The Mandalorian Episode 1 Theories: Who Is That Baby?

Major spoilers forThe Mandalorianepisode 1 to follow. Be sure to check outour episode recap here. After waiting for almost a year with nothing but brief glimpses and scant teases to hold us over, the first-ever live-actionStar Warsseries has arrived in all its bounty-huntin', bucket-headed glory. And folks, it was worth every second of waiting, because thanks toThe Mandalorian, thanks toJon Favreau, thanks to Disney, and thanks to all the wonderful people involved with bringing this streaming service to life, we finally know, without a shadow of a doubt, after all these years, conclusively, that at some point in time Yoda totally banged....

August 18, 2025 · 7 min · 1413 words · Gina Burns

The Martian: Movie vs Book Comparisons and Similarities

Andy Weir’s self-published novelThe Martianbecame a huge bestseller, and it was a big hit at the box office this weekend. The film also went over big with critics, and is primed to be a potential player in this year’s Oscar race. But for directorRidley Scottand screenwriterDrew Goddardto translate Weir’s book to the big screen, how much did they have to lose, and what did they choose to keep? [Heavy spoilers ahead for both the book and the movie]...

August 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1103 words · Brenda Johnson

The Tomorrow War Teaser Trailer Reveals Chris Pratt Time-Traveling Sci-Fi Film

Amazon has released the first teaser trailer forThe Tomorrow War, starringChris Prattand directed byChris McKay(The LEGO Batman Movie) in his first live-action directorial effort. The trailer drop comes on the heels of some first-look images that werereleased yesterday, which offered only a hint of the time-traveling action to come. The teaser also reminds audiences to tune in on the streaming service for when the film finally drops on July 2, only on Prime Video....

August 18, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Erica Sandoval

The Untouchables 4K Release Date: Brian De Palma's Classic Comes to UHD

The Untouchablesis getting its due and receiving a 4K Ultra HD makeover, to be released on May 31. Featuring an all star cast telling the pulse pounding story behind one of America’s most notorious gangsters, the film will be celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary with a re-release. Included in the upgraded version, buyers can expect an extra hour of bonus features which will also be getting the HD treatment, including tales of production told by those involved in the film’s creation, a featurette titled “The Men,” and the movie’s theatrical trailer....

August 18, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Johnny Vazquez

There Should Be Severe Consequences For 'Real Housewives' Who Skip the Reunion Tapings

Bravo fans love the reunions. It’s their chance to catch up with the stars as they spill the tea and every juicy detail regarding the biggest moments from the season. When it comes toThe Real HousewivesCinematic Universe, fans clamor to see who will get those coveted spots sat next to hostmasterAndy Cohen. The reunion is the place for stunts and shenanigans. So when areality staris MIA, the reunion truly feels incomplete, sometimes unfulfilling....

August 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1231 words · John Hardy

This Disney Animation Division Never Made Movies & Was Nicknamed Pixaren’t

Do you ever find yourself looking fondly back at theDisney animated classicsof the early 2000s?Monsters Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise?Finding Nemo 2?Toy Story 3, sans the incinerator? Don’t feel too bad if those aren’t ringing a bell - they were never made. These are the films that were being worked on by a division of Walt Disney Feature Animation: Circle 7 Animation. Its mandate was to create CGI animated sequels to the Disney-owned Pixar properties, fromToy Storyup to, and including,Cars....

August 18, 2025 · 5 min · 973 words · Michael Garcia

Tolkien Biopic First Images Reveal Nicholas Hoult in Character

While theJ.R.R. Tolkienbiopic, aptly namedTolkien, aims to give fans of the author and his work some insight into his formative years and inspiration for his writing, it’s also a good excuse to letNicholas Houltplay “Young Hot Tolkien.” We got our first look at the biographical drama today thanks toHoult’s Instagram account, which shared the first images of the cast in character. We can’t tell much about the tone of the story, but we can certainly get a glimpse of the visual palette, which feels like an old sepia-toned photo album, and the costuming, which is quite dapper, befitting the World War I-era setting....

August 18, 2025 · 2 min · 267 words · Christopher Graham

Trolls World Tour Trailer Reveals DreamWorks Musical Sequel Set for 2020

Anna KendrickandJustin Timberlakereturn in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 musical hit:Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder....

August 18, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Julie Davies

Venom Trailer: The Turd in the Wind Line Is Good, Actually

Sony Pictures recently released a lengthysecond trailerforVenom, the non-Spider-Man Spider-Man spinoff in which Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy)symbiotically bonds with an alien ball of Gak that gives him super-strength, slime-tentacles, and an appetite for mugger pancreas. A lot going on here, folks, and that’sbeforeyou get to the very end of the trailer, which features a line from the Venom symbiote so sublimely stupid that it rounds back to being flawless art. Collider usually sets a firm 50,000-word limit on opening paragraphs so I can’t adequately describe it’s absurd beauty in this space, so here it is word-for-word:...

August 18, 2025 · 4 min · 800 words · Marcus Rios

We Have Evil Dead to Thank for Samara Weaving's Scream Queen Dominance

As her new movieAzrael, hits Shudder along with theannouncement ofReady or Not 2,Samara Weavingis one of today’s most prominent scream queens. First becoming an Australian household name in the long-running soap operaHome and Away,Weaving has gone on to forge a prosperous career in Hollywood, especially in the horror genre. She has starred in Netflix’sThe Babysitterand as a Final Bride inRadio Silence’sReady or Not. She was also given the honor of being the opening victim inScream 6....

August 18, 2025 · 4 min · 762 words · Mark Richards DVM

Weekend Box Office: The Lego Batman Movie Wins Out Again

In a little bit of a surprise, none of the new releases this weekend were able to make much commotion at the box office. The cynical side of me thinks that it’s becauseThe Great Wall,Fist Fight, andGore Verbinski’sA Cure for Wellnesswere all originals and if the movie isn’t tied to an existing property, it’s doomed at the box office. And the box office tallies for the three-day total - the four-day total won’t be in until Tuesday - bear this thinking out, asThe LEGO Batman Moviewent two for two this weekend, topping the box office with a $35 million take....

August 18, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Casey Brown

What Does ‘The Rookie’s Latest Plot Twist Mean for Chenford?

Editor’s Note: The following contains The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 spoilers. Whenever a new recurring character is introduced onThe Rookie, the odds are pretty high that this person is going to turn out to be a villain. Some examplesinclude Monica Stevens(Bridget Regan), Blair London (Danielle Campbell), and, of course, Detective Nick Armstrong (Harold Perrineau). The Armstrong twist was the best of these, as it was slowly built up over the course of Season 2, and he was previously shown to be a seemingly real friend and confidante to John Nolan (Nathan Fillion)....

August 18, 2025 · 4 min · 797 words · Christopher Mann

What You Need To Know About Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'

The idea that the iconic auteurFrancis Ford Coppolahas had a project up his sleeves for the better part of three decades is one that surely gets everyone to sit up and take notice. Very few filmmakers boast of the imagination and creative nous that Coppola is known for. Now in the twilight of his career, thislong gestated passion projectMegalopolismight just be his most ambitious film ever. Coppola began writing the script forMegalopolisin the 1980s but had to shelve it when it became obvious no one was willing to finance a project of that magnitude at that point in his career....

August 18, 2025 · 10 min · 2120 words · Matthew Perkins