Film and television news: premieres, trailers, release dates, reviews, and highlights from major studios.
Image: Wizards of the Coast/Steve Ditko I admit I approached Magic: The Gathering’s newest release, the Marvel’s Spider-Man set, with reservations. I’m a longtime fan of MTG’s original tone, and Universes Beyond has never fully convinced me—Lord of the Rings felt plausible, but the incorporation of Spider-Man and the wider Marvel catalogue initially struck me...
Image: DC Studios DC Studios co-head James Gunn unveiled an unexpected release timeline this week: Superman is scheduled to return to theaters in July 2027 with a film titled Man of Tomorrow. Given the first film’s solid box-office showing and Gunn’s prolific output for the DCU, a follow-up may not feel shocking — yet the...
Image: YouTube / Roadside Flix Hannibal devotees are in for a surprise reunion this year — though not the revival many imagined. Bryan Fuller, the creator behind Hannibal and Pushing Daisies, directs his first feature film, Dust Bunny, teaming with Mads Mikkelsen. The movie’s inaugural trailer premiered alongside this announcement. Mikkelsen — familiar to audiences...
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures September isn’t typically a blockbuster-packed month—unless you’re a fan of late-summer horror frights, in which case it can be rich with scares. If theaters have left you wanting, streaming services are a great place to revisit overlooked titles. Netflix, in particular, has picked up an eclectic mix of studio films, making...
Image: Lucasfilm Here’s a provocative thought: Padmé Amidala is arguably the single most consequential character in the Star Wars saga. As Queen of Naboo turned Coruscant senator, she helped lay the groundwork for the Rebel Alliance alongside figures like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, married Anakin Skywalker (a union central to his fall), and bore...
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Christopher Nolan — the filmmaker behind the Dark Knight trilogy and cerebral blockbusters like Inception and Interstellar — usually delivers films that land commercially, critically, or both. Tenet, his 2020 science-fiction thriller, resists easy classification: to some viewers it’s a dazzling, ambitious puzzle; to others it’s needlessly convoluted. In truth, it’s...
Image: Lucasfilm Almost ten years have passed since Disney relaunched Star Wars with The Force Awakens, and we’re still unpacking the era the sequel trilogy created. That lingering debate only intensified after the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which split the fandom in ways few films have. Despite mixed feelings, I’ve been...
Image: Disney I grew up skipping the 1992 live-action film The Mighty Ducks — why trade interstellar duck vigilantes for youth hockey melodrama? For me, the animated offshoot, Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series (and its patched-together pilot movie, The First Face-Off), embodied the best of the ’90s: a tight six-member team with a Power Rangers-style...
Photo: Curtis Bonds Baker/HBO Max Superhero multiverses are starting to feel exhausted — too often deployed as a vehicle for cameos and corporate synergy rather than storytelling. Franchises like the Arrowverse folded Supergirl into its continuity and later staged crossovers with the Snyderverse and other legacy properties. Hollywood tentpoles from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse...
In his commentary for The Mist, Frank Darabont recounts Stephen King’s enthusiastic reaction to the film’s bleak finale—an ending far more brutal than the original novella. King reportedly emailed Darabont, noting that each generation “needs a movie like Night of the Living Dead, where nobody gets a happy ending.” After all, cinemagoers have grown...
