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Netflix has finally revealed the first teaser trailer forWednesday, the highly-anticipated spinoff series ofThe Addams FamilystarringJenna Ortegain the titular role. The series was created by the king of creepiness,Tim Burton, and is inspired by the iconic characters created by cartoonistCharles Addams. In the teaser, we can see Ortega braiding her hair in the shadows before the young star steps into the light, looking as mean as someone can be. Ortega uses a black and white dress and has her nails painted black, reinforcing the ghoulish look of the character....

John Waynewas positioned as a cultural superhero long before superheroes were a tangible genre in Hollywood.He wasn’t just a cowboy actor, but a crusader for the mythological image of Americaas the land of truth, justice, and self-preservation. Therefore, many villains in his films tend to come off as unmemorable and limp, since their only purpose is to be obstacles for Wayne to righteously shoot down. Mainly due to how supernova Wayne was as a star, most actors weren’t comparatively big enough to plausibly challenge him on-screen, and that’s whyLee Marvinis a unique presence in Wayne’s filmography....

It seems Christmas is coming really early this year! It has just been announced that the latest holiday action-comedy movie,Violent Night, will be available to stream exclusively on Peacock later this week. The film will be joining the streamer’s catalog of iconic films straight from the theaters likeShe Said,Ticket to Paradise, Bros,Nope,andHalloween Endson January 20. Violent NightstarsStranger ThingsstarDavid Harbouras Santa Claus himself. After a team of mercenaries breaks into the mansion of a wealthy family on Christmas Eve and takes everyone hostage, it seems all hope is lost....

Quick Links Back in 2021, a group of rag-tag investors turned Wall Street upside down when they made GameStop, a dying company and relic of a pre-internet world, one of the world’s hottest companies, even appearing in the Fortune 500. Only a few years later, Hollywood decided to put this underdog story on the big screen withCraig Gillespie’sDumb Money. The film centers around Keith Gill, a YouTuber and financial analyst who persuades the popular subreddit r/WallStreetBets to band together and put the squeeze on a few hedge funds that had bet that GameStop shares would fail....

There’s less than a month left to wait until Fox Mulder and Dana Scully re-openTheX-Files. In case you didn’t have time to re-watch all 202 episodes of the original nine seasons, Fox put together a new 21-minute preview video to get you all caught up and ready for the new episodes. A Combination of interviews, old and new footage, and behind-the-scenes video, the preview promises a healthy mix of mythology and stand-alone monster episodes, action-heavy stunts and effects, and a return to the relationship dynamics fans know and love....

Quick Links Inspiration for movies can come from all sorts of places, such as personal experiences, poetry, or art. One of the more common movie origins can be from shorts, with short films giving creators a chance to test out on-screen narratives without necessarily risking any high-budget losses. The likes ofDamien Chazelle’sWhiplash,Jared Hess’sNapoleon Dynamite, or even the legendarySawfranchise all started life as short films, showing how much feature-length success can come through this route....

Final Destination: Bloodlinesis the latest in a long line of legacy sequels, with the horror genre rife with reboots and remakes. These continuations in well-established franchises often feature callbacks to events that have come before, whether that be characters or, inFinal Destination’s case, the deaths. Easily the most iconic and memorable aspect of theFinal Destinationfranchise is the death sequences and the way they create new fears out of the mundane. Every viewer will havegained a unique fear from the franchise, but the series is most renowned for creating one universal fear — log trucks....

AnotherTyler Perryfilm will arrive on Netflix soon, and it is one of the eight projects that are part of the writer-director multi-year deal with the streaming service.The film is entitledMea Culpa, and it hasKelly Rowlandas a criminal defense attorney who becomes a little too close to her client, an attractive artist who is being accused of killing his girlfriend. Based on the success of other Netflix erotic thrillers, such asFake ProfileandDark Desire, the forthcoming Rowland-led project is expected to be a hit on the platform....

The story surrounding the characters ofS.W.A.T.outside ofShemar Moore’s Hondo seemed like it was fully closed following the series’ finale last month. But, that might not be the case after all. While catching up with Deadline at the Banff TV Festival, Sony Pictures Television Chairman,Keith LeGoy, teased that there might be more to come from Hondo’s longtime partners. Shortly after the show received its cancellation (its third cancellation at that), it was announced that Sony would be picking up the leading character and tossing him into his own spin-off....

Doctor Who’s 60-year success is largely due to its ability to evolve, with the timeless sci-fi adventure series revolutionizing television by creating an in-world solution to the problem of needing to produce a revolving door of lead actors. However, during the show’s most recent iteration, helmed byRussell T. Davies, many have been left unsatisfied by both the direction it has evolved and by its inability to stick to such progressive evolution, instead spending far too long harking back to its own past without laying the groundwork for a solid future....

On paper,Lashana Lynchdoesn’t get a lot to do as Rita Marley, the significant other ofBob Marley(Kingsley Ben-Adir) inBob Marley: One Love. She’s fulfilling the “dutiful wife/girlfriend” archetype that populates so many music biopics about famous male musicians. Whether it’sMaestro,Walk the Line,Elvis, or so many others, such roles typically only afford ladies the chance to portray women engaging in heightened arguments with their spouse before later giving some inspirational speech about how their man is the only one who can “change the world....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Happy Gilmore 2. “It’s all in the hips!” Everyone’s favorite golfer is back for another round inHappy Gilmore 2. This time, the stakes are even higher for hockey-player-turned-golf-champion Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler). Since his 1996 Tour Championship in the firstHappy Gilmoremovie, Happy has collected more victories and enjoyed the fame and fortune that came with it.But after an unexpected tragedy (literally) strikes his family, he walks away from the game permanently....

This week’s episode ofLast Week Tonight with John Oliverangled towards holding PresidentJoe Bidenaccountable for promises he made before getting elected. One of those promises involves the future and well-being of a huge slate of people who currently are sitting at the U.S. borders waiting for the government to make a decision about them. The immigration problem is an old topic that often resurfaces, andJohn Oliverbrought it back to show why....