October brings tons of new movies and TV shows to Netflix. With Halloween right around the corner, the streamer has its Netflix & Chills line-up packed with plenty of fright-tastic movies like There’s Someone Inside Your House and Night Teeth, as well as a huge helping of terrifying TV shows …
Read More »Black Widow and Captain Marvel writer Kelly Thompson jumps back into creator-owned comics with Image Comics & Substack
Marvel Comics writer Kelly Thompson is returning to the realm of creator-owned comics with two projects which she’ll debut on a new paid tier to her Substack email newsletter (opens in new tab). Thompson’s first Substack-first comic will be Black Cloak with co-creator/artist/colorist Meredith McClaren. Thompson and McClaren previously worked …
Read More »How a YA teen Joker pitch turned into a Hannibal-esque take on the Harley Quinn / Joker dynamic
We often see the Joker through the eyes of superheroes, but what does he look like from the perspective of a real-life crime expert, like an FBI profiler? Less superhero, more Hannibal? That recently happened in a DC mature-readers series called Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (opens in new tab). And it …
Read More »Ozark season 4 teaser offers first look at the Netflix shows final season
The first look at Ozark season 4 has been revealed at Netflix’s Tudum event, with the show also confirmed to be releasing in 2022. Jason Bateman also revealed the show is still filming the two-part finale. Season 4 of the slow-burn crime thriller has been split into two parts, so …
Read More »True Detective director Cary Fukunaga talks candidly about problematic production period
True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga has spoken about difficulties working on the acclaimed HBO series, of which he directed all eight episodes of the first season. “The show was presented to me in the way we pitched it around town – as an independent film made into television,” the director told …
Read More »The Many Saints of Newark review: “Everything youd expect from a Sopranos movie”
Fourteen years after The Sopranos finished its groundbreaking run comes this blistering prequel. Fans of HBO’s New Jersey mobster saga can rejoice; The Many Saints of Newark is everything you’d want it to be. The story covers the mid-’60s to early ’70s, when Tony Soprano is still at school (well, …
Read More »Giancarlo Esposito to star in new Netflix series from executive producer Ridley Scott
Giancarlo Esposito is set to star in Jigsaw, a new action heist series for Netflix. The series is loosely based on real events surrounding $70 billion in bonds that went missing in New York City during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The eight-part series spans a quarter of a century, ranging …
Read More »Jon Bernthal says The Sopranos fans should expect something “different” from The Many Saints of Newark
The Many Saints of Newark star Jon Bernthal has spoken about the upcoming Sopranos prequel, cautioning fans to expect something a little different to the hit HBO series. “I will say that’s different,” Bernthal said during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers (opens in new tab) (via The …
Read More »Krysten Ritter joins Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons in HBO Max series from Big Little Lies creator
Krysten Ritter is the latest actor to join Love and Death, the upcoming HBO Max true crime drama. Based on true events that occurred in 1980, Elizabeth Olsen is playing Candy Montgomery, a small-town Texas housewife who murdered her friend Betty Gore (Lily Rabe) – Candy was having an affair …
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