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An Exhaustive Timeline Of The Rock’s Black Adam Movie Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 19, 2022 9:00 am EST After what seems like forever (and ever, and ever), “Black Adam” is hitting theaters this weekend. It’s the conclusion of a journey that goes back a long time, with the project kicking around the halls of Warner Bros. in some way, shape, or form for well over a decade. More to the point, Dwayne Johnson, back when he was pretty much only known to the general public as The Rock, has been attached to the role for ages....

Andor’s Most Compelling Storyline Finally Gives A Classic Star Wars Character Room To Shine Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 19, 2022 2:00 pm EST It’s taken no time at all for “Andor” to announce that there’s officially a new and exciting “Star Wars” show in town — one that’s completely uninterested in delivering what fans have seen before, for a refreshing change. Coming in, we all expected that the “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” prequel series would reveal brand new layers beneath the rough exterior of Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor....

Chris Pine is … The Bard! Jacob Hall In perhaps the most surprising reveal of them all, dashing leading man and all-around-handsome dude Chris Pine isn’t playing a noble fighter or cunning ranger. He is playing a bard, a Dungeons & Dragons character class that, while serviceable with weapons, uses music as their main offense and defense. A bard uses music like spells, clouding the minds of enemies, inspiring allies, healing wounds, crafting illusions, and generally offering support on all fronts....

Charlton Heston Had One Worry When It Came To Ben-Hur’s Famous Chariot Race Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 18, 2022 11:30 pm EST Where the industry now embraces the trend of “too big to fail” superhero blockbusters, there was a point in Hollywood history where sprawling religious epics were the big ticket item, with “Ben-Hur” enduring as one of the most successful of its kind. It would be over 38 years until “Titanic,” followed by “The Return of the King,” would break the unprecedented Oscar streak set by William Wyler’s 1959 epic, which took home 11 Academy Awards in one night....

Daemon Targaryen Has Become House Of The Dragon’s Most Terrifying Wild Card HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 19, 2022 9:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 5. Every time I tune into a new episode of “House of the Dragon,” I wonder what crime our petty, toxic dragon boy, Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), will commit this week. Because at this point, what has he not done?...

Django Unchained Ending Explained: Subverting That White Savior Trope Sony Pictures By Michael Boyle/Oct. 23, 2022 5:30 pm EST “Django Unchained” isn’t typically placed on the top of the list of people’s favorite Quentin Tarantino films. If you’re looking for a good old satisfying revenge flick, people are more likely to point to “Kill Bill” or “Inglourious Basterds” instead. As for “Unchained,” it’s common to hear critics refer to it as “a mixed bag,” and they’re certainly onto something there....

Donald Sutherland Says This Character Is Closer To Him Than Any Other [Exclusive] Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 5, 2022 3:34 pm EST Donald Sutherland has played a multitude of characters over the years, from the foolish felon Vernon L. Pinkley in “The Dirty Dozen,” to the fascist ruler President Coriolanus Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise. Sutherland is largely considered to be one of the greatest living actors still working today, and with over six decades of experience, Sutherland has played every type of character imaginable across every possible genre....

Back to the future Paramount The “Strange New Worlds” finale is pretty much a retelling of the original series episode “Balance of Terror.” It shows exactly what would happen if Pike was still captaining the Enterprise during a fateful encounter with a Romulan warship, in lieu of his successor, James T. Kirk. This new reality manifests when Pike feels compelled to warn a future Starfleet cadet, Maat Al-Salah, about the accident that will claim his life....

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed: Everything We Know About The New Video Game Illfonic By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2022 12:40 pm EST While we’re waiting for the next installment of the “Ghostbusters” film franchise to pick up after the events of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the game developers at IllFonic have something to hold you over. “Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed” is a new video game from the creators of the “Friday the 13th” slasher game that let players either slice and dice through camp counselors as Jason Vorhees or forces them to survive the deadly advances of the hockey-masked killer....

Christmas Morning This time helmed by “Eli” director Ciarán Foy, 2015’s “Sinister 2” features its fair share of kill footage. Each home movie title, ranging from “Fishing Trip” to “Kitchen Remodel,” vaguely indicate how the corresponding family dies in each violent short. And that brings us to “Christmas Morning.” To the sweet discordant tunes of the musical duo tomandandy, “Christmas Morning” begins with a white Christmas. A family opens their gifts and all seems merry and bright until the festivities turn horrific as an unseen figure buries the parents and children alive in the snow-covered yard, their bodies bound in holiday light strings....

How Tony Scott And Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance Endings Differ Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 12, 2022 7:49 am EST Everyone has their own idea of what’s romantic, and that applies to movie endings, too. As the screenwriter of the 1993 film “True Romance,” Quentin Tarantino liked the idea of tragic romance, which has been a pretty consistent thread throughout his career. (Name one non-tragic Tarantino romance. I’ll wait.) The director of “True Romance,” Tony Scott, saw things a bit differently, and wanted to give this violent, dramatic romantic tale a happy ending....

It Wasn’t Easy For Alec Baldwin To Talk Down To Screen Legends Like Jack Lemmon In Glengarry Glen Ross New Line Cinema By Travis Yates/Oct. 19, 2022 7:32 pm EST The old saying goes, “Never meet your heroes because they’re sure to disappoint you.” But what if you have to scold your heroes when it’s part of the job? That’s exactly the situation Alec Baldwin found himself in while filming the 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross....

Stranger Things Season 4 Blooper Reel: Watch Vecna And The Hawkins Kids Crack Up Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 24, 2022 4:42 pm EST The vast expanse of the always-too-long “Stranger Things” off-season is upon us, but a little oasis appeared on the horizon today in the form of the most recent blooper reel for the Netflix phenomenon. The outtakes dropped as a part of Netflix’s Tudum event, as the streamer shared trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from all its biggest shows....

Superhero Bits: The Rock On A Marvel/DC Crossover, Superman & Lois Loses A Cast Member & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Aug. 17, 2022 4:38 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....

The 10 Most Unsettling Moments In Don’t Worry Darling Warner Bros. Pictures By Bee Delores/Sept. 26, 2022 1:14 pm EST “Don’t Worry Darling” may have failed to impress overall, but it still offers plenty to discuss, including the bonkers ending. Themes about womanhood, autonomy, and technology knot together, accentuated with a dazzling performance from Florence Pugh as Alice. Harry Styles stars opposite as her workaholic husband Jack, alongside a cast that also includes director Olivia Wilde (as Bunny), Chris Pine (as Frank, founder of a community called The Victory Project), and KiKi Layne (Margaret)....

A return to Mockingbird Heights The Munster family lives in a decaying Victorian mansion in Mockingbird Heights, with each of the characters having their own struggles when it comes to adjusting to their new environment. The original show maintained an aura of lighthearted spookiness, wherein things were never too scary due to its inherent comedic and satirical tone. While Zombie’s “The Munsters” seems to be retaining this lightheartedness, the director might as well infuse the reboot with genuine scares, which will be potentially interesting to witness....

The Reason Christopher Nolan Stopped Reading Reviews For His Movies Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Aug. 29, 2022 4:42 pm EST The relationship between filmmakers and critics has always been a strange one. While many directors do have friendly relationships with film critics who analyze their work, others have made headlines for being rather hostile and combative. It’s a tenuous relationship, to be sure, and with social media now playing a role in establishing direct communication between these two parties, it has become even more tenuous....

The Sandman Actor John Cameron Mitchell On Comics, Storytelling, And Breaking The Binary [Spoiler Interview] Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 9, 2022 6:13 pm EST This article contains spoilers for season 1 of “The Sandman.” John Cameron Mitchell is no stranger to colorful, surreal, mind-bending storytelling, but the “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” director and star was still in for something new with Netflix’s “The Sandman.” The incredibly intricate 10-episode first season adapted two arcs from Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” comics: “Preludes & Nocturnes” and “The Doll’s House....

The time it takes Warner Bros. In addition to playing the faun in “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Jones also played a thin, eyeless, white-skinned monster called the Pale Man. Well, eyeless in that the Pale Man has no eyes in its head. It keeps its eyes on a plate, then inserts them into the palms of its hands when it needs to look at something. The Pale Man is one of the more striking movie monsters of its decade....

‘That’s true heroism in a way, isn’t it?’ Lucasfilm It’s not every day that an IP-based series comes around that has most in agreement over its very high level of quality — not just for the franchise it resides in, but for any story in general. “Andor” quickly established itself as just plain good, rather than merely “good for a ‘Star Wars’ show,” and a large part of that is due to the radically creative and original approach that Tony Gilroy and his writing team took to the material....