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When you’ve got a post-apocalyptic scenario where resources are scarce on your hands, you’re bound to have characters that take a more villainous approach to surviving and accomplishing their goals, and in the case ofMortal Engines, that’s certainly the category that bothHugo Weaving’s Valentine andStephen Lang’s Shrike fall in. Valentine is a high ranking London official who wants to see his traction city thrive, even at the expense of others, and Lang steps in as Shrike, a character who’s half man and half machine built to kill, known as a “resurrected man....

One of the reasons I’m excited for 2019 is that it marks the anniversary for some movies I’m excited to write about and need only “A round number of years have passed since this was released!” as an excuse. But it’s also good to look back at the effect these movies have had and how they’ve changed over time. Films likeThe Iron GiantandFight Clubflopped twenty years ago, but now they’re considered classics....

The third season finale forNarcosseemed suggest that Pena (Pedro Pascal) was retiring, after becoming too overwhelmed with the cartel work he’s been doing as that work shifts to Mexico.NarcosshowrunnerEric NewmantoldTHRa few months ago that, “‘What’s tragic about it is that you’re losing truly one of the good guys,’ Newman explains of Pascal’s tenacious Pena, in his own way becoming a victim to the drug war. His hopeless discovery that ‘even the good guys don’t have a code’ makes it ‘almost impossible’ for the dogged DEA agent — now credited for bringing down Escobaranddismantling Cali — to continue on in his post....

Warner Bros. has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming sequelFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. But instead of focusing on the new Parisian setting or the additional characters, this featurette dials in on one incredibly exciting aspect of the film: the return to Hogwarts. Indeed, whileFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themcarved out a new corner of theHarry Potteruniverse by venturing to America in the 1920s, author and screenwriterJ....

Oh, friends, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa has come early this year! In what would have otherwise been a rather generic-looking thriller that, in all honesty, we probably would have passed on, there is a gem hidden in plain sight, a gem by the name ofNicolas Cage. You can get the gist ofArsenalin the film’s newly released trailer–something about brothers who fight a lot, risk everything for each other, and ultimately find redemption, etc.–but the major distraction/saving grace is Cage’s character, or more precisely his terrible wig and unapologetic nose....

It’s been nearly 20 years since the release ofPark Chan-wook’s South Korean action masterpieceOldboyand Neon plans to celebrate. Before the classic 2003 film hits its big milestone, the indie distributor acquired its domestic rights for a theatrical anniversary release. No date is set for its theater run which should come next year. As the second part of Park’s Vengeance Trilogy which also includedSympathy for Mr. VengeanceandLady Vengeance,Oldboystands out as a gritty noir action feature that follows a normal businessman who inadvertently gets caught up in a wide-reaching conspiracy....

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for the finale of Dexter: Original Sin.The originalDexterseries, starringMichael C. Hall, was a mainstay on Showtime for eight years, but as great as it was,it was criticized for not being able to stick the landing, with a divisive series finale. To correct that, our favorite serial killer returned in 2021 withDexter: New Blood. After mostly earning praise,it again botched the ending. That could have been it for good, but at the end of 2024, Dexter came back again, this time by going back in time....

From creator/showrunnerEllen Rapoportand executive producerPaul Feig, the 10-episode HBO Max Original comedy seriesMinxtakes place in 1970s Los Angeles and follows self-proclaimed feminist Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), as she pursues her dream of putting out a magazine that will change the lives of women. When she crosses paths with Bottom Dollar porn publisher Doug Renetti (Jake Johnson), Joyce quickly realizes that, in order to achieve her goal and further the feminist revolution, she might need to do things a bit differently than she expected, thereby turning her original vision into the first erotic magazine for women....

New Regency has won the rights forRupert Sanders’ next movie,Rub & Tug. Deadline describes the film in the vein ofAmerican Hustle, and it will starScarlett Johanssonas a larger-than-life figure Jean Marie Gill, who flourished in the male-based illicit industries of massage parlors and prostitution by taking on the physical identity of a man. Per Deadline, Gill “was a larger than life character who took on the mob and became the crime kingpin of 1970s Pittsburgh through her empire of illicit massage parlors and an anabolic steroids ring that helped fuel the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL dynasty, all the while cross-dressing and leaning on her allies in the gay community to help grow her empower....

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Scream 2022.]TheScream2022 filmmakers did it. We’ve been speculating about this happening for quite some time now, but it didn’t make it any less shocking when the team behind the new film killed off one of the original three.David Arquette’s Dewey Riley is dead. Dewey’s always been my favoriteScreamcharacter. My cat is named after him, after all! But there’s no denying that Dewey’s had more close calls than any other character in the franchise....

Tom Hollandrecently revealed thathe got in troublefor callingSpider-Man: No Way Homea “brutal” movie, because the studio didn’t want fans thinking that it would be a downer. Well,Robert Pattinsonmight want to buckle up, because in a newGQprofile, he said that his upcoming filmThe Batmanis a “sad movie”, in which he plays two versions of the same “weirdo” dealing with trauma. Certainly not what you’d expect from a film predicted to break box office records when it lands in theaters next month....

Jon Amiel’s 2003sci-fi disasterThe Coreis bad on every level. The movie’s plot is absurd, the direction is weirdly amateurish, the film relies too heavily on CGI that’s not yet sophisticated enough to do what the movie is asking of it, and even starsAaron EckhartandHilary Swankcan’t sell the terrible dialogue. But there’s one aspect of the movie that’s more than just bad: when it comes to science,The Coreis downright rotten. The premise of the film – that the Earth’s core has stopped rotating, causing chaos on the surface – is ridiculous, but sci-fi movies often start with an impossible premise....

Last month, HBO announced thatJodie Fosterwould star as detective Liz Danvers in the green-lit fourth installment of theTrue Detectivefranchise entitledTrue Detective: Night Country.Now, the network has announced thatKali Reiswill co-lead the drama as Detective Evangeline Navarro. Reis is a well-known professional boxer who recently got her start in acting with a starring debut role in directorJosef Kubota Wladyka’sthrillerCatch the Fair One, where she portrayed a former boxer trying to find her sister....