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Sesame Street parodies The Avengers with silly vegetable superheroes 

Here’s another fun Sesame Street parody, this time they poke fun of The Avengers by pretending their a group of vegetable superheroes. I just love how Cookie Monster is The Hulk, I mean, it makes perfect sense. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Breaking Bad Creator Turns To Fantasy For A Jack And The Beanstalk Flick

Now this is an interesting meshing of creator and fable. Disney has purchased Vince Gilligan’s (showrunner for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) new Jack and the Beanstalk story. *Insert Jack selling meth to the giant jokes here.* According to Deadline, Gilligan’s “revisionist” take on the classic fairy tale has perked the interest of Disney…

The US Movie Adaptation Of Horror Manga Death Note Lands A Director

Another beloved manga is apparently getting a US makeover. This time it’s Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s comic about an ambitious young man who receives a mystical killer notebook. You’re Next and The Guest director Adam Wingard has signed on to direct the US feature version. The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news…

Which Movie Would Be Better If It Was More Kid-Friendly?

Movie buffs tend to equate an R-rating with realness — if a movie is too violent or sexed-up for kids, then that proves the film-makers are keeping it real. A “hard R” equals a real edge. But sometimes, focusing on all the splatter and nudity can just get in the way of the story. Which…

Watch the top 10 coolest airplane dogfight scenes in movie history

I’m not sure that CineFix included all the most visually awesome aerial dogfight scenes in their top 10 video for best dogfights of all time, but I do know that it’s always fun as hell to see two flying killer bird machines try to take down each other in an incredible array of skill, weaponry,…

Johnny Depp Makes For A Terrifying Dinner Guest In Black Mass Trailer  

Johnny Depp has played Dillinger and Donnie Brasco, and this fall he’ll take on another famous gangster, Whitey Bulger. The trailer for Black Mass suggests the action will take place during Bulger’s 1970s heyday, but his tale has a contemporary hook: he was captured just four years ago after 16 on the lam. He was…

Age Of Ultron Is Getting An Extended Cut And Alternate Ending On Blu-Ray

Might as well resign yourself to watching Avengers: Age of Ultron twice — once when the movie premieres in theaters this Friday, and again when it comes out later this year on Blu-ray… as an extended edition with a new, different ending. Somehow I imagine this won’t put too many of you out. The news…

10 Obvious Superhero Weaknesses (That Supervillains Hardly Ever Exploit)

We think of superhero weaknesses as being fancy or complicated — radioactive fragments of their old home planets, or the people they love. And that’s why superheroes win. In fact, most superheroes have super-obvious weak points. Here are 10 obvious superhero weakness that villains almost never attack. Top image: Artwork by Tara Jacoby 1) The…

Frank Grillo Hints At Crossbones’ Big Transformation For Civil War

Actor Frank Grillo, a.k.a. Brock Rumlow, a.k.a. soon-t0-be comic book villain Crossbones, threw down some huge teases for his new look in the next Marvel movie, Captain America: Civil War. We’ve been so focused on sussing out the future drama that will be built between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark we forgot about the rest…

First Look At X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Nightcrawler, Who Is Adorable

Aww! It’s our first glimpse at Kodi Smit-McPhee as the blue, teleporting mutant Nightcrawler of X-Men: Apocalypse, as revealed by director Bryan Singer online. Lookit that widdle blue guy! First, here’s exactly what Singer posted. You’ll have to click through to Instagram to see it, but don’t get too excited that it’s a video: Now,…

Last week, Robert Downey Jr. made an appearance at a charity screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron. See the video here.

ISS Astronauts Chose Gravity For Their (Meta) Movie Night Tonight

Here’s your meta moment for the night: the astronauts aboard the International Space Station are having a movie night, and their flick of choice is Gravity, according to Scott Kelly. Wonder how the line “I hate space!” will go over with this crowd?

Why Push Is Still One Of My Favorite Superhero Movies

I’m the sort of person who reads up on movies before I go and see them. It’s very infrequent I just see something on a whim — but Push was one of the rare movies I went in blind. And somehow, in the age of today’s superhero blockbusters, it still stands as one of the…

Man of Steel restored in color looks so much better than the original

Man of Steel was mostly fine but one huge problem with the movie was that it was just too dark. It embarrassingly cribbed its visual style off of Nolan’s Batman trilogy and that dark tone just doesn’t match up well with Superman. Visual Lab decided to restore the color in the film and it looks…

All The Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Aren’t From Marvel Or DC

Marvel and DC superhero movies get all the headlines, but did you know there are other comic publishers out there? And they are also making great comics — like Scott Snyder’s Wytches, above — that may make their way to the silver screen? It’s true! Here’s 40 future films from all the other guys you…

Check Out Professor X And Harry Potter As Dr. Frankenstein And Igor

The first set pic of Victor Frankenstein has arrived, showing James MacAvoy as the titular mad scientist on the right, and Daniel Radcliffe as what is most likely the most handsome version of Igor ever seen on screen on the left. Those are some snazzy pants too, gents! This version of the Frankenstein tale will…

That Movie About An Eternally Young Blake Lively? It’s A Dud.

In The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively plays a woman who gets struck by fancy weird-science-lightning and stops aging, for decades. But she keeps her condition secret, which means she needs to be alone. This could have been the premise of a neat movie, but instead it’s the basis of a grinding mess. Minor spoilers…

Jurassic World Footage Puts The Focus Back On The Dinosaurs

Universal brought out its big star Chris Pratt to show off a whole new sizzle reel for Jurassic World. And what I saw was definitely better than the earlier released clip, mainly because it was very dinosaur-heavy. And it helped the evil smart dinosaur a little as well (a very little). Spoilers ahead. Pratt and…

Avatar Exhibition Will Tour The World To Remind You Avatar 2 Is A Thing

Cast your minds back to the heady days of 2009 — and to the days when Avatar, for better or worse, was the only movie people would talk about. Six years on, a new exhibition celebrating Pandora will travel the globe, a less than subtle reminder that James Cameron still wants to make another one…

Tyler Perry Will Be Baxter Stockman In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

Tyler Perry, seen above in his non-pivotal role in Star Trek, has just been cast as the evil, Mouser-creating scientist Baxter Stockman in the increasingly crowded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel. I have no strong feelings about this one way or another. Seriously. I’m not necessarily a fan of his own movies, but I think…