The Defiant Power of This Queer Safe Space in Movies and TV

Strobe lights flash. Sweat rolls down the back. There is never a more delicate act, be it performing a death drop or going on the dance floor with a full drink in hand. For the LGBTQ+ community, clubs and bars empower people by allowing close interactions without the need to separate, while being the hot spot to challenge social restrictions. From shows likePOSEandA League of Their Own, to movies likeBut I’m a CheerleadertoBPM (Beats per Minute), these locations are as radical today as they were when police raided them because of the patrons there....

June 12, 2025 · 10 min · 1918 words · Walter Davila

The Good Fight Season 6 Adds André Braugher

Paramount+ has announced that the multi-time Emmy Award winnerAndré Braugherwill be joining the sixth season of their critically acclaimed showThe Good Fight. Season 6 of the series is set to return to the streaming service this summer. Braugher will be playing the role of Ri’Chard Lane, a showman lawyer and rainmaker who is forced onAudra McDonald’s character, Liz, as a new partner. Ri’Chard is described as someone with a “wild mix of brilliance, geniality, religion and joyful hedonism....

June 12, 2025 · 2 min · 419 words · Karen Weaver

The Incredibles 2 Picks Up Minutes After the First Movie Ends

Anticipation forThe Incredibles 2is extremely high, and while we’ll likely get our first look at the sequel during D23 this weekend, we now have a better idea of what to expect courtesy ofJohn Lasseterhimself. The follow-up has been a long time coming, with writer/directorBrad Birdsaying for years he had an idea for the sequel, but he and Pixar finally pulled the trigger after Bird finishedTomorrowland, and now we’re all waiting to see exactly what that idea entails....

June 12, 2025 · 2 min · 370 words · Jeremy Bennett

The Mountain Between Us Review: Falling for Idris Elba

The Mountain Between Usis all about pragmatic decisions. Rather than resort to embellishing a survival drama, it simply goes about its business, trying to put the audience in the shoes of two strangers who must figure out how to find their way back to civilization after a plane crash. It even goes so far as to explain why they didn’t call anyone before their plane took off, so literally no one knows where they are....

June 12, 2025 · 4 min · 711 words · Taylor Kent

This X-Men Movie Is the Greatest Love Letter to the Franchise

These days, longtime X-Men fans have been blessed with a renaissance of new material that has triumphantly brought Marvel Comics' premiere superhero team back into the spotlight. With the animated revival seriesX-Men ‘97and the upcomingDeadpool & Wolverine—which will officially insert both titular characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe—there’s a lot to be excited about if you’re a fan of these mutant heroes. But a decade ago, one blockbuster best honored the original comic book characters in a feature that took the best elements from both the film series and the comic books and mashed them together for a new, pulse-pounding adventure....

June 12, 2025 · 8 min · 1680 words · Donald Adams

Tom Cruise on Seeing Mission Impossible Fallout in IMAX

By all accounts,Mission: Impossible - Falloutis looking to be one of the biggest, wildest, most crowd-pleasingest pictures of the summer. That means that you owe it to yourself to see it on the biggest possible screen with the best quality visuals and accompanying audio that money can buy. In other words: IMAX. In our exclusive video from the IMAX team,Tom Cruisehimself calls this installment the biggest one they’ve ever done, making for a perfect partnership with the larger-than-life format....

June 12, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Peter Marks

Us: Jordan Peele Teases What’s Next for the Tethered after the Revolt

I’ve been mighty obsessed withJordan Peele’sUsever since catching it at SXSW for its world premiere back in March of 2019. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy digging through the abundance of theories that circulated the internet after the film’s nationwide release, but I also got quite caught up in wondering what’s next - specifically what’s next for the remaining Tethered. As Red (Lupita Nyong’o) explains at the end of the movie, she believes humans figured out how to copy the body and did so, creating the Tethered underground in order to control those above....

June 12, 2025 · 3 min · 608 words · Mason Cooper

V.C. Andrews' Catalogue Rights Acquired By A+E Network

A+E Networks has acquired the entire library of renowned writerV.C. Andrews, author of the beloved gothic novelFlowers in the Attic. This new deal allows A+E Networks to explore all one hundred and thirty-eight books by Andrews as they see fit, with their network Lifetime already announcing a series based on theCutlerbook series. Since 2014, Lifetime has explored Andrews' literary work, with multiple TV movie adaptations, including a 2014 adaptation of the infamousFlowers in the Attic, the success of whichled Lifetime to adapt three of the novel’s direct sequels:Petals on the Wind,If There Be Thorns, andSeeds of Yesterday....

June 12, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words · Taylor Carter

Valerian Director Luc Besson on Bringing His Dream Project to Life

Imagine you’re ten years old. It’s 1969 and you’ve discovered a love of comics. One of the recent ones is a series calledValérian and Laurelinthat was created by writerPierre Christinand artistJean-Claude Mézières. Unlike a lot of comics during that period, this one took place in a far off future where people could travel through space and time and it focused on a dark-haired spatio-temporal agent (Valerian) and his colleague (Laureline) as they traveled across the universe....

June 12, 2025 · 21 min · 4383 words · James Robinson

Venice Film Festival Lineup Lands Suburbicon, mother! & More

The Venice Film Festival has announced their film line up for the 74th annual event and it’s a doozy. The international fest has seen some proud premieres in recent years as a hotspot for launching awards contenders, includingLa La Land,SpotlightandBirdman, and this year is shaping up to be no different. As previously announced, the festival will open withAlexander Payne’s sci-fi satireDownsizing, starringMatt Damon. Folks will get a double dose of Damon withGeorge Clooney’s Coen Brothers-scripted crime comedySuburbiconalso set to make its world debut....

June 12, 2025 · 4 min · 806 words · Caroline Fox

Watchmen Episode 7 Theories: Who Is Cal Abar?

Stately Tony and Oscar-winning thespianJeremy Ironsjust ripped an uncomfortably long fart in an extravagant purple cape before being sentenced to death by a screaming horde of pigs and it’s probably like, the eighth or ninth most important thing to discuss fromWatchmenepisode 7, “An Almost Religious Awe.” Obviously, the big reveal of this absolutely bananagrams, brilliant episode—directed byDavid Semel, written byStacy Osei-KuffourandClaire Kiechel—is that Cal Abar (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) has been Doctor freaking Manhattan this entire time....

June 12, 2025 · 8 min · 1658 words · Gloria Benson

We're Not Focusing on the Most Terrifying Part of 'Baby Reindeer'

Content Warning: The following contains discussions about sexual assault. After watching Netflix’s surprise hit miniseriesBaby Reindeer, viewers are getting pretty up in arms about getting justice for its creator,Richard Gadd. It is somewhat understandable. After all, the seven episodes ofBaby Reindeertell anautobiographical storyabout a struggling comedianwhose life is ruined by not just a stalker, but also a sexually abusive mentor. It is only natural to feel for Gadd and his alter-ego, Donny Dunn, and to want to see the people who made him suffer pay....

June 12, 2025 · 7 min · 1448 words · Jenna Spence

Why the Best Spider-Man Movies Put the Character Front and Center

You might have heard this already, butTom Holland’s third soloSpider-Manmovie is gonna' be kind’ve big. The type of big where the multiverse gets mashed together, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) gets involved,Alfred Molinasomehow returns as Doctor Octopus, and more likely than not, two different generations of Peter Parkers—Tobey MaguireandAndrew Garfield, that is—show face as well. The type of big where Hollanddescribes the scriptas “the most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made.”...

June 12, 2025 · 5 min · 877 words · Gary Bradley