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Max Schindler

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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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28 Apr

Why Aren’t More People Watching Daredevil: Born Again?

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A picture is emerging of Daredevil: Born Again’s ratings, and it isn’t a particularly good one. The first season had a solid but comparatively low-key launch in Marvel terms, snagging 7.5 million views in its first five days. Previous MCU series Agatha All Along hit 9.3 million views in its first week on Disney+, so it was surprising to see Daredevil: Born Again fail to reach that level. Nielsen numbers then showed that the season had failed to chart in its Top 10s, and now it’s clear that season 2 hasn’t yet cracked these lists either, something that even She-Hulk…
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26 Apr

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Boldly Goes Back… to The Tone of The Original Series

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It’s official: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for season 4 this July, and all signs point to an outing that will probably be a bit less…well, strange than last time around. The premiere date was announced as part of Paramount+’s presentation at this year’s CCXP Mexico, which also featured a first look at the teaser trailer for the new episodes. The clip features over a minute of footage from Strange New Worlds’ penultimate outing, and if it’s anything to go by, this is a Star Trek that’s going back to basics. This news will likely come as a…
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24 Apr

Why Netflix’s New Charlize Theron Movie Is Going to Make You Yearn for an Australian Holiday

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Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur does not set out to make tourism destination films any more than he seeks to specifically tell stories of man, or woman, versus nature. It just seems to work out that way for him and the audience who watches along with a serious fear of missing out. As the filmmaker sheepishly confides to us, after his harrowing dramatization of the 1996 Mount Everest climbing disaster, Everest, came to theaters in 2015, interest in the Sagarmatha mountain spiked: “Even with all those people dying there, I actually infused the interest in Everest in the world,” the director…
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24 Apr

Amazing Live Sea Monkeys Documentarians Discuss a Big Battle Over Tiny Creatures

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In the 1960s and ’70s, kids couldn’t open a comic book or go to a toy store without seeing sea-monkeys. Sort of. While advertisements and displays promised an underwater kingdom of smiling pink creatures living lives of ease, the actual creatures were microscopic specks that were barely visible to the naked eye. Most would just forget about sea-monkeys as an odd update of the old flea circus phenomenon. But to documentarians Mark Becker and Aaron Schock, the legal battle over the creatures is the stuff of epic drama, precisely because of the woman at the center, Yolanda Signorelli, wife of…
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24 Apr

Widow’s Bay Review: A Sweet and Scary Horror Story That Feels Completely Original

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This Widow’s Bay review is Spoiler-Free. Widow’s Bay is a series that defies easy description. (That’s a compliment, by the way.) Part workplace comedy, part trope-filled horror story, and part love letter to the power of community and found family, it’s a show that’s honestly quite unlike anything else that’s on TV right now. It’s ten-episode first season mixes surprisingly frightening scares with sharp, biting humor and follows a cast of colorful, quirky weirdos who are as complicated and compelling as any on Apple TV’s roster of hard-to-pin-down comedies and genre-bending dramas. (Widow’s Bay is such an Apple series, and that’s…
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24 Apr

15 Massive Hits That Never Won a Major Award

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Oftentimes, you hear a song that is just so good it must have won some kind of award. After all, you’re hearing it everywhere, and everyone loves it, so it’s a clear deal. But you’d be surprised how many tracks, even the catchiest ones that won’t leave our head, remain unrewarded. These are the songs that, at least to our standards, deserve more recognition. No matter if you discovered them on the radio, on an online platform or via recommendation, they are part of our lives and many others. Songs that defined their eras, but aren’t recognized as such. Mr.…
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24 Apr

Spider-Noir Gets Tombstone to the Screen Before Brand New Day

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Spider-Man has one of the most varied and wonderful rogues galleries in all of comic book history. Peter Parker regularly goes toe-to-toe with heavy-hitters like Green Goblin, Venom, and the Kingpin. But he also has a host of unimpressive weirdos, including the Gibbon and the Kangaroo. For the most part, they all stay in their place. Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus will always be the biggest threats, especially as Venom has become a hero and the Kingpin fights Daredevil, the rest of the Sinister Six, including Electro and Mysterio, can have an arc here and there, and then everyone else…
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24 Apr

Looks Like The Rings of Power Season 3 Is Arriving Earlier Than We Thought

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Most news about the Lord of the Rings franchise of late has centered on the forthcoming big screen adventure The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and Stephen Colbert’s in-the-works Shadows of the Past project. But if current rumors are to be believed, we’ll be headed back to Middle-earth well before then, thanks to Prime Video’s blockbuster fantasy saga The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.  The series, which still ranks as the most expensive ever made, has drawn its share of criticism for the liberties it’s taken with J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material and the changes…
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24 Apr

Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Restores the Spirit of Adventure to the Franchise

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This article contains minor spoilers for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 When we last left the kids of Hawkins, they weren’t kids at all. Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Eleven, and Sam had all grown up and moved on from their adventures in the Upside Down, and with good reason. As punctuated by Joyce’s flashback before dismembering big bad Vecna in the series finale, these kids have lost a lot in their battle against a primordial evil—most importantly their childhood innocence. So we cannot help but smile when, after a foreboding cold open, the first episode of Stranger Things: Tales From…
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24 Apr

The Vampire Lestat Trailer Could Not Have Picked a More Perfect Soundtrack

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Lestat’s rock star era is officially here. Two years and a title change later, the third season of Interview with the Vampire, now rebranded as The Vampire Lestat in honor of the second novel in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series, is almost upon us, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it’s going to be a suitably wild ride.  Featuring star Sam Reid in all his David Bowie-esque glory, the vibes, unsurprisingly, are immaculate. Where the Louis-focused Interview with the Vampire reflected that character’s more somber, melancholy, and frequently guilt-ridden approach to telling his own story, Lestat’s take…
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24 Apr

10 Comic Book Villains Who Deserve Their Own Movie

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The age of heroes has ended. Now it’s time to bring on the bad guys. The upcoming Clayface movie is just the latest example of supervillains getting the spotlight. Not only did Clayface’s fellow Arkham inmate the Joker get two feature films, but Lex Luthor will be the co-lead of the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, and Doctor Doom will drive Avengers: Doomsday. On the small screen, Loki and Penguin carried their own shows, and Kingpin is the co-lead of Daredevil: Born Again. Impressive as this list certainly is, studios have only begun to scratch the surface of interesting supervillains.…
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23 Apr

Clayface Brings the Horror Genre to Superhero Movies

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Almost by definition, superhero movies are about hope and goodness. Even when things get dark for guys like Batman or the Punisher, their respective films end on notes of redemption. The Hulk may roar and Wolverine may growl, but eventually, the real baddies are defeated and the innocents are saved. Not so with Clayface, the latest entry in the DCU. The first trailer for the adaptation of the classic Batman villain doesn’t reveal much about the film’s plot but it does make sure we understand the tone. Clayface will be a horror movie, complete with sharp music stings, plenty of…
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23 Apr

Coyote vs. Acme Trailer Mocks Warner Bros. Tax Write-Offs

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You’d think that Warner Bros. would know more about things exploding in your face. For more than 75 years, the studio has been producing cartoons about Wile E. Coyote, the genius scavenger whose plots to catch the Roadrunner are thwarted by faulty contraptions from the Acme Corporation. And yet, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav decided to shelve the completed movie Coyote vs. Acme because he thought a tax write-off would be more profitable than any box office revenue it could generate. Yet, thanks to fan outcry and the efforts of distributor Ketchup Entertainment, Coyote vs. Acme will finally see the…
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23 Apr

Stranger Things: Freddy Krueger Actor Returns to Hawkins, But as a New Character

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Stranger Things owes a lot to ’80s horror. There’s the Stephen King font used by the titles, the heavy use of synths on the score, and a scary monster who represents the sins of generations past. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer have paid that debt in several ways, including by casting Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger himself, as Victor Creel, father of the boy who would become Vecna. With the animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, the Duffers are paying back that debt twice by bringing Englund back as a new character. According to a release in EW, Englund will…
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23 Apr

“If You’re a Dreamer, You Better Be a Doer”: Inside Netflix’s New Lainey Wilson Documentary

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Even if you aren’t a country, it’s decent odds you’ve heard of Lainey Wilson: a Grammy-winning country artist who has also racked up 16 Academy of Country Music Awards and nine Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year in 2023 and 2025. Taylor Sheridan even created a role specifically for her on the final season of Yellowstone, casting her as a love interest for Ryan (Ian Bohen), who mirrored Wilson’s own signature style and even performed several of her own songs.  But now, thanks to the forthcoming Netflix documentary, Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, everyone’s about to find…
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22 Apr

Project Hail Mary Throws Oscars Curveball with Surprise Contender

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Pretty much everyone agrees that making Rocky’s voice that of his lead puppeteer, James Ortiz, was absolutely the right decision. Though Project Hail Mary makes a point of trying out different voices for the alien before settling on Ortiz, even Meryl Streep isn’t the right fit for the plucky Eridian, who pulls out all the stops to save the stars alongside Ryan Gosling’s Dr. Ryland Grace in the smash hit sci-fi movie. But Ortiz’s impact may go much further than his initial performance as everyone’s favorite rock-like alien chum. Variety has revealed that he will be submitted for Best Supporting…
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22 Apr

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Episode 6 Review – Requiem

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This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season two, episode six. Every Daredevil story has the same fundamental moral. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking Charlie Cox or Ben Affleck, a goofy Silver Age story or a gritty Frank Miller tale. The lesson of every Daredevil tale is just that no one should ever, ever get involved with Matt Murdock. Yes, Matt’s charming and passionate and committed to doing the right thing. But he will always make the worst decision at the most inopportune time, and though he me be wracked with guilt as he does it, he’ll do…
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22 Apr

Evil Dead Burn Takes the Franchise Back to its Roots

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One day in 1979, childhood friends Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi went to a cabin in rustic Northern Michigan to shoot a horror short. That 32-minute movie, Within the Woods, became the duo’s calling card, earning them enough funding from local business people to shoot a full length film called The Evil Dead, launching a franchise that continues to this day. Most recently, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise moved the Book of the Dead to a big city high rise, far from the franchise’s rustic home. However, the first trailer for Evil Dead Burn makes it abundantly clear that this time,…
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22 Apr

Michael Review: A Sainted and Sanitized Michael Jackson

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The modern musical biopic is less biography and more hagiography, usually with a great soundtrack. Bohemian Rhapsody, Elvis, and Walk the Line have no interest in telling the real story of the people who made the songs we love. Instead they exist to let the audience sing along with pop hits, to reward those who know little bits of trivia, and to ensure fans that everyone involved are very good people indeed. On those terms, Michael is very much a by-the-numbers modern musical biopic. It whisks the viewer from year to year, pausing to recreate iconic moments (e.g., debuting the…
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