‘House Of The Dragon’ Adds Four More Lead Actors To The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Prequel By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2021 12:00 pm EST HBO’s House of the Dragon is turning into a full house. The Game of Thrones prequel series, set 300 years before the events of the mega-hit fantasy show, has just added four more names to its cast – including someone who is playing an intriguing character nicknamed “The Sea Snake....
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ First Look: Leonardo DiCaprio And Lily Gladstone Star In Martin Scorsese’s Latest By Chris Evangelista/May 10, 2021 10:00 am EST Martin Scorsese is hard at work on Killers of the Flower Moon, and the first image from the film has just arrived. Based on a true story and the book by David Grann, the film chronicles a series of murders that targeted the oil-rich Osage Nation in the 1920s....
‘Lovecraft Country’ Season 2: HBO Is “Hopeful” Misha Green Will Find A Way To Continue The Story By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2021 3:30 pm EST The first season of Lovecraft Country moved at breakneck speed, with showrunner Misha Green often putting as much plot in a single episode as other showrunners would in an entire season of a different show. Season 1 seemed to have a concrete ending, but HBO is excited about the possibilities for a potential second season....
‘Q: Into The Storm’ Trailer: HBO Docuseries Goes Down The Conspiracy Theory Rabbit Hole By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2021 7:30 am EST Who is Q? How did this person, or network of people, create a conspiracy as vast and insidious as QAnon? That’s what the new HBO docuseries Q: Into The Storm, executive produced by Adam McKay, seeks to uncover. Watch the Into the Storm trailer below. Q Into the Storm Trailer...
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Bounty Lost” By Bryan Young/June 25, 2021 7:38 am EST This post contains major spoilers for the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. With Omega captured by Cad Bane and Crosshair hot on their tail, Hunter and the rest of the Bad Batch have to make a number of difficult choices. The episode, however, follows the story of Omega in Cad Bane’s hands more closely, as well as the internal politics of Kamino, which grow more interesting than we could have realized....
Andrei Rublev Released in 1966, Andrei Rublev hails from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It’s set in the 15th century and is based on the life of Andrei Rublev, a Russian icon painter. As the official Criterion collection synopsis states, the film follows Andrei Rublev “as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity....
A Gloriously Gonzo Road-Trip It’s pretty impressive that a Twitter thread ended up being a feature-length film, and Zola is as much of a wild ride as the original thread. Since we’ve all been trapped inside for over a year, some of us aren’t entirely comfortable going out yet. Zola might be able to provide a bit of an escape and may even scare you out of wanting to ever go on a road trip again....
Everything We Know About The Cuphead Show! So Far Netflix By Shania Russell/Dec. 14, 2021 2:28 pm EST First “Castlevania,” then “Arcane,” and now “The Cuphead Show!” It looks like Netflix is slowly taking over the world of animated series based on popular video games. But if it means that one of the most stylish run-and-gun games of the decade becomes a magical, musical series about our favorite singing cups, how can we complain?...
Female-Led ‘Plastic Man’ Movie In The Works At DC By Ben Pearson/Dec. 4, 2020 3:38 pm EST As Warner Bros. continues to take interesting risks and push the envelope with its DC Comics-based movies, the company is now developing a film which puts a very interesting spin on a comics character. A new report says the studio has hired a writer for a Plastic Man movie, but the twist is that the film will feature a female lead....
Gerard Butler Files A Lawsuit Of His Own Over ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Profits By Chris Evangelista/July 30, 2021 2:47 pm EST Are you ready for some litigation? I hope so, because it looks like a bunch of lawsuits are going to start coming out of Tinseltown. The other day, word broke that Scarlett Johansson was taking Disney to court, claiming that the studio’s decision to release Black Widow on Disney+ cost her some serious bonus money (about $50 million, all told)....
The Original X-Men Trilogy The X-Men Prequels The Wolverine Trilogy Here’s Where You Can Stream Or Rent Every ‘X-Men’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 10, 2021 6:00 am EST The Original X-Men Trilogy X-Men Released back in 2000, this was the comic movie that launched Hollywood’s obsession with superheroes, and it hasn’t stopped since. X-Men ushered Marvel’s mutants onto the big screen for the first time, and even though it gave us a version of the superheroes that had much more leather and far less color than fans would have preferred, it was still a huge hit that made the characters more accessible than ever....
Jack Nicholson’s 15 Most Iconic Roles Ranked Columbia Pictures By Layla Halfhill/Aug. 26, 2021 4:07 pm EST Joseph John Nicholson, or Jack Nicholson as he’s better known, is one of the most recognizable and prolific actors in the history of American cinema. Boasting a career that spans 50 years, the three-time Oscar-winner holds the honor of being the male actor with the most nominations in the Academy’s history (12), and, with Michael Caine, shares the distinction of having been nominated at least once every decade since the ’60s....
Jurassic World: Dominion Is In The Can, Colin Trevorrow Reveals Universal Pictures By Max Evry/Nov. 8, 2021 11:27 am EST The production of Universal Pictures’ series capper “Jurassic World: Dominion” has been a long and eventful one, to be sure. The blockbuster began lensing in February of 2020, then got shut down on March due to the pandemic, and thanks to a handy insurance loophole (no longer available for post-Covid productions) was able to resume shooting four months later with proper (and expensive) protocols in place....
Like John Travolta, You Can Now Wear Nicolas Cage’s Face (In Mandy Mask Form) SpectreVision By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2021 3:43 pm EST If you ever wanted to be like John Travolta’s character in “Face/Off” and wear Nicolas Cage’s face, I have some good news for you — provided you have an extra 2 grand laying around. The folks at Legion M, one of the production companies behind the fantastic horror movie “Mandy,” is selling a hyper-realistic Nicolas Cage mask molded on Cage’s “Mandy” character Red Miller....
Movies And Shows To Watch After You Finish Hellbound Netflix By Scott Thomas/Dec. 3, 2021 6:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voltaire’s description of dying, offered to Louis Nicolas Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, baron de Preuilly in 1723, goes like this: “[I] made my confession; and my will, which … was exceedingly short. After that, I calmly awaited death: only regretting … that I must part from my friends so soon....
Netflix’s ‘Godzilla Singular Point’ Anime Series Is An Ambitious, Terrifying New Direction For The King Of The Monsters By Joshua Meyer/June 1, 2021 8:00 am EST In Godzilla Singular Point, Netflix parlays the novelty of an anime King of the Monsters into an ambitious 13-episode series, written by physicist turned science fiction author Toh EnJoe, directed by Atsushi Takahashi (Blue Exorcist: The Movie), and animated by studios Bones and Orange. The series will be available to stream globally on June 24, but on Netflix Japan, it’s been following a weekly release schedule since March so that subscribers can now access the first 10 episodes....
Prepare For Polka-Dot Man To Become Your Favorite ‘The Suicide Squad’ Character [Set Visit] By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2021 11:36 am EST Polka-Dot Man isn’t the first character you’d think of as being the scene-stealer of a big tentpole superhero movie. A punchline maybe, or an early victim of The Suicide Squad’s apparently high body count. And yet, there’s something behind that absurd polka dot costume and David Dastmalchian’s mopey look as he audibly yearns for death that stirs the heartstrings....
She-Hulk First Look: Meet The Mean Green Law Machine Of The MCU Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2021 12:54 pm EST Hulk has been the mean green machine on the block since the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But in 2022, Marvel Studios is bringing another green giant into the fray, and this one has a law degree. “She-Hulk” will introduce the world to Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who specializes in superhuman-oriented legal cases and just so happens to be big, green, and super strong, just like Bruce Banner’s alter ego, The Incredible Hulk....
She Said: Release Date, Cast, And More Universal By Jamie Gerber/Nov. 10, 2021 5:21 pm EST In 2017, the New York Times broke the story heard round the world: Harvey Weinstein had been assaulting and harassing women for decades. Several women put themselves on the line by sharing their experiences and many more would follow. This article helped propel the #MeToo movement (though activist Tarana Burke coined the phrase much earlier) into existence, forever altering both the entertainment industry and the world at large....
Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Zack Snyder May Watch Joss Whedon’s ‘Justice League’, You Can Name Dick Grayson’s Puppy & More By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2021 6:00 pm EST Here’s a promo for the premiere of the final season of Supergirl and the continuation of Superman & Lois. DC Comics is giving fans a chance to pick the name Dick Grayson’s new puppy in DC Universe Infinite....
