It’s been an interesting period in the career of beloved actor Mark Hamill – he made what was probably his last appearance in the iconic role of Luke Skywalker in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and then joyfully leapt into the role of a vampire on FX’s humorous TV series What We Do … Read more
Nearly fifty years since moviegoers first “needed a bigger boat,”, the “shark movie” genre is still going strong – new survival, action, horror and thriller films featuring shark attacks are released every single year. Each and every one of those films can trace their heritage back to a single iconic classic: Stephen Spielberg’s 1975 feature … Read more
The Mamma Mia series has produced some of the most fun, high-energy films of the past two decades. 2008’s Mamma Mia and its 2018 sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again use the enduring, popular music of pop group ABBA to tell the story of a very unique family and their life on a gorgeous … Read more
Variety is reporting that dj2 Entertainment is working with independent game studio ZA/UM to develop a TV series based off their award winning game Disco Elysium. Released in October 2019, Disco Elysium is set in the same literary universe as lead designer Robert Kurvitz’s novel Sacred and Terrible Air, originally published in Estonia back in … Read more
Two open letters have been published which call for an end to racism and the promotion of equality within the United Kingdom film and TV industry. Both have quickly gathered support from a number of individuals within the industry; together, the two letters boast a combined total of over 6,500 signatures. The first was addressed … Read more
Streaming service Disney+ has reportedly removed the option to try out 7 free days before committing to a payment plan. Most interestingly, this decision was apparently made without any official announcement. The change was first reported on by French news source Numerama on June 19, and has only become widely known following the publication of … Read more
Veteran film and stage actor Ian Holm, probably best known for his role as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s Lord of The Rings trilogy as well as the amoral android science officer Ash in Ridley Scott’s Alien, has died at the age of 88. “It is with great sadness we can confirm that the actor … Read more
Filmmaker and director Matthew A. Cherry captured all of our hearts last year with Hair Love, an animated short film about a Black father learning how to do his daughter’s hair for the first time. The short was shown before selected screenings of Angry Birds 2, Jumanji: The Next Level, and Little Women before taking … Read more
With Broadway ticket prices skyrocketing (and a number of productions shut down due to the global COVID-19 pandemic) Hamilton fans have felt that their dream of seeing the beloved musical is further away than ever before. Now, you can turn your very own living room into “the room where it happens” with the official filmed … Read more
This past spring, the majority of in-progress films and TV shows were forced to halt shooting due to the spread of the novel coronavirus commonly called COVID-19. A particularly tragic and frightening example was the second season of the Netflix original series The Witcher, which was forcibly shut down when actor Kristofer Hivju, who plays … Read more