WednesdayNevermore’s boarding school, Nevermore Academy, is full of students with supernatural abilities, but it’s unclear whether normies can attend or if it’s exclusive to the supernatural. At the beginning of Wednesday Season 1, Wednesday, is attending a typical public school. However, she is immediately expelled when she releases live piranhas into the pool to get revenge on the children who bullied her brother. Instead, her parents send her to her own alma mater, Nevermore Academy, which caters to outcasts, freaks, and monsters (and has a murderous Hyde on the loose). Anywhere else, these children would be the outcasts. But in…
Author: Ben Sherlock
Ridley Scott’s recent comments about where possible Gladiator 3 Could go could have spoiled the ending of the highly anticipated Gladiator 2 Two months before its release. A sequel to Gladiator was in development Since the blockbuster success of the original film back in 2000, but it took over two decades for a follow-up movie to come together. The sequel went through a lot of iterations – including one wild one Gladiator 2 Script with a resurrected Maximus – before a project was put together with which Scott was happy. And not only is Scott happy with how Gladiator 2…
Mikey Madison is getting a lot of Oscar attention for his powerful lead performance in anorabut she got her first big break playing Max in Pamela Adlon’s underrated drama series Better things. Madison is one of the most promising rising stars in Hollywood right now; anora is the latest of many high-profile roles she has played in recent years. In 2019, she played Manson family member Susan Atkins in Quentin Tarantino’s 60s-set epic. Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodand in 2022, she played a new incarnation of Ghostface, Amber Freeman, in Scream. anora made Madison a bigger star than ever.…
The creators of 28 days later I’ve always resisted describing the film as a zombie film, but come on – it has all the defining characteristics of a zombie film. I’ve always been a big fan of the zombie genre; I grew up obsessed with Undeadwatched the classic by George A. Romero Dead movies over and over, and I over and over again The last of us games dozens of times. Danny Boyle and company’s resistance to calling 28 days later a zombie movie reeks of snobbish elitism, as if they are ashamed to be associated with such a vulgar…
Jason Statham hasn’t yet appeared in a James Bond film – and may never appear – so Mechanic: Resurrection is the closest thing to a Bond film starring Statham. Although he has never been in a Bond film, Statham’s career has always been tangentially linked to Bond, because he is a British action star who has been cast by fans as a very different kind of 007. Padlock, stock and two smoking barrels proved he could play a gritty, Timothy Dalton-style Bond, while Meg the films proved he could play a silly, ironic Roger Moore-style Bond. Statham has expressed interest…
Both Roberto De NiroThe Oscar wins were eerily predicted by an iconic scene from The godfathereight years before completing his double Oscar win. Over the course of his career, De Niro was nominated for a total of nine Oscars. He was nominated for Best Actor for Taxi driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging bull, Awakeningsand Cape Fear; he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II, Silver linings Playbookand Flower Moon Assassins; and he was nominated for Best Picture as a producer of The Irish. But De Niro only won two Oscars. His first Oscar win was for…
My old ass has proven to be a huge streaming success on Prime Video and is a timely reminder to check out director Megan Park’s first film, The consequencesstarring Jenna Ortega. Park started out as an actress, best known for her TV role as Grace Bowman in The secret life of the American teenagerbut she has since become an acclaimed filmmaker. My old ass is her second film, and with a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and impressive streaming viewership numbers, it has made her a household name. My old ass is a unique take on the coming-of-age genre. Like many…
There was a second Breaking Bad spin-off later Better call Saul that almost no one watched, Slipping Jimmy — and there’s a good reason why almost no one watched it. Since then Better call Saul ended with an equally satisfying series finale as its predecessor, there has been a lot of talk about what another series in the Breaking Bad universe might seem. Producers could make a prequel about Gus Fring’s rise to power, a sequel about Jesse hiding out in Alaska and trying to avoid detection, or an original story set in the same universe. The possibilities are endless…
The older Elliott reveals a large part of Chad’s tragic fate to her younger self in My old assbut she deliberately omits crucial information. My old ass is a quirky sci-fi take on a classic coming-of-age comedy. Just before heading off to college, eager to leave her family’s farm behind, teenage Elliott eats magic mushrooms and hallucinates an encounter with her 39-year-old self, played by Aubrey Plaza. The older Elliott gives the younger Elliott a lot of advice, like teaching her to value her family, but she also offers a warning. 39-year-old Elliott tells 18-year-old Elliott to stay away from…
Mission: Impossible 8 was officially titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningwhich could mean big things for Tom Cruise’s spy franchise. It was initially announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible The films would be filmed back-to-back as a two-part finale to the series. Both films would be written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and would be titled Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two. McQuarrie is still on board to write and direct the eighth film, but the rest of the plans have changed significantly in recent years. Since Mission:…