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5 Queer Movie Tropes That Need To Be Retired Immediately By Valerie Complex/June 28, 2019 9:00 am EST Every film includes tropes. Sometimes, tropes are a welcome fit within a story to help it move forward. Then there’s the opposite: movies using tropes to be lazy, and applying them as crucial plot devices that cheapens the cinematic experience.Tropes are especially parasitic in queer cinema or when movies involves queer characters. There are so many tropes that revolve around queerness that deserve to get the ax, but let’s focus on five that are used so often they practically leap off the screen and smack you in the face....

American Psychos: How ‘The Report’ And ‘Vice’ Investigate The Horrors Of The Bush Administration By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 5, 2019 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Vice and The Report are among the first films to truly look back at the Bush years with a severe and critical eye..)Adam McKay’s Vice and Scott Z....

By Chris Evangelista/March 22, 2019 2:00 pm EST Ghostbusters 3 is bound to be an effects-driven movie, and Jason Reitman has recruited some folks to make that happen. HN Entertainment reports art director Tom Reta (The Cabin In The Woods) and visual effects supervisor Sheena Duggal (Venom) are both working on the movie. So if you like the way those films look, this is exciting! If you don’t, well…then you might be worried....

Spike Lee Casts Two ‘The Wire’ Alums For Netflix Drama ‘Da 5 Bloods’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2019 3:00 pm EST Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods has just added two The Wire alums to its star-studded cast. Clarke Peters and Isiah Whitlock Jr. are joining the cast of the Netflix Vietnam War film, which already stars Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman. Joining them in the Da 5 Bloods cast are Norm Lewis, Mélanie Thierry and Jasper Pääkkönen....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘LEGO DC Super-Villains’ Launch Trailer, SAG Investigating ‘Joker’ Set Incident & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 11, 2018 6:00 pm EST Black Lightning is back in action for The CW show’s second season. Here’s a promo for “Black Jesus Blues.” The scrappy young superheroes must work together in the new Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors promo. Gotham showrunner John Stephens admits that they almost turned Barbara Kean into Harley Quinn....

Superhero Bits: Early ‘Avengers Endgame’ Box Office Predictions, Designing ‘Venom’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 11, 2018 6:00 pm EST What’s up with the Japanese Spider-Man? Could Batman end up in the Arrowverse? What are the early box office predictions for Avengers: Endgame saying? What’s the latest comic book related item to make Kevin Smith cry? Could Captain Marvel lift Thor’s hammer? Would you like to see Ben Schwartz as Plastic Man?...

The Criterion Channel Launches In April, Picking Up Where FilmStruck Left Off By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 30, 2019 1:30 pm EST Calling all cinephiles: the Criterion Channel has a launch date. The streaming service, which provided online access to Criterion’s titles, was previously a part of the much-loved, but tragically under-used FilmStruck. When FilmStruck was shuttered, Criterion soon announced they would be launching their own standalone streaming service. And now we know when we’ll get to see it: April 2019....

The First Two ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Episodes Won’t Be Movie-Length By Ben Pearson/March 11, 2019 1:00 pm EST Back in 2017, sound designer Paula Fairfield teased that the Game of Thrones showrunners were considering extending all six episodes of the upcoming final season from the traditional hour-long run times to the length of feature films. Now we have word that the scope of the season is slightly smaller than that, because the lengths of the first two episodes of season eight have been revealed....

The Morning Watch: ‘Incredibles 2’ Storyboard Comparison, ‘Men In Black International’ Fan Theories & More By Ethan Anderton/June 14, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, see how the original storyboards for Jack-Jack’s fight with a raccoon in Incredibles 2 compares to the final sequence in the movie....

The Morning Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Easter Eggs, An Average Day With Daisy Ridley & More By Ethan Anderton/July 5, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, check out nearly 100 Easter eggs and comic book references you might have missed in Spider-Man: Far From Home....

‘Clownado’ Trailer: It’s Exactly What The Title Suggests By Chris Evangelista/May 15, 2019 5:00 pm EST The world is in crisis. Climate change is out of control. Governments are collapsing. And now, there’s a movie called Clownado. I’d like to say that we, as a society, don’t deserve such a thing. But the fact of the matter is, we do. We’ve brought this on ourselves: a movie where demon clowns have the power to control tornadoes....

‘Dune’ Adds Oscar Isaac As Duke Leto Atreides, Father Of Timothee Chalamet’s Paul By Jacob Hall/Jan. 29, 2019 11:06 am EST Just when you thought the cast of Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of Dune couldn’t get any better, Oscar Isaac joins the ensemble. The dashing actor is leaping from one galaxy far, far away to another, taking off Poe Dameron’s X-Wing jumpsuit and slipping into the regal robes of Duke Leto Atreides, an essential character in Frank Herbert’s sweeping science fiction saga....

‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Trailer: The Rock, Jason Statham, And Wild Stunts…What More Do You Need? By Ben Pearson/April 18, 2019 5:02 am EST Are your engines revved for the first Fast & Furious spin-off? A new trailer for Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw is here to get your motor running, and yes, it looks just as ridiculous as ever. I can’t wait for this silly, silly movie to come out....

‘Santa Clarita Diet’ Season 3 Trailer: Drew Barrymore And Timothy Olyphant Consider Making Their Vows Truly Eternal By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2019 9:30 am EST Anyone order their meal of human flesh with a dose of existential crises? Because that’s what’s on tap for Santa Clarita Diet season 3, which follows husband and undead wife, Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore), as they consider making the most eternal vow of all: turning Joel into a zombie....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Clip: Miles Morales Grooves And Finds A New Superpower By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 10, 2018 4:30 pm EST This week brings Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse into theaters, unleashing a bunch of different super-powered spider people onto the big screen. If you’re still not convinced that the movie, which has 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, is worth seeing, maybe a funny new clip featuring Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) getting some advice from Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) will do the trick....

‘Ultraman’ Trailer: The New Ultraman Battles Monsters And Legacy By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2019 12:30 pm EST A new generation of Ultraman is coming to Netflix. But he’ll have to contend with some monsters, villains, and even rivals vying for the Ultraman title in the upcoming anime series from the streaming giant. Based on based the recent Ultraman manga by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi that was published in 2015, Ultraman reintroduces the iconic sentai hero to the modern age, transforming the once-cheesy armored hero into a cool CGI warrior....

Claire Foy Fits In Perfectly In Her Hosting Debut On ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 2, 2018 1:00 pm EST Claire Foy has only recently found fame in the United States thanks to her starring role in The Crown, not to mention leading The Girl in the Spider’s Web and a pivotal supporting role in First Man. But she brought her acting skills to Studio 8H in an impressive way for her hosting debut on Saturday Night Live, doing what great hosts do by blending in with the rest of the cast....

Disney+ Will Not Release ‘The Mandalorian’ Episodes All At Once By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 15, 2019 12:25 pm EST Entertainment Weekly reporter Anthony Breznican broke the news that The Mandalorian, which debuts on the day of Disney+’s launch date, will air only the first episode on November 12, 2019. “Only the first episode of The Mandalorian will be released on Disney+ on Nov. 12. [Maybe] they’ll decide to add a second, but it won’t be the full binge,” Breznican reported in a tweet....

Sequel Bits: ‘Toy Story 4’, ‘Labyrinth 2’, ‘Top Gun 2’, ‘Tintin 2’, ‘Lethal Weapon 5’, ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2018 10:00 am EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Tom Hanks gets emotional about the Toy Story 4 ending. Fede Alvarez says that despite recent reports, the Labyrinth 2 script isn’t done. Tom Cruise is allegedly learning to really fly fighter jets for Top Gun 2, because of course he is....

Several ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Cast Members Were Cut Out, But Quentin Tarantino Might Make The Movie Longer By Chris Evangelista/May 23, 2019 4:00 pm EST Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has a huge cast, but it looks like a few of those cast members didn’t make it into the final film. After Quentin Tarantino’s latest screened at Cannes, one critic pointed out that several of the previously-announced actors aren’t in the movie – but that might change....