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House Of The Dragon: The Backstory Of Baelon The Brave Explained HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 12, 2022 2:15 pm EST Spoilers for episode 4 of “House of the Dragon” follow. In the world of “Game of Thrones,” when a conversation is preceded by a long monologue explaining past historical events that don’t seem relevant, you should probably have your guard up. Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), Hand of the King and faithful (if ambitious) servant of King Viserys (Paddy Considine), learned that lesson the hard way in last night’s episode of “House of the Dragon....

How Alfred Molina Put Himself In Robert Aldrich’s Shoes For Feud 20th Television By Jamie Gerber/Nov. 13, 2022 10:00 pm EST Ryan Murphy may be best known for “Glee” and “American Horror Story,” but my favorite thing he’s done is “Feud: Bette and Joan” — though “Pose” is a close second. The FX series chronicles the long-running dispute between two of the finest performers who ever lived: Bette Davis and Joan Crawford....

How The Mitchells Vs The Machines Formed Katie’s Queer Identity Netflix By Shania Russell/July 30, 2022 5:30 pm EST There’s never a bad time to sing the praises of “The Mitchells Vs The Machines,” a breathtaking work of animation that chronicles a robot uprising through the lens of a dysfunctional family road trip. Part action-adventure and part family drama, the refreshing apocalypse tale showed off its exhilarating visual style with a sweet, heartwarming story, so no wonder it captured so many hearts....

Is That Studio Ghibli/Lucasfilm Collaboration Going To Be About Grogu? Lucasfilm By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 11, 2022 11:06 am EST Yesterday, we received the huge news that Studio Ghibli was going to do some sort of collaboration with Lucasfilm, in what could be the biggest Ghibli news since Miyazaki un-retired for the tenth time. Speculation on what shape that collaboration could be was all the rage on the internet, with thoughts of an “Indiana Jones” animated movie, a “Star Wars” movie, a segment on the upcoming second season of “Star Wars: Visions,” or the worst possible outcome: anything directed by Goro Miyazaki....

James McAvoy Used A Simple Prop To Set His X-Men Performance Apart By Witney Seibold/July 8, 2022 10:19 am EST Glaswegian actor James McAvoy has played the role of Prof. Charles Xavier four times to date, starting with Matthew Vaughn’s “X-Men: First Class” in 2011 (five times if you count a cameo in 2018’s “Deadpool 2”). The role had previously been played by Patrick Stewart, but because of the X-Men universe’s proclivities toward chronological disarray, McAvoy played the younger and/or alternate universe version of the character....

Kaleidoscope: Release Date, Cast, And More For Netflix’s Ambitious New Streaming Series Netflix By Shania Russell/Dec. 3, 2022 11:00 pm EST A new Netflix anthology is on the way and it’s likely to put a spin on your typical water cooler discussions. “Kaleidoscope” is certainly the kind of show you’ll want to unpack with your friends: it’s got high stakes, lots of intrigue, a mystery, and action-packed criminal hijinks. There’s just one problem....

Robin Williams’ Wildest Mork & Mindy Performances Happened When The Cameras Weren’t Rolling ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 24, 2022 6:23 pm EST When it comes to kooky sitcoms you have to see to believe, “Mork & Mindy” is near the top of the list. To describe the late-’70s comedy to a young audience today feels a bit like trying to have a conversation in Orkan. There was this show called “Happy Days,” you see, with Henry Winkler as leather jacket-clad Fonzie and Ron Howard as the aw-shucks protagonist Richie....

Steven Spielberg Had A Personal Reason For Choosing Not To Direct Tom Hanks In Big 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 13, 2022 12:53 pm EST Director Penny Marshall’s “Big” was, in many ways, the film that made Tom Hanks. Released in 1988, Marshall’s hit comedy centers on Josh (David Moscow), a 12-year old boy whose wish to be “big” results in him falling asleep one night only to wake up a 30-something adult (Hanks)....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Gets A Release Window, The Flash’s Final Season Gets A Trailer & More Insomniac Games By Ryan Scott/Dec. 15, 2022 1:57 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....

Seductive, mind-reading, shape-shifting alien brain parasites Paramount If going by production order — which, Trekkies will tell you, is the only correct order in which to watch the original series — then “The Man Trap” is the show’s fifth episode. Broadcast order (feh) had it running first. Either way, a precedent was set early on “Star Trek,” and audiences would frequently see magical sci-fi creatures of devices that could read the minds of Starfleet officers and physically manifest their desires....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving HBO Max In January 2023 Summit Entertainment By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 20, 2022 6:54 pm EST The year of madness better known as 2022 is almost over. December is coming to an end, and like the end of every month, the streaming services are sharing which shows, movies, and specials will be leaving each platform in the next month. HBO Max shared their list for January 2023, and there are some pretty major movies leaving the streamer that fans will want to check out ASAP....

Why it’s essential viewing Disney “A Goofy Movie” is probably the most unexpected Disney film to have ever garnered cult classic status. It made a major impression on ’90s babies like myself, and it continues to loom large in our brains for its unique world, touching storyline, and legendary — yes, legendary — music. First off, the movie takes place in a world full of Goofy-style dogs, and maybe because it’s not a cartoon world we typically see, but it’s automatically really interesting and fun....

The Good Nurse: Everything We Know About The Jessica Chastain-Eddie Redmayne True Crime Thriller Netflix By Anya Stanley/July 22, 2022 1:11 pm EST True crime stories are always having a moment these days, but lately they’ve gotten glossier retellings on the big and small screen. Joe Berlinger (behind the “Paradise Lost” and “Brother’s Keeper” documentaries) came out in 2019 with back-to-back productions surrounding notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy with the Netflix docu-series “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” and the Zac Efron-led dramatic feature “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” both of which prompted discussion over depiction vs....

Skarsgård’s movable face Warner Bros. Skarsgård and Muschietti have gone on the record before about Skarsgård’s impressive physical transformation into Pennywise. In an interview for Entertainment Tonight, the actor and the filmmaker talk about how Skarsgård can arrange his expressions in a terrifying way without the aid of CGI. He’s able to arrange his lower lip in an unnerving curl, and can also make his eyes cross and uncross at will, giving the uncanny appearance that each is working independently of the another....

Top Gun: Maverick’s Miles Teller To Star In The Gorge For Director Scott Derrickson Paramount Pictures By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 25, 2022 2:41 pm EST No one could have predicted that “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to a nearly 40-year-old movie, would wind up becoming not only the biggest movie of the summer, but the biggest movie of 2022 so far, pulling in $679 million domestic (more than “Avengers: Infinity War”) and counting....

One of the biggest box office wins of all time Paramount Pictures Since the second “Top Gun” film debuted in theaters in May, it has continually been a top performer at the box office. The movie set a new opening weekend record with $160.5 million over Memorial Day weekend. From there, “Top Gun: Maverick” was a consistent player on weekend charts and stayed within the top five for 10 weeks....

Weird Al Talks About The ‘Kind Of Devastating’ Failure Of His First Movie, UHF Orion Pictures By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 31, 2022 2:32 pm EST “Weird” Al Yankovic’ was riding high as pop music’s preeminent parodist when he opted to make his feature filmmaking debut in 1989 with “UHF.” The film stars the musician as a lovable loser who’s put in charge of Channel 62, a bare-bones operation buried deep in the UHF dial (you see, kids, televisions used to have two dials: one for major stations, and another for a multitude of static dotted with bizarre oases of transmissions from god-knows-where)....

What it brought to the genre Unison Films Before the opening credits arrive, “What We Do in the Shadows” lays out exactly why it’ll be such a pleasure to hang out with four bumbling vampires and the unfortunate individuals who cross paths with them. Featuring a bare minimum of plot, the film is loosely concerned with the impending approach of the “Unholy Masquerade” as a documentary team — all wearing protective crucifixes — follows our lovable bunch of fang-toothed eternals....

All Hail Rhaenys Velaryon, House Of The Dragon’s True Queen HBO By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 17, 2022 4:34 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of “House of the Dragon.” Being a woman in Westeros is no picnic, even if you’re from a royal family and can ride a dragon. No matter what, women are always subject to the whims of the men around them and can never hold power in the same way, simply on account of their sex....

Amy Poehler And Kevin Hart Weren’t Enough To Save Judd Apatow’s North Hollywood Netflix By Joe Roberts/Nov. 14, 2022 1:04 pm EST There was a time when filmmaker Judd Apatow seemed to be responsible for everything comedy related that hit the cultural scene. The age of Apatow-helmed humor is, for the most part, fondly remembered as an era that gave rise to such modern classics as “The 40-Year Old Virgin,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Rob Burgundy,” “Superbad,” and “Knocked Up....