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09 May

How Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth Compares to the Film

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Ground control to Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet: the stars are aligned, but look very different today. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a standalone sequel series, using Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film as an alternative energy source. With Walter Tevis’ 1963 science fiction novel The Man Who Fell to Earth as a launching pad, the film starred David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an overstay from a galaxy not that far away. Showtime’s new series stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as K. Faraday. He is an immigrant from that same planet, Anthea. The fusion between the two projects is clear from…
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08 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: What the Illuminati Mean for the MCU

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. For lovers of Marvel cameos and worldbuilding, the most exciting part of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came about halfway through, when Strange is taken by Baron Mordo to face the Illuminati. First introduced in 2005’s New Avengers #7 (written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by Steve McNiven), the Illuminati consist of the biggest brains of the Marvel Universe. They exist to make difficult decisions about complex problems, such as sending the Hulk off-planet to prevent further destruction or ridding the Earth of a Skrull…
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08 May

Sheryl Crow: A Musical Life with ‘My Best Work in Front of Me’

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Sheryl Crow’s earliest musical memory begins in the backseat of a powder blue Plymouth Station Wagon. Only three years old at the time, she was being driven by her parents into the heart of her hometown’s commercial district when, fortuitously, Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came on the radio. Young Sheryl sang at the top of her lungs the whole way home. It was the beginning of a lifetime of music that’s followed Crow from those simpler Kennett, Missouri origins to the height of musical superstardom in the 1990s, 2000s, and on through to today. When Crow speaks about those formative years…
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08 May

Scarface: George Raft Brought Real Mob Ties to Original Movie

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Gangster icons aren’t always determined by top billing. Sometimes it’s decided by a flip of a coin. Director Howard Hawks’ 1932 gangster classic Scarface recently celebrated its 90th anniversary. Producer Howard Hughes was so committed to presenting a realistic depiction of mob violence that the film pushed the Motion Picture Production Code to its limit. Paul Muni puts in a gritty, animalistic performance in the title role of Antonio “Tony” Carmonte, modeled after Al Capone, but the actor with the gangland bona fides was the co-star, George Raft. Hired for his dark and menacing presence, Raft doesn’t have many lines…
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08 May

Scarlet Witch Deserves Better Than Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is many things: a trippy reality-bending visual spectacle, a surprisingly grotesque horror film, and a standard superhero sequel that ticks a series of necessary boxes in aid of the larger franchise machine (all topped off by a heaping dose of cameos, callbacks, and general fanservice aimed squarely at the most hardcore of fans). What it is not, however, is the story it was advertised as.  Following the success of WandaVision, Doctor Strange in the…
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07 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Best Marvel Comics and MCU Easter Eggs

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally here! And with it comes a host of answers to long-standing fan speculations, the wish-fulfillment of multiple fan-castings and favorite returns, and a even more questions about where this leaves the MCU of the future. Oh yeah, and there’s also a ton of references to Marvel Comics in here. Here are our favorite ones that we’ve found… AMERICA CHAVEZ Created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, America Chavez has been kicking around Marvel Comics for over a decade now.…
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07 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: What Charles Xavier Means for the MCU

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This article contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. If Patrick Stewart got a quarter for every time his Charles Xavier died onscreen… well, he’d have a dollar at this point. Which is not a lot, but it still feels substantial after Chuck was gleefully introduced in Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness only to then be gleefully shepherded off this mortal coil in a highly Raimi fashion. How else would you describe Professor X having his neck snapped by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) at her witchiest? It should be noted that the Xavier who…
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06 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: The Many Sam Raimi Easter Eggs

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This article contains major Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Hail to the King, baby. That’s the final line of Sam Raimi’s grooviest Evil Dead movie, Army of Darkness, but for Marvel fans of a certain sensibility, the thought had to spring to mind while watching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. One might even count Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige among those ranks. Not since James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok has a Marvel director seemed to be so liberated, acting with enough freedom to leave their own stylistic stamp…
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06 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Review

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There have been some whispers over the past year that post-Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been kind of… wobbly. Most of that hushed chatter is due to the less than stellar performances, both critically and financially, of films like Black Widow and Eternals, as well as the inconsistent quality of the studio’s Disney+ offerings. Was it possible that the mighty MCU might have lost its direction and momentum once the Infinity Saga ended? Last December’s acclaimed Spider-Man: No Way Home put a lot of that speculation to rest, and now we’re here to tell you…
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06 May

Randy Rhoads: Shedding Light on a Dark Sound

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Like a comet, Randy Rhoads only blazed through the sonic atmosphere for a short time, but musicologists, guitar geeks, and fans continue to study the lingering tail of each of his solos. Tragically killed in a plane crash on March 19, 1982 at the age of 25, his work is most clearly captured on studio recordings as the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne. The new documentary Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon continues the star gaze, and director Andre Relis (NWA & Eazy-E: Kings of Compton) examines the influence with academic glee. Rhoads was, at heart, heavy metal’s most…
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06 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Post-Credit Scenes Explained

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This post contains Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness spoilers. Sometimes, Marvel’s mid- and post-credits sequences are fun jokes, but more often than not, they set up future plots. As its title suggests, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness offers plenty of plot points for later Marvel entries to explore.  The film introduces Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, a fan favorite from the comic universe who has carried her own series. Based on the brief look we get in this movie, Chavez seems primed to star in a universe-hopping Disney+ series. But the real potential for future stories…
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06 May

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Ending Explained

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This post contains spoilers for WandaVision, Loki, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, as well as potential future MCU spoilers. The MCU multiverse came to be when Loki and Sylvie dethroned He Who Remains in the Loki season finale. But if the Marvel Comics references in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are to be believed, it may be ending soon, too. In the movie’s post-credit sequence, the sorceress Clea (Charlize Theron) recruits Strange to join her in the Dark Dimension to address an incursion caused by his actions. These incursions could have major repercussions for the…
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05 May

Who Should Direct Marvel’s Fantastic Four Movie?

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Late last week, director Jon Watts exited Marvel Studios’ first official film starring the Fantastic Four. Both Watts and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige issued statements making it clear that the split was amicable. It seems that after helming three blockbuster Spider-Man movies for Marvel, Watts simply wants time off and perhaps a change of pace and material. It’s hard to say exactly what Watts’ personal contribution was to the Spider-Man trilogy he just completed with Spider-Man: No Way Home; while all three movies are a blast (and easily the best screen iteration of the character yet), his directing style…
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04 May

Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman Updates Toxic Avenger Reboot Progress

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New Jersey’s first superhero is being recycled, and it seems like only the truest fans are going through the trash. Legendary Pictures is remaking Troma Entertainment’s 1984 superhero splatter comedy, The Toxic Avenger. Directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, who wrote the screenplay with Joe Ritter, the original is a campy and violent low budget B-movie which became a cult phenomenon after midnight showings at the West Village’s Bleecker Street Cinema. It spawned a franchise, a cartoon, a Broadway play, and a legion of dedicated fans. Legendary’s remake was first announced in 2019 with Peter Dinklage attached. “The movie…
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04 May

From Spider-Man to Doctor Strange: Sam Raimi and Kevin Feige Reunite

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On May 2, 2002, Columbia/Sony Pictures released Spider-Man, the culmination of a long, torturous road to the big screen for Marvel’s best-known and most popular superhero. Starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi, the film told the classic origin story of how Peter Parker became Spider-Man and set him in battle against Spidey’s most feared nemesis, Norman Osborn/Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe). Spider-Man earned a then record-breaking $114 million in its first weekend of release and went on to rake in a global total of more than $825 million. Coming on the heels of 2000’s hit X-Men – another film…
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04 May

Star Wars Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

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Despite all the making-of books and documentaries, and the myth-making surrounding the creator of Star Wars, there’s no way George Lucas could have predicted the long-lasting effects his 1977 space adventure would have on pop culture. Sure, maybe he did write outlines for additional prequels and sequels while crafting the story of the original film, but he also had a lower-budget “Star Wars II” backup plan had A New Hope bombed at the box office in the summer of ’77. As we all know now, quite the opposite happened. The adventures of a young farm boy named Luke Skywalker caused…
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03 May

Star Trek: Why Doesn’t Guinan Remember Picard?

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This article contains Star Trek: Picard spoilers. Star Trek: Picard season 2 has its fans and its detractors, delving into Picard’s personal history, Data’s ancestry, and Earth’s future history. But for a show that is so deeply rooted in Star Trek continuity, it has certainly thrown up some questions. Some of those questions can be simply put down to the show ignoring existing continuity – like Picard’s dad having hair when “Tapestry” showed his was an angry bald man. Others, however, have sparked lively debate about time travel logic. Only, you know when you have a loose thread on a…
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02 May

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 Would Have Cast Bruce Campbell as Fan-Favorite Villain

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Director Sam Raimi has imagined a host of alternate realities in the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But on the press tour for the latest MCU film, Raimi has given fans a glimpse of a different world that almost came to be, one in which he joined Sony to make a fourth Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson. As Raimi began developing the project following 2007’s Spider-Man 3, rumors circulated that Maguire would star opposite John Malkovich as Adrian Toomes aka the Vulture. But the bigger questions surrounded Raimi’s longtime partner Bruce…
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02 May

How The Avengers Changed Cinema For Better and Worse

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I was living in North Carolina when Marvel’s The Avengers opened in theaters. That feels noteworthy because at least in May 2012, and certainly during a Saturday matinee, North Carolinian audiences were generally not the type to stand up and cheer fictional characters through a screen. But that’s exactly what happened one sunny afternoon when, in a darkened room, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Robert Downey Jr.’s wily Iron Man stood shoulder to shoulder in a dizzying, rotating dolly shot during the climax of the Joss Whedon superhero event. It is an understatement to say the audience went…
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01 May

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in May 2022

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Spring has sprung. The weather is nice; you can go outside again without a coat; and the days have literally grown sunnier. All things considered, it’s perhaps less a “Netflix and chill” month than others over the long winter. Even so, every once in a while, it’s nice to kick up your feet and watch or discover an old favorite. For that reason, Netflix has (lightly) updated its content for the month with a small string of new releases, and we’re here to tell you which are the best ones. Enjoy. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) May 1 In real-life, would…
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