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Superhero Bits: Batman & Robin Get Power Rangers Makeovers, Art Of The Avenger Game Book Coming Soon & More By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2020 6:00 pm EST Which DC Comics artist turned Batman & Robin into Power Rangers, and will they get their own comic? Does the Marvel’s Avengers: The Art of the Game book cover have a game spoiler? Want to see a script page from the Suicide Squad final battle that brought back Joker?...

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: Martian Manhunter Is In ‘Justice League’, ‘X-Men: The Animated Series’ Theme Lawsuit & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 9, 2019 6:00 pm EST A new edition of Marvel’s Eat the Universe makes Thor’s hammer, but it’s actually made of some delicious meat. A limited five-issue Spider-Man PS4 comic book will focus on Black Cat and takes place after the game’s DLC....

Superhero Bits: Patrick Stewart Initially Didn’t Want To Play Professor X, Is Silk Coming To The Spider-Verse & More By Ethan Anderton/July 16, 2020 6:00 pm EST Why did Chris Evans send a young fan a Captain America shield and a personalized video? When is a Wonder Woman 1984 tie-in comic set to debut? Why wasn’t there a sequel to Constantine with Keanu Reeves? Is Silk coming to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?...

The 80 Greatest Shots In Disney Animation History [Part Five] By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 16, 2020 9:00 am EST (Welcome to The Greatest Shots in Disney Animation History, a limited series where Disney expert Josh Spiegel selects and ranks the defining moments in one of the greatest, most important, and most influential collections of films ever made.) This part of the ongoing list covers entries 40 through 31. Tangled: I see the light Some folks will tell you that Tangled is one of the better modern Disney movies....

The Morning Watch: The Angry Young Man Trope In Movies, An Archaeologist Reviews Treasure Scenes & More By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a video essay explores the angry young man trope seen in movies like the new Star Wars trilogy, Black Panther, American History X, A Clockwork Orange and more....

The Morning Watch: Updating The Original VFX Of ‘TRON’, The Secrets Of Sound Design & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as the visual effects artists at Corridor Crew attempt to polish the old visual effects from the original TRON from 1982....

Theme Park Bits: DCA Is Reopening (Kind Of), Epcot’s Next Festival, And More By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 29, 2020 5:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disney California Adventure is partially reopening its doors. Epcot’s first 2021 festival has been scheduled. And more! Every once in a while – it feels like it’s once a week, but maybe it’s less than that – I am once again mentally bowled over by the fact that we’ve been living through the grim effects of a pandemic for roughly eight months....

This Week In Trailers: Come On Feel The Noize, Ip Man 4: The Finale, Afterward, The Extraordinary, Magic For Humans: Season 2 By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 23, 2019 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

VOTD: ‘Hazard’ Horror Short Will Make You Terrified Of Your Car’s Emergency Lights By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 31, 2019 6:00 am EST It’s Halloween, and everyone is entitled to one good scare. This year, we’ve got a short called Hazard from filmmaker Gairo Cuevas, a cinematographer and editor for the creative content department at Pixar Animation Studios. This week, he’s screening his horror short on the animation studio’s campus just in time to bring some last minute scares for All Hallow’s Eve, and thankfully, he’s made it available online for you to make your spine tingle....

What Do Those Creepy ‘WandaVision’ Commercials Mean? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2021 8:00 am EST WandaVision premiered today to plenty of rave reviews but even more questions. Why are Wanda and Vision living in this strange suburban sitcom? Who are those people behind the monitor? And what is up with those creepy commercials? The fake WandaVision commercials that appear at the halfway mark of every episode initially appear to just be a satire of classic ’50s or ’60s ads....

‘Avengers: Damage Control’ Review: This Marvel VR Experience Is A Dream For MCU Fans By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 15, 2019 9:00 am EST The recent trailer for Avengers: Damage Control has Ant-Man telling the audience to “Make good choices.” If you’re already going through the experience, however—an immersive 4-D VR adventure that involves strapping on goggles and a backpack before galivanting around a physical stage full of sensory effects—the joke’s on Ant-Man: you’ve already made good choices by deciding to spend the time and money (18-20 minutes and $39....

‘Bad Boys II’ Remains Michael Bay’s Most Revealing (And Personal) Action Epic By Jack Giroux/Jan. 27, 2020 3:00 pm EST The Bad Boys movies aren’t just Michael Bay movies—they are the definitive Michael Bay movies. The first installment marked Bay’s film debut, which he now thinks looks like an indie compared to his subsequent work, and the sequel was the movie that showcased Michael Bay in all his most creative and insipid ways....

Blinded by the Light Featurette Writer-director Gurinder Chadha and co-writer Sarfraz Manzoor knew that going into Blinded by the Light without the strict approval of one Mr. Bruce Springsteen would’ve been a catastrophic mistake, and maybe even a waste of time. So it’s a good thing that Springsteen seemed more than happy to let the filmmakers use his music for the upcoming indie film. The clip above actually features Springsteen meeting Chadha and Manzoor for the first time, and them pitching him on the film idea....

‘D.A.R.Y.L.’ Sequel TV Series Starring Tony Hale In The Works For Some Inexplicable Reason By Chris Evangelista/June 26, 2020 3:00 pm EST Remember D.A.R.Y.L.? I sure don’t, but it was a movie from 1985 about a young boy who was secretly a robot. And now, for reasons that are far beyond my understanding, there’s a TV series sequel in the works. It’s one of several titles in development over at TNT and TBS, and Tony Hale is set to star as the robot boy, who is now all grown-up…and obsolete....

‘Fargo’ Season 4 Gets New September Premiere Date After Coronavirus Delay By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2020 10:30 am EST When the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit earlier this year, Fargo was one of the many productions shut down before it could debut on its intended April premiere date, with only eight of the planned episodes finished. Now FX has finally set a new Fargo season 4 premiere date for this September, as the Noah Hawley anthology series plans to resume filming its final episodes this August....

‘Midsommar’ Director Ari Aster’s Next Movie Is A Four-Hour “Nightmare Comedy” By Chris Evangelista/June 4, 2020 2:00 pm EST Hey, what’s next from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster? A four-hour nightmare comedy, that’s what! During a recent interview, Aster teased his next project, and while he didn’t go into specifics, he stated that the movie would be four hours long, and that it would be “nightmare comedy,” a sub-genre that could also apply to Midsommar, if we’re being honest....

‘Mulan’ Cameo: Here’s How That Moment Came Together By Ben Pearson/Sept. 8, 2020 5:00 pm EST If you shelled out the extra $30 to see Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan this past weekend, you may have noticed a special cameo near the end of the film. Read on to learn the story about how that ended up happening, what the original plan for the cameo was, and more. Warning: spoilers for the 2020 Mulan below....

‘No Time To Die’ Could Be The Longest Bond Movie Ever, Which Means You’ll Have No Time To Pee By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 26, 2020 10:30 am EST Ready for the longest Bond movie yet? Well, you better get ready, because it looks like No Time to Die is going to clock in at almost three-hours-long. The latest (and final) entry in Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 has been reported by multiple sources as 163 minutes long....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’s Chris Terrio Says He’s “Never Rewritten A Film As Much As This One” By Ben Pearson/March 31, 2020 12:30 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the most divisive blockbuster since Star Wars: The Last Jedi, ended the Skywalker Saga with a heavy concentration of nostalgia and not enough attention paid to its overall plot. For some fans, those little dopamine hits of familiar references were enough to scratch their Star Wars-specific itches; for others, they were amusing distractions in a story that felt rushed and cobbled together....

‘Steven Universe Future’ Review: A Messy And Beautiful Tale Of Trauma, Healing, And Survival By Caroline Cao/Dec. 12, 2019 8:00 am EST Here we are in the future. Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe is back, not with a new season, but an epilogue limited series, Steven Universe Future, set two years after the first series. The half-Gem, half-human boy Steven Universe (Zach Callison) has defended his beloved Earth while being raised lovingly by his three Gem guardians, Garnet (Estelle), Pearl (Deedee Magno Hall), and Amethyst (Michaela Dietz)....