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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Has Already Fixed A Major Discovery Problem We stand in the midst of a “Star Trek” renaissance. There are currently five “Star Trek” shows currently airing and another few still in production. There’s a different flavor of “Star Trek” for everyone, whether that’s “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” “Star Trek: Prodigy,” and now"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." With its pilot episode behind it, “Strange New Worlds” isgetting a lot of praisefrom the “Star Trek” fandom....

Superhero Bits: ‘Supergirl’ Wraps Final Season, Deborah Ann Woll Denies Spider-Man Rumors & More (Superhero Bitsis a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: Starro Attacks in Throwback Robot Chicken Sketch Starro was unleashed on Earth and taken down byThe Suicide Squad, but this wasn’t the first time DC Comics characters had to deal with the massive starfish on-screen....

Superhero Bits: Batman Vs. Superman, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Loki, Thor: The Dark World, Amazing Spider-Man 2 What didBryan Cranstonhave to say about thoseBatman vs. Supermanrumors? Which superhero doesTom Hiddlestonthink Loki needs to confront in theMarvel Cinematic Universe? Want to see the best look yet at Malekith the Accursed fromThor: The Dark World? When might we see the trailer forTheAmazing Spider-Man 2? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Surprisingly, Psycho Was The First Film To Ever Show This “It is required that you see ‘Psycho’ from the very beginning!” When audiences first took their seats, it was clear that “Psycho” was going to be something worth talking about. Taking a cue from the William Castle playbook of gimmicks, director Alfred Hitchcock introduced a “no late admission” policy, with a poster showing the director pointing sternly at his watch (viaCFI)....

Taylor Kitsch Is Not Playing Finnick Odair In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ WithThe Hunger Games: Catching Firescheduled to shoot in just a few months, it’s about time for casting to get underway. And indeed, earlier this week we got word of ashortlistfor one of the sequel’s key roles, Finnick Odair. According to that report,Armie Hammer,Taylor Kitsch, andGarrett Hedlundwere in consideration for to play the fan favorite character. However, we can now confidently eliminate one of those names from the running....

The Adam Project Trailer: A Time-Traveling Ryan Reynolds Crash-Lands With The Rest Of Us Into 2022 In Netflix’s “The Adam Project,” Ryan Reynolds plays time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed, who accidentally crash-lands in 2022 and “teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future,” per the official logline. Reynolds isn’t alone on this time-traveling adventure. For starters, he’s got Zoe Saldana with him, and she’s ready to point a gun in your face because that’s just how her character rolls....

The Addams Family 2 Star Bill Hader Wants You To Watch More Classic Horror [Interview] Bill Hader’s been busy. He’s done voice work for acouple of characterson Marvel’s “M.O.D.O.K.” series, gotten the ball rolling on “Barry” season 3 (and 4!), and now he’s voicing the mysterious mad scientist Dr. Cyrus Strange in “The Addams Family 2,” in theaters now. I got the chance to chat with Hader via Zoom about everything ooky, spooky, and kooky, and even got some recommendations for some scary pre-Code movies to watch on Halloween!...

The Best And Worst Moments Of The 2022 Oscars Well, y’all, we did it. We finally made it through another awards season. It may have felt like 84 years, but it actually has not even been a full 365 days since the last Oscars telecast. Did something happen in the world to delay that? Anyway, we can finally close the book on a year in film that actually closed itself three months ago....

The Best Kidnapping Movies You’ve Never Seen (Welcome toThe Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, a series that takes a look at slightly more obscure, under-the-radar, or simply under-appreciated movies. In this edition, we’re stealing your time with a look at good movies about bad abductions.) There are no “good” abductions, of course, but sometimes you’re compelled to use an adjective. It’s not fun, but as compulsions go there are far, far worse examples....

The Riddler’s 10 Darkest Moments In The Batman Ranked With"The Batman,“director Matt Reeves has lovingly cribbed David Fincher’s masterpiece “Se7en,” (with a touch of “Zodiac,” too) finally giving us the Caped Crusader in full film noir detective mode. Robert Pattinson’s volatile Batman is in the Brad Pitt role. Replacing Morgan Freeman’s old-salt detective is the excellent Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon. Kevin Spacey’s missionary serial killer, John Doe, is played here by a similarly round-faced character actor, Paul Dano....

The Water Cooler: The Joyous ‘Super Mario Odyssey,’ A Trip To Thailand, And A Swanky Hollywood Premiere Welcome toThe Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everythingexceptthe movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Jacob Hall playsSuper Mario Odyssey, Hoai-Tran Bui visits Thailand, Chris revisits theLord of the Ringsmovies, and been attends a swanky Hollywood premiere....

Tim Heidecker Joins Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss In Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Jordan Peele’s upcoming thrillerUshas added another actor to its star-studded cast.Tim Heideckerhas joined the cast, joining the likes ofLupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth MossandWinston Dukein Peele’s highly anticipated follow-up to his ground-breaking horror hit,Get Out. Heidecker has joined theUscast in a mystery role for which details are being kept under wraps, according toVariety. Heidecker is a comedian and writer who is probably best known as one half of the comedy duo Tim & Eric, along with Eric Wareheim....

Undone Season 2 Review: Another Great Season Of Existential And Emotional Television Thefirst seasonof “Undone” took big swings thatpaid off in spades. The show from “BoJack Horseman” alums Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy shattered the mold of conventional TV storytelling and delivered an utterly unique show centered on achingly relatable and believable characters. The show and those characters — the Winograd-Diaz family — are back for a second season. And although “Undone” is different than any other show out there, it still faces the daunting question of any second season or sequel — how can the creators tell another story that builds on the events of the first while bringing something new (but also familiar) to the viewers?...