The Mandalorian has earned rave reviews from Star Wars fans through its first few episodes on Disney+ for a variety of reasons. Baby Yoda is one of them, and rightfully so. But another is that the Jon Favreau-created show is one of the few TV productions based on a big screen property that looks and […]
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If nothing in this listing fits your mood tonight, please check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now. A Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) — As is established Christmas tradition following the Thanksgiving holiday, the animated classic from 1965 returns. Charlie Brown, the central character in Charles Schulz’s long-running […]
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In The Two Popes — it’s hard not to wish the title was just “Two Popes,” a la 2 Guns — director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) uses walls as a recurring visual motif. This is a story about a clash of papal personalities — Jorge Bergoglio, aka Good Pope, the future Pope Francis, who […]
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Disney’s stable of remakes might not be everyone’s spinning cup of tea, but the studio could never be accused of simply replicating their past efforts. This year alone, people flocked to the multiplex for Will Smith’s blue genie in Aladdin and were both thrilled and weirded out by the photorealistic use of CGI in The […]
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A group of aspiring WWE Superstars is trying out at the Performance Center this week, and one of them is Arissa Le Brock, daughter of actor and martial artist Steven Seagal and actress and model Kelly LeBrock. News of Le Brock’s tryout first emerged via Squared Circle Sirens, and Le Brock later posted about it […]
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Spider-Man is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s most popular superheroes, which made Marvel Studios and Sony’s shocking “impasse” earlier this year all the more, well, shocking. It appeared as if we had seen the last of Spidey in the MCU following Spider-Man: Far From Home, but the two megalithic companies were able to settle […]
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It’s been nearly three years since Carrie Fisher’s sudden passing, but her screen self has lived on in death. The Last Jedi, featuring her last full performance, was released the subsequent December, and she’s even in The Rise of Skywalker, which was originally supposed to feature her prominently. How? A very simple form of movie […]
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Not only has Joker been a huge box office success for Warner Bros., but it has reportedly reinvigorated the studio’s DC Comics arm to the extent that, along with the financial successes of Wonder Woman and Aquaman, all of its post-Justice League plans have changed dramatically. Joker has also done wonders critically, as both Joaquin […]
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A little over a year after Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee died at the age of 95, the co-creator of so many well-known comic book superheroes (and the star of countless MCU cameos) will be celebrated in an upcoming television special on ABC. In a press release from the Disney-owned broadcast network and Marvel, details […]
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After more than a decade apart, CBS and Viacom are reuniting. In a deal that closed on Wednesday, the CBS Corporation, the company behind the broadcast network CBS and the publisher Simon & Schuster, merged with Viacom, the owner of Paramount Pictures and the cable outlets MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. The combination brings together […]
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Before the Thanksgiving holiday, Walt Disney Co. subsidiary 20th Century Fox released the first trailer for its upcoming Jack London adaptation The Call of the Wild, which features a grizzled Harrison Ford and a completely CGI dog. “Digital fur technology” notwithstanding, the movie looks like a bit of a fun romp, to be sure, but […]
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If you spend enough time on Tumblr, or Twitter, or anywhere with Star Wars content on the internet, really, you’ll come across an impassioned plea to let Poe Dameron and Finn be who they’re truly meant to be: boyfriends. It’s something Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has considered, but what’s to consider? Star Wars has been […]
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The Irishman has been making waves since it dropped on Netflix over Thanksgiving weekend. People are raving. The movie is winning awards. Everyone’s trying to figure out how to break up the extremely long runtime. I was swept up in all the excitement as well and watched the film when it dropped (in two seatings). […]
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The upcoming Black Widow standalone movie (which arrives on May 30) received a teaser trailer that shows off much of the movie’s hand-to-hand combat, which Marvel Studios previewed at D23, involving the super-spy/assassin. Overall, it looks like Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff leads a solid action picture, even if Taskmaster’s getup looks a little sketchball (or […]
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The trailer for the new James Bond film, No Time to Die, is finally here—and it looks like everything you’d want from a Bond movie. Explosions! Aston Martins with machine guns! A shot of Bond leaping off the side of a bridge that seems pulled straight out of Goldeneye! Just watch: When we last left […]
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A.O. Scott Films Worth Arguing About As the movie year winds down, I would like to express my gratitude to Martin Scorsese. Not only for making “The Irishman,” his best movie in a long time and one of the best of 2019 (see below), but also for reminding the world of the value of cinema. […]
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Over the last few months, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been a point of contention among the most powerful audience in movies right now: fans of comic book movies. But there’s one group that hasn’t turned their back on him: cinephiles. The beginning of December is semi-formally the official beginning of awards season, when awards […]
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Franchises are like the War Boys in Mad Max: Fury Road: They live, they die, then they live again. It’s been less than three years ago since, despite glowing reviews, War of the Planet of the Apes — the threequel to the last reboot of the classic series — underperformed enough to almost certainly put […]
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Chris Terrio, along with J.J. Abrams, co-wrote a movie coming out later this month called Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We spoke to Terrio by phone to ask him a whole bunch of questions, like when it was decided to bring back fan favorites Emperor Palpatine and Lando Calrissian. (Also, yes, we asked if […]
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Here’s how things would work for actors in an ideal world: you get cast in a movie, movie makes lots of money, you get cast in more movies. Would that it were so simple, to quote a film starring Alden Eihenreich, who later played Han Solo in Solo (see?). Take the case of Aladdin star […]
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Bond 25 will finally arrive on April 8, long after the start of a troubled production. Cary Fukanaga managed to smooth out some scheduling bumps, it seems, after stepping in as director for Danny Boyle, who swore off franchises after his experience on the film. Daniel Craig also landed a substantial injury during another production […]
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