The coming year is shaping up to be a big one for the small screen. Big-name stars like John Cena, Julia Roberts, and Jeff Bridges will be headlining series. Big-name creators like Shonda Rhimes, James Gunn, and Lord & Miller will have new shows. Blockbuster franchises like Star Wars and …
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Someone will have to do the actual math (and I don’t doubt that someone will), but if Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings isn’t the most action-oriented movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far — purely in terms of ratio of time spent watching people beat each …
Read More »Spider-Man Breaks the Multiverse in New Trailer for 'No Way Home'
Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man finds himself caught in a tangled web of multiverse chaos in the new trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, set to open in theaters on December 17th. The trailer opens with Parker grappling with the fallout from Spider-Man: Far From Home, in which his old foe …
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What’s up movie-wise in March? Harmony “Spring Breakers” Korine returns to Florida with Matthew McConaughey for a stoner’s odyssey; Jordan Peele unleashes a family of murderous lookalikes; Marvel punches gender iniquity in the face with their first female-fronted solo film; a miraculous documentary places you in America’s first voyage to …
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Doug Jones can clearly recall his first day filming The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro‘s hand-crafted aquatic fairy tale in which the 57-year-old actor plays a nameless amphibian man who falls for Sally Hawkins’ mute cleaning lady in 1960s Baltimore. “We started with a scene in which … I’m …
Read More »Best Movies and TV to Stream in November: 'Punisher,' Spike Lee and More
Is it us, or does Netflix seem to be making a concerted bid to straight-up own November? It’s launching a pair of expensive-looking period-set miniseries, a long-anticipated Marvel spin-off, a sophomore run for one of the best TV cult comedies of the past 10 years and their big-league awards contender …
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