Adapting the same-named 2016 novel by Paulette Jiles, News of the World stars Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widowed Civil War veteran who agrees to escort a young girl named Johanna Leonberger, who was taken by the Kiowa people years ago, back to her aunt and uncle, even though Joanna would rather
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Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons are cool, but building a new tabletop RPG is even cooler. Designing a brand-new roleplaying game can be intimidating business, particularly when it involves creating original mechanics from scratch. For this reason, many roleplaying game makers search for pre-existing, open-source RPG systems that they can “hack” to fit the needs of their own games. The
Home Alone Pigeon Lady actress Brenda Fricker says she will be alone this Christmas. While Home Alone is arguably one of the best Christmas movies around, the sequel also has quite a lot of fans during the holiday season, though not quite as many. In the movie, Fricker’s character is befriended by Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin
Steve Trevor Died To Save Millions In a daring effort that would save many and ultimately end World War I, Steve Trevor literally jumps onto a German plane full of explosives and sets them off from the inside. Preventing the weapons’ imminent destruction costs him his life – another heartbreaking tragedy that, in turn, becomes
An artist has combined the worlds of The Mandalorian and Home Alone in a new crossover poster. Home Alone, directed by Chis Columbus, came out in 1990 and quickly became one of the most successful Christmas movies ever made. After the film was released, Home Alone remained the number one movie at the box office for twelve straight weeks. On the other hand,
James Gunn has an epic Marvel and DC dream crossover for a team project. Gunn has been behind the camera for a lot of movies over the years, but it was the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise that blasted him into the stratosphere. After a pretty big falling out with Disney in 2018, he started
The Confessions of a Shopaholic actress talked about how she actually got really invested in the process of cutting together the movie during her appearance on the talk show. She said she was really invested in a hilarious joke during the debutante ball that was cut, despite her apparently threatening that she wouldn’t speak to
While the second season of The Mandalorian remained focused on Mando and Grogu’s journey across the galaxy far, far away, it did take the time to set up a few spin-offs, including Rangers of the New Republic and The Book of Boba Fett. Another show that has been announced to take part in this continuity
A new DeepFake video has attempted to improve The Mandalorian season 2 finale. This isn’t the first DeepFake Star Wars video to be shared in recent weeks. A video from earlier this month took the de-aging from Rogue One and greatly improved the looks of the young Leia Organa and Grand Moff Tarkin. However, that
The intention of this Cherry poster (posted on Twitter by film reporter Chris Evangelista) is to be a message to members of different critics and filmmaker guilds to consider the upcoming film as a selection for Best Picture during this year’s awards season, but where it manages to fumble the ball is in communicating the
Warning: contains spoilers for Black Cat #1! Black Cat is up to her old tricks in her most recent Marvel comic, with her eye trained on a particularly lucrative cache for her personal, less-than-legal purposes. While the Black Cat is a professional thief who doesn’t need much help hunting down a job, she’s found the cache
The Mandalorian breakout star Grogu is perhaps best known by his “Baby Yoda” nickname, but that’s just fine with series creator Jon Favreau. When the Yoda-like infant was first introduced in the show’s pilot episode, he wasn’t given a name, quickly spawning the Baby Yoda moniker from fans. He’d be referred to as “the Child”
While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 wasn’t quite as critically received well overall compared to the first Guardians movie, it outperformed commercially with a worldwide haul of nearly $864 million. As such, I can only imagine what Gunn did during the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 pitch meeting. Did he draw something on
Nintendo has given its fans an opportunity to look back at the year 2020 with Nintendo Switch Year in Review. As 2021 soon approaches, this gives users an opportunity to reflect on the many games they played and how much time they spent with their favorites. Nintendo has had many ups and downs this year.
The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal is the latest name to emerge with an online fan campaign for him to play Gomez Addams in Tim Burton’s reboot of The Addams Family. The fan excitement for the possibility has increased exponentially in recent days, following Pascal closing out the second season of The Mandalorian with an incredible
Both Ariana DeBose and her co-star Jo Ellen Pellman identify as queer, making The Prom’s representation of a female relationship more progressive than prior explorations of the subject. DeBose believes women with their experiences were vital to making The Prom a musical with valid representation. Although DeBose’s character doesn’t have as much screen time as
Overwatch, one of Blizzard’s popular online multiplayer games, is free to play until January 4. Despite being released in 2016, Overwatch has been in the news quite a bit lately. It even received a surprise new map earlier this month. The new map is called Kanezaka, and it’s situated just below the existing Hanamura map. Game Director
Some new details have been revealed for a couple of recently announced Star Wars projects, namely Ahsoka and Rangers of the New Republic. The details were revealed by Jon Favreau, executive producer and writer of The Mandalorian, who has become an increasingly large part of the franchise. While much remains mysterious, Favreau has at least