The story of Morris “Moe” Berg almost seems too good to be true, a character cooked up by a fabulist trying to magnify his own legend like Chuck Berry saying he hostedThe Gong Showbut also killed people for the CIA. And yet Moe Berg was remarkably accomplished and alluring enigmatic. A baseball player who also spoke 11 languages along with being a graduate of Princeton and Columbia, he seems like the stuff of legend, and that’s before you get into his actions in World War II....

This morning brought news that, amongst several other humongous premieres, the Cannes Film Festival would host the first proper screening ofNicolas Winding Refn’sThe Neon Demon, the Denmark-born auteur’s follow-up to his less-than-well-receivedOnly God Forgives. Now, we have the first trailer for the film and it looks, well, about what you would expect from a Refn films - plenty of colored lights, stylized wardrobe, and violence over violence. The story of the film hinges on a model, played by the surpassingly talentedElle Fanning, who enters a wild, “dangerous” world where competition is constant and bloody, and the image is all that matters to those who hold the strings....

Hailed as one of the best television shows of all time,The Wireis celebrating its 20th anniversary. Each season took on a new form of corruption including the drug trade, politics, the schools, the docks, and the media. The series took the basic cop show format and took it to a whole new level. Throughout the series, we saw actors before they hit mega-stardom such asIdris Elbawho portrayed Stringer Bell, andMichael B....

The WitcherSeason 2 officially premiered today at Netflix, and fans are already delighted to notice how the series brings a mid-credits surprise:The Witcher: Blood Origin’s first official trailer. The six-episode prequel series will reveal the story of the first Witcher and the events that led the worlds of monsters, men, and elves to merge and become one. The trailer gives us a better look atBlood Origin’s leading trio of characters: Éile (Sophia Brown), a warrior that abandons her clan and her post as the queen’s protector to wander the world as a singer; Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain), a warrior who joins Éile in her quest; and Scian (Michelle Yeoh), an elf who’s in search of a stolen sacred sword....

TheBrothers' Grimm fairytalescome to life in the cop dramaGrimm, where fantastical elements are woven into a well-worn episodic narrative. Yet with all this excitement dashing across the screen, the character of Juliette (Elizabeth “Bitsie” Tulloch) becomes one of the most bland and frustrating elements of the show. Introduced as the protagonist’s, Nick’s (David Giuntoli) girlfriend, Juliette had the potential of becoming a nuanced and intriguing character but became the furthest thing from it....

Even with the biggest budgets and the bestspecial effects, it can be hard for ahorrormovie to make a ridiculous concept scary. Whether it be a failure to adapt the source material or a film not understanding its own premise, countless scary movies can’t make the odd terrifying. Most of these failures are due to a lack of commitment from the project’s creators;something that, luckily, the team behindFrogmanhad in spades. Directed byAnthony Cousins, this foundfootage horrorsees a trio trying to track down a wild cryptid that one of them swears he saw years before....

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Acolyte Episodes 1 & 2. Everyone who has ever watchedStar Warscan easily tell you one truth about the Jedi: they’re a bit dramatic. Now,The Acolyteis reminding us that it isn’t just the Jedi, but also the Sith who love to use platitudes like mantras for dramatic effect. In the first two episodes of the new Disney+ show, two particular quotes call for attention....

The first images from Netflix’s upcoming dramaThe Devil All the Timehave arrived, with starTom Hollandimmediately pulling all the focus with an incredible thousand-yard stare. These new images arrive a little over a month ahead of director/co-writerAntonio Campos' (Afterschool,Simon Killer) newest movie premiering on the streaming platform. Only a handful of new images fromTheDevil All the Timeare here to tease the decades-spanning drama with Holland at its heart. In the movie, theSpider-Man: Far From Homeactor plays Arvin Russell, a young man bearing the weight of family trauma and weathering the highs and lows of the mid-20th century....

December is proving to be a busy month for Netflix. The streaming giant dropped the entire first season ofThe O.A.just days after releasing the first trailer, and it’s doing the same this week forTravelers, starringEric McCormick. It’s also the time for one of the more highly anticipated premieres,Guillermo del Toro’sTrollhuntersanimated series. A new clip has debuted online to remind you it’s dropping this Friday, December 23rd, and that it’ll probably be just as the kid says: “So freaking cool....

Criterion has just announced their October releases earlier today, which will include their first addition from A24 — the anxiety-inducing, adrenaline-creatingUncut GemsstarringAdam Sandler. The other five titles includeSatyajit Ray’sDevi,Lynne Ramsay’sRatcatcher,The Incredible Shrinking Man,High Sierra, andKaneto Shindo’sOnibaba. BothRatcatcherandOnibabahave previously received Criterion releases, but both titles are receiving a re-release on Blu-ray.The Incredible Shrinking ManandHigh Sierraare new additions to the collection, whileDevijoins a substantial amount of Ray’s work that has already been released by Criterion....

From executive producersShannon LeeandJustin Lin, and showrunnerJonathan Tropper(Banshee), the 10-episode Cinemax action-packed drama seriesWarrior, based on writings from martial arts legendBruce Leeand set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19thcentury, follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a young man who’s left China behind for San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, only to realize just how challenging that can be. Now that he’s become a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful Chinese organized crime families, violence is erupting all around him and he must decide which boundaries are worth crossing and which might be too dangerous to survive....

Hasbro has provided us with an exclusive timelapse video showing two people putting together their upcoming Marvel Legends Galactus figure, and how gigantic it is when fully constructed. At 32" tall, the detailed figure is made of over 300 individual pieces, and it’s clear that fans are going to be very happy with the final product. The gigantic Devourer of Worlds is available for $399.99 and will be available on theHasbro Pulse websiteuntil August 30, so time is quickly running out to add this towering figure to your collection....

Aquamanalready swam pastBatman v. Superman: Dawn of Justiceto become Warner Bros.' top DC Comics earner, but can the man in the orange-and-greens become the DCEU’s first billion-dollar hit? By Poseidon, it looks mighty likely. DirectorJames Wan’s technicolor superhero story starringJason Momoatook in another $30.7 million stateside this weekend, bringing its domestic haul to $259.7 million for an absolutely titanic $940.7 million worldwide total. Like we mentioned,Aquamansurged past its DCEU peers to become the DCEU’s biggest hit this weekend, surpassingDawn of Justice($873....