This month on Prime Video is full of new and exciting releases. 2024 action comedy The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt arrives on January 2. Directed by Zoë Kravitz and starring Channing Tatum, the thriller Blink Twice makes its way to the streamer on January 21. Movies like The Social Network, Edge … Read more
The hit adult animated series Harley Quinn is returning for its fifth season on Max this January. This time, Harley, Ivy, and the crew are taking their hilarious shenanigans to Metropolis, where they start to uncover looming threats from Lex Luthor and his sister Lena, as well as Brainiac. There’s also a new medical drama … Read more
Five and a half minutes into Nickel Boys, young Elwood stops to watch Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “How Long, Not Long” speech. It is broadcast on a stack of televisions in a storefront window. As the TVs click on and the picture comes into focus, Elwood’s grandmother, her friends, and other passersby stop … Read more
If you grew up with 8-bit consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System or home computer of the time, I’d wager you’ll probably remember the painful attempts gaming companies such as serial movie tie-in murderer, LJN, made to bring the classic temporal sci-fi flick Back to the Future to our screens. These games were some of the worst, … Read more
Increasingly, over the last few decades, modern pop culture has warmed up to embracing the frightful chills of the winter holidays in films like Gremlins, Black Christmas, Terrifier 3 … Love Actually. But the historical roots of this time of year have always had a darker, spookier side. Long before Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol … Read more
Willem Dafoe is not against the idea of a possible Norman Osborn return to the MCU in Spider-Man 4. Willem Dafoe: “We’ll see.” … “I could come back. Listen, Tom was great to work with and the whole series of Spider-Man films that I did were great fun.” Read more at ET Online Timothée Chalamet … Read more
I am old enough to remember when Wicked opened on Broadway. I was still in high school and what felt like a million miles away from New York City. Still, even from the relatively provincial wilds of North Carolina, I was aware something big had landed on the Great White Way; an event so extraordinary … Read more
Warning: contains spoilers for The Mirror and the Light finale. Cromwell kept his composure and shrewdness until the last. Moments from his death, this master of government mastered himself to deliver a final speech the real meaning of which was a secret shared between him and us. Only we could see Wolsey in that scaffold … Read more
This review contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy episode 5. The penultimate episode of Dune: Prophecy answers two big questions about the central mystery of Desmond Hart while leaving another question to linger. By the end of “In Blood, Truth,” we know that Desmond is the son of Tula Harkonnen and Orry Atreides and that he … Read more
Geek culture on television has a more storied history than you might realize. The Dark Knight himself made his small screen debut well before he entered multiplexes with 1989’s Batman. The Twilight Zone planted the science fiction flag on TV before the invention of the first handheld calculator. And that’s not even to get into … Read more