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[ad_1] How do you sell a romance between a depressed, ’80s goth teen and a recently undead Byronic hero? If you’re Lisa Frankenstein stars Kathryn Newton (Abigail) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), then you play out the untraditional love story of Lisa Swallow and The Creature as big and darkly comedic as possible.  Both Lisa and The Creature are misfits connected…

[ad_1] Back in 2020, prestige filmmaker Christopher Nolan admitted his unabashed affection for the Fast & Furious franchise. Not surprisingly, the confession took moviegoers by storm. After all, Nolan is a storyteller known for cinematic brain teasers that leave the audience with more questions than answers. The Fast Saga, on the other hand, operates on the…

[ad_1] Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has had myriad cinematic adaptations and interpretations since the very first Frankenstein in 1910. But there’s never been an ’80s based, female gaze, black comedy reimagining like screenwriter Diablo Cody and first-time director Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein, a goth fairy tale, where the heroes include a murderous teen, Lisa Swallow (Kathryn Newton), and her…

[ad_1] The recent first-look at Universal’s Epic Universe theme park, which is scheduled to open in 2025 at Orlando Resort in Florida, is not only a window into the overall Celestial Park and Portal concept, it’s also a confirmation of Universal Theme Park’s continued long legacy of providing guests the opportunity to “ride the movies”…

[ad_1] This week marks the release of Lisa Frankenstein, the new horror-comedy-romance from director Zelda Williams and writer Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body). It’s a film that promises to take audiences back to the bright colors and wildest fashion choices of the 1980s, as a teenage girl who feels lost in the world of the living develops…

[ad_1] Coming midway through Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan’s iconic Caped Crusader trilogy, the late, great Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight (streaming here on Peacock) drew tons of well-earned critical acclaim. But in truth, Ledger’s controlled-chaos performance simply served as a punctuation mark for what was already an incredibly well-acted comic…

[ad_1] Skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere have a chance to catch the lesser-known and little-celebrated Alpha centaurid meteor shower this week. Meteoroids, asteroids, and comets get a lot of flak on the big and small screen for what they might do. We make movies and shows – like the two-part miniseries Meteor, streaming on Peacock…

[ad_1] A lot of familiar faces have passed through The Twilight Zone (catch episodes regularly on SYFY): William Shatner, Robert Redford, Dennis Hopper, Burgess Meredith, George Takei — the list goes on. But in addition to the famous human guest stars, the original Twilight Zone series also featured not one but three guest appearances by one of…

[ad_1] Not unlike the way the cute, cuddly Mogwai transform into evil, impish Grelmins, the iconic ‘80s comedy-horror flick helped transform movies forever. Gremlins (airing this month on SYFY), which will turn 40 years old this summer, was one of two films that prompted the invention of the PG-13 rating. It may shock younger viewers to…

[ad_1] Remember in Jurassic Park when Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) scared the life out of a kid to prove a point? While happily describing the features of a fossil to a crowd of onlookers in the desert, an unnamed kid chirps up from the back, “That doesn’t look very scary. More like a six…