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From director Justin Lin comes STAR TREK BEYOND starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. In theaters July 22nd. Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), a leading content company with…
Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after…
Fox has released the official X-Men: Apocalypse trailer, which can be watched below. You can also check out a large batch of screenshots from the trailer. “X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner,…
But not in a good way. Look, I’m not trying to throw shade on the original trilogy. Obviously, despite being captured in A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, Princess Leia was never a mere damsel-in-distress: she was crucial in her own escape from the Death Star after those dum-dums Luke and Han forgot…
Recently, the Star Wars fanbase took time off from freaking out about The Force Awakens to freak out over a rumored ban on merchandise depicting Princess Leia’s “Slave” outfit from Return of the Jedi. Many words about the matter have been said since—a lot of them pretty good!—but leave it to Leia herself to put…
Unlike the last trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which premiered at San Diego Comic-Con, the newest trailer focuses most of its attention on Bruce Wayne and Gotham’s Dark Knight. It starts off with Wayne meeting Clark Kent and dodging his questions about Batman at a fancy soiree thrown together by the eccentric Lex…
On Tuesday morning, the homepage of Matt Drudge’s right-wing tabloid Drudge Report ran its top headline about Leonardo DiCaprio’s holiday vehicle, The Revenant, a nearly three-hour saga about a half-blooded Native American tracker named Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) and his battle against winter in brutal 1820s Montana as he seeks to avenge the death of his son, killed by a survival-obsessed…
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the quintessential Star Wars prequel. Finally, after stalling for two movies, George Lucas delivers on all his promises. However, in true prequel fashion, he does it in a wildly uneven way. Welcome to our Star Wars movie rewatch! Basically, Revenge of the Sith is the movie…
In the latest blow for gender equality in fictional entertainment, a female agent will be one of the new protagonists of the fourth Men in Black film, according to producer Laurie MacDonald. Somewhere, someone with a penis is probably just furious about it. This strikes me as deeply funny. Not the new female MiB character,…
Hollywood recycles plots and story lines all the time. The same actors and actresses and directors are put in movies over and over. And the same sets are used to film completely different movies. It’s an incestuous industry. Sometimes when you’re watching a movie and you can’t quite put your finger down on why a…