Katharine Trendacosta

Here’s an Idea: Let’s Not Remake Jumanji

I know, okay? I know that complaining about remakes and reboots and prequels and sequels is basically pointless now. Everyone’s bitched and moaned, and nothing has changed. But I pick this hill to die on. Don’t remake Jumanji. Please. Yesterday we got the news that Jake Kasdan had been hired to direct the remake. Jake…

Chris Carter Wrote Another X-Files Movie, Because He Enjoys Our Pain

Chris Carter deserves all the credit in the world for creating The X-Files. But he has never, ever been the series’ strongest writer. And, man, have the movies never been a particularly great venue for his creation. So maybe he should just leave his script for X-Files 3 in a drawer. On Fox’s Television Critics…

10 Heroes Whose Parents Were Somehow Not Dead or Evil

All of our favorite characters are orphans. Or else, they had horrendously abusive childhoods. Basically, giving characters childhood trauma is an all-purpose motivation—why else would someone be a vigilante/wizard/etc. unless something had gone wrong in their lives? But here are 10 people who had normal families that weren’t already dead—but they went on to become…

New Agent Carter Clip Introduces Peggy and Jarvis to a New Member of the Stark Family 

If there was any doubt that the second season of Agent Carter was going to be anything other than wonderful, this latest clip from IGN puts them all to rest. This clip has everything. It has Peggy and Jarvis’ snappy repartee; Jarvis being put upon by Howard Stark; Howard Stark being eccentric to the max;…

USA Is Making a TV Show About Shared Dreams and the End of the World

The show is called Falling Water, which is surprisingly not about Frank Lloyd Wright, but is actually about three people who find out that their dreams are all part of one larger dream. Falling Water is being produced by Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, and is the first new show USA has ordered…

Netflix Just Bought Its Very First YouTuber

Following in the same vein as the Revelmode announcement yesterday, today Netflix announced that it was ordering a series based on a YouTuber. This is the future of entertainment, everyone. Netflix’s new show is called Haters Back Off, which is bound to be obnoxious in the same way that the horrible and annoying Miranda Sings…

Guillermo del Toro and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Is a Match Made in Hell

Guillermo del Toro is starting development on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie. This is great news! Not just because of how good del Toro is, but because he’s a fan of the source material. When last we heard about this movie, John August was being hired to write the script. Deadline,…

The New Secret Life of Pets Trailer Has Some Weird BDSM Undertones

Based solely on this trailer, I’m pretty sure that The Secret Life of Pets is about a rabbit rescuing his gimp from prison. The movie’s first trailer seemed so normal. It completely delivered on its title: a bunch of cute pets going nuts after their humans left. But this latest trailer is the first one…

The 2016 Oscar Nominations Are Exactly What You Expected

Maybe not what you’d hoped, but pretty much in line with what the Academy Awards looks like every year. At least in 2016, Mad Max: Fury Road made the cut. Best Picture The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revanant Room Spotlight Best director Adam McKay, The Big…

RIP Alan Rickman, Who Gave Us Villains to Root For

Alan Rickman, who just passed away at the age of 69, leaves behind so many iconic performances that it’s impossible to pick out a favorite. Snape in Harry Potter, Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest—everyone’s done an impression of at least one of his roles. “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns…

Disney Gave PewDiePie a Giant Pile of Money to Give to Other YouTubers

In a flurry of buzzwords, YouTube star PewDiePie and Disney’s Maker Studios announced a partnership that brings us Revelmode. What is Revelmode? Well, that’s a little less clear. Revelmode is being called a “network.” Which is technically true in that the end result is a bunch of content creators working under a single brand name,…

What Was the Darkest Moment on Last Night’s Expanse? 

“Rock Bottom,” true to its title, basically spent an hour trying to one-up itself in how dark and bad things could get for its characters. The remaining Canterbury survivors get off the lightest. The random characters on the freighter—Mateo and Diogo—have it brutal. But Dawes and Miller get it worst of all. Spoilers… The biggest…

iZombie Spent a Whole Episode Critiquing Itself

This was one of the two greatest moments in “Method Head.” We usually see Liv’s visions from her perspective, and they’re usually dramatic or funny or plot-related. But this time we see how it looks from the outside. And Liv looks like her brain broke. Spoilers follow. The other greatest moment of last night? Steven…

The CW Really Wants to Make a Live-Action Vixen Show

It looks like Megalyn Echikunwoke’s appearance on Arrow next week is only the first step for Vixen. According to CW president Mark Pedowitz, the hope is to use a series of small appearances by the character to jumpstart a spinoff. At the network’s Television Critics Association Panel, Pedowitz said that, although there are no plans…

HBO’s Sesame Street Sounds Like a Yuppie Hell

Last year, a deal was announced that brought the public broadcasting legend Sesame Street to the premium cable network HBO. And now, thanks to The New York Times, we know a bunch of details about the revamped show. How you feel is going to depend a lot on how you feel about change. And yuppies.…

Deadpool has officially received an “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Get ready for “strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity.” [Box Office Mojo]

With This Chronicles of Narnia News, the Word ‘Reboot’ Is Officially Gibberish

Producer Mark Gordon says there’s active development on a film version of The Silver Chair, based on the fourth book of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Of course, it’s being billed as a reboot. Which makes no sense whatsoever. Good… er … bad… er… news! Even as a fan of the Narnia series,…

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Will Meet Up With Jonah Hex

No, you didn’t fall down and hit your head. The CW and DC are really letting Legends of Tomorrow spend part of its very first season time traveling to the Old West. Where they’ll meet up with Jonah Hex. When you have a show that involves time travel, that opens up all kinds of doors.…

Sabrina the Teenage Witch Is Way Weirder Than You Remember

Sabrina the Teenage Witch dominated the TGIF lineup when it premiered in 1996. It aired Friday nights on ABC, alongside Boy Meets World, Family Matters, and Two of a Kind. And it was much, much weirder than any of those. And weirder than even just a regular show about a teenage witch might have been.…

Does Director George Miller Suddenly Not Want to Make Any Mad Max Movies?

After everything we’ve heard about how the original plan was to film Fury Road and its sequel at the same time and about how the George Miller already wrote the sequel, you’d expect him to go ahead and make it. What’s this now? Suddenly Miller’s out? A statement from Miller appears on Page Six and,…