As Claire said during her weekend detention, “I hate having to go along with everything my friends say.” Apparently taking a cue, Molly Ringwald – along with Judd Nelson – was one of the key members of the Brat Pack who sat out of being interviewed for Andrew McCarthy’s documentary Brats. So, where were they?

As McCarthy told Entertainment Tonight, both Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson may not have been feeling particularly bratty, at least not in the way he would have wanted. “I mean, they both are in the film in a sense that there’s a lot of clips and interviews and things. The Brat Pack is an ongoing relationship, you know what I mean? And some people are at different places in their lives to want to or not want to talk about it. I think that just informs it even more. I mean, that’s my takeaway from it.” Interestingly, the trio never all worked together on a movie, although McCarthy and Ringwald notably co-starred in Pretty in Pink (and the lesser-known Fresh Horses), McCarthy and Nelson appeared in St. Elmo’s Fire, and Ringwald and Nelson suffered through detention at Shermer High School on March 24th, 1984.

The Brat Pack label may not have been a favorite of its members, but there’s no denying the impact the group had. And while Brats is serviceable enough, missing people like Ringwald and Nelson definitely hurts the overall production. (Nelson does briefly appear via phone call but it’s kind of out of place.) Even still, McCarthy is happy that he got the likes of Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and more for the movie, saying, “I was surprised as many people would want to speak to me [that] did, you know, because I thought the biggest challenge would be to get people to participate. I knew it was still so sort of dodgy in some people’s lives.”

Collectively, Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson have starred in eight unique movies within the Brat Pack universe, with the aforementioned St. Elmo’s Fire the biggest in terms of total members featured.

Have you had a chance to watch Brats yet? Would Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson interviews have benefited the doc? Give us your take below.

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Matador has an infamous reputation in the Shin Megami Tensei canon, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is no exception. As the first boss in the Return of the True Demon sidequest, Matador can and will wipe the floor with you if you challenge him unprepared. Though Matador was a challenge in the vanilla version of Shi…

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Matador has an infamous reputation in the Shin Megami Tensei canon, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is no exception. As the first boss in the Return of the True Demon sidequest, Matador can and will wipe the floor with you if you challenge him unprepared. Though Matador was a challenge in the vanilla version of Shi…

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Adult Swim is making my day at the Annecy Animation Festival by announcing two new animation projects with adaptations of Anthony Bourdain‘s Get Jiro! and Jillian Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy. I’m a massive fan of both books, especially SuperMutant Magic Academy. This news adds to several exciting announcements from Annecy, including green lights for Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Moon Girl’s Lab, the new Regular Show and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends series, and more.

The adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel, Get Jiro!, hails from Briand Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, co-writers of Sharper and producers of NBC’s Superstore. Published by Vertigo, Get Jiro! has the following synopsis:

In a not-too-distant future of food-obsessed L.A., where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurant, Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef arrives in town with strong ideas of his own. It’s a bloody culinary war of epic proportions, and in the end, no chef may be left alive!

“I started to develop it with Tony when Tony was still alive. Um, and it became a labor of love for me, truly,” said Peter Girardi, executive VP of alternative Programming at Warner Bros. Animation.

In addition to Get Jiro! an adaptation of Jillian Tamaki’s webcomic turned graphic novel SuperMutant Magic Academy is coming to screens. Originally published online, Tamaki’s comic became a graphic novel published by Drawn & Quarterly.

Here’s an official synopsis courtesy of D&Q:

The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Tamaki’s jokes are precise and devastating, whether the magic is mundane or miraculous.

“It’s about what is happening to kids and what kids are worrying and thinking about in 2024-25. If we can hit that, and I think we do do that, it’s going to be a very big show and be very meaningful to a lot of people,” said Suzanna Makkos, head of Adult Animation, Adult Swim.

Let’s f*cking go! I’ve been waiting years for a studio to adapt these properties. Bourdain’s Get Jiro! is sharp, witty, and delectably violent, while Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy is a melting pot of personalities with otherworldly quirks. I can see audiences digging into both of these adaptations. Huzzah!

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Writer/director Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 horror film Smile (read our review HERE, watch the movie HERE) is aiming for an October 18th theatrical release date – and our friends at Bloody Disgusting have noticed that a viral marketing campaign for Smile 2 appears to be underway. Billboards promoting a previously unheard of pop star named Skye Riley have popped up in Los Angeles and London, there’s a Skye Riley fan account on Instagram, an official website – and these promos come with the promise that the new single “Blood on White Satin” is set to be released on June 18th. The suspicion is that Skye Riley is the lead character Naomi Scott of Aladdin and Charlie’s Angels plays in Smile 2, and that the first trailer for the film might be unveiled on June 18th.

This would make sense, as a trailer for Smile 2 was already screened at CinemaCon back in April, and JoBlo’s own Lance Vlcek reported that Naomi Scott plays a pop star in the film. Here’s what Lance wrote about the trailer: Story appears to be set around a Taylor Swift type of mega-star artist (Naomi Scott) who gets sucked into the curse of Smile. The sequel has a bigger budget and slicker look, seems to be bigger in scope. There was a very cool scene where a crowd of people under control of the entity are in a tight backstage hallway chasing Naomi Scott, all of them smiling in that creepy way. Plot-wise, it doesn’t give much away. It was a montage of creepy imagery, jump scares, and a whole lot of creepy people smiling.

Smile was based on Finn’s short film Laura Hasn’t Slept (watch it HERE), which won the Special Jury Recognition Prize in SXSW’s Midnight Short category. Caitlin Stasey (Neighbours) played the title character in that short, and reprises the role in Smile, making it a follow-up of sorts. Smile has the following synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

Smile was produced by Temple Hill, and they are producing Smile 2 as well. Scott is joined in the cast by Lukas Gage of The White Lotus and You, Rosemarie DeWitt of La La Land and the Poltergeist remake, Dylan Gelula of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Dream Scenario, Raúl Castillo of Army of the Dead and Knives Out, Miles Gutierrez-Riley of The Wilds and On The Come Up, and Kyle Gallner (Red State), reprising the role he played in the first movie.

Are you looking forward to learning more about Smile 2 and Skye Riley? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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In the pages of her 1976 debut novel Interview with the Vampire, author Anne Rice introduced readers to a blonde-haired vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt, who was given the nickname The Brat Prince. He’s a character Rice loved writing about and her fans loved reading about, and he appeared in several more stories that make up the series known as The Vampire Chronicles. These days, Sam Reid is playing Lestat on AMC’s Interview with the Vampire TV show – but the first actor to bring the character to life on the screen was Tom Cruise, who was cast to play Lestat in director Neil Jordan’s 1994 film version of Interview with the Vampire – a bit of casting that was quite controversial at the time, with even Rice herself speaking out against it.

Jordan has written about the casting of Cruise in his memoir Amnesiac: A Memoir by Neil Jordan, which is set to be released on June 20th – and an excerpt has made its way online via The Telegraph and Variety. Jordan writes, “The problem was the casting of Lestat. Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed Daniel Day-Lewis would be playing Lestat, an assumption shared by Anne. I offered it to Daniel, who read it, and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character. A few years before, he had confined himself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in My Left Foot. He would have had to sleep in a coffin for the entirety of this production if he followed the same practice. So we moved on.“

After meeting with Cruise twice, Jordan began to see that he had a lot in common with the vampire Lestat. “He had to live a life removed from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they turned out to be. He had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He could well be Lestat.” He notes that Cruise also happens to be a superb actor, which a lot of people overlooked while they were outraged over his casting. But Cruise went on to deliver a performance that won over many of his critics, including Rice.

Jordan also discussed the subject in an interview with The Guardian, saying the casting controversy “must have been very difficult for (Cruise). The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’ He’s a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange.“

What do you think of Tom Cruise’s performance as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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David Duchovny made his film directorial debut with House of D in 2004. While he has helmed multiple television series episodes, including The X-Files, Bones, Californication, and Aquarius, Duchovny has spent more of the last twenty years writing novels than helming projects. His sophomore film effort behind the camera is Reverse The Curse, based on Duchovny’s novel Bucking F*ing Dent. Bringing together friends in the industry for supporting roles and casting Logan Marshall-Green and Stephanie Beatriz alongside himself, this is an emotional comedy-drama with a sports theme.

Reverse The Curse follows Ted (Logan Marshall-Green) who works as a peanut slinger at Yankee Stadium. Having a terse relationship with his father, Marty (David Duchovny), Ted returns home to learn his dad is dying of cancer. At the suggestion of Marty’s nurse Mariana (Stephanie Beatriz), Ted learns about his father’s past and what led to their distance from one another. As the relationship between father and son strengthens, Ted undergoes a plan to hide Marty’s beloved Red Sox and their iconic fall from grace in 1978 while discovering more about himself. It is a funny and bittersweet story about grief, family, moving on, and the healing power of sports.

I got to talk with the main trio from Reverse the Curse about the project. David Duchovny, a fan favorite from his Fox Mulder days, talked about how his role as Marty was partially inspired by Darren McGavin whom he directed on The X-Files. Logan Marshall-Green talked about this being a rare chance to play a comedic role and how he would love to do more of it in the future. Stephanie Beatriz talked about how different playing Mariana was from her broader roles in Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Twisted Metal and where she found the balance between drama and humor in this project. Check out the full interview in the embed above, and our review of the film HERE.

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One of the most famous Hollywood legends involves Richard Gere becoming a superstar by taking two roles John Travolta notoriously passed on. One was American Gigolo; the other was An Officer and a Gentleman. The latter film made $130 million at the domestic box office (in 1982 dollars) and propelled Gere to superstardom. And now, Deadline is reporting that Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller is set to star in a remake of the film for Paramount Pictures.

While many may roll their eyes and dismiss An Officer and a Gentleman as schmaltz, they really shouldn’t. It’s a movie I actually hadn’t seen until a few years ago, as I assumed it would be a soapy melodrama. It’s actually a pretty tough and gritty romantic drama. I think people define it by the sentimental ending where Richard Gere, in his Navy Whites, sweeps Debra Winger off her feet as Joe Cocker’s “Up Where We Belong” plays. Still, the rest of the film is pretty hard-R, making me wonder if the new film will have the edge Taylor Hackford’s original had.

Teller is set to play the Gere role, where he played a loner who enlists in Navy officer training under a tough-as-nails drill sergeant (played by the late Louis Gossett Jr, who won an Oscar for the role), only to fall in love with a townie played by Winger. The movie climaxes in a pretty nifty martial arts battle between Gossett and Gere, where the former delivers one of the most brutal finishing moves of all time (the crotch kick to end all crotch kicks). 

It sounds like a smart role for Teller. The movie has the potential to be very much in the vein of Top Gun: Maverick, as he’ll once again be playing a naval aviator. At thirty-seven, he might be a little long in the tooth to be playing an officer in training, but the story may only use the bare bones of the original’s plot, so we’ll see.

In the meantime, Teller has a full dance card. He stars opposite Anya Taylor-Joy in Scott Derrickson’s The Gorge and co-stars in the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic Michael, in which he plays MJ’s attorney.

Is An Officer and a Gentleman ripe for a remake, and is Teller the right guy to star? Let us know in the comments. 

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It’s been a good year for fans of Atlus RPGs. Between the launch of Persona 3 Reload in January and Metaphor:ReFantazio coming this October, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is available right now on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms. As the definitive version…

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It’s been a good year for fans of Atlus RPGs. Between the launch of Persona 3 Reload in January and Metaphor:ReFantazio coming this October, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance is available right now on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms. As the definitive version…

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