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The Clock Tower: Recapping An Especially Strong Week For The Arrowverse (Welcome toThe Clock Tower, where we’ll break down the goings on of the The CW network’s Arrowverse. We’ll touch on things like themes,cultural impact, lead-ins to major events, ships, and more every week! Warning: this Clock Tower is filled withspoilers. Proceed at your own risk.)Take a deep breath. Do you smell that? That’s the smell of one hell of a good week in the Arrowverse!...

The Influences Of ‘The Witch’ Part Two: Director Robert Eggers On ‘Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages’ WithThe Witchopening this week, we sat down with writer/directorRobert Eggersto do something a little different. We asked him to name the three films that most influenced his tremendous new horror movie and we would discuss his work through the lens of what inspired him. In part one of this series,we talked about Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shining....

The Next Terminator Film Could Be The Animated ‘Terminator 3000’, From Tiny Film Company Hannover House Arkansas-based Hannover House is a company that seemed to come out of nowhere early this year, when itpicked upthe distribution rights to Joel Schumacher’sTwelve. (Er, good call on that one.Ahem.) Now the company claims to be moving forward with a new production venture in conjunction with Red Bear entertainment:Terminator 3000, “a $70-million dollar budgeted, 3D animated feature film based on the characters and situations introduced in the original Terminator....

The Oscars Paid Tribute To 60 Years Of Bond, James Bond Hollywood is deeply obsessed with franchises, so much so that every studio and streaming service practically runs on them, for better and for worse. But decades before it was hip, “James Bond” cemented itself as a global franchise with style that has managed to endure across multiple generations. Multiple actors have taken up the 007 moniker, with no signs of slowing down, even as Daniel Craighung it up with “No Time to Die....

The Outfit: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you’re able to watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Whether you know him best for his decades of work as an esteemed theater actor and playwright, his performances in acclaimed historical dramas directed by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and Aaron Sorkin, or as the guy who portrayed the wealthy weirdos in “Ready Player One” and"Don’t Look Up,“Mark Rylance has probably appeared on your radar at some point....

Tom Hardy, Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio And WB Team Up On Two Separate Animal Poaching Projects When Hollywood has two similarly themed projects brewing at the same time, it’s often a case of two studios competing to see which one comes out on top. In the case of two upcoming animal poaching movies, however, it’s actually a single studio joining forces with the same starry team for multiple projects centered around a single topic....

TV Trailer: Dexter Season 5 Unfortunately, I missed theDexterComic-Con panel this weekend, but thankfully Showtime has just put the season five trailer it revealed at the convention online for everyone to see. Now after seeing it, I wish I had carved out the time to make the panel, because it’s a helluva trailer. After the break, find the trailer as well as my general impressions. And of course,spoilers for the end ofDexterseason fourabound....

Watch All Seven ‘Star Wars’ Fan Film Award Winners, From Live-Action To Animation There areStar Warsfan films all over the internet. While an overwhelming amount of them aren’t great, you can’t deny the passion of these fans and their dedication to creating a story set within the universe they love. There are so manyStar Warsfan films from these dedicated lovers of the sci-fi saga that there are awards given out by Lucasfilm every single year....

Zach Braff To Direct Black List Black Comedy ‘Bump’ As a director,Zach Braffhas proven divisive. His first filmGarden Stateopened to a warm reception, and its Shins-heavy soundtrack was an instant hit — but its quirky hipster vibe has not aged well, and these days it’s easier to find movie geeks who’ll claim they’ve hated it all along than ones who’ll proudly declare that they still love it. His second filmWish I Was Heregot a lot of flack before it even started shooting, thanks to Braff’s decision to launch a Kickstarter campaign — but it was still able to clear its $2 million goal in less than a week, and eventually secure a Sundance Film Festival premiere....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Director To Helm Adaptation Of Alice Sebold’s Sexual Assault Memoir, ‘Lucky’ The writer ofThe Lovely BonesandStill Alice, which were adapted into acclaimed films with the latter earning star Julianne Moore an Oscar, is getting another novel adapted to the big screen. But this time, it’s personal.Alice Sebold’s memoirLucky, which chronicles her sexual assault as an 18-year-old college freshman, is being adapted into a feature film byKaren Moncrieff, a director of Netflix’s young-adult series13 Reasons Why....

‘50 States Of Fright’ Trailer: Every Town Has A Local Legend In This Sam Raimi-Produced Quibi Series Sam Raimiadds his name to the list of high-profile creatives who are somehow associated with the forthcoming mobile streaming platform Quibi. The horror maestro executive produces the anthology horror series50 States of Fright, which has a pretty self-explanatory title: each 10-minute episode centers around a different local urban legend in a different city. Watch the50 States of Frighttrailer below....

‘Aliens’ And ‘Twister’ Star Bill Paxton Has Passed Away At 61 Bill Paxton, the charming and always reliable actor whose credits include everything fromTwistertoTitanictoTombstone, has passed away following complications from surgery. He was 61 years old. Born in 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas, Paxton’s early credits are a parade of small parts for brilliant directors. He was a bartender for Walter Hill inStreets of Fire, a street punk (who gets impaled by Arnold Schwarzenegger) in James Cameron’sThe Terminator, and a soldier for Ivan Reitman inStripes....

‘American Horror Story 1984’ Trailer Channels ‘Friday The 13th’, ‘Halloween’ And More Slasher Mayhem The fullAmerican Horror Story 1984trailer is here, and it’s practically daring you to count all the slasher movie references within. The latest season of the seemingly never-ending horror anthology show sends its cast to a deadly summer camp. Who will survive, and what will be left of them? And how many pieces of bad ’80s fashion will be on display?...