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See A Clip From Lo-Fi Woody Harrelson Superhero Movie Defendor Twitchhas a short clip from the odd-looking superhero movieDefendor, starringWoody HarrelsonandKat Dennings. We’ve already runsome photos, which got me interested in the film immediately, and this clip looks great. Check it out after the break. The film, which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is written and directed byPeter Stebbingsand also featuresSandra Ohand one of my favorite actors,Elias Koteas....

Shazam 2 Will Now Open Against Avatar 2, And That Is A Very Bad Idea Warner Bros. did a whole lot of shuffling with its release calendar last week, and it moved quite a few big DC movies around, with"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" and “The Flash"getting pushed to 2023, whileThe Rock’s “Black Adam"will now have to wait until October. But one of the biggest moves was shifting the release of “Shazam!...

Sound The Alarm: ‘The First Purge’ Is Coming To Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights In Hollywood Universal Studios has brought its horror franchiseThe PurgetoHalloween Horror Nightsbefore, but now the movie is about to come to life on the West Coast in a whole new way.The First Purgeis getting its own maze at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood. Check out a video below and learn about how the maze will “reimagine the movie’s premise....

Sundance Cancels In-Person Events, Moves Festival Online Amid Omicron Fears Just in case even moremovie delaysand thegeneral explosion in Omicron variant cases worldwidedidn’t do enough to emphasize the magnitude of the ongoing pandemic, critics and movie fans alike received an even ruder awakening to our present reality today. The Sundance Institute announced in a lengthy press release that the major film festival, which takes place annually in the state of Utah, was forced to cancel the grand return of in-person attendance after the 2021 event moved to online-only screenings....

Sundance: Grace Is Gone Movie Review My Mom was very sick the years before I entered Middle School. The only times I saw her were in the Hospital. I was young so I was kept out of the loop on how things were really going. But one night at the hospital all the relatives were there. My dad even slept over instead of coming home. I didn’t realize the significance of the situation at the time....

Sylvester Stallone Is Coming Back To The MCU For Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 Sly is back, baby. In anInstagram post, Slyvester Stallone confirmed his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.” A behind-the-scenes video was posted on his official IG account (@officialslystallone), displaying a series of expensive-looking sensors. The actor will be reprising the role of Stakar Ogord, also called Starhawk, in the third entry in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, to be released in 2023....

Thanos Actor Josh Brolin Never Wanted To Play A Superhero, But Was More Than Happy To Play Their Nemesis Josh Brolin’s Thanos is best remembered for traumatizing the masses by snapping away half of humanity inAvengers: Infinity War. He engaged in a bunch of grandstanding epic battles against the Avengers and will always be known as the jerk behind the most painful Marvel deaths. Still, however much we may hate the franchise’s biggest bad thus far, it’s hard not to love his presence....

The ‘Joker’ Poster Wants You To Put On A Happy Face, First Trailer Arriving Tomorrow The first poster for theJoaquin Phoenix-starringJokermovie is here, and it’s appropriately unsettling. The message directorTodd Phillipshas been constantly pushing is that this won’t be your standard comic book movie, and sure enough, the first poster looks as if it’s advertising a thriller, or even a horror film. The firstJokerteaser trailer will drop tomorrow, but in the meantime, you’re able to see theJokerposter below....

The ‘Terminator’ Franchise Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Getting A Re-Adjustment TheTerminatorfranchise isn’t dead – it’s resting. At least that’s the message coming out ofSkydance Productions, who had to watchTerminator Genisystake a pummeling at the domestic box office this summer. Still, there’s fight left in this ‘ol franchise and Skydance Chief Creative OfficerDana Goldberginsists that after a few weeks of recuperating at the spa and maybe a little counseling, the series will be back and ready to win over the hearts and minds of the American public once again....

The Animated ‘Star Wars’ Shows Owe A Great Debt To A Classic Sonny Chiba Samurai Film (Welcome toThe Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired, or help us better understand, George Lucas’s iconic universe. In this edition:Shogun’s Shadow.) Samurai films have been a strong influence on theStar Warssaga since its very earliest days. When George Lucas was sitting down to write his first drafts of what would becomeA New Hope, he even copied out the synopsis of Kurosawa’sHidden Fortressand replaced all of the Japanese names with earlyStar Warsnames....

The MCU’s Ms. Marvel Has Very Different Powers Than The Comic Version Changing a comic book character’s powers to better fit a cinematic universe is nothing new — Spider-Man’s web-shooters famouslybecame biologicalfor Sam Raimi’s take on the film, for example. Now, the trailer for the Disney+ series “Ms. Marvel” shows us a slightly different take on Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani). It appears that the character’s stretching abilities are going to be changed a bit, and the source of those abilities comes from a different source than her comic-book counterpart....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Rise Of The Guardians’ Is An Under-Seen Holiday Gem (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie:Rise of the GuardiansWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Here’s the one-sentence pitch: what if famous children’s characters were superheroes? Here’s the slightly longer version: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman are collectively known as the Guardians, and they stand guard over important ideas like Wonder, Hope, Memories, and Dreams....

The Scrubs Storyline The Series' Creator Couldn’t Stop Pretty much every long-running sitcom has some kind of “will they/won’t they” storyline between two of its leads, and “Scrubs” was no exception. JD (Zach Braff) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) spent most of the first three seasons in varying states of angst over their romantic tension with each other, before seemingly breaking up for good near the end of season 3 in “My Self-Examination....