Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom brings a year of lousy superhero movies (with one bright spot) to a close with an appropriate whimper. This is yet another film that, despite delayed releases and reshoots, feels like it was slapped together over a weekend. The character arcs either don’t exist or are...
Read MoreTodd Phillips left a Christmas present for movie fans on his Instagram account yesterday. With the caption “Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a beautiful new year,” the filmmaker posted a pair of pictures from the upcoming sequel to his smash 2019 hit Joker, titled Joker: Folie à Deux. The f...
Read MoreThe strangest version of the Joker yet will be making its way to theaters. At last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a film called The People’s Joker, about a trans version of the legendary Batman villain, canceled its planned screenings due to a “rights issue” with Warner Bros. Di...
Read MoreWonka is a rebootquel of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and, to a lesser extent, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I like the Gene Wilder-led classic well enough, but I don’t think I ever watched the Tim Burton movie all the way through. When Wonka was announced, I was frankly an...
Read MoreWe’ll have to wait till after Christmas to get a taste of spice. Warner Bros. has released a third – and, presumably, final – trailer for Dune: Part Two. The second half of the epic sci-fi adaptation from Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two finds Paul Atreides seeking revenge against the Harkonn...
Read MoreZachary Levi may have let out a little bit of frustration with the DCU casting process. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Levi was asked about returning to play Shazam in the rebooted DC film universe under James Gunn and Peter Safran. After giving the usual insistence that he doesn’t know what ...
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