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The iconic opening toGeorge Lucas’Star Warsback in 1977 introduced moviegoers toJohn Williams' powerful score and established an expositional intro through a title crawl. Those facets have become such an integral part of theStar Warsfilm universe that they’ve been included in all seven feature films released to date and will almost certainly continue withStar Wars: Episode VIIIandStar Wars: Episode IX.Gareth Edwards' standalone anthology filmRogue One: A Star Wars Story, however, looks to shake things up a bit....

Although theDeadpoolfranchise has becomeRyan Reynolds’ bread and butter, he’s still getting out there and doing roles that don’t require him to dress in red-and-black spandex.THRreports that the actor has signed on to star in the sci-fi action comedyFree Guyfor directorShawn Levy. The script, written byMatt Lieberman, “centers on a background character who realizes he’s living in a video game. With the help of an avatar, he tries to prevent the makers of the game from shutting down his world....

Apple TV+ released a new trailer forSidney, an upcoming documentary focused on the legacy ofSidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. The documentary will explore Poitier’s Hollywood ascension and how he used his prestigious position to fight for Civil Rights and social equality. The new trailer starts with an interview with the late Poitier describing his childhood. Growing up in the Bahamas, Poitier didn’t know what electricity was and couldn’t conceive a pipe system capable of bringing water directly into a house....

Saturday Night Livehas given starEgo Nwodima perfect platform with the sketchThe Dionne Warwick Talk Showand in a new sketch duringKieran Culkin’s hosting, it may be her best performance yet. The sketch is simple: Nwodim plays iconDionne Warwick, who became famous to new generations recently by her tweets taking down brands and asking questions about who famous musicians are. But the sketch is pretty much that same idea. Warwick asks her guests some questions they don’t really know the answers to and she moves on from them....

Star Trek: Picardhas endedits strong, focused second season, having tossed the principal characters first into a dark alternate timeline and then several centuries into the past, all thanks to Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) trickster-god nemesis, Q (John DeLancie). The major Season 1 characters returned: Captain Rios (Santiago Cabrera) now commands a new version of Picard’s old ship theStargazer; Raffi (Michelle Hurd) and Elnor (Evan Evagora) now serve together on a newExcelsior, and Seven of Nine is once again a Fenris Ranger and caretaker of Rios’ belovedLa Sirena....

Netflix just revealed a pair of guest stars for its upcoming third season ofStranger Thingswhich should please some 80s/90s nostalgia fans out there.Cary ElwesofThe Princess BrideandSAWfame will join the cast along withJake BuseyofStarship Troopersand the upcoming actionerThe Predator. They’ll be guest performers playing Mayor Kline and a Hawkins Post journalist named Bruce, respectively. Netflix was kind enough to share their character breakdowns with us, starting with Elwes. Mayor Kline is described as “handsome, slick, and sleazy …your classic 80s politician – more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs....

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (October 5th, 2016) John Campea, Kristian Harloff, Perri Nemiroff and Ashley Mova discuss the following: Just as they did withBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. will be releasingan extended cut ofSuicide Squadon home video. Fans will be able to watch this extended cut with 13 minutes of new footage on Digital HD as early as November 15th, while the film hits Blu-ray on December 13th....

Don’t have time tobinge-watch? Check out our list of the bestthrillerorsci-fimovies on the platform instead, or browse our list of the bestshowsandmovieson Prime Video across all genres. Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Prime Video. Editor’s note: This article was updated August 2024 to include Hannibal. ‘Hannibal’ (2013 - 2015) Rotten Tomatoes: 93% | IMDb: 8.5/10 Developed byBryan Fuller,Hannibalis based onThomas Harris’ 1981 novelRed Dragon. The psychological horror thriller series follows Will Graham, a highly skilled FBI profiler who finds himself losing his sanity and starts consulting Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist who is secretly a cannibalistic serial killer....

There’s a lot to unpack when it comes toEric Kripke’s series,The Boys, on Prime Video. In a recent bold and bawdy move - a move even fans of the show may not have expected - Kripke explored the “Thanus” theory in which Ant-Man defeats Thanos through his posterior. However, in this universe, replace Ant-Man with Termite and replace Thanos' posterior with a man’s genitalia. This sounds like a hard feat to pull off, but as they say: go big or go home....

Coming off the high ofKilling Eve, Golden Globe-winnerSandra Ohis going back to college. Netflix has released thefirst full trailerfor their upcoming comedy seriesThe Chair, starring Oh as a college English professor suddenly forced into being chair of her department. Set at the fictional Pembroke University,The Chairfollows Ji-Yoon Kim (Oh) as she faces a unique set of challenges, being not only the first woman to chair a department of the university but also being one of the few people of color on its staff....

[NOTE: This is a re-post of our review from the New York Film Festival;The Lost City of Zexpandsnationwide, April 21] There’s a moment not all that long intoThe Lost City of Zthat brings up an enigmatic, intimate element of the past, in a movie that very much pivots on the personal stakes of world history. Colonel Percy Fawcett, played with physical ingenuity and dramatic intensity byCharlie Hunnam, arrives back in England after a long stretch of keeping the peace in Ireland, a post he took after exploring Sri Lanka as a mapmaker....

Dark Phoenixclearly went through a bit of reshoots, especially in its third act finale. Apparently the original finale resembled too much of another movie, and while some have speculated that it resemblesCaptain Marvel, writer-directorSimon Kinbergtellsio9that the original ending was closer toCaptain America: Civil War: My original ending didn’t have the entire X-Family together the way they are in the film now. More thanCaptain Marvel, you could see a lot ofCivil Warin that ending....

From showrunnerGillian Flynnand inspired by the original British series, the Amazon Prime Video eight-episode conspiracy thrillerUtopiafollows a group of comic book fans who have bonded over their obsession with a seemingly fictional comic that they quickly realize is not only very real but very dangerous, as it predicts threats to humanity. As they find themselves trapped in life-or-death stakes involving the comic’s central character Jessica Hyde (SashaLane), this group of friends — Becky (AshleighLaThrop), Ian (DanByrd), Samantha (JessicaRothe), Wilson Wilson (DesminBorges) and Grant (Javon “Wanna” Walton) – have to step up in a big way, if they’re even going to have a chance at succeeding in their mission to save the world....