Experts have been predicting for some time that artificial intelligence would change the movie industry. However, many filmmakers weren’t too worried because AI historically had trouble creating realistic fight scenes.
Okay, so most people know me as Spoiler, but I actually was Robin for a while! My on-again, off-again boyfriend, Tim Drake, was rocking the Robin suit in the recent Batman comics by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez, but he just gave it up. Apparently, Fraction says we’re gonna see how I, Stephanie Brown, react to all that in the upcoming issues.
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a reimagining of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World, but it more closely follows the original 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. The movie tells the story of Antarctic researchers who become increasingly paranoid and distrustful of each other as a terrifying alien creature begins to absorb and imitate them.
War has been a popular subject in movies almost since the beginning of filmmaking. For the last hundred years, each new generation has explored and reflected on the wars and resulting hardships of those who came before them through film.
Chris Hemsworth shared that it took some convincing – and maybe a little persuading – to get his daughter India to reprise her role in Avengers: Doomsday. He explained on The View that now that she’s 13, she gets impatient on set, asking how much longer filming will take. After just one take, she apparently asked if they were finished, and Chris had to tell her they still had a few more days of shooting left.
Ang Lee’s film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, became incredibly popular and inspired a wave of similar martial arts movies, including The House of Flying Daggers, which is now considered one of the best of the 21st century. While these films launched a new trend in the early 2000s, they weren’t the very first of their kind – they built on a long tradition of wuxia cinema.
In a recent interview with TopMob, Spencer House, who plays Wrigley on Tell Me Lies, shared his thoughts on Wrigley and Bree’s relationship. He doesn’t believe their romance was destined to fail, and actually thinks they “probably would have been pretty successful” as a couple if they hadn’t been connected through the same friend group.
The science fiction movie Alien: Romulus made a comeback on February 11th, appearing on Prime Video’s top 10 list at number nine, slightly ahead of the comedy Down Periscope. It also performed well internationally, reaching number three in Spain on HBO Max – its highest ranking there.
Baelor plays a key role not just in the story of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but also in the present circumstances of the characters and the future of Westeros. While he served as Hand of the King, Westeros enjoyed a period of peace. His death ultimately set the Targaryen family on the course that led to the reign of the Mad King Aerys II. Baelor represents the best potential of House Targaryen – what they could have become.
The new series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin’s story The Hedge Knight, has been very well-received by critics, earning a 95% “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Viewers seem a bit more split, giving it a 73% score, but overall the show is praised for staying true to the original story and introducing the characters of Dunk (Peter Claffey) and Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).