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01 Jun

Hulu New Releases: June 2022

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Summer is about to finally, blessedly be in full swing. And to honor the occasion, Hulu is showing up big with its list of new releases for June 2022. Hulu is bringing two major TV titles to its stream this month. The first is The Orville: New Horizons on June 2. Seth MacFarlane’s sci-fi/comedy started as a simple Star Trek parody on Fox before blossoming into its own entirely sincere space adventuring beast. Now “New Horizons” promises to be a fresh start for the series on Hulu. Next up is Only Murders in the Building season 2 on June 28.…

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01 Jun

What Does a Morbius Sequel Even Look Like?

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Well, great. Morbius is relevant again. You internet kids just couldn’t let it die, could you? You had to make your, “It’s Morbin’ time!” jokes and cause this stupid movie to trend. Some have been afraid that this trend will trick Sony – who don’t fully understand the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s success – to greenlight a Morbius sequel, despite some less than franchise-ready box office results. Such a decision would be as disastrous and wasteful as when New Line did massive reshoots to capitalize on the online popularity of the “Snakes on a Plane” meme. I still doubt that we’ll…

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01 Jun

HBO Max New Releases: June 2022

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With its list of new releases for June 2022, HBO Max is joining in what should be a TV summer to remember. Not content to let Netflix’s Stranger Things or Prime Video’s The Boys to dominate the summer TV landscape, HBO is coming through with a new season of one of its big hits. Westworld season 4 is set to premiere June 26 on both HBO and HBO Max. What will this season of the increasingly confusing sci-fi drama be about? Per HBO’s synopsis it will be “A dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on earth.” So you…

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01 Jun

Disney+ New Releases June 2022

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With its list of new releases for June 2022, Disney+ is experience an ideal Walt Disney Company content eclipse. This month will feature both the series premiere of a major Marvel TV property and the finale of an even bigger Star Wars TV property. The new Marvel arrival is…well, Ms. Marvel herself. The series bearing Kamala Khan’s superheroic name is set to premiere with its first episode on Wednesday, June 8. And none of those “multiple episode premiere” shenanigans this time, Ms. Marvel will continue with one episode each week until its sixth episode finale, as the TV gods intended.…

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31 May

Star Wars Confirms Future Sequel Trilogy Era Movie Plans

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If you tuned into Star Wars Celebration last week hoping to get lots of updates on Lucasfilm’s upcoming slate of films set in the galaxy far, far away, you likely came away very disappointing. We learned virtually nothing new about the three films currently in development during the four-day conference in Anaheim. Instead, the Disney+ series were the real stars of the show, with The Mandalorian season 3, Andor, Ahsoka, The Bad Batch, and new animated series Tales of the Jedi taking top billing. There was even a new Star Wars video game announced over the weekend, but not a…

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31 May

Best Summer Movies of the Last 15 Years

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Like a blast of chlorine water on the first day the pool’s open, the joys of summer come fast and sudden. For every person, that joy can be different too. For some it might mean the smell of barbecue and a cold beverage; for others it could be an escape into the wilds of a sun-kissed coast or a rolling hiking trail. For almost everyone, however, summer has also long meant a chance to disappear into the fantasies of their local cinema for a few hours, preferably with ice-cold air conditioning cranked all the way up. While being able to…

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30 May

Examining Hollywood’s Growing Obsession With Legacy Sequels

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Legacy sequels, it seems, are here to stay. After Hollywood dipped its toe in the water more than a decade ago with Tron: Legacy (2010) and Scream 4 (2011), reviving titles that seemed all but dead and buried, the genre really caught fire in 2015 with no less than four follow-ups to franchises that had been dormant for anywhere from nine to 30 years. Out of those four (more on them below), every one of them was a tremendous hit, opening the floodgates for more such resurrections. With more properties continuing their storylines and setting them years later—almost always with…

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30 May

David Bowie Doc Shares a Moonage Daydream

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Through all his hazy cosmic jive, David Bowie was always presented as a Starman, waiting in the sky for the right moment to blow our minds. Times have caught up with the legendary Thin White Duke, and one of the signs is a stellar alignment. If the stars look different, it is because there was an unforeseen conjunction. Neon Film’s immersive documentary Moonage Daydream premiered at Cannes this week as did Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth’s newest episode, entitled “Moonage Daydream.” In the series, K. Faraday (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is the home planet help requested by Thomas Jerome Newton,…

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29 May

Top Gun: Maverick Box Office Marks Biggest Tom Cruise Movie Ever

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Moviegoers feel the need, the need for speed. And as it turns out, nothing will get a bigger plurality of them out on Memorial Day weekend than the image of Tom Cruise speeding away in a fighter jet. Indeed, almost two years exactly since Top Gun: Maverick was originally supposed to be released, the movie now premieres with an opening weekend that gives the star and his studio the last laugh. As it stands, the Top Gun sequel is estimated to shatter multiple box office records, including for Memorial Day weekend* in the U.S. and for Cruise himself. As per…

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29 May

The Post-Apocalyptic Conan the Barbarian Oliver Stone Never Got to Make

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Conan the Barbarian holds a special place in the history of cinema as the movie that effectively launched the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger and kickstarted a heady decade of sword and sorcery epics.  Yet to writer Oliver Stone, two words will forever hang over John Milius’ rough-and-ready adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s proto comic book hero: What if.  Stone may have earned a writing credit on the finished film, but what ended up on the screen was a far cry of “Crom!” from what he had envisioned in the script he presented to producer Edward R. Pressman in 1978.  That…

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29 May

Sonic the Hedgehog 3: The Cast Wants a Musical Number Next Time

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Anytime a new Sonic the Hedgehog project gets announced, fans clamor to discuss what it should be influenced by. The classic Genesis games for their iconic look? The Dreamcast Sonic Adventure series for the story? Sonic’s various appearances in animation also get brought up, whether it is the wacky slapstick of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the cult classic Sonic the Hedgehog (aka SatAM), the Sonic X anime, and more.One series that the cast of the Sonic live-action movies wants to draw from more than any other though is Sonic Boom. Airing from 2014 to 2017 on Cartoon Network and…

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28 May

Only Ray Liotta Could Make Henry Hill in Goodfellas Likable

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As an actor, Ray Liotta could look into the eyes of the most coldblooded sociopath and find the glimmer of mirth needed to transmit a familiar character to the screen. Someone the audience can identify with, cheer on even as he does the most vile things, for the least redeemable reasons. Liotta will go down in motion picture history as one of the great character actors because he found fully realized people inside the most damaged goods. Liotta played bad cops and good robbers, sympathetic psychos and friendly ghosts. He is at his best when he is at his worst,…

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28 May

Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star Who Gets Better with Age

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It’s not exactly subtle. Appearing in even the first teaser of Top Gun: Maverick—released an astonishing three years ago!—Tom Cruise’s fighter pilot is getting an epic dressing down from the boss. His superior, Radam. Chester “the Hammer” Cain, is sick and tired of Maverick’s hot shot ways and insubordination. And he’s here to put the younger man in his place. It’s a scene we’ve witnessed many times, including to iconic effect in the original Top Gun from 1986, and yet the Hammer’s critique of his fiftysomething naval officer is sharper here. More pointed. He is getting at something existential about…

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28 May

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Easter Eggs and Reference Guide

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This article contains spoilers for all of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The first live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie had its share of references and callbacks for longtime Sonic fans, but on the whole it was mostly just a fun family road-trip movie. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, however, goes all in. With Tails, Knuckles, and a ton of backstory revealed about Sonic’s home planet, this movie was primed for Easter eggs galore and it did not let us down!With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Paramount+ and being available for digital purchase, we put together a complete guide to…

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28 May

From Roger Rabbit to Rescue Rangers: The Legacy of Mega Crossover Movies

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This article contains spoilers for…a whole lotta stuff. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers just arrived on Disney+ and while it follows up on 1988’s Rescue Rangers animated series, it’s more of a thematic sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Both feature similar concepts like a world where humans and cartoons coexist, each use the existence of cartoons to explain real life issues (racism, trafficking), and both have a freaky hybrid villain in the finale. But the main thing everyone sees is that they’re also gigantic collections of cartoon cameos. Even crazier, the cartoons come from different owners. I’m not sure…

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27 May

The Flash Movie Reveals Awesome New Look for Barry Allen

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Despite lagging behind in television properties, Marvel has long outdone DC on the silver screen. But recent news has given DC fans reason to hope that Crosstown Rivalry might be getting even soon. With Michael Keaton’s new Bat-suit for The Flash and Batgirl already shown, and with set photos showing Xolo Maridueña’s costume for Blue Beetle making the rounds, fans get another treat with images coming from the Licensing Expo at Las Vegas. These photos show a much brighter suit than previously worn by The Flash star Ezra Miller, something much closer in tone to the costume that Grant Gustin has worn playing the Flash on the CW series. More notably,…

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27 May

Does Top Gun: Maverick Ending Set Up Top Gun 3?

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This article contains Top Gun: Maverick spoilers. It’s the ending you always want in a feel-good summer spectacle, and few endings are as feel-good as those in the Top Gun movies. This weekend’s much belated sequel certainly led audiences to believe that this would be the swan song for Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a character Tom Cruise first played 36 years ago. Just about every superior he has in the Navy is eager to tell him that, no matter what, this tale marks his last mission before he’s permanently grounded. Meanwhile, it’s heavily implied that the former TOPGUN champ pilots…

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27 May

Stranger Things Season 4 Has the Best Nightmare on Elm Street Easter Egg Ever

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This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4 and Scream (2022). A swimming pool boils and beer cans spontaneously explode. What started as a harmless suburban party ends in bedlam. Teens rush away in a panic, trampling both the living and the dead, fleeing the flames that threaten to consume them. With the light from the blaze illuminating his scarred face, Freddy Krueger raises his arms toward the mass huddled before him and proudly declares, “You are all my children now.” These words, spoken by Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger in 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street II, reflect the…

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27 May

Is Top Gun Based on a True Story?

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As Top Gun: Maverick arrives in theaters this week, it will be almost 36 years exactly since the original Top Gun was released. That first movie became not only the biggest hit of 1986, but one of the signature films in the career of Tom Cruise and a permanent part of the cultural zeitgeist. Inspired by an article called “Top Guns,” written by Ehud Yonay for the May 1983 issue of California magazine, the film detailed the lives of pilots at the Navy’s elite Fighter Weapons School (known as TOPGUN) in Miramar, California. Written for the screen by Jack Epps…

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27 May

Indiana Jones 5: Everything We Know About One More Harrison Ford Adventure

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When the lights went up on 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, even the most diehard Indy fan felt a little disappointed. Sure, we still had three great movies filled with all the archeology and Nazi-punching anyone could want. But few could ignore the sense that the beloved adventurer/part-time teacher was going out on a sour note. With Lucasfilm under new management since the Disney buyout in 2012, it seemed inevitable we’d see the trusty ol’ fedora again. What might be more impressive, then, is that Harrison Ford‘s Dr. Jones (unlike his Han Solo doppelgänger) is the…

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