Two decades after playing Hogwarts’ most spineless bully, Tom Felton seems to be channeling Draco Malfoy once again—this time in real life. As the Harry Potter franchise continues to be shadowed by author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views, Felton has made it clear: he’s not particularly “attuned” to the backlash. In other words, he’s choosing not […]
The much-anticipated return of Daredevil—now under Disney+ with Daredevil: Born Again after its cancellation by Netflix in 2018—has made Marvel history for an unfortunate reason: despite airing nine episodes over the course of a month and a half, the series failed to chart on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings, even ten days after its finale. It
Sinners‘ digital and Blu-ray release dates have been revealed, which will include several deleted scenes. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, the horror film stars Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta in 1932 to start a juke joint and are confronted
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts has been a creative win for the studio, with nearly everyone who’s seen it singing its praises. I myself watched the film twice and enjoyed it even more the second time, as it deeply resonated with me on an emotional level. But its box office performance suggests that despite all the marketing
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Just one month after Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos declared the movie theater model “outdated” and suggested that most Americans would rather stream at home, audiences across the country have emphatically proven him wrong, turning out in record numbers over the weekend as Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning lit
Bruce Springsteen has always sung about America in the raw — the broken dreams, the boarded-up towns, the heroes that go unnoticed. But now, at 74, the legendary rocker is doing more than chronicling the soul of a nation. He’s challenging its very direction — from center stage, on record, and in no uncertain terms.
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Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts is off to a promising start, grossing $11.5 million in Thursday night previews — a figure that places it almost on par with Marvel’s other offering this year, Captain America: Brave New World ($12M), and ahead of other recent MCU outings like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($8.8M) and
Let’s drift back to 1999, and talk about Tony Soprano as the granddaddy of TV antiheroes. When The Sopranos hit the scene on HBO, it didn’t just give us a mob boss with a Jersey accent and a taste for gabagool. It handed us a blueprint for the complicated, messed-up leading men who’d dominate prestige TV for
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