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Jordan Peele has certainly earned a place amongst the best horror directors of the last decade, but a fan comment calling him the best horror director of all time saw Peele stepping in to stop the thread “slandering” his own horror hero; John Carpenter. Having produced huge hits with Get Out and Us, and his new movie Nope getting a lot of praise in initial reviews, it is not surprising that there is a lot of love out there for the director; however, he isn’t about to the take all the praise he has been given....

Judy Justice doesn’t really deviate away from the format that made Judge Judy the most imitated, praised and successful courtroom based reality show for a quarter of a century, with Judge Sheindlin giving her judgement on cases brought to her from across the U.S. In her new series, Judy will be joined by retired Los Angeles probation officer Kevin Rasco as court bailiff, Whitney Kumar, a board certified court reporter and stenographer, and Sarah Rose, a law clerk who just happens to be the Judge’s granddaughter....

Julia Roberts and George Clooney are set to reunite in the upcoming film Ticket to Paradise. The film will be Roberts’ first romantic comedy in nearly two decades, and the Oscar-winning actress is excited to return to the genre that helped launch her illustrious Hollywood career. Julia Roberts has starred in several well-known rom-coms like Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, but has seemingly drifted towards other genres over the years....

Jurassic World: Dominion closes two dinosaur-munching trilogies by bringing together the original primary cast with the new stars. Director/co-writer Colin Trevorrow aims for a narrative that logically incorporates the characters, classic story elements, and a spirit of adventure. He bombs with a terrible script but achieves thrilling, CGI-fueled action. The film is essentially a rehash of the same plot structure we’ve seen from the franchise for nearly thirty years. Jurassic World: Dominion works as a popcorn cinema event picture with blockbuster visual effects....

The verdict is in. Jussie Smollett has been found guilty of lying to Chicago police about being the victim of a hate crime in January 2019. At the time, Smollett alleged that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault by two unidentified men, but cops accused the actor of staging the incident with the help of two brothers he worked with on Empire. Smollett has maintained his innocence ever since....

Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine will star in I Saw the TV Glow, a new horror feature from A24 and Fruit Tree. The logline for the project sees two teenage outcasts, played by Smith and Lundy-Paine, who bond over a shared love for a scary television show. However, the boundary between TV and reality starts to blur after the show is mysteriously canceled. Smith was one of the stars of Jurassic World: Dominion, the latest entry in the long-running franchise that’s been going on since 1993, or 1990, which is when Michael Crichton published the original book....

FX’s Kindred will be the first Octavia Butler adaptation to make it on screen, premiering December 13th. The television series was brought to life by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and revolves around the strange occurrences happening to Dana James that are beyond her control. As she’s pulled back and forth in time between the present and her ancestral connection to a Maryland plantation in 1815, Dana races against the clock to make the connection and uncover family secrets....

Spike TV is bringing the astounding saga of one of history’s most extraordinary rulers, Tutankhamun (King Tut), to television in a new landmark six-hour scripted event series. Tut reveals, for the first time on television, the story of the Egyptian Pharaoh, one of the most renowned leaders in human history. This ambitious special-event series tells the story of Tut’s rise to power and his struggle to lead Egypt to glory, while his closest advisers, friends and lovers scheme for their own nefarious interests....

For Kit Harington, Game of Thrones was not only revolutionary for his career, but it was also the beginning of it. Similar to co-star Emilia Clarke, Harington’s role as Jon Snow will forever go down as his best performance. His first big feature was the 2014 film Pompeii, which took a fictional love-story take of the famous Mount Vesuvius rupture that destroyed the town. While the film received mixed reviews, Harington’s performance ultimately helped carry the narrative....

If most people were offered $35 million to do just one day of work, it is almost certain that they would bite off the hand holding the check, but it seems that when George Clooney was given that exact option to appear in a commercial, he and his wife Amal Clooney decided that “it’s not worth it.” In an interview with The Guardian, the award winning actor explained how when it comes to choosing the work both he and his wife take on, it all comes down to making sure they also still live their lives and don’t just live to work....

Netflix has released a new full-length trailer for GLOW season 3. As the series enters its third season, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are in for a major shake-up, as they’ve made it to the big time a fancy new residency in Las Vegas. However, as we can see in this first trailer, that doesn’t mean it’s going to solve everyone’s problems. But it should make for a very entertaining setting for viewers....

The Simpsons have given fans a number of unique couch gags in Season 25, from their tribute to animation legend Hayao Miyazaki in January, to the gag inspired by The Triplets Of Belleville in March to this month’sMad Men parody. Fox has debuted the couch gag for this week’s episode, “What to Expect When Bart’s Expecting, airing Sunday, April 27th, which is an homage to Acme Filmworks. Michal Socha, who made the short film Chick, which this gag is inspired by, directed this unique look inside Homer Simpson’s brain....

During a press conference at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, Studio Ghibli announced that acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki will “retire from the production of feature-length films.” However, the announcement doesn’t rule out the possibility of the filmmaker directing short films for the studio. His final movie, The Wind Rises, has been playing in Japanese theaters since mid-July, but it doesn’t have a U.S. release date set. The animated film is based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II....

Ralphie is going to make his grand return! According to Deadline, four holiday-related movies will be coming to HBO Max in November this year, Holiday Harmony, A Christmas Mystery, A Hollywood Christmas, and A Christmas Story Christmas. The last on that list is the anticipated sequel to the holiday classic, A Christmas Story! A Christmas Story Christmas will be directed by Clay Kaytis. Irwin Zwilling, Marc Toberoff, Cale Boyter, Jay Ashenfelter, Peter Billingsley, and Vince Vaughn are all credited as producers....

Things are looking up for Henry Selick. The famous stop motion artist, director, producer, and musician, has announced he has bought back the rights to a formerly canceled movie from Disney and Pixar. That movie is called The Shadow King! The Shadow King first came to life when Pixar’s then-CEO, John Lasseter, reached out to Selick. After seeing the critical and financial success of 2009’s Coraline, Lasseter was interested in collaborating on a project with the director’s unique style....

Amidst a plethora of controversial characters in the world of DC, the Joker remains one of the most flexible, having famously been reimagined and reinvented over the years. The Joker, of course, is the notorious archnemesis of Bruce Wayne’s Batman. From Heath Ledger’s faultless portrayal in The Dark Night to Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscar-winning performance in Joker, many well known actors have happily played the memorable trickster. After Robert Pattinson’s casting in The Batman, superhero fans began a lengthy discussion about the opportunity of Bill Skarsgård taking on the role of the chaotic Joker....

The sad saga of Anna Nicole Smith continues. War has broken out between Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern, and former news anchor Rita Cosby. Her new book, Blonde Ambition, accuses the two of being gay lovers, and cutting a deal giving custody of baby Dannielynn to Birkhead, and making Stern executor of Smith’s estate. And what about that Texas doctor who is trying to release a video documenting Anna undergoing cosmetic surgery?...

Spoiler Warning: Andor Season One Andor episode 11, “Daughter of Ferrix,” sets us up for the finale and slowly takes us back through the worlds Tony Gilroy created for the series. The show also gave us a look at a lot of new-age Star Wars ship designs and gave us a peak at just how deadly Luthen Rael could be. Dave Chapman’s newest droid B2EMO gave us a heartbreaking performance as we lost Cassian Andor’s mother, Maarva....

After making its rounds at film festivals, Robbie Banfitch’s The Outwaters is finally hitting the public in early February. With praise being showered upon it for its atmospheric terror and explosive climax, The Outwaters joins Shudder’s recently-acquired film Skinamarink in taking a more methodical approach to horror, warping and twisting what was once a familiar and pleasant setting into something much more unsettling. Unlike Skinamarink, however, The Outwaters aims to take a much more visceral and violent turn as four friends enter a night of madness in the Mojave Desert....

The latest trailer for the upcoming biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody offers another glimpse at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker star Naomi Ackie as the seminal music legend Whitney Houston. Released courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment, I Wanna Dance with Somebody is set for release at the end of this year and promises to detail the life and career of the cultural icon, who sadly passed away in 2012 at 48 years old....