It sounds like The New Mutants’ rocky road to the screen was hard on its writer-director. In a new interview, Josh Boone reflects on the challenges and frustrations he faced during the making of the troubled X-Men spinoff. It was finally released under the Marvel banner to a subdued reaction in 2020, leaving Boone to … Read more
With Wicked, director Jon M. Chu had to make a two-decade-old stage musical based on a novel from 30 years ago inspired by a movie almost 90 years old that adapted a book from 1900 feel fresh. He did that, in part, by casting a pop star as one of the leads, putting Ariana Grande … Read more
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is about how to let go of Star Wars. Not only did it infamously give us Luke Skywalker as a bitter old recluse and reject the idea that Rey mattered because of her bloodline, but it also insisted that the series was all about change. The Last Jedi makes that … Read more
Ed and Lorraine Warren have closed their last case. No, not just the real-world Warrens, the hucksters whose work ended with Ed’s death in 2006. Rather, the much-more lovable fictional Warrens played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring. Ever since that 2013 movie directed by James Wan, The Conjuring launched a surprising … Read more
Daredevil is the Man Without Fear, a claim he’s taking to new, intergalactic lengths. After much anticipation, Marvel is ready to debut the Ultimate version of Daredevil in Ultimate Universe: Two Years In #1, written by Deniz Camp and illustrated by several artists, including Javier Pulido. Where the standard version of Daredevil is the Devil … Read more
This post contains spoilers for the finale of Peacemaker season 2. In the last moments of the Peacemaker season 2 finale, James Gunn reveals the future of the DCU. ARGUS head Rick Flag Sr. has enacted a plan to get all metahumans off of Earth, sending them to an extra-dimensional planet called Salvation. ARGUS’s kidnapping … Read more
“I was constantly seeking a balance between mourning what’s already been lost, making space for the time and moments we still had left, and making sense of this complicated process that felt like my heart was split between two contrasting realities: hope and heartbreak.” ~Liz Newman There is a quiet heaviness that begins to settle … Read more
Learn how to ask “Do you speak English?” in different languages with pronunciations, formal and informal options, and other conversational phrases. Traveling to another country is an incredible way to expand your mind and learn more about other cultures. But many people avoid traveling to countries where they’re not fluent in the language, preventing them … Read more
The trailers for The Woman in the Yard, released this past March, promised a scary movie with a delicious premise. One day a woman clothed in black arrives on the front lawn of a single mother’s home… and she refuses to leave. That’s the sort of premise that has made for many a tight, satisfying … Read more
Some DC fans are in their element this month because Zack Snyder just joined Instagram. The outspoken director almost immediately started posting a behind-the-scenes treasure trove from his career, including images from his time ruling the SnyderVerse. Inevitably, this has had an effect on those who would have loved to see more of Snyder’s work … Read more