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Warning: Spoilers for Black Lightning (2024) #2 ahead!There is no doubt that Superman, DC's "Big Blue Boy Scout," is the heart and soul of the DC Universe: a hero whose indefatigable strength is only matched by his seemingly boundless compassion. Yet this can have a deleterious effect on those who have to put up with it day after day, as a surprising argument has formed around how healthy Superman really is for the DC Universe.

Black Lightning (2024) #2 – written by Brandon Thomas, with art by Fico Ossio – initially finds Anissa Pierce, aka Thunder, in therapy reckoning with the aftermath of DC's Absolute Power event. She laments how her father, Black Lightning, always seems to make perfect choices. Later, local politician Councilman Harriman rails against all metahumans, except for, explicitly, Superman.

The two scenes make a compelling argument about the high moral standard set by Superman and Black Lightning can have the...

Director Kim Sang-man and writer-producer Park Chan-wook are teaming up to bring us a whole new level of action spectacle.

With their new feature Uprising,the acclaimed South Korean filmmakers invite audiences to travel back to the Joseon era, the final imperial period in Korean history. The film examines how the chaos of war impacts the personal relationship between two childhood friends who become enemies. Check out the trailer above, and read on for more information about Uprising.

Set in the Joseon era, during a tumultuous time in the aftermath of war, Uprising takes viewers on a gripping journey through the lives of two childhood friends turned adversaries: an enslaved person with remarkable martial prowess who struggles to break free from an unjust servitude, and his master, the scion of Joseon’s most influential military family. The film is produced and co-written by Park...

The fight for democracy in Helldivers 2 has been going on for months now, and the Helldivers are leaving no stone unturned to defeat the bugs and aliens. The players recently liberated 10 planets in a major order and have been looking for some help from developers regarding weapons and items.

Arrowhead Game Studios has now dropped another Helldivers 2 patch with extensive updates to help players on the battlefield. There are numerous patches released with the update, including one armor adjustment that was long needed and would have helped save many Helldivers’ lives.

Helldivers 2 Patch Brings Much-Needed Armor Update The latest Helldivers 2 patch reduces Headshot damage.

The patch 01.000.300 brings several adjustments, fixes, and improvements to help players on the battlefield, such as balance changes to multiple weapons, stratagems, and enemies, as well as changes to missions, but the most notable update with the patch is the reduced headshot damage.

Previously, armor was...

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the world premiere of Mother Play on Broadway.

The play, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, who wrote How I Learned to Drive and Indecent, and directed by Tina Landau, will play a limited engagement at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater starting April 3, with an opening night on April 25.

This marks Lange’s first return to Broadway since she starred as Mary Tyrone in the 2016 revival of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, for which she received a Tony Award for lead actress in a play. The American Horror Story and Tootsie star made her Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire and also appeared in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway.

Parsons, who starred in the long-running sitcom The Big Bang Theory, recently appeared Off-Broadway in a revival of A Man of No Importance. He has starred on...

M3GAN sells Girl Scout cookies in a hilarious and unsettling new video. Chucky was indisputably the most popular comedic killer doll in horror movies, until M3GAN was unleashed on audiences in early January 2023. By now, the meme-worthy horror-comedy has racked up over 150 million at the worldwide box office, enough to earn itself a sequel. Meanwhile, M3GAN herself has become a pop culture sensation, inspiring everything from viral dance videos to bizarre Meghan Markle photo edits to strange on-air Drew Barrymore cosplay stunts.

In the latest bit of hilarious M3GAN-inspired content, the killer doll becomes the world’s most persistent and vaguely terrifying Girl Scout, who won’t take no for an answer when it comes to selling cookies.

Featured on Jimmy Kimmel, the clip starts with the idea that M3GAN is completely unrelenting, and applies that notion to the most wholesome of all activities. But of course when M3GAN is involved,...

Writer-director Christopher MacBride is becoming a go-to guy for graphic novel adaptations. After adapting a slew of others around town, he has been tapped by Sony and producer Josh Bratman at Immersive Pictures to adapt the Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire graphic novel A.D. After Death.

MacBride was previously hired to write and is attached to direct Sony’s Amensia, a sci-fi thriller based on the Arcana Comics graphic novel by Dwayne Harris. FilmNation is producing that film. He also previously wrote and is attached to direct Echo at 20th Century Fox and 21 Laps.

And, on top of that, he most recently adapted the graphic novel Scout, created by Timothy Truman, for Studio 8 and producer Braden Aftergood.

A.D. After Death is a three-part epic set in a future where a genetic cure for death has been found. Years after the discovery, one man starts to question everything,...

There's just days to go before Ellen DeGeneres hosts the biggest event in the movie world's calendar - the 86th annual Academy Awards.

This year's nominees include newcomers Lupita Nyong'o and Barkhad Abdi, who are recognised for their supporting breakthrough performances in 12 Years a Slave and Captain Phillips respectively.

Ahead of Sunday's (March 2) glittering ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theater, we reminisce upon other breakthrough roles from some of the youngest Oscar-nominated stars in history - and what they've gone on to do since - below:

Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon

Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history, picking up the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the tender age of 10 for her role as strong-willed tomboy Addie in Paper Moon (1973), in which she appeared opposite her father Ryan O'Neal.

The actress went on to appear in successful movies such as The Bad News Bears Nickelodeon with Burt Reynolds, and...

There's just days to go before Ellen DeGeneres hosts the biggest event in the movie world's calendar - the 86th annual Academy Awards.

This year's nominees include newcomers Lupita Nyong'o and Barkhad Abdi, who are recognised for their supporting breakthrough performances in 12 Years a Slave and Captain Phillips respectively.

Ahead of Sunday's (March 2) glittering ceremony at Hollywood's Kodak Theater, we reminisce upon other breakthrough roles from some of the youngest Oscar-nominated stars in history - and what they've gone on to do since - below:

Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon

Tatum O'Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history, picking up the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the tender age of 10 for her role as strong-willed tomboy Addie in Paper Moon (1973), in which she appeared opposite her father Ryan O'Neal.

The actress went on to appear in successful movies such as The Bad News Bears Nickelodeon with Burt Reynolds, and...

You know a Shane Black script when you see one.

Back in the days when Black was exclusively a screenwriter - at one stage the highest-paid in Hollywood - he was known around town for his self-reflexive tics, wherein he'd pepper his scripts with comments aimed straight at the reader. Take this aside, from page 107 of the script for The Last Boy Scout:

"Int. Topanga Canyon Home - Day

Remember Jimmy's friend, Henry, who we met briefly near the opening of the film? Of course you do, you're a highly paid reader or development person."

If you think about how monotonous the average script reader's day is, it's no huge surprise Black's adrenalin-jolt approach paid off. What's surprising is that it took him as long as it did to take it on-screen. More than a decade after Boy Scout's release, Black made his directorial debut-cum-comeback with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,...

On Twitter, Blake Shelton tweeted about swerving to run over a turtle in Oklahoma. NPR's Barbara King questioned the star, as did some fans. Then things got ugly. Shelton eventually admitted he wasn't even in Oklahoma and it was a joke. But some of his fans are still threatening turtles to "defend" the star against "liberals," showing the danger of a careless joke, on any subject.

Over at Huffington Post, Conor Gaughan has a great Chick-Fil-a essay titled We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken. The whole thing is a great read, but I feel I, like everyone else, must call out this great passage. "When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-a has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. When we praise brave Eagle Scouts who give up their badges in protest of the Boy Scouts of America's prejudice, it's not about...

DVD Playhouse—February 2012

By Allen Gardner

To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.

Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...

If you had any doubt that Hollywood was reliant on big movie franchises, let them be eradicated right about now...

As has long been the case, sequels are a reliable way of making plenty of cash from recognisable names. They've been a part of the Hollywood filmmaking process for decades, and as this list of 95 sequels currently in the works proves, will continue to be so for as long as we stump up the cash to go and see them.

We've been doing this list annually for a couple of years now, and this year's collection is, perhaps unsurprising, the longest round-up of upcoming sequels that we've done. Still, given that there are nearly a hundred sequels listed below, we're a little sad to see that Hollywood's people in suits couldn't find room for a belated return to Mac And Me...

Here's what you've got to look forward to...

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2010 has kind of been an astonishing year for films. And most of you won't know that until well into the middle of next year. The major studio tentpole films -- the huge summer releases, the bloated "comedies," the formulaic rom-coms that all your family members have been lauding while you sit in the corner silently seething -- have all been pretty much uniformly shit. (Show of hands, how many of your relatives were gushing about how much they can't wait for either Little Fockers or The Dilemma?) But the smaller films have been fucking champion.

Most of this list is going to seem incomplete, and that's because a majority of films have been included on the best documentaries and the general top ten lists. Also, because with the spotty release schedules and the vast majority of films, I'm not even sure what's actually eligible. Hell, as much as I pared down this list,...

Last month, we got a look at the first official images of Chris Evans (as Steve Rogers/Captain America), Haley Atwell (as Peggy Carter), Hugo Weaving (as Johann Schmidt, a.k.a. The Red Skull), Stanley Tucci (as Doctor Abraham Erskine) and Richard Armitage (as Heinz Kruger) from the Joe Johnston directed, Captain America: The First Avenger.

Cap himself, recently spoke with Wizard Magazine and talked about the film, the fans, The Avengers and more. Check it out below!

Comic book fans are particularly protective of Captain America. He is after all supposed to be the physical and moral pinnacle of humanity. Does that shield feel heavy under all that pressure?

Chris Evans: As far as the physicality goes, that comes from the serum, and I think special effects will help me carry the load. As far as who he is as a man, the reason he’s chosen...

Danny Fucking Boyle. Wow. I admire the hell out of Danny Boyle, because he never makes the same kind of film twice, and yet still manages to leave an indelible mark to let you know that you are watching one of his films. It would be trite to list his canon, but sit back and roll it around in your mouth for a moment, the fact that the same man each one of these films. And now, he's moved on to doing what's basically a biopic in retelling the harrowing exploits of Aron Ralston in 127 Hours. Only to assume that Danny Boyle would dare make a bland straightforward biopic kind of disavows his fascinating ability to craft films. Because he very well might do that one day, his level of talent is that fucking insane. For a film that's primarily about a young man stuck under a boulder in the...