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The Morning Watch: All The ‘Little Women’ Movies Compared, ‘X-Men: Evolution’ Retrospective & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a video essay comparingGreta Gerwig’s new adaptation ofLittle Womento the previous three feature film versions from 1933, 1949 and 1994 to see what the latest version brings to the table....

The Muppets' Jane Henson Has Died Jane Nebel Henson, former wife and creative partner of Muppets creatorJim Henson, has died, as announced by the Jim Henson Co. She was 78. While a student at the University of Maryland, Henson teamed with her future husband to create the WRC-TV showSam and Friends, which featured the first appearance of a Kermit prototype. In later years, she served on the board of the Jim Henson Foundation, and created the Jim Henson Legacy to promote her late husband’s work following his death in 1990....

The New ‘Ghostbusters’ Always Pays Its Debts, Casts Charles Dance In Mystery Role Paul Feig’s upcomingGhostbustersreboot may have finished filming, but we’re still discovering new cast members. It seems thatCharles Dance, the great British actor best known to the kids these days for his work as Tywin Lannister onGame of Thrones, is in the film in some capacity. But who’s he playing? And how big is his role? And why is this the first we’re hearing of it?...

The Unexpected Prop Star Trek Borrowed From Gilligan’s Island It’s not unusual to hear of old movies or TV shows using recycled footage, props, or costumes. Whether it be Disney copying its own animated scenes in the 1970s, or “Blade Runner” salvaging helicopter shots andset elementsfrom “The Shining” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “One from the Heart” in the 1980s, productions have had to sometimes adopt a makeshift approach: utilizing whatever random resources they had available....

The Weird Connection Between ‘Home Alone’ And ‘Friends’ Shared universes are all the rage these days, but did you know that bothFriendsandHome Alonewere years ahead of the curve, meticulously building a single wacky comedy world that contains both the shenanigans of Kevin McCallisterandthe hijinks of Rachel Green and her buddies? Eh. Not really. But as a new video points out, there is an amusing connection between the beloved 1990 film and the popular NBC sitcom thatcouldconvince a delirious mind otherwise....

This ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Deleted Scene Is A Mutant Mall Montage In a summer filled with high profile duds,X-Men: Apocalypsereigns supreme. At leastIndependence Day: Resurgencewas audacious and insane and totally bonkers. At leastSuicide Squadwas bad in ways that generate great conversations. Bryan Singer’s fourthX-Menmovie, and the eighth film in the franchise overall, is the kind of movie thattakes two and a half hours of your time and exits your brain while you’re still watching it....

TV Bits: ‘Sabrina’, ‘Daybreak’, ‘Sneaky Pete’, ‘Castlevania’ And More In this edition of TV bits: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Netflix series inspired by the Archie Comic of the same name (which is in turn inspired bySabrina the Teenage Witch) now has a very appropriate premiere date. The spooky series will debut June 18, 2025 on the streaming service – just in time for Halloween binge-watching. Last October, Netflix hadStranger Thingsseason 2, but the third season of that hit show won’t arrive until 2019....

Universal Shuffles Tom Cruise’s ‘Oblivion,’ Jessica Chastain’s ‘Mama’ And Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ It’s a slow news day in Hollywood; a perfect time to mess with the release schedule, and that’s just what Universal has decided to do. The biggest news is thatJoseph Kosinski’s sci-fi epicOblivion, starringTom Cruise, has been moved from July 10, 2025 to August 03, 2025 in traditional theaters and July 25, 2025 IMAX theaters. Yes, IMAX will have an exclusive one week run on the film before anyone else....

Why Agents In The Matrix Resurrections Don’t Look Like You’d Expect This post containsspoilersfor “The Matrix Resurrections.” In"The Matrix Resurrections,“the simulated reality inside the Matrix has undergone some changes since moviegoers last caught up with it around the turn of the millennium. One of those changes relates to the antagonistic Agents and the nature of their appearance. When viewers first entered the Matrix back in 1999, Agents were easily identifiable by their Men in Black attire....

Why Starz Canceled American Gods “American Gods” may not have been the best TV show of the last 10 years, but it definitely had one of the best first seasons of the past decade. Initially overseen by Bryan Fuller of “Hannibal” and “Pushing Daisies” acclaim, the show did a riveting job of adapting Neil Gaiman’s original fantasy novel right out of the gate. Sure, season 1 only covered the book’s first five chapters over eight episodes, but it did so with so much style and confidence that it’s hard to complain about the slow pace....

Year Of The Vampire: Blade Day-Walked So Other Superheroes And Vampire Hunters Could Run (Welcome toYear of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) In 1998, a year before “The Matrix” and two years before the first live-action “X-Men” movie, a superhero arrived in a trench coat, black leather, and dark shades, ready to kill some vampires....

‘Arlington Road’ TV Series In The Works At Paramount+ With Film’s Director Attached DirectorMark Pellingtonis taking another trip toArlington Road. Pellington, who directed the original 1999 paranoia thriller, is coming back to direct anArlington RoadTV series that’s reportedly in the “early stages of development” at the newly rebranded streaming service Paramount+. The film was about a professor who suspects his neighbors of being domestic terrorists – a topic which, sadly, feels all too relevant in 2021....

‘Batwoman’ Trailer: Ruby Rose Is Not Letting Batman Take Credit For A Woman’s Work Saving Gotham is a woman’s work. AndRuby Roseis not about to let any man — or Batman — take credit for it. Rose stars as the titular vigilante superhero in the first officialBatwomantrailer for the upcoming CW series set to debut this fall. Watch theBatwomantrailer below. Batwoman Trailer Kate Kane (Rose) is more than a “female Bruce Wayne,” as her father (Dougray Scott) fondly calls her in the new trailer forBatwoman....