We like to make up jokey themes for these monthly streaming write-ups, since it’s a fun way to make them seem more interesting than they are, but we can finally put that to rest because next month is October—the month with an actual theme we can base some streaming write-ups around. That theme, obviously, is…

Last October, we covered a trailer for a sci-fi movie called Replicas that starred Keanu Reeves as a scientist obsessed with cloning who loses his family in a car accident. It looked fine, it had Thomas Middleditch as Reeves’ assistant, and it was supposed to come out “soon.” Again, that was a year ago, with no sign…

Apparently determined to overcome the legacy of Michael Jordan at every possible turn, LeBron James has doubled down on his efforts to make a Space Jam movie that might actually be, ya know, objectively good. Today, THR reports that James has partnered up with Ryan Coogler—the celebrated director of Fruitvale Station, …

David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot—which ignores the sequels and brings back original star Jamie Lee Curtis—won’t be silently stalking its way into theaters until next month, but it’s never too early to start preparing for the arrival of Michael Myers. Some Halloween fans might just want to make sure they have a…

Earlier this year, a 45-year-old Irish woman named Amanda Teague came forward to share a joyful announcement with the world: Two years earlier, she had married a wonderful man. His name is Jack—a funny coincidence, as Teague makes her living as a Jack Sparrow impersonator—and he’s her soulmate. He also happens to be a…

Nicolas Cage is garnering a lot of attention at the moment, thanks largely to his latest film, the blood-soaked, hallucinatory Mandy. Directed by Panos Cosmatos, the film not only manages to be a lurid, bizarre bit of uber-violent spectacle, but also the home for a crazy Nicolas Cage performance that’s deranged in…

According to Deadline, Anthony Mackie from the Marvel movies and Jamie Dornan from the Fifty Shades movies are set to star in Synchronic, the next sci-fi project from The Endless directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson. That film was about a pair of brothers investigating what happened to the UFO-themed suicide…

Good news, GOM-heads: Your favorite grouchy older males are coming back into fashion, with Deadline reporting that a reboot of the 1995 “Old man yells at older man” classic Grumpy Old Men is in the works. Specifically, the Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau team-up is being revived with comedy star Eddie Murphy in one of the…

As we reported back in August, Shout! Factory and Fathom Events are going to bring The Transformers: The Movie back to theaters for a one-night event later this month on September 27, finally giving a new generation a chance to see what a good Transformers movie looks like. Forget the Michael Bay films: This one has a…

It takes a remarkable actor to make a catchphrase for themselves out of the sound we all make when surprised. Keanu Reeves, of course, has accomplished just that. Whether he’s traveling through time, learning how to do martial arts inside a computer simulation, or infiltrating a nefarious gang of criminal surfers,…

In the original 1964 Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews’ magical nanny was there to brighten the lives of some bored children and heir dour parents. In Mary Poppins Returns, the upcoming sequel with Emily Blunt in the title role, Poppins has come to wage a war against sadness itself. In this new sequel, Ben Whishaw plays a…

[Warning: This article includes descriptions of sexual misconduct that may be disturbing to some readers.]

Late last month, Alec Baldwin wasted everybody’s time by signing on to Todd Phillips’ Joker as a supposedly Trump-esque take on Thomas Wayne (the father of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne), and then dropping out a day or so later with a dismissive comment about how any actor could play the role. Now, Warner Bros. and…

Think back to April of 2015, when Suicide Squad director David Ayer first revealed what Jared Leto’s Joker would look like. Remember the abundance of “ha ha ha” tattoos? The one purple glove? The silver teeth? The word “damaged” stamped on his forehead? Well, prepare to meet the exact opposite of that image:

Good news for fans of arrogant, fucked-up quasi-royalty: It’s almost October, when Matthew Weiner’s new Amazon Prime series, The Romanoffs, is set to make its big streaming debut. The series arrives on the 12th, introducing us to a world of shared bloodlines and shared dysfunctions, as Weiner returns to TV for the…

This summer’s Solo: A Star Wars Story was a brisk, frivolous little heist picture, one that probably didn’t deserve all of the weight that’s been dropped on its head—from the high-profile departure of its original directors, to the flack it took for belaboring every single point of its roguish anti-hero’s backstory,…

For a second there, it looked like Deadpool and Logan might be about to get a new buddy in the R-rated superhero club, as Sony’s standalone Venom movie was promising the potential for all sorts of “dudes get their faces eaten by an alien tongue monster” action. But alas, not even symbiotes can take on the power of the…

If there’s one thing that everybody had an issue with in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it was the very noticeable absence of Greg Grunberg’s Snap Wexley, the Resistance pilot from The Force Awakens who… was played by Greg Grunberg (he had a line or two, but that was his most memorable trait if we’re being…

Yesterday, we heard that Warner Bros. was planning to kick Henry Cavill out of its DC superhero movies, and that someone—maybe even Michael B. Jordan?—would be stepping in to replace him the next time the world needed Superman. We haven’t heard anything about Ben Affleck also losing his gig as WB’s current Batman, but…