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Eternals, Marvel’s ambitious ensemble entry (check out our advance review), hits theaters this weekend for a pandemic-era performance that’s hard to predict. Notwithstanding the fact that the film—based on Jack Kirby’s 1976-launched high-concept comic title—stands as the most thematically unique film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also happens to be the biggest film of
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HBO’s groundbreaking series The Sopranos pushed envelopes on violence, sex, and respect for the gangster genre. But creator David Chase didn’t imagine his characters breaking people’s shoes, a street euphemism for the ultimate payoff. Chase is on record, quite often, insisting he saw the mob series as a comedy, a live-action gangland sitcom in the
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Ryan Reynolds is taking a break. Speaking with THR, Reynolds revealed that he is “trying to create a little bit more space for my family and time with them” after recently completing work on a holiday season film called Spirited with Will Ferrell for Apple TV+ (Reynolds is married to actress Blake Lively, with whom
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While Marvel’s X-Men movie franchise was engulfed by the overwhelming, Phoenix-like force of Disney’s 2019-completed acquisition of licensee studio Twentieth Century Fox, it’s almost poetic that Ryan Reynolds’s obscenely unkillable R-rated mutant movie star, Deadpool, will emerge from the fray as its first survivor. However, as plans for Deadpool’s debut in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Apex Legends’ massive Season 11 “Escape” update arrives just as EA and Respawn’s battle royale looks to capitalize on Warzone’s complacency and make its move to claim the genre crown.  This update not only adds a new Legend to the game’s growing roster but reworks one of the game’s formerly bottom-tier Legends in such a
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As multiverse movie mania surges from the trailer for December’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, the post-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and mid-2022’s plot-obscured Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, it might be easy to forget the existence of Marvel movie Morbius. After all, the film, in which Jared Leto stars as
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With its list of new releases for November 2021, Disney+ is continuing its dream of always having one big ticket Marvel series running on its servers. After the interesting and entertaining animated effort Marvel’s What If…? wrapped up its run in early October, Hawkeye is set to pick up the Infinity Gauntlet and run with
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This article contains Last Night in Soho spoilers. Thomasin McKenzie’s Eloise Turner is a young woman who’s always been haunted by ghosts. That was true at the beginning of Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and it proves just as accurate by the end when she smiles at a blonde haired specter in the mirror.
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Bestselling author V.E. Schwab isn’t known as a horror writer, but once you begin looking for horror elements in her prolific body of speculative fiction work, you’ll start finding them everywhere: A library where dead people are kept on the shelves like books in The Archived. A world where people come away from near-death experiences
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This article contains spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows season 3 episode 10. There is a very different vibe at the Staten Island vampire house in the aftermath of “The Portrait,” and it has little to do with the oil-based nuances captured by Donal Logue. Artistic master-stokes are usually reserved for Laszlo (Matt
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This article contains Dune mythology spoilers. After some uncertainty as to whether admired French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve would be able to complete his mission to adapt Dune into more than one movie, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have struck a deal for Dune: Part Two, and there are now three major roles that need
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Haunted houses. Possessed children. Reanimated corpses. Men or women cursed with vampirism, madness, or lycanthropy. These are all well-loved and well-worn staples of the horror genre, and the basis of scores of the most entertaining and terrifying films ever made. But once you get past those undoubtedly popular tropes, there are others to explore. Like
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One of the most famous stories in Batman history, Batman: The Long Halloween has just added a new chapter. Out now from DC Comics, Batman: The Long Halloween Special is the next chapter in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s exploration of the early days of the Dark Knight and his villains, following. Gotham City is
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