The cast of the 2025 spy thriller Black Bag includes two former James Bond cast members (including Bond himself) and two popular candidates for the role of 007. For the most part, Bond actors have managed to avoid typecasting and work outside the spy genre. Sean Connery has appeared in everything from war films to romantic thrillers. Timothy Dalton played a sadistic supermarket manager in Hot fuzz. Daniel Craig is getting Oscar buzz for his role in the surrealist love story Queer. But Bond is such an iconic property that any actor who appears in one of its films will…
Author: Ben Sherlock
The pilot episode of Health featured a regular customer and recurring character named Mrs. Littlefield, who was never seen again. It's common practice for characters to be cut from a TV show after the pilot. The point of a pilot episode is to figure out what works and what doesn't in a potential series before committing to making more episodes and going for a full season. Pilot episodes are becoming a thing of the past in the streaming era, but they're an important part of the process. Brooklyn Nine-NineHitchcock and Scully's iconic double act was originally a triple act; in…
From Feyd-Rautha on Dune: Part Two for Dementus in Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaThe 2024 movies have brought some truly great new villains to the big screen. There were some movie villains in 2024 who were just plain evil with no redeeming qualities, like Nicolas Cage's titular satanic serial killer in Long legs. But there were also some villains who turned out to be sympathetic and misunderstood, like Anxiety in Inside Out 2. 2024 brought some surprisingly excellent villain performances from actors who don't normally play villains. The typically affable Hugh Grant played a terrifying monster in Hereticand the charming…
Of all the diabolical villains in 25 James Bond films, Fall from the skyRaoul Silva is the only one whose plan actually worked and wasn't thwarted by 007. Bond films tend to follow a fairly formulaic episodic structure. 007 is called by M to receive his mission, he is sent around the world to track down a megalomaniacal villain with a scheme to dominate the world, and ends up defeating the villain and putting an end to his scheme. Almost all Bond films follow this model until a predictable ending. But not everyone followed this formula. In License to killOne…
DisneyDisney's massive blockbuster franchises achieved a nearly impossible feat at the global box office in 2016 – and that feat may never be repeated by another studio (or even Disney itself). The Mouse House made an impressive recovery at the box office this year with a trio of blockbusters culminating in Moana 2. The Disney brand bottomed out in 2022 and 2023 with bombs like The wonders, Strange Worldand the Haunted Mansion reboot and commercial disappointments like Elementary, The Little Mermaid, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniaand Indiana Jones and the Fate Dial. But in 2024, Disney made an impressive return…
From Marlon Brando's iconic performance as Don Corleone to Gordon Willis' breathtaking work behind the camera, there's a lot about The godfather which still remains today. When The godfather was first released in 1972, was met with universal critical acclaim and became a huge box office success, surpassing Gone with the Wind to become the highest-grossing film ever made. But a lot can change in more than 50 years. Films that were considered classics upon release don't always stand the test of time – just ask Gone with the Wind. It has been more than half a century since The…
Lisa Kudrow's new trending show on Netflix, No good deedproves that she should have starred in a dark comedy series a long time ago. Kudrow has been a movie legend since starring as Phoebe Buffay in the Friends. Like her five co-stars, Kudrow was catapulted to stardom in her 10 seasons on the show. But she also had a great career outside her time Friends. She starred in the cult classic Romy and Michele's high school reunion with Mira Sorvino and gave turns in films such as Neighbors, Smart Bookand Dog hotel. No good deed It's the last show Dead…
THE Transformers The franchise is stuck between a rock and a hard place right now, but the series has three possible futures that could be really exciting. When it all started in 2007, Transformers quickly became one of Paramount Pictures' most valuable blockbuster properties. It hadn't seen much popularity since its original cartoon aired in the 1980s, but Michael Bay's film Transformers modernized the IP as a big-budget military action film and attracted a large audience. It was promptly followed by sequels that, for a while, got bigger and bigger (and brought in more and more money for the studio).…
From Evil Morty recreating the Omega device to Summer spending more time with Rick, there are a lot of interesting theories about what will happen when Rick and Morty returns for season 8. Rick and Morty season 8 is scheduled to air in 2025. An eighth season of Rick and Morty it was confirmed back in 2018, after season 3, when Adult Swim ordered 70 new episodes that would take the series through season 10. Adult Swim recently released a teaser trailer for Rick and Morty Season 8, which showed Rick testing several different aliens as possible replacements for Jerry…
Bryan Cranston is confirmed to return for a reboot of Malcolm in the middle – but in the meantime, check out his other classic TV show, Breaking Bad. It was recently confirmed that a Malcolm in the middle the revival is underway for Disney+. Cranston will reprise his role as Hal, Frankie Muniz will reprise his role as Malcolm and Jane Kaczmarek will reprise her role as Lois. The reboot will consist of four new episodes and will see Hal and Lois demanding that Malcolm attend their daughter's 40th wedding anniversary party. It may take a while until Malcolm in…