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The Good Neil Jordan seems to be experimenting in an interesting way with the young adult genre. The Bad Sometimes it was hard to really care about the Francie Brady character. Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy is a coming of age film of a different sort. Our focus is on Francie Brady (Eammon Owens), a young man who isn’t above engaging in frolics simply to have a laugh. He loves hanging out with his friends, reading comic books, and he especially cares for his alcoholic father and depressed mother....

Get a look inside the Oscar-nominated world of Dean Wright and Howard Berger After three months at the box office, world wide success, and now three Oscar nominations, I think people are getting the idea that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a pretty amazing film. Just to give you an idea of the amount of money this movie has made world wide, it has well over tripled its budget of $180 million, taking in over $650 million; domestically, it’s made over $280 million....

Filming on Marvel’s Secret Invasion has been underway for a while now, and we are finally seeing some of the first images from the upcoming Disney+ show with a number of set photos finding their way online that feature Avengers mastermind Nick Fury, aka actor Samuel L. Jackson. Although Fury turned up briefly for Tony Stark’s funeral in Avengers: Endgame, his appearance in Spider-Man: Far From Home turned out not to be the real Nick Fury at all, but a Skrull in disguise in all but the post-credit scene that revealed Fury to be working on a secret space base, which helped to set up the Secret Invasion TV series back in 2019....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Clint Eastwood’s son, Scott Eastwood, will be playing a role in his father’s untitled Nelson Mandela biopic. Clint Eastwood is helming the picture for Warner Bros. and Spyglass Entertainment. Scott Eastwood has joined a cast that includes Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The film examines how Mandela, as a new President in South African, “worked with the captain of the national rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite the country after apartheid....

Shirley Jones, star of stage, screen, and TV is expanding her large repertoire and doing a stint on the popular NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives. Her storyline runs from January 31 to February 7 and her fans will see this roll as very different from her Partridge Family character. In the soap Ms. Jones plays Colleen Brady, the older sister of Grandpa Shawn. Everyone in Salem thought Colleen was dead after apparently throwing herself off a cliff....

Sigourney Weaver will star in the HBO biopic, Gypsy and Me; she’ll also serve as executive producer on the project. According to Variety, she’ll play famed burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee in the film based on My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee; it’s the memoir written by her son Erik Lee Preminger, who, by the tender age of 12, was acting as her stage manager....

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) officially launched in 2018 with the release of Venom. Similarly to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe, Sony’s shared universe focuses on villains and superheroes that somehow relate to Spider-Man, whether as allies or antagonists. According to Forbes, Sony’s multi-franchise project was initially said to launch a lot earlier, indeed, following the release of Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but after the financial failure of the movie, the plans got abandoned....

The South Korean cinema actor and model Ye Hak-young died at the age of 40 (or 39, depending on the news source), according to reports from AllKpop.com. According to translated reports from South Korea on December 27, 2022, Hak-young was revealed to have passed away on the morning of December 24, 2022. Currently, the cause of death is unknown, although some fans have speculated that CoD is suicide (the entertainment world also recently lost Stephen “tWitch” Boss to suicide)....

The first poster for the upcoming animated sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, finds Miles Morales hanging out with a large assortment of Spider-Variants. Released via Twitter, the poster has Miles looking at things from a different perspective to the rest of the Spider-Community. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will follow Miles as he finds himself not only doing battle with supervillain The Spot, but also the Spider-Forces, a group of Spider-people from alternate worlds as they both strive to do what they think is best for multiverse....

Spiderman 3 is best described as a Mexican soap opera with mind-blowing special effects. It’s all melodrama as the characters talk about their feelings and share in a good cry. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) cries seven times throughout the film. If he’s not kicking bad guy ass, then he’s probably shedding a few tears. I’m being a bit sarcastic, but the third installment does really ramp up the emotional aspects of the story....

The Good A thoughtfully put together DVD that will really satisfy fan tastes. The Bad It would have been cool to have the characters from the early Star Wars films featured in a retrospective documentary of some sort. Lets be honest with ourselves, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the DVD release of 2005. If for no other reason than the fact that it finally “puts to bed�?...

Lionsgate Home Entertainment is releasing Roland Emmerich’s franchise spawning sci-fi hit Stargate [WS] [15th Anniversary Edition] on Blu-ray this October 27th. Starring James Spader, Kurt Russell, and Djimon Hounsou, this classic adventure went onto to inspire multiple TV series and movies. Egyptologist Daniel Jackson is brought to an underground military base where he decodes the symbols on Egyptian cover stones as star constellations. That allows an alien device known as the Stargate to be opened and a team led by Air Force Colonel Jack’ O’ Neil and Jackson to travel across the known universe to a distant planet....

Go back to where it all began in Welcome to Derry, an upcoming series reportedly in development at HBO Max. Per Variety, the gears have started turning at the streaming service on a planned prequel series set before the events of the It movies based on the Stephen King novel. According to the report, Welcome to Derry will start in the 1960s, leading up to the events of 2017’s It: Chapter One....

At first, Mike Wheeler was a significant and vital part of Stranger Things. As Eleven’s foremost advocate that helped lead the way for their strong bond and eventual romance, Mike was one of the show’s most vital members. However, Mike’s significance to the plot became less critical over time. While he remained an essential part of Eleven’s life, Mike’s storyline started to surround Eleven completely, and his screen time showing his companionship with his friends began to lessen....

MOVIE REVIEWS: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX The words seem to echo in reviews all over the country: Harry Potter has lost his magic. “Whatever happened to the delight, and, if you’ll excuse the term, the magic in the Harry Potter series?” Roger Ebert asks in the Chicago Sun Times.Gene Seymour comments in Newsdaythat a newcomer to the Potter movies “may be forgiven for wondering where the magic is; not just the transfigurations, sparkling explosions and assorted phantasmagoria … but the sense of wonder and transport that helped make [author J....

IT’S A BIG DEAL FOR NBCNBC’s game show Deal or No Dealreturned to the top of the ratings heap last week, beating out games of a more physical sort, the NBA finals on ABC. Still, the NBA telecasts proved to be a potent audience draw for ABC, with Sunday’s game landing in fourth place and Thursday’s, in sixth. The games saw an audience increase of 13 percent over the first two games of the 2005 NBA Finals....

i>SAW TO CONQUER There’ll be something for just about everybody at the box office this weekend. For sheer mindless entertainment as Halloween approaches, there’s the horror film, Saw III, which is expected easily to sell the most tickets (but which was not screened for critics). For those who enjoy film as art, there’s the highly praised and award-winning drama Babel, from director Alejandro González Iñárritu and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga....

On October 31 Mario and Luigi return as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Vol. 2 comes to DVD! CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Due to the overwhelming success of The Super Mario Brothers® Super Show! Volume 1, Shout! Factory and DIC Entertainment announce the October 31st release of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Vol. 2. The second installment of the collector’s set includes 24 episodes of the animated adventures of The Super Mario Brothers® from the hit television series on a 4-DVD box set....

The Sopranos alum Terence Winter is set to write Martin Scorsese’s HBO project Boardwalk Empire, which will be produced by Entourage duo Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. According to Variety, Winter’s deal on Boardwalk Empire comes as part of a two-year extension of his overall deal with the network. The drama, which hasn’t yet been ordered to pilot, is based on Nelson Johnson’s book “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City,” which revolves around the now-gambling mecca’s early 20th century origins....

What’s more horrifying than the inevitable environmental collapse of our one and only planet Earth? Not much these days, especially as the natural world around us has continued to deteriorate in response to too much human interference. Eco-horror has remained one of the most popular horror subgenres since the beginnings of the genre itself, cemented in the early days of grainy black-and-white pictures that paved the way for the movie world as we know it today....