The Mandalorian, the new live-action Star Wars series, finally released its first trailer at D23 2019, and it’s an exciting new look at what fans should expect from this grimier corner of the galaxy far, far away. This isn’t the first time Lucasfilm has dropped footage from the show, having released a first look at
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When The Falcon and The Winter Soldier starts up on Disney+ next year, one of its main antagonists will be the returning Daniel Bruhl as Helmut Zemo. At D23, it’s been announced that there will be another major antagonist in the form of John Walker, as played by Wyatt Russell. Walker is a B-lister-at-best to
One of the more interesting projects announced by Marvel Studios for Disney+ is its first animated series, What If…?, based on the famous line of comics in which alternate versions of famous Marvel Universe stories were presented. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that the series was in development at Comic-Con last month, but on
D23 2019 is the biggest Disney celebration of the year. With panels focusing on all things Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney Animation, D23 is bringing news, trailers, and hopefully some surprise reveals from all the universes you love. Plus, we’ll learn a bit more about the House of Mouse’s upcoming subscription service, Disney+! If
When Arrow first came on television in 2012, it had virtually no competition when it came to other live-action superhero TV shows. Fast-forward seven years, four official spinoffs (plus the non-Arrowverse Black Lightning), and a television landscape so full of superheroes that there are multiple takes on the anti-superhero show. This fall Arrow Arrow heads into the home stretch, wrapping
The news that Van Helsing season 4 will be happening on Syfy is exciting for fans and for readers of our overwhelmingly positive reviews, but the departure of showrunner Neil Labute may cause some trepidation. Not to worry, though, as the passing of the torch does not signal dissent in the ranks but rather a
There’s something about The Dark Crystal’s artistry in presenting characters and creatures that are designed and fabricated as fantastical figures controlled by human hands rather than by computer that transcends whatever motion capture or sophisticated visual effects can accomplish. With The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Jim Henson’s darkest tale will return to a more
USA Network‘s Mr. Robot Season 4 is in production, leaving hackers everywhere to rejoice. Sadly, the fourth season of Mr. Robot will be the show’s last. Show creator Sam Esmail confirmed once and for all that Mr. Robot Season 4 will be the final season. Oh well, to the nice farm upstate for retired dramas
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, earned a black belt in Karate, indulged “Suspicious Minds,” and got special agent status from President Nixon. Priscilla Presley will put all these together in the upcoming Agent King, an adult animated comedy series which will run on Netflix, according to Variety. The series also merges concepts
Fifteen years ago, Ghost Hunters premiered on Sci-Fi Channel and ushered in an era of paranormal reality television. Co-led by Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes, the series initially followed the plumbers-by-day, paranormal investigators by night, as their team set out to explore, validate, or debunk reports of hauntings. While not the first attempt at an investigative style series,
The Terror creeped out audiences last spring with its tale based on a novel by Dan Simmons, which in turn is based on a true story about a failed British expedition into the Arctic to find the Northwest Passage. Full of scares, gore, and despair, The Terror Season 1 was TV horror at its very best. Of course,
Kristen Stewart will go to any length to distance herself from the sun. The upcoming survivalist movie Underwater shows the Twilight star leagues away from her past horror endeavors. It is a combination of a cabin-in-the-woods movie and a submarine thriller. But the first trailer for the film explores what happens when a protagonist drops
The following contains spoilers for Mindhunter season 2. There are a handful of moments scattered throughout Netflix’s excellent Mindhunter season 2, in which lead characters Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and Dr. Wendy Carr are asked the most common question in the American lexicon: what do you do for a living? The question comes
After Moonlight surprised Oscar audiences in 2017 (in more ways than one,) after nabbing the Best Motion Picture of the Year prize, the entertainment industry became the proverbial oyster of its writer/director, Barry Jenkins. Indeed, after following up this past Christmas with drama If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins will continue to parlay his momentum
The most unlikely superhero story of the last two years may very well be how Krypton defied the usual tedious prequel expectations and became a compelling standalone sci-fi story of its own. The series, which aired on Syfy, told the story of Seg-El, Superman’s grandfather, and how he got mixed up in time traveling, reality
National City’s Girl of Steel will return for Supergirl season 5, undoubtedly facing off against a new alien menace seeking to conquer the planet. The news was confirmed by The CW earlier this year. One of the biggest narratives going into this season is that Supergirl will have a new costume. Find out more about
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killljoys Season 5 Episode 5 “Get behind me; I’m hunting asshole.” Though “love conquers all” admittedly comes across as a trite sentiment, the most basic of all human emotions finds itself front and center as Killjoys reaches the midpoint of its final season. “A Bout, A Girl” features the welcome
Riverdale Season 4 is happening! This is great news for fans of quirky, unpredictable, and always entertaining TV. Perhaps more so than any other show on TV, Riverdale is very comfortable in its own skin; season three was a weird and wonderful experience, with episodes like “The Midnight Club” flashback installment and the noir experiment pushing
Lost in Space Season 2 has officially been confirmed by Netflix. Lost in Space Season 1’s promising, cliffhanger conclusion indicates that the producers are confident there will be a Lost in Space Season 2. Series co-creators Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama confirmed to IndieWire that they are working on season two and have some “wild’ ideas. further
Romantic comedies got a lot of much-deserved love and attention in 2018; one of the less-talked-about contributions to that glorious rom-com resurgence was the Greg Berlanti-directed Love, Simon, an adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s queer young adult book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Love, Simon was a critical and box office success, making $66 million on
This Krypton review contains spoilers. Krypton Season 2, Episode 10 After that season finale, I think we can officially retire the phrase “prequel series” in relation to Krypton. If you haven’t already, that is. But “The Alpha and the Omega” is nothing short of a stellar episode that brings a satisfying conclusion to the General
Star Wars Resistance season 2 is set for liftoff, according to Disney. The show was renewed midway through the first season, which sees Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot turned Resistance spy, investigate a station called the Colossus and its connections to the First Order. Along the way, he makes a few friends and participates in high-stakes
Coming off the success of Netflix’s original documentary series The Toys That Made Us, series creator Brian Volk-Weiss announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 a spinoff series titled The Movies That Made Us. Each episode will chronicle the production of “generational” films and look at the impact these iconic films had on popular culture. You
The Dark Crystal entered the pop culture fray as a fantastical theatrical offering during the 1982 Christmas season. Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, featuring groundbreaking animatronics and imaginative creatures from Henson’s Creature Shop, the Tolkien-esque fantasy film earned fans, but was hardly a box office smash. However, the fandom apparently endured enough to
This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 8 What a long, strange trip it’s been. Besides being the series finale, “Chapter 27” of Legion feels like an end of era because it very well may be the last live-action piece of Marvel content not cooked up by the Disney brain trust, and while Doctor Strange dipped
Each season of Netflix’s The Crown is set to cover about a decade of the Queen’s life, so it’s not a shock to hear that a round of recasting is in the offing for The Crown Season 3, which, thanks to a major time jump, will take place in the 1970s. Here’s everything we know about
Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon, the masterminds behind Batman prequel, Gotham, are staying in the DC Universe a little longer. EPIX is the well-kept home for Pennyworth, a series about the youth of future Wayne butler Alfred Pennyworth, to apply his trade. No, wait, come back. There’s a rather cool hook to this, as Pennyworth, which
“Don’t ask me about the Mariachi costume,” Lodge 49 star Brent Jennings says as he settles into one of the ancient wooden seats in Atlanta’s haunted Fox Theatre. Sure enough, he is wearing a full-on black and red Mariachi suit. It’s the day after Game of Thrones season 8’s massive Battle of Winterfell episode, “The Long Night” and Jennings
Peaky Blinders Season 5 has officially been a thing since the December 2017 Season 4 finale aired in the U.K., upon which the BBC confirmed that a fifth season renewal was already a done deal. Consequently, fans have been waiting nearly two years since we last left Tommy and the Shelby clan. Of course, Peaky
This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killjoys Season 5 Episode 4 “When you remember where you have been, you dream of where you might go.” Any concern that Killjoys might fall prey to a capture/escape/capture narrative trap quickly dissipates as “Ship Outta Luck” returns Team Awesome Force to full on fight mode, and the season’s strongest