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Steven Spielberg’s Hook recently turned 30 and remains one of those movies that I appreciate as an old-fashioned nostalgic bit of pop culture from my youth, even if I don’t quite love it like I used to.
From a critical perspective, Hook isn’t a very good film. At a massive 142 minutes, it’s far too long for a family adventure that owes more to The Goonies than, say, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The special effects are surprisingly dated, particularly when compared to

A Gotham Knights live-action series is in the works at The CW from Batwoman alums Natalie Abrams (Supergirl, All American) and Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux (The Vampire Diaries, Gotham), according to Deadline.
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The potential new drama is based on the DC Comics characters that were created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Gotham Knights is written by Abrams, Fiveash, and Stoteraux.
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Star Wars Eclipse was one of the big reveals at The Game Awards. However, Quantic Dream only showed an impressive pre-rendered tone piece of the title that didn’t contain any actual gameplay. According to the person who first broke news of Star Wars Eclipse, this is because the game is still three or four years away from release.
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Tom Henderson, the aforementioned insider who also first reported on bot

Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly took issue with a nude scene featuring Meryl Streep in Don’t Look Up.READ MORE: ‘Don’t Look Up’ review: searing satire with a worthy messageDiscussing the scene, the film’s director Adam McKay claimed that DiCaprio “had a problem” because he “views Meryl as film royalty”.
Streep plays President Janie Orlean in the film, which also stars Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Mark Rylance, Timoth&eacut

"Wrestle with me." Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for the film Brighton 4th, a dramedy from the country of Georgia made by filmmaker / Olympic champion Levan Tediashvili - who stars in and directs the film. This first premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, where it won three awards - Best International Film, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. A former Olympic wrestler from Tbilisi helps his adult son in Brighton Beach to get his life on track. A Georgian w

The highly anticipated second season of the anime The Devil is a Part-Timer! will release in July 2022, according to a new trailer for the series.
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The trailer, which launched on Sunday, revealed the news and teased some of what to expect from the second season of the series, including the appearance of a new character. You can check out the trailer for Season 2 of The Devil is a Part-Timer! below:ＴＶ&#

It happens year after year, always right at the end of November. Weeks before whatever year we're currently in is over, websites and magazines and newspapers and critics groups start publishing their Best of the Year lists. But, why? Why at the start of December? Is this really necessary? These lists can't rightfully be called "Best of the Year" when the year isn't even over. When there are still more films to be seen. It's more like The Best Films That Publicists Decided to Show Us in the Last

After being pulled from Disney’s theatrical release window last week, Deadline is reporting that Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, is headed to streaming.
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The erotic thriller, which is directed by Adrian Lyne, is said to be moving to Hulu for a domestic release, with Amazon getting the rights to stream the film overseas. The movie was initially set to be released on January 14, 2

Universal Pictures has announced that Kat Coiro’s upcoming romantic-comedy film Marry Me starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson will now officially be having a simultaneous debut in theaters and on Peacock on Friday, February 11, 2022. It’s current theatrical release date will pit the film directly against 2oth Century Studios’ long-delayed sequel Death on the Nile.
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“An unlikely romance a

HBO has dropped the full trailer for Julian Fellowes’ period drama series The Gilded Age, which is scheduled to make its debut on January 24, 2022. The video, which you can check out below, provides us a glimpse into the rising rivalry between the wealthy families of New York’s elite society as they fight for power and control.
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“The American Gilded Age was a period of immense econo

The Witcher star Henry Cavill has recently said that he would be very interested in working on a television series based on the Mass Effect video game series.
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Speaking to TechRadar during a press junket for The Witcher‘s second season, Cavill was asked about whether or not he’d like to be involved in the series. Cavill was also asked whether or not he was involved, after having teased something suggesting that earli

While CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 has had a bumpy road since its launch last year, one thing fans have continued to love in the game is Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand character.
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Sitting down with The Verge for an interview, Reeves discussed the game, and just how much fans have loved him in the title. While first acknowledging that he doesn’t play games and has only seen

Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group have kicked off their “12 Screams for the Holidays” promotion by revealing a new Scream poster for the long-awaited fifth installment in the iconic slasher franchise. The film is slated to hit theaters on January 14, 2022.
Most intriguing is that the poster includes a hint. “The killer is on this poster,” the series revealed on Twitter.
Check out the Scream poster below:RELATED: Looking Back at Scream&rs

"The answers are not always what you wnat to hear." MPI Media Group has debuted an official US trailer for the film Rifkin's Festival, arriving in US theaters in January after originally premiering last year. This film takes place at the illustrious San Sebastian Film Festival in the North of Spain, and it also premiered at the 2020 San Sebastian Film Festival last year. Woody Allen's latest just seems to be another bland tale of jealousy and infidelity, without much more than that to add. A ma

The full list of nominees for the forthcoming 2022 Golden Globe Awards was announced this morning by Snoop Dogg and HFPA president Helen Hoehne. Leading the film category with 17 nominations is Netflix, while HBO/HBO Max dominated the television category after earning 15 nominations.  Check out the full list of nominations below!
The 79th Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 9, 2022. The ceremony won’t be televised for the first time in over a decade, following NBC&rsqu

The first images of Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent have just been released – take a look below.
The new comedy thriller will see Cage play a loose version of himself, who he dubbed “Nick Cage” in conversation with Entertainment Weekly.READ MORE: ‘Color Out Of Space’ review: Nicolas Cage cracks up in an all-out assault on the senses“[‘Nick Cage’] is an invented version of Nic Cage,” he told t

ComingSoon is debuting the exclusive trailer for the upcoming whodunit-adventure Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop, starring Nathalie Cox in the titular role. Lionsgate will release the film On Digital, On Demand, and on DVD on February 8, 2022.
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“Move over Miss Marple, there’s a smart, stylish new detective in town—meet Miss Willoughby!” reads the official synopsis. “Orphaned as a child, raise

The PlayStation 5 hasn’t been the most customizable console in its first year of release. However, Sony is changing that through the console covers it recently announced in conjunction with a slew of new DualSense controllers. The covers will be $54.99 each and the controllers will be $74.99 and the release dates are different depending on where and how players get them.Sony released trailers for both the covers and controllers. The console cover trailers shows all five colors: Midnight Bl

Escape to the festively cinematic sights and sounds of Universal Studios Hollywood this winter! 
It’s beginning to look a lot like Grinchmas…Just ask the Who’s Who of Who-ville when you stroll through Universal Plaza in all its Grinchmas glory. I love basking in the merry mashup of the Seuss classic and the Ron Howard live-action adaptation starring Jim Carrey. Along with various Whoville citizens, you can meet iconic holiday queen Martha May, the Mayor, Cindy Lou nad the

"He gave my life rhythm. I measured time by him." Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for an indie French drama titled Simple Passion, from filmmaker Danielle Arbid. Adapted from the novel by Annie Ernaux. In this sexually frank portrait of female lust & vulnerability, a mother falls into an addictive relationship with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common. This story "documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming pass

The Batman could be set to re-introduce the Joker to the franchise after a new trailer seemed to hint at an appearance.READ MORE: The Batman trailer: here’s everything we learned from the new teaserThe new DC film, which will see Robert Pattinson take on the Caped Crusader, dropped a Japanese trailer in the past day (December 12).
At one moment at the end, however, a mysterious and sinister-sounding voice declares with an eerie laugh: “I’ve been trying to reach you, B

Following the thirteenth season finale of Doctor Who, BBC America has unveiled the official trailer for the upcoming New Year’s Eve special titled Eve of the Daleks. This marks the first out of three Jodie Whittaker-led specials that had been announced as the thirteenth doctor’s final adventures before exiting the series.
The Eve of the Daleks trailer, which you can check out below along with the photos, features two individuals whose New Year’s Eve is suddenly hijacked by the

Brad Pitt and French producer and composer Damien Quintard have teamed up to renovate and reopen a recording studio in France that the actor has owned since 2012.READ MORE: The 20 best films of 2021Miraval Studios, which has been inactive since the early 2000s, will begin hosting sessions in summer 2022.
In the past the likes of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and The Cure’s ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ have been recorded there. AC/DC, Sade, The Cranberries, Courtney L

Ubisoft may have just officially unveiled its biggest premium Assassin’s Creed expansion ever, but it also showed off another ambitious piece of free DLC coming to the series, too. Assassin’s Creed Crossover Stories is yet bit of downloadable content that will see Valhalla‘s Eivor and Odyssey‘s Kassandra or Alexios meet for the first time. Each game will get its own update on December 14 that will add part of the story for free, meaning some players might need to rei

Ubisoft may have just officially unveiled its biggest premium Assassin’s Creed expansion ever, but it also showed off another ambitious piece of free DLC coming to the series, too. Assassin’s Creed Crossover Stories is yet bit of downloadable content that will see Valhalla‘s Eivor and Odyssey‘s Kassandra or Alexios meet for the first time. Each game will get its own update on December 14 that will add part of the story for free, meaning some players might need to rei

Lionsgate has released first look photos for the action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage as Nick Cage. Also starring Pedro Pascal and Emmy winners Tiffany Haddish and Neil Patrick Harris, the movie is set to debut in theaters on April 22, 2022.
You can check out the photos now in the gallery below!
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“Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized ver

The Matrix Resurrections star Jessica Henwick has teased a potential cameo from Tom Hardy in the upcoming film.READ MORE: The Matrix Resurrections: release date, trailers, cast and everything we know so farThe anticipated sequel, which is released later this month, will see the actress join returning stars including Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss nearly two decades after the last film in the series.
Henwick, who plays Bugs, revealed that Hardy was shooting Venom: Let There Be Carnage at

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s first season of premium DLC wrapped up with The Siege of Paris. Since then, Ubisoft has been releasing smaller updates with content like the Discovery Tour and the challenge tombs. The company had previously said that more DLC was coming and has now revealed what that DLC is. The big new expansion is called Dawn of Ragnarök and will release on March 10, 2022 for $39.99.
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Lionsgate has debuted the first five minutes of director Roland Emmerich’s next sci-fi disaster epic Moonfall, providing us with a new look at Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson’s characters. It is currently slated for a February 4, 2022, theatrical release.
The Moonfall clip, which you can check out below, features three astronauts as they suddenly encounter a mysterious black mass that knocks out their ship leaving one of them out of an oxygen supply.
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Apple TV+ has dropped the full trailer for the upcoming third season of M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological horror drama Servant, which is slated to make its return on January 21.
The Servant Season 3 trailer highlights the consequences of Leanne’s actions as the members of The Church of the Lesser enact their attacks on her newfound family through plague-like signs. It also teases Dorothy’s distrust against Leanne.Be careful what you wish for. #Servant returns January 21 on App

"Who are you under there?" Warner Bros has released abrand new Japanese trailer for Matt Reeves' The Batman, opening in March in just a few months. It's another re-cut of the second official trailer from a few months ago, but with a few extra shots thrown in and some title cards with words like "vengeance" on them. It's a good, very good, trailer. "It's the Gotham City experiment. What can he do that will finally change this place; he is charting what he's doing and not having any of the affect

Netflix has revealed a brand new The Witcher Season 2 clip for the long-awaited return of the hit action fantasy drama, which is scheduled to premiere this Friday, December 17.
The video, which you can check out below, shows Freya Allan’s Ciri as she undergoes training under the supervision of the Witchers. It teases her unrelenting determination to become stronger as she tries to successfully complete a Pendulum obstacle course.Looks like you have chosen… wisely. Enjoy the first of

The nominations for the 2022 Golden Globes have been announced, which kicks off the beginning of the awards season.
The Power Of The Dog and Belfast lead the pack for the film awards, scoring seven nods each including acting nods for Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee for the former, and Catriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan and Ciarán Hinds for the latter. Jane Campion and Kenneth Branagh are also up for directing and screenplay prizes.
Among the TV cohort, Succession secure

"Our war with the Muggles… begins today!" WB has revealed the first look tease for the third upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie, officially re-titled to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. This sequel continues with the Fantastic Beasts series following the last movie (The Crimes of Grindelwald) from 2018. Professor Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he ent

After last week’s teaser, Warner Bros. Pictures has released the full Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore trailer. The Harry Potter film is currently slated to arrive in theaters on Friday, April 15, 2022. It gives us a great look at what to expect from the film and its full cast including Mads Mikkelsen’s Gellert Grindelwald.
Check out the Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore trailer below:

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ComingSoon is excited to debut the exclusive trailer for the upcoming drama The Laureate, written and directed by William Nunez. Gravitas Ventures will release the film in theaters and On Demand on January 21, 2022.
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“The Laureate tells the story of a married couple on the brink of disillusion who invite a stranger to live with them in their idyllic cottage,” reads the official synopsis. “Will this stranger push

A brand new international trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ forthcoming DC film The Batman has surfaced online, featuring lots of fresh footage highlighting the Riddler’s crimes and motives. Starring Robert Pattinson and Paul Dano, the film is scheduled to make its debut on March 4, 2022.
The Batman Japanese trailer, which you can check out below, teases the mysterious connection between the Riddler and Bruce Wayne that will go back to their childhood. It also gives us a preview of

"I'm losing air!" Ever wanted to see what it would be like if Roland Emmerich remade Gravity? Well here you go. Lionsgate has debuted the first five minutes from the new Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster movie called Moonfall, smashing into theaters in February. We've already posted a few teaser trailers, and this is another sneaky first look. When a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it on this planet. Wit

"Have you ever had a week where… where everything made sense?" Amazon Prime Video has debuted an official trailer for Book of Love, a romantic comedy set in Mexico. This hasn't premiered anywhere before, and will be available for streaming in February of 2022. This Valentine's Day, uptight English writer Henry discovers that his dull, failing novel has become a smashing success in Mexico, where the Spanish translator Maria has rewritten it into a spicy erotic thriller. Opposites attract

The film and TV titles leaving Netflix UK this week have been unveiled, meaning fans will have to be quick to catch them in the build-up to Christmas.READ MORE: ‘Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story’ review: salacious spin-off swaps facts for farceAmong the titles being taken off the streaming platform from today (December 13) onwards are Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, which stars Adam Driver and Bill Murray and leaves on the 18th, according to The Independent.
A number of

James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has said that the character could be non-binary in the future.
As speculation mounts over who will replace Daniel Craig in the role following No Time To Die, the producer appeared on the Girls On Film podcast and reiterated that Bond would remain a man.READ MORE: Move over Bond, Lashana Lynch is the future of the 007 franchiseHowever, when host Anna Smith asked about the prospect of a non-binary 007 in future, Broccoli replied: “Who knows, I think

Tom Holland has suggested that he could take a break as an actor as he is having a “midlife crisis at 25”.
The star, who has played Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2016, is due to reprise his role in the upcoming No Way Home, and despite it being speculated as his last outing, it has been confirmed he will play the character again.
However, speaking to Sky News, Holland expressed uncertainty about where his career could go next, admitting: “I don’t even

Parasite star Park So-dam has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, her agency has confirmed.READ MORE: ‘Parasite’ review: Bong Joon-ho’s darkly comic thriller is a modern masterpiece (yes, even with subtitles)Earlier today (December 13), her agency Artist Company announced in a statement to E-Daily that the South Korean actress had been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer during a regular health check-up. The company did not reveal when the diagnosis took place, but noted th

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story got off to a slow start this weekend, ultimately accruing $10.5 million from 2,820 theaters. That total was enough to put the musical remake atop the domestic box office, ahead of Encanto ($9.42 million/$71.3 million total), Ghostbusters: Afterlife ($7.1 million/$112 million), and House of Gucci ($4.06 million/$41 million), but it’s still a relatively disappointing start for a surefire Oscar contender and critical darling.
Per Deadline, the hope is