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McQuarrie is a talented director who knows his way around an effective sequence, as demonstrated in his movies Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. But when it comes to integrating pop music and movies, only Martin Scorsese does it better than Edgar Wright. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Wright said he received a “dream text” from McQuarrie, asking, “Hey, we need a new song for the bar scene in Top Gun: Maverick....

Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have sparked a particular vein of horror story that continues to this day (looking at you, American Horror Story: Double Feature), but Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, changed how audiences relate to bloodsuckers forever and plenty of contemporary vampire tales have continued to cast the creatures as broody, desirous, long-suffering anti-heroes burdened by the weight of immortality. But don’t expect bestselling Australian author Jay Kristoff’s new book, Empire of the Vampire, to follow this modern trend....

At the end of ‘Terminus’, Morse emerged from a night of horrors and a year of sorrow. In what could be read as an image of his series eight journey in miniature, Endeavour had spent the night trapped in a snowstorm fighting a killer. He and a busload of fellow travellers had been stranded in an abandoned country house, where a complex murder plot played out. Morse chased the culprits while struggling with the urge to drink – a temptation into which he’s fallen so deeply and so often of late....

EVE Online has a lot of history. So much has happened in the 16-year-old MMORPG that some of the game’s history has been lost over time to the ever-changing landscape of the internet. Old forums dedicated to the game have gone offline and groups who once chronicled their own struggles and accomplishments have disbanded. But we’ve not forgotten. Even as EVE Online has evolved, from its big bang in 2003 to its latest adventures into the Abyssal Deadspace, both this universe and its tight-knit community continue to thrive....

Paramount+’s Halo TV series has finished the fight…at least for now. Leaving us with more questions than answers, the season 1 finale, “Transcendence,” is a bumpy ride that may leave fans of the games dissatisfied. In fact, the nine-episode first season ends with the Halo ring itself still a mysterious goal for both the alien Covenant and the human UNSC. While the show remains frustratingly elusive about storylines we know very well after 20 years of video games, we can speculate about some of the most burning questions after the Halo finale…...

What follows is a list of where Harry, Ron, Hermione, Newt Scamander, and friends can be found to stream online. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The one that started it all. Jump into Harry’s first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Make new friends. Defeat trolls (in the dungeon). Side-eye that twitchy Professor Quirrell. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The adventure continues under director Christopher Columbus’ reign....

With news of Henry Cavill returning as Superman circling the internet, fans of the actor have taken to Twitter to share another mythical figure they would love to see the actor play – Aegon the Conqueror. Fans of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon will recognize Aegon the Conqueror as the legendary first king of Westeros. He is the man who united six out of the seven kingdoms and brought order to the land....

“It was an unexpected opportunity for me,” López Estrada told LA Times in Español (via the DisInsider) in December. “I grew up watching Disney movies and if you asked me two years ago if I could see myself directing a Disney movie I would say ‘No’.” Disney’s development department reached out to López Estrada after seeing Blindspotting‘s Sundance premiere in January 2018. Three years later, López Estrada is not only the co-director (alongside Don Hall) of one of Disney’s biggest films of 2021, but is also set to direct both a live-action/CGI remake of Disney’s Robin Hood and an original animated film for Disney....

Fortunately, Leitch has an intimate understanding of how action works because he began his cinematic career as a stuntman—specifically for Brad Pitt. Leitch was Pitt’s stunt double in Fight Club, Spy Game, Ocean’s Eleven, Troy, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. “We had such a great collaboration as stunt double and actor,” Leitch remembers. “It was great to reconnect as his director.” Leitch says directing Pitt was a dream; he was also touched to learn the star had been following his recent directorial work....

The sprawling fantasy world created by George R.R. Martin embraces the supernatural at every turn. As such, the two continents of Westeros and Essos are home to creatures such as dragons, ice zombies, and mystical red witches. And yet, there is no such thing as ghosts on Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon. At least we think there isn’t… Through eight seasons of Game of Thrones and six episodes of House of the Dragon, no ethereal specter has returned to the land of the living to haunt its old environs....

Season 2 manages to not only seamlessly incorporate the threads of the previous season’s unfinished narratives but tie them firmly into the larger drama of Nancy’s quest to solve the mystery of her own identity. Yes, it did so by way of a dementor-esque monster that secretly hitches a ride onto Nancy’s body for the entire rest of the season in order to feed off her various emotional traumas, but that’s generally just the way this show rolls....

“I still remember the day where everybody is like, ‘We’re going home, we’re going to start building this thing from home,’” Briggs says. “And the animators were kind of walking out with their computers. Technology was scanning everything, making sure, ‘Okay, we’re going to [need] this.’” Raya and the Last Dragon, a movie Briggs co-directed, would become the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be produced primarily at home....

While those two episodes may be high-water marks in the minds of fans, the former almost prevented the latter. “We weren’t really committed to doing time travel at the time,” said ‘Cause and Effect’ writer Brannon Braga. In a retrospective with The Hollywood Reporter, written for the episode’s 30th anniversary, Braga points to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry as the source of the restriction. “Gene Roddenberry, who was still alive, wasn’t a big fan of time travel, because I think he felt it was a bit of a science fiction cliché,” Braga told the outlet....

Whether we want to be or not, we are all defined in some part by our parents; by their love or their lack of it, by the trauma they suffered or the compassion they were shown, and by the simple question of whether or not they were present in our lives at all. Despite its superhero trappings, Stargirl is a series shaped by these experiences, with each member of the young cast struggling to deal with the legacy that their parents have left them....

It’s widely acknowledged that between DC and Marvel, DC has the best villains. From the volatile anarchy of the Joker to the delicious anti-heroine of Catwoman, some have even become worthy of their own spin-off movies. So it was a fascinating decision by co-writer and director Patty Jenkins to take a different route with the baddies for Wonder Woman 1984. Namely, that neither are truly villainous. Max Lord Ok, Pedro Pascal’s Max Lord is a selfish, greedy con man who doesn’t care about what he does to society in the pursuit of money and power....

While Prime Video unveils The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and HBO Max continues on with House of the Dragon, Hulu is turning to a hit of its own with The Handmaid’s Tale. Season 5 of the dystopian epic premieres Sept. 14. That’s just the start of Hulu’s TV offerings this month though. While there are no original movies to speak of, Hulu has many shows to accompany June’s story in September....

Things really do fall apart in the latest episode of Black Lightning. After returning home from their honeymoon in the Akashic Valley, newlyweds Anissa and Grace are greeted warmly by the family in a surprise celebration. The reception is unfortunately cut short by the arrival of the FBI, who serve Jefferson a search warrant based on an accusation of embezzlement from Garfield High School. This is merely a start to what is clearly a coordinated effort by Tobias to ruin Jefferson Pierce....

And Legends of Tomorrow episode 100 isn’t dialing back on the weirdness. The episode bears the unwieldy and unpronounceable title of “wvrdr_error_100<oest-of-th3-gs.gid30n> not found” for one thing, but that’s not the biggest news about it. No, instead expect a celebration of 100 episodes featuring long-departed fan favorites, a unique perspective on the show’s early seasons, and much more. “Our 100th episode is a retrospective of six seasons,” Legends of Tomorrow showrunner Klemmer tells us....

Sometimes Inside No. 9 is funny, sometimes it’s thrilling, sometimes it’s touching and sometimes it’s a bit scary. The series seven finale ‘Wise Owl’ has gone for borderline harrowing. Satirizing 1970s and 80s-style public information videos, the episode is intercut with animations that resemble the ‘Charlie Says’ series which supposedly taught kids how to stay out of danger but many decades later proved to be Gen-X nightmare fodder. The host is Wise Owl, who must always be trusted and listened to, who teaches kids that pylons are dangerous (the actual public information video this particular short is aping was live action and involved a kid flying a kite near electricity pylons and getting fried....

Yet, that presents a possible major issue for the entirety of the Yellowstone Universe. While 1883 has been a major success for both Sheridan and the network, Yellowstone season 4 suffered. Many fans saw it as unfocussed, starting with a massive action piece that promised a vengeance-fueled arc of Dutton violence, but instead fizzled, as it was predominantly utilized as a launchpad to introduce this expanding television catalog. Within season 4 of Yellowstone, Sheridan had flashbacks of 1883, slowly introducing these new characters, as well as planting the seeds for yet another spin-off, 6666, as original Yellowstone favorite Jimmy (Jefferson White) was shipped off to Texas to become a real cowboy at the legendary ranch....