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Warning: Spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 is winding down, with one more episode remaining in the campaign. The season has featured some intense highs and painfully slow episodes but has been a welcome addition to the series. June Osborne has been walking the line between becoming a revolutionary and just wanting her daughter Hannah back from Gilead. The season has focused primarily on her struggle with the latter as June has her freedom, her husband, and her younger child but is missing that one crucial piece of herself....

Lionsgate’s highly-anticipated project The Hunger Games continues to move forward with a release date now confirmed for March 23, 2012. Gary Ross is directing this adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name. Billy Ray adapted the novel, which follows Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl who is forced to represent her region in the annual Hunger Games event, where participants must fight to the death. In this futuristic world, traditional government has gone by the wayside and America is split into 12 regions, each of which must send young boys and girls to this deadly battle each year....

IFC Films announced today from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival that the company acquired the U.S. rights to The Ledge. The film, which is playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition premiered this past Friday. The Ledge, directed and written by Matthew Chapman, stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Terrence Howard, and Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty). The film is produced by Mark Damon and Michael Mailer. In this race-against-time thriller, the opposing philosophies of two men embroiled in a complicated love triangle with a beautiful woman (Tyler) escalate into a lethal battle of wills....

The Good A very nice assortment of mob films with a well crafted documentary to boot. The Bad Sometimes this set seems little more than an excuse to repackage some DVDs and make a buck. The Mob Box Set comes with such movies as Donnie Brasco, Snatch and Bugsy. In addition to all this, it even comes with an original documentary on the Mafia titled The American Gangster. I must admit, at first I wasn’t too excited about this set....

Good news and bad news for those who have been waiting for The Orville season 3. The good news is that Seth MacFarlane is still hard at work on getting the third season of his sci-fi comedy off the ground, with the creator assuring that it has not been canceled. It is moving from Fox to Hulu, but not canceled. Be that as it may, it is still going to be a while before the show returns as it has been hit with a major delay, much like many other productions have been in 2020....

The Walking Dead has been on the air for almost a full decade, but like the zombies on the show, the series is refusing to die. Halfway through season 9, news of AMC renewing the show for season 10 has just been made official with a new teaser video posted to showrunner Angela Kang’s Instagram account. The clip gives viewers a peek at the Whisperers, while promising season 10 will arrive in October....

Another seven days have come and gone, and brought with us another slew of box office figures, new official sites for upcoming flicks and new trailers. But lets get things kicked off with this week’s Notables. NOTABLES “Kristin Cavallari to Co-Star in Fingerprints” - Monday, May 1 I’m not gonna lie. The cast and crew here don’t quite sound up to par. They have one of the flippin stars from Laguna Beach starring here in Cavallari for Christ’s sake!...

There’s no arguing that three strong factors of a great film can include a strong protagonist, a leading lady, and an attractive, but fast car. The first car chase recorded on the big screen was in the 1903 film Runaway Match. Now, almost a century and a half later, cars can be seen participating in fast chases, dangerous stunts, and explosive scenes. These vehicles perform stunts through vicious gasoline-pumping sites that leave viewers in awe....

Major SPOILERS for Thor: Love and Thunder to follow… The final moments of the latest Marvel outing Thor: Love and Thunder hint at where the tale of the God of Thunder will head, as Hercules finally makes his MCU debut. Played in the post credits scene by Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein, a somewhat obscure choice for the beastly Greek deity, Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi has now revealed that the casting of Goldstein was all Kevin Feige’s idea....

The Disney+ sequel Hocus Pocus 2 will bring back the Sanderson Sisters in a major way by having all three original main stars reprising their roles, and while there will be some of their original Hocus Pocus co-stars joining them for this new adventure, Thora Birch will not be among them. It was previously reported that Birch would not be reprising her role as Dani in Hocus Pocus 2, though there were plans for the character to be featured prominently....

The actors discuss their new comedy, The Kid & I Tom Arnold’s latest film finds the comedian reprising his role from True Lies. Only this time, his co-star is a teen with Cerebral Palsy. The Kid & I is a uniquly funny film that retells the (mostly) true story of Tom and his next-door neighbor Eric Gores. They met, became friends, and then Eric’s Dad asked Tom to write a script for his son....

While Marvel Studios has just cast Chris Hemsworth as their hammer-wielding superhero, it seems they’ve found their villain as well. Marvel Studios announced today that Tom Hiddleston has been cast to play the villain Loki in the studio’s highly anticipated movie Thor. Kenneth Branagh will direct the film penned by Mark Protosevich and Ashley Miller & Zak Stentz. The news comes on the heels that Hemsworth, who can be seen in a small role as Captain James T....

Top Gun: Maverick has been one of the biggest movie successes this year, and especially since the Coronavirus pandemic. After we saw Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) graduate Top Gun to become a test pilot in the first movie, he has now returned for a new assignment - to teach incoming students to be young aviators. After 30 years, watching Cruise take to the sky again was mesmerizing, and we were lucky to see some familiar faces along the way....

Paramount Home Video announced today that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is set to hit both DVD and Blu-ray on October 20th. Michael bay’s hugely successful sequel will arrive on the home market loaded down with special features. Here is the official press release: With more action and more thrills, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen captivated audiences to earn over $820 million at the box office and become the #1 movie of the year in North America and throughout the world....

In a joint statement, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures have revealed that director Michael Bay will shoot key sequences of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with IMAX® cameras. Bay will integrate the IMAX footage with state of the art CGI to create an unprecedented look and feel for the highly anticipated sequel.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be released to IMAX theaters simultaneously with the movie’s wide release on June 26, 2009....

NBC announced premiere dates for its bold summer 2006 alternative programming including new original series Treasure Hunters (Sunday, June 18) and America’s Got Talent (Wednesday, June 21) – plus the return of the standup comedy competition series Last Comic Standing (Tuesday, May 30). Following are format descriptions for NBC’s summer alternative series in order of premiere dates. LAST COMIC STANDING (two-hour premiere Tuesday, May 30, 8-10 p.m. ET; regular time Tuesdays, 9-10 p....

Actor Lenny Von Dohlen, best known for his role as Harold Smith in Twin Peaks, has died at 63. News of Von Dohlen’s passing was first shared by the actor’s sister, Catherine, in an emotional Facebook post last Thursday. “The world lost a magnificent man on July 5. Brother Len was passionate about everything and everyone,” she wrote. “He was always leading; whether it be riveting conversation, an artistic creation or a trip to new places....

Unsolved Mysteries, which first appeared as standalone TV specials on NBC in 1987, was picked up as a regular series in 1988 and went on to spend more than 20 years on the air. After ten seasons on NBC, the show continued on CBS until 2002, featuring original host and enduring face of the series Robert Stack. When Unsolved Mysteries returned in 2008 with Dennis Farina (Law and Order) as host, mysteries from the original run were re-examined to reflect new findings....

Veronica Mars Season 4 is available to stream today, arriving earlier than anticipated. It’s been ten years since the teenage private investigator graced our TV screens, and five since she hit theaters. Not surprisingly, Hulu promised to revive the cult classic. And boy, did they deliver. The fans at San Diego Comic-Con enjoyed a panel discussion with cast and creators of the UPN-turned-CW show today. While there, star Kristen Bell (The Good Place) announced that the release of the new 8-episode season would be moved up…to now....

Young Karl Marx and The Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps, who was awarded Best Actress at the European Film Awards and Cannes’ Certain Regard section, talked about her new movie Corsage, the film’s writer & director Marie Kreutzer and the perception of the awards. The film had its world premiere in the “Certain Regard” section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Corsage takes the 40th birthday celebrations of Austrian Empress Elizabeth as a breaking point and tells the rebellion story of a woman who was hungry for knowledge, life, and finally intends to break her chains....