Heading into WW84, director Patty Jenkins and her team (which now includes Gal Gadot as a producer) had a reputation to uphold, and then some. “There was just no way we’re going to take any shortcuts,” Gadot said during a WW1984 press conference. “And we’re just going to raise the bar and give everything we have because we knew people were so invested with the character and cared so much about her....
Cube was about six random people trapped in a massive, labyrinthine structure for reasons unknown who must solve its deadly mysteries to escape. So on paper it kind of makes sense that he would adapt a story about another half dozen characters caught in another eerie maze-like scenario, this time a vast field of grass in the middle of nowhere (specifically Kansas). We meet the first of these folks, the very pregnant Becky (Laysla De Oliveira) and her brother Cal (Avery Whitted), as they are driving cross-country to San Diego, where Becky plans to have her baby far away from the siblings’ home....
Failing to win the Manhunt: The Search for America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model reality show competition in 2004 may have been the best thing that could have happened to Matt Lanter, because between that year and 2006 he had recurring or starring roles in the series Point Pleasant, Commander in Chief, Heroes, and Shark. Besides guest roles, he’d star in a number of films, voiced the character of Aquaman in a variety of animated productions from Warner Bros/DC Comics and was a series regular on the cult favorite Timeless....
This is just one of the many impressive CG visuals in the sixth Jurassic Park movie and third installment of the Jurassic World trilogy. Beginning well before the events of the original film—and virtually all other motion pictures too—Jurassic World: Dominion’s prologue offers a vignette about life in the fast lane for an aging T. Rex who is forced to do battle with the Gigantosaurus, a massive carnivore who gives even our dear Tyrannosaur a run for its money....
The deaths have been colourful. Heads have been razor-wired off necks and spun balletically in the air spurting jets of blood, a solitary pedalo has been engulfed in flames, and an eyeball socket has met a painful, pornographic protuberance. Each contestant’s murder has been narrated to their fellow players in the form of a spooky campfire tale by comedian host Bobby Mair, as well as being enacted on screen for the viewers at home....
This historic three-hour event will serve as the season premiere for all three series, starting with Organized Crime at 8pm ET and followed by SVU at 9pm ET and Law & Order at 10pm ET, and will also kick off NBC’s 22-23 TV season. In an interview with EW, NBCU head of scripted programming Liza Katz said the event is “a tribute to all the Law & Order fans who’ve been watching this iconic brand for four decades on NBC....
Playing a Targaryen princess is an even taller order because actors have to do all of the above while also being about 12 years old. (Okay, 15 to 18 in the TV shows). Happily, House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock, who plays the young Rhaenyra, is more than up to that challenge – as anybody who saw her in 2019 series Upright will already know. Upright is by no means Alcock’s first acting job, the 22-year-old has already racked up major roles on Australian TV including spy thriller Pine Gap, Starz crime series The Gloaming and serial killer drama Reckoning....
Is this allowed? Somebody please check. Can Kate just leave AC-12? She’s a third of the operation. One of the three pyramids at Giza may as well stand up and walk away. The strawberry from Neapolitan ice cream, silver Olympic medals, degrees 240 – 360 of all circles… could they also just call it a day? Unacceptable. This is AC-12 we’re talking about. 12 as in four times three: the gaffer, Steve and Kate – the corners of the straight-backed, clean-nosed triangle of truth....
Ian Buckells, as I live and breathe. There we were, thinking you a workshy wally with one foot on the golf course and the other skidding on a banana skin, when all along… you were, well, that, but also tapping out OCG orders on your secret laptop in your secret millionaire’s pad and secret Gran Canaria timeshare. DSU Buckells. The Fourth Man. Line of Duty’s Keyser So-So. The Buckells revelation played out for viewers just like it did for AC-12: What?...
“In Bryan Fuller’s Pushing Daisies, a socially awkward man with the uncanny ability to bring dead things back to life hides his miraculous gift by presenting himself as a humble pie-maker who’s turned his passion for baking into a conspicuously thriving small business. Though it currently happens to be cicada season, the next few weeks are also berry season, meaning that it is also pie season and a great time to revisit the ABC series while it’s on HBO Max....
“Since his rise in the mid-2010s as a must-read comic book writer with an unlikely background in the CIA, 42-year-old Tom King has used superheroes — both ones you know (Batman) and ones you don’t (Mister Miracle) — to explore themes often avoided in the stereotypically masculine genre: Love and marriage.” Read more at Inverse. Microsoft has apparently filed a patent for a chat bot technology that mimics real, deceased people....
“Toward the end of his career, as he grew increasingly despairing and cynical, America’s greatest humorist soured on jokes. ‘The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow,’ Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 travelogue, Following the Equator. ‘There is no humor in heaven.’ It is with this caveat that I describe The Good Lord Bird, a seven-part miniseries that premieres Sunday on Showtime, as a comedy.” Read more at The Week....
“In the 1980s, kids didn’t need to rely on imagination alone to create elaborate worlds for their toys. They just had to watch Saturday morning cartoons to learn about the personalities, backstories, and adventures of their favorite stuffed animals and action figures.” Read more at Mental Floss. The studio behind Final Fantasy has unveiled their newest game, Fantasian. Here’s everything we know about it so far. Read more at Inverse....
“Every year there are movies everyone hears about. Those are your Marvel films and your Oscar players. But what about the films that fly under the radar? The foreign favorites that never crack the mainstream? The studio releases that get written off? The indies that don’t take over the box office? When you’re looking for something that maybe hasn’t been overly hyped, we’ve got you covered.” Read more at Thrillist....
“Prison break movies are a dime a dozen. Going back to The Great Escape, there seems to be no shortage of masterminded criminals who can muscle their way out of maximum security detention. Whether it’s Cool Hand Luke or even Chicken Run, it’s a tried and true genre.” Read more at Inverse. Few movies are worse than one that’s a disappointing adaptation of your favorite book. Check out the ten worst sinners in recent years....
It shouldn’t have. Gerwig quite literally makes Little Women her own by honoring Alcott—arguably more so than any other screenwriter since she actively engages with and even critiques the text—while also making a film fascinated by the frequently overlooked second half of the novel. Framing her film as a conversation between the past and present transforms Little Women from a story about growing up to one of being a young woman entering a hostile world for the first time....
As an Advanced Class option for Warriors, the Destroyer represents many of the qualities most commonly associated with Lost Ark‘s Warriors. They’re big, they’re strong, and they’re not afraid to get into the action. Despite their relative familiarity, though, there are quite a few things you need to know about the Destroyer class before you dive into it. In fact, without the right tips and skills, you may struggle to see why this class is so potentially powerful....
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 14 “Heaven’s never been a democracy.” You’d think the return of God and Tricia Helfer would be enough to carry any television episode, but Lucifer’s parents also seem to confirm the veracity of the multiverse theory. Still, it’s the heartwarming scenes within the celestial circle that drive “Nothing Lasts Forever,” and once again, Lucifer reveals another facet of its titular hero as his dark side continues to recede and his light shines more brightly than ever....
Netflix’s French crime drama Lupin began by adapting Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin adventure “The Queen’s Necklace,” but while the ten episodes have put new spins on other Lupin stories, the overall story concerns the eponymous necklace and how it links the Pellegrini and Diop families across twenty-five years. The recently-released Part 2 resolves the series’ biggest question: Will Assane Diop (Omar Sy) be able to have his revenge on Hubert Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre)?...
Who killed Erin McMenamin? That’s the question at the center of HBO’s atmospheric crime drama Mare of Easttown…alongside “how does Kate Winslet pull off that Wawa-saturated accent?” The show offers no shortage of suspects. Seemingly every single character on Mare of Easttown has both cause and some sort of backwards reasoning for killing the innocent young mother played by Cailee Spaeny. Mare’s ex-husband Frank (David Denman) is rumored to have fathered Erin’s son DJ (though that theory is disproven in this week’s episode 4 “Poor Sisyphus”)....
