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26 Nov

Aquaman 2 Cast, Release Date, Story, News, and More Details

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This article contains Aquaman spoilers. The conclusion of the Aquaman movie certainly left the door open for Aquaman 2 to happen. Whether it’s Arthur’s conciliatory “we’ll talk” to Patrick Wilson’s Orm after their climactic confrontation (which teases the possibility that Ocean Master will return) or the post-credits scene that has much wider implications for Black Manta’s eventual emergence as one of the most important villains in Aquaman history, there’s plenty of reason to believe that Aquaman 2 could make a bigger creative splash than the first film. When I spoke to James Wan shortly before the movie’s release, he wasn’t…
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25 Nov

My Psychedelic Love Story

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Errol Morris’ latest documentary takes us on an Alice in Wonderland adventure deep inside a largely forgotten episode of the early ’70s. Told through the lens of Swiss-born, Paris-raised free spirit Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Timothy Leary’s lover, the film examines the twists and turns that led Leary, the High Priest of LSD, to seemingly sell out the millions he urged to “turn on, tune in and drop out” and become a narc in 1974. At the heart of the story is the woman Leary described as his “perfect love.” Was she a government pawn, a Mata Hari, or simply a beautiful,…
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23 Nov

Fatman Review: Mel Gibson as Santa is Not Your Normal Christmas Story

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It’s almost a certainty that you’ve never seen a Christmas movie like Fatman. You know how they wanted to make all superhero films in that “gritty, realistic” style that Christopher Nolan turned into billions of dollars with the Dark Knight trilogy? In Fatman, writers/directors Ian and Eshom Nelms (Small Town Crime) take the greatest superhero of them all, Santa Claus, and transform him into a struggling, borderline alcoholic curmudgeon who may lose his business, and has a killer after him to boot. That’s right: As played by a more grizzled than usual Mel Gibson, whose voice emanates from somewhere deep…
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20 Nov

Supernatural Series Finale: How to Wrap Up 15 Years of Story

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This Supernatural article contains MAJOR spoilers for the series finale. Obviously. It’s hard to believe it, but Supernatural has come to an end. We had our theories about what might happen in the 15-season show’s ender, but Supernatural kept us guessing right until its final moments. “Carry On” is essentially a forty-minute epilogue to tie up loose ends after the definitive battle against God. It serves its purpose of bringing the series full circle to its humble beginnings: Sam gets his normal life. Dean goes out as a hunter. They reunite to keep riding that road together… in heaven. If you…
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17 Nov

Pinky and the Brain: The Touching Story Behind the Strangest Animaniacs Episode

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Orson Welles is remembered for many things. His narration of War of the Worlds on the radio is legendary. He gave the world the groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. He schemed to the tunes of zither in the Third Man. He died voicing the planet-eating robot Unicron in Transformers: The Movie. One of the more obscure episodes in his life was when he was hired to record voiceover ads for Findus and their frozen food products. Yes, it’s one of those things that’s just too weird to exist. Once upon a time, Welles was tasked with recording lines for a peas…
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04 Nov

Big Sky: Release Date on ABC, Cast, Trailer, Story, and News

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Television is a fickle beast. No one can say for sure what kind of scripted drama will work. But Big Sky, the only new drama on ABC’s schedule for fall 2020, sure does have a lot going in its favor. Big Sky is the latest TV project from David E. Kelley, the prolific showrunner best known for shepherding series like Ally McBeal and Big Little Lies. It is based on a series of books by C.J. Box. And like Paramount Network’s unexpected hit Yellowstone, it takes place in “big sky country” – this time in Montana.  The show will follow…
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31 Oct

Scott Derrickson Gets Back To Mid-Budget Horror With Joe Hill Story

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Director Scott Derrickson will adapt a Joe Hill short story called “The Black Phone” into a feature film for Blumhouse, according to Deadline. Derrickson is penning the screenplay with his regular writing partner, C. Robert Cargill, with whom he also wrote Sinister and Doctor Strange. The story was initially published in Hill’s first book, a 2005 short story collection called 20th Century Ghosts that put the young author on the horror map before it was widely known that he was the son of Stephen King. The tale follows the plight of John Finney, a young boy kidnapped and held prisoner…
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30 Oct

Barbarians’ True Story: the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Arminius and Roman Defeat

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Warning: contains Barbarians spoilers The story told by Netflix’s Barbarians – the Germanic tribes rising up to take a sizeable chunk out of the invading Roman Empire in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, also known as the Varian Disaster – is a key historical event that took place in 9 CE.  The battle’s events are related in several historical sources, among them ‘Germania’ by Roman historian Tacitus. The tribes’ victory dealt Rome a heavy blow which is now seen as a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, which lost up to 20,000 soldiers over the three-to-four-day battle, effectively halting…
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25 Oct

The Weird History of A Chinese Ghost Story Franchise

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When A Chinese Ghost Story premiered in 1987, it was already part of a unique category – the fusion of horror, comedy, and Kung Fu. Asian horror films are known as jiangshi, which is the name of a specific spooky hopping ghost found in Chinese folklore that proliferates these films. Part zombie, part vampire, jiangshi are corpses that are usually reanimated by demons or Daoist sorcerers. They hop along mindlessly with their arms outstretched like sleepwalkers, and feed on the life essence – or qi – of the living. Often a jiangshi is blind but can smell breath. This makes…
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23 Oct

Evil Season 2 Release Date, Trailer, Cast, Story, and News

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Don’t you just love it when Netflix gets its hands on a lesser-known network title and reveals to the world that it, in fact, rules? Such is the case with CBS’s potentially paranormal procedural Evil. Created by ViacomCBS powerhouse couple Robert and Michelle King (of The Good Wife and The Good Fight), Evil premiered on CBS in September of last year to some reasonable acclaim.  Then, on Oct. 1, all 13 episodes of Evil season 1 arrived on Netflix and subscribers quickly took notice. During the first month of its availability, the show hopped around Netflix’s “Top Ten” feature, indicating…
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21 Oct

David Fincher’s Mank Reframes Citizen Kane Origin Story as Mankiewicz’s Brilliance

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It holds the lofty perch of being the greatest cinematic achievement of all-time. The American Film Institute picked it as the best movie ever made. Twice. François Truffaut filmed himself daydreaming of Orson Welles in Day for Night (1973). Liev Schreiber starred as Welles in an HBO movie about the film’s making. Citizen Kane is like the white whale for moviemakers who want to make movies about other moviemakers. And now David Fincher is giving it a singular, and possibly revisionist, angle in Mank, a new Netflix film starring Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz. Herman’s name is arguably not…
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21 Oct

A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting: How to Craft a Scary Story For Children

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In the U.K., the pop culture phrase “behind the sofa” is used to refer to media that is scary enough to prompt kids to hide behind the nearest piece of furniture, but engaging enough to keep them from out-right fleeing the room. Strongly associated with Doctor Who, “behind the sofa” is a concept that can be applied far beyond the long-running science fiction series to speculative fiction (in particular horror) media targeted toward children and families. It’s perhaps a phrase British-American director Rachel Talalay, known for her work on some of NuWho’s most visually-ambitious installments, had in mind when directed…
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15 Oct

Resident Evil Village Story Details Revealed by Capcom

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In an interview with Weekly Famitsu Magazine (as translated by Resident Evil researcher Alex Aniel) Capcom producers Tsuyoshi Kanda and Peter Fabiano reveal new information about Resident Evil Village‘s enemies, story, and setting. The interview doesn’t give away a lot of details we didn’t already know or suspected to be true, but it does feature a few interesting pieces of information for what has thus far been a very mysterious project. That’s especially true of Chris Redfield who was mentioned far more often in this interview than he’s been talked about in any of the official descriptions of Resident Evil…
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14 Oct

The Boys Season 3: Soldier Boy Story to Explore Troubled History of America

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This article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2 finale. The Boys’ demented and thrilling second season opened up a can of Vought International worms by introducing Aya Cash’s fascist Stormfront, and revealing the company’s ties to Nazi experiments during WWII. During a pivotal scene towards the end of the season, Stormfront opened up to Homelander, the current leader of The Seven, showing him her place in Vought’s history as Nazi founder Frederick Vought’s wife. Not only that, she confirmed that she was given the first successful dose of Compound V, turning her into a extremely powerful supe who had…
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13 Oct

Shameless Season 11: Release Date, Cast, Story, and News

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All good things must come to an end. All debauched things too. Which may explain how we’re here, staring at the Great Beyond for the Gallagher Brood of Shameless. Aye, two seasons after Emmy Rossum left the series as one of its ostensible lead characters, Fiona Gallagher, the series itself is resuming production and winding down in the age of COVID. That doesn’t mean it won’t go out swinging and drinking though! Shameless Season 11 Release Date The eleventh and final season of Shameless begins on Dec. 4, 2020. Don’t pretend like you will have somewhere better to be! Shameless…
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09 Oct

The Expanse Season 5 Release Date, Trailer, and Story

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Those waiting for The Expanse season 5 to return on Amazon’s Prime Video service won’t have long to wait as the network has announced the premiere date and released the trailer as part of a panel at New York Comic-Con’s Metaverse virtual convention. Dominique Tipper, who plays Naomi Nagata on the show, moderated the session, which also shared some details about the stories from which the adaptation of the James S.A. Corey novels will pull its inspiration. Here’s what we know about The Expanse season 5 so far. The Expanse Season 5 Release Date Amazon Prime Video will drop the…
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15 Sep

The Godfather Creation Story To Get Scripted Series at Paramount+

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“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” Don Vito Corleone said in Mario Puzo’s novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather. The terms might include keeping your brains at the cost of a popular singer or waking up to the head of your prized stud in your bed, but it got things done. It wasn’t personal, it was business. The quote inspired the title of a new series which follows The Godfather’s  journey from book to motion picture. The Offer will be one of the new offerings featured when CBS All Access rebrands as Paramount+ by early…
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09 Sep

Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story

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Happy Happy Joy Joy is the story of the rise and fall of one of the most influential animated series in the history of television. It’s the story of a group of talented and dedicated artists whose incredible work brought to life two of the most beloved characters of all time - Ren & Stimpy. It’s also a cautionary tale of artistic genius gone awry. The controversial creator of the groundbreaking show, John Kricfalusi, both caused and experienced trauma that deeply affected his work and relationships. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 14, 2020
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08 Sep

The Mandalorian Season 2 Details Reveal Larger Story and Higher Stakes

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The Mandalorian Season 2 is arriving in the Disney+ streaming star system imminently, having fortuitously dodged the blaster shot of COVID complications. Auspiciously enough, the hit Star Wars series will return in a form that’s bigger in every conceivable way—at least that’s what series creator Jon Favreau, executive producer Dave Filoni and the cast are teasing. The series, which premiered back in November 2019 while draped in mystery as the first proper live-action television series of the Star Wars franchise, became a pop culture phenomenon for a number of reasons, the most prominent of which was the “aw” inspiring presence…
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