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Our latest and necessaryJane AustenadaptationPersuasionhas released new photos of stars,Dakota Johnson,Henry Golding, andCosmo Jarvisin stunning period costumes. The new film fromCarrie Cracknellis the director’s first feature film, as she is best known for her work in theater includingSea Wall/A LifewithJake Gyllenhaal. Austen’s last novel before she died,Persuasionfollows our heroine Anne Elliott, an unmarried woman on the “older” side (she is 27), who reconnects with an old lover after she was persuaded by friends and family to end their engagement....

The upcomingPeaky Blindersmovieis one of the most anticipated around, and Netflix are playing it very smartly by building up the buzz slowly but surely. Today, though, set the internet ablaze as theinternet’s quirky boyfriendBarry Keoghanhas been pictured in costume for the first time and, it’s fair to say, he looks very Peaky Blinders, looking out of a truck in his flat cap. Keoghan is one of a number of new names to be joining Peaky alongside the series originalsCillian Murphy, Stephen GrahamandSophie Rundle, who played Ada, sister to Oscar-winner Murphy’s Birmingham clan leader Tommy Shelby....

There have been so many great iconic versions of thePinocchiostory over the decades. The most famous one is Disney’s 1940s animated rendition, but directorGullermo del Toroand Netflix are about to release a newPinocchiothat may challenge that classic’s animated crown. The more twisted and dark stop-motion animated take onCarlo Collodi’s source material releases this Friday, December 9, on the popular streamer. Now with the film’s Netflix debut,Funkohas unveiled their Pop line forGuillermodel Toro’s Pinocchio....

You would think Disney might have cornered the market on King Arthur films. The studio’s takes onAlice in Wonderland,Peter Pan,Winnie the Pooh, andMary Poppinsare so ubiquitous they’ve overtaken the British source material in pop culture, the studio’s earliest forays into pure live-action filmmaking were made up of adaptations of British novels and legends, and Arthurian lore’s collection of kings, castles, magic, and romance seems an ideal fit for Disney at first glance....

Prime Video has debuted the first trailer for its upcoming Indian seriesHush Hush, which stands out amid the clutter for featuring a cast and crew led by women. 90s Bollywood starJuhi Chawlaleads a stacked cast; she plays a woman who finds herself embroiled in a grave criminal investigation along with her friends. The trailer paints a rather somber picture of the show. The lives of a handful of upper-class women unravel when they become the prime suspects in a police investigation; it’s unclear what the crime is, although everything points to murder....

No, there’s no sure-fire way to know if a Green Text is delivered or not. That’s because Green Texts are SMS messages (not iMessages) and there is no delivery verification system over SMS. On an iPhone, iMessages show up in blue and you get that confirmation. However, with green texts (SMS), you don’t get the same reassurance. Apple can confirm iMessages because they control both sides of the communication. With SMS, however, they can tell if a message is sent but they won’t have any idea if it gets delivered....

Audiences around the world will recognizeKelsey Asbillefrom her master work onTaylor Sheridan’s modern epicYellowstone.Finn Wittrockhas played a series of terrifying, multi-faceted characters as one of the mainstay faces of the flagshipAmerican Horror Storyanthology series. Now, the two headline a much-anticipated predator/prey action-thriller,Don’t Move,now streaming on Netflix by directorsAdam SchindlerandBrian Netto. Don’t Moveis a tense and thrilling tale of cat-and-mouse following a grieving woman (Asbille) who has been given a paralytic agent by a seasoned killer (Wittrock)....

The thing I’m most excited about whenKong: Skull Islandis released is just seeingwhat the heck this movie even is. It has a strongApocalypse Nowvibe and a sepia-soaked 70s setting, but the trailers also inject a weird humor into it (which makes sense since it comes fromKings of Summer’sJordan Vogt-Roberts). Also it’s a friggin King Kong movie, where Kong is the size of a mountain (to better fight Godzilla, of course). But in the same way thatLoganhas reenergized superhero storytelling by setting it as a Western, perhapsKong: Skull Islanddoing … whatever it is that it’s doing … will shake up monster movies as well....

I didn’t really want to be the one to say it, but here goes: Marvel has a bit of a death problem. For all the massive stakes that its heroes engage in, in both cosmic worlds and more earth-bound ones, the stakes for our central heroes can occasionally seem comically low. Sure, disposable villains are dispatched at the end of nearly every MCU entry, and family remains an open target, often used to inspire its heroes (see the death of Black Panther’s father inCaptain America: Civil War) rather than for its narrative weight....

Avolatile seventh seasonhas left viewers ofNetflixseriesSelling Sunsetuncertain of where the real estate agents at the Oppenheim group will go from here, and who from the cast will even be returning for a yet-to-be-confirmed season eight. The future looks especially uncertain with agentsBreana Tiesi(who seemingly quit on camera in the final episode), andHeather Rae El Moussa(whoseabsence from the season seven posterhas caused internet buzz), and also with the arguable star of the series,Chrishell Stause(who has repeatedly made clear since her break-up with bossJason Oppenheimat the end of season five that she will be drawing firm boundaries between her professional and personal life going forward)....

Against the snow-capped mountains of New Zealand, a fierce battle breaks out between the Rourans and Emperor’s army on the set of Disney’s live-actionMulan. This movie may be a remake of the 1998 animated film, but it won’t be a beat-for-beat retelling of the story (The Lion King, anyone?). FilmmakerNiki Caro’sMulanwill stand on its own. In October of 2018, I visited the set ofMulanalong with a small group of journalists. I was captivated by the epic battle breaking out in front of me, weapons clashing, with actressYifei Liucenter stage facing off multiple opponents....

Fun news for Superman fans! HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced the arrival of a brand-new family-friendly animated series, titledMy Adventures with Superman, which follows the adventures (and romance) of twenty-somethings Clark Kent and Lois Lane, as well as their best friend Jimmy Olsen, as they learn how to become the hottest investigative reporting team at the Daily Planet. The official news from Warner Bros. Animation also confirmed that the series has been given a two-season order ahead of its premiere....

Universal has released a new poster forJordan Peele’s upcoming horror filmUs. The new movie from theGet Outfilmmaker centers on the Wilson family who are enjoying an idyllic summer getaway when they’re confronted by mysterious figures at their vacation home. Those figures turn out to be sinister doppelgangers of the Wilson family, showing that our greatest enemies tend to be ourselves. This poster is suitably creepy, and it’s a testament to the marketing of the film that I’m already terrified of seeing this movie, but I know I also have to see it....