‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Is The Latest Hollywood Movie To Scrap Plans For A Gay Character (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition:Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomis the latest film to blow an opportunity to put a gay character in a mainstream movie.) Welp, it’s happened again. Another major Hollywood blockbuster has cut a reference to a LGBTQ character’s sexuality....

‘Lobo’ TV Show Coming To Syfy, Will Be A Spin-Off Of ‘Krypton’ DC has been trying to make aLobomovie for years, but the foul-mouthed intergalactic bounty hunter is coming to the small screen first inKryptonseason 2. Now a new report says the character will be hanging out in the TV realm for a while longer, because Syfy is developing aLoboTV show that will function as a spin-off ofKrypton. But what about that movie?...

‘Mortal Kombat’ Is Now The Most Viewed Red Band Trailer Of All Time Last week, Warner Bros. Picturesdebuted the first trailerfor the latest big screen adaptation of theMortal Kombatvideo game franchise. There was a lot of excitement following the trailer’s debut, mostly because it was a red band trailer that didn’t hold back on the blood and gore of the fights between otherworldly warriors. In fact, the hype was so high thatMortal Kombatnow has the honor of being the most watched red band trailer of all time, beating out bothLoganandDeadpool 2....

‘Noah’ And The Inscrutable God We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. [The following containsSPOILERSfor Darren Aronofsky’sNoah.You can listen to our podcast review ofNoahhere.] I once had a conversation with a friend of mine who has a Ph.D in Theology. We were discussing the nature of God, and I remember him saying to me, “I’m not sure if God exists. But if He does, He has a lot to answer for....

‘Paddington 2’ Trailer: The Marmalade-Loving Bear Is Back With Some Much-Needed Joy In a week that has felt like an endless surge of bad news and gloom, thePaddington 2trailer feels like a ray of light in a dark tunnel. The sequel to the utterly charming 2014 film,Paddington 2follows the marmalade-loving talking bear (voiced byBen Whishaw) as he sets off on a mission to buy an antique pop-up book for his aunt’s 100th birthday....

‘Pet Sematary’ Directors Directors Dennis Widmyer And Kevin Kölsch Explain The Film’s Big Changes And More [Video Interview] When it came time to bringStephen King’sPet Semataryto the big screen again, directorsDennis WidmyerandKevin Kölschhad two choices. They could’ve gone for something traditional, and in line with the previous 1989 film. Or they could take an entirely new approach to material most people know so well. They went with the latter – a risky decision that paid off in a big way....

‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Trailer: It’s Anna Kendrick And The Barden Bellas Vs. The World [UPDATED] The Barden Bellas have already conquered the United States. InPitch Perfect 2, they take on the world.Anna KendrickandRebel Wilson lead the cast of the a capella sequel, which hits theaters May 15. This time, the Bellas will attempt to win the world a capella championships, something no U.S. team has ever done. Along they way they’ll bond, go camping, haze new recruits and explore what looks like an underground world of a capella that includesDavid Cross, NFL starClay Matthewsand more....

‘Reminiscence’ Spoiler Review: Good Intentions Get Buried Amid The Murkiness Of Memory Everything changes the moment she walks through that door. That much is obvious from howRebecca Fergusonis framed and lit in her introductory scene as the mysterious Mae, appearing like an angelic being who invades the darkness and grime ofReminiscencethat Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and Emily “Watts” Sanders (Thandiwe Newton) are all too familiar with. But we also know her presence knocks the tilt of Nick’s world entirely off-axis because his clunky, oftentimes subtext-removing narration can’t help but undercut the visuals to tell us exactly that....

‘Sharp Objects’: Wind Gap Is “Ripe” For A Reckoning We’re at the halfway point of HBO’s eight-episode miniseriesSharp Objects, and if we’re just listing out plot points, it doesn’t really feel like four episodes' worth of stuff has actually happened. But the story reveals ofSharp Objectsare so fundamentally tied to the character reveals, and the more we get to learn about Camille – who’s sent her article off to her editor and yet remains in Wind Gap, listening and observing, gathering data that doesn’t mean much to us as of yet but seems to mean a lot to her – the more we learn about the brutal little town that made her....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’: Here’s The Technical Reason This Movie Looks So Incredible Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which has earnedrave reviewsso far, is being hailed as the best animated movie of 2018. That comes down to a matter of taste, which makes the claim debatable. But here’s something that’s definitely not up for debate: this film doesn’t look like any other animated feature. So how exactly did directorsBob Persichetti,Peter Ramsey, andRodney Rothmanachieve that look?...

‘Spiral’ Trailer: Chris Rock Opens ‘The Book Of Saw’ Spiral,AKASpiral: From the Book of Saw, was originally supposed to unleash its bloody horrors last summer. The pandemic nixed that idea, but now, with an end (hopefully) in sight, the sequel is ready to hit the big screen. This latest entry in theSawfranchise stands out because it comes from an unexpected source:Chris Rock. Not only does Rock star in the film, he also is the one who came up with the story, too....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Gets Back To Racing In “The Voxx Vortex 5000” “The Voxx Vortex 5000” is a rather breezy episode in the second season ofStar Wars Resistance. Bored by the absence of racing aboard the Colossus, the lead Ace, Hype Fazon (Donald Faison), proposes that the Colossus pay a visit to a floating space-station casino owned by a hutt known as Vranki the Blue (John DiMaggio), his former employer, so he can race again as well as earn money for the Colossus....

‘The Professor And The Madman’ Trailer: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, And Their Big Beards Write The Dictionary Mel GibsonandSean Penn, two actors who have said and done some unfortunate things in their pasts, star inThe Professor and the Madman, a film that’s sure to not be controversial in any way. The film tells the true story of the work that went into creating the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary....