‘Bly Manor’ Bringing Back Even More ‘Hill House’ Residents By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 29, 2019 1:30 pm EST Mike Flanagan, I’m on to you. Just go ahead and announce everyone from The Haunting of Hill House is coming back for The Haunting of Bly Manor. It’s what the people want! For now, we’ll have to make do with two more main Hill House actors joining the Bly Manor cast: Henry Thomas and Kate Siegel....
‘Gurren Lagann’ Is A Hype Machine Of An Action Anime That Encapsulates Everything Great About Saturday Morning Cartoons By Rafael Motamayor/June 4, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)The mecha genre, where giant robots that can combine and form even bigger robots punch other giant robots or monsters in the face in epic fights, is one of the pillars of anime....
‘Halloween Kills’ Bringing Back Nick Castle As The Shape, But What About ‘Halloween Ends’? By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2019 3:30 pm EST In the middle of all the insanity at San Diego Comic-Con last week, Halloween creator John Carpenter announced that two more sequels would shoot back-to-back. Halloween Kills arrives on the big screen in 2020, and Halloween Ends sounds like it will complete the new thread of the franchise in 2021....
‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Writer Addresses “Justice For Han”, Says Shaw Will Have “One Of The Greatest Arcs Of The Fast Franchise” By Ben Pearson/July 31, 2019 2:30 pm EST Han Seoul-Oh, the constantly snacking, effortlessly cool Fast and Furious character played by Sung Kang, was killed on screen by Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, a character who has since ingratiated himself into Dominic Toretto’s “family” even after murdering one of its best members....
‘Limetown’ Review: The Cult Favorite Podcast Has A Tough Time Jumping To Streaming Series [TIFF 2019] By Abby Olcese/Sept. 9, 2019 1:00 pm EST When the podcast Limetown debuted in 2015, it was an immediate cult hit, arriving in the wake of the great Welcome to Night Vale, and alongside shows like The Black Tapes and Nightvale spinoff Alice Isn’t Dead, as part of a scripted podcast renaissance. While the idea of scripted podcasts aren’t new—they’re basically just independently produced versions of old-school radio dramas—scripted podcasts developed to sound like nonfiction radio programs were still pretty novel four years ago....
‘Pooka Lives’ Trailer: The First ‘Into The Dark’ Sequel Arrives In April By Chris Evangelista/March 26, 2020 5:30 pm EST Hulu’s Into the Dark has been putting out a new feature-length holiday-themed horror film every month, which is pretty impressive. And now they have their first sequel on their hands: Pooka Lives, a follow-up to Pooka, their first Christmas-themed film. Pooka Lives is definitely not Christmas-themed, though. The truth is, I have no idea what holiday it’s trying to represent....
‘Riverdale’ Actress Marisol Nichols’ Secret Job As An Undercover Sex Trafficking Agent Is Being Turned Into A TV Show By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 1, 2020 7:30 am EST In a twist even wilder than (some of) the twists on Riverdale, one of the stars of the CW show, Marisol Nichols, has revealed herself to be an undercover agent in the fight against sex trafficking. And her story is being turned into a TV show....
‘Servant’ Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan’s Creepy New Apple Series Warns Against Hiring Outside Help By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 6, 2019 8:26 am EST Apple TV+ got off to a bumpy start when it launched with some less-than-thrilling new shows. But you shouldn’t give up on the service yet, because there’s something dark and scary on the horizon: Servant, a new series from executive producer M. Night Shyamalan. The show concerns a Philadelphia couple who hire a nanny to watch over their…unusual baby....
‘The Christmas Chronicles 2’ Teaser: Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn Are Back As The Claus Family By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2020 10:30 am EST It’s been two years since Kurt Russell became Santa Claus in the Netflix family adventure comedy The Christmas Chronicles. Now the holiday movie has become a franchise and a real family affair of sorts, because after appearing in a cameo at the end of the first movie, Kurt Russell’s longtime partner Goldie Hawn is returning with a bigger role as Mrs....
‘The Flop House’ Co-Host Dan McCoy On Why You Need To Check Out The 300th Episode Of The Long-Running Podcast About Bad Movies [Interview] By Leigh Monson/Dec. 20, 2019 3:00 pm EST The Flop House, in the words of producer and co-host Dan McCoy (writer for The Daily Show), is “a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we discuss it.” That “we” includes fellow co-hosts Stuart Wellington (comedian and co-owner of the Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn, New York) and Elliott Kalan (head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return), and “unlike Mystery Science Theater, we aren’t riffing over the film, but we just give a synopsis and have a conversation....
‘The Hunt’ Review: Betty Gilpin Kicks Ass In An Otherwise Lackluster Gore-Fest By Chris Evangelista/March 11, 2020 7:00 am EST Had the movie opened during its original release date, we likely would’ve all forgotten about it by now. That’s not to say the rumors about the movie were untrue. Yes, it really is about liberal elites hunting MAGA-loving deplorables for sport. But rather than risk offending either side, The Hunt instead chooses to hang back and offer no real commentary....
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Trailer: Anya Taylor-Joy Is A Hard-Living Chess Prodigy By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 27, 2020 2:00 pm EST Look out, boys, because this ain’t your daddy’s chess game! This is about the ladies! In the new Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, the prolific Anya Taylor-Joy plays a talented chess player who drinks, does drugs, and smashes the boundaries of the male-dominated world of competitive chess. It’s hard to make chess seem sexy, but this series, which hails from Scott Frank, is going to try, damn it!...
‘Tom And Jerry’ Trailer: The Game Of Cat And Mouse Comes Into The Real World By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 17, 2020 11:00 am EST Tom and Jerry are undoubtedly television’s most famous cat and mouse duo, but for all their fame on the small screen, they’ve yet to be given a a blockbuster movie on the big screen. (No, we won’t talk about the animated movie in 1993 where Tom and Jerry talked extensively, going against everything that was great about the original animated shorts)....
2020 PGA Awards Winners: ‘1917’ Wins Again, Making It The Frontrunner For Best Picture At The Oscars By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2020 9:00 am EST This weekend, the 31st Producer’s Guild Awards honored achievements in producing film and television from last year. This is one of the key awards that start to give us an idea of what movie is likely to take home Best Picture when the Oscars are handed out, so everyone was waiting to see what movie won The Darryl F....
A Legit ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Script Ended Up On eBay And J.J. Abrams Wasn’t Very Happy By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 25, 2019 10:30 am EST There aren’t too many franchises that are treated with as much secrecy as Star Wars. Everything is kept under tight wraps. But accidental leaks happen, and it turns out that all of the secrets were almost available for the highest bidder. Kicking off even more coverage of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, director J....
By Chris Evangelista/April 28, 2020 1:30 pm EST Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino had dreams of combining the worlds of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction into The Vega Brothers. Michael Madsen’s character in Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta’s character in Pulp Fiction both had the same last name – Vega – and Tarantino very much wanted to team the two actors up for a prequel movie (it would have to be a prequel, since both Vega Brothers die in their respective films)....
Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of 2019 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 9, 2020 9:00 am EST I don’t remember a year where I struggled more to narrow down my favorite movies. It’s almost ridiculous how jam-packed 2019 was with excellent films: from stunning debut features to contemplative epics by masters of their craft, to character dramas that plunged into unimagined depths, to cozy family fables that unexpectedly cut like a knife, to the embarrassment of riches floating in from abroad....
LeBron James Is Producing A Documentary About The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2020 1:00 pm EST For those of you who didn’t watch HBO’s Watchmen and still don’t know much about the Tulsa Race Massacre, the violent event unfolded from May 31 through June 1 with mobs of white citizens attacking the black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attacks were carried out on the streets and even from private airplanes flown over the 35-square block area that was then the wealthiest Black community in the United States....
New ‘Dune’ Image Shows Timothée Chalamet Wielding Dual Knives And Looking Like He Shops At Space Gap By Ben Pearson/May 15, 2020 10:30 am EST Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune takes place primarily on the desert planet of Arrakis. But it looks like Timothée Chalamet’s heroic young protagonist, Paul Atreides, might have stopped at a Space Gap for some clothes along the way....
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag’ Live, Disney’s Broadway Anniversary Concert, And David Harbour Offer Self-Quarantine Relief By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2020 3:00 pm EST With at least another month of self-quarantine in place as the United States attempts to slow the spread of coronavirus, entertainment companies are doing their part to help people stuck at home pass the time with a variety of content. HBO just opened up a bunch of their premium shows and movies for free, J....
