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Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Stay In Tony Stark’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Cabin, ‘Batman: The Long Halloween’ Voice Cast & More By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2021 6:00 pm EST Supergirl is back, and here’s a promo for “A Few Good Women,” the second episode of the sixth/final season.Black Lightning has released the synopsis for the upcoming backdoor pilot for the Painkiller spin-off show. More time travel is coming to The Flash in the promo for “The One with the Nineties” episode of season seven....

Why It’s Essential Viewing HBO Whenever a stand-up comedian becomes a well-known name, they often try their hand at starring in a comedy series inspired by their own life. Sometimes it’s a full-blown network sitcom with a live audience like “Seinfeld,” “Martin,” or “Roseanne.” Other times it’s something that gets a little more deep and personal like “Master of None,” “Atlanta,” or “Louie” (though the latter has become tainted by Louis CK’s transgressions off screen)....

The Guilty Director Antoine Fuqua On The Great Adventure Of Filmmaking [Interview] Netflix By Jack Giroux/Sept. 29, 2021 10:24 am EST Antoine Fuqua shoots for the big screen. He makes crowd-pleasers. Those experiences, especially “The Equalizer” films, are elevated by the audience. This year, though, two of Fuqua’s movies will be seen by most audiences on the small screen. “Infinite” was released on Paramount+, which was a decision the director didn’t appear fond of, and his latest film, “The Guilty,” received a limited release before its upcoming debut on Netflix....

The History Of Science Fiction Traces The Genre In Comic Book Form - Read An Exclusive Preview Humanoids By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2021 5:51 pm EST As we careen further into the 21st century, gigantic leaps in technology continue to make it clear that we are living in an entirely different world than the generations that preceded us. But some of the folks in those earlier generations had the vision to know that tumultuous changes were coming, and several of them worked out their thoughts about humanity’s evolution and its relationship to technology in science fiction, a genre which was once looked down upon but has since become one of the most dominant genres in modern entertainment....

The Morning Watch: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Loot Train Attack VFX, ‘Harry Potter’ Horcrux Theory & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, see a new, in-depth look at the visual effects that went into making the famous “loot train attack” from the seventh season of Game of Thrones....

Vince Vaughn To Star In Apple TV+ Drama ‘Bad Monkey’ From ‘Ted Lasso’ Co-Creator By Ben Pearson/Aug. 10, 2021 1:48 pm EST Vince Vaughn is about to become the next Florida Man. Vaughn is set to star in Bad Monkey, a television adaptation of author Carl Hiaasen’s Florida-set novel about a former detective who gets caught up in a possible murder investigation after a tourist finds a severed arm while fishing....

Vulcan’s Hammer: Hunger Games And I Am Legend Director To Adapt Philip K. Dick Warner Bros. By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 9, 2021 8:46 am EST Philip K. Dick is heading back to the big screen with a little help from director Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games”). The influential sci-fi author is best known for penning “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (AKA “Blade Runner”) but he also wrote the short stories “Minority Report” (AKA … the movie “Minority Report”) and “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (AKA “Total Recall”)....

Walley World Roller Coaster From ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Is Closing By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2014 12:00 pm EST The coaster was also featured on tv episodes of Wild & Crazy Kids, Doogie Howser, M.D., Knight Rider, Wonder Woman, and The A-Team. It appeared in other films like the 1982 teen film sex comedy Zapped! starring Scott Baio. The wooden roller coaster opened in June 1978 and was deemed the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and the first with two drops greater than 100 feet....

‘Chuck Steel’ Director Mike Mort On How He Made His ’80s-Inspired, Stop-Motion Animated Action/Horror/Comedy [Fantasia Film Festival Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Aug. 16, 2018 2:00 pm EST “It’s not 1985 anymore; it’s 1986,” explains one of the many characters voiced by British writer/director Michael (Mike) Mort in his first feature-length stop-motion animation work Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires, the follow-up of sorts to his 2013 Chuck Steel short, Raging Balls of Steel Justice....

‘False Positive’ Teaser: Ilana Glazer Stars In A24’s Bloody ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Riff By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 22, 2021 12:00 pm EST Hulu has released the teaser for False Positive, a new A24 feature billed as a Rosemary’s Baby-inspired horror film. Ilana Glazer of Broad City fame sheds her comedy persona to star in False Positive as a woman who finds her dream fertility doctor (Pierce Brosnan) and finally gets pregnant, only for something sinister to begin happening....

/Filmcast Ep. 611 - Zack Snyder’s Justice League (GUEST: Dan Murrell) By Slashfilmcast/March 24, 2021 8:10 pm EST After viewing the college admission scandal documentary Operation Varsity Blues, David, Devindra, and Jeff reflect on the future of higher education in America. For the feature review, the cast, along with Dan Murrell, is tackling the highly anticipated “Snyder Cut” of Justice League. Subscribe to Dan’s YouTube channel. Listen to Dan’s podcast, All My Movies....

‘Halston’ Trailer: Ewan McGregor Is A Foul-Mouthed Fashion Designer In The New Ryan Murphy Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 3, 2021 10:30 am EST Genius or hack? Legendary fashion designer Halston navigates that minefield in Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix project, Halston, a limited series starring Ewan McGregor as the fashion titan and LGBTQ icon. And according to the first official trailer, he’s also got quite a mouth on him. Watch the Halston trailer below....

‘Harry Potter’ And ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Director David Yates Is Channelling Scorsese For His Next Film By Shania Russell/Aug. 18, 2021 3:29 pm EST There will be no wand-waving or silly incantations in David Yates’ future — not his immediate future, anyway. The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them director has been deep in the wizarding world for over a decade. His magical journey began in 2007 with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, before finishing out the series with three more films....

‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ Teaser Tracks Monica Lewinsky Through The Halls Of The White House By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 5, 2021 5:28 am EST FX viewers will soon be able to revisit the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the third to last U.S. presidential impeachment in the aptly titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, which has just released its first dramatic teaser trailer.Impeachment represents the third season of the Emmy-winning, true-crime anthology series, American Crime Story, which began in 2016 with 10 episodes focused on another ’90s media circus, the so-called “trial of the century,” The People v....

‘Night At The Museum’ Theme Park Concept Art Reveals An Unmade Ride Based On The Film Franchise By Josh Spiegel/June 16, 2021 8:40 am EST While plenty of films lead to theme-park attractions, especially films designed for the whole family, not everything makes the successful shift. But some get close. Recently, some concept art for a theme park ride tied to the Night at the Museum franchise was unearthed online, allowing us to get a glimpse at what might have been....

‘The Crime Of The Century’ Trailer: Alex Gibney Examines The Opioid Crisis By Chris Evangelista/April 20, 2021 5:30 pm EST The ever-prolific Alex Gibney is back with yet another documentary. The Crime of the Century is a two-part HBO doc that “exposes the billions of dollars gained and thousands of lives lost due to the opioid crisis.” The documentary features never-before-seen company videos from Purdue Pharma and Insys Therapeutics; exclusive interviews with former pharma sales reps who discuss in detail the unethical and illegal practices of bribing doctors and encouraging them to prescribe high doses of opioids; interviews with former DEA insiders and officials, including Joe Rannazzisi who was leading major investigations into complex pharmaceutical networks; and more....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 1, 2021 5:00 pm EST Wu recently wrapped her six-season role on the hit ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat and has been making inroads in Hollywood with roles in Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers. She joins Chris Pratt and recently announced fellow cast member Taylor Kitsch in the thriller series which follows Pratt’s Navy SEAL James Reece after his platoon is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Teaser Reveals New Footage Of Darkseid By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 10, 2021 1:30 pm EST No one has been a better hype man for Zack Snyder’s Justice League than Zack Snyder himself, with the filmmaker whipping his fans into a frenzy in the days ahead of the film’s HBO Max release by releasing a series of character trailers for Ben Affleck’s Batman, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, Ezra Miller’s The Flash, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg....

An 80-Year-Old Review Just Ruined The Perfect ‘Citizen Kane’ Rotten Tomatoes Score By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2021 3:30 pm EST Citizen Kane, perhaps best known as the movie that inspired Mank, is regarded by many as the best movie ever made, and for a while there, its Rotten Tomatoes score reflected that. The Orson Welles classic based loosely on the life of William Randolph Hearst was sitting at 100% on the review aggregation website, and it seemed like that would never change....

Cool Stuff: Reebok’s ‘Jurassic Park’ Sneaker Line Is 65 Million Years In The Making By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2021 7:44 am EST Last year, Reebok pleased fans of Ghostbusters and Aliens fans by releasing pairs of special edition sneakers inspired by the iconic films. This year, it’s Jurassic Park getting the treatment with a whole line of sneakers that are 65 million years in the making. Reebok has teamed up with InGen to take some of their most well-known sneakers and give them a Jurassic Park makeover....