Author: Jacob Dressler

Netflix’s upcoming film Cuties has found plenty of negative attention since its promotional campaign began. The film is intended to be something of a commentary on the United States entertainment industry, and how young girls are constantly being overly-sexualized by it. As a bit of an ironic result, however, the film has so far been promoted with overly-sexualized imagery of young girls. Thus the backlash, and now actress Tessa Thompson is attempting to defend Cuties against it. Moviegoers may recognize Tessa Thompson for her work on films like Thor: Ragnarok and Men in Black: International. The actress, who praised the…

It wouldn’t be 2020 if there wasn’t some absurd, potentially apocalyptic news to deliver. And as it turns out, there is. It’s actually now been confirmed by NASA that there’s an asteroid headed in the Earth’s direction – and it has a possibility of hitting us the day before the election. The asteroid is named 2018VP1, and was actually discovered at Palomar Observatory in California in 2018. It seems that the asteroid might just have the possibility of hitting us on November 2, one day before the United States’ presidential election is due to begin. What perfect timing, and with…

The DC Comics Batman property has been on everyone’s minds lately. With a variety of new films, television shows, and video games all in various stages of production and release – it’s hard not to think about Batman. This has only been made even more apparent with the recent slew of new Batman-related announcements from DC’s FanDome event. Now we have even more to look forward to, particularly John Ridley’s upcoming Batman comic book series – which will see the titular superhero character become a person of color. This is a pretty big change to the traditional portrayal of the…

It seems to be a good time for reboots, and the 1990’s slasher flick Urban Legend has been picked for the treatment. The movie has seen varying attempts at sequels in the past, but this will be the first outright reboot under the Urban Legend franchise name. Now, according to Collider, casting is apparently already underway for the new slasher movie. It seems like actress Sydney Chandler is being eyed for the film’s lead, with fellow actress Katherine McNamara also attached. There’s also a chance that Keith Powers will be included in the cast, which is being described as an…

Fans have been waiting quite awhile for The Haunting of Bly Manor, the followup season to Netflix’s very successful The Haunting of Hill House. Unlike its predecessor, however, this time the story will be an adaptation of Henry James’ story The Turn of the Screw – with elements from many other ghost stories by the same author sprinkled throughout. It’s definitely enough to get many horror fans excited, and now we have our first look at The Haunting of Bly Manor with a variety of new images. As you can see in the below images from Vanity Fair, we have…

It’s obvious that Margot Robbie’s interpretation of Harley Quinn has become one of the most iconic elements of the entire DCEU. Her popularity quickly led her to return in several more movies, including the recently released Birds of Prey as well as the upcoming film The Suicide Squad. These additional appearances for the beloved character has showed a varied and interesting development for Harley Quinn, and fans are eager to see her go on even more adventures in The Suicide Squad. And, of course, this includes her appearance – because as you can see down below, Harley Quinn will have…

It goes without saying that everyone was obviously overwhelmed and excited by the surge of trailers and announcements released at this weekend’s DC FanDome. The event dedicated itself to revealing a large portion of DC’s upcoming projects, including movies, video games, and of course comics. The digital panel finally concluded with a trailer for The Batman – Matt Reeves’ upcoming superhero film starring Robert Pattinson in the title role. While the footage revealed The Riddler as the main villain for the movie, it also seems that Colin Farrell as The Penguin might have been spotted in the trailer for The…

Warner Bros. has been giving out all sorts of exciting new announcements via this weekend’s DC FanDome event. A wide variety of projects have either been announced, discussed, or given trailers and other sneak previews. Now The Batman, the highly anticipated solo film focused on the titular superhero, has finally received its first trailer at the event – and it’s definitely interesting. It’s surprising that we’re being given a trailer at all. As you likely already know, the film won’t be out until a little over a year from now in 2021. But what’s more, the film actually had a…

For better or worse, it was revealed not too long ago that Morgan Creek was preparing a new film based on The Exorcist for release in 2021. As you can expect from such an announcement, there’s been quite a variety of backlash against the project. In fact, some fans of the original film are outright enraged that a reboot of The Exorcist would even be considered, much less developed. Because of this, some fans have created a petition against the development of Morgan Creek’s reboot of The Exorcist. As of this writing, the petition against the reboot of The Exorcist…

It wasn’t until the release of The Conjuring and its many continuations that the haunted Annabelle doll became a worldwide pop culture sensation. While the real life doll had always been a popular item for those interested in the paranormal, the movie franchise made entire generations aware of Annabelle and her story. And, as a result, the Internet recently went a bit crazy with Annabelle – and began spreading stories that she had actually managed to escape from the Warren Occult Museum. However, it wasn’t until someone made their way to Wikipedia that the rumors suggesting Annabelle managed to escape…