The Toys Of Summer: Comparing ‘Annabelle Comes Home’, ‘Child’s Play’ And ‘Toy Story 4’ Sometimes, the cinematic stars align, and release similar-minded movies in theaters at the same time. Case in point: this summer, in the span of a week and a half, cineplexes were haunted by several sentient toys. The remake ofChild’s PlayandToy Story 4both ended up on movie screens the same exact day. And a few days later, Annabelle came home withAnnabelle Comes Home....

VOTD: Supercut Of Every Single Explosion From All Of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Movies You might remember that last year, action iconArnold Schwarzneggeroffered fans the chance to ride around crushing things with his own personal tank in an effort to raise money for charity. And now he’s back being philanthropic all over again, this time offering fans a chance to come to Los Angeles and blow sh*t up withThe Terminatorhimself. And in honor of this fantastic chance for fans, Schwarzenegger has released a supercut featuringevery single explosionfrom all of the films that he’s starred in over the years....

We Know What You’re Watching This Fall: Amazon’s ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Series The time for teen slasher throwbacks is upon us. Some of those throwbacks, like Netflix’sFear Streettrilogy, are carving out their own identity with semi-original new stories while openly homaging what’s come before them. Others, like Paramount’supcomingScreamreboot, are going straight back to the well of tried-and-true properties with built-in name recognition at the ’90s multiplex. Amazon’sI Know What You Did Last Summerseries is among the latter....

‘Black Mirror’ Season 5 Posters Reveal The Future You Should Have Seen Coming Is Here Black Mirrorseason 5 is set to bring three new tales of technological terror your way next week. We’ve already been blessed with new trailers for the three new episodes, and now we have some posters to match. In typicalBlack Mirrorfashion, the posters are vague enough to not give really much of anything away. But if you’re craving any sort ofBlack Mirrorcontent to hold you over, they might do the trick....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Scores A Perfect 100 In Test Screening Crank up the hype machine:Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2is shaping up to be an even bigger crowdpleaser than the first one, at least if test audiences are to be believed. TheJames Gunn-directed Marvel sequel has scored a perfect 100 in an early test screening – an extremely rare feat and the highest ever number for a Marvel movie....

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Is The End Of Harry Potter’s Story Last night, midnight madness returned to book stores as the script for the stage production ofHarry Potter and the Cursed Childwas made available as a book for readers to soak up as a makeshift eighth installment of the Harry Potter book series. Even though this is a much different piece of writing than Potter fans are used to reading, they still turned out in droves to find out what happens to The Boy Who Lived now that he’s a 37-year old father of three children and an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic....

‘Here And Now’ Trailer: Sarah Jessica Parker Tries To Sort Her Life Out The film festival circuit is full of movies featuring characters who are just trying to sort their lives out. Aren’t we all trying to do that every day? Anyway, these kinds of movies come and go, and even though they strike the right chord every now and then, others seem doomed to be forgotten. Unfortunately, this Tribea Film Festival selection appears to be the latter....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’: Bill Pullman & Sela Ward Plan ‘Karate Presidents’ Spin-Off [Interview] Easily one of the most iconic parts of 1996’s blockbusterIndependence Dayis the speechBill Pullmangives as President Whitmore before humanity makes their last stand across the globe. But we might not get the same kind of moment inIndependence Day: Resurgencesince President Whitmore is no longer the sitting president. In fact, he’s apparently living a quiet life in the suburbs when the sequel begins and his daughter has the more exciting job working alongside a new president....

‘Jakob’s Wife’ Review: Barbara Crampton Becomes A Vampire And Has Marital Issues In This Gory Horror Comedy [SXSW 2021] Does your modern indie horror moviereallyexist if it doesn’t featureBarbara CramptonorLarry Fessenden? The two horror icons, who have been so good in so many genre movies for so long, are busier than ever, popping up in (and often propping up) countless films made by filmmakers who clearly grew up watching them on well-worn VHS tapes....

‘Kin’ Directors On How They Kept That Surprising Cameo Secret For Two Years Kinis a science fiction film in that one of the main characters, a 14-year old boy, discovers a strange and powerful laser weapon in an abandoned building. But it’s often science fictionadjacent, focused more on that boy going on the run with his brother with a dangerous criminal hot on their heels. For most of the film’s running time, that ray gun is just a strange rogue element floating through a drama about brothers and fathers and sons....

‘Lethal Weapon’ TV Series: Damon Wayans Sr. Isn’t Too Old For This… You Know Undoubtedly, the new trend in network television is bringing back movies that have been around for years and retooling them as TV shows.LimitlessandMinority Reporthave already made the jump,Training Day,Rush HourandCruel Intentionsare on the way, and now one more is being thrown together at Fox. The network has just ordered a TV pilot based on the classic action franchiseLethal Weaponstarring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, and they already haveDamon Wayans Sr....

‘Little Joe’ Trailer: Genetically Engineered Plants Turn Sinister Keep this strange, beautiful red flower at an ideal temperature, feed it properly, speak to it regularly, and the genetically engineered “happy plant” will boost its owner’s mood. There’s no “no feeding it after midnight” rule, but something does go wrong in the care of the plant at the center ofJessica Hausner’s eerie sci-fi film that plays likeGremlinsmeetsInvasion of the Body Snatchers....

‘Magnolia’ At 20: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Masterpiece Still Blossoms With Pure Emotion The magnolia is a perennial flower: its recurring bloom signals spring’s arrival and the bark of the tree it grows from can be used to treatanxiety and cancer. Magnolia Boulevard is a street that runs through Burbank, California—the media capital of the world, just miles from Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles. Neither of these things is explained outright inMagnolia, writer-directorPaul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 opus, but even without awareness of them, the viewer begins to form an intuitive understanding of how the beauty, complexity, and fragility of a flower may relate to the tapestry of lives on display in the movie....