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28 Feb

Has the Marvel Cinematic Universe Finally Reached a Tipping Point?

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is setting up a new “dynasty,” and after 11 years of the Infinity Saga we’ve tossed aside Thanos like a drawer full of Infinity Stones at the TVA. MCU overlord Kevin Feige is back in the driver’s seat as we move at breakneck speed into the Multiverse Saga of Phase 4, 5, and 6. This chapter sees the rise of Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror, but barely before things have begun, this sordid saga will be bowing out with Secret Wars in 2026. While some of us are looking beyond that to the arrival of the…
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28 Feb

Marvel’s Hulk Absolutely Tortured Its Director: “Ang Lee Had Tears in His Eyes”

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Nostalgia has played a significant role in the movies and television series of the modern era. Legacy sequels can wait 20, even 30 years to come to fruition and still make a major impact at the box office. And nowhere is this more apparent than with comic book films. Spider-Man: No Way Home brought back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, The Flash is set to bring back Michael Keaton, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gave Patrick Stewart one more spin in the hovering yellow wheelchair – and every time, audiences ate it up. At this point, it is…
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27 Feb

Marvel Director Compares Fantastic Four to Star Trek

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When you think of a team of explorers created in the 1960s, known for their colorful costumes and compelling interpersonal dynamics, who comes to mind? You might say the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, created by Gene Roddenberry and introduced in the first episode of Star Trek in 1966. But if you wanted to go back a few years further, you might think of the Fantastic Four, the quartet from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby who kicked off the Marvel age of heroes with Fantastic Four #1 in 1961. While the original Enterprise crew hasn’t had the spotlight for a…
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27 Feb

Lord of the Rings Characters That Should Totally Get Their Own Movies

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Making an interconnected shared universe of spinoff movies from Lord of the Rings is a terrible idea. (So yes, we were joking in the headline. Sorry!) Barely 10 years after Disney supersized Star Wars—unleashing the current glut of movies and shows so generally mediocre that even Liam Neeson, star of The Phantom Menace, seems wizened when he notes Disney has “taken away the mystery and the magic of the series”—it seems another beloved fantasy trilogy from decades ago is about to get oversaturated by a studio determined to capitalize on every last ounce of popular IP from when you were…
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25 Feb

The Real History of Cocaine Bear: A True Story of Drugs, Wildlife, and… Taxidermy?

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This has absolutely NO SPOILERS for the movie Cocaine Bear… The year is 1985. The sappy but well-intentioned charity ballad “We Are The World” is inescapable. Pastels and Patrick Nagel art prints are in fashion. And Miami Vice, the stylish cop show where Don Johnson gets suave while busting drug dealers, is the biggest thing on television. These are the golden years of cocaine, where every investment banker and rich kid is lit to the gills on Colombian blow. Bringing the in-demand drug into the United States is a high-risk/high-reward career move, and once you’re in the game, then primarily…
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25 Feb

The Strays Ending Explained: What Cheryl’s Choice Means

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This article contains The Strays spoilers. Netflix is dishing out another horror original, and this time it’s the directorial debut of Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays. Feeling like a mix between Parasite and Get Out, the story follows one woman’s picture-perfect life in the suburbs that’s torn apart by the ghosts of her past and her own internalized prejudices.  Ashley Madekwe stars as Cheryl, a Black woman who begins the movie by seemingly escaping an abusive relationship while being on the bottom rung of the housing ladder. It’s a generally miserable existence that’s all-too-common in the United Kingdom. After an opening…
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25 Feb

The Powerful Reason David Harbour Doesn’t Talk in We Have a Ghost

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As an accomplished character actor and leading man, David Harbour has just about done it all in his career. But his latest role as Ernest the Ghost in Netflix’s We Have a Ghost is unlike any character he—or almost any other modern actor—has ever attempted. The gimmick is this: Harbour has no lines. He doesn’t speak once in the entire movie. Actors lend their voices to movies without showing their faces all the time, but rarely does it happen the other way around for a leading performance in the 21st century. The question is, why make a movie in which…
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24 Feb

Luther: The Fallen Sun Review – Bigger Isn’t Always Better

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Developing a successful TV show into a movie is a tricky old business: go too big and you risk jumping the shark; play it safe and it’s slightly more polished business as usual. For the most part, Luther: The Fallen Sun – the first feature-length outing for Idris Elba’s beloved, rule-bending detective – plots a skilful course between the two. But a Netflix-sized upgrade, it seems, can be both a gift and a curse… Serving as both a continuation of the show and a standalone adventure, The Fallen Sun is surprisingly self-contained, with just enough exposition up-front to ensure that…
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24 Feb

Quantumania: Why Corey Stoll Came Back and Michael Peña Didn’t

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If you’ve watched Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, you might notice that the cast of the film is somewhat different from that of the first two Ant-Man movies. The main quartet of characters—Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Hope van Dyne/Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer)—remains the same, and Scott’s daughter Cassie is also back, now played by Kathryn Newton. Quantumania also introduces a slew of new characters, such as big bad Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) and the inhabitants of the Quantum Realm. But missing this time are the members of Scott Lang’s…
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24 Feb

Horror Movies Based on a True Story… That Didn’t Happen

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When it comes down to it, all stories—even purely fictional ones—are based in some kernel of truth. Writers, whether they’re novelists, short story authors, or screenwriters, draw inspiration from the world around them, their own lives, and the lives of people they know or meet or read about. Sometimes they want to write about things that happen in real life as accurately as possible, to document, understand, and process them, while other times the inspiration is enough to engage their imaginations and let a whole new story emerge. Yet there’s no doubt the marketing term “based on a true story”…
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24 Feb

Cocaine Bear Review: Pure Concept Gets Diluted

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In an age of big C-suite visions of streaming power and total global market domination, Universal Pictures has spent the first two months of 2023 seemingly shrugging their shoulders and saying “so what?” Rather than betting on the next phase (excuse me, “chapter”) of another shared universe, or sending films straight to Peacock, the studio has unleashed a trio of cheeky (and now sleazy) theatrical throwbacks: M3GAN, Knock at the Cabin, and this weekend’s human-chomping Cocaine Bear. The first two defied conventional wisdom with their respective camp and solemnity, proving that even B-movies released wide at the beginning of the…
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23 Feb

The Ant-Man 3 Doctor Doom Tease You May Have Missed

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This post contains spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness By the end of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the Marvel Universe had not one new bad guy to deal with, but many. Not only is there the major bad guy Kang the Conqueror, but also Immortus, Rama-Tut, and a guy who might be the Scarlet Centurion. And then there is the army of Kang variants who arrive. But eagle-eyed viewers noticed that the Kangs’ mode of transportation may have pointed to the coming of another, even more powerful villain: Doctor Victor…
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23 Feb

Star Wars: 15 Most Evil Villains From the Empire

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This Star Wars article contains spoilers. The Star Wars universe has created some of the most terrifying villains in cinema and TV history. Dark Lords of the Sith can shoot lightning from their fingertips and strangle you from miles away through the Force. Cruel bounty hunters will kill anyone for the right price. Crime lords on lawless planets feed their prisoners to their big carnivorous pets. Then there’s the Empire, a tyrannical galactic power inspired by real-world fascist ideologies, which is horrifying in both its aims and the way in which it executes them. The self-branded “New Order” has been…
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23 Feb

Ben Affleck’s Daredevil Could Teach the MCU a Few Things

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The original (and to date only) big screen Daredevil movie turned 20 years old last week. There wasn’t exactly a deluge of fanfare over this fact. For obvious reasons. Released during the boom years for glossy, hyper-edited action movies that had one eye on MTV tie-ins and another on the post-theatrical DVD double-dip market, director Mark Steven Johnson and star Ben Affleck’s Daredevil arrived into cinemas on Valentine’s Day weekend 2003 as a chopped-to-the-bone, 103-minute collection of studio priorities under 20th Century Fox’s then-chairman, Tom Rothman. To give you an idea of how different a time this was for the…
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22 Feb

Snakes on a Plane, Cocaine Bear, and Embracing Schlock Horror

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Do you remember where you were when you heard about Cocaine Bear coming to theaters? How about Snakes on a Plane? Odds are you were on some corner of the internet, faffing around on social media, when a vibration ran through the service like a schoolyard rumor. It’s a different sensation than a blockbuster announcement meant to excite, isn’t it? It’s closer to awe, coupled with a can-you-believe-it hilarity. You look into it. It’s a movie with a goofy title, one of the dumbest premises you’ve ever heard, and a corny trailer that hits your funny bone like a brick.…
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22 Feb

The Mandalorian’s Most Controversial Choice Was Inspired by Marvel

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While many of us love the vast worldbuilding of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our passion is not necessarily shared by all viewers. In fact, as the MCU heads into its fifth phase, complaints about the adoption of serialized storytelling to a traditionally stand-alone format have only increased. As other franchises try out post-credit scenes, shared universe spinoffs, and fan-service moments, some people long for a simple, straightforward story (and those people can even count MCU head honcho Kevin Feige among them.) Take the response to the resolution of the cliffhanger at the end of The Mandalorian‘s second season. After spending…
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22 Feb

Ant-Man 3’s Rumored Original Ending Would’ve Completely Changed the Movie

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This article contains giant-sized Ant-Man 3 spoilers Despite the pint-sized stature of its characters, Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania tries to be one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest outings. Well, having to introduce Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror into the world’s highest-grossing franchise is no small feat.  While audiences and critics can’t decide whether it’s one of the MCU’s best or worse, Phase 5 is off to a rocky start. Alongside a maligned MODOK, and with some questioning how Evangeline Lilly’s minor role as Hope van Dyne can warrant the “and the Wasp” title, could an alternate…
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22 Feb

Why Hasn’t Fantastic Voyage Been Remade Yet?

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When 1960s and ‘70s icon Raquel Welch died last week at the age of 82, much of the media focus was on her (well-deserved) status as one of the most memorable and gorgeous sex symbols in movie history. A lot of the coverage, in fact, noted that the Chicago native’s substantial talents as an actress, singer, and dancer (she appeared in 30 films, numerous TV series, and hosted a handful of her own variety specials), were overshadowed by her status as one of the era’s premiere pinups. While she may be best remembered for her turn as a skimpily-clad cavewoman…
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21 Feb

Netflix’s Re/Member is a Time Loop to Forget

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This article contains spoilers for Re/Member. Nothing says Japanese horror films like supernatural scares, urban legends, and grudge-bearing spirits. Eiichirō Hasumi, director of Assassination Classroom and Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, attempts to bring all these elements together in Re/Member, a movie adaptation of Karadasagashi (Body Search), a manga spread over 17 volumes and 153 chapters. The plot of Re/Member follows the age-old movie formula of time loops with its core theme leaning towards puzzle-solving. Japanese cinema is no stranger to playing with time, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time being the most well-known of the bunch, though this film takes…
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21 Feb

The Unmade Terry Pratchett Movies (and Why They Didn’t Happen)

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This month sees the U.S. release of The Amazing Maurice, a feature length adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed 2001 YA novel. Though Pratchett has been adapted a handful of times for television, most recently with Amazon’s Good Omens (excellent) and BBC America’s The Watch (patchy), this will be the first true big-screen take on a Pratchett book*, which is frankly astonishing when you consider that Sir Terry has been a bestseller since the mid-‘80s, with a series of accessible and cinematic comic fantasy hits, most of which would lend themselves to the screen. Pratchett even writes cinematically—almost all of his…
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