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‘Popstar’ Deleted Scene: Andy Samberg Takes A Stand Against Grumpasaurus Parents & Teachers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 16, 2016 3:00 pm EST If you didn’t see Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping this summer, you’re part of the problem. Universal Pictures gave us this glorious, original comedy chock full of outstanding new songs from The Lonely Island, a barrage of incredible cameos, and some of the biggest laughs of the year. And how did audiences respond?...

‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ Trailer: Henry Golding Gets Into Ninja Warrior Mode By Ethan Anderton/May 16, 2021 7:52 pm EST Paramount Pictures is taking a different approach to the G.I. Joe franchise after letting it lie dormant nearly 10 years. Rather than focusing on a whole team of characters from the toyline, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is shining the spotlight on one of the fan favorite characters by giving the ninja warrior an origin story starring Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians)....

‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ Character Posters Reveal The Members Of The Goon Squad By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 13, 2021 2:00 pm EST Who do we have going up against our beloved Toon Squad in the anticipated sports comedy sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy? Why, the Goon Squad, of course. A group of powered-up virtual avatars of professional basketball stars team up against LeBron James and the Looney Tunes in the long-awaited Space Jam sequel, and we’ve finally got a preview of what these Goons look like thanks to a series of new character posters released by Warner Bros....

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Set Photo Reveals The Introduction Of F.E.A.S.T. To The MCU By Shania Russell/Aug. 2, 2021 9:18 am EST Spider-Man: No Way Home might be Marvel’s most anticipated film of the year, simply because we know so little about it. The film is currently slated for a December 17 release, but the studio has been extremely secretive about plot details and casting. Since the studio is so talented at keeping secrets, we’ve been left to pick at scraps for speculation....

‘The French Dispatch’ Teaser: Benicio Del Toro Is A Great Artist, And Also A Murderer By Shania Russell/Aug. 23, 2021 12:23 pm EST The French Dispatch is getting closer to its October release date and Wes Anderson fans are getting more and more restless. Thankfully, Searchlight Pictures is throwing us a few bones with tiny teasers of the stories that make up Wes Anderson’s latest film. The most recent clip gives us a glimpse at “The Concrete Masterpiece by J....

‘The Simpsons’ DVDs Have Been Discontinued By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2015 2:30 pm EST Currently, there are 17 seasons of The Simpsons on DVD or Blu-ray but 25-plus seasons exist. Now fans will never be able to own them all. Executive producer Al Jean announced that all future seasons of The Simpsons will skip physical media and only be available digitally. Here’s Jean’s tweet, which was then confirmed by the Hollywood Reporter....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Director James Gunn Based Harley’s New Look On The ‘Arkham’ Games, Would Love To Make A Solo Movie By Chris Evangelista/June 24, 2021 10:02 am EST A new trailer for The Suicide Squad arrived this week, and with it comes the usual glut of information for nerds like us to pore over studiously, as if we were all cramming for a pop quiz that will never come....

‘Try Harder!’ Review: The Odds Are Stacked Against Gifted Teens As They Apply For College [Sundance 2021] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 30, 2021 2:00 pm EST Lowell High School in San Francisco is the top public school in the city. Every student is practically a genius and will do everything they can in order to be accepted to schools like Stanford, Harvard, Brown, MIT, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and more. While it might seem like just a first world problem for these teens to worry about what upscale, prestigious university they’re trying to attend, the documentary Try Harder!...

Alice in Borderland Netflix The Japanese series “Alice in Borderland” has everything you love about “Squid Game”: incredible violence, class commentary, and a stylish dystopian future. Where “Squid Game” is a brightly colored, initially clean-looking future hell, the futuristic Tokyo of “Alice in Borderland” is much grungier. /Film’s Hoai-Tran Bui described “Alice in Borderland” as “if ‘Battle Royale’ and ‘Saw’ had a sick, twisted baby that puts its characters through a series of manipulative, tortuous games — usually with a high body and splatter count....

Delroy Lindo Joins Marvel’s Blade Reboot Marvel Comics/Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 19, 2021 4:27 pm EST Delroy Lindo is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lindo, one of the best in the biz, has joined the cast of Marvel’s new “Blade” reboot alongside star Mahershala Ali. We don’t know who Lindo is playing just yet, but the fact that he’s involved at all makes this project all the more exciting. Lindo recently appeared in the Netflix movie “The Harder They Fall,” and last year he gave a phenomenal performance (that the Academy overlooked for some insane reason) in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods....

Disneyland’s Halloween Time Returns Just In Time For A Spooktacular Fall By Josh Spiegel/July 9, 2021 5:44 am EST Halloween 2020 was, for theme-park fans, a particularly scary holiday, but for all the wrong reasons. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic was ravaging the world last fall, making it so many of the more frivolous pursuits, like spending the holiday at a theme park, completely untenable and fully closed. Well, as 2021 returns us to a new normal, the Disneyland Resort is bringing back one of its standby seasons: Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort....

Do You Find Me Sadistic: Ranking Every Single Quentin Tarantino Character (Part Three) By Jacob Hall/Dec. 24, 2015 7:00 am EST Here we are: the grand finale of the ridiculous endeavor to rank all 122 significant characters in Quentin Tarantino’s filmography. In case you missed them, you can find Part One and Part Two of every Quentin Tarantino character rankedby clicking on those links. And now it’s time to end this....

Doctor Who: Flux Flubs The Finale In The Supremely Unsatisfying The Vanquishers BBC By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2021 3:46 pm EST “Doctor Who: Flux” began with such promise. There was a newfound energy, a pep in the step of this serialized experiment that suggested that showrunner Chris Chibnall would be shaking things up after two mildly disappointing seasons. Heck, there were even a few jokes! But we all should’ve known as soon as the final episode, “The Vanquishers,” started off with the time-honored tradition of Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor spending a finale getting psychically blasted by a camp villain — Chibnall is back to his own worst tendencies....

Here’s Why We Probably Won’t See A Dredd Sequel Lionsgate By Ben Pearson/Aug. 30, 2021 2:49 pm EST (Welcome to Will There Be a Sequel?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) “Dredd” was released nearly 10 years ago, and a vocal subset of fans have been clamoring for a sequel ever since, frequently lobbing questions at star Karl Urban about his possible involvement. But as much as those fans (and Urban himself) might want to see the gang get back together, a “Dredd” sequel seems extremely unlikely at this point....

Is ‘Inside Man: Most Wanted’ A Worthy Successor To Spike Lee’s Most Successful Film? By Rob Hunter/Dec. 27, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. This week, we go bank robbing with Nazis in a sequel to the biggest Spike Lee joint of them all.) Spike Lee’s film career is filled with highs and lows, films that won critical acclaim and awards and others that have been forgotten, but he’s never been a filmmaker prone to breaking the box-office....

James Cameron Really Wants Movie Theaters, And Blockbusters, To Survive By Chris Evangelista/April 22, 2021 5:30 pm EST James Cameron has a bunch of Avatar sequels on the way, and he’d very much like movie theaters to still be around to play them, please and thank you. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Cameron spoke about how special the theatrical experience still is, and shared his hopes that – when everything is safe – we’ll all flock back to the multiplex to watch big movies....

Kevin Feige Reveals The Comic Book Arc That Influenced The Gradual Rise Of Thanos In The MCU Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 22, 2021 11:29 am EST Who remembers Surtur, the fiery demon voiced by Clancy Brown in “Thor: Ragnarok?” Director Taika Waititi mostly played the character for laughs as part of the destruction and reinvention of the “Thor” mythos in 2017. In the end, Surtur wasn’t quite as serious or memorable a Marvel movie villain as Josh Brolin’s Thanos, who enjoyed his own warped, genocidal version of the classic hero’s journey the following year in “Avengers: Infinity War....

Mike Richards Out As ‘Jeopardy!’ Host, Everyone Rejoices By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 20, 2021 7:49 am EST What is, shooting yourself in the foot? At least one aspect of a prolonged, controversial, and largely unnecessary saga has come to a fitting end as the prospective Jeopardy! host, Mike Richards, has bowed out from contention. The oddly vanilla candidate to succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of the beloved game show recently saw his public profile transform from relative unknown to a lightning rod overnight, as it seemed like every possible skeleton in his closet was unearthed, revealing a sordid history of sexism, harassment, discrimination, and most recently comments that could be construed as anti-Semitic....

Nearly 40% Of MCU Fans Polled Said This Is The Best Phase 1 Villain Marvel By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 22, 2021 11:28 am EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a little shaky. The folks at Marvel were trying to figure out how to weave together multiple movies into an overarching plot while also trying to make each new entry feel like something fresh....

The Best TV And Movies Coming To Disney+ And Hulu In March 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 17, 2021 5:00 pm EST Nearly a year after the pandemic first shut down theaters, Disney is embarking on a new experiment with its upcoming theatrical release, Raya and the Last Dragon: dropping the animated fantasy epic on both Disney+ Premier Access and in theaters. That’s not the only buzzy title coming to the service next month, with the new Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier also set to make its premiere....