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07 Feb

What Does the New Madame Web Movie Mean for the Spider-Verse?

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When there’s casting news about an upcoming superhero movie, the hoped response is something along the lines of a fist pump and some level of, “Hey, awesome!” You’re always going to hit on a character somebody’s interested in. I mean, I for one was excited about Vin Diesel as Bloodshot until I actually watched the movie. There were certainly enough Jack Kirby fans psyched about Eternals. People were hyped about John Cena as Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad the moment he was announced. But when news hit that Dakota Johnson is set to star in a movie about Madame Web?…
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07 Feb

Nightmare Alley Has One of the Great Film Noir Endings in Cinema

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This article contains Nightmare Alley spoilers. In its original form, film noir was an anomaly: a dark rain cloud cast in silhouette across the otherwise sunny landscape of 1940s American pop culture. At a time when censors insisted on black and white morality, and clean, unambiguous entertainment, noir was a subversive sneer, reflecting the cynicism bubbling underneath. As with the often doomed fools who led movies like Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and In a Lonely Place (1950), noir filmmakers saw a fatally flawed world outside the studios’ backlots, and even in the glow of post-war America.…
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05 Feb

Nightmare Alley (2021) vs. Nightmare Alley (1947): What Are the Differences?

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This article contains spoilers for both versions of Nightmare Alley. “Mister, I was made for it,” versus “Mister, I was born for it,” sums up the major psychological distinction between the 1947 Nightmare Alley and Guillermo del Toro’s 2021 remake. Neither line from the end of their respective movies is in the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham. That book concludes just short of the revelation or confession (depending on the actor who says it). Bradley Cooper’s Stan Carlisle finds it downright hilarious that he is about to become a geek. Tyrone Power’s The Great Stanton only grants himself temporary…
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05 Feb

Roland Emmerich Is Not a Fan of Disaster Comedy Don’t Look Up

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Roland Emmerich knows his way around a movie where the Earth (almost) gets destroyed. He practically reinvented the disaster genre when he obliterated the White House in Independence Day and then laid waste to NYC multiple times, from 1998’s Godzilla to 2012. And decades before the new popular disaster movie on Netflix, Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, Emmerich was making a cautionary spectacle out of climate change with 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow. Which is why when we sat down to speak with Emmerich ahead of his latest world-threatening event film, this weekend’s Moonfall, we felt intrigued to hear his…
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05 Feb

Scream 6: What We Want Out of the New Sequel

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Scream 6 (or whatever it may be titled) is officially happening. This is hardly a surprise after the fifth Scream film, confusingly titled just Scream, surpassed all pandemic and January expectations by opening to $33.9 million over MLK Day weekend. Still, it was nice to get a confirmation Thursday that the sixth entry is greenlit and moving ahead with Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet returning to direct, and James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick once again writing the screenplay. That creative team did a solid job of filling the shoes of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson last time, and…
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05 Feb

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Who’s Who In The Character Posters?

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Those cunning marketing bods at Prime Video sure know what they’re doing. They’ve released 23 character posters for their new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power – but there are no name labels on the posters, and we can’t even see the characters’ faces, just their hands and a bit of a robe. And so we will all spend the next few weeks picking the posters apart, trying to work out who we’re looking at – which, considering we only really know three characters who will definitely be appearing (Sauron, Galadriel, and Celebrimbor, the forger of the…
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03 Feb

Moonfall: How Roland Emmerich Got NASA and Conspiracy Theorists to Team Up

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This pandemic is like something out of a Roland Emmerich movie. It’s an observation that the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow has heard a lot in recent years. The way he tells it, even he made a joke about current events feeling like one of his films—except in slow motion. That said, getting through the last few years, and coming out on the other side with a finished film like this week’s sci-fi epic, Moonfall, was its own kind of space odyssey, complete with twists, turns, and even a proverbial moonshot. “I started preparing the movie,…
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03 Feb

The Exorcist: How One Deleted Scene Can Change a Movie’s Meaning

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It’s astonishing to think that a few judicious edits, a deletion of seconds here, or a few minutes there, can sometimes change the entire meaning, theme, and even narrative trajectory of a motion picture. But it happens more often than you may think: look at movies like Aliens, The Abyss, or Blade Runner–just to name a handful–where such excisions literally made a movie-defining difference. That’s what happened with The Exorcist too. That religious chiller is still renowned as the greatest horror movie of all time, and it starts a run on Netflix this week. When director William Friedkin made The…
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02 Feb

SXSW Film Festival Reveals The Lost City, Nic Cage, and FX’s Atlanta as Headliners

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The SXSW Film Festival is returning to its in-person roots with a vengeance next month. After several years of going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SXSW will be the year’s first major festival and conference event to return its focus to live festivities when it launches from March 11 to March 20. And with Wednesday’s reveal of its full film line-up, what a significant return that will be. Previously, SXSW already announced the intriguing Everything Everywhere All at Once will be the opening night film. That A24 release looks to combine the recently popular sci-fi concept of “multiverse theory”…
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02 Feb

Roland Emmerich: Marvel and Star Wars Are ‘Ruining Our Industry’

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The disaster film has changed a great deal since Roland Emmerich first blew up the White House in Independence Day more than 25 years ago. Back then the genre had fallen relatively dormant following the glory days of Irwin Allen’s own golden age for cinematic mass destruction. But from the moment Emmerich’s on-screen aliens gleefully detonated the White House during a Super Bowl commercial in 1996, American and global audiences alike were ready for a new breed of spectacle. Since that defining summer movie, Emmerich’s seen the genre ebb and flow, soar with humor and, in later years, reach for…
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02 Feb

What Watchmen Predicted in Zack Snyder’s Justice League Universe

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The world of superhero movies was in a different place during the summer of 2008. Back then, Christian Bale was still Batman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still considered a relatively risky gamble as it launched Phase One, and Zack Snyder hadn’t released a superhero movie. Not yet. As a director synonymous today with foreboding capes and cowls, and the breed of zealotry such an on-screen interpretation can elicit from fans, Snyder was still a Warners wunderkind in ’08: the guy who directed the surprise 2006 blockbuster 300 and was about to debut his most ambitious film to date, Watchmen.…
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01 Feb

The Most Controversial Movies Streaming Right Now

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Are you looking for a light and breezy flick to stream at home? Well, you may want to look elsewhere. The movies we’ve compiled below test the merits of the phrase “all publicity is good publicity.” Whether controversial due to violent or explicit content, on-set occurrences, or tackling weighty topics like race or religion, the following films were lightning rods for conversation around the time of their release, sometimes overshadowing the quality of the films themselves. Thankfully, all of these disputed movies are readily available to modern audiences right now, allowing us to see whether all of the hubbub surrounding…
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01 Feb

Hulu New Releases: February 2022

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The new year is continuing apace at Hulu. The streamer’s list of new releases for February 2022 is highlighted by one very interesting project. Pam and Tommy is set to premiere on Feb. 2. Perhaps the Groundhog Day release date is intentional as the show will cover a particular moment of celebrity, sex, and exploitation from the early ’90s that seems to have repeated itself over and over. Sebastian Stan and Lily James star as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson and the series follows the events and fallout of their homemade sex tape being stolen and unleashed on a nascent…
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01 Feb

Why Wayne’s World Needed Bohemian Rhapsody

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Premiering on Feb. 14, 1992, Wayne’s World was a Valentine’s Day gift to heavy metal music. Starring Mike Myers as lo-fi cable host Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as his best friend/chimp/“with you as always” Garth Algar, the film followed in the tradition of The Blues Brothers, a Saturday Night Live skit that became a big screen buddy movie which had that box office “schwing.” Both films highlighted a particular music genre, and each brought on experts in the sonic reality. Penelope Spheeris directed the cult punk rock/heavy metal masterpiece documentary film series The Decline of Western Civilization, and turned…
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01 Feb

New on Netflix: February 2022 Releases

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It’s cold outside in the Northern Hemisphere. Thankfully, the magic of streaming means you’ll never have to go outside again! Netflix’s list of new releases for February 2022 is full of original titles that could make a quick month go by even quicker. The biggest Netflix original series in February is undoubtedly Vikings: Valhalla. This Vikings spinoff premieres Feb. 25 takes a time jump to bring our Nordic friends into conflict with Western Europe and a burgeoning Christian movement. Before that, however, Netflix will be premiering Raising Dion season 2 (Feb. 1), Murderville (Feb. 3), Inventing Anna (Feb. 11), and…
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01 Feb

Amazon Prime Video New Releases: February 2022

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February 2022 is a big month for Prime Video. We’re talking “hands the size of dinner plates” big. Highlighting Amazon Prime Video’s list of new releases for February 2022 is Reacher, the saga of one very large boy. Reacher premieres on Feb. 4 and is based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child. The titular hero (played by Alan Ritchson) is a former major in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps who now travels the country looking for trouble to get into. His hands are very large. How Big Are Jack Reacher’s Hands?: An Investigation pic.twitter.com/dYasLj7Bey— Erik Tanouye…
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01 Feb

Disney+ New Releases: February 2022

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February is the shortest month of the year. Perhaps that’s what Disney+ is paying homage to with its very brief list of new releases for February 2022. There’s not much to write home about on Disney+ this month. Feb. 9 will see the arrival of The Book of Boba Fett finale so start getting your theory-makin’ brain ready for that. The only other original series of note is The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a continuation of the early 2000s Disney Channel animated show. Read more Movies Free Guy Review: Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer Give Uneven Script Extra Life…
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01 Feb

HBO Max New Releases: February 2022

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For its list of new releases of February 2022, HBO Max is bringing back one of its biggest original series. The Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi epic Raised by Wolves helped launch HBO Max back in 2020 and now it’s finally back for another season. Raised by Wolves season 2 premieres with three episodes on Feb. 3. This season will continue the conflict between future atheists and theists on a remote planet, while two androids raise some kids (Yes, there’s a lot going on here). February 2022 also sees the end of another, more recent HBO Max hit. Peacemaker airs its finale…
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31 Jan

Best Movies Coming to Netflix in February 2022

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It’s sometimes fun to wonder if the reason February is the shortest month of the year is because folks want to get on to March as soon as possible. This month’s cold, damp, and often a 28-day excuse to stay inside. Even so, that doesn’t mean you have to be bored doing so! Indeed, for those inclined to stay home but not interested in watching the Winter Olympics, Netflix has refilled its library with a variety of films. Admittedly, many of these lean on the action or broad comedy side, with romantic offerings being surprisingly slim for the month of…
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31 Jan

Sky Cinema: What’s New in February 2022?

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Horror fans are well catered to in this month’s slimmed-down selection of film premieres on Sky Cinema, with serial killer body-swap comedy Freaky, The Forever Purge, and Ben Wheatley’s pandemic weird-fest In the Earth. Joining those is the latest from Steven Soderbergh, whose Contagion enjoyed a surge of interest early on in the pandemic. His new feature is KIMI, a thriller starring Zoe Kravitz set during the time of Covid-19. For half-term viewing with the kids off school, there’s Space Jam: A New Legacy and Dream Horse, as well as the many archive titles already available. Speaking of which, save…
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