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All five episodes of Russell T Davies’ blistering 1980s-set AIDS drama It’s a Sin are a tribute to the lives of gay men lost to the virus, but one scene in particular was written in specific recognition of an individual. Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Davies describes a moment in episode four as “a little smile” towards actor Dursley McLinden. “I was really desperate to do it,” said Davies. “I did it for Dursley....

“I was stood outside the theatre on the very first day it opened in LA, waiting for the crowds to come out to see how they responded,” Rubin recalls. “As the credits started rolling this guy ran out, probably five feet from me, and yelled at nobody in particular: ‘If I ever meet the guy that wrote that movie, I’ll kill him.’” It was an extraordinary reaction but, then again, Jacob’s Ladder is an extraordinary movie....

Now, The Mirror has been wading through rumors with regards who is going to play the villain in the new movie. And it’s arguing that Helena Bonham Carter is at the top of the producers’ list for the role. Exactly what the role is? Good question, no idea. Just, at this stage, that it’s the film’s foe. Its report acknowledges too that Angelina Jolie is in the running for the movie....

With such a mixed history, it’s no surprise to learn that when Scooby-Doo got a live action, big-budget adaptation in the early 2000s, filmmakers had wanted to make the subtext text. And who better to help them than James Gunn, who got his big-budget start on the movie? Today, we know Gunn as the guy who made us empathize with an emotionally insecure murder racoon and mourn the tragedy befalling a mind-controlling space starfish....

It’s the kind of scenario that plays less like a scene from a Spielbergian classic, such as Jurassic Park or Jaws, and more like an effectively directed and higher budgeted sequence out of Jaws 3D. And this is the rock and the hard place Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom finds itself between for its entire run time. How do you continue a profitable franchise when, for the story to progress, characters need to make stupid decisions?...

When Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous brought a PG cartoon into the PG-13 live action franchise, it was unclear whether the eight-episode first season would continue into a second. But the six kids trying to get off Isla Nublar during the events of Jurassic World have now earned themselves a fourth—extra long—season, with eleven episodes of action, that end on a big reveal, indicating that there’s more fun to come. Will the campers—Darius, Brooklynn, Kenji, Sammy, Yaz, and Ben—ever get home?...

Joss Whedon famously took the directorial reins from Snyder after he left Justice League, and some fans were unhappy that Snyder wasn’t able to realize his original vision for the film. A successful campaign to get the alternate cut out into the world then ensued, and the phrase “release the Snyder Cut!” eventually entered the geek lexicon, for better or worse. The villain of either version of the film was always intended to be Steppenwolf, an acolyte of Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips....

You know the feeling that some writers are plugged into different mains power to everyone else? They’re sucking juice from some obscure source that makes their work hover ten feet off the ground? Sally Wainwright’s one of those. Her dialogue is recognisable at twenty paces. Her characters are people you’d swap your best friends to know. She’s funnier than most stand-ups and spins yarns better than a sailor. Wainwright’s a rare dramatist, so obviously a master that there should be statues of her in cities around the UK....

“I think there have been some big mileposts along the way to where we are now,” she tells us. “But the team of writers that we work with, we just know these characters so well, and we’re always trying to find a way to push them in new and surprising ways that feel emotionally grounded and real. Or at least resonant.” Like the rest of the world, Legends of Tomorrow had to make some serious changes because of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Legion Season 2 Episode 1 I wonder if Noah Hawley keeps looking over his shoulder to see if David Lynch is going to appear out of nowhere. It feels like the first season of FX’s Legion, with all of its aggressive strangeness, stylistic wonder, and batshit story ambition sort of had its thunder stolen by Twin Peaks: The Return. Until David Lynch decided to one-up Hawley’s bizarro foray into the superhero genre by way of psychedelic, psychological horror, Legion was by far the weirdest, and quite possibly the most brilliant, series on TV....

“It’s been nearly a full decade since the original Guardians of the Galaxy film blessed us with Groot, the talking tree man voiced by Vin Diesel who can only say three (well, technically four) words. Though Groot later sacrificed himself in that movie and has since re-grown up to the point of being a teenager by the time Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame come around, it was Guardians 2‘s sickeningly cute Baby Groot that stuck with folks....

“In a post-Game of Thrones universe, HBO is still looking for its next huge hit. Is the answer more Game of Thrones? After initially announcing plans for several spinoffs only to cancel all of them except House of the Dragon, HBO signed a new five-year deal with George R.R. Martin in late March of 2021.” Read more at Inverse. The newest Spanish-language crime thriller on Netflix, Sky High, is a lackluster heist movie not worth your time....

“Have we reached the tipping point of comic book pop culture saturation? It’s a question I asked myself after watching the first three episodes of Marvel’s Helstrom, the horror-themed new series that premiered on Hulu this weekend. After a record-breaking run at the box office, Marvel Studios is looking to match their big screen success with several new series across multiple platforms.” Read more at The Mary Sue. How did pumpkin beer come about?...

“Game preservation and backward compatibility have been foundational pillars of Xbox’s next-gen plans since the project began more than five years ago. It’s a refreshing, consumer-friendly approach in an industry that traditionally hasn’t batted an eye at the prospect of making players buy multiple copies of the same title — or flat-out abandoning classic games in an attempt to further the adoption of new hardware.” Read more at Inverse. Donald Trump had apparently declined to meet with Chris Evans as a part of the actor’s effort to bridge the gap between Democrats and Republicans....

“Eagle-eyed Redditor u/yunggravyintern noticed a huge reveal within the grounds of Jabba’s palace. The palace itself isn’t new. We know from The Mandalorian that Boba and Fennec take over Jabba’s entire operation. But Jabba’s hangar, the star of a map in the seminal Star Wars game Star Wars: Battlefront, is faithfully recreated in the teaser.” Read more at Inverse Agatha actress Kathryn Hahn learned about the title of her own Marvel spinoff series, Agatha: House of Harkness, at the same time the public did....

“In an homage to the completely made up (yet incredibly influential and highly acclaimed) jazz musicians Paul Bufano, Marcus ‘The Worm’ Hicks, and Mookie Kramer from the game night skit, we’ve imagined a world where not only do these musicians exist, they left behind these faux-vintage-letterpress-style concert posters.” Buy the posters on Redbubble. Nomadland, now available to stream on Hulu, is a close look at modern America’s relationship with the American Dream....

Netflix has found their Fire Lord Ozai for the Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action remake! “Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, She-Ra, and the Princesses of Power) has been cast in Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action adaptation of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series, as Fire Lord Ozai. Well, Ozai is technically hot, so this is excellent casting. On Instagram, his fellow young cast members, Dallas Liu and Gordon Cormier shared their excitement over this news in the comments of Kim’s Instagram post....

Troma was founded in 1974 by Yale film society buddies Kaufman and Michael Herz. Their movies were produced on tiny budgets and were proudly proclaimed to make only “the most offensive, tasteless films in the history of cinema.” Even the lowest of low budget studios aspire to the highest of standards, and those without any at all shoot for the moon. Troma’s newest film disembowels the classics. #Shakespeare’s Shitstorm is a diarrhetic skewering of modern hypocrisy masquerading as a scatological spoof of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest....

Give the clip, which premiered during the MTV Movie Awards, a look below to see what we mean. “What does that mean?” Loki wants to know about Mobius’s statement that “time passes differently in the TVA.” Thankfully, Loki asked the right man for an explanation because by the time the pair exit the elevator, the God of Mischief has a shockingly thorough understanding of just what the Time Variance Authority does....

Loki episode 1 “Glorious Purpose” has a lot of exposition to get through. Throwing the Marvel franchise’s God of Mischief into the orderly bureaucratic nightmare that is the Time Variance Authority is a fun idea. But dealing with time travel on any level creates some storytelling headaches. Thankfully, Loki breakout star Miss Minutes (voiced by Tara Strong) arrives early on in the proceedings to provide a helpful explanation on what the TVA is and how they keep the Sacred Timeline sacred....