With Madame Web earning terrible reviews and many calling it one of the worst superhero movies all time, the time has come to ask our readers, what really is the worst superhero movie of all time? If you don’t see it listed below, let us know in the comments!
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Star Trek will soon boldly go – again – where no man has gone before…OK, so many a man has been to Miami, but have they done so out of their sheer love for Star Trek? To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Voyager, Royal Caribbean is launching Star Trek: The Cruise VIII, which will give fans an immersive experience that will, yes, make them a voyager.
Next year, Voyager fans can board Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas – which had its maiden voyage in 2000, the year before the Star Trek series went off the air – to celebrate the series. And there will be plenty for them to do aboard the cruise ship, aside from making a mess of the buffets. According to the cruise’s official website, there will be a variety of shows, Q&A sessions, panels, trivia sessions, parties, theme nights, interactive events, and much more.
Those who grab a ticket for the cruise will have opportunities to meet a number of Star Trek: Voyager cast members, including Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Beltran, Robert Picardo, and Roxann Dawson, in addition to various guest speakers.
The Voyager cruise sails out of Miami, Florida before heading to Costa Maya, Cozumel and Belize City, before then heading back to Florida, with three days at sea in between. It will run from February 23rd to 2nd, 2025, with prices ranging from $1,950 to $10,200 per person.
As per the official website, “Star Trek: The Cruise is the ultimate immersive Star Trek experience. This 7-day voyage brings an unforgettable Star Trek experience that will transwarp you to another galaxy of entertainment! Mingle with your favorite stars and experience a vibrant community where everyone is welcome, and the fun never stops! Brace yourself for an interstellar journey unlike any other this side of the Delta Quadrant!”
Accordion to Chris Hearing, partner and executive director of Theme Cruises, “We’ve been planning our Voyager celebration for quite some time and are thrilled to share the news with Star Trek fans…It will be a truly special experience for our guests to see so many of Voyager’s crew members on Star Trek: The Cruise VIII.”
With that, we can’t help but remember the words of Harry Kim, whose portrayer, Garrett Kim, will be on board: “Maybe it’s not the destination that matters, maybe it’s the journey, and if that journey takes a little longer, so we can do something we all believe in, I can’t think of any place I’d rather be or any people I’d rather be with.” Oh, and there are waterslides!
You can currently stream Star Trek: Voyager on Paramount+.
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is almost here, and while we still have to wait a few more days for the game itself, we can now start talking about how its excellent card game, Queen’s Blood, rivals even FF8’s beloved Triple Triad, and how turning the original 1997 RPG into a trilogy may be messing with the story’s pacing…
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is almost here, and while we still have to wait a few more days for the game itself, we can now start talking about how its excellent card game, Queen’s Blood, rivals even FF8’s beloved Triple Triad, and how turning the original 1997 RPG into a trilogy may be messing with the story’s pacing…
The winners for this year’s SAG Awards have been unveiled, with Oppenheimer taking the guild’s top honor in the film category, while Cillian Murphy, Lily Gladstone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph all earned individual statues, putting each as the definitive frontrunner at the Academy Awards next month. On the television front, Succession and The Bear took home their respective ensemble awards. Going into the ceremony, Barbie and Oppenheimer led movies with four nominations apiece, while HBO’s Succession landed five.
Check out the full list of winners from the SAG Awards below:
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
American Fiction
Barbie
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Annette Bening – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Penelope Cruz – Ferrari
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Willem Dafoe – Poor Things
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
The Crown
The Guilded Age
The Last of Us
The Morning Show
Succession – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Brian Cox – Succession
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Kieran Culkin – Succession
Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown – WINNER
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Uzo Aduba – Painkiller
Kathryn Hahn – Tiny Beautiful Things
Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry
Be Powley – A Small Light
Ali Wong – Beef – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers
Jon Hamm – Fargo
David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Steven Yeun – Beef – WINNER
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear – WINNER
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear – WINNER
Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso
Bill Hader – Barry
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear – WINNER
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
Ahsoka
Barry
Beef
The Last of Us – WINNER
The Mandalorian
As actors make up the highest percentage of voting AMPAS members, the SAG Awards tend to be a strong indicator of that season’s winners. In addition to these winners, Barbra Streisand was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. SAG-AFTRA made its biggest headlines last year during its 118-day strike, which, paired with the WGA’s, put Hollywood at a standstill.
What do you think of the SAG Award winners? Will the four core acting categories match up at the Oscars next month?
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While two of Monty Python’s most famous former members, Eric Idle and John Cleese, are embroiled in a very public feud, it wasn’t always this way. In recent weeks, Idle has been vocal about how he feels the Monty Python estate is being handled, with him targeting Terry Gilliam and his daughter, Holly, who manages the rights, directly. John Cleese jumped to their aid, writing on X (perhaps in a tongue-in-cheek way) that (referring to Idle) “we always loathed and despised each other, but it’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge.”
Now, this might need to be taken with a grain of salt, as Cleese has a notoriously dry wit. Let’s not forget that he eulogized his best friend, Graham Chapman, by saying, “Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard! I hope he fries.” That was lovingly tongue-in-cheek, although Idle and Cleese always seemed to have a frostier relationship than the others. But, it wasn’t always so, with Idle and Cleese once making a non-Python movie together called Splitting Heirs, that’s been somewhat lost to time.
That 1993 film was Idle’s attempt to break into the American market as a solo comedy star, similar to how Cleese had with A Fish Called Wanda. Indeed, Idle had a minor hit in 1990 with the memorably titled Nuns on the Run, but Splitting Heirs was to be more ambitious. It paired him with Rick Moranis, who was coming off the Honey I Shrunk the Kids movies at the time and was about two babies that got switched at birth. Rick Moranis is an American who finds out he’s a long-lost heir to a family of British aristocrats, but his best pal, who shares the same birthday as him, becomes convinced that he is, in fact, the heir. The friend – you guessed it – is played by Idle.
In the film, Idle tries to recover his presumed birthright through a series of schemes, but he gets into trouble when he consults with a shady lawyer, played by John Cleese, who believes he wants Moranis dead – which is not so. The film is an amusingly old-fashioned romp, but it likely seemed dated in 1993 in a way A Fish Called Wanda had not, and it died quickly at the box office. It’s mostly known for being one of Catherine Zeta-Jones’s first movies, with the twenty-three-year-old actress being the girl both Idle and Moranis are fighting over. One of the strangest things in the movie is that Idle is playing a character at least twenty years younger than he was at the time (he was fifty when this was made and is playing a guy in his late twenties- early thirties) and not too convincingly. One might say the whole movie is a tad ego-driven, with Idle’s two love interests being played by two of the sexiest twentysomethings in England at the time (Zeta-Jones and Sadie Frost), but then again Cleese got to romance Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda, so who cares?
But again, the most notable thing is that Cleese co-stars (in a glorified but extended cameo), in a solo movie made by the one guy everyone assumed was his biggest rival. It’s interesting to see them work together in a non-Python film, and I imagine Cleese had a decent enough time making it, as he hired this film’s director, Robert Young, to make his Wanda follow-up, Fierce Creatures.
Indeed, it’s sad to see Idle and Cleese at odds, as both men are in their eighties, and one always likes to assume that by the time we reach that milestone, we’re beyond petty things such as money. Alas, that’s rarely the case, isn’t it?
If you want to see Splitting Heirs, you can buy it here, but at the moment, it’s not streaming anywhere.
Have you ever seen this rather obscure romp? Let us know in the comments.
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When the Academy Award nominations were announced last month, much of the discussion focused on two so-called “snubs” for Barbie: Greta Gerwig for Best Director and Margot Robbie for Best Actress. Both seemed like locks, since Barbie was one of the biggest films of the year and had been generating awards buzz for months. Added to that, both Gerwig and Robbie would be nominated by their respective guilds, an odds-on sign that they would work their way into Oscar nods. And while plenty have chimed in on the Barbie “snubs”, now Gerwig herself has weighed in, championing her lead.
Speaking with Time, Gerwig said that she was rooting for a Best Actress nomination for Margot Robbie, who added far more dimension to Barbie than we could she ever expected. “Of course I wanted it for Margot…But I’m just happy we all get to be there together.” And there will be plenty of other nominees in attendance, as Barbie is up for eight Oscars.
And while Gerwig may not have sealed a Best Director nod for Barbie, she is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, something even she noticed has gone under the radar. “A friend’s mom said to me, ‘I can’t believe you didn’t get nominated,’…I said, ‘But I did. I got an Oscar nomination.’ She was like, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful for you!’ I was like, ‘I know!’” Also garnering few headlines is Robbie’s nomination for producing the Best Picture nominee. And so while Gerwig and Robbie may have brought the most attention by being “snubbed” in the categories they’re more associated with, that they are still each nominated is no ignorable feat.
As far as how the DGA nominations compared to its Oscar equivalent, Christopher Nolan, Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin Scorsese overlapped, while Barbie‘s Gerwig and The Holdover‘s Alexander Payne were edged out by Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer for Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest, respectively. Looking at the SAG nominees, it’s apparent that Anatomy of a Fall’s Sandra Hüller snuck in instead of Robbie.
Christopher Nolan won the DGA Award earlier this month, further solidifying him as the favorite for the Best Director Oscar. This weekend will see SAG awarding either Lily Gladstone or Emma Stone with Best Actress, giving the victor a stronger shot at the Oscar. Regarding the WGA, Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are up for Best Original Screenplay, while AMPAS placed them in the Adapted Screenplay category.
Do you think either Greta Gerwig or Margot Robbie has the slightest chance of taking home gold for their Oscar-nominated parts on Barbie?
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What would you think if you could have more movies than you can handle at your disposal at all times? Yeah yeah, that’s what we all thought streaming services were supposed to do before we realized that even our purchases are temporary. Well that dream is coming to fruition, as scientists have developed a disc that can hold the equivalent of nearly a quarter-million DVDs aka more content than you can even fathom.
This so-called “super DVD” can hold — ready for this? — approximately 125,000 gigabytes. For reference, single-layer DVDs hold around 4.5 GB of data, while a double-layer can hold about 8.5. And for those wondering what the term for this massive amount of data is, the word you’re looking for is “petabit.”
As for how they can even put so much information onto one DVD, according to a new paper published in Nature (via Newsweek), “We increase the capacity of [optical data storage] to the petabit level by extending the planar recording architecture to three dimensions with hundreds of layers, meanwhile breaking the optical diffraction limit barrier of the recorded spots.” OK, that’s a lot of jargon, but basically they print the information in 3D.
While this is a major breakthrough in data storage, those behind the study also pointed out that there is another perk for the environmentally conscious, as it would also help the minimize carbon footprint.
But for most of us, it’s the draw of having everything we could ever need readily available on one DVD that is hard to pass up. While we are huge supporters of maintaining and building your home video collection, it does feel like this “super DVD” would be the ultimate combination of both physical media and streaming. Gone would be the days of figuring out which service has this show or that movie; it would be right there (although we do wonder how cataloging would work). Granted, your shelves would be a lot emptier, and just imagine the stress of figuring out the first 20,000 movies you’re going to load on this sucker!
What do you think of the “super DVD”? Is it a feasible move forward in the world of digital technology or something that wouldn’t work in the mainstream? Give us your thoughts below.
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Vin Diesel’s been laying low in recent months following a bit of a double whammy. In May, Fast X Part 1 hit theaters to a collective shrug, with the film drastically underperforming at the box office, “only” making $714 million worldwide. While that sounds like a lot of money, it was under the benchmark the movie needed to break even for Universal. Given all the behind-the-scenes drama, many wondered what the supposed final Fast movie would be, especially with another spin-off announced for Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs, and the big Fast X baddie, Jason Momoa’s Reyes. The second big blow for Diesel came in December when a former assistant accused him of sexual battery during the making of Fast Five, an accusation Diesel “categorically denied.”
With the star laying low in recent months, many wondered what would become of the Fast Saga. Now, in his first post about the Fast Saga in a while, he broke the news that he was hard at work on the franchise finale with the writers and the rest of his team:
While he didn’t provide a lot of details, he did tease that the finale would be “not just an ending; it’s a celebration of the incredible family we’ve built together.”
Given how the last one underperformed, it’ll be interesting to see what kind of scale Universal gives to the next Fast film. Several sources suggested that the 11th Fast film would take a “back to basics” approach, with a comparatively thrifty $200 million budget, compared to the rumoured, astronomical $340 million Fast X budget. However, given that the last film ended with a gigantic cliffhanger, including the return of pricey stars like Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, I’m not sure how realistic that budget is. And will audiences embrace a back-to-basics approach given how huge the scale of the films has become?
Are you excited for an 11th Fast film, or is it time to call it quits? Let us know in the comments.
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The early weekend numbers are starting to roll in, and it’s good news for Bob Marley: One Love, with the audience-friendly biopic crossing an important milestone worldwide. Indeed, the film has now crossed the century mark, making $101 million worldwide. By the end of the weekend, Bob Marley: One Love should cross $70 million domestically, with a $13.8 million weekend (according to Deadline’s numbers).
Meanwhile, in second place is the latest instalment of the ever-popular Demon Slayer anime saga, with To the Hashira Training on track to crack $10 million for the weekend, which is just about $500k more than I predicted in my box office forecast (I was way off about Marley though, I thought the hold would be better). The faith-based Ordinary Angels is third, with a softer-than-expected $6.5 million predicted, despite an A+ CinemaScore. That said, I expect this Hilary Swank/ Alan Ritchson movie to have tremendous legs.
But what about Madame Web?
It looks like Sony’s flop Spider-Verse movie is set to only eke out a fourth-place finish, with it looking at about $5.5 million for the weekend. On the plus side, Deadline is predicting a 64% decline, which is modest compared to the 78% plunge faced by The Marvels on its second weekend, or Morbius, which fell 74%. However, both films opened much stronger than Madame Web, so the superhero movie is bound to have a much smaller domestic total, with it unlikely to break $45 million all in. Yikes. No wonder the trades say it’s helped sink the live-action Spider-Verse franchise.
Finally, it looks like Ethan Coen’s Drive Away Dolls is just as niche a title as I thought, with its projected $2.5 million opening an even worse result for Focus than what Lisa Frankenstein did a few weeks ago. As I said in my review, the movie is a big lark, but I’m not sure audiences are going to be in on the joke.
Has anyone seen anything under the radar? Let us know in the comments, but let me recommend The Promised Land with Mads Mikkelsen. It’s a really great (Danish) historical epic that deserves to be seen on the big screen.
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