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Originally, fans hoped to catch Robert Pattinson’s turn as the Dark Knight and his alter-ego, the orphaned billionaire Bruce Wayne, on June 25th, 2021. When COVID-19 disrupted director Matt Reeves’s shooting schedule, Warner Bros. set a new release date for October 1st, 2021. That, too, needed adjusting, but no more! The film finally hit theaters on March 4th, 2022. But there’s still one release date some Bat-fans long to know: when will The Batman be available on streaming platforms?...

While the likes of Jaws and Arachnophobia create hauntingly iconic scenes that spring to mind at inopportune moments in your life (paddling in the sea, eating popcorn etc), glorious counterparts to these classics are to be found in the cinematic bargain bin. Sometimes a straight-up thriller becomes a B-movie simply with the passage of time, as the animatronic monster becomes less terrifying and more ludicrous. How do you know if you’re watching a B-movie?...

“Nancy is the one everybody wants to be,” says Peter Filardi, the man who created Nancy, Rochelle, Bonnie, and Sarah all those years ago, chatting to Den of Geek from his home, an original poster for The Craft peaking out from behind him on the wall. Next to it is a poster for Chapelwaite, the series Filardi is currently showrunning with his brother Jason, based on Stephen King’s short story, “Jerusalem’s Lot,” a prequel to Salem’s Lot....

The Expanse Season 3 Episode 12 and 13 It all came down to a misinterpretation of what the nucleus station wanted and an unwillingness to hear differing opinions from opposing factions. Ashford made a good show of welcoming everyone into the Behemoth, but in the end the gesture was self-serving even as he thought he was saving all of humanity — all glory to the Belt! Holden may consider the whole debacle to be his fault, but he puts things right and speaks to the broader themes of the show when he urges Ashford, “Can’t we just try something else?...

Mitzi has an artistic, free-flowing soul and heart, but she’s trapped in the everyday routine of being a suburban homemaker with four kids and a dutiful, devoted, workaholic husband, Burt (played by Paul Dano). Burt’s not completely closed off but doesn’t exhibit much passion, even for his work, which is essentially helping to create the modern computer. He lacks his wife’s effervescent joie de vivre. The difference between Mitzi and Burt is made apparent in the opening moments of the movie when they take Sammy in 1952 to see his first movie, Cecil B....

The reason Marvel’s Disney+ shows work as a concept is because the movies gave us plenty of interesting characters who sadly didn’t receive enough of a spotlight. The relationship between Wanda Maximoff and Vision only got a few minutes across several movies. The Falcon had his moments, but he was always portrayed as more of an extension of Captain America and didn’t really have a lot of time to explore his life or character....

This crackerjack sequence is the centerpiece of Brian De Palma’s first Mission: Impossible, and it remains a marvel today: an exercise in tension and a showcase of the benefits that come from letting a true master of his craft handle a summer blockbuster. It certainly became the calling card for Tom Cruise’s burgeoning reinvention of himself in the 1990s as an Übermensch action hero, and perhaps more importantly a movie producer....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 15 The Flash takes a bit of a break from the DeVoe plot this week to deliver an incredibly powerful self-contained episode that allowed the series to do some pretty effective character meditations. The villain of the week, an insane eco-terrorist named Veronica Dale (more on her in our Flash Facts), is almost secondary, as it is the consequences of her actions that cause one of the greatest threats Team Flash has ever had to deal with....

The Flash Season 4 Episode 17 Well, “Null and Annoyed” is something of an apt title. It’s not surprising that there would be a bit of a regression after The Flash turned in its two best episodes of the season (and two of its best ever, if I’m being honest) with “Enter Flashtime” and “Run, Iris, Run.” It’s just a shame that all of the flaws of The Flash Season 4 had to come to the foreground in such a pronounced way in an episode directed by Kevin Smith....

The Flash Season 7 Episode 18 The Flash Season 7 ends as it lived, with a mixed-bag finale that is generally entertaining to watch, but that doesn’t make much sense if you look at it too closely. “Heart of the Matter, Part 2” gives us some highly entertaining visuals (the Flash family runs together at last!) and the surprising return of an old enemy (welp, we made it almost two entire seasons without Eobard Thawne!...

With the Hunger Games series, Collins was looking to explore some themes of revolution, depicting the games as a political arena as much as a literal one. We see this depiction of the Hunger Games as a tool of political control ramp up in the second book/film in the franchise. In Catching Fire, President Snow wants to reassert control over the games, and make a statement to the people of Panem, so the 75th Hunger Games—the third Quarter Quell—only pulls tributes from the existing pool of winners....

Praise be for a proper ending! Too many new Netflix series pull their punches when it comes to the finale, bowing out on a cliff-hanger that gambles on a second series commission that often never arrives. The Irregulars does nothing of the sort. It delivers a traditional, big, flashy conclusion that bests the bad guy, saves the world, and leaves plenty of space for emotional breakthroughs and teary goodbyes. Yes, some groundwork was laid for a potential return, but if these eight episodes turned out to be it, you won’t leave feeling dissatisfied....

Anime has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade as it’s progressively evolved from a niche interest into mainstream entertainment. There are now more places than ever to consume anime, whether it’s on broadcast television or any of the available streaming services, some of which are devoted entirely to anime content. It’s truly exciting to see the medium’s continued success, but part of the reason that it’s found such universal acclaim is because often anime is just as concerned about representation as it is with entertainment....

Fresh NBC streaming service Peacock today confirmed all the details of The Office’s impending arrival to its streams. In the form of a very clever Dunder Mifflin memo from David Wallace to “All Employees,” Peacock made their big plans for the classic mockumentary known. And they are as follows. All nine seasons and all 201 episodes of the series will be available on Peacock. The first two seasons (which amount to 28 episodes due to the first season’s short six-episode run) will be free and available to all....

Almost as if by galactic design, cue two major ‘big bangs’ in the 20th Century Fox television universe: an acquisition by Disney and global pandemic. While production had begun on season 3 over three years ago, the production team had no idea where the show would end up, but the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu warped in to save the now fan-favorite. The hour-long sci-fi adventure series, starring creator Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, and J....

Stone may have earned a writing credit on the finished film, but what ended up on the screen was a far cry of “Crom!” from what he had envisioned in the script he presented to producer Edward R. Pressman in 1978. That screenplay was bold, brilliant, and, potentially, unfilmable. But to Stone at least those two words will linger on: What if. Pressman had recruited Stone amid the buzz surrounding his script for Midnight Express, the real-life story of the imprisonment and eventual escape of American national Billy Hayes from a Turkish prison, which eventually bagged the scribe a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar....

Per Netflix, those 62 million households watched The Queen’s Gambit in its first 28 days of release. The show made Netflix’s curated “Top Ten” list in 92 different countries and topped out at number 1 in 63 countries, including the U.S. and U.K. The Queen’s Gambit is a seven-episode miniseries produced by Scott Frank (Godless) and based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. It follows Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy), a young Kentucky orphan who is thrust into a larger world of competition and intrigue when she is revealed to be a chess prodigy....

It’s an intriguing premise. But another intriguing secret the film studio really doesn’t want people talking about is the way Kya’s situation might mirror the troubling past of Crawdads’ author Delia Owens. Several high-profile news articles and television shows that originally discussed Delia and her then-husband Mark Owens’ time in Zambia have resurfaced due to the heightened attention around the new film and the novel, which was published in 2018....

In case you somehow need any sort of reminder, the film opens with us being introduced to a new gang of lovable misfits: there are old reliables like Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag. And hey look over there, that’s Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang! And then there’s the new meat we’ll get to know about and love over the course of a rousing adventure: Pete Davidson as Blackguard, Michael Rooker as Savant, and of course Nathan Fillion as T....

There are many aspects that likely contributed to The Last Duel’s box office failure. The pandemic, for one, has left the movie industry on uncertain footing for nearly two years, a period of time where Scott’s pricy melodrama had already been greenlit and filming before the ground fell out beneath the feet of theatrical releases. While recent franchise spectacles like Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time to Die, and Shang-Chi are doing big business, audiences appear still recalcitrant about venturing to cinemas for adult-skewing dramatic work....