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The latest take on The Addams Family has arrived with the recent debut of Wednesday on Netflix. With Tim Burton serving as a director and executive producer on the show, Wednesday introduces Jenna Ortega as an older teen version of the titular character. The story follows Wednesday as she attends Nevermore Academy, wherein she investigates the university’s dark secrets with the help of her psychic powers. Rebooting a popular brand like The Addams Family can go either way with fans, but most viewers seem to be enjoying the new Wednesday series....

Netflix has dropped the official trailer for Wendell & Wild. Set to debut on Oct. 28, 2022, the stop-motion animated film comes from director Henry Selick, known for helming similarly-animated movies like The Nightmare Before Christmas. Wendell & Wild marks Selick’s first film since 2009’s Coraline was released, and you can get a sneak peek at the new movie by watching the trailer below. While Selick directed the film, he co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us, Nope)....

Spoiler Warning: Westworld Season 3 Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, the showrunners of Westworld, yet again did a phenomenal job with the third season of the critically acclaimed HBO series. The finale episode was an action-packed, eye-opening storyline that we still can’t get over. With the Westworld season 4 premiere date just a little over a month away, we couldn’t be more excited to see what happens next. Just like the previous seasons, the third season also ended on a major cliffhanger, leaving viewers with more questions than answers....

It’s been a while now since Disney started rebooting its most iconic classic movies in a live-action manner. Cult movies such as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin got makeovers with top-tier stars, with very mixed results. Furthermore, Disney seems to be planning many more reboots for the future, with The Little Mermaid close to premiere, and diverse reception mandates some revision on how a reboot should be made....

Comedic actress Melissa McCarthy put in a surprise appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live over the weekend, starring in one of the most talked-about sketches, an epic eight-minute spoof where she impersonated White House press secretary Sean Spicer. The sketch comes just days after Sean Spicer spoke out against the media for calling one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive actions a “Muslim travel ban,” with the sketch showing how Spicer tries to twist the journalists’ words against them....

FX brought the vampires of What We Do in the Shadows to Comic-Con@Home for a special, virtual panel. This year’s San Diego Comic-Con, like many major events in 2020, wasn’t able to proceed as planned. So we will not be getting the annual gathering of thousands in downtown San Diego for the largest pop culture event of the year. Instead, the organizers of the event have shifted gears and crafted a massive, weekend-long online convention that anyone can enjoy, so long as they have an internet connection....

Streaming platforms such as Netflix have recently thrived in making endless documentaries and biopics, with subjects ranging from true crime to the lives of pop icons. There seems to be endless variations of media published constantly on topics that the public is largely already educated on, the content merely satiating a need to continue to digest and re-digest baffling or mystifying events and figures. More and more celebrities are documenting their creative process or simply opening the doors to their private worlds through self-directed and produced documentaries, giving fans the opportunity to spend more time with otherwise elusive idols....

From the beginning, you can notice something’s very wrong with Michael Mann’s The Keep. Unless you’re watching the 210-minute original cut that few people in this lifetime have ever seen, chances are you’re watching the same old awkward version of the film that’s always been available. Perhaps, to call it awkward is actually an understatement. The Keep has always been shrouded in a veil of mystery regarding the movie’s set, production, and its release....

Disney has set commercials director and visual effects wizard Michael Gracey to direct its live-action Snow White project The Order of the Seven. The China-set epic has a refurbished script from Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt. Disney has been developing the unique project since 2002, which centers more on Snow White’s seven companions, who aren’t as cute and jolly as in the 1937 classic Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs....

“Push It.” “Let’s Talk About Sex.” “Shoop.” “Whatta Man.” The songs are as legendary as this rap duo. Twelve million records sold. A first ever Grammy awarded to a female rap group for Best Rap Performance. Three MTV Video Music Awards. Then, in 2002, at the height of their success, Salt ‘N Pepa suddenly called it quits. Rumors swirled that Salt had found God and Pepa wanted to pursue an acting career....

We kicked off this smurfy day with a footage presentation, which included the first five minutes or so of the movie. They do a really nice job of encompassing the scope of this Smurf village, which is apparently protected by some Matrix-y hologram thing in the Enchanted Forest. We then stumble through (quite literally) most of the village by following Clumsy Smurf (Anton Yelchin) as he inadvertently wreaks havoc upon several of The Smurfs’ daily routines… including the Narrator Smurf....

The Tender Bar is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about growing up with an absent father. Director George Clooney adapts the film from the memoir by J.R. Moehringer. We first see the author as a boy, and then as a reserved teenager going to Yale. The Tender Bar is quite moving at times with sentimental performances from Tye Sheridan and Ben Affleck. The film does a good job of establishing bonds between the primary characters....

Several new images from the upcoming HBO adaptation of the time-travel love story The Time Traveler’s Wife give us another look at dual leads Rose Leslie as Clare Abshire and Theo James as Henry DeTamble, alongside some of the supporting cast. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger, and is due to debut on HBO later this year. 5 Images HBO HBO HBO HBO HBO Close...

The 2000’s was an interesting decade for horror. Though the ’90s had its fair share of underrated horror classics, it remains one of the weaker decades for the genre, as endless sequels to classic films proliferated and crowded the box office. A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Child’s Play and Halloween series each churned out dreadful additions with diminishing returns, while films like Leprechaun, Candyman, and Carrie all received their own terrible sequels, most more laughable than scary....

When we look back at the 90s, we are reminded of all the great cinema that was being made — classic films that still feel relevant today and characters who we always find ourselves relating too. 1997 was an especially great year for film as some of the most innovative and groundbreaking movies were released during this time. Directors and producers were pushing boundaries in terms of storytelling, special effects, and film editing, in addition to the rise of some of today’s most promising actors such as Oscar-winning actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet....

Hollywood’s job is to entertain us through films and television, which have become the most popular forms of visual art. According to the definitive dictionary, the OED, art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” This sounds like a nice and concise definition but, like many things in life, art is subjective....

This ain’t your gay uncle’s “Wizard of Oz”. According to Variety, Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming up with Todd McFarlane to bring a revised take of L. Frank Baum’s “Wizard of Oz” book to the big screen. Josh Olsen will write the new take on this old classic, while McFarlane will produce the spook-themed film. The pair are still working on the tone of the project, and will most likely base the look of the characters on a line of action figures that McFarlane created a couple of years ago....

Produciton Weekly reports that Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack have all joined the cast of Michael Clayton, alongside George Clooney who plays the title role. Tony Gilroy is making his directorial debut from his own script. Clooney’s character is an attorney at a high-powered law firm, he’s sort of a “janitor” who is called in to fix messes that no one else can handle. However, when Michael’s friend and old associate, Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), goes off his meds, melts down in a deposition, and start helping the plaintiffs build their class action case against Agtek, a chemical company that is the firm’s most lucrative client, Michael has his work cut out for him....

As Top Gun: Maverick nears the end of its theatrical run, with the title now being available on digital platforms, director Joseph Kosinski has once again been discussing the epic achievements of the movie, which is now the 6th highest grossing domestic movie of all time having overtaken Avengers: Infinity War. During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Kosinski also touched on a subject that has been a big part of the film’ nostalgia-fuelled success: the return of Val Kilmer....

The preeminent night of the year for men will take place when comedian/actor Tracy Morgan hosts Spike TV’s first annual Guy’s Choice. Spike TV is giving the biggest shout-outs in television history to the things guys love most and is relying on its millions of viewers to decide who to bow down to from the worlds of sports, music, film, television and the internet. The show is scheduled to tape on June 9 at CBS Radford in Los Angeles....