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Sequel Bits: ‘Mission: Impossible 5’, ‘Pitch Perfect 2’, ‘Paranormal Activity 5’, ‘Inferno’, ‘Creed’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Not only is Beca back forPitch Perfect 2, so is her signature plastic cup. Also after the jump: The latest film will have Harvard symbologist Henry Langdon (Hanks) waking up with amnesia in an Italian hospital. Jones will play a doctor who helps him recover his memory. The two then team up to stop a plague connected to Dante’sInferno....

Sex Pistols And Joe Strummer Documentarian Julien Temple To Dramatize History Of The Kinks Before he fathered the young actress Juno Temple, filmmakerJulien Templebecame known for music videos and films likeThe Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle, in which he looked at the Sex Pistols from manager Malcolm McLaren’s point of view. Pistols singer John Lydon decried much ofSwindleas put-on bullshit spun by McLaren, but there’s no denying the film’s weird potency. Hell, I even likeAbsolute Beginners, the bizarro mid-’80s musical Temple directed, featuring David Bowie....

Shows Like The Expanse You Definitely Need To See After six amazing seasons, “The Expanse” remains one of the best science fiction shows we’ve seen in a long time. Based on the book series by James S.A. Corey (a pseudonym for the writing team of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), “The Expanse” depicts a universe where Earth, its former colonies on Mars, and the working-class residents of the Belt teeter on the edge of war....

Snakehead Trailer: The American Dream Meets The Chinatown Underworld We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s easy to think otherwise, based on which movies tend to get all the attention, but America doesn’t actually have a monopoly on crime dramas. “Snakehead” is attempting to invigorate the classic genre by providing an outsider’s perspective, telling the story of a Chinese immigrant making her way to New York and plunging headfirst into the seedy underworld of Chinatown mobsters, drug rings, and smugglers in the hopes of providing a better life for her family....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, Thor 2 Where can you see Tony Stark’s new car inThe Avengersin person? Is a pivotal scene ofThe Amazing Spider-Manmythology being changed for the new movie? How didChristopher Nolanfamiliarize himself with Bane forThe Dark Knight Rises? IsBatman: Arkham Worldactually the title of the new video game? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits. As great as the official teaser posters have been, fans such asChad Russohave really made some great art forThe Dark Knight Rises....

The Crazies Trailer #2: A More Straightforward Look At A Small Town Apocalypse The first trailerforBreck Eisner’sThe Crazieswas pretty good, but with one significant misstep: it made heavy use of the song ‘Mad World’, which for the next decade should be considered as owned lock, stock and barrel byDonnie Darko. That aside, the trailer had a fairly intriguing vibe. This second trailer omits the song, thankfully, and is a bit more straightforward....

The Emperor Reborn: What Palpatine’s Return Means For ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ (Welcome toThe Emperor Reborn, a three-part series examining the role of Sheev Palpatine and the long shadow he casts over the Skywalker Saga, including the upcomingStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.) In this final chapter of The Emperor Reborn, we examine how Palpatine’s shadow looms large over the sequel trilogy and what his return in the new movie could mean....

The Original Pretty In Pink Ending Test Audiences Couldn’t Stand 35 years ago, John Hughes released “Pretty in Pink,” arguably the “Return of the Jedi” of his trilogy of teen films starring Molly Ringwald. The story centers on a hip and stylish teenager named Andie, a girl from a lower-class family attending a wealthy private school in Chicago. Andie works at the record store, does everything with her best friend, the equally lower-class Duckie (Jon Cryer), and navigates a world filled with teenage hormones surrounded by wealthy classmates who might as well be from a different planet....

The Wolfman Movie Trailer #2: A Moody, Modern Approach There’s a new trailer forJoe Johnston’s remake of Universal’sThe Wolfman. If you didn’t like thefirst trailer, which really sold the film as a piece of gothic old-school horror, you’ll probably like this one a lot more. The first trailer was very much what you’d expect: here’s the legend of the wolfman, here are the characters, here’s what happens to them. But it was almost too pagebound....

This Week In Trailers: Still Life, Appropriate Behavior, Zhong Kui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal, [REC] 4: Apocalypse, The Great Museum Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Ghastly Love Of Johnny X, Incendiary, Faith In The Big House, Sing Your Song, Lobos De Arga (Game Of Werewolves) Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: The Wedding Guest, The Gospel Of Eureka, The Biggest Little Farm, Donnybrook, A Vigilante Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Three New Legacy Lightsabers Arrive At ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ One of the most popular pieces of merchandise atStar Wars: Galaxy’s Edgein both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, are the Legacy Lightsabers located in Dok Ondar’s Den of Antiquities. The Ithorian collector sells highly detailed replicas of infamous lightsabers from around the galaxy. Recently a new batch of lightsabers was unveiled, alongside a shipment of new merchandise all around Batuu’s Black Spire Outpost....