Pete’s Dragonis a magical beast. Disney made a bold choice in hiringAin’t Them Bodies SaintsdirectorDavid Lowery, and he has rewarded their faith in him with a family film that’s both unique and universal. While some may long for the lighthearted tone of the 1977 original, Lowery has crafted a picture that’s far more resonant and thoughtful. His film explores devastating loss, loneliness, and longing for a family. And while those are weighty subjects for a movie that’s ostensibly meant for children, Lowery handles the picture with a deft touch that allows us to be swept up in the magic of a young boy and his best friend who happens to be a big, furry dragon....

When Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] programRick and Mortywas in its infancy, the writers room contained the show’s co-creatorsJustin RoilandandDan Harmon, withTom Kauffman,Ryan Ridley,Wade Randolph, andEric Acosta, and writer’s assistantMike McMahan. For the show’s current Season 3 run, that writers room has become gender-balanced with the addition ofJane Becker,Sarah Carbiener,Jessica Gao, andErica Rosbe. Now a mentally and socially balanced person who’s a fan of the show and the excellent episodes they’ve released just this year might celebrate that fact, while misogynistic trolls might use it as an excuse to harass said female writers....

By now, you’re probably pretty burnt out on the various different endings and changes made toRogue One. All of these questions make a pretty good case that Disney should just release a warts-and-all behind the scenes book or documentary since it’s not like it’s going to hurt the revenue ofRogue Oneor any futureStar Warsmovie. They print money, and secrecy doesn’t automatically create mystique. So last week while I had a chance to speak with writer Gary Whitta aboutRogue One: A Star Wars Story, I was more curious about the overall process of working on aStar Warsfilm rather than being the 3,497th person to ask him “How did the ending change?...

Scott Derricksonhas officially picked upThe Black Phone 2. The director revealed ina post on X (formerly Twitter)today that filming is now underway on the much-anticipated sequel to his 2022 horror hit. Co-written by his regular collaboratorC. Robert Cargill, the movie was originally slated to premiere next summer, but a shuffling of the schedule now has the follow-uplined up for July 02, 2025, just ahead of Halloween. That will give plenty of time for the team to get everything together for a killer follow-up in the aftermath of The Grabber’s reign of terror....

WhenMarvel’s Inhumanswas filming earlier this year in Hawaii, I was able to visit the set with a few other reporters, where we watched filming and talked to most of the cast and filmmakers. I learned a lot about the upcoming show and over the next month, I’ll be posting a lot of cool content revealing how the show came together and what fans can look forward to. If you’re not familiar with the series, based on the Marvel comic, it’s doing something incredibly cool and unusual....

Since its initial launch in 2020, Peacock has brought viewers some of the verybest in documentary filmsand series. From the upliftingHardball: The Girls of Summerto theSesame Street-basedI Am Big Bird, and even the harrowing true crime docuseries,John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise, the NBC streaming service has absolutely delivered when it comes to pulling back the curtain on interesting, and sometimes hard to watch topics. And, boy are they at it again with their upcoming docuseries,Shadowland....

Saturday Night Livecontinued its run of heroic hosts last night withThe Batmanstar and the coolest cat aroundZoë Kravitz, who took the Studio 8H stage for the first time alongside musical guestRosalía. In an episode ofIn the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast, Kravitz, the daughter of music starLenny Kravitzand actressLisa Bonet, explained that her admiration for actors and performing started at a young age. Growing up in California’s quiet Topanga Canyon as the only child to two famous divorced parents, plus the fact that she wasn’t allowed to watch television, forced her to use her imagination much more than a lot of her peers....

In the interim between seasons ofEric Kripke’s hit series,The Boys, we’ve been keeping our sights set on the show’s latest spinoff,Gen V, which explores a whole new side to Vought International’s reckless creations. Recently, Collider’sSteve Weintraubspoke withVernon Sanders, Amazon’s Head of Television, about Prime Video’s lineup, including the impressive success ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. SinceCCXP’s big trailer reveal, we were curious howGen Vmeasures up to its scandalous supe predecessor, and from what Sanders tells us, it’s going to be wild....

Spoilers ahead forThe Irishman. The final hour ofThe Irishmanshows Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) in decline. The friendships he’s managed with Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) and Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) have collided and he’s forced to kill Jimmy on behalf of Russell. It turns out that Frank’s loyalty was cheap and the violent life he lived has alienated just about everyone who cared about him. He’s left sad and alone in a nursing home confessing to the audience and to a priest, and even then, Frank has trouble admitting the contrition or regret he clearly feels....

Ever since the Season 3 episode “A Life in a Day,” fans of the Syfy seriesThe Magicianshave been eager to see how the show might address—or seize upon, even—the idea of a relationship between Quentin (Jason Ralph) and Eliot (Hale Appleman). The notion of that relationship ever happening went out the window at the end of Season 4, when Quentin sacrificed his life for his friends and Ralph exited the show, leaving Eliot despondent over losing the chance to ever explore a relationship with Quentin....

Spoilers ahead forOnce Upon a Time…in Hollywood. When it was announced thatQuentin Tarantino’s ninth movie would be titledOnce Upon a Time…in Hollywood, I figured it was just a homage to otherOnce Upon a Timemovies likeOnce Upon a Time in the WestandOnce Upon a Time in America. And yes, the film is set in Hollywood, but it turns out the “Once Upon a Time” part was Tarantino constructing a fairy tale of sorts as he took to rewriting history yet again....

Spoiler warningfor The Terror finale, “We Are Gone.” After the first few episodes of AMC’sThe Terror, it might be easy to point to the bear-like Tuunbaq as the cause of all of the Erebus and Terror’s problems. But by the end, one wonders, did we even need the Tuunbaq in this queasy tale of man’s endless capability to mess things up for himself? The horrors aboard the two ships began with hubris, and then were sealed with ice....

You’ve probably never heard ofThe Rebel, but it’s a TV series with some considerable influence.The Rebelwas released at a time when theWesternwas one of the most prominent genres in film and television, fromJohn Wayne’s various exploits on screentoClint Eastwood’s iconicDollarstrilogy. It focuses on Johnny Yuma (Nick Adams), a former soldier in the Confederate army. Johnny feels lost after the end of the Civil War, and decides to seek inner peace byhunting down criminals across the West....