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The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Trailer: Nicolas Cage Meets His Biggest Fan Lionsgate By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 14, 2021 11:44 am EST Have no fear, Nicky is here, y’all — and it’s not like he really ever went anywhere, OK? That’s Nicolas Cage’s mentality in the new red-band trailer for his upcoming meta-comedy, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” and we’re ready to see how this version of the Academy Award winner (named Nick Cage, with a K) handles being hard up for attention and fame in a dwindling point in his career....

Upcoming Netflix Original Movies You Need To Know About Netflix By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 24, 2021 4:31 pm EST In less than a decade, Netflix has transformed from a digital alternative to Blockbuster into one of the most ambitious studios in Hollywood. After Cary Joji Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed war epic “Beasts of No Nation” made a splash at award shows in 2015, Netflix has only increased its output of original films. In 2021 alone, Netflix will distribute well over 100 new films alongside their lineup of exclusive shows and docuseries....

Who Is The Main ‘The Suicide Squad’ Villain? Starro Explained By Shania Russell/July 26, 2021 12:46 pm EST There’s no other way to say this: Starro is a giant alien starfish that can absorb nukes and shoot lasers from its tentacles. If you really think about it, who better to face off against the Suicide Squad? The upcoming movie directed by James Gunn is already jam-packed with an insane variety of villains, so if they’re gonna team up against a single force, it better be a memorable one....

William Lucking, Sons Of Anarchy Star, Has Died At 80 FX By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 4, 2021 7:53 pm EST William Lucking, known for his portrayal as old-school biker and founding SAMCRO member Piney Winston from “Sons of Anarchy” and Colonel Francis Lynch in the first season of the 1980s TV show “The A-Team,” has passed away at the age of 80. “Although William often played toughs and strongmen, in his actual life he was an elegant man with a brilliant intellect who loved to argue about politics and current affairs, discuss philosophy and physics and assert fine-pointed opinions about art and poetry,” his wife Sigrid Insull Lucking said in his obituary....

‘Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made’ Review: A Horror Movie About A Horror Movie That Kills People Who Watch It And Uh, You’re Watching It [Sitges 2019] By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 24, 2019 1:00 pm EST A cursed film that can kill those who see it isn’t really something new. If you’ve seen The Ring, or John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, this will look familiar. But Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made wears its heart (and pentagram) on its sleeve and delivers a fun and sometimes emotional film that feels like a throwback to the films of William Castle and his clever gimmicks....

‘Babylon’: Samara Weaving Joins Her Doppelganger Margot Robbie In Damien Chazelle’s 1920s Hollywood Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 3, 2021 9:30 am EST There are plenty of celebrity doppelgangers in Hollywood you’re probably positive you’ve never seen in the same room before. Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain. Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott. And of course, the cadre of blonde-haired, big-eyed women who all kind of look like Margot Robbie. But now we’ll get to see one of Robbie’s doppelgangers show up in the same room as her, with the casting of Samara Weaving in the Damien Chazelle-directed 1920s Hollywood drama Babylon, which already stars Robbie and Brad Pitt....

‘Bridgerton’ Star Regé-Jean Page Will Not Return For Season 2 By Ben Pearson/April 2, 2021 12:00 pm EST Actor Regé-Jean Page, who burned up the screen in Netflix’s widely watched romance drama Bridgerton, will not be returning in the second season. This may come as a shock to viewers who haven’t looked into the origins of the series or read anything about its upcoming plans, but book readers have known about this from the beginning....

‘Dave’ Season 2 Featurette: Getting A Record Deal Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be By Ethan Anderton/June 19, 2021 9:01 am EST FXX’s comedy series Dave is telling the story of rapper Lil Dicky, or at least the fictionalized version of himself that Dave Burd playing on the show as he finds his footing in the hip-hop world. The first season became the network’s biggest comedy last year at the start of the pandemic, and now the pressure is on to take the show to the next level in season two....

‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Writer Max Borenstein On How He Writes Monster Fights, The Status Of His Space Mountain Movie, And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2021 11:00 am EST Legendary’s MonsterVerse has featured multiple directors and a myriad of creatures since its launch in 2014, but one person has been along for the ride on every movie in the franchise: Max Borenstein, whose most recent credit is as a writer on this month’s titanic culmination, Godzilla vs....

‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Red-Band Trailer: “Everything Is Like Terminator” By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2014 5:16 pm EST The Paramount Pictures panel at 2014 Comic Con was full of surprises. One of the surprises was the appearance of actor Clark Duke to premiere of the first trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Thankfully for those of you not in Hall H in San Diego, Paramount has released the full Hot Tub Time Machine 2 red-band trailer online....

‘Legends Of The Hidden Temple’ Reboot Brings Back Original Voice Of Olmec By Danielle Ryan/July 21, 2021 3:26 pm EST Let’s rock! The Legends of the Hidden Temple reboot over at The CW will bring back the original voice of Olmec, Dee Bradley Baker. It has been more than 20 years since the original series’ first run, but the kids who watched back then are sure to tune in to the adult version now....

‘Mare Of Easttown’ Review: Kate Winslet Is Phenomenal In HBO’s Small Town Mystery Series By Chris Evangelista/April 5, 2021 8:00 am EST Everybody knows everybody in Easttown. The small Pennsylvania setting of the new HBO limited series Mare of Easttown is downright incestuous – everyone is a cousin of a cousin; everyone is on a first-name basis. The people who live there live there for life – there is seemingly no escaping Easttown....

‘Oxygen’ Trailer: ‘Crawl’ Director Alexandre Aja Traps Mélanie Laurent In A Cryogenic Pod By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2021 10:30 am EST Crawl director Alexandre Aja moves from a crawlspace to a cryogenic pod with Oxygen, a new thriller headed to Netflix. Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) plays a woman who wakes up in an extremely high-tech pod and discovers she has no memory of who she is or how she ended up here....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Unveils A Tragic And Appropriate Twist In “Return To Kamino” By Caroline Cao/Aug. 6, 2021 9:20 am EST “When did you start caring about them [the reg clones]?” I’ve been clocking that parts of the Star Wars fanbase asked this question with frustration through this season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Once Clone Force 99 (Dee Bradley Baker), sans Crosshair when he settles into his pro-Empire antagonist position, and Omega (Michelle Ang) were on the run from the Empire’s control of Kamino, reg clone soldiers were barely in their thoughts, functioning as blaster or stun targets across episodic missions....

‘The Amusement Park’: Shudder Releasing Long-Lost George A. Romero Movie This Summer By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2021 2:00 pm EST George A. Romero may be gone but his legend lives on through his body of work. And that work is still coming. The Amusement Park, a 1973 film from Romero that was never officially released, is finally coming to the masses thanks to the Shudder streaming service. Word of the film started making the rounds back in 2018, and now it’s been restored in 4K by IndieCollect, and now horror streaming service Shudder plans to release the film in North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand this summer....

‘The Little Things’ Review: The Dream Of The ’90s Is Alive In This Predictable Serial Killer Thriller By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2021 10:00 am EST The dream of the ’90s is alive in The Little Things, a new serial killer thriller that’s actually anything but new. Writer-director John Lee Hancock penned the script back in the early 1990s, and the finished film arrives here in 2021 with its ’90s aesthetic intact....

‘The Netherfield Girls’: ‘Never Have I Ever’ Star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan To Lead Netflix’s Contemporary ‘Pride And Prejudice’ Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 2, 2021 5:30 pm EST Variety reports that Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has been cast as the lead in The Netherfield Girls, a “romantic comedy with a literary pedigree.” The 19-year-old Ramakrishnan, in her first feature film role, will play Lizzie Bennet, the protagonist of Austen’s classic novel who gradually falls for the man she swears is her mortal enemy....

‘The Sitter’ Red-Band Trailer #2: Less Sex, More Mayhem By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2011 7:36 pm EST The Sitter is David Gordon Green’s film that is being called an R-rated Adventures in Babysitting, and this is the second red-band trailer we’ve seen for the movie. This one has a little less sex and a lot more general mayhem as Jonah Hill plays a young jerkwad who takes a babysitting job and then drags the kids around Manhattan with him as he attempts to get laid....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Actor Nathan Fillion Thinks Batman Needs A Therapist [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Aug. 6, 2021 6:37 am EST The supervillain known as “TDK” thinks he’s the star of The Suicide Squad. And writer/director James Gunn’s longtime collaborator, Nathan Fillion, plays him with confidence, as if he has the powers of Superman. The character has more arrogance than actual power, which is TDK’s charm and kryptonite in Fillion’s eyes....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2021 2:30 pm EST The WeCrashed TV adaptation just got itself a series order from Apple TV+. The show is based on the podcast of the same name which chronicled the rise and fall of WeWork, a commercial real estate company once valued at $47 billion dollars until it all came crashing down due to mismanagement and a general lack of vision. The idea itself was simple – basically an Airbnb for office space....