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Cool Stuff: Marvel Legends Odin And Surtur Action Figures Dig Into The ‘Thor’ Franchise We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After reaching back into theIron Manfranchise for anew wave of Marvel Legends figuresinspired by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hasbro is also turning a couple more characters from theThorfranchise into action figures. Digging back into the originalThor, we’re finally getting an action figure ofAnthony Hopkinsas Thor’s powerful father Odin....

David Bowie Has Died David Bowie— rock star, movie star, all-around legend — has passed away at the age of 69, following an 18-month battle with cancer. The news arrives two days after he released his final album,Blackstar. He is survived by his wife,Iman, and his children, 15-year-oldAlexandria JonesandMoonandWarcraftdirectorDuncan Jones. Born David Robert Jones in 1947, Bowie broke through in 1969 with the hit single “Space Oddity” and cemented his place in the rock music canon with his 1972 albumThe Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, as a pioneer of glam rock....

Disaster Movie Trailer - Why?! On the /FilmCast tonight a discussion about the newDisaster Movietrailer turned into an examination of the spoof film. Neil from FilmSchoolRejects had to remind me that spoof movies were not always the bottom of the comedy genre. Mel Brooks and Monty Python created highbrow (or at least highbrow in comparison to contemporary spoof films) films which were not only praised during their time, but have gone on to become classics....

Full Length ‘Guardians’ Trailer: See More Of Russia’s Mightiest Heroes Next year, we’ll see an original superhero pic titledGuardians(foreign title “Zaschitniki”) from Russia and directorSarik Andreasyan’s (American Heist) about a team of Soviet superheroes. This group of heroes includes a man who can levitate rocks, a deadly teleporter who uses two scythes (pictured above), a woman who can become invisible and manipulate water, and a beefy bear-man with a huge gun....

Gravity Director Alfonso Cuarón Has Found His Next Film Project Children of Men/GravityfilmmakerAlfonso Cuarónhas found his new film project, slated to begin shooting in Mexico this fall. Hit the jump to learn more about the new Alfonso Cuaron movie. Participant Media and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón are partnering on a new untitled film project, to be directed and written by Cuarón with film production slated to begin in Mexico this fall....

HBO’s ‘The Outsider’ Spoiler Review: How The Show Diverged From And Deepened The Stephen King Novel With the airing of last night’s action-packed finale,HBOhas delivered a gripping climax to its ten-episodeStephen Kingadaptation,The Outsider. Focusing on a community rocked by a gruesome child murder, the show, like the book, was something of a genre-buster, tipping from police procedural in its first half into full-blown supernatural horror in its second half. Given itssteady ratings climband the finale’s post-credits scene, it’s possible that HBO will goThe Leftoversroute withThe Outsiderand continue the series with new stories beyond the scope of King’s novel....

Here’s When You Can Watch Uncharted At Home “Uncharted,” the latest live-action hopeful to (attempt to) break the dreaded “video game movie curse,” landed in theaters only a few months ago, but even that isn’t stopping the film from becoming available to watch at home in the weeks ahead. Released on July 21, 2025, in the United States to a rathertepid critical response, the long-awaited video game adaptation perhaps didn’t make quite the splash as fans may have anticipated after so many years....

Hoai-Tran Bui’s Top 10 Movies Of The Decade (This article is part of ourBest of the Decadeseries.) I can’t stress enough how formative this past decade of movies has been for my moviegoing experience. Sometimes I wonder if I can fully trust my opinions during 2010-2019, ever-shifting they were, and ever-evolving my movie knowledge was. I went and graduated college during that time, and began to form a movie opinion of my own outside of the one the film classes would impose on me....

Joe Wright’s ‘Darkest Hour’ Gets Fall 2017 Release Date; Ben Mendelsohn, John Hurt & More Join Cast Joe Wrightis coming off an enormous misfire. The filmmaker behindAtonementandHannatook a huge swing withPan, his biggest project to date, and it mayhave lostWarner Bros. around $150 million. Thankfully, the financial failure ofPandoesn’t seem to be slowing down the talented filmmaker. He recently directed anew episodeofBlack Mirror, and now his Winston Churchill project,Darkest Hour, has been picked up by Focus Features for a 2017 release....

Jon M. Chu Was Connected To Crazy Rich Asians Long Before Becoming Its Director Who saysromantic comediesare dead? Not Jon M. Chu. In 2018, Chu directed “Crazy Rich Asians,” a movie that lives up to the extravagance implied by its title. The film stars Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, a Chinese American economics professor who travels with her boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to attend his best friend’s wedding in Singapore, only to learn his family is actually extremely wealthy....

Matthew Vaughn Acquires Movie Rights To Mark Millar’s ‘Superior’ This is something that ended up in today’sSuperhero Bits, but it is really big enough to warrant its own headline. So for those who didn’t see SHB today,Matthew Vaughn, the director of the film based onMark Millar’s comicKick-Assand other films such asX-Men: First Class, has picked up the rights to create a film based on Millar’s comicSuperior. The comic is about a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is given the opportunity to transform into his idol, a superhero from the big screen....

McG Updates The Status Of ‘Masters Of The Universe’, Name-Drops Everything Popular As Inspiration For years Hollywood has been trying to get a new take onMasters of the Universeoff the ground. After cycling through various directors and writers, the current iteration of the project lies in the hands ofCharlie’s AngelsandTerminator SalvationdirectorMcG. He’s not exactly anyone’s first choice to take on such a beloved property, but that’swho Sony Pictures have entrustedwithMasters of the Universefor now....

Mondo Reveals The Queen’s Gambit Vinyl Soundtrack, No Green Pills Required [Exclusive] Last night, “The Queen’s Gambit” walked away with an Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series at the73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Director Scott Frank also won himself an award, and he made headlines for squaring off with the Emmys orchestra whotried to play him offduring his speech a few times. In a case of perfect timing with those big Emmy wins, Mondo is giving the “Queen’s Gambit” score from composer Carlos Rafael Rivera an exclusive vinyl release, and we’re proud to debut it right here....