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‘The Matrix 4’ Appears To Be Titled ‘Matrix Resurrections’, A Title We Jokingly Predicted In 2009 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2021 4:00 pm EST One of the most anticipated movies of 2021 is undoubtedly the return of The Matrix franchise. Referred to as The Matrix 4 ever since the project was announced, fans have been waiting to hear what the new movie might be called. The HBO Max teasers for the same-day premieres Warner Bros....

‘Violation’ Directors Explain How They Shot One Of The Most Disturbing Movie Scenes Of 2021 [Interview] By Jason Gorber/March 9, 2021 12:00 pm EST One of the most jarring, intense films to play at TIFF 2020 and Sundance 2021 was the revenge thriller Violation. Sure to divide audiences, the same ambivalence was shared by one of /Film’s staff critic. In his mixed review, Chris Evangelista called Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s work “unflinchingly brutal” yet “muddled,” while the “pervasive feeling of dread and horror is pitch-perfect” and that “there’s much here worth fixating on....

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Being The Ricardos’ Adds Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, And More By Ben Pearson/March 29, 2021 5:00 pm EST Tony Hale (Veep), Alia Shawkat (Search Party), and Jake Lacy (The Office) are the newest actors to sign on, and they’ll join Kidman, Bardem, J.K. Simmons (Zack Snyder’s Justice League), and Nina Arianda (Goliath). Sorkin officially began production on the film today.Being the Ricardos “is set during one production week of I Love Lucy—Monday table read through Friday audience filming—when Lucy and Desi face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage....

NECA The Boys Action Figures Both of The Boys action figures are 7-inch scale Ultimate Figures from NECA that come with a few extra accessories, including additional head sculpts. Homelander has a sculpt that allows a blast of laser vision to be attached while Starlight has a change in eyes that reflect her powers. Unfortunately, one of the complaints that our friends at ToyArk had was that the sculpts didn’t have much variation in the facial expressions....

Disney Wanted To Censor The Beatles: Get Back, The Beatles Said No Disney+ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 29, 2021 3:00 pm EST “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s eight-hour documentary that pieces together footage and audio recording during the making of the documentary and album “Let It Be,” absolutely rules. Even if you’re not a huge Beatles fan there’s something special about watching these four guys sit around creating music. Jackson and his team took great pains to remaster and restore the footage....

For Auld Lang Syne Trailer: The Latest Peanuts Special Heads To Apple TV+ YouTube/Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Nov. 29, 2021 4:53 pm EST Apple TV+ is continuing the tradition of Peanuts specials for the holidays with “For Auld Lang Syne.” The new special will begin streaming on December 10, 2021. Here is the tagline for you: This year, start a new tradition with Lucy and the Peanuts gang as they plan a New Year’s party they’ll never forget....

Hawkeye Directors Talk About Kate Bishop Meeting [Spoiler] At The End Of Episode 4 Disney+ By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 9, 2021 3:00 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Hawkeye” Episode 4, “Partners, Am I Right?” If there was one thing everyone agreed on when it came to Marvel Studios’ “Black Widow,” it was that Florence Pugh stole the film as Natasha Romanoff’s pocket-loving sister-figure and fellow ex-Red Room assassin Yelena Belova....

Ice Age: Adventures Of Buck Wild Trailer: Will The Ice Age Franchise Last Longer Than The Actual Ice Age? Disney At this point it’s starting to seem like the “Ice Age” film franchise will last longer than the actual Ice Age. The sixth film in the series, “Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild,” is headed straight to Disney+, and the first trailer is now available for all to see. And if you want to feel old, just know that the first “Ice Age” came out nearly 20 years ago....

Interview With The Vampire Author Anne Rice Has Died At 80 Phillip Faraone/Getty Images By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 12, 2021 10:07 am EST Anne Rice, the author of the beloved “Vampire Chronicles” book series and other gothic and erotic fiction, has passed away at the age of 80 due to complications resulting from a stroke. Her son, Christopher Rice, revealed the news of her passing in a Facebook post late on Saturday night....

Dwight vs. the Overgrown Bed Bug In the book, “Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office” (via Uproxx), Krasinski recalls how he rejected the ill-conceived kiss with Cathy, saying: “That’s the only time I remember putting my foot down. I remember saying things that I never thought I’d say before, like, I’m not going to shoot it. “My feeling is there is a threshold with which you can push our audience....

Lily Rabe To Star Alongside Jesse Plemons In HBO Max Series ‘Love And Death’ By Marisa Mirabal/July 7, 2021 6:03 am EST Lily Rabe and Jesse Plemons are the latest stars to join the cast of the HBO Max series Love and Death. The addition of these brilliant blonde bombshells opens up a world of unsettling possibilities in the series that follows an infamous small-town Texas murder. Deadline reported The Undoing and American Horror Story veteran Lily Rabe has joined the cast of Love and Death alongside Fargo’s Jesse Plemons....

Why Haven’t They Hired LeVar Burton Yet? When the show announced that its executive producer, Mike Richards, would take over Alex Trebek’s mantle as host of the show, many on the internet went, “Huh?” That confusion soon turned to outrage as details about Richards actions surfaced, including a history of harassment and discrimination. The outrage finally caught the attention of Sony Pictures Television, and Richards formally removed himself from the host spot, though he’ll continue to stay on as executive producer....

PSA: Bingeclock Tells You How Long It Takes To Binge Every Show 20th Television By Anya Stanley/Sept. 19, 2021 1:45 pm EST This pandemic ain’t’ over, friends. Because the U.S. of A. can’t act right, we’re going to be stuck at home for far longer than our neighbors across the oceans. However, it’s not all bad. For the past year, folks have been tuning into their streaming services and their physical media collections more and more, now that there’s time to finally take the wrapping off that box set, and we’ve got the perfect tool to plan your next binge....

The Scariest Blumhouse Movie? Blumhouse/Lionsgate Jason Blum has produced a lot of horror movies, but which of them is the scariest? According to Blum, the answer is the upcoming “The Black Phone.” During a pre-taped introduction at CinemaCon (via Variety), Blum boldly claimed that the upcoming Scott Derrickson movie is the “scariest movie he’d ever worked on.” Obviously part of Blum’s job is to hype up his movies, so we should probably take a proclamation like this with a grain of salt....

The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It Gets A Movie Trailer, Does Not Justify Its Existence By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 3, 2009 11:26 pm EST If you’ve run any IMDB searches for The 40 Year Old Virgin recently, you may have come across The 40 Year Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It. You may have also hoped that you had entered a cinematic bizarro world, because surely nobody would greenlight such a thing....

The Black Cat Universal Now Streaming on The Criterion Channel While “The Black Cat” doesn’t always get lumped in with the classic Universal Monster movies, it’s very much part of that era. Released in 1934, this Universal film (which was Universal’s highest-grossing film for the year), “The Black Cat” marked the first team-up of legendary horror actors Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (Karloff was the bigger star, as is apparent by the fact that he’s only credited as KARLOFF, as if he no longer had a need for a first name)....

The Great British Baking Show: Holidays Season 4 Trailer: Bakers, You Have Two Weeks Love Productions By Anya Stanley/Nov. 21, 2021 3:56 pm EST The series that has single-handedly gotten me through quarantine is back to spread some holiday cheer — and a little bit of buttercream icing. “The Great British Baking Show” (known in the UK as “The Great British Bake Off”) holds its annual holiday competition, which jumped off from “British Baking” in 2016 and consists of two specials each year....

The Many Saints Of Newark Star Corey Stoll Shares His Quintessential Sopranos Episode [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Sept. 30, 2021 4:57 pm EST Junior Soprano is often a very funny man. It’s the best kind of funny, though — the “Sopranos” character is at his funniest when he’s not joking in the slightest. But for actor Corey Stoll, Junior is a great joke-teller, which he wanted to portray in the new prequel film “The Many Saints of Newark....

We Need To Talk About The Worst Part Of The New ‘Mortal Kombat’ Movie By Jacob Hall/April 26, 2021 9:30 am EST The new Mortal Kombat movie is bad. Sure, maybe you enjoyed it. Maybe it scratched a specific itch for you. Maybe it surpassed your low standards. But let’s be honest with ourselves here: it’s a bad movie, a misfire that somehow manages to ignore what makes its source material such goofy, compelling fun while also failing as an actual piece of cinema....

Why The New Version Of ‘It’ Was Always Going To Be Rated R By Jacob Hall/July 27, 2017 11:00 am EST It is the story of a shapeshifting monster that takes on the form of a clown named Pennywise so it can murder children. And yet, millions of people first encountered this tale as a television miniseries. In 1990. On ABC. To say that the beloved television adaptation was watered down from the source material would be an understatement....