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1 day ago | 
comicbook.com | Lisa Laman
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s future is sure looking a lot like its past. The Fantastic Four: First Steps, for instance, is helmed by WandaVision’s helmer Matt Shakman, and only after it was supposed to be directed by Jon Watts, the man responsible for helming the three Tom Holland Spider-Man movies. Anthony and Joe Russo are back for the next two Avengers installments, while Shang-Chi filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton is helming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
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1 day ago | 
comicbook.com | Lisa Laman
The Joss Whedon TV series Firefly aired its single season for three months across the end of 2002, yet its fanbase endures to this very day. People still reference the show constantly online, while the production’s actors (namely Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk) are still showing up in projects together. Firefly’s got a massive shadow that looms large over the sci-fi genre on both the big and small screen.
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1 day ago | 
looper.com | Lisa Laman
"War! What is it good for?" That classic song's chorus raises a good point about the futility of war and what's really accomplished through all those bombs and bullets. One potential answer to that question is that war can make for an evocative backdrop to a motion picture. Dating back to the days of "Wings" and "All Quiet on the Western Front," the cinema of war has been a creatively fruitful field, jam-packed with striking classics that make the horrors of battle incredibly tangible.
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2 days ago | 
dallasobserver.com | Lisa Laman
Ask filmmaker and actor Taylor Foster where she's from, and she'll happily tell you Dallas. If she's speaking with someone familiar with Texas, Foster might even clarify that she grew up "around McKinney and Anna." But if she's speaking with a fellow Texan, she'll proudly state that she grew up in Westminster, a census-designated place with a population barely scratching at four digits.
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2 days ago | 
culturess.com | Lisa Laman
Two exciting scenes exist in The Accountant 2. However, you have to wade through a lot of generic crime thriller material to get there. Screenwriter and Accountant mastermind Bill Dubuque begins Accountant 2 with multiple prologues before audiences reunite with mysterious autistic assassin/accountant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck).
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2 days ago | 
culturess.com | Lisa Laman
For the first time in over a month, this weekend saw no major studios releasing a new title into the marketplace. Thankfully, this is no ominous harbinger of studios abandoning theaters. Instead, this was just a sign of one quiet frame before a weekly barrage of big movies between now and September. On this slower frame, Thunderbolts* proved its mettle in word of mouth. The film fall only 55% to gross another $33.1 million this frame.
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3 days ago | 
comicbook.com | Lisa Laman
There’s a reason some actors are dubbed “Oscar darlings” in the media and pop culture landscape. These are the individuals who can always be counted on to score Academy Award nominations and wins. Some of these “darlings,” though, have gone on to achieve extremely historic victories with their Oscar wins. These are the rare performers who have won three or more Academy Award acting Oscars. With this multitude of awards, these performers solidified themselves as legends of their respective eras.
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3 days ago | 
comicbook.com | Lisa Laman
This summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth will swap out the human leads of the previous three Jurassic World installments for a new motley crew of human beings so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to think if they should. Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ed Skrein, and Luna Blaise are just some of the actors taking on major roles in this production.
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3 days ago | 
comicbook.com | Lisa Laman
With Thunderbolts* finally arriving into theaters, the movie side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Five has come to an end. Post-Avengers: Endgame, these Phases have become harder to discern from each other given the lack of long-term storytelling going on and the absence of Avengers titles that used to signal when a Phase was wrapping up. However, Thunderbolts* does conclude (at least on the film side) a Phase that began with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in February 2023.
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3 days ago | 
looper.com | Lisa Laman
When looking at every MCU movie, especially ranking them from worst to best, the creative highs and lows of the franchise are pretty clear. Across both the artistic peaks and valleys of this saga, though, one word that might not crop up so much is "weird." After all, save for "Deadpool & Wolverine's" R-rated antics, these MCU features have almost exclusively been PG-13 enterprises meant to dazzle audiences of all ages.
