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When Frank Herbert’s novel Dune was published in 1965, it was heralded for its deft blend of science fiction and non-scientific elements to tell a story that reflected on humanity’s ability (or lack thereof) to evolve, its relationship with its environment and the politics of how empires rise and fall. Some 55 years later, the

The long-awaited follow-up to Tom King’s 85-issue run on Batman finally has a release date. Batman/Catwoman, which will continue the story of the Dark Knight’s romance with Catwoman, debuts on Dec. 1. The 12-issue maxi-series is drawn by King’s frequent collaborator Clay Mann, with colors by Tomeu Morey and letters by Clayton Cowles. DC made

It’s such a brilliant premise it’s almost impossible to believe we haven’t seen it before. Slightly dorky teenage girl is attacked by a serial killer but in the crucial moments a mystical intervention sees the two swap bodies. “It’s like Freaky Friday the 13th” director Christopher Landon explains, recalling the initial pitch from his co-writer

Batman: Black and White is an almost 25-year-old anthology series that gave titans of the industry, brilliant artists and writers, a chance to go wild and show off what they could do with the Dark Knight and his world. While the series has been around since 1996, Batman: Black and White has been on hiatus

Want to get the Xbox Series X? It’ll cost you $499. If you want to be among the first gamers to play Xbox Series X, then you might be interested in pre-ordering the console. Luckily, you can do so starting on Sept. 22 ahead of the console’s Nov. 10 launch. Microsoft made the announcement on

Every romance has a beginning, and every romance has an end… sometimes the story of each can be a killer. Such are the intimations at the heart of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, which is being handsomely brought back to the screen by director Ben Wheatley in a new Netflix production. With Lily James and Armie

 “It’s a classic ghost story with one of the best filmed jumps ever,” sums up Andy Nyman of Herbert Wise’s 1989 TV movie of The Woman in Black, “It properly delivers, and it properly delivers in a fantastically old fashioned way. It’s a proper ghost story at Christmas.” He’s not wrong. Now restored and released

As our esteemed Film Editor David Crow has said elsewhere, movies are back — but in a sense they’ve never really gone away. New original films have been popping up via streaming and video-on-demand all throughout the reign of the coronavirus, and they continue to do so even as theaters begin to reopen and the

Since Netflix picked up Cobra Kai it’s been sweeping up viewership like Johnny on Daniel-san’s leg. When The Karate Kid debuted in 1984, it was a smash hit, delivering returns of $100 million on a modest budget of $8 million. It also earned Best Supporting Actor nominations for the late Pat Morita (Mr Miyagi) from

It might be a long time (if ever) until we truly find out how much money Disney’s new live-action adaptation of Mulan has made. While the $200 million film is being released in theaters in some countries—most notably, second largest box office in the world China—it has and will be released solely as a VOD

This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Disney’s Mulan. You can read our spoiler-free review of the film here. A recurring visual motif in Disney’s 1998 animated Mulan is the titular warrior staring at her own face, rendered unfamiliar by makeup and wondering at how to reconcile the image of that stranger with the truth of

A boycott is an organized campaign to starve a business of revenue in an attempt to influence how the business operates. As people in the U.S. recently learned (or were reminded) during the NBA strike in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a boycott is different from a strike, which is a refusal

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes take center stage in Marvel’s Avengers, the new loot-based action-adventure game from Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix. The game gives fans control of several of Marvel’s greatest heroes as they take on an evil tech corporation known as Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), which has supplanted superheroes with its

Based on brilliant but deliberately mysterious novel by Iain Reid, adapted and directed by Charlie Kaufman who is known for his complex meta-textual scripts including Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind and Adaptation, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a perfect storm of philosophy, ambiguity and wankery. Not quite as dense as

When Francis Ford Coppola first offered Paramount Pictures the third and final installment of The Godfather Trilogy, he titled it “The Death of Michael Corleone.” The studio refused. This was one of the most anticipated films of all time, and it wound up being synonymous with cinematic disappointment, undeservedly. The director will finally get to

This story contains spoilers for Marvel’s Avengers. Marvel’s Avengers plot has proven to be one of the game’s biggest surprises so far. While the title’s beta suggested that it would be a Destiny-like live service experience that relies largely on vaguely connected content, it turns out that Marvel’s Avengers features a surprisingly compelling storyline that

Over the last two decades, Judd Apatow has become one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the comedy scene. As a director he’s turned out an impressive string of hits from Knocked Up and 40-Year-Old Virgin to Trainwreck and his recent critically acclaimed feature The King of Staten Island starring Pete Davidson. On the small

As disappointed as many fans were with the final episodes of Game of Thrones, there’s a particular kind of fevered anticipation when it comes to seeing what the cast and crew of such a long-running series choose to do next. This is perhaps heightened even further for those cast members who grew up on the

What can you make out of Airplane! at 40 years old? Well, aside from a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl? Written and directed by brothers Jerry and David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, the 1980 parody of disaster films is frequently ranked among the best comedies of all time. So, what is Airplane! about? Following

They did it! They actually did it! Roman Reigns is a heel! WWE essentially confirmed the change in Reigns’ character at its Payback special, following Reigns’ return at SummerSlam last weekend.  Reigns returned after Bray Wyatt beat Braun Strowman for the Universal Championship, spearing both the new champ and the former champ before standing tall

This Strike: Lethal White Episode 2 review contains spoilers.  There goes that revenue stream. With Strike’s wealthiest client’s head plastic-wrapped like a fridge-ready ham, how will the agency afford somebody to answer the phones now? The more pressing question, of course, is who killed the old badger? There are more than enough people – including

After publishing his first novel, Cold Storage, last year, famed screenwriter David Koepp — whose work includes such movies as Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible and War of the Worlds — is unleashing a new novella titled Yard Work this week exclusively through Audible, the online audio book and podcast platform owned by Amazon. In

’80s nostalgia addicts rejoice! For those of you who might be desperate for more Rocky IV in your lives, you’ll be pleased to know that Sylvester Stallone is currently working on a director’s cut of the film in time for its 35th anniversary. Ah, but ’80s nostalgia addicts should also beware…for his announcement comes with

Sony has invited PlayStation owners to register for a chance to be the first consumers to pre-order the PlayStation 5 ahead of its launch this holiday. The email invitation, which was only sent to those with active PSN Online IDs, suggests that Sony is preparing to finally announce a release date for the PS5 as

This Bill & Ted Face the Music review is spoiler-free. Excellent. Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reside in that unique cinematic grey area somewhere between blockbuster and cult classic. It’s a sweet spot that these characters — created by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who return to write

Chadwick Boseman, beloved actor and star of the highest grossing solo superhero movie of all time, Black Panther, has passed away in his Los Angeles home after a four-year struggle with colon cancer. The actor was 43. Confirming the actor’s death to the Associated Press late Friday evening, Boseman’s publicist Nicki Fioravante said Boseman’s wife

On Watchmen, the enigmatic Lube Man was the hero that no one deserved, needed right now, or even asked for…but he was beloved all the same.  As depicted very briefly in Watchmen’s fourth episode, Lube Man patrolled the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma with two bottles of SPF-666 to keep himself as lubricated as possible and

It’s been almost 30 years since Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan rocked out in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, but Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back in this summer’s Bill & Ted Face the Music as the iconic duo, spurred to action once more when a visitor from the future tells

Yet another of the leftover 20th Century Fox productions that were developed before Disney absorbed the company is getting moved again from its release date. The King’s Man, the prequel to 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and 2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle, has been removed from its fast-approaching September 18, 2020 arrival and repurposed to

This spoiler-free review is based on episodes one to four of eight. This year has seen television drama so vibrant, inventive and entertaining that the first reaction is gratitude, but the second is frustration. You mean to say it could have been like this all along? This whole time, TV audiences have been stuck at the