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The heat is being turned up on September 19 as Ron Howard’s visionary opus Backdraft - Anniversary Edition comes to DVD. Synopsis: Rookie firefighter Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) is struggling to earn the respect of his older brother Stephen (Kurt Russell) as the siblings carry on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. When a series of lethal fires are discovered to be intentionally set, the brothers must team up to investigate these explosive crimes....

Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) today announced an agreement to create sequels to some of Miramax’s best-known properties and to partner on potential new television shows and special edition home entertainment products. The first films to be produced under the agreement will be sequels to Bad Santa, Rounders and Shakespeare in Love. The other potential sequels and TV projects are Bridget Jones’s Diary, Cop Land, From Dusk Till Dawn, Swingers, Clerks, Shall We Dance?...

Quite arguably the single greatest adaptation of the Batman comics into another medium is finally coming to Blu-ray. Batman: The Animated Series is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and the cast and creators came together over the weekend at New York Comic Con to celebrate the occasion. During the panel, it was announced that the beloved show is finally making its way to Blu-ray in 2018, though, no specific release date was announced....

Every year, as October quickly approaches, there is nothing better than watching hours of horror stories to get into the mood for Halloween. Horror television shows provide a deep dive into characters and the scary things they face that sometimes a two-hour-long movie is not able to. For some time now, horror stories have become more popular and gained much more space on the small screen, and have been terrifying their audience ever since....

The dawn of the 21st century saw the return of the cinematic musical, with the once-lagging genre making a triumphant return to form. Fresh out of a Hollywood dryspell, the genre was able to shine once more and found new life upon the 2001 release of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! The film helped to reinvigorate Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals, a trend that is still utilized today. Musicals like Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story and the Lin-Manuel Miranda biographical musical drama Tick Tick Boom prove that the genre is still lucrative and thriving....

Despite being originally announced as one of the cast members of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, long-standing Anderson collaborator Bill Murray was strangely absent from the list of stars on board the movie earlier this week. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, the reason for Murray’s absence is down to the actor contracting Covid-19 days before shooting on the movie began last September, leading to Steve Carell taking his place in the film....

A new poster for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has been released alongside the exciting new trailer. The poster comes courtesy of the official Twitter account for Marvel Studios, and finds Letitia Wright as Shuri and Tenoch Huerta as Namor taking center stage. Check out the new poster for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever below. Marvel Studios sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will reflect real-life circumstances, with the role of T’Challa, played throughout the MCU, not being recast for the sequel....

We’ll never know for sure what it would have been like to see Chadwick Boseman return as T’Challa in Black Panther 2, but some new details about the original script for the sequel shed some light on what fans could have expected. Prior to the sudden passing of Boseman in 2020, Ryan Coogler had written a screenplay that featured Boseman back in the lead role as T’Challa. Sadly, Boseman died before he got the chance to read it, and the script was tossed to a new story could be written around T’Challa’s absence....

Fox Home Entertainment is set to release Bones: Season 4 on both DVD and Blu-ray October 6th in an all-new five disc set. Inspired by real-life anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs, Bones teams up forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) with FBI Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanz) to solve some of the most baffling and bizarre crimes out there. Bones: Season 4 contains twenty-two episodes from last year on DVD (four of Season 4’s episodes were includes in the Bones: Season 3 set as extras, so they are not included here)....

This year’s Oscar Nominated Short Films? Boo! And Whoop-doo! Plug! Last year was the first time I ever sat in a room and watched all of the nominated shorts back to back. Most of them have stayed with me; the live action more so than the animated. My personal pick for Best Live Short of 2009 was The Pig, which saw a man waging a tiny personal war in his hospital room after his beloved swine painting was removed by request of the next patient over (A Muslim)....

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Three new movies entered the box office race last week, MegaMind, Due Date and For Colored Girls, and to nobody’s surprise MegaMind ended up saving the day and taking the number one spot at the box office. But with three highly anticipated new films entering the race this weekend, including the alien invasion film Skyline, the runaway train movie Unstoppable and the romantic comedy Morning Glory, will MegaMind be able reign supreme for a second week in a row?...

Brenda Strong Talks Ann Ewing in Season Premiere of Dallas The long running hit series Dallas returns on TNT this Wednesday, June 13th, for ten all-new episodes of thrilling drama and intrigue, starting with Episode 1.01: Changing of the Guard. We’re celebrating the re-launch of this iconic and groundbreaking Prime Time soap with a series of interviews featuring the cast. First up, we speak with Desperate Housewives’ Brenda Strong, who plays Ann Ewing, wife to Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy, returning to the role that made him famous more than twenty years after the original ended its run on CBS in 1991)....

CBS announced today that most of its new and returning series will premiere during the week of Sept. 20, the official start of the 2010-2011 season. The exceptions are Survivor: Nicaragua, which launches a week earlier, and The Good Wife and CSI: Miami , which both debut a week later. CBS will get an early start on the season with the premiere of Survivor: Nicaragua, the 21st edition of the hit reality series, which launches in its new time period on Wednesday, Sept....

CBS today announced plans for a powerfully packaged premiere week, featuring new season launches for 20 of its 22 prime time series during the week of Sept. 18. The Network will jump start the season with early premieres of its Emmy Award-winning reality series Survivor: Cook Islands, which will debut Thursday, Sept. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), and The Amazing Race 10, which will open with a special 90-minute broadcast on Sunday, Sept....

Top Gun: Maverick film Director Joseph Kosinski enjoyed a privileged position with the U.S. Navy for several years while making the Academy Award-nominated action blockbuster sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. This means he “got to go to places that civilians don’t get to go to” and “got to see things that no civilian would get to see.” For example, the film director recently recalled his VIP access benefits of going to China Lake, a naval air weapons station in the Mojave Desert, shooting in a top-secret aviation hangar, and collaborating with “the actual engineers who make the real secret aircraft” in making his film....

Movie villains are probably the most memorable and iconic characters in film history. These baddies are often the driving force behind the story, and their motives and actions can be some of the most relatable aspects of a film. Whether they’re seeking power, revenge, or simply trying to survive, these villains often have a deeper, more complex backstory that makes them more than just one-dimensional bad guys. They’re often misunderstood or have suffered some kind of trauma that has led them down a dark path....

Centered around a British street gang in Birmingham, England, Peaky Blinders finally returns for its sixth and final season. Many of the scenes featuring drunken violence and debauchery take place on their home turf; however, gang leader Thomas “Tommy” Shelby (Cillian Murphy) must travel across Europe in order to survive. Along the way, Tommy encounters other gang leaders who play pivotal roles in the show, none of whom have arguably made a bigger impact on the screen than Tom Hardy’s character, Alfie Solomons....

Even though comedy is said to be the most difficult genre (due to the subjective nature of what people find funny), a good number of comedies have earned their spot as some of the most laughter-inducing experiences in the lives of audiences worldwide. Filmmakers able to combine a powerful, emotionally touching story with relatable comedic characters and scenarios can take this to an even greater level by taking us on a rollercoaster ride with two of the most powerful human emotions – extreme joy and deep emotional pain....

Aaron Eckhart made his screen debut in the 1992 television thriller film Double Jeopardy, in which he played the role of Dwayne. In 1993, he made his silver screen debut in the thriller film Slaughter of the Innocents, directed by James Glickenhaus. Eckhart next starred as Chad in the 1997 black comedy film In the Company of Men directed by Neil LaBute. The film earned praise from critics and effectively put him on the map for his future career....

The Good These movies are honest to goodness comic gems. The Bad Overall, it seems that a set like this should contain more Bonus Features. This set provides consumers with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls in the Ace Ventura Deluxe Double Feature. While describing these films might be redundant, I mean even if you’ve never heard of them before you can probably figure out what they are about just by their titles....