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30 Jan

Fast and Furious Villains Ranked from Worst to Best

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This article contains Fast and Furious franchise spoilers Coinciding with its “bigger and louder” trend, The Fast and the Furious franchise significantly upped its villain game as the series progressed. Bad guys in the early entries are forgettably bland, but the latter films feature some incredible villains. In this ranking, we’ve excluded characters who were antagonists but not true villains (Luke Hobbs, Kara), heroes briefly coerced into turning heel (Dom, Letty), and garden variety henchmen. The caveat to this is the Shaw brothers, who were the villains of the sixth and seventh films but eventually allied with the heroes (we…
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30 Jan

Mia Goth: MaXXXine ‘Is the Best Script’ of Ti West’s A24 Horror Trilogy

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One year ago, British actor Mia Goth had about a dozen credits to her name, mostly supporting roles in films like Luca Guadagnino’s somewhat misguided remake of Suspiria and Autumn de Wilde’s charming adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Flash forward 12 months and Goth has reinvented herself as a horror queen and genre siren with three astonishing, multi-layered performances. Last March she starred in director Ti West’s X, a ‘70s slasher throwback in which she plays an adult actress named Maxine who’s not willing to let anyone—not even an elderly murderer (also played by Goth) on whose ruined farm her…
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29 Jan

Why the Tragedy of The Banshees of Inisherin Is So Funny

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This article contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin. With nine Academy Award nominations, Martin McDonagh’s tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin is practically guaranteed to take home some amount of Oscar gold, particularly in the Best Original Screenplay category. It’s a strong contender for Best Picture too. This story about the friendship between two men coming to an abrupt end may seem small in scale, but it pulls off something huge: making a larger-than-life existential crisis absolutely fecking hilarious. The humor is darker than a pint of Guinness and it haunts. Why is that? Colin Farrell stars in the film…
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28 Jan

Is the Tár Ending About Divine Punishment or Reclamation?

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This article contains Tár spoilers. For the last 10 minutes of Todd Field’s Tár, an elusive yet beguiling character study about an elite musician’s fall from grace, the fate of Lydia Tár remains a mystery. We know that Lydia, as played with an erudite augustness by Cate Blanchett, has been exposed to be many things: a sexual predator, a manipulative employer, and a relentlessly selfish spouse. Even her name is an embellishment, with the disgraced EGOT winner returning to her forgotten childhood home where her estranged brother calls her Linda. In this context, it isn’t a stretch to imagine the…
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28 Jan

No Actor Had a Better Year Than Colin Farrell

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Since beginning his career in the late 1990s, Irish actor Colin Farrell has been on a proverbial rollercoaster. Following a handful of early film and TV appearances, Farrell first gained the attention of Hollywood when he starred in Joel Schumacher’s 2000 war drama Tigerland. And his breakout role came in 2002 when he played Agent Danny Witwer in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. His excellent work, good looks, and onscreen charisma quickly positioned Farrell as a potentially huge leading man. But a string of moderate successes, outright failures, and mixed critical responses with films like Phone Booth, Daredevil, S.W.A.T., Miami Vice,…
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27 Jan

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Almost Featured a Wild Villain Twist

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Despite his untimely “death” at the end of The Phantom Menace, cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi and sent tumbling into the depths of Naboo, Star Wars just can’t seem to quite Darth Maul. Years after his initial demise, Lucasfilm decided Palpatine’s former Sith apprentice had in fact survived the fall, and proceeded to bring him back in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, first as a rage-fueled monstrosity with spider legs made out of trash and later as a crime lord who at one point even ruled over Mandalore from the shadows. Most recently, we saw him return to live…
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27 Jan

Eternals Beats Other Marvel Movies in New Streaming Report

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With Phase Four closed and the dawn of Phase Five just weeks away, people are beginning to look back at the past few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The highlights of the phase are exactly what you expect, including fan-favorite Spider-Man: No Way Home and hit specials Werewolf by Night and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. And, of course, the more controversial picks like Black Widow and Eternals tend to linger near the bottom, despite their defenders. And yet, when the Neilsen company released its streaming numbers for 2022, only one MCU entry cracked the top 15,…
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27 Jan

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever DVD/Blu-Ray Release Date and Special Features

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Although you can still catch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in many theaters, and the movie will be coming to Disney+ on February 1, physical media collectors will be glad to hear that they aren’t going to be left behind. On February 7, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever releases on DVD, Blu-Ray, and 4K Ultra, with a ton of special features to flesh out Marvel’s fictional nations. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Special Features For those curious about how writer/director Ryan Coogler helmed such an ambitious movie despite the shocking death of star Chadwick Boseman and the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie’s audio commentary…
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27 Jan

Guillermo del Toro Recalls Most Toxic Hollywood Experience: Working for the Weinsteins

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Guillermo del Toro is keenly aware of the motifs and themes that occur, and occur again, in his work. He often embraces them. For instance, the Mexican auteur freely suggested to us last month that his latest film, the Oscar-nomianted Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, is part of a spiritual trilogy with The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)—movies that all deal with childhood innocence enduring beneath the shadow of fascism and oppression. Yet another element that frequently goes overlooked in his oeuvre is that of the artist and their commercial benefactor; the creator and the exploiter. This dynamic is…
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27 Jan

Are Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Hot Dog Fingers Scientifically Plausible?

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Everything Everywhere All At Once has received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. This is great news. It is not often that a science fiction film is in the running for this level of Academy acclaim, still less one that asks such big questions. Questions like: “Do we have free will?;” “how can our actions have meaning within the context of an infinite universe?;” “how can we reconcile our love for our families with the intergenerational trauma they inflict?;” and “what if humans had evolved giant wobbly hot dog fingers?” Among the many alternate…
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27 Jan

MCU Villain Redemption Arcs Ranked from Worst to Best

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This article contains MCU spoilers Some superhero stories truly glide on the idea of a hero’s redemption. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have seen characters like Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Natasha Romanoff, and Gamora make up for their past sins via heroism. A viewer’s love for a great redemption story occasionally mixes itself with the concept of a villain so likable that you no longer want to root against them. There have been many villains in the MCU and a good chunk of them have changed their ways for the better over time. A good face-turn could always get…
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27 Jan

Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Break Down The Movie’s Painful Twists

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This article contains spoilers for Teen Wolf: The Movie. It must be a full moon again, because Teen Wolf is back following a six year absence from our screens. The franchise is in a new phase of its life now though. Gone are the 45 minute(ish) episodes airing on MTV. In their place is a brand new feature-length movie that’s found a new home on Paramount+. That’s not all that’s changed either. Six years have passed in real-time, but for everyone who lives in Beacon Hills, it’s actually been fifteen years since everything that went down in the sixth and…
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26 Jan

Oscars 2023: Predictions and Analysis

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And just like that, the Oscar race has well and truly begun. Yes, technically the case can be made that the season begins as far back as September when the earliest of the fall festivals—Venice, Toronto, Telluride—premiere their wares. Heck, one of this year’s Best Picture frontrunners (the Daniels’ kinetic Everything Everywhere All at Once) premiered last March! With that said, we never really know who’s in the race until the groggy Tuesday morning where the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reveal who they think is worthy of competing for their prizes. We’ve already analyzed the biggest snubs…
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26 Jan

Would 2023’s Oscar Movie Flops Have Been Box Office Hits Just a Few Years Ago?

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There’s no question about it: the double whammy of streaming and COVID has permanently changed the landscape of traditional moviegoing. The discovery by audiences that they could watch all kinds of original new movies at home, both during and after a vicious worldwide pandemic that closed down theater-going for the better part of two years, has left traditional cinema—and particularly independent films—in a precarious place. With few exceptions, audiences are only making the increasingly expensive trek to the movies (tickets, gas, parking, concessions, sometimes babysitters) for movies that are less films and more “experiences.” That would be your Marvel, Avatar:…
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25 Jan

Bank of Dave, Men and the Underrated Genius of Rory Kinnear

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When you look at his body of work, it’s hard to believe Rory Kinnear is only 44: the man’s covered a hell of a lot of ground. He’s earned his place as a household name with roles like Tanner – M’s efficient Chief of Staff in several Bond films including Skyfall – and Detective Nock in Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, but while many actors would be rightly chuffed to bag these roles, they’re merely the tip of Kinnear’s acting iceberg. Few actors, for instance, can claim to be responsible for a scene that has been burned onto our…
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25 Jan

The Banshees of Inisherin Defies Hollywood’s Fairytale Ireland

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This article contains The Banshees of Inisherin spoilers. John Ford was not from Ireland… but the legendary American filmmaker might’ve wished he was. Born by the name John Martin Feeney in 1894, Ford would go on to carve one of the most influential directing careers in Hollywood’s early history. He would also later tell the press that his given name was Seán Aloysius O’Feeny. The reason for the embellishment? Because he was raised by two Irish immigrants who mythologized the homeland for their son, particularly his mother who was born on the island of Inishmore, off the coast of County…
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25 Jan

Star Trek Insider Casts Doubt on Future Franchise Movies

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If there’s anybody who knows about Star Trek, it’s Jonathan Frakes. The man who joined the franchise as Commander William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation has been a mainstay ever since. Not only has he directed episodes of nearly every series that followed, including the movies First Contact and Insurrection, but he’s played Riker (Will or doppelganger Thomas) in most as well. So if Number One has an opinion about Trek, fans would do well to listen. In a recent article for SFX Magazine (via SlashFilm), Frakes shared his opinion about the future of Star Trek movies.…
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25 Jan

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Star Teases the Movie’s Big Reveals

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This article contains Loki spoilers Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania might seem like a weird movie to kick off Phase 5 of the MCU. The Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) solo movies have been wholesome family capers to date, with the first movie focusing on Lang’s path from recently-released small time criminal to budding superhero, and the second building up the Ant-Fam’s bond while they endeavored to help a suffering woman called Ava Starr, who was putting others in danger. The third film has a bigger agenda, though. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will see Lang and co. pulled into the…
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25 Jan

Teen Wolf: The Movie Review — Is There Any Bite Left?

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This Teen Wolf: The Movie review contains no spoilers. Riddle me this: Is a Teen Wolf still a Teen Wolf when he becomes a full-grown “Man Wolf”?  That’s essentially the premise of Teen Wolf‘s comeback movie which brings Tyler Posey’s Scott McCall back on our screens for the first time since 2017.  Now in his mid-thirties, our not-so-Teen Wolf is still the Alpha, but Beacon Hills is no longer the place it once was. Fifteen years or so have passed since everyone last walked off together dramatically on the long-running MTV series. Jumping ahead to 2026, Scott’s pack has now…
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24 Jan

Ms. Marvel Just Fixed an MCU Continuity Error

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Continuity is the bane of shared universe stories. Comic creators and fans have long wrestled with the difficulties of maintaining a single ongoing story told by hundreds of different collaborators over a series of decades. DC Comics has used multiple crises to explain why Batman is sometimes a lone creature of the night and sometimes a member of the very public Justice League, before finally embracing Hypertime and insisting that it’s all canon. Under the reign of editor Stan Lee, Marvel adopted the No-Prize, handing out an empty envelope to anyone who could provide a compelling reason for Spider-Man complaining…
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