Author: Rick Ceballos

Of all the cartoons to come from Hanna Barbara, the most resilient has to be Scooby-Doo. Since their introduction in 1969, Scooby and the Mystery, Inc. gang have been featured in countless spin offs, remakes and adaptations, from live action to Lego. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Scooby Doo, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment has announced a deluxe blu ray set featuring all 41 original episodes of Scooby-Doo Where Are You? The set, as broken by bloody-disgusting, is due to come out on September 3rd, and will come in a box made to look like (what else?) a haunted…

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Now that Robert Pattinson has officially been named as film’s newest Batman actor, the hype cycle has begun anew. What will his costume look like? Who will the villains be? Will this be able to salvage the character after the whole Batman V Superman debacle? While we all debate and speculate, Hollywood Reporter held an online poll to gauge the kind what fans are most excited about. While some of the answers are expected, a couple results are completely bonkers. The site, together with pollsters Morning Consult, broke up the questions by age to see what groups are most excited…

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It feels weird being able to announce concrete news about a Bill and Ted movie other than just saying “it might be happening.” After almost 30 since the last movie in the series, the idea of another sequel in the franchise felt like a distant pipe dream. I personally wrote off the idea that Keanu Reeves would ever come back after the first Matrix came out, and that was 20 years ago. While both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter always said that would come back, neither one of them needed the gig all that bad. Keanu is, well, Keanu and…

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As the world works to move on from Game of Thrones, HBO has been working overtime to offer shows to keep people from hitting that unsubscribe button. That includes making programs that can hit a variety of different audiences. You got Chernobyl for history buffs, Big Little Lies for those who love soap operas that pretend that they aren’t and Watchmen for the nerds. Los Espookys, HBO’s new comedy, is for people that love the weird and are not afraid of subtitles. If you like the oddball comedy of shows like Portlandia and know who Siouxsie and The Banshees are,…

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Few movie franchises have had as many ups and downs as Fox’s X-Men series. The first film helped jumpstart the superhero crazy all the way back in 2000. Since then, there have been just as many good sequels (X2, First Class, Logan) as bad ones (Wolverine: Origins, Apocalypse). The latest film in the series Dark Phoenix ended up being something of a swan song for the series now that Fox has been bought up by Disney. Now that Marvel/Disney has control of the characters again, they are free to completely ignore what came before and forge a new version that…

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