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Boogie Nights Ending Explained: Hanging In And Hanging Out New Line Cinema By Natalia Keogan/Nov. 8, 2021 4:30 pm EST With the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film “Licorice Pizza” fast approaching, a reexamination of his similarly ’70s-set breakout “Boogie Nights” feels appropriate. Though packed with unyielding moments of exhilaration and intrigue throughout its 155 minute runtime, the film’s ending drives home sorrowful sentiments on the collapse of the “Golden Age” of filmmaking — both pornographic and commercial — as well as containing the jaw-dropping reveal of Dirk Diggler’s (Mark Wahlberg) impressive prosthetic member....

Cool Stuff: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles And Power Rangers Crossover Action Figures Are Coming By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 4, 2021 12:47 pm EST It’s morphin’ time for everyone’s favorite teenage turtles with the new Power Rangers X Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Lightning Collection figures. That’s right, they’re the Mighty Morphin’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Power Rangers! That’s a mouthful. Cowabunga, It’s Morphin’ Time At this point it’s pretty clear that I love crossovers, and this hit of ’90s nostalgia is no different....

Denis Villeneuve Is Ready To Make Dune Messiah After Dune Part Two Warner Bros. Let the sequels flow. If Denis Villeneuve has his way, we’ll all be marathoning the “Dune” film trilogy someday. “Dune” is still in its opening week in the U.S., but Legendary Entertainment has already greenlit one sequel, which is good news considering that the first movie titles itself “Part One” onscreen and only covers the first half of Frank Herbert’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel....

Ethan Hawke Credits Oscar Isaac For Drawing Him Into Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 22, 2021 10:30 am EST As WandaVision continues to surprise fans with a powerful story about superhero grief, the future of Marvel Studios on the small screen looks extremely promising. The comic book movie studio will soon be digging into characters who have yet to be properly adapted for film or television, and that includes some of their weirder, more obscure characters....

Fever Dream Trailer: A Spanish Thriller With An Eerie Approach To Motherhood Netflix By Shania Russell/Sept. 17, 2021 1:29 pm EST From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Claudia Llosa comes an intriguing mother-son fable about the power of nightmares. This haunting psychological thriller clearly understands the power of creepy children, who run rampant in the trailer and might just be enough to give the rest of us some bad dreams. Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Netflix release, “Fever Dream....

Here’s When You Can Watch Dune At Home Warner Bros. By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Nov. 29, 2021 11:55 am EST Get ready to spice up your life because “Dune” 2021 is headed to digital! Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s iteration of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel has been my favorite adaptation of the novel so far. Timothée Chalamet is perfect as the liberator of Arrakis Paul Atreides, Oscar Isaac is the ultimate space dad as Duke Leto, Rebecca Ferguson is the Lady Jessica of my dreams, and Jason Momoa is the greatest Duncan Idaho I could’ve asked for....

Love Life Season 2 Teaser: It’s William Jackson Harper’s Turn To Find Love In HBO Max Series HBO Max By Shania Russell/Sept. 16, 2021 12:27 pm EST Looks like HBO Max is on a mission to help the world process their romantic trauma, because season 2 of their rom-com anthology “Love Life” is full speed ahead. The streamer just released our first look at the new season, which sees season 1 star Anna Kendrick passing the torch to William Jackson Harper....

Marvel’s ‘Secret Invasion’ Cast Adds ‘Happy Gilmore’ Villain Christopher McDonald By Chris Evangelista/May 26, 2021 3:30 pm EST Christopher McDonald, one of those dependable character actors who might be best known for playing Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, is the latest actor to join Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion cast over at Disney+. Deadline has the scoop that Christopher McDonald is joining the Secret Invasion cast. As is usually the case with these sorts of announcements, we don’t know who McDonald is playing, but the Deadline story says he’ll likely be “a newly created character that could cross over to the larger MCU, including appearing in movies and other Disney+ limited series....

Nightmare Alley Trailer: Guillermo Del Toro Brings A New Nightmare Searchlight Pictures By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 18, 2021 10:41 am EST There’s a neo-noir brewing from Guillermo del Toro — do I have your attention? The final trailer for del Toro’s upcoming remake of “Nightmare Alley” has now been released, and there’s a lot to unpack before the mystery even hits theatres. The trailer opens with Stan Carslile, played by Bradley Cooper, sitting for a lie detector test with some hard-boiled law enforcement lugs....

Previously Unreleased ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Concept Art Shows Off Some Spoiler-Filled Moments By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 15, 2020 1:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker disappointed me personally, but I’ll be the first to admit it had some great visuals. Whatever that film lacks in storytelling, it mostly makes up for with J.J. Abrams’ direction, Dan Mindel’s cinematography, and the great effects work from Industrial Light and Magic....

TCM To Help Fund Documentary Searching For Orson Welles’ Original Cut Of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ By Ben Pearson/April 13, 2021 12:30 pm EST Director Orson Welles’ 1942 movie The Magnificent Ambersons was taken away from him by RKO after it earned negative test scores, with the studio scrapping nearly an hour of his footage, reshooting additional scenes, and cooking up a completely different ending than Welles originally intended. The resulting Frankensteined version is still widely regarded as a great film (it was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars), but for many film fans, Welles’ original work print – which was largely destroyed, but had one copy sent to the filmmaker in Brazil while he was working on another project – remains one of those all-time great Hollywood mysteries....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In April 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 26, 2021 4:30 pm EST Another month, another group of films that are leaving Netflix, never to be seen again. Just kidding, there are a bajillion streaming services out there where they’ll probably land. But since we don’t know exactly where that will be, here’s a last call for the TV shows and movies leaving Netflix in April 2021....

The Daily Stream: Bound Introduced Filmgoers To The Wachowskis With Style Universal Pictures By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 8, 2021 2:38 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: Bound Where You Can Stream It: Hulu, Paramount+ The Pitch: Before The Wachowskis broke everyone’s brains and reinvented the action blockbuster with “The Matrix,” they launched their directorial career with “Bound,” a 1996 indie that’s sexy and stylish, and still holds up to this day....

The New ‘Dune’ Images Must Flow For Denis Villeneuve’s Sci-Fi Epic By Ben Pearson/July 22, 2021 2:57 pm EST Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve is back with Dune, another awe-inspiring sci-fi film that looks like every single dollar of the movie’s sizable budget made its way onto the screen. Author Frank Herbert’s original novel, which serves as the source material for this film, is so dense that it will take two movies to cover it all, and after seeing today’s lengthy-but-very-good trailer, I have every finger crossed that the film performs well enough to justify a second installment which wraps up the story....

Ghostface Was A Cheap Halloween Costume Mask It’s been relatively common knowledge for a while that the Ghostface mask was meant to emulate Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” one of the characters on the cover of the Pink Floyd album “The Wall,” and the ghostly characters that appeared in the 1930s “Betty Boop” cartoons. However, what many may not realize, is that the mask was not created for “Scream,” it was an existing costume mask sold by a company called Fun World and designed by a woman named Brigitte Sleiertin....

VOTD: Original ‘Rugrats’ Cast Reunites For A Table Read, Trivia, And Plain Old Promotion By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2021 6:00 am EST Paramount+ has released their new computer animated reboot of the Rugrats, one of the classic Nicktoons that helped put Nickelodeon on the map. Though the updated series seems to lose the charm that the quirky, 2D animation brought to the original cartoon, at least the original cast is back to voice Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Susie and Angelica as they get into all-new adventures without adult supervision....

We Watched The Opening Scenes Of ‘Mortal Kombat’ And Spoke To The Director – Here’s What We Learned By Chris Evangelista/March 17, 2021 8:00 am EST The first thing you’re going to notice about the new Mortal Kombat movie is that it’s bloody. When the original Mortal Kombat game arrived on home entertainment systems in the 1990s, fears of an overabundance of violence in video games resulted in a censored version that took out all the blood and gore that made the arcade version famous....

Weekend Box Office: Shang-Chi Takes The Top Spot For The Fourth Time, Dear Evan Hansen Flops Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Sept. 27, 2021 2:41 pm EST Tell me if you’ve heard this one before; Marvel Studios once again finds itself atop the box office. “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” for the fourth week in a row, has bested the competition to win the day. It was at the expense of Universal’s critically-maligned adaptation of the Broadway hit “Dear Evan Hansen,” which … did not do well....

‘Central Park’ Season 2 Trailer: The Animated Musical Comedy Series Returns To Apple TV+ This Month By Ethan Anderton/June 15, 2021 9:31 am EST Last spring, Central Park combined the animation and comedy style of Bob’s Burgers with the joy of musicals in one of Apple TV+’s most entertaining shows yet. Now, the series is returning for a second season later this month, and it should come as no surprise that elderly heiress and entrepreneur Bitsy Brandenham (Stanley Tucci) is still trying to snatch up all the land in Central Park to turn it into apartments shopping centers and restaurants....

‘Doctor Strange 2’ Probably Features A Bruce Campbell Cameo, But Sam Raimi’s Good Luck Charm Isn’t Talking By Eric Vespe/July 12, 2021 5:50 pm EST Ever since Sam Raimi took on directing duties for Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness there has been one question burning in the minds of fans all over the world: will “The Classic” 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale make an appearance? Oh, and is Bruce Campbell gonna pop up there somewhere?...