick Bartlett/July 12, 2022 7:50 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “Stranger Things” Season 4. “Stranger Things,” Netflix’s loving homage to 1980s science fiction and horror, is a genuine cultural phenomenon. It’s been the tentpole title for the streamer ever since it was first released, to almost universal acclaim, and remains incredibly rewatchable. It’s a behemoth of a show and one that is showing no signs of faltering....

Warner Bros. Once upon a time, “The Lord of the Rings” was a legendary work of literature that fantasy enthusiasts regarded as one of the greatest works of fiction that hadn’t reached mainstream success. That all changed with Warner Bros. and Peter Jackson’s hugely successful and influential movie trilogy, which changed the way we look at fantasy and at blockbusters. Two decades and a prequel trilogy later, we are finally going back to Middle-earth with the upcoming “The Rings of Power” TV show, which aims at expanding what we think of J....

The Story For Temple Of Doom Scared Away The Original Indiana Jones Writer Lucasfilm By Michael Boyle/Oct. 6, 2022 4:41 pm EST Of the original three “Indiana Jones” movies, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is usually considered the odd one out. The first one, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” was fresh and exciting. The second movie, meanwhile, was a bit more on the traumatizing side of things. For a PG-rated film (PG-13 wasn’t a thing yet), there’s a lot of gore in this one, and it sometimes feels closer to a horror movie than the adventure film the first one was....

A harrowing rescue Prime Video “Thirteen Lives” begins intuitively enough with the boisterous boys and their coach happily trekking into the cave. It pivots to their families, and we get the crucial information that monsoon season has come shockingly early. The boys are in grave danger. The local community, the province governor, and Thai Navy SEALS join forces to attempt to extract the boys as the waters close off access and the local Navy SEALS can only go so far into the caves....

Why Dwayne Johnson Fought Against Black Adam Being The Villain In Shazam! Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 11, 2022 11:20 am EST Any knowledgeable comics fan could tell you that the superhero Shazam (back when he was known as Captain Marvel, of course) and the villainous (or antihero, to hear Dwayne Johnson tell it) Black Adam share a history that goes well beyond the pages of DC Comics and all the way back to the 1940s Fawcett Comics....

Why Joseph Fiennes Was Glad To Say Goodbye To The Handmaid’s Tale Hulu By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 2, 2022 10:21 am EST As a longtime fan of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” allow me to indulge you in a secret that’s not really a secret: nobody likes Fred Waterford. He’s a calculating, manipulative character who will go to any lengths to get what he wants. He’s a hypocrite. He is everything that’s wrong with this world....

Why The Boys Season 3 Changed Queen Maeve’s Fate From The Comics Prime Video By Joshua Meyer/July 9, 2022 9:56 am EST If you haven’t seen the season 3 finale of “The Boys” yet, consider bookmarking this page and coming back to it later, because we are about to delve into spoilers. Just when you thought a certain character was dead, Prime Video’s “The Boys” proved that — beneath all the crass humor and irreverent superhero satire that makes up its cynical exterior — the show still has a heart of gold....

Improvised abuse The darkest thing about “Weekend at Bernie’s” is its ability to make you laugh at awful things. Like most people, I don’t usually think it’s funny to desecrate human remains, yet somehow it’s hilarious when unfortunate things happen to Bernie Lomax throughout the movie. It’s a morbid fact that McCarthy and the rest of the crew took advantage of during production. “You could do anything to Bernie,” he told Drew Barrymore in 2021, “We realized that the more you abuse his body, the funnier it’s going to be....

Cary Grant Considered Grace Kelly An Actress In A League Of Her Own Paramount Pictures By Shae Sennett/Sept. 19, 2022 3:47 pm EST Cary Grant and Grace Kelly were the two most iconic stars in old Hollywood, but they only co-starred in a single movie — Alfred Hitchcock’s unforgettable 1955 mystery “To Catch a Thief.” Unsurprisingly the film was instantly popular and has remained a classic, thanks largely to the charming performances from its two leads....

Chucky Offered A Bound Reunion, And It Was A Meta Nightmare (In A Good Way) USA and Syfy By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 27, 2022 3:55 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Chucky.” The “Child’s Play” franchise has always been meta, but the latest episode of “Chucky” took things to a new extreme. Last night’s episode of “Chucky” was a “Very Special Episode,” with our favorite foul-mouthed, pint-sized, serial killer-possessed doll taking a back seat to let Jennifer Tilly …err Tiffany Valentine …err Tiffany Valentine-possessed Jennifer Tilly take the center stage....