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Liar Liar Universal Pictures The dramatic weight of “The Truman Show” came as a shock to Carrey fans considering his comedy background, but Carrey’s skills aren’t limited to the type of one-liners that most mainstream movie stars routinely deliver. His genius is in his ability to create compelling characters trapped in extreme circumstances. Carrey’s most memorable roles, both comedic and dramatic, are those where he’s dealing with an impediment that can’t easily be explained....

Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ Audio Drama Gets Two More Seasons On Audible By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2021 12:30 pm EST Audible has answered our dreams for more Sandman. The audio storytelling service announced two more seasons of The Sandman, their audio drama series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic series. The first season, starring James McAvoy as Morpheus, premiered last summer. The next two seasons will adapt the next five volumes of The Sandman series, up to the World’s End story arc....

Shows Like Game Of Thrones You Definitely Need To See HBO By Noel Ransome/Dec. 7, 2021 8:18 pm EST Yes, some years ago, “Game of Thrones” ended — a walker was killed, a dragon burned a throne, a boy who couldn’t become king became the king, and a fanbase went wild. But whatever disappointments “Game of Thrones” ended with, the show still began with undeniable promise. It wasn’t like the others....

Superhero Bits: Rocket Raccoon, Batman Vs. Superman, Thor: The Dark World, All Hail The King, Deadpool By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2014 2:30 pm EST When will you be able to read a Rocket Raccoon solo comic book? Want to see footage from two recent Marvel events? How much new concept art has been released from Thor: The Dark World? What do two former Lex Luthors have to say about Jesse Eisenberg in Batman vs....

The Harder They Fall Director Jeymes Samuel Is Reclaiming The Old West [Interview] Netflix By Shania Russell/Oct. 25, 2021 3:31 pm EST Jeymes Samuel is coming out guns blazing with his feature debut, “The Harder They Fall.” After assembling a cast of superhero proportions — including greats like Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo and LaKeith Stanfield — the director took on the complex task of adapting his favorite genre....

The Matrix Resurrections Looks Like The Gremlins 2 Or Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Of The Matrix Series, And That’s Exciting Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2021 9:11 am EST The trailer for “The Matrix Resurrections” is here, and it looks great. It also looks weird, and that’s what has me truly excited for this sequel. It would’ve been very easy for director and co-writer Lana Wachowski to play it safe and more or less recycle ideas from the original trilogy....

The Souvenir Part II Trailer: Joanna Hogg Returns To Tell More Of The Deeply Personal Coming-Of-Age Story A24 By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 29, 2021 10:50 am EST The indie film distributor A24 isn’t exactly known for attaching itself to films that lend themselves to sequels, but that’s about to change with Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II.” Hogg’s original 2019 film was a searing, sometimes hard-to-watch self-portrait (you can read Chris Evangelista’s review out of the Sundance Film Festival here) told from the perspective of Honor Swinton Byrne’s Julie, a film student attempting to balance her artistic passions and her volatile relationship with a drug-user boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke)....

Why Biopics Are Bad For Acting Prime Video From the moment it was first revealed that Nicole Kidman would be playing the iconic comedic figure Lucille Ball in an upcoming biopic, people had strong emotions on the subject. Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” stars Kidman and Javier Bardem as Ball and husband Desi Arnaz, the faces of the iconic series “I Love Lucy,” as they navigate their personal and professional lives....

The Wonder Woman Trilogy Warner Bros. “Wonder Woman 1984” will go down in movie history as the film that altered the theatrical landscape for all of 2021. When it hit theaters and HBO Max on Christmas Day of 2020, it led the way for Warner Bros. to give its whole slate this year a simultaneous release. My wife and I screened the film at home when it came to VOD, and we both enjoyed it despite the mixed reviews it received (our own Hoai-Tran Bui gave a more positive review)....

‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’ Trailer: ‘Mulholland Drive’ Meets ‘The Neon Demon’ In This ’90s Horror Series From Netflix By Chris Evangelista/July 30, 2021 9:47 am EST Rosa Salazar wants revenge in the brand new Brand New Cherry Flavor trailer. The stylish-looking Netflix series comes from creators Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion, and Antosca’s involvement immediately catches my eye because he also created the great, underrated Channel Zero. In the upcoming Brand New Cherry Flavor, “A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge – and kittens....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 17, 2021 3:00 pm EST Smoke ’em if you got ’em because a Constantine reboot is in the works at HBO Max. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is developing the series, which is based on the DC Comics character who first appeared in the pages of The Saga of Swamp Thing and went on to lead his own book Hellblazer. A Constantine movie featuring Keanu Reeves was released in 2005 and a previous Constantine TV series ran for one season on NBC, and now a new one is on the way....

‘House Of Gucci’ Trailer: Lady Gaga Straight Up Murders Adam Driver In Ridley Scott’s Latest By Chris Evangelista/July 29, 2021 5:21 pm EST Ridley Scott has some big end-of-the-year plans. Not only does he have the historical epic The Last Duel hitting theaters in October, a month later will see the release of his star-studded House of Gucci. Based on the non-fiction book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, House of Gucci covers the true story surrounding the Gucci fashion empire, and the murder of Maurizio Gucci, an Italian businessman and the head of the Gucci fashion house....

‘Jackass 4’ Will Be Johnny Knoxville’s Final Movie In The Franchise By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 26, 2021 3:00 pm EST Johnny Knoxville has pulled his final death-defying prank. The star of the Jackass film series confirmed that the upcoming Jackass 4 will “be his last contribution to the franchise,” essentially guaranteeing it will also be the final Jackass film. After 20 years of starring in a daredevil stunt franchise that has left him with shattered bones, dented teeth, destroyed ankles, and many concussions, Johnny Knoxville is throwing in the towel for the Jackass series....

‘Loki’ Just Confirmed A Key Part Of Loki’s Sexuality And It Has The Lighting To Prove It By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 23, 2021 8:36 am EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of Loki. Marvel Studios has been hit or miss with depicting LGBTQ characters. The closest thing we had was that time a Russo brother had a throwaway line about a boyfriend in Avengers: Endgame — a scene that was criticized for its halfhearted depiction of what was meant to be the first “openly gay” character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Predator’ Honest Trailer: Starring A Jacked Up, Badass, Cigar-Chomping Kevin McCallister By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2018 6:00 am EST Watch the Predator Honest Trailer below. The 1980s was a good time for action movies, and they don’t get much more macho than Predator. Everyone is jacked up to holy hell and looks totally badass in camouflage and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons. And then there’s Shane Black (who would go on to direct The Predator) as the scrawny, smart ass Hawkins who was brought into the team so they could have someone work on the script while they were shooting....

‘Rick And Morty’ Season 5 Trailer: The Whole Family Gets In On The Wild Sci-Fi Action By Ethan Anderton/May 2, 2021 10:00 am EST Rick and Morty is returning for a fifth season on Adult Swim this summer, and a new trailer shows off all the sci-fi adventures that we’ll be going on this time. Though the series has long focused on the titular grandfather and grandson, it looks like there will be a good amount of storylines this season that take the whole family through the galaxy....

‘This Means War’ Review: Star Charisma Can’t Excuse This Cynical Fantasy By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2012 12:30 pm EST As the credits rolled, I exited This Means War thinking “what a depressing piece of garbage,” even as I realized that a summation like that might not be completely fair. The film, directed by McG, does have some good scenes featuring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon and Chelsea Handler. There are times when Pine and Hardy have some great, genuine chemistry....

Babylon 5: What New Fans Need To Know Before The Reboot Warner Bros. By Margaret David/Oct. 26, 2021 11:07 am EST “Babylon 5” is on its way back, and that’s a big deal for science fiction. Fans fell in love with creator J. Michael Straczynski’s experiment, a five year mission to tell one epic tale in a way that no other television series had yet accomplished. It paved the way for future successes like “Westworld,” “LOST,” and “Battlestar Galactica....

Ben Affleck-Ana De Armas Erotic Thriller Deep Water Pulled From Schedule, May Not Actually Exist At This Point United Artists Releasing By Shania Russell/Dec. 9, 2021 5:49 pm EST Rumor has it Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck made a movie together. And by rumor, I mean it’s a well-documented fact that the pair co-starred in the Adrian Lyne erotic thriller “Deep Water,” but it’s getting hard to believe this movie is real given we haven’t seen a single piece of footage and its release has been delayed a million times over the past year....

Dollface Season 2: Is It Still Happening? Hulu By Ryan Scott/Sept. 17, 2021 8:16 pm EST (Welcome to Will There Be Another Season?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) “Dollface” debuted on Hulu in late 2019. With Kat Dennings (“2 Broke Girls”) in the lead role, it was met with solid reviews and was quickly renewed by the streaming service. And yet, here we are, nearly two years later, and no second season has been released....