The Addams family have their origins in a 1930s New Yorker comic strip by Charles Addams (hence the name). But to Irish audiences they will be best known from a pair of superdroll movies from the 1990s, featuring Anjelica Huston as the mournful matriarch Morticia Addams and Christina Ricci as her soul-shrivelling daughter, Wednesday. The … Read more
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams Photo: netflix Though were wolves, sirens, and Gorgons abound, there’s no Frankenstein’s monster on wednesday. But the show itself is a shambling corpse crudely assembled from pieces of undead media: Fans of teen fiction will recognize moldering chunks of everything from Veronica Mars and Mean Girls to Harry Potter and … Read more
Image: marvel studios Nicholas Hoult teases a Maximum Cage performance for Renfield‘s Dracula. Disney+’s Percy Jackson finds itself some more gods. Daredevil: Born Again could feature another street-level hero. Plus, what’s coming on the next rick and morty. Spoilers now! Red Shirt Deadline reports Channing Tatum is attached to star in Red Shirt, a “a … Read more
Image: marvel studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe has managed to catapult several actors to stardom, and Chris Hemsworth is one of its best poster boys. Previously best known for playing Kirk’s dad in the opening minutes of Star Trek’s 2009 reboot, the first Thor movie from 2011 supercharged his career like a bolt of lightning, … Read more
Divinity and depravity collide in director Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder. It’s the second Netflix film in less than a month, after The Good Nurse, to be thoroughly misrepresented by its mid title. And like that film, it, too, demands to be experienced without any prior information about its deliriously engaging plot. It begins with a … Read more
(From left) Scarlett Johansson in Black WidowElizabeth Olsen in Wanda VisionTom Holland in Spidermanand the new Black PantherImage: Courtesy of Marvel Studios, Courtesy of Marvel Studios, Courtesy of Sony Pictures, Courtesy of Marvel Studios Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wasn’t supposed to launch the way it did. Until 2019, Marvel Studios had been … Read more
Dark was one of Netflix’s most original and exciting series, a time-travel puzzle-box epic about grief, loss, and regret. Show creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar don’t stray from that triumph’s template with 1899another head-spinning multi-character affair that piles mystery upon mystery to a bewildering degree. Clarity is difficult to come by in the … Read more
Image: disney David Harbor keeps hyping up the Thunderbolts movie. Ross Duffer teases Stranger Things‘final season as a return to the first. More, a new look at the return of His Dark Materialsand what’s coming on The Mayfair Witches. Spoilers get! The Chronicles of Narnia According to What’s on NetflixNetflix is courting Greta Gerwig (Barbie) … Read more
Image: DC Comics Lindsay Lohan wants a Freaky Friday 2 to happen. Giselle breaks into song in a new Disenchanted clip. Plus, what’s coming on the chucky season 2 finale and the next episode of Titans. Spoilers away! Lobo During a recent interview with CBR, Jason Momoa was asked to “blink twice” if his secret … Read more
When Netflix revealed its list of new content coming to the streaming service in November of 2022, it didn’t include the 2022 feature film Where the Crawdads Sing, but the controversial movie is now streaming on the platform anyway! The sudden arrival of the movie, based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens and starring … Read more