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‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Spoiler Review: An Ambitious Second Season That Doesn’t Stick The Landing (In ourSpoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Netflix’sJessica Jonesseason 2.)Jessica Jonesseason 2 has a monumental task ahead of it. Not only does it have to follow the riveting, near-perfect first season, it has to do it from scratch....

‘Locke & Key’ Vs ‘Locke & Key’: How The Netflix Series Compares To The Original Comic Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez’sLocke & Keyis one of the most celebrated horror comics of recent years, a story that’s equal parts gruesome terror and an emotional tale of grief and coming to terms with your legacy. It is also a story that has gone through multiple attempts at adaptation for the screen before finally landing on Netflix....

‘Mogul Mowgli’ Trailer: Riz Ahmed’s Rap Career Is Sidelined By A Degenerative Disease Last year,Sound of MetalfoundRiz Ahmedearning an Oscar nomination for his role as drummer whose life is turned upside when he begins to lose his hearing. Soon we’ll see theRogue Onestar in similar story that was actually completed and premiering at film festivals beforeSound of Metalwas ever released. Mogul Mowglifollows Riz Ahmed as aBritish-Pakistani rapperon the verge of finding fame in the United Statues....

‘Star Wars’ TV Series: ABC Confirms “Conversations” With Lucasfilm [TCA 2016] Today was the first ever Television Critics Association executive session for new ABC Entertainment PresidentChanning Dungey. She replaces Paul Lee, who has met with TCA twice a year since 2010. ABC is a Disney company, and the network has aired shows from Disney-owned creative brands like Marvel and the Muppets. Asked if she would like to add aStar WarsTV series to her network, Dungey confirmed the network is in active conversations with Lucasfilm....

‘Supergirl’ Casts ‘Two And A Half Men’ Star Jon Cryer As Lex Luthor Many DC Comics fans were shocked when Jesse Eisenberg was cast as Lex Luthor inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but that’s nowhere near as shocking as who The CW seriesSupergirlhas cast in the iconic villain role. Supergirlexecutive producersRobert RovnerandJessica Quellerhave announcedTwo and a Half Men, andPretty in Pinkstar,Jon Cryerwill be playing Lex Luthor when the character is finally introduced in the current fourth season of The CW series set in the overarching Arrowverse....

‘The Departed’ TV Series Lands At Amazon Earlier this year,The DepartedproducerRoy Leesaidthere was a TV series adaptationofMartin Scorsese’s Best Picture-winning crime drama in the works. At the time, the producer said they were trying to figure out if they were going to make it a network series or a cable series, but it turns out it won’t be either. The DepartedTV series is now being developed by Amazon Studios, who will produce the show with Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B Entertainment, all the production companies who worked on the film, as well as Warner Bros....

‘The Jungle Book’ VFX Featurette Reveals How You Build A Jungle Out Of Pixels When you’re actually sitting in a theater and watchingThe Jungle Book, you don’t realize that there were no exteriors shot for the entire film and that every frame was filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles. Even though the supporting cast of talking animals were obviously created in a computer, the world on display inJon Favreau’s film feels so real and so detailed that it’s often hard to believe that almost every element on the screen was generated by a large team of geniuses after the fact....

‘The Place Of No Words’ Review: A Spontaneous, At Times Surreal, Journey That Doesn’t Go Anywhere [Tribeca] “Where do we go when we die?” When 3-year-oldBodhi Palmerasks his real-life father and mother (Mark WebberandTeresa Palmer) that question, it seems to denote the start of a profound journey of existential discovery. But inThe Place of No Words,that journey takes some unexpected detours that don’t always pan out. Writer and director Mark Webber casts his own extremely photogenic family inThe Place of No Words, a deeply personal exploration of grief and mortality....

‘Venom’ Blu-Ray Release Announced In Strange Rom-Com Trailer Finally realizing that dark and serious isn’t the way to go, the marketing team behindVenomare leaning into the goofiness. A new trailer cut to resemble a rom-com announces theVenomBlu-ray release date, and makes you scratch your head in the process. Watch Venom wooTom Hardyand learn theVenomBlu-ray and digital release date below. Venom Blu-ray Release Trailer Well, that’s…different. BeforeVenomhit theaters, director Ruben Fleischer and company were selling it as a dark, gritty, violent anti-superhero film....

‘War Horse’ TV Spot Helpfully Explains Film’s Themes In Most Generic Terms Possible In the simplest, most literal terms, the very title ofSteven Spielberg’sWar Horseexplains exactly what the film is about. But as you’d expect with any sweeping period epic from a legendary Oscar-winning director released during prestigious movie season, the themes ofWar Horserun much, much deeper. Normally, you’d have to watch the movie to find out exactly what those themes are....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Trailer: The Wait For The Snyder Cut Is Almost Over It’s been a long, strange road, butZack Snyder’s Justice League, AKA the Snyder Cut, is almost here. The theatrical cut of the film may have given sole directorial credit toZack Snyder, but the filmmaker departed the project due to personal matters and most of the finished film was shot byJoss Whedon. Now, four years after that cut arrived on the big screen, Snyder’s preferred cut of the movie is arriving on HBO Max....

2021 Black List Reveals The Best Unmade Screenplays Of The Year The annual Black List has been announced, and it’s time to speculate on what will get made, or at the very least, what will get a scriptwriter some powerful notice. If you’re not familiar with The Black List, it’s a list of the most well-received screenplays that haven’t been produced yet. The list has been around since 2005, and it’s released every second Friday of December....

70 Years Later, ‘Citizen Kane’ Coming To Blu-Ray Much as previous generations believe you may tell everything about a person whether or not they love The Beatles or Elvis, you can tell a lot about a film fan depending on their opinions ofCitizen Kane. The film is like a lightning rod in the movie blogosphere where you’ve either seen it and love it, respect it, hate it because it’s been built up too much or don’t even care to watch it....