A new episode of the Black Sheep video series has just been released, and in this one we’re paying tribute to the late, great Donald Sutherland by taking a look back at the 1994 sci-fi horror film The Puppet Masters (watch it HERE)! You can hear all about it by checking out the video embedded above.

Directed by Stuart Orme, who is quite a prolific TV and music video director (best known for his collaborations with Phil Collins), from a screenplay by Hollywood heavy hitters Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (The Pirates of the Caribbean) and David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight), The Puppet Masters was based on a novel by Robert A. Heinlein and has the following synopsis: An alien spacecraft sets down in rural Iowa, and top-secret government agents Andrew Nivens and his son, Sam, are sent to investigate. Coming along is NASA biologist Mary Sefton, and together they make a startling discovery: alien parasites capable of taking over the minds of human beings. And the creatures are multiplying. The race is on for the team to stop the invaders before they turn all of humanity into zombie slaves.

Donald Sutherland was joined in the cast by Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton, Richard Belzer, Tom Mason, Yaphet Kotto, Marshall Bell, and Andrew Robinson.

The Black Sheep series features different takes on horror films that the masses or/and critics didn’t care for but that we found merit in. We defend horror movies that deserve more love!

This episode of The Black Sheep was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

What do you think of The Puppet Masters? Let us know by leaving a comment. I haven’t seen the movie since it first reached VHS thirty years ago, but I remember liking it at the time. This video reminds me that I should probably get around to taking in a second viewing.

A couple of the previous episodes of The Black Sheep can be seen below. To see more, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!

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Last week, the world reacted as 8.5 million computers crashed to bluescreen, grounding flights, crippling hospitals, and bringing down 911 services. This week, the world is reacting to the company responsible—Crowdstrike—offering its staff and the companies it works with a $10 Uber Eats voucher as way of apology for…

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Last week, the world reacted as 8.5 million computers crashed to bluescreen, grounding flights, crippling hospitals, and bringing down 911 services. This week, the world is reacting to the company responsible—Crowdstrike—offering its staff and the companies it works with a $10 Uber Eats voucher as way of apology for…

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The Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (you can read our review HERE) is set to continue with a second season that will focus on Daryl’s good friend Carol, played by Melissa McBride – and because of that, the second season has the ridiculous (and ridiculously long) title of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol. The show is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, September 29 at 9pm ET/PT on both AMC and AMC+… and with San Diego Comic-Con going on right now, Entertainment Weekly has gotten their hands on a batch of promotional images, which can be seen in this article. They also shared from quotes from McBride and Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon – including a quote where Reedus said that he thinks the season finale of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol is the best hour of Walking Dead ever!

The first season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon had the following synopsis: Daryl (Norman Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.

The six episodes of the new season pick up where The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon left off, following fan-favorite characters Daryl Dixon (Reedus) and Carol Peletier (McBride). They both confront old demons while she fights to find her friend and he struggles with his decision to stay in France, causing tension at the Nest. Additionally, Genet (Anne Charrier)’s movement builds momentum, setting Pouvoir on a violent collision course with the Union of Hope in the fight for France’s future.

In addition to Reedus, McBride, and Charrier, the show’s cast includes Clémence Poésy, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Laika Blanc Francard, Romain Levi, Eriq Ebouaney, and Manish Dayal.

Showrunner David Zabel serves as executive producer alongside Reedus, Scott M. Gimple, Angela Kang, Greg Nicotero, Brian Bockrath, and Daniel Percival. AMC Studios is producing.

To find out what McBride and Reedus had to say about The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol overall, click over to Entertainment Weekly – but here’s what Reedus said about this season featuring the best hour of Walking Dead ever: “Melissa and I and everybody else wanted to do something new. This was a real opportunity to take all these elements that make this show and these characters so compelling, and make something brand new and fresh. And that’s what we did. I think the finale of season 2 is the best one hour of Walking Dead anything ever. And I’ve been here since day 3, so for real, it’s my favorite one hour of Walking Dead anything.“

Will you be watching The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol? Take a look at the images, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Deadpool & Wolverine is finally hitting screens this week. While much of the hype around the movie deals in the massive easter egg hunt and crossover surprises for fans of the decades-long Marvel movie catalog, the director, Shawn Levy, has assured people that there is no homework required to enjoy the film. However, just like Spider-Man: No Way Home, the multiverse crossover appeals of these movies are massive pay-offs for loyal fans of the genre.

James Mangold brought Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine arc to a close in Logan, but the director is not a professed fan of these multiverse films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, as Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, releases its trailer, Mangold tells Rolling Stone that he will not feature Joaquin Phoenix in his Johnny Cash role as a surprise cameo, in which Mangold then ventured into his feelings on multiverse films. “I don’t do multiverses,” Mangold stated.

Boyd Holbrook portrays Cash in his upcoming film and the director explains why bringing Phoenix back was out of the question, “I love Joaquin, but he’s not 30, or whatever Johnny was at this moment. They’re both young people in that moment in life. It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of IP entertainment because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I think it’s the enemy of storytelling. The death of storytelling. It’s more interesting to people the way the Legos connect than the way the story works in front of us.”

He continues, “For me, the goal becomes, always, ‘What is unique about this film, and these characters?’ Not making you think about some other movie or some Easter egg or something else, which is all an intellectual act, not an emotional act. You want the movie to work on an emotional level.”

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Gina Carano is hoping to set a monumental trap against Disney, moving forward with her lawsuit against the company following her 2021 firing from The Mandalorian. That decision on the part of Disney, you might recall, stemmed from social media posts of Carano’s in which she likened hating one’s political views to Nazis persecuting Jews during the Holocaust.

While Disney did attempt to have the case tossed in the trash compactor, Gina Carano has been perseverent. “Defendants have not identified any evidence—in the Complaint or otherwise—to substantiate a claim that they employ public-facing actors for the purpose of promoting the ‘values of respect,’ ‘decency,’ ‘integrity,’ or ‘inclusion’”, a judge said this week (via Deadline). No trial dates have been set at this point.

The statement continued, “At this stage in the litigation, the Court cannot conclude, as Defendants urge it to, that Plaintiff’s continued employment by Defendants would inhibit or intrude upon Defendants’ rights to expressive association…Defendants are for-profit corporations who, as relevant to this lawsuit, employ actors such as Plaintiff, as well as administrative staff, to create television series and films.” In other words, Carano is asserting that Disney hired her to do a job and her political and personal statements have no bearing on her ability to show up and do it.

Gina Carano played former Rebel trooper Cara Dune on The Mandalorian during the first and second seasons but was fired by Disney after just a handful of episodes, with the company making the move after numerous posts with controversial views on gender, mask mandates and, finally, the Holocaust. On this matter, Disney called the posts “abhorrent and unacceptable.” Carano has gotten very little work since her 2021 firing, having appeared in two movies, one of which was the politically driven My Son Hunter.

How her lawsuit against Disney will all turn out for Gina Carano is anybody’s guess. It’s difficult to see her triumphant in terms of getting her job back but that she refuses to back down gives Disney a singular opponent in the courtroom that they rarely get.

What do you see coming of Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney? What do you expect to come of Carano’s career from here on out? Give us your take below.

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A new live-action vision of Hellboy will be coming to our screens soon, a franchise reboot called Hellboy: The Crooked Man that has been directed by Crank‘s Brian Taylor from a screenplay by Chris Golden and Hellboy comic book creator Mike Mignola. A few weeks ago, we got a look at a teaser trailer for the film, and while a release date has not yet been announced, the finished film has received a rating from the Motion Picture Association ratings board. Hellboy: The Crooked Man has been rated R for some violent content, language and nudity.

The 2019 Hellboy movie, directed by Neil Marshall and starring David Harbour as the title character, was also rated R, but the theatrical cuts of director Guillermo del Toro’s films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), which starred Ron Perlman as Hellboy, were PG-13. An unrated director’s cut of the first movie was released on home video.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man will see Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man. In the comic, The Crooked Man was an eighteenth-century miser and war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins who was hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region’s resident Devil.

Hellboy is played this time around by Jack Kesy, who played Black Tom Cassidy in Deadpool 2. Kesy is joined in the cast by Jefferson White of Yellowstone as Tom Ferrell and Adeline Rudolph of the Netflix Resident Evil series as Bobbie Jo Song. According Hellboy.Fandom, Tom Ferrell is a character from the comic books who “was born around 1923 in the Appalachian mountains near the Hurricane (an area locals try to avoid) to a mother we know little of and his father, Charles E. Ferrel, who had a habit of drinking in the back woods. His early misadventures with witchcraft led to a self-imposed exodus.” Tales from the Collection adds that the story will introduce parapsychologist Bobbie Jo Song, who is tasked with delivering a spider to the BPRD but must seek Hellboy’s help when things go awry. Together, they travel to Appalachia to take on the Crooked Man, who has been sent back to Earth to collect souls for the devil.

Millennium Media producer Les Weldon told us this is “a true, dark, DARK, in the style of the comic book take on it. There’s no gloss that any of the other films had. There’s a methodical pace and a real creepiness to it.“

Are you looking forward to Hellboy: The Crooked Man? What do you think of the reasons given for the R rating? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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The Second Pirate Code quests are a part of The Pirates of the Caribbean Cursed Sails limited-time battle pass. So, on top of earning XP that can be used to unlock items in the normal battle pass, you’ll also unlock Cursed Gold, which will further The Pirates of the Caribbean battle pass.

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The Second Pirate Code quests are a part of The Pirates of the Caribbean Cursed Sails limited-time battle pass. So, on top of earning XP that can be used to unlock items in the normal battle pass, you’ll also unlock Cursed Gold, which will further The Pirates of the Caribbean battle pass.

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I suffer from pretty bad anxiety, and in 2024, I think I’ve hit some personal records when it comes to sudden spikes of irrational, panic-inducing, thought-clouding, anxiety that has done wonders on my mental health, work performance, familial and platonic relationships, and more. Naturally, I thought it’d be a great…

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