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Spider-Man: No Way Home Writers Address The Logistics Of Doctor Strange’s Final Spell This post containsmajor spoilersfor “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is a big movie with big emotions. It also features some big spellwork, thanks toDoctor Strange(Benedict Cumberbatch), who comes on board to fix Peter’s (Tom Holland) life once the teenager’s secret identity is revealed to the world. When the dust has settled and the multiverse guests are on their way back home, Doctor Strange casts one more spell for Peter: he makes it so the world forgets Peter Parker ever existed....

Sundance One-Shot Horror Film ‘Silent House’ Sells For $3 Million, But Is The Movie A Marketing Scam? Mike Flemingis reporting that Mickey Liddell’s Liddell Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to the horror filmSilent House. The film which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is a remake of the Gustavo Hernandez-directed Uruguayan thriller La Casa Muda which premiered at Cannes. The concept is simple, a girl (played byElizabeth Olsen) gets stuck in an old house, possibly haunted, and the movie is filmed in one continuous shot....

Sundance: Chicago 10 Movie Review From the filmmaker that brought us The Kid Stays in the Picture comes an animated docudrama about the infamous 1960’s Chicago Democratic National Convention riot. Brett Morgen’s new film combines real life news footage with cell-shaded computer animated sequences (cheaper looking visuals similar to Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly) to fill in the blanks and tell the story of the infamous Chicago Seven trial....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, South Park, Batmobiles, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Want to see an awesome new poster fromIron Man 3? What happened on the first dayBen KingsleyplayedThe Mandarin? What’s the tone ofThe Wolverine? Where can you seeThe Batmobilesthis weekend? WillJessica Albabe ready forSin City: A Dame to Kill For? Do theChitaurispeak and have something to say about the upcomingMarvelslate of films? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Josh Trank Throws Shade At Marvel Movies, New ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Concept Art & More Would you have liked to see giant ants in the final battle forAvengers: Endgame? Did you knowNightwingwas originally slated to debut at the end of the first season ofTitans? DidZachary Leviwear padding in the superhero suit forShazam? What hasChris Hemsworth’s family banned him from bringing home? What didJosh Tranksay about Marvel movies after watchingThe Irishman?...

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, The Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, Christmas Story, Dark Knight Rises, Community Want to read about visual effects inMan of Steel? What does the cast ofCommunitylook like asBatmancharacters? Which character wouldDavid Fincherhave killed had he made aSpider-Manmovie? DoMarvelcharacters andA Christmas Storyhave a common ground? What happens when you mixTintinwith theX-Men? Where can you start pre-ordering merchandise forThe Dark Knight RisesandThe Avengers? And has a spoiler slipped about the post-credits scene inThe Avengers?...

Surf Ninjas & Ninja Turtles Actor Ernie Reyes Jr. Faces A New Fight: A Kidney Transplant Many legendary figures in the realm of entertainment have universal appeal. Basically everyone acknowledges that people like Walt Disney, Lucille Ball, Jim Henson, Mary Shelley, Stan Lee, and Whoopi Goldberg can all be considered legends in their own right. But there are plenty of inspiring individuals out there, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, that don’t get recognized as often as they should....

The Expanse Season 6 Review: A Strong Send-Off, With Hope For The Future This is it — the last six episodes of the sci-fi series, “The Expanse.“The show has had quite a journey, saved by Prime Video when Syfy canceled it after its third season to give fans an additional three seasons in a future universe based on the books by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the writing duo behind the pen name James S....

The Last-Minute Change That Saved Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho A young, attractive woman steps into a running shower and closes the curtain behind her. She shuts her eyes, enjoying the hot water, and turns her back to the closed curtain. Suddenly,the screeching soundsof string instruments rise over the scene. Do you know what comes next? Chances are, without seeing a looming shadow or a single drop of blood, you guessed murder. How did you know?...

The Morning Watch: ‘Stranger Things’ RPG, The Philosophy Of ‘Westworld’ & More (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, listen to aTEDxtalk fromKong: Skull IslanddirectorJordan Vogt-Robertsabout how important it is to take a real leap of faith in order to follow your creative dreams instead of holding ourselves back because we feel vulnerable and afraid to fail....

The Morning Watch: The Television Academy Honors Betty White, TCM Remembers The Talents Lost In 2021 & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made 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 tribute to the late Betty White with a compilation of the comedy legend’s appearances and acceptance speeches at the Emmys over the years....

Tron Legacy Set Visit Preview The day after the world learned of Michael Jackson’s death, I found myself in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada revisiting my 1980’s childhood. Its not what it sounds like. I was on the set of a sequel to a film I had first seen 27 years prior. If you had told me as a kid that I would someday have a chance to enter the world of Tron, I wouldn’t have believed you....

What Went Wrong With ‘Fantastic Four,’ Plus See A Dozen Trailer Shots Cut From The Movie Arriving in theaters just this past weekend,Fantastic Fouris now the worst reviewed Marvel comics adaptation ever. The future of the franchise is uncertain even though the studio is staying committed to the franchise and characters, if only to keep from hurting the movie even more. So the big question, especially after directorJosh Trankdistanced himself from the final cut of the movie on Twitter, is what went wrong withFantastic Four?...