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Labubu. The Movie.With the fuzzy, vaguely creepy dolls remaining hugely popular all around the globe, Sony has made a deal to develop a movie based on the property.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio “picked up the screen rights to the Chinese doll brand with the aim of making a movie and, in success, launching a franchise.”They don’t have any details about a story or about the creators at this point, nor whether the film will be live-action or animated. (Sony’s animation studio is behind such major recent hits as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Kpop Demon Hunters.)The little critters originated in China in…

In the 1980s, television made humiliation look like harmless fun. Forty years later, Edgar Wright calls it prophecy. The path to The Running Man began with It’s a Knockout! and 3-2-1, two surreal British game shows that turned confusion and chaos into national entertainment. On It’s a Knockout!, ordinary people in costumes stumbled along obstacle courses while the crowd cheered. On 3-2-1, contestants solved riddles so bizarre that even the winners often left empty-handed. Together, they formed a picture of spectacle without empathy, a kind of cheerful cruelty that fascinated Wright. At a premiere screening followed by a Q&A at…

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is coming to theaters in 2027, and star Mason Thames just revealed when production gets underway, as well as a major casting update. After releasing three animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, Universal pulled a Disney and created a live-action remake of the first film, which was a hit at the box office. Now plans are underway for a sequel, which is scheduled for June 11, 2027. In an interview with ScreenRant’s Grant Hermanns for Black Phone 2, Thames revealed that he’ll be heading back to the Isle of Berk to film How…

Gluttons for emotional punishment would do well to seek out Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers, an ickily-stylised screen adaptation of Max Porter’s hit 2019 novel ​‘Grief is a Thing with Feathers’. It’s telling that they’ve removed the marketing turn-off term ​“grief” from the title, but the fact is, you’d need to have a media literacy score of minus 3000 to not get what this film is selling, as a ghostly humanoid crow verbally harangues and demeans a father and his two kids in the direct wake of their wife/mother’s sudden death. And that grief is laid on with an over-sized trowel as the we have…

Movie Summary: Uncertainty, Dreams, and the Road to BrazilTitle: A Portrait of Directionless Youth and Existential SearchingSummary of Content: Pikad paberid (or Rolling Papers) is a contemporary Estonian Drama that offers an intimate portrait of European youth in their twenties. The film centers on Sebastian (Mihkel Kuusk), a store clerk whose ordinary life is disrupted when he meets Silo (Karl Birnbaum), a free-spirited wanderer. Together, they smoke weed and dream of a one-way ticket to Brazil. The narrative explores the lives of young adults united by their profound uncertainty about the future and a deep longing for a purposeful existence. The film uses a contemplative…

Colin Farrell is set to star in yet another comic book adaptation hot off his role as the Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman movie and HBO’s critically acclaimed The Penguin series, which notched him two Primetime Emmy nominations this year.Farrell will play a priest with a violent past in the upcoming action-thrilled Ordained, based on the upcoming comic book of the same name. Issue #1 of the Robert Venditti-penned, Trevor Hairsine-illustrated comic is due out December 10 via publisher Bad Idea.The Irish actor will team up with MCU masterminds and producers Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO studio for the…

Summary In an interview with Collider, Michael Zimmerman spoke with Alex Rodriguez, Gotham Chopra, and Erik LeDrew about ALEX vs AROD. Rodriguez says sharing his story was “the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.” The directors also reveal how trust and honesty shaped Rodriguez’s most personal story yet. Alex Rodriguez is a lightning rod — a polarizing figure who has reached the pinnacle of sporting achievement, while also falling to the depths of despair. From his record-setting contracts and suspension, to three Most Valuable Player Awards, a World Series Championship, and tainted statistics, he has lived his life under the…

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Last Samurai Standing season 1. Last Samurai Standing season 1’s ending is filled with duels, betrayals, and twists, leaving a lot hanging in the balance. Last Samurai Standing’s reviews know exactly what the show is: a battle royale that emphasizes badass samurai action. This action comes to a head in Last Samurai Standing episode 6, from individual duels to teases about future battles. As a Squid Game meets Shogun battle royale, Last Samurai Standing has its share of twists amid the action. The narrative reveals and action moments truly solidify it as Netflix’s next…

Louis Leterrier’s unlikely 2013 hit, Now You See Me, opens with an instruction: ​“Come closer… Closer… The closer you are the less you’ll actually see” uttered by the film’s unlikely hero, J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg). What follows was an increasingly ridiculous, self-important and deeply fun crime caper, chasing ​“the four horsemen” as they swindled their way across America. Leterrier’s original film benefitted from extensive sequences that were increasingly knotted, full of illogical mirages and obfuscations and barely gripping onto any semblance of reality, but gamely gesturing towards real-world answers. The newest offering in the franchise, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, boasts…

Movie Summary: The Archaeologist’s Battle for Freedom in BerlinTitle: Political Exile, Bureaucracy, and a Mother’s Desperate FightSummary of Content: Maysoon is an intense German-Greek Political/Psychological Drama centered on Maysoon (Sabrina Amali), an Egyptian archaeologist who has established a life in Berlin with her German partner Tobi and their two children. Her life is suddenly thrown into crisis when her relationship unravels and her passport expires. Her past quickly catches up, revealing she was politically active before the Arab Spring, meaning that returning to Egypt could cost her her freedom. Maysoon finds herself in a desperate, simultaneous battle against her failing love life, unforgiving bureaucracy, and her…