27 minutes ago Jen Underdahl, Visual Effects Producer for Marvel Entertainment, had a great video interview with WIRED explaining so many of the VFX work for Endgame. At one point, she noted that the rat who activated Ant-Man’s device and freed him from the Quantum Realm was real. You. Don’t. Have. His Name?! How are
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It’s been nearly a month and everybody is still talking about Spider-Man leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sony has decided to turn down offers from Marvel Studios in an attempt to take the franchise on their own. While there are obviously two sides to this story, Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo believe Sony
What DC Comics characters will make up the team in James Gunn’s upcoming soft reboot The Suicide Squad? Originally created in 1959 as an elite military unit tasked with near-impossible missions, the nickname of Task Force X was appropriated by writer John Ostrander in 1987 for an entirely different series centered around a new Suicide Squad,
32 minutes ago Not every good scene makes the cut of a theatrical release, and one John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum star mentioned some of his work was deleted from the still very cool final cut. Actor/martial artist Mark Dacascos, who plays lead villain Zero, was hoping at least one scene made the home
Black Mirror’s “Black Museum” is packed with Easter eggs and references to past episodes, and here are all the objects both old and new. Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror premiered on British TV in 2011 and was acquired by Netflix in 2014, making the streaming service its current home. The series is notorious
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has been bringing Christmas Day to Marvel Cinematic Universe fans all year. Avengers: Endgame kicked things into gear earlier this year, but it was the Comic-Con and D23 announcements that sent fans into a frenzy. It appears that Feige wasn’t finished with the Phase 4 and beyond reveals. The studio
37 minutes ago Big studio films can sometimes be victim to conflicting ambitions, since both creatives and industry executives are in the mix. This may have been the case for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, which many consider to be a misfire despite its $747 million worldwide earnings. As fans move on the hype train for James
It’s been years in the making and even more years of rumors before that, but on Friday, September 13th Stern Pinball finally teased their new Elvira pinball game, Elvira’s House of Horrors. There is talk that this new release will use a production model close to Stern’s Batman ’66 or The Beatles machine, which more
The Parks & Recreation series finale included a couple of time jumps, the last one showing an ambiguous ending for Leslie Knope: did she actually become President? Parks and Recreation was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and aired from 2009 to 2015 with a total of seven seasons. Throughout the series, viewers got to
47 minutes ago Where’s Jared Leto in the lineup for The Suicide Squad? That was a big question from DC fans after James Gunn released the official cast for his movie. Many stars from Suicide Squad are returning, including Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, but not Jared Leto as Joker. Some fans were disappointed to
Brad Pitt suffers an existential crisis during a space mission to save Earth. Ad Astra digs deep into the human psyche while exploring the vast reaches of the cosmos. The constant search for self becomes draining. Ad Astra‘s equivalent to two hours of interstellar therapy accompanied by mind-blowing visual effects. Thankfully the superb action scenes
During several scenes on Lost, the show’s main characters would be shown running through the jungle when they would suddenly hear strange and mysterious whispers all around them. In its earliest seasons, the whispers came off as creepy and spooky, especially since so much about the island was still a secret at this point. After the Others
22 minutes ago As anyone who practices the fine holiday of Halloween would tell you, part of getting it right comes down to having a lineup of seasonal films ready at a moment’s notice. While there are definitely some classics that always help to make the season fright, there’s always the thrill of jumping into
Few Marvel films bear as distinctive a mark of its filmmaker as the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise does under James Gunn. The choice of music, the off-kilter humor and the focus on personal issues against the space-epic backdrop are all elements introduced by Gunn to a film that had few people’s interest at first.
Warning: SPOILERS for Ready Or Not. One of Ready Or Not‘s key marketing points turned out to be a lie – but it’s a deception that has an amusing payoff within the story itself. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Ready Or Not stars Samara Weaving as Grace, a bride marrying into the billionaire Le Domas family, but she’s
48 minutes ago On this Friday the 13, we say RIP to MoviePass! The moviegoing subscription may have looked like dead service walking for some time now, but it’s about to be official. As of tomorrow, Sept. 14 at 8 a.m., Moviepass will cease to exist, as the company’s CEO Mitch Lowe has just revealed.
Reality TV star Jenelle Evans says she wasn’t fired from Teen Mom after all. This news comes after Evans’ challenging year, including a messy custody battle for her children, a husband who killed her family dog, and being noticeably absent from MTV’s Teen Mom 2. According to the mother of three, she has not been fired from the
In commemoration of the defacto horror holiday Friday the 13th, STX Entertainment has released the official trailer for the upcoming horror/thriller movie Countdown. With a simple story about downloading a trendy new app on a smartphone going terribly wrong, those who use a strange “Countdown” app begin dying in mysterious fashion. Written and directed by