Hence in what might be the best evidence yet of blockbuster hits like Joker, Knives Out, and Ford v Ferrari competing against the generally expected Oscar frontrunners, all three were nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (Best Picture in all but name). Those three crowd-pleasers join the slew of more traditional Best Picture nominees, including 1917 and Once Upon a Time, as well as The Irishman, Marriage Story, and Little Women....

The late Anne Rice reinvented vampires for a new generation on the page with her extensive series of novels. The immortal bloodsuckers of her Vampire Chronicles book series were provocative, dangerous, and boundary-shattering from the moment Interview with the Vampire was first published in 1976. The film adaptation of the same story was essentially produced due to overwhelming public demand. Directed by Neil Jordan, it was the 10th highest grossing movie of 1994, earning Warner Bros....

Having said that, Quibi is dead…Quibi is finally, blissfully dead. Undoubtedly the first big dud of the streaming era came to an ignominious end today when the Wall Street Journal reported that Quibi Holdings LLC will elect to shut itself down in the face of non-existent viewership, mounting debts, and a patent lawsuit or two. Quibi had previously been searching for a buyer to take on all its assets (and its debt) but had already been turned down by Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook – mostly because Quibi didn’t even own much of the content on its own servers....

When did Laila Starr really start forming in your mind? I think I had come up with various versions of that story long before I even started writing comics, to be honest. There were early versions of short stories where it was “Krishna comes down to Earth!” and whatnot, but I suppose it really turned into Laila Starr when I had this kind of need to write about death, even as a teenager....

In any case, new Netflix horror anthology Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities presents eight unconnected tales of terror for viewers to experience. Even the folks behind the series understand that the diversity of options presented means that audiences will prefer some to others. “With anthologies, I think it just comes down to what your taste is,” Cabinet producer J. Miles Dale tells Den of Geek. “With this show I think there’s something for everybody – whether it’s a director’s vision, or the material, or the setting, or the actors, or the dialog, or the scares....

These days, you’d lose a metaphorical hand to a studio’s red lightsaber if you dished details on any major upcoming plot twists. Media training for interviews, fake scripts, and so much green screen that the actors couldn’t even really tell you what was happening on set if they tried are all extremely commonplace behind the scenes of the big franchises, so that invested audiences get to experience that collective shock when Cap wields Mjolnir, or J....

And now for the exclusive sneak peek… 1 I have a ball of starlight inside me. A globe, containing a billion bright pinpricks. It’s always been there, since I was a baby—but lately I’ve been chewing up the inside of my own mouth waiting for it to burst out of me. Sometimes I feel all these little suns whirling, like they’re getting ready to emerge from the hollow of my collarbone....

Yes, fans of classic Resident Evil puzzles who lament the fact that recent installments in the franchise have largely abandoned those brain teasers from the original games will love Lady Dimitrescu’s castle and its surprising collection of mysteries that often require you to put down your gun and use your head. While few of the puzzles in Resident Evil Village are as devious as the franchise’s most complicated riddles, the puzzle in Lady Dimitrescu’s castle that requires you to find five bells is already giving some players a hard time....

While there’s been no shortage of Lady Dimitrescu memes in the months leading up to Resident Evil Village‘s release, it’s funny to think that all of the game’s trailers, previews, and demos barely told us anything about the sequel’s actual plot. We knew it would star Ethan Winters, we knew it involved a creepy village filled with retro horror threats, and we knew the internet was desperate for the attention of tall vampire ladies everywhere, but many of the most important questions about the game’s lore remained unanswered....

Riverdale Episode 13 As the first season of Riverdale comes to a dramatic close, the lives of Archie and his pals and gals are forever changed. Fred Andrews is dead (probably), Archie and Veronica have slept together, Cheryl has torched Thornhill, Jughead has become a South Side Serpent. The time of carefree nights packed with drinking milkshakes at Pop’s is now a memory…especially since the gang’s safe haven is now a crime scene....

One of the most fascinating elements, though, is the extended dream sequence which falls in the middle of the film as serves as a bit of surrealist comedy, a hinge point building up to the third act denouement of the reunion itself but also as a clever moment which hammers home the point of what this movie is, and crucially, what it is not. To recap, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are on their way to Sagebrush High and get into a fight, ostensibly over Post-its and who is the “Mary” and who is the “Rhoda”… They agree to separate once they reach Tucson and presumably at some point after this Michele falls asleep in the car....

One major character from the first two seasons, though, is something of an exception. Mutt Schitt, played by Tim Rozon, disappears after the first episode of season 3 and only pops back for a guest appearance at the end of season 4. In real life Rozon was cast in a major role in the show Wynonna Earp – he plays Doc Holliday, the cursed, ageless former partner of famous lawman Wyatt Earp, who goes on to father a child with Wyatt’s great-great-granddaughter Wynonna....

The announcement reunites Cox with David Arquette, who is playing the role of Dewey Riley in the new film, making him another mainstay across all five films. This leaves Neve Campbell as the remaining major cast member from the original film who’s yet to officially sign onto the sequel, though she’s confirmed she’s at least had talks about playing Sidney Prescott once more. “We can’t imagine Scream without the iconic Gale Weathers and are so incredibly thrilled and humbled to have the opportunity to work with Courteney,” horror filmmaking group Radio Silence said in a statement....

Shameless Season 11 Episode 10 “Why is everybody running? Nobody is chasing you fuckers.” Shameless was designed to reflect a more unpolished and realistic class of society that often gets overlooked or marginalized. It’s a show that sets out to humanize the alleged derelicts of society and showcase the grounded and prevalent difficulties that plague these types of people. Shameless has done an excellent job at representation towards lower class families and communities for over a decade, which makes it so thoroughly perplexing that as Shameless heads into its final episodes that a major plot revolves around the Gallaghers disposing of Edward Hopper’s iconic Nighthawks painting to avoid federal incarceration....

The start of the show is actually very funny with much of the humour derived from the balance between this adorable child (played by Albie and Arthur Hills) who actually physically does nothing other than ‘be a cute baby’, and smart-mouthed Tasha who slowly realizes the tot’s legacy and power and calls him all the names under the sun. Later Tasha and the mysterious Mrs Eaves (Amira Ghazalla), trip over themselves in the world of yummy mummies, cults and fraught friendships to try to stop the precious angel’s reign of terror....

The movie opens with Snake Eyes as a boy, long before he becomes the wordless warrior fans know and love. He and his dad are on vacation at their family cabin when a group of militarized mercenaries led by a scraggly super-goon captures his father and forces him to literally gamble for his life by rolling a pair of dice. The old man, of course, rolls snake eyes (two ones) and is executed, albeit not before the kid is able to escape....

It’s been a long time since we’ve been to the movies and an even longer time since we’ve seen a ninja flick on the big screen. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is a dazzling return to the underrated ninja genre – a breakout premiere in the shadow of the pandemic. Ninja films rarely earn a theatrical showing anymore. They are pigeon-holed as B-grade movie fodder, and justifiably so. Back in the 1980, ninja films proliferated when second and third-run movie theaters ruled....

This time, it was the abrupt (but not unsurprising) removal of Warner Bros.’ Tenet and Disney’s Mulan from the release calendar that prompted the latest game of studio dominoes. With both of those films disappearing from 2020 and moving to 2021, it means that even the biggest of franchises need to make accommodations, and that includes Marvel and Sony’s currently untitled Spider-Man 3. Originally scheduled for July 16, 2021, Spider-Man 3 moved to Nov....

Star Trek: Discovery Episode 6 Like many TV shows, Star Trek series have always taken a bit of time to find their narrative footing. Hopefully, we will look back on the beginning of Star Trek: Discovery as the slightly confused period before the show really took flight. Right now, unfortunately, it increasingly feels like we’re watching a show that thinks it’s in its second season. While not without its delights, Discovery is making narrative choices as if we already know and care about these characters enough to follow their unlikeable, erratic behavior....

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 7 Star Trek: Discovery heads into its mid-season break with the strongest episode of Season 4 since its premiere, an hour that puts Burnham and Book at odds over foundational questions about the very things the Federation and Starfleet try to do and be. This is, not for nothing, my absolute favorite kind of Star Trek, a story about the necessary, inescapable conflicts between hope and pragmatism, philosophy and realism, politics and practicality....