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Parody movies are naturally hit-and-miss, with the best often being hilarious (and sometimes even becoming more popular than what they aimed to parody; seeAirplane) and the worst feeling lazy and one-note.It’s an entire sub-genre of comedy that wouldn’t exist if there weren’t already widely-known movies that could be made fun of. Sometimes, the parody is done to critique something that wasn’t very good, and sometimes, the style of parody is more affectionate....

When it comes to a good many Western movies, maybe it’s the breathtaking landscapes and exciting shootouts that stand out first, but like just about any genre, characters and what they say matter. Some Westerns prioritize escapism and spectacle, but even those tend to have interesting things to say about the Old West, andinteresting characters who themselves also have interesting things to say, leading to some of the most famous Western movie quotes....

Production on the sequel to the 2013 film47 Roninhas officially begun, as Universal 1440 Entertainment has just announced today that principal photography has started for the film in Budapest. Leading the cast isAnna Akana, who has previously starred inAnt-ManandJupiter’s Legacy, and action film veteranMark Dacascoswho has previously been featured inJohn Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. The film will take a decidedly modern turn, taking place three hundred or so years after the events of the first film....

We’ve only just entered spooky season, but Netflix is already gearing up to welcome us to the holidays with a newly-announced slate of movies and TV shows that will warm our hearts this winter. First announced back in August,A Castle for Christmaswill debut on the streamer this November, and Netflix has released the first set of images for the rom-com starringBrooke ShieldsandCary Elwes. Shields plays author Sophie Brown, who travels to Scotland for the holiday season with the hopes of buying a castle — or at least finding a retreat....

American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Storyhas now staked a new release date of Christmas Day, bumping back two weeks from its original date of December 10. Even with that adjustment, the theatrical competition is still pretty fierce. Aside from the summer season, the movies are a crowded place during the holidays. While this coming winter remains up in the air with regards to the COVID pandemic, there are still a lot of films on the docket for this holiday season....

[Note: This feature was initially posted at a prior date, but has been bumped up to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.] Cultural phenomenons are funny things. In the moment, it seems like there’s nothing in the world that could be bigger, and yet so often these cultural hallmarks fade as quickly as they came. A hit is fleeting; a legacy is forever. In 1997,Mike Myerswas four years removed from theWayne’s Worldsequel and was ready to break new ground with a comedy of an entirely different sort....

Teenage slackers,Beavis and Butt-Head, are set to return in a brand-new film calledBeavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. To celebrate the upcoming premiere on June 23, Paramount released the animated film’s first official trailer. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universewill show the immature duo on an adventure through time and space that begins with them being forced to attend space camp as part of a juvenile court judge’s “creative sentencing.” They’re eventually chosen to take part in a space shuttle mission that ends with them going through a black hole and landing on Earth in the year 2022....

As Marvel Studios announced a host of new projects for its upcoming phases, fans can’t wait to meet some old characters and many new ones. One such project isBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever,and the Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con from the studio gave fans a new trailer, as well as introduced some new characters to the franchise. Now before we get to see them in action, Funko has revealed a new Pop!...

Crossroadsis coming back to the big screen as part of a very special occasion, and for the first time in more than two decades, audiences will get another opportunity of experiencing this story in movie theaters. The “CrossroadsGlobal Fan Event” will take place on October 23 and October 25 of this year, setting up a limited number of screenings across the planet for anyone to visit this wholesome journey once more....

Do we have a battle of the Barbie movies on our hands? A biopic titledDream Dollbased on the life of Ruth Handler, the founder of Mattel and creator of the iconic Barbie doll, is in the works. This is now the second film touching on the world of the Barbie doll, the first film being a movie about a Barbie doll come to life starringMargot Robbie. PerVariety, the biopicDream Dollwill cover high points in Handler’s life including her founding the toy company Mattel in 1945 and inventing the now-famous Barbie doll, named after her daughter Barbara, in 1959....

After premieringexclusive first-look imagesfrom the upcoming sci-fi comedyDual,Collidercan now reveal, also exclusively, the first trailer for the movie starringKaren Gillan,Aaron Paul, andTheo James. The story follows a girl who, after discovering she’s about to die, makes a clone of herself to make it easy on her loved ones. The problem is, she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery and now she’ll have to fight to the death against herself, since you can’t have two copies of yourself running around....

[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for the second season of Emily in Paris.] From show creatorDarren Star(Sex and the City,Younger), the Netflix original seriesEmily in Parisis back for a second season with twenty-something ambitious marketing executive Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) trying to feel a little less like an American outsider and immersing herself more in French life, all with the hope of gaining some respect from her still skeptical co-workers....

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwaldis now out in theaters, and boy are there things to discuss with this movie. The sequel is the second installment in what screenwriterJ.K. Rowlingplans to be a five-film franchise, picking up in 1927 pretty directly after the events ofFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The sequel moves us closer to the world ofHarry Potterthat fans know and love, as the villainous Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) has his eye on recruiting the dangerous and enigmatic Credence (Ezra Miller) to help him on his quest to assert wizard dominance over the Muggle world....