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Max Schindler

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01 May

The 15 Oldest Movie Stars to Ever Grace Our Screens

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Age has never fully limited a screen career, and some performers remained active far longer than anyone expected. Across film history, several actors continued appearing in movies well into their nineties and even past one hundred, bringing decades of experience to the screen. These appearances were not always leading roles, but they carried a unique presence shaped by extraordinary longevity. In many cases, simply seeing them perform at that age became memorable in itself. Here are fifteen of the oldest movie stars ever to grace our screens, based on the age they reached while still appearing in films. Mel Brooks…
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01 May

BREAKING: New Lanterns Promo Image Has Actual Green In It

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In a bold creative decision that’s certain to shake the world of pop culture, HBO Max has released to Instagram a new still from its upcoming series Lanterns. To the shock and delight of at least 12 people (yours truly included), the picture prominently features the color green. The image depicts a human fist butting against a strange, alien-looking object. While the dark shading and overall drabness of the fist and its surroundings match the tone of the images and teasers already released for the series, the object itself has a hue that can only be described as “green.” The…
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01 May

My Adventures with Superman Reveals Season 3’s Big Bad

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The Reign of the Supermen is upon us! Or, rather, it will be this summer, because that’s when My Adventures with Superman returns for its third season. As excited as we are to rejoin the show’s anime-inflected take on Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen, it’s not all fun and sunshine for the Man of Tomorrow and his pals. Because along with the announcement comes the reveal of the season’s primary antagonist, the Cyborg Superman. “We’re Cyborg Superman right out the gate,” showrunner Jake Wyatt told Entertainment Weekly, while also promising a very different approach to the villain. “It’s not…
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01 May

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Trailer Is All Survival Horror Tension

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Even though he has only two solo movies under his belt, filmmaker Zach Cregger has established a few key interests. He’s afraid of what goes on in quiet houses. And he likes running. Both of those qualities are on full display in the first trailer for Resident Evil, Cregger’s follow-up to Weapons. Both of those qualities also fit well within the survival horror genre, which the Resident Evil video games helped define. Throughout the trailer, we see Austin Abrams cross a snowy yard to an isolated house. Upon finding it abandoned, he enters, makes a call to a loved one,…
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01 May

Devil Wears Prada 2 Represents the End of Marvel Summers

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This year, Disney will kick off the summer movie season with a titanic clash of good and evil. On one side stands a maiden, oft-dismissed and misunderstood, who overcame her humble origins to become a formidable new force. On the other, stands the devil. Such a description could apply to any of the Marvel movies that have signaled the start of the summer blockbuster season for nearly two decades: Iron Man (May 8, 2008), The Avengers (May 4, 2012), Avengers: Infinity War (May 24, 2018), Avengers: Endgame (April 26, 2019). Even recently, Marvel has staked its claim at the end…
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30 Apr

American Dollhouse Cast and Director on Making Meat and Potatoes Horror

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Love it or hate it, “elevated horror” has come to dominate the genre. Everywhere you look, there’s another movie that wrestles with a social ill by making its central monster an extension of that wrong or a manifestation of the trauma it causes. So it’s refreshing to hear that writer/director John Valley has modest aims for American Dollhouse, the slasher he premiered at SXSW. “I’m drawing from a lineage of slasher films, starting with Psycho, Peeping Tom, Black Christmas,” Valley tells Den of Geek. “I’m obsessed with how minimalist a slasher can be, while still being a container for modern…
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30 Apr

Widow’s Bay: Matthew Rhys, Stephen Root, Hiro Murai On Apple TV’s Offbeat Horror Comedy

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Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay is genuinely unlike anything else on television at the moment. The series deftly mixes elements from multiple genres, refusing to be confined to any particular box in terms of its tone or storytelling choices. From jumpscares and complicated historical lore to mysterious creatures and office politics, it’s all over the map, narratively speaking, and all the more interesting for it.  The story of a picture-perfect New England town that may or may not be cursed by some sort of dark entity, the series is frightening and absurd by turns, with plenty of spooky coastal vibes and a…
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30 Apr

The Devil Wears Prada Is a Stanley Tucci Masterclass

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Ask most people about the greatest monologue in The Devil Wears Prada, and one word will come to mind: “Cerulean.” The speech that Miranda Priestly delivers to her awkward new assistant, Andy, seems to encapsulate the film’s worldview, the faith that the fashion industry matters because regular people are beholden to decisions made by those at the top of field. It’s a tough, cynical moment, one that underscores the movie’s plucky tone. The better speech occurs just minutes later, when a frustrated Andy complains to fashion director Nigel about the recognition Miranda refuses to give her. What follows is a…
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30 Apr

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Script Notes Reveal a Half-Step Fix to the MCU’s Peter Parker

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When he entered the MCU, Peter Parker was the Queens kid we knew from the comics and movies… for about 30 seconds. He strides through his crowded apartment building, proudly holding a DVD player he found on the street, just like standard-issue Peter Parker would do. But then, he finds Tony Stark sitting on his couch, and from Captain America: Civil War onward, the MCU Spider-Man diverted from the standard depiction. The MCU Spider-Man is a scion of Tony Stark, a kid who has access to incredible tech and nano-suits, who never once needs to take a crappy freelance gig…
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30 Apr

Daredevil: Born Again – Where is Luke Cage?

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again seasons 2 and 3. Only those who aren’t paying attention to the absolute mountain of Disney marketing were surprised to see Jessica Jones stride onto a rooftop to meet up with Matt Murdock in season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again. And, thanks to some now-deleted posts from actor Mike Colter, only those who aren’t on social media don’t know that Luke Cage will return for Born Again‘s third season. But until then, there’s a Luke Cage-shaped hole in the lives of Jessica Jones and her daughter Danielle on Daredevil: Born Again season…
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29 Apr

Daredevil: Born Again Just Made a Major Change to One Character’s Fate

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 7 Daniel Blake wasn’t supposed to die in the penultimate episode of Daredevil: Born Again’s second season. According to showrunner Dario Scardapane and star Arty Froushan, who plays Wilson Fisk’s lethal right-hand man Buck Cashman, the scene where the Deputy Mayor gets shot to death originally played out with Buck letting him go and then lying to Fisk about his decision. “The way that it would have gone is that [Blake] stayed in the Fisk administration,” Scardapane told Variety. “He goes in to resign and the new interim mayor…
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29 Apr

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Episode 7 Review – The Hateful Darkness

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season two, episode seven. No one should ever get close to Matt Murdock. This is the ultimate moral of every Daredevil story. Yes, he’s incredibly charming and incredibly handsome. Yes, he has an unshakable sense of ethics. But Matt Murdock follows those ethics so tightly, he lets his Catholic guilt so stridently drive his motivations that he ends up hurting himself, and brings everyone else down with him. The penultimate episode of Born Again‘s second season, “The Hateful Darkness,” directed by Iain B. MacDonald and written by Heather Bellson, traces the fallout…
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29 Apr

How Daredevil: Born Again Sneakily Introduced a New Captain America

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 6. Early in episode six of Daredevil: Born Again‘s second season, we’re confronted with what could have been the most upsetting moment in a brutal season of television. A vehicle full of armed thugs rolls up on a suburban house, and throws a grenade through the window… which gets picked up by an adorable little girl in a fairy princess costume. What follows is delightful and unexpected. The camera stays on the little girl playing with the object of destruction while the soldiers get pummeled by some unseen force…
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29 Apr

Zorro/Django: We Need to Make Antonio Banderas and Jamie Foxx Happen

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In one of the most powerful moments of Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained, the title character strides across a plantation to face down Big John Brittle, one of the notorious Brittle Brothers. In a shot-reverse-shot, we watch as Django pulls out his pistol and fires at the disbelieving Big John, killing him. In the type of pulpy action movie kiss off that Tarantino adores, Django sends his adversary off to the afterlife by declaring, “I like the way you die, boy.” Django, of course, does not die. But he hasn’t exactly lived on either, except on the comic book page. In…
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29 Apr

Welcome to Derry Season 2 Will Explore an It Tale Inspired by a True Story

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Derry’s long history of violence and bloodshed will be explored further in the second season of Welcome to Derry, with a particular focus on the Bradley Gang. The gang were referenced in It’s historical interludes, linked to a particularly terrible massacre in the 1930s, but Steven King never really expanded upon the incident in the book. All that’s about to change, as Welcome to Derry creator Andy Muschietti has told Deadline that season 2 will jump back in time to Pennywise’s Great Depression era exploits. “We’re now working on it, and it’s so much fun,” Muschietti said. “For the ones…
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29 Apr

Spider-Man: How Gwen Stacy’s Death Changed Comics Forever

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“Someone close to me is about to die!” shouts Spidey on the cover of 1973’s Amazing Spider-Man #121. Even those who have never cracked open that issue know that the death in question doesn’t come for J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Aunt May, or any of the other faces adorning that cover. It comes for Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s longtime girlfriend. Someone just as close to Spidey has also died. Writer Gerry Conway has passed away at the age of 73, leaving behind a legacy that includes co-creating the Punisher, Robin Jason Todd, Carol Danvers, and many others, as…
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28 Apr

Michael Can Inspire a Different Type of Theatrical Experience

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Even before it hit theaters, we knew Michael would be a divisive film. Not only is it about someone who was controversial by the end of his own life, but it makes a strong choice to avoid even the suggestion of allegations about its subject. Furthermore, like most musical biopics, it sacrifices basic cinematic standards in favor of delivering maximum enjoyment to fans, in the form of recognizable trivia and pop song bangers. One need look no further than the divide between the 38% critics rating and 97% fan rating on Rotten Tomatoes to see proof. Yet, Michael has found…
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28 Apr

House of the Dragon Season 3 Trailer Breakdown: James Norton As Ormund Hightower Revealed

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This article contains spoilers from the novel Fire & Blood that will likely spoil details from House of the Dragon season 3. House of the Dragon has some work to do in its third and penultimate season. Following an abbreviated second outing that concluded right before the real battles started, some viewers were left wondering if the HBO series can live up to the massive expectations set forth for the first Game of Thrones spinoff. It certainly doesn’t help HotD‘s case that one viewer in particular is very dissatisfied with the direction of the show. And that’s not even to…
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28 Apr

James Gunn Confirms The Authority Isn’t Coming to the DCU, Yet

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In 1998, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch introduced the Authority, a new supehero team with one goal: to build a better world. And with members like Apollo, the Doctor, and Jenny Sparks, the Authority had the ability to do it. Moreover, because they existed in the WildStorm Universe and not the DC Universe, no one could really stop them. Well, almost no one. After initially announcing The Authority as one of the projects in development for Chapter One of his and Peter Safran’s new DCU, James Gunn has confirmed on Threads that the project is no longer in development… for…
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28 Apr

Spider-Noir Trailer Confirms Big Change From Classic Spider-Man

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“Every mystery forms a complex web,” monologues Nicolas Cage in the newest Spider-Noir trailer. He’s not kidding. Even with the several teasers and images already released for the Prime Video and MGM+ spinoff of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, questions surround Spider-Noir. We know that Cage plays private investigator Ben Reilly instead of Peter Parker, breaking from both the usual Spidey story and from the 2009 Marvel comic Spider-Man: Noir. However, Cage’s monologue continues to say, “Pull the right strand, and it’s a straight line to the answer.” The latest trailer for Spider-Noir provides one of the answers. Among the images…
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