[This is a re-post of my retrospective seriesin which I take a look back at the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These articles do not contain spoilers for unreleased Marvel movies. If you know any spoilers about the unreleased Marvel movies, please do not post them in the comments section.] 2008 is the most important year in superhero films, which also makes it one of the most important years in modern movie history....
Oh,Spider-Man, what a tangled web you have woven throughout your film adaptation history. There have been successful projects, likeSam Raimi’sSpider-Mantrilogy, theMCU films, and Sony’s award-winning animatedSpider-Versefilms. The odd, tangential movies like1978’s JapaneseSpider-Manfilm, and Sony’s largely unsuccessfulSpider-Verse-sans-Spider-Man films. Then there are the films that were in various stages of development, but never saw the light of day, like Raimi’sSpider-Man 4, orJames Cameron’sSpider-Manfilm. Sorry, you’ve never heard about the latter? Well, the man behindThe TerminatorandTitaniconce had his eyes set on a Spider-Man film of his own, but like the ill-fated ship he did make a film about, it too sunk, on an iceberg of movie rights and wild ideas....
We did it. We hosted our very firstCollider Ladies Nightlive panel atSan Diego Comic-Con 2024, and it went swimmingly in large part thanks to panelistsMelissa Barrera,Erika Henningsen, andKaty O’Brian. Not only did the trio come to play when it came to using our comically large die for Dicey Questions, but they also didn’t hold back when dishing out real talk about the reality of being a working actor in film, television and theater....
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Avengers movies tend to be blockbuster eventswith major consequences. The first Avengers was a huge success, proving that the MCU’s interconnected storyline could work.Avengers: Infinity WarandAvengers: Endgamecapped off a decade’s worth of storytelling, and made box office history. Marvel Studios is pulling out all the stops forAvengers: DoomsdayandAvengers: Secret Wars, even bringing backInfinity War/EndgamehelmersJoeandAnthony Russoas well asRobert Downey Jr.ButAvengers: Age of Ultrontends to either get overlooked, or is considered to be one of the lesser entries in the MCU canon....
This month marks the two-year anniversary of the college admissions scandal that rocked America’s educational system and made headlines worldwide, so it goes without saying that Netflix is ready to release a documentary about the sordid saga. Hailing fromChris Smith, who directed the streamer’s Fyre Festival documentary, the appropriately titledOperation Varsity Bluesaims to go beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and examine the methods used byRick Singer(pictured below), who will be played in reenactments – based entirely on FBI wiretaps – byMatthew Modine(Stranger Things)....
The fact thatOrson WellescreatedCitizen Kane, a film cited by many film pundits as the single greatest of all time, at such a young age almost did a disservice to the rest of his career. While the acclaim for his riveting drama certainly aided in getting him additional work, Welles’ subsequent projects would always be compared to the masterpiece that kicked off his career. It’s somewhat disappointing to identify Welles only as “the genius behindCitizen Kane,” because he worked within a multitude of genres for several decades since the word “Rosebud” became a subject of debate among cinephiles everywhere....
An actor is lucky enough to have one hit show, but here we go again forDanielle Brooks! After seven seasons with the Netflix smashOrange Is the New Black, Brooks is a main player in one of the hottest new shows of 2022,James Gunn’sPeacemaker. Brooks plays Leota Adebayo in the HBO Max DC series. She’s Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) daughter, but would much rather be running an animal shelter than contributing to the Project Butterfly task force....
True-crime shows aren’t going anywhere, folks, and now that the streamers and networks have tackled nearly every major serial killer I can think of, they’re moving on to international crimes that made global headlines but aren’t quite as well known here in America. The latest is HBO’sPray, Obey, Kill, which examines one of the most bizarre criminal cases in Swedish history. On Jul 13, 2025, gunshots rang out across the remote Swedish village of Knutby, home to a small, tight-knit Pentecostal congregation....
Writer-directorQuentin Tarantinois shedding some light on his portrayal of Sharon Tate in his most recent filmOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood. The R-rated drama has amassed $239.7 million worldwide in its first month of release, but not only has the film been a box office success, it’s managed to accomplish a feat that’s becoming rarer and rarer at the movies these days: people are still talking about it. With so much new content being thrown at us almost daily, it’s hard for anything to penetrate the zeitgeist for more than a single weekend, butOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodgives us so much to chew on, the film is still spurring lively discussions....
Are you ready for Alice’s final trip through her apocalyptic Wonderland? She’s tired of running, she’s had enough of the Umbrella Corporation, and she’s ready to “kill every last one” of those damn, dirty T-Virus infected zombies. Her final stand is previewed in a new international trailer forResident Evil: The Final Chapter, and there’s enough monstrosities to go around. What began of thePaul W.S. Anderson-directed franchise in 2002 will now culminate in what looks to be a fiery blaze of glory....
Fox’s two-hour rendition ofThe Rocky Horror Picture Showwill debut this October, andLaverne Coxis already shivering with antici….pation! TheOrange Is the New Blackactress features as the new Frank-N-Furter, a.k.a. the “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania,” and she snags the spotlight again in a new trailer for the television event. In the footage, we see the cast — including a special appearance from the original Frank-N-Furter,Tim Curry— performing the iconic musical as a film within a film....
StarZachary Levirevealed on Instagram that DC is bringingShazam! Fury of the Godsto this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The sequel to the critically acclaimedShazam!is one of the most-anticipated films of the year, and with a big SDCC panel set to unite the film’s cast and crew, fans should also expect to watch the first trailer forShazam! Fury of the Gods. Levi shared a small video on his Instagram account in which we can see the superhero silhouette engulfed in shadows....
In light of all of the hullaballoo around the behind-the-scenes drama thatSolohas weathered, starAlden Ehrenreichis speaking out to set the record straight. In an interview withEsquire, Ehrenreich first addressed some of the controversy around the ousting ofSolo’s original directors,Phil LordandChristopher Miller, explaining their approach to the material: “From the first screen test on, we played around with it a lot. We tried a lot of different things, rethinking behind the scenes....
