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26 May

Marvel Director: Disney’s Treatment of Scarlett Johansson Was ‘Disturbing’

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When Scarlett Johansson’s long-awaited solo Black Widow movie finally reached theaters in June 2021, it was expected to be both the culmination of her decade-plus work with Marvel Studios and the biggest film of that summer. Before this moment, Johansson had worked with the superhero dream factory since 2010’s Iron Man 2, and yet by the time her character reached a narrative conclusion in the Russo Brothers-directed Avengers: Endgame (2019), Natasha Romanoff remained the only major Avenger without a solo movie. So Black Widow finally rectified that when it was slated to be both Marvel and Disney’s biggest spectacle at…
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26 May

Star Wars Celebration: How to Watch Live, Schedule, and What to Expect

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Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 is set to bring fans all the latest news, announcements, and trailers from the galaxy far, far away. During the four-day event, we’ll hear about all of Lucasfilm’s plans for the future of Star Wars movies, TV series, games, books, and comics; and those fans lucky enough to attend the event in person at the Anaheim Convention Center will even get to enjoy a show floor full of merch and activities to dig into. For the rest of us watching at home, there are a few things we should expect to learn during the convention’s…
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26 May

Top Gun: Maverick – Do You Need to See the Original Movie First?

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THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR TOP GUN: MAVERICK. The original Top Gun came out almost exactly 36 years ago, turning Tom Cruise from a rising star into a legitimate superstar and implanting things like shirtless beach volleyball, callsigns, F-14 jets, and the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School into the public consciousness for decades to come. The movie followed hotshot pilots Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) as they joined the school (known as TOPGUN), clashed with their commanding officers and fellow trainees (including Val Kilmer’s Tom “Iceman” Kazansky), and experienced tragedy, romance and some of the most dangerous…
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26 May

Blue Beetle Costume Revealed in DC Movie Set Photos

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Jaime Reyes is coming to the DCEU, and the character’s striking Blue Beetle costume has never looked better! Warner Bros. has been putting a lot behind their upcoming Blue Beetle movie, and it’s definitely showing in the first look at the elaborate costume in live action. Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai) plays Jaime Reyes, a teenager from El Paso, TX who finds an alien “scarab” that bonds with him, manifests a suit of high tech armor, and grants him super powers. Created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner during DC’s Infinite Crisis event back in 2006, Blue Beetle’s sleek, almost…
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25 May

Top Gun 2: What Has Maverick Been Doing All This Time?

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This article contains mild Top Gun: Maverick spoilers. (Really trailer-level stuff, folks.) What does a man like Tom Cruise’s Lt. Pete Mitchell, aka ace Navy pilot “Maverick,” look like in his old age? What would it be like for such a man to retire? That is a question that would seemingly be posed by the prospect of a legacy sequel released 36 years after the original and iconic Top Gun. And yet, the answer remains elusive in the final, and joyously satisfying, Top Gun: Maverick. Technically, Cruise’s beloved pilot with an affinity for fast motorcycles, faster jets, and slow-motion volleyball…
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25 May

Alien 3 Is Just as Worthy a Sequel as James Cameron’s Aliens

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On the 30th anniversary of the release of Alien 3, it seems like a good time to look at the film’s role in the Alien trilogy. Except calling it a trilogy is pretty controversial. Even now, debate still rages over a simple question: Which Alien films count? It’s a surprisingly controversial subject among fans. Eight licensed feature films form the franchise, and there are some areas of common consensus. For instance, it is unlikely anyone is going to storm the comments if we say we can disregard the Alien vs. Predator movies for reasons of them being bad. An area…
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24 May

Top Gun: Maverick – Jennifer Connelly Recalls Stunt Flying with Tom Cruise

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Tom Cruise wanted to do barrel rolls. That’s one of the more singular moments Jennifer Connelly can remember about her time on Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 classic. The opportunity to go flying with her legendary co-star had come about because Maverick features one of those classic movie moments. You know the type: a pair of old flames consider rekindling their romance as their single-engine aircraft drifts above the clouds and a lonely stretch of the Mojave Desert. Perhaps you’ve even seen something similar, with movie stars in front of green screens making eyes as they…
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24 May

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Major Character Change That Saved the Movies

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Echoes of Sonic the Hedgehog’s movie redesign will reverberate throughout the industry for decades to come. The visual shift of the film’s title character caused public opinion to take a massive 180-degree turn, transforming the movie’s buzz from negative to overwhelmingly positive. This shift has often been cited as the singular reason the movie turned out to be a hit. While it can’t be denied that the redesign played a part in Sonic’s newfound movie popularity, a design can only go so far. If the movie had been total garbage, it wouldn’t have been able to retain the publics support.…
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24 May

New Thor: Love and Thunder Trailer Breakdown – Gorr, Zeus, Jane, and More!

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It finally happened! The first Thor: Love and Thunder trailer was all good vibes, man. Bright colors. Taika Waititi’s trademark sense of humor. The promise of the continuing redemption arc of the God of Thunder. An amazing instrumental version of Guns n’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” And the second Thor: Love and Thunder trailer? Well, it has bright colors, that director’s humor (and voice), the aforementioned redemption arc, that killer GnR tune again. But then we get the vibe shift at exactly one minute in, with the long-awaited introduction (and official first look at) Christian Bale as the film’s…
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23 May

When Will the New Thor: Love and Thunder Trailer Be Released?

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Not long ago, sports fans and superhero fans were two very different types of people, each distrusting the other. But those days are long gone, as demonstrated by not only the vast popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also by the fact that Disney uses sporting events to advertise its new offerings. Just this year, Marvel dropped trailers for both Moon Knight and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness during the Super Bowl. Over the weekend, Marvel announced plans to continue that tradition, thanks to a video shared via Twitter featuring Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi, and stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa…
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23 May

How Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Trailer Calls Back Original Movie

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“It’s all led to this.” That is what Tom Cruise tweeted out Monday morning alongside our first taste of the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One teaser trailer. It’s an old familiar line in movie franchises that have survived, or even thrived, for decades: every previous film has been building to this moment! And yet, while watching how the dazzling sizzle reel footage is framed in Dead Reckoning, it is hard not to think this will be some kind of capstone on the entire Mission: Impossible franchise. After all, this is the first feature in nearly 30 years…
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21 May

Has Forrest Gump Aged Well?

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“Run, Forrest, run!;” “that day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run;” “my mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.” The folksy Southern truisms uttered throughout Forrest Gump by a guileless Tom Hanks and an incredible supporting cast are more than mere movie quotables. Rather these are phrases that have seeped into the bedrock of our shared cultural lexicon. You don’t need to have even seen Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 movie to know what someone means if they tell you, “Stupid is as stupid does.” This is a testament to the staying power…
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21 May

Marvel Studios and the Curse of High Expectations

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Marvel Studios is doomed. That’s right: according to some cynical industry chatter—heard on recent podcasts and seen in this self-satisfied piece, in which the writer actually consults his “cousin Vinny from the Bronx” for his insights into the Disney-owned studio—Marvel Studios is teetering on the edge of disaster. Kevin Feige should resign now, and Disney might want to start thinking about finding a new tenant for Marvel’s offices on the company’s Burbank lot. That’s at least the tone, and all because Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has made more than $700 million worldwide in just two weeks…
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21 May

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers – The Crazy Cameo That’s the Best Gag in the Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers. You’d need to go through the Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie frame by frame to see all the Easter eggs and references to the wide world of entertainment. Everything from deep cut Marvel properties to Hasbro toys are on display, but there’s one cameo that eclipsed all others.The plot of Rescue Rangers is much akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, where your favorite animated characters are in fact Hollywood actors. Several scenes of the film take place at a convention where some of pop culture’s lesser stars are sitting…
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21 May

Romy and Michele’s Dream Sequence Exposes Rom-Com Happy Endings for the Nightmares They Are

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Let’s be clear: Romy and Michele’s Highschool Reunion is a modern masterpiece and is a brilliant feminist subversion of rom-com tropes from start to finish. Anyone who wants to hear why my favorite film is absolute perfection is welcome to pop round mine any time they like and we can stick it on.  One of the most fascinating elements, though, is the extended dream sequence which falls in the middle of the film as serves as a bit of surrealist comedy, a hinge point building up to the third act denouement of the reunion itself but also as a clever…
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21 May

Men Ending Explained

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This article contains major spoilers for A24’s Men. When it comes to interrogating the meanings and possible subtexts of Men, the new and formidable surrealist horror film from Alex Garland, the filmmaker is unusually circumspect. As a storyteller who appears always as erudite as the films he’s written—which include 28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, and his previous directorial efforts of Ex Machina and Annihilation—Garland is again thoughtful while discussing Men ahead of release. But perhaps more so than any of his previous projects, he also feels a need to be ambiguous about a movie that shockingly ends with…
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21 May

Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers Has the Best Marvel Easter Eggs

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This article contains minor spoilers for Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers. The Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie is full of Easter eggs and references to not just everything under the Disney banner but a wide assortment of entertainment brands. The way it accomplishes this is a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? style plot where all animated characters are really actors, which leads to several sequences taking place at a convention center. Of course this being a Disney film you’d expect some references to one of the biggest entertainment juggernauts around, Marvel, but Rescue Rangers doesn’t go for an easy reference…
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20 May

Zack Snyder Plays Along with The Boys Justice League Parody

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“We are your heroes,” echoes a powerful voice, as oversaturated images of costumed heroes fill the screen. A caped man dressed in blue strides through city wreckage and an armor-clad woman turns in trepidation, looking for the next threat. Accompanying every shot are Wagnerian strings and echoing bass drum thumps, capturing the heroes’ inner turmoil as they prepare to clash with a rogue member. From the darkness comes a title card adorned with sparks and steel, declaring the movie’s title, Dawn of the Seven. But the heroes on the screen are neither Ben Affleck’s Batman nor Henry Cavill’s Superman. Rather,…
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19 May

Star Wars: Rey’s Parents Finally Have Names

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may have wrapped up Rey’s story in the Sequel Trilogy, but it didn’t actually answer every question about her past. In fact, there was one big mystery left unanswered in 2019 that Star Wars is only just now addressing three years later. While the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga revealed that Rey’s parents (played by Jodie Comer and Billy Howle) were forced to hide their baby daughter away on Jakku in order to protect her from Emperor Palpatine, and that her father was actually an imperfect clone of the Sith lord who lacked a…
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19 May

How Jurassic World Dominion Finally Gives Laura Dern Her Due

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For director Colin Trevorrow, his new film Jurassic World Dominion marks the end of not one, not two, but possibly three eras for this long-running, audience-favorite franchise. The movie, the sixth overall in the Jurassic Park/World cycle, concludes the story that began with 2015’s Jurassic World (also directed by Trevorrow) and lead actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. But it also puts a bow on the previous trilogy of films by bringing back original Jurassic Park stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum for their first joint appearance since Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic. And the third era? We’ll…
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