From directorLone Scherfigand adapted from the novelTheir Finest Hour and a HalfbyLissa Evans, the romantic dramaTheir Finestis set in the midst of the devastating Second World War, when movies became a crucial outlet to raise the spirits of the nation during wartime. Catrin Col (Gemma Arterton) is employed to write female dialogue, referred to as “slop” by her male co-writers, for original British Ministry of Information propaganda feature films with fellow screenwriter Buckley (Sam Claflin), and as the two work together, they realize that there can be just as much passion behind the camera as there is on screen....

InThis Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news regarding cartoons, anime, and animated web series. We’re talking movies, TV shows, digital shorts, and everything in between! This week saw Pixar’s premiere of their new filmCocoin Mexico, though it won’t be out in the States for almost another month....

By now, it is no secret to everyone and their moms that the beloved, crazy, extremely meta sitcomCommunity, which ran on NBC from 2009 to 2015 and then on the defunct Yahoo! Screen in 2015, had its fair share of troubles behind the scenes. Showrunners got fired, some actors (cough, cough,Chevy Chase) were reportedly a nightmare to work with, andtheDan Harmon-created series frequently found itself on the brink of cancelation. After all, it wasn’t bringing in the numbers that the network expected with its peculiar brand of humor, and even critics sometimes went on and on about how the show was just too weird for its own good....

Generational tensions are high at the moment and you don’t have to dig too deep into that anger to land on horror. But that’s exactly whatExcisionandTrash FiredirectorRIchard Bates Jr.does withTone-Deaf, which pits a brash and entitled millennial against a conservative, embittered psychopath with an ideological grudge to settle. The film takes a look at our “bizarre cultural and political climate” through the story of Olive (Amanda Crew), a millennial coming off of a lost job and failed relationship who leaves the city behind for the weekend in search of a little countryside peace and discovers the “shockingly dark underbelly of rural America” when she rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower (Robert Patrick) with psychopathic tendencies....

The history of movies that have starredKevin Jamesis not a pretty one. It’s bad enough to recall the innumerable horrors that can be found sprinkled throughoutPaul Blart: Mall CoporPaul Blart: Mall Cop 2, before remembering such unforgivable nonsense asHere Comes the BoomandThe Zookeeper. Mind you, those are just recent movies that he’s headlined rather than just co-starred in. There are very few words to describe how ignorant and unfunny something likeI Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which starred James alongsideAdam Sandler, is in the harsh light of day....

Jenna Ortega,who plays Wednesday Addamsin the upcomingTim Burton-directed Netflix showWednesday,mocks the Emmys in a fun clip posted to the official Netflix Twitter. The clip breaks the fourth wall and addresses the Emmy nominees in typical Wednesday deadpan humor and morbid wit. The clip features Wednesday, dressed in her customary black dress with white-patterned print and a white collar, sporting her signature pigtails. She is talking to the viewers, introducing herself as Wednesday Addams, and that the “faceless suits at Netflix have explained to me that you [the Emmy nominees] are all competing for a golden statuette....

Bad Moondoes a lot of things wrong, beginning with the fact that it hit theaters the dayafterHalloween in 1996. Perhaps Warner Bros. mistakenly believed people taking down their cardboard skeletons needed a rousing werewolf picture to carry them to Thanksgiving. It’s the time of year when people are more in the mood for the existential terror ofPlanes, Trains & Automobiles’ bizarre subplot aboutJohn Candy’s secret dead wife rather than the in-your-face horror of a shaggy Muppet hulk stomping heavily through west coast suburbia like he’s trying to lure the Power Rangers into a showdown....

Every horror fan knowsthe old urban legend dating back to the ‘50sabout a babysitter who is harassed by a mysterious man, only to realize he’s calling from the very same house she is in. This story has been incorporated into numerous films, fromWhen a Stranger CallstoUrban Legend.Sleep Tight, a Spanish thriller directed byJaume Balagueróand released in 2011, approaches the subject in a more roundabout way, with the call still very much coming from inside the house....

Anya and Bond show off their cute bond asSpy x Familyannounces its third season. This comes after the show’s second season finished airing back in December 2023, and the franchisereleased its first feature film in Japan days before Christmas. While details for the new season remain mostly under wraps, a poster featuring two of the Forger family members was shared. Over onX (formerly Twitter),Spy x Familyannounced that Season 3 is now in production, and to celebrate, a poster drawn by series character designerKazuaki Shimadawas released....

In a rather disappointing turn of events, Universal’sThe Fall Guyis poised to deliver the weakest opening for a movie designed to kick-start the Hollywood summer in about two decades, minus the pandemic years. Despite weeks of anticipation, positive early reviews, and an expansive marketing campaign featuring recently Oscar-nominated stars,The Fall Guyislooking at an opening weekend haul of less than $30 million. This is an unexpectedly soft figure for a summer tent-pole, and around a fourth of the $118 million thatGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

The fifth season ofWhat We Do in the Shadowshas arguably been the series' best. That’s a hard thing to accomplish, as the show only gets better by the season. Each year, the writers and cast find new ways to top themselves without jumping the shark. Every time you think you’ve seen it all, they deliver a surprise. You thought it was nuts when Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) died andcame back as a giant-headed baby?...

Captain America: Brave New Worlddidn’t exactly win the hearts of critics or dominate the box office like previous entries in theMarvel Cinematic Universe, it’s fair to say. With a lukewarm 48% onRotten Tomatoesand a domestic haul of just $200.5 million – modest by superhero standards –the fourthCaptain Americafilm seemed poised to be forgotten.But now it’s enjoying an unexpected second wind, thanks to strong home entertainment sales, which some may have thought were a thing of the past....

Elizabeth Olsenmay—or may not—be done with theMarvel Cinematic Universefor now, but she certainly wasn’t delighted with howWanda Maximoff’s storyconcluded, admitting that due to a lack of communication between two simultaneous projects, she had to personally try and make the distinction more “interesting for her, and the audience.” Olsen’s performance inWandaVisionwas universally acclaimed as she brought Wanda’s grief to the surface in a brilliantly written examination of loss and despair, butinDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,the character suddenly turned into an archetypal Marvel villain—and not even in a good way....