Author: Mary Anne Butler

[Editor’s note: This piece about “The Beastmaster” comes to us from Anders Scot Hudson, cultural authority and resident Old-Man-Yells-At-Cloud on several subjects across the known universe.]For those of us who are about to, or have crossed the silver border into the age of 50, we almost all have a clear nostalgia for the golden age of sword and sorcery films. From household names like “Conan the Barbarian” to lesser know titles like “Barbarian Queen” and “Hawk the Slayer-” these titles immediately bring in a flood of memories. They were inspiration for our first edition D&D campaigns, the epic soundtracks to…

This just in-sounds like we haven’t seen the last of Ben Affleck’s Batman yet, as a new report claims the actor will don the cowl for another outing as the Dark Knight in the upcoming “The Flash” film. According to Vanity Fair, Affleck will return to the role for the upcoming “The Flash” solo film, which will also see Michael Keaton reprise his version of Batman. This of course led us all to believe that meant the storyline would theoretically follow the “Flashpoint” comics. This, as it turns out, is totally accurate.Also, you know, “Welcome to the Multiverse.” Andy Muschietti,…

This just in-The long-rumored film about Kraven the Hunter just took a big step forward with director J.C. Chandor reportedly in the hot seat. “The Equalizer” scribe Richard Wenk wrote the script along with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad are producing.Sony’s upcoming Spider-verse films “Morbius” and “Venom: Let Their Be Carnage” have both been delayed from their original release dates to 2021.Kraven of course is an important character in the Spider-Man canon, and we’re certainly curious to see what type of actor will get the role. There have been rumors recently that Sony was looking…

This just in- “Justice League” star Ray Fisher has just revealed that WarnerMedia has brought in a third-party investigation into allegations of a toxic and abusive work environment on the set of reshoots for the Warner Bros. Pictures DC Comics film. If you’ll recall, Fisher had previously tweeted several strongly-worded accusations against filmmaker Joss Whedon, who stepped in to finish the film when original director Zack Snyder had to step away due to family tragedy. Today, Fisher shared the news of the investigation in a series of tweets: As you can see from the above tweets, Fisher alleges that Geoff…

We’re not gonna lie- Robert Eggers’ upcoming film “The Northman” has us VERY interested. The all-star cast alone is worth being excited for, especially now that Björk has joined the production as a character called “The Slav Witch.” Listed currently as a “historical revenge film” set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century. The project begun filming in Belfast, Ireland. Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón Sigurdsson co-wrote the script with Eggers. Considering the previous credits to Eggers’ name- “The VVitch,” “The Lighthouse,”- we have nothing but faith in the Viking tale.”There’s many locations in the film, so we…

We are so pleased to report that Netflix has announced the release date for season 4 of their fabulous series all about the English monarchy, “The Crown,” as well as a first-look teaser trailer of the new cast in action.If you’ll recall, season 3 of the series brought a new crop of royals to Buckingham Palace, with Oscar winner Olivia Coleman taking on the role of Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from Emmy winner Claire Foy, Tobias Menzies taking over as His Royal Highness Prince Phillip from Matt Smith, Helena Bonham Carter taking over as Princess Margaret from Vanessa…

We are so absolutely thrilled to share a brand-new trailer for Disney+ and National Geographic’s upcoming take on the brave men (and their wives) of the Mercury 7- “The Right Stuff.” We’ll see Major John Glenn (Patrick J. Adams), Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman), Captain Gordo Cooper (Colin O’Donoghue),Wally Schirra (Aaron Staton), Scott Carpenter (James Lafferty), Deke Slayto (Micah Stock), and Gus Grissom, (Michael Trotter) as the main players of the Space Program. Nora Zehetner plays Annie Glenn, Shannon Lucio is Louise Shepard, and Eloise Mumford plays Trudy Cooper. Mark Lafferty (“Halt and Catch Fire”) is showrunner, as well as executive producer. Jennifer Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio also executive produce through their Appian Way…

DC FanDome kicks off this weekend with part one of their two-part convention adjacent event, “Hall of Heroes.” One of the main offerings we’re all waiting for is the first officially released footage of Matt Reeves’ upcoming film, “The Batman.”Just this morning, Reeves shared the first look at the official Bat-logo for the film, as well as a new poster by comics great Jim Lee. Starring Robert Pattinson in the title role, it’ll be a very different Dark Knight than we’ve seen previously. This’ll be more of a true dark noir story, theoretically diving deep into the detective side of…

This just in- Sounds like Sony’s Spider-Man slate may have just picked Olivia Wilde to direct that possible Spider-Woman project we keep hearing rumblings of. We know for sure that Wilde is tapped to direct and co-write a Marvel Comics based film, but we’re not sure on who it’ll be yet.Wilde recently directed the fabulous 2019 film “Booksmart,” which starred Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, and Wilde’s husband Jason Sudeikis.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wilde would be co-writing the script with Katie Silberman (who co-wrote “Booksmart”). Amy Pascal will reportedly produce, with Rachel O’Connor serving as executive producer. Jessica…

We’re still not over just how bad the final two seasons of HBO’s landmark high fantasy series “Game of Thrones” were. Admittedly, we knew back in season 3 that things were taking a serious turn from the source material, and that things weren’t gonna be as expected.That’s not a bad thing, but the team of David Benioff and Dan Weiss sort of…stopped trying to make it coherent, or even passably good. Even the level of sheer entertainment value that a show of this level SHOULD present to fans fell off so steeply, it was like the writers gave up at…