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Superhero Bits: The History Of Agent Coulson, Mysterio Survival Theory, Aquaman Didn’t Save Superman & More By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2020 6:00 pm EST Does Hush know that Bruce Wayne is Batman on Batwoman? Which comic book character mask has seen a huge boost in sales due to coronavirus? Could Mysterio have survived the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home? How is Agent Coulson back on the final season of Agents of SHIELD?...

The Russo Brothers Want To Release Their Directorial Debut ‘Pieces’ One Day By Jack Giroux/Nov. 24, 2019 10:00 am EST The Russo Brothers’ latest film, a little cultural phenomenon called Avengers: Endgame, is the highest-grossing movie of all time. Joe and Anthony Russo’s first movie, however, has never even seen the light of day. Before their superhero and television days, the directors bet big on themselves with their feature directorial debut, Pieces, which took them three years to make, cost them $30,000 and landed them in serious credit card debut....

‘An American Pickle’ Review: A Clumsy But Sweet Story About Family, Friendship, And Pickles By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 3, 2020 8:00 am EST For all its occasional bursts of fleeting beauty, the world is an inherently lonely place. And even those who prefer to remain loners can, on occasion, seek out the warmth of connection, however brief or fleeting. That search for connection is hidden within An American Pickle, a sweet, silly movie that never quite decides what it wants to be, but not for lack of trying....

‘Better Call Saul’ Review: Just Call Him The “Magic Man” By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2020 7:00 am EST Better Call Saul returns for its second-to-last season, and that can mean only one thing: Escalation. As the show comes closer than ever to its endgame, the happy days – if they ever existed at all – of Jimmy McGill are about to come to dry up completely. Season 4 concluded with Jimmy regaining his law license and immediately heading off to change his name to Saul Goodman....

‘Black Widow’ Trailer: Scarlett Johansson’s Assassin-Turned-Avenger Confronts Her Past By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 3, 2019 5:23 am EST Fans have spent years waiting for a solo Black Widow movie – and now it’s here. But is it too late? Maybe not. Scarlett Johansson is back as Natasha Romanoff, the KGB assassin turned Avenger. In this film set shortly after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Natasha has to confront her past....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 12 Adds Three Female Writers And Two Female Directors By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 15, 2019 11:30 am EST Doctor Who is the longest-running sci-fi show in history, but it’s only in the past few years that the BBC series started to diversify behind the scenes. The 56-year-old series has long been criticized for its lack of female writers and directors — though it should be noted that it was a female producer that helped bring the show to life — but new showrunner Chris Chibnall has made it his mission to bring more women on board the TARDIS....

‘Doom Patrol’ Season 2 Trailer Introduces New Villains And Apocalyptic Scenarios By Chris Evangelista/June 17, 2020 4:30 pm EST An extended Doom Patrol season 2 trailer is here, providing a look at a new cavalcade of villains, including The Candlemaker, Doctor Tyme, Red Jack, and The SeX-Men. Being unfamiliar with Doom Patrol lore, none of those characters ring a bell with me, but they might with you, dear reader. The first three episodes of Doom Patrol season 2 will be released next week....

‘Harley Quinn’ Review: DC Universe’s New Animated Series Is Funny, Violent, And Very R-Rated By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 22, 2019 9:00 am EST Finally, here’s a good reason to watch DC Universe. The DC streaming service hasn’t exactly set the world on fire with its quality, and it made the most headlines when it canceled Swamp Thing almost immediately, even before the entire first season had streamed in full. On top of all that, rumors abound that the service’s days are numbered, and that its content will be shifted over to the other Warner Bros....

‘Hunters’ Trailer: Nazi Hunter Al Pacino Wants You To Choose Between Light And Darkness By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 21, 2019 10:30 am EST Put this one on your “Most Anticipated TV of 2020” list. In the Jordan Peele-produced Hunters, Al Pacino leads a team of Nazi hunters in 1977 New York City. That premise alone should sell you on this, but if not, this new trailer should do the trick. It’s mostly just Pacino giving a monologue in a thick accent, but at the last minute, “Street Fighting Man” from The Rolling Stones kicks in, knives come out, and things get very intense....

‘I Care A Lot’ Trailer: Is This The Rosamund Pike Performance We’ve Been Waiting For Since ‘Gone Girl’? By Ben Pearson/Jan. 14, 2021 3:30 pm EST Ever since Rosamund Pike’s Oscar-nominated turn as “Amazing” Amy Dunne in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, I’ve been hoping she would step back into the fun, pulpy atmosphere of that kind of thriller again. Now, seven years later, it appears that’s finally happening with I Care a Lot, a new film in which she plays a scam artist who preys on elderly people but ends up selecting the wrong target to mess with....

‘Matilda’ Movie Musical Adds ‘Captain Marvel’ Co-Star Lashana Lynch In Key Role By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2021 11:30 am EST Netflix has the rights to 15 stories from Roald Dahl’s extensive library of works, and one of the earliest out of the gate will actually be a new adaptation of Matilda. While producers are still figuring out who will play the titular role, one of the key characters has just been cast....

‘McMillions’ Trailer: Documentary Explains The Wild Story Of Why You Never Won Those McDonald’s Monopoly Games By Ben Pearson/Jan. 9, 2020 3:00 pm EST Remember the McDonald’s Monopoly game? It was everywhere in the 1990s, and you probably recall excitedly peeling a stamp off a box of French fries and checking to see if you won a huge prize, only to inevitably be disappointed. Turns out the game was being rigged by a former police officer who was stealing the big money prizes and passing them off to his friends, collecting a percentage of the “winnings” every time....

‘Peter Pan And Wendy’ Cast Adds Yara Shahidi As Tinker Bell By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2020 2:49 pm EST Peter Pan and Wendy, the latest attempt from Disney to turn one of their animated classics into a live-action title, has found its Tinker Bell. Yara Shahidi, whose credits include Salt, The Sun is Also a Star, Black-ish, and Grown-ish, will play the fairy who follows Peter Pan around and (traditionally) gets crazy jealous when Peter brings Wendy to Never Land....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ D23 Teaser: Does Rey Go To The Dark Side? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 26, 2019 5:50 am EST It’s the end of an era. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker doesn’t just wrap up the trilogy of new Star Wars films that brought the sci-fi franchise to a new generation, but it closes out the 42-year Skywalker Saga that began all the way back in 1977....

‘Stillwater’ Will Team Matt Damon With ‘The Cobbler’ Director Tom McCarthy By Chris Evangelista/July 19, 2019 10:00 am EST Tom McCarthy, director of the Adam Sandler magic shoes movie The Cobbler (and also Spotlight) has found his next project. Sadly, it’s not a sequel to The Cobbler. Instead, it’s a film called Stillwater, and it stars Matt Damon as a guy who finds magic shoes. Oh, I’m sorry, that’s the plot to The Cobbler again....

‘The Banks’: Three Generations Of Thieves Unite For A Heist In Film Adaptation Of Roxane Gay’s Graphic Novel By Ben Pearson/Aug. 12, 2020 4:30 pm EST Steve McQueen’s heist drama Widows didn’t make the box office splash that the filmmakers were hoping for, but can we interest you in a different Chicago-set heist movie about a group of female thieves? Macro, the company behind 2018’s excellent Sorry to Bother You, is producing a movie adaptation of The Banks, a graphic novel written by author and journalist Roxane Gay....

‘The Clone Wars’ Season 7 Review: “A Distant Echo” Explores The Practicalities Of War By Caroline Cao/Feb. 28, 2020 7:00 am EST After the season premiere episode “The Bad Batch” last week, newly uncovered evidence left clone trooper Captain Rex (Dee Bradley Baker) more certain that his presumed-dead clone brother, Echo, may still be alive and in the Separatist enemies’ hands. Led by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter), Rex and the Bad Batch fly off to the Separatist outpost on a ravaged and dust-stormy terrain of Skako Minor to rescue Echo — that is, if he’s still alive....

‘The Mandalorian’ Blurs The Line Of Good And Evil In The ‘Star Wars’ Universe By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2019 12:30 pm EST When Disney+ arrives next week, it will bring with it the first episode of the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian. But rather than giving us the usual struggle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance (or the First Order and the Resistance), this series gets caught in the middle of the battle between good and evil, and follows some characters who toe the line between heroes and villains....

‘The New Mutants’ Debuts Opening Scene And Lots Of New Footage, Still Set To Open Next Month [Comic-Con 2020] By Chris Evangelista/July 23, 2020 3:03 pm EST The New Mutants has become something of a punchline at this point – a movie that’s been delayed so many times that it feels like it will never, ever come out. And the people behind the film are aware of that, which is why the Comic-Con 2020 panel for the film kicked-off with an amusing teaser in which the many release dates keep flashing onto the screen only to get crossed out....

‘Watchmen’ Says That “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own” By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2019 7:00 pm EST After three stellar episodes in a row, Watchmen stumbles ever so slightly with episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own.” That’s not to say this episode is bad. It’s just the first episode we’ve encountered that feels like, well…filler. Almost everything that happens this week is meant to set up something else further down the road, and while the payoff might be worth it, getting there can be a tad frustrating....