There’s old school comedy of the ‘Frank Spencer roller-skating under a lorry’ kind, and then there’s old school comedy of the ‘clowns, dukes, ruffs and rhyming couplets’ variety. The Inside No. 9 series six opener draws on the latter, improbably combining 16th century commedia dell’arte with a modern-day jewel heist. It’s proof, if any were needed, that there really is no formula to this show. Peculiarity is its only genre....
The most prominent Ip Man franchise stars Donnie Yen. It began in 2008 with Ip Man and retained the same core team for four installments: directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Raymond Wong, and written by Edmond Wong. Yip and Yen collaborated in some previous critically acclaimed martial arts films like Kill Zone (aka SPL: Sha Po Lang), Dragon Tiger Gate, and Flashpoint – all of which were well regarded for their high octane action and brutally satisfying fight choreography....
In this technical-savvy world, code is rapidly growing so does the number of applications and software to fulfill a variety of purposes, both professional and personal. Whether it’s technical language or natural language, they are mostly unstructured. And if you want to extract useful information out of this data, you must take the time to process and analyze it. Using manual methods can be time-consuming and tedious, and that’s where you can take the help of tools like Code Detection API....
Stunt teams are some of the hardest working people in the industry. They literally put their lives on the line just to entertain us and yet there’s so little acknowledgement of their contributions. There is no Oscar for stunt work, but there should be. Netflix’s adaptation of Jupiter’s Legacy has secured one of the industry’s hottest stunt choreographers, one who is no stranger to superhero action, Philip J. Silvera. If you’ve read Jupiter’s Legacy already, you know Frank Quitely’s artwork leaps off the page, splattered with intense moments of sanguineous bloodshed....
Filming epic adventures is certainly nothing new to Josh Duhamel, having starred in four of the Transformers films and the Call of Duty: WWII video game. In between, he’s been a part of 35 films (including voicing Harvey Dent in the forthcoming animated film Batman: The Long Halloween Part One). On television he made his debut as Leo du Pres in the daytime soap All My Children, and guest starred or voiced characters on a variety of series....
As exhaustively reported over the past couple of years, Snyder stepped away from finishing his version of Justice League in early 2017 following the death of his daughter. Joss Whedon was appointed by Warner Bros. Pictures to complete the movie and ended up doing a fair amount of rewriting and some two months of reshoots, resulting in a film that — whatever one thought of it — was reportedly quite different from the picture Snyder started out to make....
A film that Smith made in tandem with students at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Killroy Was Here has been a bit of an enigma for Smith fans over the years. Working from a screenplay by Smith and Andrew McElfresh, Smith and his crew of budding filmmakers began shooting in Sarasota, Florida in 2017. But after Smith suffered a heart attack that same year, the movie’s fate became a mystery....
Killing Eve Season 4 Episode 5 In black and white in 1979 Berlin, we meet a young Carolyn who was apparently always dry, startlingly quick (quicker than the audience, perhaps?), and maybe always a disturbingly cool customer, if her reaction to her father’s suicide is any indication. If Kenny’s death wasn’t enough, this is why she’s so dogged in her fight to take down the Twelve: both she and Konstantin were founding members, sort of....
Knightfall Episode 9 With apologies to Britney Spears, oops, they lost it again. Don’t get me wrong; I like Knightfall a lot, but playing hot potato with the Holy Grail every few weeks just rubs me the wrong way. That said, the penultimate “Fiat!” presents another side of King Philip that quite frankly has been a long time coming and features the welcome return of Brother Tancrede to the Templar fold after his earlier expulsion from the order....
“Adult Swim has announced a new spinoff series from its flagship comedy Rick and Morty. Takashi Sano (Tower of God) will direct Rick and Morty: The Anime, which will air on Adult Swim and HBO Max. Sano previously directed two anime shorts, Rick and Morty vs. Genocider and Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil), which earned over 10 million combined views on Adult Swim digital platforms.” Read more at The Mary Sue A new image from Thor: Love and Thunder tease a potential connection to the Black Panther series....
“In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Halloween franchise creator John Carpenter claims that Halloween Ends may not be the last installment. The trailer for Halloween Ends debuted last month, giving die-hard fans a teaser of what to expect for the upcoming film. Carpenter, who is behind the slasher saga, spoke about potentially growing the franchise and adding more sequels. He told the publication, ‘If a movie makes enough money, you can be assured that it will [get a sequel]....
“Selling a card per second, eBay has positioned itself well in the exploding card market, reaching more than $2 billion in transactions during the first half of 2021. Initially rolled out for high-end sneakers and watches, eBay’s Authenticity Guarantee service will now be provided for all ungraded trading cards sold for $750 and over. ‘We strive to be the most trusted marketplace in the business,’ eBay’s Director of Trading Cards Bob Means told JustBaseball....
“The Aquaman actor is in final negotiations to star in a live-action adaptation of the hugely popular and successful world-building game by Mojang Studios and Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite, is currently attached to direct. The Ankler first broke the news which was then confirmed by multiple trades.” Read more at Gizmodo He wasn’t seen in the trailer, but here’s all we know about Christian Bale’s villain Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder....
“Well, it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi now—and by a bit, that means just two more days. News broke from star Ewan McGregor himself that the highly-anticipated Disney+ Star Wars series would be pushing its release date to Friday, May 27th, 2022. Whether that means the series as a whole will come out on Fridays is still up in the air, but it does put Obi-Wan Kenobi on the same day as the release of part one of Netflix’s Stranger Things 4....
When The Two Towers was released in December 2002, it was fairly common knowledge among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that screenwriters Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens had initially planned on putting the character of Arwen at the Battle of Helm’s Deep. It would’ve been a major change to the books. And more than just consider the concept, Jackson even filmed scenes with actor Liv Tyler there in complete armored regalia....
Lucifer Season 5 Episode 16 “Never loving anyone is far worse than loss.” Heads up, humans, there’s a new God in town, and Lucifer fans couldn’t be happier. The near perfect season finale, “A Chance at a Happy Ending,” gives fans of the Netflix series some resolution regarding Lucifer and Chloe’s turbulent love story while at the same time setting up what might be the ultimate paradigm shift. Good triumphs over evil, the Devil sits on Heaven’s throne, and all’s right with the universe....
Manifest Season 1 Episode 16 So the question as posed by last week’s review is this: did Manifest create enough resolution to satisfy viewers going into the hiatus? But oddly, the satisfaction comes not from loose ends being tied up but rather from the single mystery surrounding the initial time jump suddenly getting an eye-opening twist as well as from a couple of interesting cliffhangers. In essence, the show avoided a rough landing by not entirely touching down on the runway, which might have been its only workable strategy....
“Whaaat? I didn’t know that. [Laughs] Thank you for telling me!” was Margot Robbie’s earnestly surprised reaction when an EW interview led to her learning that her signature character Harley Quinn was, unbeknownst to her, killed off—or, in the very least, revealed to be presumed dead—in a post-apocalyptic epilogue scene from the recently HBO-Max-premiered Zack Snyder’s Justice League. However, those who have been following the divergence in the continuity caused by the so-called Snyder Cut know that Snyder’s lengthy vision is not considered canon in the DCEU, which still acknowledges the 2017 version of Justice League directed by Joss Whedon....
The final episode of WandaVision is here, and it’s 45 minutes of big screen Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster chaos magic action…but on the small screen. And while pound for pound it’s a little lighter on Marvel Comics and MCU Easter eggs than what we’ve seen in previous weeks (let alone sitcom references, now that we’ve left that world long behind), there’s still PLENTY to dig in to and fun things you might have missed....
What If…? is the latest Marvel Studios small screen project to arrive on Disney+ after much fanfare. The animated anthology show, created by Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia writer A.C. Bradley and Marvel storyboard vet Bryan Andrews, aims to explore alternate timelines in the MCU multiverse. In order to fully grasp the basic premise of What If…? as a whole it helps to have watched Marvel’s Loki, which recently introduced the multiverse to the MCU....
