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22 Feb

LEGO Jurassic Park 76968 Set Leaks and Rumors: The New 2025 T-rex Skeleton

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A set 65 million years in the making. Dinosaur and LEGO fans alike can rejoice because the biggest Jurassic Park LEGO set of all time has just leaked. Allegedly just 25 more pieces than the 2019 set 75936: T. rex Rampage, the 76968: Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus is rumored to be the new set joining the theme this year. You can view the leaked images from Instagram below:  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Claudio Tavella (@itavix_bricks) 76968: Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus  Release date: March 1, 2025 Price: $249.99 This massive brick-built rendition of the T. rex skeleton is…

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22 Feb

The Monkey: What the Movie Changed From the Stephen King Story

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Stephen King’s 1980 short story “The Monkey” (which can be found these days in his outstanding 1985 collection, Skeleton Crew) tells the story of Hal Shelburn, a man who is obsessed with an old toy from his childhood, a wind-up monkey that seems to cause death whenever it claps its cymbals. The tale is in many ways vintage King, with incidents and/or cursed objects from someone’s past re-emerging into the present to haunt that person once again. The Monkey, writer-director Osgood Perkins’ adaptation of King’s story, makes a number of structural, character, and narrative changes to the tale while keeping…

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22 Feb

10 Years Later, Daisy Ridley Considers the Legacy of Rey and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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A decade isn’t really such a long time ago, but it feels like ages ago if you’re a Star Wars fan who’s lived through the many highs and lows of the franchise since Disney acquired the rights to George Lucas‘ empire. That must go double for Daisy Ridley, who in that span of time has not only starred in a trilogy of Skywalker films—while experiencing all the good and the bad that comes with landing a role of that cultural magnitude—but also several more intimate indies, including the well-regarded Magpie and Sometimes I Think About Dying. Now she’s also a…

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21 Feb

The Monkey Review: Osgood Perkins Strikes Out With New Stephen King Movie

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Osgood Perkins is having fun these days. And you know what? He’s earned it. One of the more interesting horror directors to emerge in the last decade, Perkins finally had his mainstream breakthrough last year by writing and helming the surprise indie curio of the summer: Longlegs, an achingly bleak movie about the things the Devil, and your parents, make you do. With his follow-up, a liberal adaptation of a Stephen King short story about cursed toys and even more accursed childhoods, he’s pretty much tackling the same subject matter again, but he does so with a reckless mean streak…

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21 Feb

James Bond Franchise Just Confirmed a Major Change for the Future of 007 Movies

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“The coldest blood runs through my veins, you know my name,” croons Chris Cornell at the start of Casino Royale, the film that rebooted the James Bond franchise with a new approach and a new face as 007. Yet, as many times as the guy playing James Bond changed, fans could count on one constant name: Broccoli. But that’s about to change. Amazon Studios has announced a “joint venture” with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, the current heads of Eon Productions, to “house the James Bond intellectual property rights.” Although the announcement makes clear that Broccoli and Wilson “will…

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20 Feb

LEGO Star Wars Set Leaks and Rumors 2025: The New Force Awakens Sets Revealed

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It has been nearly a decade since Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens debuted in theaters. The film was a once-in-a-generation event, as the final domestic box office gross is still the highest in cinematic history (unadjusted for inflation). Suffice it to say, the flick was an honest-to-goodness pop culture phenomenon, and with it, came all of the collectible merch. In fact, fans got their hands on The Force Awakens merchandise a few months ahead of schedule, with their release commemorated by Disney’s first “Force Friday” in early September 2015.  While every subsequent Disney Star Wars theatrical effort…

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20 Feb

Dune 3 Gets the Best Update Yet Amid a Huge Dune 4 Director Rumor

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In the final moments of Dune: Part Two, Chani storms out of Paul’s court and back into the desert. Disgusted by the megalomania she sees in the man she once loved, Chani readies her hooks for the oncoming worm, which she’ll ride away from here. For a while, it looked like director Denis Villeneuve would do the same. After mounting the massive productions that were Dune and Dune: Part Two, Villeneuve had hinted that he might want to leave Arrakis for a bit and pursue another project. However, the Canadian filmmaker more recently changed his position, and revealed that he…

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20 Feb

Neon Bought Oz Perkins’ Longlegs After Seeing Just One Shot of Nic Cage

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Genre filmmaker Osgood Perkins is on a roll after the moderate success of 2020’s fairy tale terror Gretel & Hansel, as well as the summer phenomenon that was 2024’s supernatural serial killer thriller, Longlegs. Now this week sees him tackling a story by the king of horror himself, Stephen King, with the comedic splatter film The Monkey. It’s looking to be another ace in the hole for the rising director too.  The Monkey was partly shepherded by Conjuring Universe impresario James Wan as a producer through his Atomic Monster banner. Wan is one of those guys like Jordan Peele, John…

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19 Feb

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey First Look Is More Classic Hollywood Than Homer

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“Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he made movies about Batman and Oppie.” That’s been the cry of every movie fan since Christopher Nolan announced that his next movie would be an adaptation of epic Homeric poem The Odyssey. Surprisingly, we don’t have to rely on secrets of the Muses to learn about one aspect of Nolan’s approach. The first image of star Matt Damon as hero Odysseus has hit the internet, giving us our first indication of Nolan’s thought process. And must of us are reacting by nodding and saying, “Yep,…

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19 Feb

Daisy Ridley Faces Real-Life Fear of Heights as the CLEANER

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Daisy Ridley has never loved heights. That might be surprising for some who naively believe a Jedi cannot experience fear. But more realistically, it’s simply impressive since her new action-movie, director Martin Campbell’s Cleaner, stars Ridley as a window-cleaner… who must dangle precariously off the side of a building for much of the film’s taut 96-minute running time after terrorists commandeer the building she’s working in. “It came to it,” Ridley says of the day she was first harnessed mid-air, “and I thought ‘I really don’t like this.’ Of course I knew I wouldn’t really be dangling on the side…

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19 Feb

Osgood Perkins Uses The Monkey to See Funny Side of Death and Stephen King

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Osgood Perkins is taking a big step into King country this week as he turns Stephen King‘s 30-page, 1980 short story “The Monkey” into one hell of a bloody fun ride. The film, like the original story, focuses on twin brothers named Hal and Bill (Christian Convery as children) who discover an old drumming monkey toy among the detritus left by their deadbeat dad. Here’s the problem: Every time the monkey is wound and bangs his little drum, someone dies… horribly and ironically. The curse of this monkey follows the boys into adulthood where they are now played by Theo…

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18 Feb

SNL Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

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“It’s based on a Saturday Night Live sketch.” As hard as it might be to believe, there was a time about three or four decades ago when that was an intriguing proposition. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd proved their movie star bonafides by being on a mission from God, and Mike Myers reminded millions of Americans they’ve been sleeping on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” for years. There’s a reason they kept making SNL movies: the show’s best sketches are funny, so why not a film about those same characters? These days, the answer is obvious. Sometimes what works as a punchline…

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17 Feb

Scott Derrickson Explains What’s in The Gorge, What It Means, and How the Ending Changed

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This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE GORGE. There is a line of dialogue in the first act of The Gorge which is so grandiloquent, so full of genre promise, that it will give almost anyone pause. This includes Scott Derrickson, a director with more than 20 years in the business of crafting genre promises, and terrors, in films like Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. “The Gorge is the door to hell,” Miles Teller’s deeply troubled Army sniper Levi is warned in the script. “And we’re standing guard at the gate.” Upon coming across that gem of a…

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17 Feb

Captain America: Brave New World Box Office and Measuring a Glass Half Full

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Captain America: Brave New World is crossing $100 million over the four-day weekend according to Disney. That is a record for the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, making it the fourth highest-earning debut of any film to open on Presidents’ Day weekend ever. That is even more respectable when you realize the other three films that earned more were all MCU or Marvel associated joints—with the second highest earner over Valentine’s Day weekend being the 20th Century Fox-produced Deadpool and its $152 million haul in 2016. Considering the movie is suffering from apparently horrid word-of-mouth as judged by…

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16 Feb

The Biggest Marvel Characters Yet to Show up in MCU Movies

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It really is amazing how much the superhero genre has exploded over the last quarter of a century. Before 2000, the only cinematic releases under the Marvel banner were for C-list characters. Meanwhile, the more well-known names at most had direct-to-video or TV movies. Now, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to return from a year of (mostly) rest, we live in a world where there have been over 70 Marvel box office releases when you include all the other studio efforts. It’s a lot. The House of Ideas has so many comics, with so many heroes and villains,…

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15 Feb

Captain America 4 Review: A Brave New World With Classic ’90s Thrills

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Midway through Captain America: Brave New World, Sam Wilson and Joaquin Torres break into the home base of Samuel Sterns, the gamma-irradiated baddie known as the Leader. After an impressive-looking establishing shot that features a pair of red-hued satellite dishes, a close-up catches the heroes charging the bunker door. The pair frantically pry the door open and slide inside. One last shot outside the door catches two guards passing by, suggesting that our heroes just evaded capture. The sequence will annoy anyone who thinks about it for more than two seconds. Where did the guards come from? Why didn’t we…

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15 Feb

Captain America Brave New World Just Introduced the Most Pathetic Avenger to the MCU

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World. Captain America: Brave New World finds Sam Wilson on his heels. A vast conspiracy has entangled Sam’s mentor Isaiah Bradley, and Sam doesn’t know who to trust. He certainly can’t trust President Thaddeus Ross, nor can he trust Ross’s new aide Ruth Bat-Seraph. He can’t even trust most of his fellow members of the Armed Forces. Sam has one glimmer of hope on the inside, a boots on the ground soldier (William Mark McCullough) who worked with Sam on a mission to recover canister of adamantium and knows better than…

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15 Feb

The Best Romantic Movies Under 90 Minutes

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You can have too much of a good thing. If Titanic or Gone with the Wind are your romantic movie night picks, then you’d both better have eaten early, pre-planned your toilet breaks, and made some serious investment in the lumber support of your living room furniture. Cuddling up with a loved one to watch a film that extends over three hours? Prepare for discomfort. The romantic movies below are humble creatures that don’t overstay their welcome. By clocking in at 90 minutes or under, they can be watched pre- or post-dinner, and don’t have to be interrupted by attacks…

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15 Feb

Captain America 4: Diamondback, Seth Rollins, and the Marvel Characters Cut From the Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World. No one would argue that Captain America: Brave New World is a jam-packed movie. It’s stuffed with so many characters and subplots from The Incredible Hulk, Eternals, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that Sam Wilson doesn’t always feel like the main character in his own movie. But it could have been featured even more Marvel characters. It’s no secret that Brave New World went through reshoots that radically changed the finished film, including by cutting several characters who originally had scenes in the movie. It’s a testament to…

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14 Feb

Paddington 4 Needs to Keep the Bear in London

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“Paddington tries to make toffee”, “Paddington makes a mess cleaning the chimney”, “Paddington investigates the disappearance of Mr Brown’s prize marrow”. Such are the types of adventure that Paddington creator Michael Bond wrote for his fuzzy creation. The Bond books are filled with stories of the bear as an unwitting agent of chaos in small, domestic English settings. In practically every instance of Bond’s stories, Paddington would enter an ordinary and often genteel situation – meeting a vacuum cleaner salesman, for instance, or attending a ballet – and despite his unfailing politeness, he’d get into a royal mess about which everyone…

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