Cuphead and Mugman are about to roll the dice again on Netflix!The Cuphead Show!is coming back to the streamer for a second round of zany, cartoony goodness on August 19. Based on the insanely difficult yet widely popular side-scrolling run-and-gun platformerCupheadreleased in 2017, the series follows the pair of mugs (Tru ValentinoandFrank Todaro) on a set of new adventures as they try to keep their souls out of the clutches of the Devil....
It’s funny, just yesterday I was talking to my friend, lit manager extraordinaireLee Stobby, after checking out his impressiveLetterboxd account, and I asked him to name a recent indie film he loved that he thought I might like, because I really respect his taste. Lee told me to check outThe Killing of Two Lovers, and not 24 hours later, the first trailer hit my inbox along with news that the film has been acquired by NEON, which will release it in time for this year’s awards season....
If you’re like me, you spent this past weekend doing little more than mainlining the second season of Netflix’sDaredevil, the best adaptation of a Marvel property to hit the big or small screen by a mile. (Or maybe you have some self-control and are savoring each episode, which might very well be for the better.) Having finished the new season, easily one of the best of 2016, it’s hard to locate a singular highlight of the 13 episodes – the acting is phenomenal, and the technical work, from the cinematography to the fight choreography to the exemplary editing, is equally astounding....
Home Aloneis one of those magical movies that are watched year-round. Audiences can’t get enough of Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) vs. the Wet Bandits. And the way Kate McCallister (Catherine O’Hara) works endlessly to get home to her son, who is, you guessed it, home alone, warms your soul. She barters for a flight, sets sail with the Polka King, and does everything in her power to get home. But for the real film buffs, this one is for you....
Historically,made-for-TV movies have always beenhit or miss, butone forgotten after-school special still holds important lessonsfor any generation. Directed byAlex Grasshoff,The Waveis a 1981 familydramathatrecounts the real-life classroom experimentof history teacher Ben Ross (Bruce Davison), an educator who sets out to answer the question of why so many average German citizens went along with the Nazis' horrific actions during World War II. Despite clocking in at just under 50 minutes, thisABCfilm still holds up nearly 50 years later, deliveringa timely cautionary tale about the temptation of fascismin a world filled with young people who should know better....
Editor’s note: The following containsMAJOR spoilersforThor: Love and ThunderOf the original Avengers team, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) remains the most adaptable and malleable character, depending on what the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs of him. While we pretty much understand who Iron Man, Captain America, and Hulk are from the get-go, and Black Widow and Hawkeye remained ill-defined until fairly recently, Thor has become Marvel’s flexible hero. He can be the cocky prince to the Asgardian throne, a Lebowski-esque slacker, the decapitator of Thanos, a love-lorn romantic lead, or a space-exploring wanderer....
Every actor pursues their calling for the opportunity to explore new characters and genres, andThe Midnight SkystarTiffany Booneis no exception. Beyond her role as an astronaut inGeorge Clooney’s apocalyptic Netflix drama, she’s gotten the chance to discover her inner badass on the Amazon Nazi-hunting dramaHuntersand embody the younger self of complicated artist Mia (Kerry Washington) on Hulu’sLittle Fires Everywhere. And that’s just recent history — when I recently spoke with Boone, she had just finished shooting the upcoming miniseriesNine Perfect Strangersin Australia....
To say the production ofThe Revenantwas grueling is, well, a bit of an understatement. The shooting schedule alone is hellish—directorAlejandro G. Iñárritubegan filming the frontier-set revenge drama last September and didn’t capture the film’s final shotuntil this past July. There were breaks in filming to accommodate Iñárritu’s awards campaign forBirdman, but the lack of cooperation with the weather meant that they had to halt filming in remote portions of Canada earlier this spring and look for a new location for the film’s finale....
Tom Sandoval’sidea of what the “Scandoval” situationmeant for not just himself,Rachel Leviss,andAriana Madixseems to have made his ego and his head bigger than anyone could have imagined.Sandoval went too farwith his latest comparison. While Sandoval was speaking toThe New York TimesMagazine, he spoke on the cultural impact his cheating scandal had inthe reality television sphere. According to theVanderpump Rulesstar,his cheating scandal is as huge as George Floyd’s murder. “I’m not a pop-culture historian really, but I witnessed the O....
Season 1 ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powermade quite a splash with viewers by plunging them back into Middle-earth. With Season 2 debuting sometime in 2024, we can sneak a look ahead thanks to the writing ofJ.R.R. Tolkien. If the stories sketched out by Tolkien are to be any indicator, what Season 2 will bring promises to be dramatic, tragic, and remarkably action-packed. Of course, the series is going witha condensed and reshuffled timeline, so the sequence of events has not been the same in the show as in Tolkien’s appendices....
The end is nigh! Of the month, that is, and that means a whole lot of films are leaving HBO Max. Now that doesn’t mean the streaming service doesn’t still have some great movies and shows available for streaming. There’s always good stuff to watch on HBO Max and you can check out our guides to the best of them. But this is your last chance to check out these films before they leave the streamer....
The spice flows on asDune: Part Tworocks the box office all around the world. The second half ofDenis Villeneuve’sDuneadaptation offers a complex look at how the flow of one single commodity mobilizes a whole galaxy and how much destruction it may cause. However, those of us who like some good old science fiction might find it somewhat confusing - isn’t there spice inStar Wars, too? Yes, there is! And the spice in both franchises has as much in common as they have in differences between them, as weird as that sounds....
There have been countlessAmerican Idolhopefuls that have fit the bill of “nepo baby.” Sometimes, it’s a passing comment that’s brought into the conversation and never addressed again. Other times,it’s almost as if these hopefuls pretend their famous relatives don’t exist.In the premiere ofAmerican IdolSeason 23,Baylee Littrellentered the room and immediately, everyone acknowledged his connection to his famous dad,Brian Littrellof theBackstreet Boys. Instead of trying to hide the family resemblance,American Idolallowed Baylee to share the connection in a manner that worked for him and his journey....
