Watch This ‘Beware the Slenderman’ Trailer With the Lights On

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November 11, 2016

Beware the Slenderman is HBO’s next true-crime documentary, and this trailer is pretty terrifying. Mostly because, behind all the supernatural elements, is a sad and disturbing true story about two 12-year old girls who lured another girl of the same age into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, allegedly in order to impress the fictional character the Slender Man.

Watch this trailer, then go outside in the sunshine or something:

Beware The Slenderman tells the story of the internet’s elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their best friend into the woods, stabbed her 19 times, then set out on an odyssey to meet the tall and faceless man known online as Slenderman. Shot over 18 months with heartbreaking access to the families of the would-be murderers, the film plunges deep down the rabbit hole of their crime, a Boogeyman and our society’s most impressionable consumers of media. The entrance to the internet can quickly lead us to its dark basement, within just a matter of clicks. How much do we hold children responsible for what they find there?

It’s the sort of thing nightmares are made of, a combination of horror films we all like to use as an escape, but with a stark shot of cold reality behind everything. I feel like I’ll be watching most of this with my mouth hanging open in horror.

Beware the Slenderman hits HBO January 23.

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CW Crossover Event ‘Heroes v Aliens’ Teaser Released

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Matthew Sardo

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November 10, 2016

Starting Monday, November 28, DC Comics and The CW will astonish fans with the four-night crossover event ‘Heroes v Aliens,’ involving ‘The Flash,’ ‘Arrow,’ ‘Supergirl,’ and ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.’

The first teaser hit the internet earlier today.

In three weeks Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow team up in a special four-night crossover event on The CW! The biggest and best team-up ever!

According to Entertainment Weekly, the four-show crossover event begins in the final scene of ‘Supergirl’ and unfolds over the next three nights in episodes of ‘The Flash,’ ‘Arrow,’ and ‘Legends’ as aliens will be assembled by the Dominators and descend on Earth to bring an end to the “threat” of Earth’s burgeoning metahuman community. The CW event is based on the DC Comics mini-series Invasion! from 1988. EW also reports, the Dominators will apparently be mind-controlling the aliens that join them. Which means some of the heroes might also fall under mind-control and you could see possible battles between friends.

What hero vs hero matchup do you want to see? Comment below.

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R.I.P. Leonard Cohen: Remembering a Pioneer

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Larry Taylor - Managing Editor

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November 10, 2016

Leonard Cohen has passed away at 82.

In yet another slap across this face in 2016, the influential musical genius, whose unmistakable pipes made him an icon of sound, and whose melancholy sadness found its place among some of the greatest films, is gone.

Cohen’s label, Sony Music Canada, released a statement via Cohen’s Facebook page earlier:

“It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away. We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries. A memorial will take place in Los Angeles at a later date. The family requests privacy during their time of grief.”

Born in September, 1934 in Quebec, Leonard Cohen’s poetic songwriting abilities place him among the giants of his era, when Bob Dylan and Paul Simon walked alongside him, tapping into a generation of people hypnotized by his deep, heartfelt vocals. His version of “Hallelujah” is perhaps the greatest of all versions.

I first became aware of Leonard Cohen, and his incredible abilities, in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers of all places. “Waiting for a Miracle” blew me away on the soundtrack, and from there I dove into his albums, picking them apart and savoring the sounds of Songs From a Room and Songs of Love and Hate – “Dress Rehearsal Rag” especially hitting me. His work on McCabe & Mrs. Miller, one of a handful of Robert Altman masterpieces, has never left my subconscious. It’s one of the most magical marriages of song and image in the history of film:

Cohen’s music found its way into so many films over the years, from Altman’s snowbound western, to Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (albeit in an incredibly awkward sex scene set to “Hallelujah”).

And now, we say goodbye to another genius. I suppose making room for more idiots. I hope not, but it sure feels that way right now, doesn’t it?

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‘Daredevil’: Netflix Show’s Stars Share Their Thoughts On 2003 Film

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David Joseph

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November 10, 2016

Daredevil, at least the Netflix and Marvel combined production of Daredevil, has been quite the success for the comic publisher. However, there was time where Daredevil wasn’t as widely well-regarded in adaptation form. Prior to Charlie Cox, there was Ben Affleck and director Mark Steven Johnson adapted parts of popular Daredevil comics, and the film mostly tanked with the public writ large.

This was in the interim between the breakout X-Men, the first film of that franchise, and the later comicbook revolution in film. Johnson also directed the first Ghost Rider film. Though the Netlfix series has widely surpassed the film in fans’ eyes, Charie Cox and company actually “really, really like” the Ben Affleck-led Daredevil film, according to Comicbook.

“I actually really, really liked the film and thought Ben Affleck did a really good job. I think the film is tonally a bit confused [but] I actually really enjoyed it. I think that if you make Spider-Man, and I don’t know much about the other characters to be honest, but if you make Spider-man, for example, you can make a movie for kids and adults and it can have that kind of humor because I think it’s true to the characters for the most part. Daredevil needs to be on a platform like Netflix because the source material is so dark and so complicated and so sinister at times. I think what benefited us so much was that Netflix wanted to make the show with Marvel and we were able to embrace those darker tones.”

The new Daredevil’s thoughts on the subject mostly mirror what many reasonable reviewers have already opined and stated about the 2003 film in the past.

Daredevil co-star Elden Henson backed the Ben Affleck Daredevil film as well. He explained that “…they were making these types of superhero things” at that time.

“Just so everyone knows out there – it’s not easy to make a movie. It’s really hard. No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody. I think they were [just] making these types of superhero things in a much different way back then.”

It is unlikely that any of this will change fans’ minds at this point, but it hopefully helps those who worked on the 2003 film feel a little bit better about making one of the comicbook films that had a “failure to launch,” so to speak,” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[Images Via Marvel Entertainment/Netflix]

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Robert Kirkman Knows Exactly How ‘The Walking Dead’ Will End

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Matthew Sardo

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November 10, 2016

There is an ending to Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, as he’s “always taking baby steps toward that point” in the comic, but it appears the creator is keeping AMC and showrunner Scott Gimple in the dark, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Kirkman explained the situation to EW.

“There’s no communication whatsoever. They have no approval over what happens in the comic. Scott Gimple is an avid reader of the comic, and prefers to experience the comic book as a reader, so he gets the advance issues as they’re published, but he doesn’t read scripts. He gets mad at me if I give him any kind of indication as to what’s coming, because he doesn’t like spoilers,” said Kirkman.

“So, they’re kind of a hundred percent in the dark, which I guess is pretty remarkable, and I would probably say it’s a testament to the trust that AMC has in me. I mean, I guess to a certain extent, at this point, the comic book is kind of a workshop of future seasons of the show, and it’s fun to think that I can just completely torpedo the story if I wanted to,” said Kirkman.

The comic book is in the middle of ‘The Whisper War’ and is about 62 issues ahead of the AMC series that recently introduced Negan, with ‘All Out War’ on the horizon. There is enough material available for Rick and his crew to reach ten seasons and beyond on AMC.

Do you think Kirkman will end The Walking Dead with issue 200?

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New ‘Rogue One’ Trailer Features Plenty More Darth Vader

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Manuel Gomez

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November 10, 2016

A new international trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has been unveiled. And it heavily features everyone’s favorite Sith Lord, Darth Vader himself. At first, it seemed Lucasfilm was slow to dole out how much Vader we could expect in the movie, but it seems now like the classic villain will have a fairly substantial role. You can check out the trailer below.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Mads Mikkelsen, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk, Donny Yen, Valene Kane, Riz Ahmed, Genevieve O’Reilly, Jimmy Smits, James Earl Jones, and Forrest Whitaker. It tells the story of the rag-tag team who steal the famed plans for the first Death Star, an act that allows for its destruction by the rebels in Star Wars: A New Hope. It is directed by Gareth Edwards, from a screenplay written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will hit theaters on December 16, 2016.

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‘Kong: Skull Island’ Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Shows Off Kong, Talks Movie’s Plan

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Larry Taylor - Managing Editor

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November 10, 2016

Kong: Skull Island is getting close to us, so director Jordan Vogt-Roberts sat down with Entertainment Weekly to talk about the direction this prequel will take.

The site also gave us our first look at Kong and, spoiler alert, he’s a gigantic gorilla:

He looks great, but about as expected. What’s more interesting about the EW article is what Vogt-Roberts had to say about Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, about monster movies in general, and how he is ready to throw all sorts of action in our face:

We’re also fundamentally not playing the same game that Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla did and most monster movies do, which I’m sort of sick of the notion that a monster movie needs to wait an hour or 40 minutes until the creature shows up. Kong traditionally does not show up in these movies until very, very late, and the monster traditionally does not show up until very, very late in a monster movie, so a lot of these movies tend to have this structure that’s a bit of a slow burn. Something about this movie made me want to reject that and play a very, very different game.

This, on top of the cast that includes Brie Larson, John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, John C. Reilly, and Corey Hawkins, and I am all the way in on this one.

Kong: Skull Island opens March 10 next year.

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Psychics Chase Psychics in ‘Solace,’ a New Cop/Killer Thriller

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Larry Taylor - Managing Editor

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November 10, 2016

Solace was, apparently, going to be a sequel to David Fincher’s Se7en at one point. At least an offshoot type sequel. But that doesn’t matter much now, because Solace is its own movie, and it features Anthony Hopkins as a psychic chasing down Colin Farrell, a psychic who just so happens to be a serial killer.

Morgan Freeman was going to be the Hopkins character back when this was a Se7en sequel, but the whole connection between these things gives me a headache so let’s move on. Check out this trailer:

When FBI Special Agent Joe Merriwether (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is unable to solve a series of homicides, he decides to enlist the help of his former colleague Dr. John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), a retired physician with psychic powers. The reclusive Clancy, who shuttered his practice and retreated from the world following the death of his daughter and subsequent break-up of his marriage, wants nothing to do with the case. He soon changes his mind after seeing disturbingly violent visions of Joe’s partner, FBI Special Agent Katherine Cowles’s (Abbie Cornish) ultimate demise. When Clancy’s exceptional intuitive powers put him on the trail of a suspect, Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell), the doctor soon realizes his abilities are no match against the extraordinary powers of this vicious murderer on a mission.

So, yeah, I like Anthony Hopkins. I like Colin Farrell. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is… also an actor who appears in things. But this looks incredibly generic. And it was on the shelf for several years so that should clue you in as to its quality too.

Solace will be available On Demand December 16th in correlation with its theatrical release, so if you’re awkwardly trying to find something to do with your dad around the holidays, here ya go. He will love it.

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Childish Gambino Releases First Single Off New Album

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EJ Moreno

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November 10, 2016

Childish Gambino Just Dropped The First Song Off ‘Awaken, My Love! ‘

The rapper, actor, and comedian Childish Gambino premiered his newest song “Me and Your Mama” on Beats 1. The host of Beats 1 played the song six times in a row, more than any other song on the show.

“I just needed this right now Donald. Needed this record. It sounds like now. It sounds like this year. So deep,” is what host Zane Lowe told listeners. The rapper, who also is known by real name Donald Glover, recently surprised fans when a new album popped up on Amazon out of no where.

Now with the first song coming from ‘Awaken, My Love!‘, the hype just got so real.

What do you think of the new song “Me and Your Mama”? I think this is a definitive statement and a great indicating of what the album will sound like.

I personally can’t wait for ‘Awaken, My Love!‘.

Let me know in the comments below!

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‘Valerian’ Trailer: Luc Besson’s New Sci-Fi Adventure Looks Wild

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Larry Taylor - Managing Editor

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November 10, 2016

Luc Besson’s Valerian has its first trailer, and this looks like a pretty eye-popping sci-fi spectacle. I just hope the story can hang on to all these great visuals.

Check it:

Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureline- visionary writer/director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic science fiction saga.

Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are special operatives for the government of the human territories charged with maintaining order throughout the universe. Valerian has more in mind than a professional relationship with his partner- blatantly chasing after her with propositions of romance. But his extensive history with women, and her traditional values, drive Laureline to continuously rebuff him.

Under directive from their Commander (Clive Owen), Valerian and Laureline embark on a mission to the breathtaking intergalactic city of Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis comprised of thousands of different species from all four corners of the universe. Alpha’s seventeen million inhabitants have converged over time- uniting their talents, technology and resources for the betterment of all. Unfortunately, not everyone on Alpha shares in these same objectives; in fact, unseen forces are at work, placing our race in great danger.

That’s about as much to take in as the effects all over the trailer. This has the look of The Fifth Element at 11, which could be awesome or it could be overwhelming. We’ll see when Valerian opens July 21st next year.

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