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How Candyman Makes Chicago A Character And Tackles Gentrification Through Horror Universal By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 24, 2021 8:59 am EST It’s been almost 30 years since the original “Candyman” movie introduced horror fans to the sight of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago. In that time, Cabrini-Green has undergone gentrification, and the new “Candyman” movie, out August 27, 2021, will explore that. Cabrini-Green isn’t just the name of an iconic piece of music composed by Philip Glass for the 1992 film’s Gothic film score....

Kevin Smith Has Made His Peace With Movie Critics By Angie Han/Sept. 10, 2014 8:30 am EST Lots of filmmakers get frustrated by negative reviews, but few have been as vocally vitriolic about them as Kevin Smith. Following the critical drubbing of 2010’s Cop Out, Smith declared that the entire system was “upside down” and declared he wouldn’t screen his films for critics anymore. And he meant it — he stuck to that plan with his next film, Red State....

Love & Death First Look: See Elizabeth Olsen As Candy Montgomery HBO Max By Anya Stanley/Oct. 15, 2021 4:33 pm EST New photos have emerged from the upcoming Betty Gore slaying documentary from HBO Max. The streaming service is presenting the limited series “Love & Death,” based on a true story about the murderess Candy Montgomery and the killing of Betty Gore in 1980 Texas. The series stars “Wandavision” star Elizabeth Olsen in the lead role, counterbalanced by Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”) as Gore....

Nightmare Alley First Look: Guillermo Del Toro Makes His First Film Noir 20th Century Studios By Ben Pearson/Sept. 14, 2021 3:06 pm EST For his first film after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for 2017’s “The Shape of Water,” director Guillermo del Toro is doing something he’s never done before: making a film noir. The filmmaker calls “Nightmare Alley,” which is slated for release later this year, “a very different movie” from the types of films he usually makes, which are tinged with the supernatural and often filled with creatures and ghosts....

Queenpins Review: A Solid Cast Comes Close To Saving A Weak Script STX By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 8, 2021 9:33 am EST It’s one of the oldest axioms in the book: crime doesn’t pay. Whether or not that’s actually true, it’s served as the foundation for countless crime-focused movies over a century, to the point that it’s notable when a film gleefully bucks the trend and argues, essentially, “What if crime…good?” That, in effect, is the question being asked throughout the entirety of the inspired-by-a-true-story new dark comedy “Queenpins,” in which two suburban women go into business with each other by defrauding massive companies through an unlikely source: coupons....

Free Guy New York Comic-Con 2019 Panel Night at the Museum director and Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy took the stage at New York Comic-Con to introduce a different kind of superhero in Free Guy. The action-comedy follows Guy, played by Ryan Reynolds, as he works at a bank that gets robbed 17 times a day. But it slowly dawns on him that something is wrong, and he realizes that he is a background character in a video game styled after Grand Theft Auto....

Star Wars: Visions Villains Revealed, So Refresh Your Anime Rankings Again Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 14, 2021 1:06 pm EST I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: right from the start, “Star Wars: Visions” has looked like the creative revitalization that the franchise has sorely needed in the wake of “The Rise of Skywalker,” and every new bit of information we’ve received in the time since has only made me more confident....

Superhero Bits: ‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Details, New ‘Secret Invasion’ Characters & More By Ethan Anderton/March 2, 2021 6:00 pm EST Want to see DeepFakes of Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies? What detail did the WandaVision costume designer include in all of Darcy’s wardrobes? Want to see what Steppenwolf looks like without armor? Will The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dig into Sam Wilson’s backstory?...

Superhero Bits: Hawkeye Fights The Tracksuit Mafia, Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Gets Animated & More Hot Toys By Ryan Scott/Nov. 22, 2021 5:40 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....

Sure, Jesse Eisenberg Would Ham It Up Again As Lex Luthor, Why Not? By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST Remember when Jesse Eisenberg had the time of his life playing a wacky goofball version of Lex Luthor? The type of Lex Luthor who puts a jar of piss on someone’s desk and then blows them up? The type of Lex Luthor who offers people Jolly Ranchers by forcing them into their mouths for some reason?...

The Card Counter Review: Paul Schrader’s Anti-Revenge Film Features A Strong Oscar Isaac Performance Focus Features By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2021 4:21 pm EST “I have modest goals.” So says William Tell, the soldier-turned-gambler at the center of Paul Schrader’s anti-revenge film “The Card Counter.” As played by Oscar Isaac, he’s an eerily cool, calm, and still man. Nothing ever seems out of place with this character. His hair slicked back, his clothes tailored tight to his body, he looks like something chiseled; something created....

The New Rocky IV Director’s Cut Has A Feature Length Documentary Just Sitting Out There On YouTube MGM/UA Entertainment Company By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 11, 2021 10:17 am EST YouTube is a treasure trove of movies. I know we all have a million subscriptions (both paid and … loaned) to a million quality streaming services, but you don’t need to give Google a dime to peep some truly fascinating films. Whether they’ve made their way onto YouTube through less than legal means or they’ve just been uploaded wholesale out of the kindness of someone’s heart, there’s a lot to sift through....

The Story Of How Boba Fett Got That Dent In His Helmet By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2017 7:30 am EST There are many mysteries, both big and small, across the Star Wars universe. One of the smallest must be “how did Boba Fett get his the dent in his helmet?” This year at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, we may have finally gotten an answer to this pressing Boba Fett dent mystery....

Watch & Listen: ‘Cruella’ Brings In Florence And The Machine For Original Song “Call Me Cruella” By Ethan Anderton/May 10, 2021 2:00 pm EST Cruella de Vil is coming back to the big screen, but this time we’re finding out how the notorious dognapper actually became the 101 Dalmatians villain. Cruella has Emma Stone (La La Land) playing a young version of the future fur fashionista, and she’ll be accompanied by a new original song by the Grammy-nominated Florence and The Machine....

What is Age of Legends? THR says Age of Legends takes place “in a futuristic utopia powered by a magical force shared by men and women known as the One Power. When an unspeakable evil is unleashed upon the world and men using the One Power become insane and destroy much of the planet, a small band of women unite under the White Tower and are humanity’s last hope of survival....

‘F9’ Behind The Scenes Footage Shows The Franchise’s Continued Commitment To Practical Stunts By Ben Pearson/Feb. 8, 2021 7:30 am EST If you’ve seen one of the latter period Fast & Furious movies, it should come as no surprise that not every outlandish, over-the-top stunt in those films was accomplished practically. But a surprising number of them actually are – they literally dropped vehicles with parachutes on them out of a plane, for example....

‘Salem’s Lot Stealthily Adds King Adaptation Vet William Sadler, Already On Set Castle Rock Entertainment By Eric Vespe/Sept. 8, 2021 10:08 pm EST Well well well, look who’s going to pop up in Gary Dauberman’s feature-length adaptation of Stephen King’s famous vampire novel, “‘Salem’s Lot.” It’s none other than William Sadler, who is no stranger to the world of King adaptations. He portrayed a prison inmate in Frank Darabont’s all-timer “The Shawshank Redemption” as well as one of the poor bastards stuck in that little corner store in “The Mist” and the devastated father of two murdered girls in “The Green Mile....

Cowboy Bebop Season 1: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 4, 2021 2:39 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Anime fans, rejoice! “Cowboy Bebop,” the classic science-fiction neo-noir anime series, has garnered worldwide acclaim in the years since its initial run from 1998 to 1999....

Giving Drago the Cobra Kai Treatment MGM The idea of a Drago spinoff brings to mind the current Netflix series, “Cobra Kai,” which acts as a sequel to the 1980s “Karate Kid” movies, told from the perspective of Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), the antagonist who became a victim of a crane kick to the face in the first movie. There’s already a significant connection between the “Rocky” franchise and “The Karate Kid” franchise....

Halo TV Series Set To Premiere On Paramount Plus In 2022 Xbox Games Studios By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 31, 2021 8:51 pm EST “Halo” may bear the name of a ring of light around an angel’s head, but as a would-be screen property, it’s been stuck in development hell for years. Now, fans of the Xbox video game series who have been hoping to see “Halo” adapted are drawing closer to the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel....