Marvel movies are always highly anticipated blockbusters, but none more than Avengers: Endgame. After the ending of Avengers: Infinity War last year, fans can’t wait to find out how the Avengers will defeat Thanos, and if any of the people dusted in The Snap will be able to return. Given half the characters disappeared,...
Tim Burton has reinvented many different films, as well as books and in the case of Mars Attacks!, a TOPPS trading card series. In Dumbo, Burton turns the Disney animated film into a live action movie with actors and what looks like a real flying elephant. Holt (Colin Farrell) returns from the war to...
Movie audiences first got a taste of Captain Marvel after the end credits of Avengers: Infinity War, when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) paged her after Thanos executed his plan to cut the universe’s population in half. In Captain Marvel, we see how Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) met Fury in 1995. Danvers returns to...
Now it’s Academy Award nominees Phil Lord and Chris Miller, since the movie they produced, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is nominated for Best Animated Film. Lord and Miller are back for a sequel to The LEGO Movie, which they wrote and directed. Mike Mitchell directs the sequel but Lord and Miller still wrote...
When audiences saw the twist in The Sixth Sense, they couldn’t wait to see what M. Night Shyamalan came up with next. They weren’t sure what to make of Unbreakable at first but have learned to appreciate it over the years and ask Shyamalan for a sequel. In Split he revealed he was...
Bad guys, look out. Nicole Kidman is coming to destroy you. When you think about the intensity Kidman has brought to roles in The Hours, Cold Mountain, The Others, Eyes Wide Shut, Rabbit Hole, Birth and more, now imagine her as a cop on the warpath in Destroyer. AFI Fest honored Kidman and Destroyer...
There is only one Mary Poppins and that was Julie Andrews in the 1964 film. But Mary Poppins was a character in a series of P.L. Travers books, so why haven’t we seen her again in 50 years? This month, Mary Poppins Returns in the form of Emily Blunt. Mary visits the Banks family...
For a decade and a half, the closest comic book fans got to an Aquaman movie was the fictional Vincent Chase starring in one on HBO’s comedy Entourage. Then Warner Brothers announced a real Aquaman movie, but first they’d get to meet Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) in Batman v Superman and Justice League. In...
Wreck It Ralph created both a new Disney franchise and a new video game hero. The tie-in game Fix It Felix, JR, of which Ralph was the Donkey Kong to Felix’s Mario, was a retro treat too. For the sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Wreck It Ralph expands to encompass the entire internet. When...
The original Halloween was a landmark horror movie. It inspired other franchises of imitator masked killers, but Halloween itself has struggled to figure itself out. Halloween II was a direct sequel to the original, but Halloween III was a complete standalone. Halloween 4 brought Michael Myers back and started a new trilogy, and...