Morgan Review #2: Great Cast, Great Idea, So-So Movie

As humanity inches ever closer to real deal artificial intelligence being a thing, the line between science fiction and reality is going to get all kinds of blurry. That is what makes something likedirector Luke Scott’sMorganso potentially fascinating. The trick is making the material live up to its potential, and when it comes to sci-fi, even if you have all of the right pieces it can be a tricky thing to accomplish....

August 25, 2025 · 4 min · 655 words · Laura Kim

Netflix's High Flying Bird Trailer Hits the Basketball Court with Zazie Beetz

Netflix has released the first trailer forHigh Flying Bird. In recent years, Netflix has been pouring billions of dollars into premium content, and that has attracted a lot of A-list talent to come and work for them, as opposed to going through the studio system. This represents another major talent who has made the move to the streaming world, asOcean’s Elevendirector Steven Soderbergh has made his latest for Netflix. And instead of telling a tale about a heist or male strippers, he’s taken on the world of professional basketball....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · David Walls

New Castle Rock Trailer Drenches Stephen King's Iconic Town in Sin

A new full-length trailer for Castle Rock has arrived. The fictional town has been a major fixture in Stephen King’s works for a long time and now, J.J. Abrams has turned it into a TV series for Hulu that looks very much like it could be the show that fans of King’s work have dreamed about for years. This new trailer gives us our first real sense of the story at play, as opposed to previous teasers that gave us only a vague taste of what’s in store....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 475 words · Thomas Carlson

No Time to Die Will Arrive in U.K. Theaters a Week Earlier Than Expected

After so many delays that it’s become difficult to keep up,No Time to Diewill now be released a week earlier than planned in the United Kingdom, hitting theaters on September 30. Assuming it isn’t delayed again, of course. Daniel Craig’s final James Bond outing was originally due to be released way back in 2019, but thanks to backstage issues and the ongoing global situation,No Time to Diehas been pushed back again and again, most recently from April 2021 to October 8....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Kristina Berg

Rainbow Documentary Trailer Takes Kesha on a Crazy, Emotional Ride

Nearly one year ago, popstarKeshareleased her critically acclaimed Rainbow album, and now she’s releasing a documentary, which is also calledRainbow. The film chronicles the last year of Kesha’s life in the recording studio making the record and on the road promoting it. While her professional life was soaring, her personal life was falling apart, and she attributes the album and documentary as a therapeutic process for her. However, this isn’t just a normal documentary, infused with studio and live footage are psychedelic vignettes, which help to convey Kesha’s mindset at various times....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 529 words · Laurie Dalton

Rocketman Director Promises No-Holds-Barred Biopic After Censorship Scare

Dexter Fletcher is currently hard at work on the edit ofRocketman. However, the director took some time out to respond to rumors that the biopic on musician Elton John was going to cut a 40-second love scene between the musician and his partner John Reid. It had previously been reported that Paramount wanted Fletcher to cut out the scene and that the director was under pressure to do so. However, the tip came from an anonymous source who was apparently making things up....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 460 words · Melissa Morgan

Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman Are Suspiciously Nervous Answering Questions About Their MCU Future

FollowingLoganin 2017, few fans expected to seeHugh Jackmanreturn to the role of Wolverine, butRyan Reynoldsmanaged to persuade him to don the iconic yellow suit forDeadpool & Wolverine. The new moviebrings them both to the MCU for the first time, following their previous tenures under the 20th Century Fox banner. Fans are currently uncertain about both characters' futures in the MCU. Will they be returning characters? Or, will they be one-hit wonders, with the actors retiring the characters after the film releases in July?...

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 588 words · Sean King

Sally Field Recalls 'Traumatic' Abortion Experience

Oscar-winning actressSally Fieldis sharing her personal abortion story as part of her ongoing advocacy for women’s healthcare and reproductive rights. In a message to her 18 million followers, the Hollywood icon recalled her own experience with an unplanned pregnancy while urging voters to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Field first revealed details about her abortion in her 2018 memoirIn Pieces, but she revisited the topic in anemotional Instagram videoon Oct....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 629 words · Stephen Pruitt

Scully Turns Into an Alien in X-Files Season Finale Opening

While a vast majority of Americans were watchingSuper Bowl 50on CBS tonight, Fox had something unique up their sleeve, offering a unique bit of counter-programming during the game’s halftime festivities. TheX-Files Twitterfeed released a two and a half minute clip of the opening scene fromThe X-Files' season finale,My Struggle II, set to air on Monday, February 22. The clip features a rather shocking revelation, especially for fans ofGillian Anderson’sAgent Scully....

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Steven Carter

Shanghai Noon 3 Moves Forward with Napoleon Dynamite Director

Way back in May of 2015, it was heavily rumored that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were ready to reunite forShanghai Dawn, the third chapter in theirShanghai Noontrilogy, following the original in 2000 andShanghai Knightsin 2003. Now, it’s being reported that the long awaited sequel is finally moving forward. Both actors will return to their roles as Chon Wang and Roy O’Bannon. Shanghai Dawnis currently in development at MGM.Napoleon Dynamitedirector Jared Hess will be at the helm of this next Western adventure....

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Christopher Kennedy

Shazam! 3: Which DC Comics Villain Will We See?

The wizard Shazam has been around for millennia. As such, it stands to reason that his champions would have accrued more than their fair share of villains over the years. When young Billy Batson, portrayed by Asher Angel(High School Musical: The Musical: The Series), chooses to accept the powerful wizard’s proposal, he takes on the disparate skills of the mythical figures Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury (or, if you take the first letter from the names of each of these historical figures, S-H-A-Z-A-M)....

August 25, 2025 · 4 min · 783 words · Juan Bates

Spider-Man's New Stealth Suit Vs. the Batsuit: Whose Is Better?

Spider-Man: Far from Homefeatures a suit that is more complicated than the Batsuit. Peter Parker has shown off a few new looks in the promotional material for the sequel, but none have been more intriguing than the black stealth suit. Tony Stark obviously won’t be around for the movie, but his influence is there and so is a lot of his tech, thanks to a hidden lab on a Stark jet....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · James Newman

Star Wars 9 Will Return to Rey's Home Planet Jakku?

A new interview with two extras fromThe Force Awakensmay have just spilled the beans that Colin Trevorrow’sStar Wars 9will be heading back toJakku.The Last Jediis still a few months from hitting theaters, but little details over time have started to reveal quite a bit about the story, but a lot is still not clear at this time.Star Wars 9is expected to start production in just five short months, so new information about the third and final installment of the sequel trilogy is bound to start leaking out really soon....

August 25, 2025 · 3 min · 516 words · Jerry Gordon