We interview the great Ralph Macchio, William Zabka and the creators of Cobra Kai on the lasting legacy of The Karate Kid. It’s hard to believe, but The Karate Kid franchise is over forty years old. Despite this fact, the franchise seems to be stronger than ever, with a new movie in the saga, Karate … Read more
Warner Bros. and Legendary Television have released a Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 first look photo, previewing the upcoming season and the return to Skull Island. The new photo doesn’t give away too much, but does show what seems to be a Monarch facility in ruins, with two trucks in the background overlooking a … Read more
Season 2 of the Apple TV+ MonsterVerse series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is now officially in production! The first season of Legendary’s MonsterVerse TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ran on Apple TV+ from November into January (you can read our own Alex Maidy’s review of the first batch of episodes HERE), and while Godzilla was an important … Read more
Warner Bros. Discovery intends to integrate “big-picture story elements” from HBO’s Harry Potter TV series with the Hogwarts Legacy sequel. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is conjuring more magic for the franchise’s future with plans to bring HBO’s upcoming TV series and WB’s Hogwarts Legacy sequel together for a unique storytelling experience. “We have … Read more
“I was doing a soap opera in New York. One day, somebody called me and asked if I could come out to Gary, Indiana,” recalls actor J. A. Preston. “Gary, Indiana? Are you crazy?” The film that would bring Preston to Indiana was director Ivan Dixon’s audacious adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s radical novel “The Spook … Read more
“The Fall,” now finally available on Mubi and getting a theatrical release from the company, feels impossible. It’s one of those films that’s richly steeped in the history of cinema while also expressing itself through a unique, special voice. Of course, no one got it. The story goes that, fifteen minutes into its TIFF launch, … Read more
Prey star Amber Midthunder has joined the cast of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2, where she’ll have a heavily recurring role The first season of Legendary’s MonsterVerse TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ran on Apple TV+ from November into January (you can read our own Alex Maidy’s review of the first batch of episodes HERE), and now … Read more
Ahead of the show’s return on Amazon Freevee in March 2025, Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed that Bosch: Legacy will officially be concluding its run with the upcoming third and final season. This comes after nearly a year since the procedural drama’s untitled Renée Ballard spin-off had scored an official series order at Prime Video. … Read more
Some of Newhart’s most fondly remembered routines hilariously skewered Madison Avenue. In “Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue,” an increasingly flustered imagemaker tries to get Abe to stick to the Gettysburg Address script (“You changed four score and seven to eighty-seven? Abe, that’s meant to be a grabber.”) That routine kicks off The Button-Down Mind of Bob … Read more
When would a Black protagonist have a chance to be featured in their own original video game? The answer to that question was part of what made “San Andreas” so groundbreaking when it was released on October 26, 2004. Set in the state of San Andreas, a fictionalized mashup of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and … Read more