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Bryan Singer isn't having a great couple of months. Not only was he unceremoniously kicked off the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, but was then caught up in the Hollywood sexual misconduct controversy when he was accused in a lawsuit of assaulting a teenager during a 2003 yacht party. Perhaps conscious that his name is a liability right now, he's approached FX and asked for his Executive Producer credit to be removed from season 2 of Noah Hawley's Legion.
I've always felt that Mark Hamill is a sorely underrated actor. Sure, Luke Skywalker in the Original Trilogy didn't get the most iconic lines, but he's the glue that holds the whole narrative together. Fortunately, Rian Johnson gave him an ample opportunity to prove how great he was with The Last Jedi, weaving in a ton of complexity and conflict to the role that Hamill performed beautifully.
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight is just a couple of weeks away from release, and this clip showing off the Caped Crusader's fighting style has us insanely hyped.
It's been a couple of weeks since the Disney/Fox deal was announced and there's still a lot we don't know. One of the biggest question marks surrounds the statuses of the various in-development superhero projects at Fox. That being, the general future of the X-Universe, what's going on with Channing Tatum's Gambit and Noah Hawley's planned Doctor Doom (among many others).
Genuinely scaring people is an art form. A successful horror movie needs to keep its audience on their toes, fearful of the unknown and what's to come. This means every film in the crowded genre is trying to do at least one thing different. So, what's different about Insidious - one of the most wildly successful horror franchises of the modern era with the three films raking in an impressive $370 million at the box office - then?
The next big thing in superhero cinema is definitely Black Panther, which will hit theaters in just over a month and a half. As that release date rolls ever closer, we're finding out more and more about what Ryan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman are cooking up for us and now, courtesy of Event Cinema's website, we know that the film comes in at a relatively lengthy 135 minutes.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is mere months away now and we've still seen next to nothing from it. According to inside sources, though, that's about to change very soon, with a trailer rumored be dropping during the college football National Championship game on January 8th on ESPN. However, Ron Howard knows we're hungry for something, so while wishing us "Happy New Year from Team Solo," he's released the teasing image below of a pair of gloved hands on the wheel of a speeder.
If anyone's an authority on superhero comedies, it's Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool succeeded critically and commercially beyond everyone's wildest dreams. But since November, the film's had some competition for the funniest comic book movie out there. I'm talking of course about Thor: Ragnarok, which was a candy floss light breath of fresh air in comparison to its self-serious, po-faced superhero competition (*cough* Justice League *cough*).
I'd always considered myself more of a DC man than Marvel, so it was frustrating to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe blossom on screen while their competitor's characters remained mostly unexplored. With the announcement of the DCEU, though, I thought that long wait had come to an end. Then came Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and, the most disappointing blow of all, the cinematic car crash that was Justice League.