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Since the first rhymes flowed in the parks of the South Bronx, most of rap’s major emcees, have been African American. A few successful white MC’s like The Beastie Boys and Eminem have reached the top of the hip hop world. But for the most part, the rap game has been an unforgiving field for melanin-deficient MC’s. But now, 20 years after the Beasties first exercised their “License to Ill,” VH1 and ego trip have stepped in to search for the next great “white rapper” in ego trip’s The (White) Rapper Show premiering January 8 at 10:30 pm....

WandaVision gets creepier as the twins begin to impact the storyline. Episode Six, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular” starts off with a lighter touch, but ends on a much darker note. It’s Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy’s (Jett Klyne) first Halloween. Everyone dresses up for the trick-or-treat festivities, but have different agendas. Vision (Paul Bettany) wants to see what’s outside of Westview. Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) tries to figure out where the new Pietro (Evan Peters) came from....

During the 2022 CinemaCon underway in Las Vegas (via Collider), Warner Bros. made a surprising announcement regarding the continuation of its hit The Conjuring Universe franchise. The Nun 2 (tentative title), sequel to the eponymous 2018 movie, will be the next installment in the studio’s horror film franchise. No plot details or cast members were revealed during the panel, but writer Akela Cooper, famous for writing the cult horror Malignant is expected to get on board to pen the screenplay....

Warner Bros. has dropped its long-gestating adaptation of the hit cult comic Elfquest, which had Rawson Marshall Thurber attached to direct. The project had been set up at Warner Bros. since 2008. The comic’s co-creator Wendy Pini wrote on Elfquest’s Facebook page: The original comic followed a tribe of elves known as the Wolfriders in their attempts to survive and link with other dispersed elves on an Earth-like planet with two moons while on the lookout for tribes of humans and trolls, both of which acted as allies and enemies....

Written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair reflects upon the collective Millennial and Gen-Z experience growing up with largely unmonitored access to the internet. The 2021 Sundance nominee features only three actors, starring Anna Cobb in her debut role as Casey, an evidently neglected teenager living somewhere in what appears to be the northeastern United States. In her attic bedroom, Casey is participating in an online role-playing horror game, a trend made popular by YouTube creepypastas, among others....

In the wake of Picard season two’s premiere, we are once again speculating on more ways to expand Star Trek: The Next Generation into additional series or movies. While you could argue Crusher, Data, La Forge, Troi, and Riker could all be drawn out into stand-alone narratives that Star Trek fans would happily consume, there is something particularly compelling about a modern series based entirely around Worf. The iconic character played by Michael Dorn is a fan favorite among Trekkies for many reasons....

Bradley Cooper has been devoted to developing the epic, heart-wrenching, and thought-provoking science fiction novels Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion, and possibly the third and fourth books Endymion and The Rise of Endymion, written in the 1980s and ’90s by author Dan Simmons for more than a decade. Following the success of the film adaptation of the also classic science fiction novel Dune, Cooper has brought his passion project all the way from television series at Syfy to, just recently, a major motion picture with Warner Bros....

Most people have seen Ryan Murphy’s work, even if they don’t realize it. He has created over 35 movies and television shows in countless genres, with many of his shows spanning several seasons and gaining cult followings. While his work covers topics anywhere from true crime to plastic surgery and even teenage musicals, a few central themes throughout his work have completely reinvented genres and changed television. Ryan Murphy has a love of melodrama, underdogs, utter strangeness, and telling stories that might otherwise be silenced, and his boldness has made him beloved....

The CW has revealed the key art designs for the 2013 Fall Launch campaign for its three new series: The Originals, The Tomorrow People and Reign. The Originals premieres Thursday, October 3, (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) as the original family from The Vampire Diaries, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah (Claire Holt), find a new home in New Orleans, a city now run by Klaus’s former protégée Marcel (Charles Michael Davis)....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY The Beginning of The Exorcist Warner Bros. Pictures Filmmakers have always used the horror genre to entertain and terrify audiences, and horror movies of the the ’70s were no different. However, films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was one of the movies responsible for a surge in both populated and underseen slash movies, portrayed horror very differently from The Exorcist. Most horror films depicted young people getting up to no good and falling prey to a murderous lunatic....

John Cazale is best known for playing the weak older brother Fredo Corleone in The Godfather franchise. But he was also an accomplished stage actor before his incredible run on film, starring in just five movies, all of them Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. Along the way, Cazale influenced every artist who appeared with him, especially Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, and inspired countless future character actors with his vulnerable performances....

It’s a big year for anniversaries. For fans of the odd and surreal, Fathom Events is bringing a cult favorite to theaters for you! 1997’s The Fifth Element is coming back to the big screen this June! Fathom describes the movie below. There is No Future Without It The Fifth Element is one of those movies that started off as a passion project and went on to become something much more....

There are still many mysteries surrounding The Flash, one of which is the identity of the movie’s primary villain. Well, thanks to stunt performer Shane Steyn, we now have more clues regarding this question, with an image of a t-shirt from the DC production further hinting that the villain will be the alternate version of Barry Allen. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shane Stunts (@shanesteyn) The image shows silhouettes of both Michael Keaton’s Batman and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl, variant versions of characters who will feature in the alternate universe that Barry Allen lands in after attempting to mess with time....

With the way the trend has been going with superhero properties taking over both movies and television it’s easy for someone who is NOT a huge geek to ask, “Do we need yet another comic-book based TV show?” If they are referring to FOX’s new show, The Gifted then the answer is a loud and proud, YES! From Executive Producer Matt Nix (Burn Notice) and born of the already beloved X-Men Marvel Comics franchise comes a new take on an old question, ‘How can mutants make it in today’s society?...

Nicholas Garrigan is a free spirit young man who has just finished med school and is aching to get away from his parents. He spins the plastic globe in his room and lands his finger on Uganda. The movie jumps right there as he travels to a missionary to be a volunteer doctor. From the opening credits and his actions with Sarah Merrit (Gillian Anderson) at the missionary we can see that this character is immature and just looking for a fun way to live....

When it comes to major franchises in Hollywood right now, interconnected universes are the name of the game. Obviously, much of the reasoning for this can be attributed to the immense success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which currently consists of more than 30 different films and Disney+ series that have been released over the course of the last 15 years. Beyond that, other major brands like Star Wars and DC have embraced the cinematic universe model as well, choosing to connect their various stories and set them all on one cohesive timeline....

Action movies aren’t really well-known for making you cry, or feel emotional. The genre typically pumps you full of adrenaline, producing exciting, thrilling movies that will make you want to come back and watch it again. But what elevates an action movie and makes it stand out from a very crowded genre, is the emotional impact. Humanizing the characters and making them somewhat relatable, so when we see that character fail or die, it will bring you to tears and tug at your heart strings....

Instead of an increasingly-common, in-credits “stinger” scene, theatergoers who saw The First Purge following it’s 4th of July release were treated to a promo for The Purge TV series, set to hit small screens this fall. Producers at Universal did attendees at Comic-Con one better, dropping a full-length trailer on fans of the franchise launched by James DeMonaco in 2013. In between scenes of random violence and opportunistic villainy, it asks: Is there anything more “American” than purging-and what would you do?...

The Queen’s Gambit debuted on October 23, 2020, and quickly became one of Netflix’s most-watched limited series. The Queen’s Gambit joined the growing list of miniseries based on books, as it was adapted from Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel by the same name. The show was created by Allan Scott (who owns the rights to the novel) and Scott Frank, who also wrote and directed the series. The Queen’s Gambit follows Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a chess prodigy as she climbs to the top of the chess world while dealing with dependency issues....

October is over! Thank God, do you know what that means? Fire up that Mariah Carey soundtrack, break out your ugliest sweater, forget whatever “Thanksgiving” is called, and get in the holiday spirit! When it comes to the holidays, there is no shortage of great classic films that bring us to tears, make us feel the warm feeling of the holidays, or bust our guts laughing with family and friends. Comedy holiday movies are some of the best and most nostalgia-producing films of all time....