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The Good It was great to see this movie again in much the same way that I originally screened it in the theater. The Bad The packaging. I had to put something, right? John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) unwittingly created a 1980s icon with Rambo: First Blood. As a Vietnam Veteran the world hasn’t been very kind to him. After finding out that a close friend has died due to exposure to Agent Orange during the war, Rambo, a vagabond, heads into a local town to get something to eat and plan his next move....

After gearing up for the Batgirl movie and spending a substantial amount of money on set and production costs, a failed attempt to please the audience caused fans to be blown away by the news that even though Batgirl will be canceled, The Flash is still set to be released. The decision to shelf the Batgirl film came as a shock to some DC fans, while others thought they made the right decision but just a little too late....

Four years after the controversial last season of Game of Thrones, fans are beginning to reconcile with the series after HBO’s House of the Dragon, a series that has sparked a sort of Game of Thrones renaissance online. As viewers delve back into the world and woes of Westeros, new layers become revealed that were overlooked before. This can be credited to the meticulous world building and character development imagined by George R....

Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller and Charlie Cox have signed on to star in Paramount Pictures’ Stardust, the Matthew Vaughn-directed adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel. With a screenplay penned by Vaughn and writing partner Jane Goldman, Stardust centers on Tristian (Cox), who, in order to win the heart of his beloved (Miller), promises to fetch a falling star named Yvaine (Danes). This sets in motion an adventure in which Tristian and Yvaine must face off against a pirate named Captain Shakespeare (De Niro) and an evil witch (Pfeiffer)....

Director Jim Isaac and Producer Stan Winston have created a new werewolf movie that refuses the digital domain for straight up old school practical effects. Skinwalkers is a film about character rather than showy CGI. Both were on hand to discuss the new horror franchise in the waiting… Can you tell us about your new film? Jim Isaac: Well, it approaches Werewolf mythology in a different way. It’s about two clans of werewolves that battle each other....

Last night, the cast of Breaking Bad appeared in San Diego for a panel and Q&A session for the highly-anticipated fifth and final season of the AMC series, debuting Sunday, July 15 at 10 PM ET with Episode 5.01: Live Free or Die. Series creator Vince Gilligan revealed at the panel that the second episode of Season 5, Episode 5.02: Madrigal, will take place in Germany. The location shift is said to revolve around some financial dealings that Bryan Cranston’s Walter White makes for his burgeoning drug enterprise....

For two decades police hunted for the Green River Killer. One by one female prostitutes turned up dead, and many of them were dumped in or around the Green River in Washington. This first original miniseries on Lifetime Movie Network is the story of Detective Dave Reichert (Tom Cavanagh) as he never gives up through the years and dedicates himself to finding the man who committed the atrocities. Based on the book by now Congressman Reichert, this two-part story is intense and intriguing as the detective discounts many theories and follows his gut to ultimately put an end to the mystery that haunted the country and the state for twenty years....

A new Brad Pitt baseball film has just added another to its dugout. According to Variety, comedian Demetri Martin has joined the cast of Moneyball. Steven Soderbergh is directing the film based off Michael Lewis’ book which tells the tale of Oakland Athletic’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his low-cost formula for championship success. Martin will play Paul De Luca, a statistician who’s Earned Run Value system took a unique approach to scouting and enabled Beane to hire quality players at a lower cost....

The upcoming revival of Showtime series Dexter has enlisted the talents of Lovecraft Country actress Jamie Chung and Manchester By the Sea star Oscar Wahlberg for recurring roles. The pair will join Michael C. Hall, who reprises the role of the beloved serial killer for the 10-episode series which picks up following the events of the infamous 2013 finale. Jamie Chung, who is best known for roles in the likes of Lovecraft Country, The Gifted, and Big Hero 6 will play Molly, who has been described as “a famous true-crime podcaster from Los Angeles”....

Don Johnson will portray a mustachioed porn director in Born to Be a Star, the Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo-produced comedy for Columbia Pictures/Sony. According to Variety, Nick Swardson is starring as a small-town nerd who learns his quiet and demure parents were famous porn stars in the 1970s. This motivates him to leave northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world....

Most people who have even dabbled in watching anime will be familiar with the series Death Note, which centers around high schooler Light Yagami who finds a notebook dropped by a death god which will kill the name of any person written within it. The series grapples heavily with themes of morality, of good versus evil, as Light decides to kill all of the world’s worst criminals with the use of his new Death Note and some mischievous encouragement from the death god, Ryuk....

Actress Elisha Cuthbert (24) has joined The Forgotten in a recurring role, and her first episode will air in February, 2010 (Tuesdays from 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC. She will play Maxine Denver, a strong and successful Chicago professional who is forced to put her skepticism of “amateur detectives” aside when The Forgotten Network begins investigating a case close to home. From executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, The Forgotten focuses on a team of dedicated amateurs - The Forgotten Network - who work on murder cases involving unidentified victims....

As with any literary figure that springs to life on the big screen, actors and their directors are always worried about getting it right. Especially when it comes to a character like Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games novel. This is a fan favorite character, and readers have their own interpretation of who she is. Effie is being portrayed for the first time on screen by Elizabeth Banks, and in a recent interview, she revealed that she worked long and hard to find the perfect voice for this side-show freak of a woman who escorts teenagers to an arena, where they will fight to the death....

Horror is coming back to primetime TV with Fear Itself, a new series from the creators of the Masters of Horror, which will premiere on NBC on Thursday, June 5 at 10 PM ET. I was in on a conference call with the stars of the first two episodes, Eric Roberts and Jesse Plemons and producers Keith Addis and Andrew Deane. Here’s what this group had to say. Hey, Jesse, as it comes out this role, this seems to fit you so well, the character here has some of the same characteristics of the Friday Night Lights....

2019 was the year of TV at San Diego Comic-Con. Some of the biggest shows on the planet either participated in panels, released trailers, or both. Even shows like HBO’s absolutely massive Game of Thrones made a stop to answer fan questions and give a little back to the fans that helped make it a global phenomenon. Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance didn’t have a new trailer, but fans were treated to an awesome featurette....

Garnering a dignified reputation as the King of Horror, American renowned author Stephen King is responsible for a surfeit of successful novels, many of which have been adapted for numerous films and television miniseries. With that in mind, the upcoming reboot of Salem’s Lot has horror fans widely speculating all of its juicy details. Salem’s Lot first debuted as a two-night TV miniseries on CBS in 1979, based on the 1975 novel by King....

The film projects coming out of the Cannes Film Festival just seem to be piling up lately and this latest one will take you fishing in a bizarre locale. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas have all signed on to star in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Lasse Hallström is directing the film from the script by Simon Beaufoy, which was adapted from the Paul Torday novel....

We have an exclusive extended clip from last year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner, The Counterfeiters, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 5. Click below for this five-minute clip from this powerful film. Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger’s fact-based book The Devil’s Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his creativity for more nefarious means....

We have a brand new exclusive DVD clilp from Betrayed, which hits the shelves on DVD on June 30. Click below for our exclusive clip, which features Melissa George in a kidnapping scene. Waking up in a dark room after being knocked unconscious in a car accident and her young son nowhere in sight, Jamie Taylor (Melissa George), realizes that she has been kidnapped. Her masked captor (Oded Fehr) informs her that if she ever hopes to see her son alive again, she must help his mysterious employers....

We have an exclusive special feature clip from the upcoming DVD set Boston Legal: Season 5, which brings the final season of the series to DVD in a four-disc set on May 5. Click below for an exclusive look at one of the special features on the set which takes a look at the intriguing relationship between James Spader’s Alan and William Shatner’s Denny. Everyone deserves his or her day in court....