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Festivals: Thesis on a Domestication (2024) by Javier van de Couter: A Family Forging Its Own Path top of pagebottom of page

Universal is opening its first park outside its hubs in Orlando and Hollywood, this one dedicated to popular kids franchises including Shrek, Minions, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Jurassic World.The company said its appropriately named Universal Kids Resort will open next year in Frisco, Texas, and confirmed all of its themed lands with the concept art included above.They said that the park will entire into an “Isle of Curiosity, a whimsical gateway with space for kids to explore” which will include a meet and gree and dance party with the characters from Gabby’s Dollhouse. There’s also a “Shrek Swamp” with a Shrek and Fiona meet and greet, and two “interactive…

Season 3 of Elsbeth is about to escalate to new levels of danger for Carrie Preston’s titular investigator, thanks to a comedy icon. Collider can share an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming Episode 2, titled “Doll Day Afternoon,” in which Elsbeth Tascioni gets involved in a murder case at a famous New York toy store where she meets a curious man named Nolan, played by Mr. Show and Arrested Development favorite David Cross. When the situation quickly devolves into a hostage crisis, she’s tasked with talking down the ex-con and somehow getting everyone out unscathed. Our clip depicts the…

Warning: This review includes spoilers for Slow Horses Season 5, Episode 4 Just a week ago, I was singing the praises of Slow Horses and the growth the title characters showed this season, coming together to escape Devon (Cherrelle Skeete) and Slough House. Then, poof, like a magic act, the teamwork disappears, and we once again have our horses tripping, slipping, and dropping paint cans all over themselves and certain PMs. I should’ve known this would happen when Lamb (Gary Oldman) complimented/denigrated his team to Flyte (Ruth Bradley) with, “At least my lot f**k up on an epic scale, they’re…

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Festivals: Dracula (2025) by Radu Jude: A chaotic, meta, and political reimagining of the world’s most famous vampire myth top of pagebottom of page

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has officially cast Megan Fox to voice Toy Chica.The Transformers star will lend her voice to the playful yellow chicken animatronic in the follow-up to Five Nights at Freddy’s.A redesigned replacement of Withered Chica from the first film, Toy Chica is the flirtatious, sassy, and sadistic backup singer animatronic of the refurbished Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.Fox’s casting was announced at New York Comic-Con Friday (October 10) during Jason Blum’s BlumFest panel.Reactions to Fox’s casting have been mixed online, with some fans of the franchise unconvinced and others excited to see what Fox brings to the table.Fans…

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Watson.] Summary In the Season 2 premiere of ‘Watson,’ Sherlock Holmes resurfaces, reigniting Watson’s old-friend dynamic. Season 2 will raise the personal stakes, as John Watson must evaluate what it is he really wants. Watson juggles a new relationship with Laila with unresolved ties to Mary, while Season 2 adds levity and deeper character backstory. The CBS series Watson is back for Season 2, with new medical mysteries, this time hitting very close to home when Mary’s (Rochelle Aytes) mother appears to be rapidly progressing with her rare form of…

In many ways, Disney is the king of movie franchises. Not only is the studio home to behemoths like Star Wars, James Cameron’s Avatar, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also has a strong track record of turning its iconic animated films into mini-universes in their own right. That’s even before they inevitably produce live-action remakes. Last week, news broke that Disney is looking to add another valuable property to its stable: Impossible Creatures, the middle grade/YA book series by Katherine Rundell. The books, which follow a young boy named Christopher who discovers a fantastical cluster of islands brimming with…

This lightly comic portrait of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson is driven by an impressive central performance.  In the late 1980s, John Davidson became something of a household name in the UK as the focus of a profile documentary on BBC television. John’s Not Mad offered a window on the life of a Galashiels teen with Tourette syndrome, and it encompassed a pathfinding social push to educate the public on a condition about which little was known. Indeed, during his early life, John was chalked up as a mouthy, self-destructive reprobate as he had no way to convince his family and…