It’s time to meet Alina Starkov, The Darkling, and other key characters in Netflix’s adaptation ofShadow and Bone. This week, the streaming giant released the first images from the upcoming fantasy show adapted from authorLeigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels. These exciting first-look images follow on the heels of thefirst teaser forShadow and Bonereleased back in December 2020. At the time, the teaser also confirmed the Netflix show would premiere April 2021, which is now not too far away as we inch closer to February....

The Fox seriesScream Queensis a killer horror comedy from the deliciously deranged minds ofRyan Murphy,Brad FalchukandIan Brennan. Kappa Kappa Theta is the most sought-after sorority, but if you want to pledge, you have to get the approval of Queen mean girl Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts). That is, until anti-Kappa Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) declares that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and all hell breaks loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc across the campus....

Today marks the 40th anniversary ofStar Warshitting theaters. The 40th anniversary received its own panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando earlier this year, and there are some 40th anniversary toys currently hitting theaters. And yet, when it comes to the films themselves, they remain oddly shuttered away. There’s been no official word about a re-release or upgrading the movies into 4K. If anything, the 40th anniversary today seems to mark the totality of whatStar Warshas become rather than a celebration of the original film that created such an intense and devoted following....

Succession, HBO’s captivating drama series about an elite family’s multimedia empire, just debuteda teaser trailerfor its highly anticipated fourth season. At the end of Season 3 the Roy family’s inner conflict reached a fever pitch when Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), and Roman’s (Kiernan Culkin) plan to topple their father’s rule of the company was undermined by a key betrayal from Shiv’s husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen). The fourth season draws a linethrough the Roy familyas they prepare to go to war against each other....

It is fair to say that, by theMarvel Cinematic Universe’s standards, their latest theatrical venture,Captain America: Brave New World, has struggled at the box office. After a strong opening weekend in which the movie made over $87 million from nationwide theaters alone, the stark drop-off in ticket sales ever since saw Brave New World’s earningsdrop 68% during its second weekend in theaters, the third worst of its kind in the MCU’s history, ahead of Ant-Man 3’s 69% drop, and The Marvels' 78% drop....

TheLord of the Ringstrilogyhas gained wide acclaim, and rightfully so.The film trilogy bringsJ. R. R. Tolkien’s story to life, introducing Middle Earth to a new audience with all the intricacies that go along with it. Yet, there are several significant differences from the original books. Despite having made it to screens twice, once in the 1978 animated film and later inPeter Jackson’s trilogy, Tolkien never saw the story in theaters. Thus, his opinions on the adaptations are unknown....

Neil Gaiman’sThe Sandmanis topping Netflix’s global charts for three consecutive weeks now. The King of Dreams finally fulfilled our dream of watching a faithful comic adaptation on screen and is rightfully gaining all the praise from fans and critics for it. While we now enjoy the series on screen, it almost seems like a different lifetime when the project had been in development hell since 1991. There was even a time in 2013 whenJoseph Gordon-Levittwasset todirect and star as Morpheus, however, what few know is that back in 1996, King of Pop,Michael Jacksonwanted to play the lead character....

Get ready for the deal of the year, moviegoers. To close out the 2022 summer season, The Cinema Foundation is celebrating National Cinema Day with an unbeatable price of $3 for tickets on September 3. This unbeatable deal includes all movies, all showtimes and all formats. National Cinema Day is a one-day event with over 3,000 theaters and 30,000 screens participating in this deal. The promotion will include exclusive previews and special in-theater promotions and will include a variety of titles from major distributors including A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros....

Found footage is hard to do right. At one point, the trope was so oversaturated in horror that audiences often dismissed it outright as ham-fisted and tacked on. In 2014, two archaeology-heavy, found-footage horror movies were released.John Erick Dowdle’sAs Above, So Belowis widely beloved. Inspired byDante Alighieri’sDivine Comedyand actuallyfilmed in the Parisian catacombs,As Above, So Belowfelt fresh and unique. At the same time,Grégory Levasseur’s 2014 debut,The Pyramidwas released to significantly less fanfare....

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Season 4 of Never Have I Ever.Netflix’sNever Have Everfollows the life of Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her friends at Sherman Oaks High School in San Fernando Valley, California. Starting out as less than popular, Devi attempts to climb the social hierarchy. This goal leads her to befriend and briefly date Sherman Oaks' most popular student,Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Darren Barnet). Only a year older than Devi, Paxton is liked by everyone in the school....

When we think about survival in the woods, our minds usually conjure up images of desperate and grimy people, desperately fending off some sort of monstrous entity and being chased around the looming trees. We don’t think about a small town on the edge of the said woods, where pubs and cobbled streets become the setting for staying alive. DirectorMatt Palmer’s clean and clever debut featuredelivers a dread-filled struggle for survival through multiple different lenses, from surviving nauseating guilt, to actual physical danger....

Though very little is known thus far about howLuc Bessonwill be adapting cult comic seriesValerian and the City of A Thousand Planetsin terms of visual style or possible alterations to the narrative, the cast for the French filmmaker’s next flick is getting mighty interesting. Earlier this year,Dane DeHaanandCara Delevingnesigned on, along withClive Owen, who has seen his stock rise quite high again with his work in Cinemax’sThe Knickas the terminally troubled, brilliant Dr....

The grind has finally paid offfor Matty with her move to the pharmaceutical team of the firm, putting her closer to her goal of uncovering the dealings that directly contributed to her daughter’s death. InMatlockSeason 1, Episode 7, Matty finds herself in the “Belly of the Beast” as she gets a front-row seat on the team’s operation when she and Julian work on a case involving a young woman. The episode’s logline below previews the particulars of this case, which is like a godsend for Matty....