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Elisabeth Moss is fantastic as a preyed upon woman inThe Invisible Man. The classic horror film and novel gets a solid reboot from Australian writer/director Leigh Whannell; who takes the plot in a completely different direction. The first two acts are brilliantly atmospheric. Suspense and tension slowly build to evoke primal fears. It’s when the blood starts flowing that the film takes a more predictable turn. An unremarkable ending somewhat disappoints....

Production onThe Naked Gunstarring Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Danny Huston is underway, and we’ve now learnedthe identity of the final few cast membersthat will be included in the reboot. Neeson will take onthe part made famous by Leslie Nielsen in the 1980s, first on television inPolice Squad!, and then on the big screen inThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, and its two sequels. While Nielsen portrayed Lt....

Tom Hanks apparently has a closer connection to Fred Rogers than he had realized, as theA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoodactor literally just found out he shares a blood relation with the legendary PBS star. Of course, Rogers is just one of many real-life people to be portrayed by Hanks in a movie, but this may be the first time he’s ever played one of his own family members, albeit inadvertently....

Look up in the sky! Wait no, rewind to twenty years ago when the original boy next door, Clark Kent, hadn’t yet earned his cape and lookedad astra per asperain a little fictional town known as Smallville, Kansas.Smallvilledebuted to young audiences on The WB on October 16th, 2001, just four weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, New York. Audiences responded to The WB’s vision of a more hopeful America, with 8....

Hollywood has been trying to crack the code onvideo game moviesfor a very long time, but the results have been mixed at best. 2016 seems to be marking a turning point in some ways, withThe Angry Birds Moviehaving done very well andAssassin’s Creedis looking to hopefully generate a more critic friendly video game adaptation in December. All eyes are onWarcraftright now though, and poor reviews be damned, because it is now the highest grossing video game movie of all time....

The world is ready for a greatSpider-Manmovie. It’s been far too long since Tobey Maguire brought the firstSpider-Manadventures to the big screen, arguably the best one ever made with 2004’sSpider-Man 2. In honor ofSpider-Man: Homecomingfinally delivering a standout showpiece centered on Marvel’s resident wall-crawler held within the actual MCU, let’s have a look back at Tobey Maguire’s original screen test, shall we? Spoiler alert: it’s super weird, violent, and R-rated....

Are we about to get aWayne’s Worldrevival? Arriving in 1992, the firstWayne’s Worldmovie was nothing short of a phenomenon. The character was a break out onSaturday Night Liveand hit the big screen in a timely fashion to capture that zeitgeist. The sequel, which arrived just a year later in 1993, didn’t fare so well, and there was a lot of turmoil around the set, withMike Myerssaid to be feuding with both the director and his co-star Dana Carvey....

Lawmanis a popular TVWesternseries that ran on ABC from 1958 to 1962. The plot concerns Dan Troop, a police officer from Kansas who relocates to Laramie, Wyoming, and becomes the new town Marshal. To help him keep criminals at bay, Troop deputizes an orphan named Johnny McKay after his previous application for the role is denied. Meanwhile, Dan becomes close with a saloon owner named Lily Merrill, who arrives in Wyoming from Montana....

The fourth season of NBC’sGood Girlswas finally released on Netflix in March to fan excitement leading it to trend in the top ten since its release. Unfortunately,it is also the final seasonsince the network abruptly canceled the series last June while it was still airing. But the popularity ofGood Girlsamong viewers is there. When Netflix first released the series, it became a trending topic on Facebook and Twitter, soaring its popularity and viewership not only for it being a binge-worthy show with episodes ending in cliffhangers but also for the cast and storylines that keep fans wanting more....

Today’s cinematic marketplace seems to value nostalgia over anything else. Instead of investing in new projects, the industry has turned in itself, and reverted to almost solely making films that are adaptations, sequels, prequels, remakes, or reboots of some sort of previously existing property or franchise. One of the most common ways to characterize this isthe term “legacy sequel.”This refers to films that essentially remake an original, but use it as a gateway to start a new franchise....

Nearly a month ago, it was confirmed that production has begun onWolverine 3, with recent photos seemingly hinting that this final Wolverine movie will actually be adapted from theOld Man Logancomics, which has been rumored for months. We still haven’t gotten any official plot details at this time, but today a new rumor has surfaced, which not only claims that this story won’t be based on Old Man Logan, but reveals the new title....

Captain America: Brave New Worldis about to hit theaters, and expectations are high. The new sequel not only features Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) taking over the highly profitableCaptain Americafranchise, but will also see the introduction of Harrison Ford to the MCU as Red Hulk. However, one element hanging over the film since 2022 is the inclusion of Ruth Bat-Seraph, a.k.a. Sabra, an Israeli hero played by actress Shira Haas – whose inclusion in the film has drawn particular controversy amid the Israel-Hamas war....

Gangster twins, their blues prodigy of a younger cousin, and heated, disparate lovers meet bloodthirsty destinies on a fateful Mississippi night inSinners. This fifth collaboration betweenwriter/director Ryan Cooglerand star Michael B. Jordan (afterFruitvale Station,Creed, Black Pantherand its sequel) is a well-acted, supremely entertaining thriller with stunning production values.Sinnersbrilliantly illustrates Black life in the violent and poverty-stricken Jim Crow-segregated South while portraying a vibrant cultural landscape brimming with musical fellowship.Tossa ruthless vampire antagonistinto the mix and the result isa must-see blockbuster that will blow audiences out of their chairs....