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24 Oct

Outlander Star Breaks Down His Failed James Bond Audition

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Quick, what words come to mind when you hear the name “James Bond”? Sauve? Lethal? British? Those are all qualities enjoyed by Sam Heughan, which is why the Outlander star has been among the most popular fan casts for James Bond since Pierce Bronsan was removed from the role after 2002’s Die Another Day. And yet, one key quality kept Heughan from getting his license to kill. According to his new memoir Waypoints (via Entertainment Weekly), Heughan explained that he’s just too nice to be 007. The Scottish actor got his shot during pre-production on Casino Royale when he was…
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24 Oct

How Hocus Pocus Helped Popularize Halloween Outside U.S.

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Hocus Pocus (1993) might be a well-known staple of the Halloween season now, and one that brings spooky magic to households all over the globe, but back when writer/producer David Kirschner conceived it, there was nothing even remotely similar out there. It really was one of the first films to fully export the USA’s colorful autumnal holiday of fear across the world. Originally a much darker story that was conceived as a bedtime tale for Kirschner’s daughters, the producer was soon pitching the flick to studios as the quintessential Halloween movie. Leaning into the film’s original title of Halloween House,…
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24 Oct

How Prey For The Devil Found a New Angle on Exorcism Movies

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It turns out that Daniel Stamm’s 2010 film The Last Exorcism wasn’t the last after all. Twelve years after the release of the movie that put the German director on the horror map, he is returning to the subgenre for another possession movie. But in some ways, the two films couldn’t be more different. While The Last Exorcism played heavily on the ambiguity of whether the central character was afflicted or faking it, Prey for the Devil cuts right to the chase. “I love that because in most movies, you have to do the half an hour of doubt, and…
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23 Oct

Can Black Adam Box Office Save the DCEU?

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Black Adam just enjoyed the biggest solo opening of Dwayne Johnson’s career. That has got to feel good for an actor who’s pursued the DC antihero since at least 2006—back when he was first approached about playing the character in a Shazam! movie. Almost 20 years later, Johnson was able to finally don the black onesie in a solo movie where Black Adam was neither hero nor villain… in fact, he was quite a bit like Johnson’s old school WWF wrestling persona: The Rock, the People’s Champion. So the fact that Black Adam grossed $67 million over this past weekend…
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23 Oct

Best Horror Movies on Hulu for Halloween 2022

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Halloween is approaching, which means now is the best time of year to watch horror movies all night long for days on end. Problem is, there are so many scary movies to choose from that it’s hard not to get lost in the streaming service shuffle, scrolling aimlessly as dozens of movies you kind of want to watch fly across your screen. You can ultimately end up forgetting why you were looking in the first place. To help narrow things down, we’ve compiled a list of the best horror movies streaming on Hulu right now, from obscure indie midnight movies…
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23 Oct

Dracula Stands Above All Other Vampires and Horror Icons

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“To die, to truly be dead, that must be glorious,” Bela Lugosi’s eternal vampire once enthused on the silver screen. But true legendary antiheroes never attain the sweet reward of oblivion. Before Universal Pictures’ classic 1931 film, Dracula was most famous in English speaking countries as the repellent vampire created by author Bram Stoker in a minor publishing novelty from 1897. Gruesome but not significant. Now, of course, he casts the largest shadow in horror, and it grows with every swing of his cape. Historical Roots of Dracula’s Name Stoker only took the name of “Dracula” from Vlad Dracul III,…
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22 Oct

Is Zack Snyder’s Justice League Canon Thanks to Black Adam?

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The official position of Warner Bros. when it comes to DCEU movie continuity (inasmuch as that is even actually a thing these days) is that the beleaguered theatrical version of Justice League is the one that is official canon. The extended (and holy moley, we do mean extended) director’s cut known as Zack Snyder’s Justice League that you can watch on HBO Max is basically just a courtesy to the filmmaker and fans (not to mention a way for them to drive HBO Max subscriptions at launch). That being said, even as someone who doesn’t consider himself much of a…
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22 Oct

Best Horror Movies of 2022 (So Far)

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Horror movies experienced something of a renaissance during the previous decade. Once designated as a lesser genre because of critical narrow-mindedness (and also because there’s admittedly a fair amount of delicious schlock out there), stories of fear and pulse-pounding dread received reappraisal in the 2010s. While the term “elevated horror” feels like a back-handed compliment from those too obtuse to realize there has always been challenging, artful horror out there, recent times really have been boom years for ambitious young filmmakers, and a few veterans, pushing chillers to new heights. Which is why the general dearth of a wide-range of…
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22 Oct

Black Adam Ending Explained: Doctor Fate, The JSA, and the Future of Kahndaq

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This article contains Black Adam spoilers. Believe it or not, the ending of Black Adam is a lot deeper than your average superhero movie. At the very least, there’s more going on, and given how little backstory it provides for pivotal characters like Doctor Fate and Hawkman, not to mention the deep DC lore tied to Black Adam himself, means that a little extra context might help you keep track of everything that went down. Let’s try to get at this… Doctor Fate’s Vision The seeds for the ending of the film are planted midway through the film’s first act,…
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21 Oct

What’s Next for Henry Cavill’s Superman in the DC Extended Universe

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Warner Bros. is finally planning to bring Henry Cavill back as Superman, and according to a recent report, they have an “intense desire” to make a movie “that would essentially be Man of Steel 2.” So basically, exactly what they should have done in the first place. But hey, the past is the past, right! Onward and…well, let’s say “up, up, and away” instead! Of course, a lot has changed since Man of Steel was first released in 2013, not just for Warner Bros. and DC, but for the superhero movie landscape in general. The DCEU has had its ups…
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21 Oct

Black Adam: What DC Movies Should You Watch To Get The Full Experience?

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Whenever a new superhero movie comes out, the one question I’m asked more than any other by my friends who aren’t as deep in this world as I am, is “what do I need to know or have watched already in order to understand this one?” In the case of most Marvel Cinematic Universe flicks, it can offer a variety of answers, while with most DC movies, the answer is usually almost nothing, by virtue of their relatively loose continuity. And with Black Adam hitting theaters, a DC movie about a relatively obscure character, featuring other heroes and villains similarly…
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21 Oct

Rian Johnson Confirms What’s Holding Back His Star Wars Trilogy

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Yes, it is October 2022, nearly five full years after the movie’s release, and we’re still litigating The Last Jedi. Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Rian Johnson‘s second installment in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy occupies a unique space in the public imagination, something that cannot be said for even The Rise of Skywalker. In fact, Lucasfilm had so much faith in the direction’s vision back in 2017 that, shortly before The Last Jedi made it to theaters, producer Kathleen Kennedy announced that Johnson would be helming a whole new trilogy separate from the Skywalker saga.…
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21 Oct

15 Stars Who Missed Out on Big MCU Roles

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With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness blowing the doors to the Multiverse wide open, all bets are off about who could join the Marvel Cinematic Universe and when. Alongside the return of Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier, we also got Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter from What…If?, while the fan casting of John Krasinski as Mister Fantastic finally came true. It’s obviously got viewers thinking about their own real-life “what ifs” for castings that nearly were.  Over four phases and 14 years, the great and the good of Hollywood have slipped into their spandex to join the MCU. This…
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21 Oct

Black Adam’s Big Secret Spoiled by DC Ahead of Release

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This post contains spoilers for Black Adam Reports of the Snyder-verse’s death have been greatly exaggerated. For months, it’s looked like the DCEU begun by the Zack Snyder-helmed Man of Steel had come to a close. While some vestiges were sure to remain, in the form of the Aquaman and Shazam! sequels and possibly the stand-alone Flash film, several indicators suggested that Warner Bros. wanted to seek a new direction. And yet, WB also knows that the Snyder-verse has its adamant fans, who continue to hope that every new movie featuring DC characters could indeed restore their beloved shared universe.…
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21 Oct

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Isn’t Faithful to the Book and That Doesn’t Matter

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The first time I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula on television, I hated it. But then, it could be argued, I didn’t really see the movie Francis Ford Coppola had made. This irony rings true for a number of reasons. First, my introduction to Gary Oldman’s fright wig, and the luminous crimson cloak that accompanied it, came not at the theater or even on VHS. It was in the middle of a Saturday afternoon on a fuzzy TNT cable broadcast where much of the gore, and pretty much all the eroticism, had been edited out in case a younger viewer was…
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21 Oct

Living With Chucky Director Welcomes Fans Into Chucky’s Bloody Family

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Many horror fans say they grew up with Chucky, but none can claim a connection to the slashing doll quite like filmmaker Kyra Elise Gardner. As the daughter of special effects legend Tony Gardner – who helped bring Chucky to life countless times – she experienced Chucky’s evolution at home. Not every four-year-old can say Chucky was waiting for them after kindergarten class! Since Seed of Chucky, Tony Gardner has been the head puppeteer of our favorite pint-sized murderer, giving Kyra Elise Gardner some killer memories of her father’s meticulous design work and puppeteering. Now, Gardner describes Chucky as  “a…
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20 Oct

Black Adam: What That Wild Post-Credits Scene Means For The DCEU

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This article contains Black Adam spoilers. You hear him before you see him. A familiar subsonic whoosh that when you think about it, can only mean one thing. There aren’t that many heroes in the DCEU who can fly, after all, and one of them is already on screen. It doesn’t hurt that Black Adam star Dwayne Johnson has been teasing his arrival for years: Henry Cavill is back as Superman. Here’s what it all means for the DCEU… Amanda Waller and The Suicide Squad Right before Superman arrives, the newly-minted Black Adam (in a truly awesome comics-accurate costume) gets…
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20 Oct

Worst Ryan Reynolds Movie Ever Gets Surprise Sequel

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Why do some movies get sequels and others do not? Under normal circumstances, it’s because one makes money and the other doesn’t. But then how do you explain something like the upcoming R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned? The belated—as in nine years later—follow-up to Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges’ 2013 misfire follows on a path created by one of the worst movies of either previous star’s careers. It was also one of their least successful endeavors. Released about a decade late in its attempt to jump on the Men in Black bandwagon from the late ‘90s, R.I.P.D. was a…
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20 Oct

Star Wars Finally Brings Back Lost Sequel Trilogy Character

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There is no shortage of behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. Plenty has been written about how it was J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt’s idea to excise Luke Skywalker almost completely from The Force Awakens, ditching the notes and outlines George Lucas had handed over to Disney during the Lucasfilm deal. And how Rian Johnson returned to some of Lucas’ original Sequel Trilogy ideas for The Last Jedi, especially when it came to Luke training a new generation of Jedi. Meanwhile, Lucas’ idea for our heroes to explore the “microbiotic world” of the Whills remains…
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19 Oct

Marvel Reveals What a Black Panther 2 with T’Challa Would Have Been Like

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To say that the shocking death of Chadwick Boseman left the world a lesser place is an understatement. For the sake of privacy, the star of Da Five Bloods and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom kept his colon cancer diagnosis a secret from most of the world, which means his passing at the age of 43 shocked not only those who knew and loved him, but also his co-workers who saw nothing but a bright future for the immensely talented actor. That includes Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, who had co-written a sequel script with Joe Robert Cole that put T’Challa…
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