Going into Wake Up, it would be easy to expect some kind of anti-woke, far-right power fantasy. The premise practically invites that reading of it. A group of self-important Gen Z activists are breaking into a fictional Ikea equivalent and vandalizing it in an attempt to raise awareness of the countless animals that have to … Read more
The first teaser of the live-action Minecraft film has been released, bringing the iconic video game to life for the silver screen, and if the above photo is any indication, the main talking point of the trailer has to be Jack Black. Plain clothed and ordinary, he might as well be playing himself, save for … Read more
Terminator is one of those film franchises from the 80s Hollywood just can’t seem to leave alone. Every couple of years there’s a new movie coming out, and basically every time people hate it. Which is why I never bothered to watch any of them apart from the first two, which are, of course, fantastic. … Read more
Kathryn Hahn makes her series debut in Agatha All Along this September. After a lengthy wait, she reflects on the journey from serving as a fan favourite series antagonist in Wandavision, to headlining her television show. Speaking to Rolling Stone (from a story by ComicBook), Hahn recalls a conversation with series creator Jac Schaeffer in … Read more
After a quarter of a decade, fans of the iconic horror film, The Blair Witch Project, may have been watching the wrong version this entire time, the producer behind the film says. Sharing an explanation on social media, Mike Monello explains that at the time of release, “theatrical films didn’t originate on video” and for … Read more
This last Saturday, at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios had their presentation. With it came a lot of the expected news. Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford trying to sell us on Captain America: New World Order (2025)—because the trailer didn’t do a great job of doing that—and Florence Pugh and David Harbour attempting to convince … Read more
Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve left 2023 behind and moved right into 2024, and with that, we have made all kinds of promises to ourselves and others about how things will improve this time around. Naturally, the most important one of them all is the promise that the DCU will finally become great under the … Read more
Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) is about to die. Not for the reason the rest of the world is, the aliens hypersensitive to sound that just crashlanded on earth, but because she’s terminally ill. So when the apocalpyse arrives in the middle of New York City, she doesn’t break out into the same kind of panic that … Read more
Netflix’s new prestige TV show Ripley from Steven Zaillian, the writer behind fantastic movies like Schindler’s List (1993) and The Irishman (2019), isn’t the first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), and it wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t end up being the last. The timing is interesting given we … Read more
The DCEU has now officially ended in December 2023. But before we say our goodbyes to a cinematic universe filled with ups and downs (and maybe a few more downs than ups, if we’re being honest), there’s still one final movie to watch. Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom is the second of what was once … Read more