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Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, no one could've possibly predicted the cultural staying power of sparkly vampires and shirtless werewolves — especially when the two are combined in a campy, coming-of-age romance with an inexplicable blue filter slapped on top. But The Twilight Saga is still racking up views over a decade later, with its explosive conclusion, Breaking Dawn - Part 2, currently sitting at fourth place on the free streaming service Tubi.

There are far too many iconic moments to count in the full Twilight Saga, but Breaking Dawn - Part 2 makes for an especially unique viewing experience. The film picks up directly after the events of Breaking Dawn - Part 1, with Bella awakening from her human-to-vampire transformation that also largely coincided with her giving birth (talk about a long day). In what is perhaps the most incredible scene of any movie to date, Bella learns that Jacob...

Have you ever wondered how many cameos there were in the first two Sharknado films? Or who the sharks haunted in Ghost Shark? Maybe you’d like to discuss what the best scene is in Killer Klowns From Outer Space? Would you like to know just how big the spider is in Big Ass Spider? Did you recently ask a friend which Japanese dish starts killing people in a film from 2012? Would you like to know if zombies can be vegan? And what exactly is a Stonado?

Nerdly’s very own Alain Elliott will answer most of these questions in his latest book Awfully Good Movies Volume One: Adventures in B-Movies! which features a rundown of 50 of the craziest, strangest, and Awfully Good collection of B-Movies. With each film, he discusses the Awfully Good scenes, characters, lines, and everything in between. You will want to seek out and watch every...

The Loch Ness Horror, filmmaker Tyler James’ action-packed horror movie, has been acquired by Uncork’d Entertainment and is out now on VOD and DVD.

Synopsis:

A submarine vanishing prompts a rescue operation that comes face to face with the cause -The Loch Ness Monster. Having escaped the Loch, it is now unleashing decades of pent-up aggression on all those it encounters. In a fight for survival, our team of rescue operatives must overcome the terrors both beneath them and within their ranks.

“Fans of The Meg and Tremors will definitely want to check out The Loch Ness Horror when we release later this year”, said Keith Leopard, President Uncork’d Entertainment. “This one has some great special effects and some superbly thrilling sequences”

About Uncork’d Entertainment

Uncork’d Entertainment was founded in July, 2012 by Keith Leopard, a Home Entertainment industry veteran with more than 23 years of experience in purchasing,...

An official trailer has been released for the indie horror flick The Loch Ness Horror, bringing the legendary creature back to the surface with an all-new movie for Nessie.

From Uncork'd Entertainment, The Loch Ness Horror, which is coming to VOD and DVD on Nov. 7, tells the story of the Loch Ness Monster encountering the terrified occupants of a submarine. While there have been seemingly endless movies made about Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster films are far less common, and this helps make The Loch Ness Horror stand out. Ahead of the movie's release next month, horror fans can check out the trailer below for an early sneak peek.

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In The Loch Ness Horror, per the official synopsis, "A submarine vanishing prompts a rescue operation that comes face to face with the cause -The Loch Ness Monster. Having escaped the Loch,...

The following contains spoilers for My Adventures with Superman Episode 1-2, "Adventures of a Normal Man," now streaming on HBO Max.

Jimmy Olsen is back! After Zack Snyder ignominiously shot him in the head in the opening scene of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Daily Planet's ace photographer has made the most of some prominent appearances. Mehcad Brooks quietly became one of Supergirl's biggest assets as Olsen during its first five seasons, and now the new My Adventures with Superman finds him neck-deep in the action with fellow interns Clark and Lois.

The animated series finds a brilliant take on the character, in keeping with its upbeat tone. He's obsessed with tabloid conspiracy theories of the Bigfoot variety, complete with a podcast speculating on aliens secretly living on Earth. It's fantastic for one simple reason: he lives in a version of the DC Universe, where aliens, robots,...

The American Idol season 21 platinum ticket recipients earned their advantage during Hollywood Week, and it's time to get to know these four talented singers. American Idol introduced the platinum tickets to honor season 20. Only one talented singer from each audition city receives a platinum ticket to Hollywood instead of a golden ticket from the judges, Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan. These special tickets give the recipients, Cam Amen (New Orleans), Kaylin Hedges (Nashville), Tyson Venegas (Las Vegas), and Elijah McCormick (New Orleans/America's Platinum Ticket), the advantage of sitting out the first round of the challenging Hollywood Week. They also had first choice for their duet partners.

American Idol season 21 featured the first-ever America's Platinum Ticket. The vote occurred during the American Music Awards, which aired on November 20, 2022. Fans had 24 hours to vote for their favorite of three contestants to earn a platinum ticket. Elijah was crowned the winner,...

Hulu is ringing in the summer with plenty of new titles to keep you occupied during your air conditioned TV binges next month.

The Stephen King multiverse series “Castle Rock” finally makes its debut on July 25, and the final season of Hulu’s original series “Casual” will land on July 31.

Meanwhile, the second season of Hulu’s “Harlots” premieres on July 11, and Season 4 of “You’re the Worst” is available on July 6. The third season of Lifetime’s “UnReal” is available on July 2.

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See below for the complete list of titles coming to and leaving next month.

Available July 1

Alone: Complete Season 3 (History)

American Pickers: Complete Season 17 (History)

American Ripper: Complete Season 1 (History)

Ancient Top 10: Complete Season 1 (History)

The Curse of Oak Island: Complete Season 4 (History)

Doomsday Preppers: Complete Season 2 (Nat Geo)

Forged in Fire: Complete...

The British — and others — are coming to Comcast. Acorn TV, a subscription video-on-demand service specializing in U.K. and international television, is now available to the cable giant’s Xfinity TV customers nationwide.

It’s the first pay-tv distribution deal for Rlj Entertainment’s Acorn TV, which offers a lineup of mysteries, dramas, and comedies previously unavailable to U.S. audiences. The advertising-free Svod service is available to Comcast subs for $4.99 monthly.

“The addition of Acorn TV and its curated collection of standout international television provides even more choice to our Xfinity TV customers, giving them another way to watch their favorite series or discover new and classic programs,” said Michael Imbesi, Comcast Cable’s VP of movies and pay-per-view programming.

Acorn TV’s originals include BBC comedy “Detectorists”; the new ITV drama “Girlfriends”; and Irish drama “Striking Out.” Exclusive content includes new seasons of Aussie period drama “A Place to Call Home...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: Which lesser known network or streaming service deserves more love? Why?

Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook), TV Guide Magazine

I just wrote about this for TVInsider.com! Recently, I am obsessed with truTV, which has unleashed two of my favorite summer programs: “The Chris Gethard Show” and Andrea Savage’s perfect “I’m Sorry.” The first is the “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” of live late-night talk shows featuring the supremely likable comedian and the second, sort of a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for suburban marrieds, Finally gives Savage a chance to carry a show after years of scene-stealing support. Originally designed as a true-crime network, the rebranding to comedy (and edgy comedy at that!

People don't go to the multiplex to watch a sociological study. (Which is just as well: Big, loud Hollywood blockbusters aren't usually great with nuance, so it'd be too much to ask them to be remotely politically deft.) And yet, this past weekend's super-successful Spider-Man: Homecoming contains, perhaps by accident, a rather astute examination of a cultural issue that's been at the forefront of political debate over the last several years. And it's expressed in the form of the movie's excellent villain, the small-business owner-turned-evil mastermind Adrian Toomes, a.k.

If you like monster movies, you're in luck these days. Not only is Universal trying to get together their Dark Universe, which kicked off with The Mummy (even though it was panned by critics), but Legendary is also moving ahead with their MonsterVerse, which will eventually see King Kong and Godzilla duke it out with one another in 2020. To add to that, now we are going to be getting a pretty crazy sounding movie about Nessie, aka the Loch Ness Monster, which will be adapted from the 2005 novel The Loch.

Author Steven Alten, who is responsible for The Loch, recently spoke with Bloody Disgusting and revealed that his Loch Ness Monster book is headed to the big screen. Producer Belle Avery, who is working with Alten on the giant shark movie Meg, is reportedly working with Chinese producers to make The Loch happen. Meg, which stars Jason Statham as a...

Our new Bffs are a family of young stoats rescued by the Scottish Spca and named for each of our favorite TV Friends. That’s right, meet Rachel, Ross, Joey, Chandler, Phoebe and Monica.

Before we get to the rest of the cute stuff, here’s the bad: the six orphans were found on a road in Inverness (the land of the Loch Ness monster) next to their dead mother at only 5-6 weeks old, the Spca’s website said.

Things are now looking up for the crew who are in caring hands at the National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross.

Though Pippa Middleton didn’t have a royal wedding like her sister Princess Kate, she did earn a title of her own after saying “I do.”

David Matthews, the father of her new husband, financier James Matthews, is the Laird of Glen Affric, a Scottish estate 15 miles from Loch Ness. This means James the heir to said title — and now, Middleton, is the heir to his mother’s corresponding title, Lady of Glen Affric. The Matthews family received the title after purchasing the 10,000-acre estate in the Scottish highlands, complete with a historic castle, in 2008.

Until the day James inherits the official title,...

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Spoilers! We dig into Doctor Who series 10's Thin Ice, to see what else we can find...

This article contains spoilers. Lots of them.

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The Doctor and Bill have saved the day again and something’s knocking in the vault - but it’s only knocking three times, so it doesn’t constitute a reference. Instead, here’s our weekly list of references, callbacks, tenuous spots and generally interesting waffle from this week’s episode. You’ll have to forgive me if I’ve missed anything - I’m at my sister’s wedding as this episode goes out, and they’ve refused to turn the music off for an hour so we can watch it.

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ITV inks Victoria deals

ITV Studios Global Entertainment has scored several territory deals on its historical drama series Victoria.

The show has gone to: satellite station Yes Israel, Mediaset in Italy for free-to-air broadcast, and Russian VoD service Ivi.

ITV has also scored deals on its show Loch Ness, which will debut in the UK and NBC later this year. TV2 has taken the series for Norway, TV4 has taken for Sweden, Rtl has rights for the Netherlands, and Dr has the programme for Denmark.

Dr has also taken Danish rights for police drama Prime Suspect 1973, which was broadcast in the UK earlier this year. The show has also gone to Svt in Sweden and BBC First for the Middle East.

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Doctor Who fans woke up to the news this morning that Peter Capaldi, the show’s twelfth incarnation of The Doctor, is leaving the show. His departure is not entirely unexpected, as it coincides with the exit of the showrunner Steven Moffat, who has been with the show since Matt Smith took over the role.

It is bittersweet ending for Capaldi’s Doctor, who had to follow the double act of the aforementioned Smith and David Tennant. The show struggled to find its feet with Capaldi initially, however under Capaldi’s reign the show has seen some of its finest hours. We loved his entanglements with Missy, and his one man show Heaven Sent from Series Nine is one of the best episodes of the show’s entire run.

Peter Capaldi as The Doctor with Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald

But all’s not lost! We still...

I like a good happy ending. Truly, I am a total sucker for "and they lived happily ever after."

So I'm very happy with the outcome of The Librarians Season 3 Episode 10, which concluded the season and saw the downfall of this year's Big Bad, Apep.

While some might consider it convenient that each of the Librarians had an essential part of the ultimate solution, this was hardly without precedent. The Library ensured practically the same thing back in The Librarians Season One.

It was gratifying that Eve never actually betrayed the Library, though the episode didn't exactly do much to answer the question of whether or not Eve was originally intended to be a Dosa infiltrator, per the general's earlier claims.

I was actually impressed that Dosa managed to construct such an effective technology-based Library equivalent when (even in this episode!) their personnel, up to and including the general herself,...

Previous funding has been awarded to productions including T2: Trainspotting and In Plain Sight.

The Scottish government and Creative Scotland will bolster Scottish film and TV production by injecting an extra £1.25m into the country’s Production Growth Fund.

It takes the total sum allocated to the Production Growth Fund, which was set up in 2015, to £3m.

Some of the projects that have filmed in Scotland with the help of the fund are: Etruscan Smile, T2: Trainspotting, Churchill, Hush and Calibre, and TV dramas Loch Ness and In Plain Sight.

Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop said: “Scotland’s exceptionally talented screen sector has proven time and time again it has the skills to deliver world-class films, and our scenery has provided a breathtaking backdrop to many a Hollywood blockbuster. Productions spent a record £52.7 million in 2015 – almost £7m higher than the previous year and more than double the £23 million spent in 2007.”

Creative Scotland has also released...

Brianna Randall truly is her mother's daughter. While we've still got a ways to go before we get any new footage from Outlander season three, that doesn't mean there aren't still new treats to enjoy, like this exclusive deleted scene from the season two finale, which you can find on the season two blu-ray when it's released tomorrow, November 1. In the clip, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) decide to spend an extra day in Scotland, and Roger (Richard Rankin) has a couple of ideas as to how to spend their extra day. But if he thinks that he's taking Brianna to a tourist trap like Loch Ness, he's clearly lost his mind. Instead, they decide to "find some...

Duncan Jones has begun principal photography in Berlin on Netflix’s upcoming 2017 thriller.

Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux star in the project about a mute man searching for a missing person in the year 2052 while duelling with two villains.

Jones co-wrote the Mute script with Michael Robert Johnson. The filmmaker’s longtime business partner Stuart Fenegan produces for Liberty Films.

Charles J.D. Schlissel serves as executive producer along with Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken and Christoph Fisser of Studio Babelsberg.

Mt. Philo Films has cast Pierson Fode and Sedale Threatt Jr. in It’s Time. Fritz Mitchell is directing from a script by Jeff Sarokin the true story of a friendship that arose from a tragic accident during a 1989 American football college game between Vanderbilt and Ole Miss. Mitchell’s Mt. Philo Films partner Wendy Yamano produces.Rlj Entertainment’s Acorn brand has licensed all Us television, digital and home entertainment rights to ITV Studios’ six-part...

It's hard to walk away from a successful show; for every Breaking Bad or Seinfeld that goes out on top, many more stick around too long trying to milk it dry. Some of the greatest shows – even a few that made our mammoth "100 Greatest TV Shows" list – have hung around for an extra season or 12. Like these 10 series, for example.

True Blood

2008-14

Strange how everybody loved this Southern-gothic vampire-sex fantasy for a few years there—then it started turning into self-parodic leprechaun porn.

How I Met Your Mother

2005-...

Though it has been supposedly 'debunked' time and again that the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, every several years or so a new photo emerges that claims to have captured the illusive creature in its natural enviroment. That time is upon us again, with an amateur photographer confirming to have accidentally snapped a photo of this fantastical serpent.

Some are claiming that this photo is the most convincing proof yet that the Loch Ness Monster actually exists. Others are writing it off as a fine piece of photo shop art. You can take a look at the photo below courtesy of the Fox News twitter, which is a legitimate source for news around the world, however dubious their agenda might sometimes appear to be.

The photo in question was taken by 58 year-old Ian Bremner, who appears to have immortalized the slippery beast. There appear to be three humps breaking the water,...

You know how photos of alleged cryptids always look so damn blurry and unclear that they could actually be showing just about anything? Well, not this one. Photographer Ian Bremner was hoping to snap some pictures of red deer in… Continue Reading →

The post This Might Be the Most Convincing Loch Ness Monster Photo Ever Taken appeared first on Dread Central.

God, I love this wackadoodle show.

This week on CBS’ Zoo, Mitch deduced that their “missing link” in finding the cure would be an extremely hard get, while Jackson came face to face with his mutated mother. When all was said and done, the team was poised for a Jurassic lark, until an unexpected adversary surfaced.

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Surveying the bones of the last animal they need to capture in the name of curing the triple-helix mutation, Mitch ultimately realized that their prey was a saber tooth cat — as in the animal that went extinct during the Ice Age.

Pete's Dragon and Our Top 5 Monster Pets On FilmPete's Dragon and Our Top 5 Monster Pets On FilmJenny Bullough8/10/2016 12:31:00 Pm

Have you ever dreamed of having your own monster pet? A giant creature fiercely loyal only to you, with the power to face down bullies and maybe even fly you to school and back every day? Everyone’s had this fantasy as a kid, and with Pete’s Dragon opening in theatres this weekend, we’ve been thinking about other movies that explore the special bond between a child and a fantastical pet or creature.

Here are some of our favourites:

The Water Horse

Set in Scotland during WWII, when Angus, a young Scottish boy, finds an enchanted egg on the shores of Loch Ness, he takes it home and soon finds himself face-to-face with an amazing creature: the mythical "water horse" of Scottish lore. But as “Crusoe” begins to grow bigger and bigger,...

Poldark

BBC One has ordered a ten-episode, third season of its Aidan Turner-led period drama "Poldark," months before the second season goes to air. Debbie Horsfield will adapt the new episodes from the novels by Winston Graham. Filming is imminent with a 2017 airdate eyed. Set in 1794, the French revolution casts a shadow over life in Cornwall in the new season which also stars Eleanor Tomlinson, John Nettles, Gabriella Wilde and Hugh Skinner. [Source: Deadline]

Star Trek

"Hannibal" and new "Star Trek" series showrunner Bryan Fuller will moderate a panel of past "Star Trek" actors at Comic Con this year with someone from every show involved to celebrate the franchise's 50th anniversary. William Shatner, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jeri Ryan and Scott Bakula will all be a part of the panel which will take place Saturday, July 23rd at 2pm. [Source: Variety]

Loch Ness

ITV has announced the new six-part serial killer drama series...

ITV is headed to Scotland for a new six-part serial killer drama Loch Ness. Written by Fortitude's Stephen Brady and exec produced by Tim Haines (Beowulf), Loch Ness centers on a community nourished and sustained by myth, and bordered by untamed nature. There, the search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for local detective Annie Cathro who is trying to cope with her first murder case. Filming is under way in the Highlands. ITV Studios is producing. La…...

Even if you didn’t get that dream job with the Ghostbusters — maybe you screwed up your interview and said you don’t believe in the Loch Ness Monster and the theory of Atlantis — you can still ride in the Ecto-1. Lyft and Sony Pictures are teaming up to offer free rides in the Ghostbusters’ sweet ride this weekend in select cities. On Friday, July 1 and Saturday, July 2, 10 a.m. — 8 p.m. local time, passengers in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington D.C. can toggle into Ghost Mode on their Lyft app and request a free ride in an Ecto-1 car — the hearse version from the new movie that Kate McKinnon’s Jillian Holtzmann looks so stoked about in the trailer. Some cool prizes also could come with the ride: Two lucky winners will take home the grand prize of two tickets each to the...

The first thing that indie filmmaker David Lowery will tell you is that it wasn’t such a great leap going from “Ain’t Them Body Saints” to “Pete’s Dragon.” Other than taking longer to make, the result’s still small, personal and hand-crafted.

“One of my favorite movies growing up was ‘The Black Stallion’ and I watched that again in preparation for this movie,” Lowery told me after sneak-peeking some “Pete’s Dragon” footage at the El Capitan last week with star Bryce Dallas Howard (who revealed that she pursued the project for years).

“And I was thinking if [‘Black Stallion’] was made today it would be an arthouse movie,” he said. “But when I was growing up, that was family entertainment. I do wish those lines weren’t so clearly drawn. I wish there was a little more art in the mainstream and a little more mainstream in the art sometimes. And I obviously like the far reaches of art and the far reaches of mainstream [including “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows”]. And I think you can get away with introducing people to new ideas, new concepts, new flavors and new tones in the mainstream.”

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In Lowery’s live-action updating of the ’77 Disney cult classic, a 10-year-old orphan (Oakes Fegley) and a cuddly dragon help bring a disbelieving forest ranger (Dallas Howard) and her elderly, loquacious, woodcarving father (Robert Redford) closer together.

“Being open to incomprehensible possibilities is a wonderful facet of existence,” said Lowery. “And so with this movie, the magic to me is that there’s a creature in the woods that obeys the laws of physics, for the most part, but has managed to avoid detection, like Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster. I respond incredibly strongly to cuddly, furry animals, and I wanted him to be distinct, fairly iconic and to be remembered well. And I wanted to love him.”

Shot in the bucolic woods of New Zealand, Lowery had the added benefit of working with nearby Weta Digital on the furry, green dragon, Elliott. The animation hit that sweet spot between photoreal and caricature— a far cry from “Game of Thrones.”

“The fur led me to Weta because of the ‘Apes’ films and because they add soul to their characters,” said Lowery, who found it an odd coincidence that Weta was also working simultaneously on Steven Spielberg’s “The Bfg” and that both movies have children befriending 20-foot creatures confronting xenophobia.

Like Weta’s King Louie in “The Jungle Book,” Elliott is totally key-frame animation, and has a decidedly stop-motion vibe. “What I love about stop-motion is that your brain instantly tells you that this isn’t real and sets that worry aside so that you just accept what you’re seeing as real,” said Lowery. “Obviously with CG you’re aspiring for a higher degree of reality. But even though we wanted his weight to feel real in the world and he really belongs there, we wanted to exaggerate certain things so he would have that slight edge of surrealism to him.”

On “Pete’s Dragon,” the editor-turned director learned not to overuse close-ups. For an intense conversation on a front porch, it was more effective to back off for a medium shot. “Let’s let the geography tell a little bit more of the story,” decided Lowery, who will next direct Redford in “The Old Man and the Gun,” an indie about an elderly bank robber that begins shooting in October.

After that Lowery wants to go even smaller for a $1 million movie. “The cinematic language binds them all together,” he said. Then Lowery tackles a live-action re-imagining of Disney’s “Peter Pan,” a project he initially declined because he’s too much of a J.M. Barrie enthusiast. “But after some nudging, I realized that ‘St. Nick,’ my first movie, was about two runaway kids that don’t want to grow up,” he said. “It’s about lost children, so this is something that is near and dear to me and it’s not hard finding a way to make it personal.”

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If animated TV series “Mike Tyson Mysteries” is “Scooby-Doo” on acid, then the second season was even wackier, with an abundance of fun celebrities and bizarre creatures to design.

This season, character designer Dusty Abell’s task of trying to “simplify real people that we are all familiar with” was combined with a “wider variety of characters. It’s a surprising balance of crass and smart in dealing with pop culture and political satire.”

Abell already had his hands full with the Mystery team: the eponymous Mike Tyson, profane and oblivious (voiced by the former boxer); the alcoholic and obnoxious Pigeon (Norm Macdonald); Tyson’s 18-year-old adopted daughter, Yung Hee Tyson (Rachel Ramras), who resembles “Scooby-Doo’s” Velma; and the haughty ghost of Marquess of Queensberry, the father of modern boxing (Jim Rash).

For Tyson, Abell took inspiration from the Muhammad Ali and Mr. T cartoons of the ’70s and ’80s, and was pleasantly surprised by Tyson’s voice acting ability. Of course, Tyson’s boxing prowess came in handy when interacting with his intellectual sidekick, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

“He was telling me all about the rules of the old sport and how it evolved over time,” said Abell. “And he was very knowledgeable about the real man and what he brought to the fight game. And Jim Rash had once written a blog about programming 24 hours of Saturday morning cartoons. His take on ’70s and ’80s conventions was fascinating.”

For the episode “Ogopogo!,” which tells Pigeon’s backstory of being human and having a spell put on him by his ex-wife, the eponymous sea monster proved a fun design challenge. “The show called for a haunted lake and a river monster,” Abell said. “And I had no idea they were drawing from legend and lore, so I watched a whole documentary about the Ogopogo monster. It’s the Lake Michigan version of the Loch Ness monster.”

The episode in which Snoop Dogg starts a rival Mystery team (“Unsolved Situations”) provided a different challenge for Abell: “His hair was originally done in little pixie twirls, but the Dogg team had one request: that he look as he does now with tight braids.”

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In anticipation of the release of Ghostbusters, which brings the legendary franchise back to theaters with a new team fighting the paranormal on July 15, Sony Pictures and moviegoers across the country will celebrate the classic franchise with Ghostbusters Day on Wednesday, June 8 – the anniversary of the release date of the original 1984 film.

On Ghostbusters Day, the cast of the original classic Ghostbusters – including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts – will reunite and join the new Ghostbusters – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones – as they honor the franchise that evening with an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” airs weeknights at 11:35pm Eastern and Pacific / 10:35pm Central on ABC.

Fans will also be able to join in the celebration by seeing a sneak peek of the new film as part of the Fathom Events presentation of the original classic in more...

Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSOf course, the biggest news in the film world over the last week has been the repeated announcements of the films included in the various festivals in Cannes this May, from the Official Selection (films by Almodóvar, Maren Ade, the Dardennes, Paul Verhoeven, and Sean Penn) and the Directors' Fortnight (Paul Schrader, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Marco Bellocchio), to Critics' Week (Oliver Laxe and Chloë Sevigny) and the increasingly higher profile Acid (including Damien Manivel's follow-up to A Young Poet, which is currently playing exclusively on Mubi in the Us).Speaking of festivals, many South Korean filmmakers will be boycotting the major Asian festival of Busan, due to interference with the organization from the city government.On a lighter note, the Loch Ness Monster has been found! Actually, no: that's no monster,...

The Loch Ness Monster – or rather a 30-foot model of Old Nessie – has been unearthed at the bottom of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Loch Ness Monster Found? An underwater drone recently came upon the prop from the 1970 flick The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, reported the BBC. When the movie […]

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Whoa, Nelly! Have we finally discovered beneath the depths of Loch Ness the fabled monster which people have sought for decades? Sorta, kinda... not really. According to the BBC, an underwater robot that has been exploring the loch discovered a massive movie prop from a Loch Ness monster flick. The 30-foot model was used in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) but sank during filming. In the film, which stars Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee, a pre-World War I submarine for the British Navy is taken out for testing, disguised as a sea monster. As for that robot drone that found the sunken Nessie model on the bottom of the 750 foot-deep lake? It was down there...

Nessie at large in The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes

Scientists got a shock today when the underwater robot they were operating Loch Ness discovered a monster. 30 feet long with a slender neck, it certainly looked like the famous beastie that has brought tourists to the loch for over a century, but there's a reason for that. Upon close inspection, it turned out to be a long lost prop made for 1970 film The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes.

The discovery was made by Kongsberg Maritime, a Norwegian company working with VisitScotland to explore the ecology of the loch and find out if it's possible that a real monster could be living there.

The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes was directed by Billy Wilder and stared Robert Stephens as the famous sleuth with Colin Blakely as Dr Watson and Christopher Lee (who himself played Sherlock on three occasions) as Mycroft. The...

Herzog: Ecstatic Truths, a retrospective dedicated to Werner Herzog's documentary work, will be running on Mubi in the United States from March 31 - May 20, 2016. It will be followed by Herzog: Ecstatic Fictions, devoted to the director's fictional features.“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor." In white letters sharply defined against a black screen, Blaise Pascal’s famous quote fittingly opens Lessons of Darkness (1992), Werner Herzog’s spectacular documentary about ecological disaster and the Gulf War. I say fittingly because the quote is fake (it was fabricated by Herzog to direct his audience to engage on a very “high level” before the movie even properly begins) and because Lessons of Darkness, for all its profundity, isn’t exactly a true documentary, either. It is, however, exemplary of Herzog's nonfiction style.Werner Herzog’s fame has been focused on his feature-length fiction films since...

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5.8 A Reptile Dysfunction

Last week Grimm returned with a bang.

This week, A Reptile Dysfunction (yep, comedy gold there) finds us back on more familiar ground, with the writers deciding they don’t want to jump wholeheartedly into the show’s biggest storyline to date just yet.

So while more information about Black Claw’s monstrous activities comes to light, the show clutches onto the comfort blanket that is a Wesen-of-the-Week story, which while mildly entertaining, served as little more than a distraction from the darker and much more interesting events that are unfolding from the Wesen Uprising.

This week involves a river monster called a Wasser Zahne that is hired by a couple of Luisant-Pêcheur (otter-like creatures acting out of character here) to exploit an old Loch Ness Monster-style myth in order to drum up business for their lakeside business. This inevitably goes wrong,...

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5.8 A Reptile Dysfunction

Last week Grimm returned with a bang.

This week, A Reptile Dysfunction (yep, comedy gold there) finds us back on more familiar ground, with the writers deciding they don’t want to jump wholeheartedly into the show’s biggest storyline to date just yet.

So while more information about Black Claw’s monstrous activities comes to light, the show clutches onto the comfort blanket that is a Wesen-of-the-Week story, which while mildly entertaining, served as little more than a distraction from the darker and much more interesting events that are unfolding from the Wesen Uprising.

This week involves a river monster called a Wasser Zahne that is hired by a couple of Luisant-Pêcheur (otter-like creatures acting out of character here) to exploit an old Loch Ness Monster-style myth in order to drum up business for their lakeside business. This inevitably goes wrong,...

In her right mind, Grimm‘s Juliette might’ve wanted a do-over on any number of wrongs perpetrated against Nick, the Scoobies, Portland… heck, even humanity.

But Eve? The Hadrian’s Wall assassin regrets nothing.

Well, almost nothing.

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In the exclusive clip below from Friday’s episode (NBC, 9/8c), Eve makes it abundantly clear that Juliette has left the building… no matter how much Nick may want his former girlfriend back.

And in her own twisted way, the Hexenbiest understands — hence her parting shot to a stymied Nick.

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You’ll laugh, you’ll gasp – and you might even find yourself revisiting the conspiracy theories, such is the fluency and invention of this terrific comedy

If Matt Johnson ever runs into Buzz Aldrin there’s a good chance he’ll come away from that meeting with a broken jaw. And with good cause. Johnson, the Canadian trickster behind the dark, engaging quasi-comedic school shooting picture The Dirties, takes as his next “found footage” target the American space program, and one of our juicer conspiracy theories: that man never walked on the moon.

As a reasonable human being I’ve given this would-be hoax about as much consideration as the Loch Ness monster, but it is to Johnson’s credit that he makes a fairly plausible case. By the end of Operation Avalanche one is left thinking that a CIA-led scheme could have at least been feasible. And, if it...

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Unit, shape-shifters and the Doctor cosplay. Here are the geeky bits and pieces we spotted in Doctor Who's The Zygon Invasion...

For at least the third time this series, one or all of the characters you care about on this show are dead. So what better way to celebrate than to read through our weekly list of callbacks, allusions, shared themes and generally interesting (if tenuous) nonsense? As ever, feel free to leave your own contributions in the comments below!

The Old-Who Invasion

This is the third appearance of the Zygons in Doctor Who; they first menaced the fourth Doctor in 1975’s Terror Of The Zygons, a story which revealed the Loch Ness Monster to be one of the Skarasen, a race from the Zygon homeworld. Unit also featured in that tale, with Kate’s father Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart revealing his Scots heritage in a fetching kilt.

Rapper T.I. has apologised after suggesting he won't be voting to elect Hillary Clinton as America's next leader - because she's a woman.

The "Whatever You Like" singer hit headlines on Tuesday (October 13) after he was asked about his political leanings for the next presidential elections in 2016. He made it clear former First Lady Clinton wouldn't be getting his vote because he fears a woman would not be able to make clear decisions during difficult situations.

The 35 year old also explained he believes other world leaders wouldn't be able to negotiate with her.

"Not to be sexist but, I can't vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman," he said. "Just because, every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But the president? It's kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally - they make very permanent, cemented decisions - and then later,...

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Question: How much Grace will we see on Good Wife now that Makenzie Vega isn’t a regular? —Joyce

Ausiello: Quite a bit, actually. “You’re going to see exactly as much of Grace as you would any other season,” insists exec producer Michelle King. “She will be as involved in Alicia’s life as any teenager of her age would be.” Fellow Ep Robert King adds that Grace may even be more of a fixture this season...

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Though Doctor Who’s spiritual home is now in Cardiff, for much of its lifespan it was produced in Great Britain’s capital city. Even today, London locations are sought for key sequences, giving the sci-fi action a sense of gravitas. After all, would the Loch Ness Monster have looked as impressive coming out of the River Trent? It’s a marvellous setting, but of course not! Only the fetid soup of the Thames could have struck such a chord with audiences around the world in Terror Of The Zygons.

Some of the show’s most memorable alien environments – from the jungle in Planet Of Evil to the Tranquil Repose cryo-facility in Revelation Of The Daleks – were hurriedly shot within the confines of the old Television Centre, West London. So it’s safe to say, wherever he went in time and space, the Doctor wasn’t far from the chimes of Big Ben.

There are many mysteries man has yet to solve: Was the moon landing a hoax? Is Nessie the Loch Ness Monster real? Does Donald Trump have a toupee?  The realness of Trump's hair has mystified generations, and he has finally addressed the issue head-on (or has he?). During a campaign stop today in South Carolina, Trump was annoyed that his hair's authenticity was mentioned a blurb in the New York Times. So in classic Trump style, he used his pulpit to put the hairy (see what we did there?) issue to rest.   "'Ricardo Sánchez, known as El Mandril for his Spanish drive-time radio show in Los Angeles, has taken to calling Donald J. Trump El Hombre del Peluquín," Trump...

Midnight Society: the Black Lake #2

Written by Drew Edward Johnson

Art by Drew Edward Johnson

Colors by Lizzy John

Published by Dark Horse Comics

Midnight Society: The Black Lake #2 delves deeper into the series’ cryptozoological theme as Mi: Omega agent Matilda Flinn begins her investigation into the disappearance of the famous cryptozoologist Kevin Kaycee who disappeared along with his crew in Loch Ness. While issue #1 hinted at the possibility of this being a good series, issue #2 solidifies that assumption into fact. The story involves a great deal more than just a hunt for Nessie, as even a casual perusal of this book will attest to.

This issue picks up right where issue #1 left off, with Matilda Finn joining Billy Wetherell, the pilot of a small submersible, as they are being lowered from their command ship into the waters of Loch Ness in Billy’s sub. As the sub slowly descends,...

Disney is bringing their treasure trove of their short films from the last deacde and a half to blu-ray/DVD for you and your family to enjoy together in one complete set. Come inside to learn more about the shorts being collected!

With each new release, Disney continues their tradition of having a short animated film play before their movies, and now they're brining all of their latest (including this year's Frozen Fever) together in one collection on Blu-Ray/DVD...and it's available Now!

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes an extraordinary new collection of award-winning and beloved short films featuring the never-before-released Frozen Fever, starring Frozen's Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff, and the Oscar®-nominated Lorenzo. The Short Films Collection features contemporary shorts starring classic characters, including the 2012 groundbreaking Mickey Mouse cartoon, Get A Horse!, holiday treats like Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa as well as hailed Oscar® winners Paperman and Feast.

Now right off the bat I want to state that I’m not against the idea of Nintendo developing a game-creating experience, and it’s very possible my opinion will not be shared by most, if any, of the rest of the staff here, but after months of watching videos, E3 Treehouse play sessions, and the crazy-awesome finale to the Nintendo World Championships, I can honestly say that as the release for Super Mario Maker nears, my interest level has gone down to, well, about zero. I’m a Mario player, not a Mario maker.

I count gaming’s number one mascot as among my very favorites of all time, and the countless hours I’ve put into his adventures have been some of my most cherished and memorable, but frankly, I don’t have the patience or creativity to construct anything that I myself would want to play. My...

Steve Feltham, who has spent nearly 25 years looking for the Loch Ness monster, now believes that the legendary beast is likely a catfish. Loch Ness Monster Mystery Solved Feltham, 52, has been one of the most prominent Loch Ness monster hunters for years, having dedicated his life to Nessie. Feltham long believed that the […]

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From spoofs to point-and-click adventure games, here are 10 of the most memorable unusual incarnations of Sherlock Holmes...

We don’t know a great deal about the content of the 90-minute Sherlock special set to air later this year, but one thing has emerged from the set photos and tantalising titbits of information we’ve seen so far. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson will be in nineteenth-century garb, pitching them back into the setting of the legendary detective’s original adventures: 1895, to be precise. Why that happens is as yet unclear, but all will be revealed.

For those still craving their Holmes fix in the meantime, the new film Mr. Holmes offers us Ian McKellen’s take on the character, musing upon an old case as he looks back on his long career from the vantage point of retirement. Jonny Lee Miller’s ultra-modern, Us-based Sherlock will be entering his fourth...