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Almost 16 years since his MCU debut in The Incredible Hulk, Tim Blake Nelson is finally making his way to the big screen as the classic Hulk villain The Leader in Captain America: Brave New World. However, a scrapped sequel to the 2008 film would have had Nelson play the comic book villain opposite Edward Norton's Bruce Banner/Hulk. It was not meant to be, according to the actor. The Incredible Hulk is now a vital part of the near MCU future, with the Captain America sequel starring Anthony Mackie playing a major role in revitalizing its characters.

While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Blake Nelson reflected on the years since playing the supporting character in The Incredible Hulk in 2008. When a sequel to the film did not get off the ground, the actor felt like his time in the MCU had ended before it really began. Nelson underlines the...

The first episode of the Netflix horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, "Lot 36," features some well-known names among its cast and an intriguing list of characters. The eight-episode anthology series contains contributions from a wide range of creators, writers, and directors with each installment being a standalone and self-contained horror story with its own distinct ensemble of actors.

The first episode of Netflix's Cabinet of Curiosities, "Lot 36," tells the story of Nick Appleton, who after purchasing the unit of a recently deceased old man — the titular lot 36 — discovers some strange items. After he takes the old man's séance table and three obscure books to an antique specialist, Nick begins to uncover a demonic secret lurking in the old man's unit. Below is a guide to the characters of the Cabinet of Curiosities' "Lot 36" episode, including Nick, along with the cast of actors who play each role and where you've seen them before.

Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore reveals his true feelings regarding HBO's adaptation and says he told the showrunner never to contact him. First released in 1986, the Watchmen comic saw Moore team with artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins, imagining an alternate reality version of the 1980s in which a group of disenfranchised superheroes attempts to save the planet while solving the murder of one of their own. Watchmen was adapted by director Zack Snyder in 2009, earning generally positive reviews from fans but a more mixed reception from critics.

In 2019, Watchmen was adapted once more, but this time for the small screen by Damon Lindelof. Lindelof is widely known as one of the co-creators of Lost, but also co-created The Leftovers and wrote The Hunt. The Watchmen TV series was met with widespread critical acclaim, introducing Regina King's Angela Abar, aka Sister Night, as she tries to take down a...

I have a friend who loves to walk out of movies. He’ll give almost anything a try, but he knows his taste and can tell when he’s seen enough. It’s almost a matter of pride for him to cut bait at a certain point during the screening, once he has determined that the film is only going to disappoint him further.

That’s one approach, like the crowds who duck out of Broadway shows at intermission. Not me. I often describe myself as a “cinemasochist,” by which I mean that I’m game to suffer through nearly all movies, no matter how long, boring or bad they are out of some mixture of curiosity and duty — the exception being at film festivals, where I figure that committing to a dud means potentially depriving myself of the opportunity to find something better screening in another theater.

As a film critic,...

“The mask was so empowering,” admits Tim Blake Nelson about his role on HBO’s “Watchmen” in which he plays a troubled police detective by day and masked crime-fighting interrogator by night.

“He ended up becoming, at least in my strange career, one of the more restrained characters I’ve ever played, with more quiet, more subtlety, more delicacy, fewer words, fewer gestures than I’m normally asked to play,” he explains. “That’s a great relief for me because I’ve always wanted to play a character who needed to do less.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Nelson above.

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HBO’s groundbreaking sci-fi hit “Watchmen” is primarily set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an alternate reality 2019 where embattled police wear masks to protect their identity, a nefarious white supremacist cult terrorizes the city, a select band of officers wear face...

“If you asked me five years ago to do a full original album with this band, I’d say, ‘Tear my heart out and leave it on the floor,'” Yacht Rock Revue singer Nick Niespodziani says.

It’s hard to tell if he’s being hyperbolic.

The 41-year-old frontman of the Atlanta-based tribute band has always been conflicted about his gum-chewing, polyester-wearing, hair-feathering throwback group. In his eyes, it was a way to make a living, not a serious creative outlet. Besides, he had other projects to flex that muscle,...

Rorschach, the character at the center of the Watchmen graphic novel, does not appear on HBO. He can't, he perished at the end of that story. But that doesn't mean his fingerprints and influence aren't all over the HBO series. From the 7th Kavalry that has adopted his mask as their own to the paranoia that pervades the series, he is very much present.

Related: HBO Watchmen's 12 Biggest Unanswered Questions

However, a new character also takes up a little bit of the slack left by Rorschach's very real absence. Tim Blake Nelson's Looking Glass is seen by some as the spiritual successor of the dearly departed Rorschach. There are quite a few similarities, but Looking Glass may just be his own man as well.

Spoiler Alert: This article includes details about tonight’s Watchmen Season 1 finale — a lot.

Thankfully, as tonight’s Watchmen finale makes radioactively clear, white supremacists are really dumb — at least when it comes to harnessing the power of a man-god.

“Absorbing atomic energy without filtering it first is going to pop you like a water balloon every time,” mocks Lady Trieu (Hong Chau) of the fatally amateur move by White House aspiring Senator Joe Keene Jr (James Wolk) and the masked Seventh Kavalry to steal the abilities of Dr. Manhattan (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) in the “See How They Fly” episode that concluded the Damon Lindelof created series first and possibly only season just now.

Of course, as the demise of Trieu from a cascade of squid brought down from the heavens by her new unveiled father and now two-time world saver Adrian Veidt (Jeremy Irons), newly back on Earth from Saturn moon Europa,...

I might still be woozy from that big blast and the squid blizzard, but… did we actually get all of our Watchmen questions answered in that humdinger of a season finale?

Sunday’s episode tied up most of the HBO drama’s remaining mysteries in a pretty, blue bow, leaving just one tantalizing thread that can carry the story into a potential Season 2 if HBO and showrunner Damon Lindelof come to some sort of agreement. All that and the deep satisfaction of seeing a racist piece of something-or-other get liquified by his own hubris? Have I died and gone to Europa?...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 1, “It’s Summer, and We’re Running Out of Ice.]

Like a herd of cattle stampeding through a Tulsa ranch, the “Watchmen” premiere comes at you fast. Easily Damon Lindelof’s most tightly packed episode since “The Leftovers” Season 3 debut, “The Book of Kevin,” “It’s Summer, and We’re Running Out of Ice” builds a vivid new world on the foundation laid by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel — and then it digs a new basement to boot. By opening with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Lindelof establishes a new (and true) starting point for his story, as well as a stark framing that sets the stage for the series’ central conflict: the white supremacists in the Seventh Kavalry and a police force led by a black detective, Angela Abar (Regina King).

In between, there are easter eggs galore for fans of the original comic book, more...

Mike Cecchini Nov 17, 2019

Tim Blake Nelson plays the mysterious Wade Tillman, aka Detective Looking Glass on HBO's Watchmen.

This article contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 5.

HBO’s Watchmen tells a new story in the familiar world established by the legendary graphic novel. It includes fresh characters (such as Regina King's Sister Night) as well as those with a legacy tied to the book (such as Jeremy Irons' Adrian Veidt). But one of the new characters in particular, Wade Tillman, who goes by the professional name of Detective Looking Glass (played by Tim Blake Nelson) is likely to become a fan favorite. The mysterious interrogation specialist for the Tulsa Pd boasts a striking, mirrored full-face mask. The visual parallels to a legacy character like Rorschach are unavoidable, and the character’s laconic, direct manner add to the sense of mystery surrounding him. But both the full mask, and the...

“Watchmen,” the 1980s DC Comics series whose popularity demands adaptation and whose singular vision makes that near-impossible, might be too much itself to bring out the best in any artist. But it has brought out the most in Damon Lindelof.

As a follow-up to HBO’s “The Leftovers,” Lindelof returns to the cabler to remix and reinterpret a piece of the modern pop-culture canon, writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons’ serial about caped and costumed heroes in hiding. “The Leftovers” provides a good case study as to what “Watchmen” fans are likely hoping for: Using as loose source material Tom Perrotta’s quiet literary novel about the aftermath of tragedy, Lindelof extrapolated wildly inventive metaphors and wrote all the way past the end of the world. That show was a strange miracle, perched as it was on the right side of the precipice dividing mysteriousness and inscrutability. With “Watchmen,...

The first episode of “Speechless” Season 2 starts with a flurry. Part of the action comes from the plot, as the Dimeo family wakens to the startling revelation that their house has been tented for fumigation. In a panic, Maya (Minnie Driver), Jimmy (John Ross Bowie), and their children, Ray (Mason Cook), Dylan (Kyla Kenedy), and J.J. (Micah Fowler) roll out of bed and go rushing out into the street wearing nothing but their pajamas.

The whirlwind of activity also complements a mad rush of situational, verbal, and physical jokes. Starting inside Ray’s imagination, the cold open unveils our newly dating middle-child is being “incepted” by Dylan, who’s whispering negative thoughts into his ear in order to ruin his dreams (quite literally). When he tells her to go back to sleep, they realize it’s noon; a fact they missed because the tent draped over their house is...

Speechless returns for its second season on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean the Dimeos have gotten their act together!

In Et’s exclusive sneak peek at the season two premiere, the family -- whose hectic lives tend to revolve around eldest son Jj (Micah Fowler), who has cerebral palsy -- is taking a hard look at themselves, when Ray (Mason Cook) points out that there’s one person they’ve left out of their collective reflection.

“I came ashore for this, but I won’t have my groove interrupted,” Jj’s aide, Kenneth (Cedric Yarbrough), announces to the family, inserting his earbuds for a musical schooling as Maya (Minnie Driver) rolls her eyes and Dylan (Kyla Kenedy) wonders if he's been drinking. “I am armed with the soundtrack of my nautical summer: a tasty mix of ‘70s yacht rock.”

Exclusive: 'Speechless' Sneak Peek: Jimmy Builds an Epic Family Halloween Costume -- But Will It...

The summer movie season is almost over, and will total about $3.875 billion in North America. That’s a 13 percent drop from last summer; adjusted to the number of tickets sold, it’s the lowest summer in at least 20 years. And when you consider population growth, it’s even worse.

The losers here are the theaters. But for the studios, it validated their decision to make movies that consider the international audience first — which means for domestic theaters, there’s even more bad news to come.

Here’s what we learned on summer vacation:

Yes, there will be more sequels.

In North America, we’re getting sick of sequels — not that it matters. A summer sequel still sees easy entry into the $100 million club, thanks to overseas audiences. “Despicable Me 3” is the #1 film in foreign and worldwide totals, but stands as only #4 in the U.S./Canada. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales...

The Guardians of the Galaxy films are famous for incorporating classic tracks into the films' scenes and narrative -- nothing beats watching Kurt Russell talk his way through 'Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)' by Looking Glass. James Gunn is not the only director who very carefully considers every track, writes to the music he has picked, and seamlessly weaves it into his films. Edgar Wright has been obsessed with his musical choices since his TV show Spaced, with the following soundtracks for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World all including some pretty deep cuts that make for fine listening, long after you've seen the film.

Baby Driver is Wright's next film, and the latest trailer not only included 'Tequila' by The Champs, but was also titled "Official TeKillYah Trailer" to put further emphasis on the music. The trailer also sports...

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” (Disney) was an easy #1 for the holiday weekend. And considering domestic franchise fatigue, and much stronger foreign results, it’s hardly a failure. (The same can’t be said for the stumbling Paramount and “Baywatch.”)

However, both fell short of even managed expectations. And with some really ugly drops among holdovers, one of the weakest holiday weekends in decades — and easily, the worst in adjusted grosses for the century.

One reason is Memorial Day is no longer the must-have date for theaters, but that’s been the case for years. So it’s no excuse for the overall weakness, which suggests some deep-rooted issues that continue to plague the industry.

The Top 10

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Disney) New – Cinemascore: A-; Metacritic: 39; Est. budget: $230 million

$62,179,000 in 4,276 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $14,451,000; Cumulative: $62,179,000

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2...

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way this Memorial Day weekend while Paramount's Baywatch struggled to match expectations. Meanwhile, Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues to deliver while the studio's Beauty and the Beast became only the eighth film to cross $500 million domestically. Overall, the weekend was down ~15% compared to Memorial Day weekend last year when both X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass delivered underwhelming openings. With an estimated $62 million for the three-day and $76.6 million for the four-day weekend, Disney's fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise finished atop the holiday weekend box office. Additionally, the film brought in an estimated $208.4 million internationally, the 12th largest overseas opening of all-time, as it opened in virtually the entire overseas marketplace. This includes a $67.8 million debut in China and an industry record opening in Russia of an estimated $18.6 million. Additional...

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and “Baywatch” lead what could be the best Memorial Day weekend in three years. But as holidays go, Memorial Day isn’t what it used to be.

The schedule’s changed. More of the top summer releases go for early May, and given that many studio blockbusters must divide their loyalties between the international and domestic calendars, the last weekend of May has lost some of its appeal.

Holding the record for the biggest-ever opening on Memorial Day weekend is “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” in 2007. This the first “Pirates” in six years; is the audience still there? (We’ve seen the pessimistic take on that question with “Alien: Covenant,” which came five years after its last.)

Read More: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Review: ‘Kon-Tiki’ Directors Right the Ship in Pleasantly Surprising Sequel...

With all the millions and millions of dollars that Hollywood spends on films it is vital to the industry for them to preform well in theaters. Unfortunately this year Hollywood is off to a bad start. According to The Hollywood Reporter comScore is reporting an early box office decline of ten percent from last year and 20 percent compared to 2015 at this time. Lets look at the reasons why.

First of all lets get the one film that has held its own and lived up to its hype out of the way. Of course we are talking about Disney/Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 directed by James Gunn. During it's third weekend it grossed $35.1 million. This was close to beating out the very disappointing debut of 20th Century Fox's Alien: Covenant, which made a low $36 million domestically during it's first weekend. This follows up the big disappointment of Warner Bros.

Matthew Byrd May 24, 2017

Prey is a good game. But is it really its own thing?

Early into my first playthrough of Prey, I found myself dwelling on mundane positives.

“Those intro credits sure are slick.”

“Look at all the stuff you can pick up!”

“Can you imagine if someone from 1994 could see this game?”

Eventually, I gave myself a mental slap in the face and demanded that I come to my senses. Why was I so hung up on these arbitrary qualities? In the search for that answer, I suddenly called into question why, exactly, my mind referenced 1994 as opposed to a more distant past date.

It occurred to me that 1994 was the year that System Shock was released. I vaguely recall playing System Shock around that time and having the same reaction as some of the game’s harshest critics:

“What is this? This isn’t Doom!”

Another frustratingly mundane observation,...

This was expected to be a nice pre-Memorial Day box-office weekend: a solid franchise opener and two lower-budget films doing their job to create modest improvement over last year. That didn’t happen.

Instead, the top 10 fell ten percent from last year, “Alien: Covenant” did around $10 million below consensus expectations; the reboot of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” also underperformed. Only the female-centered young adult entry, “Everything, Everything,” escaped relatively unscathed.

Help should be on the way. Next week sees two films with optimistic projections — the R-rated film version of “Baywatch” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” (#5 in that franchise). Last year saw two openers (“X-Men: Apocalypse” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”) only total $92 million between them for the three-day weekend. That should be easy to best — but that’s what we thought this week. It might be time to worry.

The Top 10

1. Alien: Covenant...

The best parts of the Guardians of the Galaxy films are often debated. Many say it's the comedy, others the action, but one thing everyone agrees makes the films stand out amongst the other Marvel films is it's wonderful use of music. And in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, music plays an even more integral role, as it's something that both Peter and Ego bond over. In a recent interview with THR, Elliot Lurie, who created the song "Brandy" for the band Looking Glass, commented on how he enjoyed its use in the film saying:

"The first Guardians is not the type of movie that I would normally watch, but I had heard so many great things that I put the DVD in and from the first moment I was hooked. I got a request from my music publisher about nine months ago to use 'Brandy' for sequel,...

Elliot Lurie could not be more pleased with the way his classic 1972 hit "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" was used in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. 

For decades, people have asked the former Looking Glass lead guitarist and vocalist what the deeper meaning behind the song was, assuming the longing barmaid Brandy was a metaphor. Well, there wasn't a deeper meaning. At least not at first. 

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lurie, who also worked as film music executive at 20th Century Fox, opened up about writing the chart-topping tune, how it came to be in the...

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' with Chris Pratt as Chris Pratt Star-Lord a.k.a. Peter Quill and Drax (voice by Dave Bautista): When 'the pressure to be good isn't as intense as the pressure to not be bad.' 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2': Entertaining pop culture references help to alleviate James Gunn's 'weight of obligation' Pull up a chair, gather your friends, and warm up those texting thumbs: the hour is nigh for our biannual ritual of packing ourselves into theaters and watching the ultra-caffeinated exploits of whichever Marvel superheroes we're obligated to obsess over this time. Punishment for non-compliance is harsh; your Facebook feed will be clogged with posts about a topic to which you are indifferent, the modern definition of social pariah. This time, it's Guardians of the Galaxy, a second-tier Marvel property whose refreshingly saucy first film, released in 2014, earned $773 million worldwide.

Um... What? Did I hear that right? As I was looking for some interesting things to post, I came across some information that Doritos has made a hybrid Doritos bag and music player that looks like a tape deck on the bag. The best part is, it plays the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack. Of all the things I never expected to happen, this is probably the top of the list.

Doritos and Marvel have a cross promotion going, but who would have thought they would make a Doritos bag that plays music!? In some strange way, it makes sense. A strong element in the Guardians of the Galaxy films is music. There is a tape deck that plays Star-Lord's music that has both an important role in the film and has great tunes for the film. Even the title of the film is called Vol. 2, reminiscent of an album release.

The Chekhov’s Gun principle tells us that every dramatic element in a story must be necessary. And ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gave us much food for thought this week, with the revelation that Dr. Fitz’s Project Looking Glass is a nearly complete doohickie that will allow Aida, an AI stuck in android form, to inhabit a fabricated flesh-and-blood vessel. To be human… ish.

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Which is “interesting” and all, but of far greater value to the larger S.H.I.E.L.D. narrative — especially if...

How do you top the bombshell that was Mace's death, May's return from the dark side and Daisy's second go-around at Terrigenesis? If you're Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., you utilize the media to launch a revolution of which Katniss Everdeen herself would have been proud.

On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4 Episode 19, the Resistance used Hydra's own propaganda arm to reveal the organization's dark secrets to the public: from the Nazi origins, to the systemic brainwashing at the Hydra Cultural Enlightenment Centers, to the lies told about the death of the Patriot.

The entire Agents of Hydra arc has had a dystopian flair reminiscent of novels like The Hunger Games, underground bunkers and all, but it was in this episode that I really started to feel the Panem vibes.

A lot of this stemmed from the resurrection of Sunil Bakshi, a Hydra agent who was offed by Simmons in the real world,...

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this week revealed details about Dr. Fitz’s ominous Project Looking Glass, which ultimately — and perhaps imminently — will serve Aida’s plan to fashion herself a skin-and-blood vessel with which to live on, in our world.

But couldn’t the same technology — whether or not Aida herself ever gets to make use of it — also afford the Framework’s kinder, gentler Grant Ward passage to the “other” side, to stay with Skye aka Daisy?

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That might be something Grant, and even Daisy herself, is interested in,...

The Marvel superhero gang are back together – including Vin Diesel’s Baby Groot alongside Chris Pratt’s Quill – and while there’s plenty of comedy, it doesn’t really go anywhere

Marvel’s likeable superhero comedy Guardians of the Galaxy is back for amiable and goofy volume number two, and its beefy-yet-quirky space hero and team leader Peter Quill, played by Chris Pratt, duly has a second volume of that Awesome Mixtape on the Sony Walkman he has on him at all times.

It’s the same combination of cartoony action and intergalactic screwball with some ambient production design recalling the photorealist sci-fi imagery of Roger Dean or Chris Foss in a bygone age, creating a visual sense of earnestness to offset the archly retro pop culture gags. Again, it has its own supercharged Heart FM playlist of 70s and 80s music. The early 70s track Brandy (You’re a...

Marvel Music/Hollywood Records have released the digital versions of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 songs-only album and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 original score album by composer Tyler Bates (“Guardians of the Galaxy,” “John Wick Chapter 2,” “Watchmen”).

The film opens in U.S. theaters on May 5, 2017.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is filled with great action, humor and performances, but it is also infused with a new mixed tape and soundtrack, a dynamic that resonated deeply with audiences in the first film as evidenced by the success of the soundtrack album. The Grammy-nominated “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first soundtrack album consisting entirely of previously released songs to top the chart. The album was certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol.

Guys, it's time to clear your listening schedule for the day. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2's soundtrack is here and it's 14 tracks of amazing 80's music that you forgot existed or perhaps neglected to remember. A new retro promo spot has been released for the film's "Awesome Mix Vol.2" soundrack, take a look:

Blast off with the super sounds of outer space and tell us your favorite song from the "Awesome Mix Vol. 2" set list! #GotGVol2...

With just a few days until the sequel to the amazing Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) comes out, news has already hit that writer and director James Gunn will indeed be returning to make the third installment.

Anyone who saw the first film will know that its great mix of comic book mayhem, mixed with its incredible soundtrack and hilarity, will be excited about the follow up, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which hits cinemas on April 27.

This time we have the full Guardian line up, set a couple of months after the events of the first, with Star Lord (Chris Pratt), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and even Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) on board the rebuilt Milano. We already know that we are bound to meet Ego the Human Planet (Kurt Russell) who it turns out will be Star Lord’s dad?...

Guardians of the Galaxy, Baywatch, The Hero, and more make our daily roundup!Guardians of the Galaxy, Baywatch, The Hero, and more make our daily roundup!Zachary Dent4/19/2017 4:08:00 Pm

In today's roundup we have a much anticipated soundtrack list, a trailer, poster, and some exciting news for those of you following Captain Marvel's production!

Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Drax (Dave Bautista), and our personal favourite, Baby Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), are back in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2! They're facing off against a new enemy looking to cleanse the universe - and (hopefully) saving the galaxy again, with Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) along for the ride.

One of our favourite parts of the first installment was the kickass song choices. The soundtrack was just released for Vol.2 and it doesn't disappoint! Check out the list below and see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Guardians of the Galaxy, Baywatch, The Hero, and more make our daily roundup!Guardians of the Galaxy, Baywatch, The Hero, and more make our daily roundup!Zachary Dent4/19/2017 4:08:00 Pm

In today's roundup we have a much anticipated soundtrack list, a trailer, poster, and some exciting news for those of you following Captain Marvel's production!

Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Drax (Dave Bautista), and our personal favourite, Baby Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), are back in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2! They're facing off against a new enemy looking to cleanse the universe - and (hopefully) saving the galaxy again, with Yondu (Michael Rooker) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) along for the ride.

One of our favourite parts of the first installment was the kickass song choices. The soundtrack was just released for Vol.2 and it doesn't disappoint! Check out the list below and see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

A few weeks ago, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 director James Gunn revealed that the highly-anticipated soundtrack Awesome Mix Vol. 2 will be released in the U.S. on April 28. As it turns out, fans in the U.K. will be able to purchase this soundtrack a full week earlier, and with just two days to the U.K. release, Marvel has finally unveiled the official track list. There will be 14 songs featured on this soundtrack, some of which we've already heard on the previously-released trailers thus far.

The Marvel U.K. & Ireland Twitter account unveiled the track list today through a poster featuring Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) holding up a cassette tape, with the "set list" taped above him. This image confirms that songs from the previous Guardians 2 trailers, "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac and "Fox on the Run" by Sweet are on the soundtrack, but other songs used in trailers and TV spots,...

From “Spirit in the Sky” to Blue Swede’s infectious “Hooked on a Feeling” – a song that has since become synonymous with Marvel’s galactic anti-heroes – the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy was arguably the most crowd-pleasing element of James Gunn’s 2014 sleeper hit. And that’s really saying something, given the film featured a talking tree and a warrior that struggled to wrap his head around the concept of a metaphor.

With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 now teetering on the verge of its theatrical release, the level of interest in Star-Lord and the crew has grown astronomically in the past three years, though if there’s one ingredient that James Gunn has carried over from the first movie, it’s fist-pumping power ballads. Now, Rolling Stone has officially cracked open Awesome Mix Vol. 2 to reveal the songs set to feature throughout Guardians 2.

To his credit, James Gunn...

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Scott Snyder’s All-Star Batman series, which features the Dark Knight travelling the Us and meeting a revolving door of his worst enemies, has served up seven high-quality issues so far. Issue #8, however, might just be the best one yet.

In ‘Ends of the Earth: Part 3,’ Batman travels to the swamps of Mississippi to confront the Mad Hatter, who he believes might be behind the necrotic plague released by Mr. Freeze back in Part 1. It turns out that the Lewis Carroll-loving weirdo might have a bigger bombshell than that up his sleeve, though. In a trippy, ultra-surreal tale, Jervis Tetch suggests that Bruce Wayne’s life as Batman is all a hallucination brought on by Tetch’s own ‘Looking Glass’ technology.

What Snyder has done in each previous issue is...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the most shocking TV twist of the 21st century and why? (Warning: Here be spoilers. Lots of them.)

Damian Holbrook (@damianholbrook ), TV Guide Magazine

The saintly Teri Bauer dying at Nina’s hands in the “24” first-season finale. That twofold trauma of loss and betrayal has given me such trust issues that I now suspect every person around Kiefer Sutherland’s President Tom Kirkman on “Designated Survivor” of being a mole. Except for the awful son who is too stupid to be evil. The most shockingly bad twist that still makes me want to burn my “Sandcastles in the Sand” cassingle was the reveal at...

There are a lot of adjectives you can use to describe Mr. Robot, but "hopeful" isn't usually one of them. No matter how you slice it, this is a place where loved ones turn up dead, no one's to be trusted, and people eat pills out of their own puke to make the pain go away. But this week's hour-long episode, entitled "eps2.2_init1.asec," (because Mr. Robot, people) is about as bright and shiny as this show is ever likely to get. We even see a real smile out of Elliot — no Adderall involved.

Let’s talk about one of the most specific niches in the entire genre of horror: first-person sci-fi horror video games. Unpacking that phrase might take a minute but we kind of have to in order to talk about the two games (Scorn and System Shock) we’re here to talk about, so let’s get the boring stuff out the way. There’s a long and rich history of first person sci-fi horror in video games, starting with the granddaddy of them all, Doom. Of course, the complex legacy of Doom is that it (arguably) let action overwhelm the horror aspects of the game. The game certainly has plenty of horror and, surprisingly, a fair dose of suspense at times, but the horror of Doom is ultimately one of isolation, of nihilism, not a fear of the unknown or, ironically, the unknowable. These may be creatures of some alien...

With a gross of around $35 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, Disney's Alice Through the Looking Glass fell far short of analysts' expectations and is well on its way to becoming one of the year's biggest flops. So how did the James Bobin-directed sequel fall so short of its predecessor's massive $116 million opening weekend? HitFix reached out to box office experts to contextualize the film's disappointing performance. "Alice was a disaster any way you look at it," bottom-lined Box Office Guru founder Gitesh Pandya. "It was not a sequel that audiences were asking for in the first place and the final product was dull which led to bad reviews. Hence, there was no must-see factor." In terms of competition, Looking Glass went up against the mega-sequel X-Men: Apocalypse (which also underperformed relative to expectations despite handily finishing at No. 1) this weekend, which would understandably lead many to assume...

Like a heroine tumbling through the rabbit hole, Disney took its own great fall this past weekend, as prospective tentpole Alice Through the Looking Glass coughed up a meager $34 million at the box-office in its opening days of release. A paltry sum in comparison to the $116 million opening weekend that Tim Burton's 2010 original "dark" fairy tale garnered, this sequel's poor showing registered as a sizable blip in Disney's ledgers. Floppier than the average flop, Disney's new folly provided industry competitors and common filmgoers several valuable lessons about how movies are made and sold.

It was supposed to be a competitive race this weekend, with two blockbuster sequels grabbing large hauls of Memorial Day weekend dollars. But it wasn't even close. As the holiday revelry ends, "X-Men: Apocalypse" stands as a modest superhero hit, while "Alice Through the Looking Glass" has fallen down the rabbit hole.

"X-Men" always had the edge, as it was opening on 400 more screens than "Alice." As it turned out, it debuted near the low end of expectations, with an estimated $65.0 million through Sunday and a likely $80 million for the four-day weekend. That's not up to the franchise's usual standards, but it's not terrible.

And it's far better than "Alice," which mustered only an estimated $28.1 million through Sunday, with a projected four-day weekend of $35.6 million. For a movie that cost a reported $170 million to make, that's a catastrophe.

What happened? Was "Alice" a foreseeable disaster? In some ways, although it...

Three-day Memorial Day weekend results are in and while the numbers at the top are soft compared to franchise predecessors, the weekend was an overall improvement compared to 2015 when Memorial Day took place one week earlier. X-Men: Apocalypse led the weekend charge, matching the studio's expectations, followed by Disney's Alice Through the Looking Glass, which fell well short of what the studio was hoping for. That said, Disney's coffers aren't exactly barren as the studio is expected to pass $4 billion at the global box office by the end of the day as three of its films currently rank as the highest grossing worldwide releases of 2016. Beginning with the weekend #1, X-Men: Apocalypse brought in an estimated $65 million three-day and is looking at anything from $77-80 million for the four-day holiday. The result is pretty much what the studio was anticipating heading into the weekend, but still has to be looked at as something of a disappointment.

Two of the five largest four-day, Memorial Day opening weekends belong to films in the X-Men franchise and this weekend the latest installment, X-Men: Apocalypse, hopes to secure its own spot in the record books. Additionally, Disney arrives with their fifth release of their already, record-breaking year with the sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass. Both films enter a weekend that pits them against some stiff demographic and genre competition, all of which should combine for an increase over Memorial Day weekend last year. Assured to finish #1, X-Men: Apocalypse is Fox's latest installment in the X-Men franchise and it's coming on the heels of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which scored an impressive $90.8 million three-day opening, which ballooned to $110.5 million over the 2014 Memorial Day weekend. Reviews for Apocalypse, however, have been mixed as it currently stands at a 48% rating on RottenTomatoes compared to the 91% for Days of Future Past. In fact,...

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We chatted to director James Bobin about Alice Through The Looking Glass, Mib 23, The Muppets and Flight Of The Conchords...

On a visual level, Alice Through The Looking Glass is a stark contrast to director James Bobin’s previous two films, The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. Where his Muppets work relied mostly on practical effects and furry cast members, this sequel to Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland is a festival of stunning CGI.

But you can spot Bobin’s eye for comedy (he directed TV’s The Ali-g Show and co-created Flight Of The Conchords before transitioning to cinema) all over Alice Through The Looking Glass. Particularly in scenes where his old chum Sacha Baron Cohen steals the show as the villainous personification of time itself.

Mr Bobin - a Hampshire native who's since moved to the States - was in London recently to promote this new movie,...

NightDive Studios’ System Shock Remastered is going to need your help in the near future, it seems. An update on the developer’s Facebook page posted yesterday (via VG247) simply reads: “Coming to a Kickstarter near you. 06.29.16,” and it was followed by a short 15-second video featuring the game’s logo buzzing enigmatically.

The original, released in 1994 and developed by Looking Glass, is often considered to be a spiritual predecessor to the BioShock series by way of Irrational Games’ involvement in both titles, and puts the player in the shoes of a hacker stranded on a space station being that’s home to the murderous Shodan, an artificial intelligence that has assumed control of the installation.

NightDive described the Remaster as a “re-imagining” of the original System Shock, aiming to keep the game “true to the classic experience.”

After two decades, we are remastering and re-imagining the original System Shock.

Pink goes down a psychedelic rabbit hole on "Just Like Fire," recorded for upcoming Disney film Alice Through the Looking Glass. In the video directed by David Meyers, the singer walks through a mirror, plays human chess and drinks tea in mid-air, showing off her extreme acrobatic skills. 

"Just Like Fire" was produced by Pink's longtime hit-makers Max Martin and Shellback, who cowrote her 2008 hit "So What". The duo juxtapose Pink's galvanic vocals with a polished acoustic guitar. Pink also covered Jefferson Airplane's psych-rock classic "White Rabbit" for Looking Glass,...

It's been six years since mega-hit "Alice in Wonderland" first hit the big screen, and now Disney is treating us to a sequel with "Alice Through the Looking Glass." While the follow-up may not be directed by Tim Burton, rest assured that "Looking Glass" still looks very Burton-esque.

Recently, star Mia Wasikowska, director James Bobin, and producer Suzanne Todd divulged some juicy tidbits about the highly-anticipated sequel at a special footage screening hosted by Disney in West Hollywood, CA.

1. A Movie With a Message

"Appreciate what you have now, in the moment, and don't obsess about what's happened or what has been. And don't try to change things," Wasikowska said.

2. Ahead of Its Time

Even though "Alice in Wonderland" was a box office success, grossing more than $1 billion worldwide, it was not the easiest movie to get made. "We wanted to make a female empowerment movie -- a movie where...