Author: Bill Watters

Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s- he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television. Spending nearly a decade as a projectionist, he fell into the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and became a codemonkey for a range of game companies. These days he's a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at pop-culture events and conventions, as well as a prolific film and television critic and genre news writer. He is also a member critic of both the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition to his writing, he is also a photojournalist and can be found on Getty Images.

“WandaVision” has been hit and miss over it’s initial five episodes, but with the most recent installment (which is actually simply titled, “Episode 5”) it did something more than just continuing the storyline. But we’ll get to that in a moment (and we’ll warn you before we get to the main spoiler). After last week’s, We Interrupt this Program, we got a picture of what’s been going on in the outside world. Including seeing Monica Rambeau (played by Teyonah Parris) returning after the second half of the blip from “Avengers: Endgame”. That element ties in the young Monica from “Captain…

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Well, it seems that by an innocent slip-up, the title of the upcoming fourth installment in the “Matrix” franchise has been let out of the bag. Thus far Warner Bros. Pictures has been largely tight lipped around the storyline or details around the film. However it was an innocuous wrap gift that wound up being the leak. Shunika Terry, the key hairstylist on location in Germany, had posted to her Instagram account, a photo of what appears to be a Neo-inspired jacket or shirt, with an accompanying card, reading: …during these extraordinary times in the making of Matrix Resurrections. Wir…

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We are very sorry to share the news that “Babylon 5” star Mira Furlan as sadly passed away.As if the cast of “Babylon 5” hasn’t had enough tragedy from losses amongst their ranks over the years. Sadly this evening, the series creator J. Michael Straczynski posted on his Facebook page that Furlan had passed on Wednesday, January 20th. While not having much information on the cause, JMS posted a touching In Memorium: When Mira Furlan came to audition for Babylon 5, her home country of Yugoslavia was in turmoil and shattering into two separate countries. During our first meeting, we…

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News of the tribulations of the conservative social media network Parler continues to unfold. In the days following the insurrection against the capital building in Washington D.C., tech companies have been rapidly cutting their support for outgoing US President Donald Trump and his sycophants. First, Twitter and Facebook suspended Trump’s social media accounts (then later changed the lockout from a suspension to permanently banned). More recently as Alt-Right conservatives began flocking to Parler (the social media network with the tagline of “speak freely”), both Google and then Apple removed the mobile app version of the service from their stores. While…

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After the insurrection in Washington D.C. earlier this week, tech companies are severing their support of Alt-Right/Conservative social media network, Parler. Dealing perhaps the hardest blow is Amazon, sending Parler a letter informing them that the company will cease allowing Parler to utilize their cloud platforms to host the service. While the social media network which features the slogan, “speak freely,” has long been used as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, especially since Twitter had taken to flagging Donald Trump’s Tweets as misleading or factually incorrect. However since the attack on the capital building, and Twitter and Facebook afterwards…

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While we’ve known for a while that Showtime has had a revival of the long-running hit series “Dexter” in the works, it’s been relatively thin on information on who would be in the cast beyond the return of Michel C. Hall as the titular Dexter. According to Variety, “Highlander’s” Kurgan, Clancy Brown, will be joining the cast as Kurt Caldwell, an unofficial mayor of the small town of Iron Lake, New York. And today is actually Brown’s birthday! Variety’s description of the character showcases him as: He’s realized the American dream by going from driving big rigs, just like his…

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“Greenland” is one of those quiet films that sneaks in under the radar. Whether it was STX just not wanting to put much marketing push behind it or what, I’d heard literally nothing about it until just before it premiered. It actually opened in other countries back in mid-August, which might have diluted the domestic messaging, which is a shame because it’s actually really very good. Why is that such a surprise? Well if we recall back to the before times (in this case 2017), Gerard Butler’s last “the sky is falling” genre film was “Geostorm.” And if you’re one…

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