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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is A Dizzying Traversal Across A Multiverse

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a dizzying traversal across a multiverse including
almost every Peter Parker we’ve ever seen in media. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) struggles
to adapt to being Spider-Man and a student, and a son when an old friend, Gwen Stacy (Hailee
Steinfield) reappears in his life, causing everything to turn upside down as he discovers there’s
an entire world of Spider-People from every single possible dimension.
The movie is a visual treat and demands multiple viewings. The voice acting is superb, with
many surprises on who voices who, as the number of Spider-people is truly remarkable. The
movie perfectly captures the struggle of what it takes to be a hero and the real personal cost
that it charges. Despite a longer than average run time, this movie will fly by.
While some parts in the middle may seem like they may drag a bit, the movie never loves what it’s about and what the core of it is truly about. One of the best superhero sequels of all time, this is a must-watch again and again. The movie packs jokes and heart, with some amazing action sequences that leave you begging for more.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash | Official Trailer

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From Director James Cameron, watch the trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash. Experience the film only in theaters December 19. With “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family. The film, which has a screenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and a story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, also stars Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass and Kate Winslet.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps – I’ve got a lever for you!

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The famous quartet of superheroes find themselves facing new challenges in their lives with the advent of childbirth, and an invasion of a planet-eating supervillain and his enigmatic silver surfing herald.

We are all pretty familiar with the Fantastic Four by now – stretchy genius Mr. Fantastic also known as Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), his beautiful and strong lady partner Invisible Woman aka Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), her fiery flying brother Human Torch aka Johnny (Joseph Quinn), and their longtime friend Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) aka well, yes, the Thing.
We’ve suffered through a few efforts at making Fantastic Four movies, and while some had merits and a devoted following, others flopped and were buried with shame. This new take is a very different spin on a familiar family story, so make sure your H.E.R.B.I.E.-bot is fully charged and let’s get into this!

When we meet up with our quartet here on Earth 828 (a touching tribute to creator Jack Kirby’s real-life birthday), they’ve been outed as astronauts turned superheroes for four years running now. The world absolutely loves them, their individual and group efforts have brought peace and hope to countless lives, they have endorsements and a cartoon show and are iconic like you would not believe. The style of the outside world is very late-60’s Kennedy-era hopeful vibe, while inside the Fantastic Four tower where they all work, it’s basically The Jetsons come to life. They’ve even got a bot that does all sorts of maid-butler kind of work, he’s called H.E.R.B.I.E. (Matthew Wood) and he’s adorable. And all that’s about to change, because Sue has discovered that she’s pregnant.

Everyone is overjoyed at the news – Johnny and Ben are gonna make the best uncles ever, Sue and Reed have both been trying for a baby for two years, and the whole world of fandom outside 4 Tower are thrilled that a fifth is being added to their beloved superheroes. Reed is of course overcompensating for his nervousness about impending fatherhood and the possibilities of a child born of both superpowered parents, but none of that really matters anymore, for a silver-skinned female on a surfboard has just shown up to inform the Earth that she is the herald of the entire planets’ destruction, the bringer of the gigantic being known as Galactus (Ralph Ineson), Devourer of Worlds. And it has been decided that the ripe, juicy Earth is his next buffet feast for his insatiable hunger.

The only one who can fly fast enough to keep up with the Herald is Johnny, and when she speaks a strange language directly to him, Johnny has a newfound obsession along with, you know, helping the rest of the team figure out how to save the Earth. Ben finds himself wanting desperately to talk to the lovely little synagogue teacher in his old neighborhood he coined a fancy for, Rachel Rozman (Natasha Lyonne), but his usual reluctance surrounding his

appearance makes it hard for him to do so. And of course, Reed and Sue are a bit terrified at the idea of a this-far-along pregnant woman going back into space, but hey, what choice do they have?

Why are our heroes going back into space, you ask? They’re going to beard the lion in his den, that is, go find Galactus’ spaceship and communicate, negotiate perhaps, with him directly. And though Sue may have managed to negotiate a truce between the underground people led by Moleman Harvey Elder (Paul Walter Hauser) and the above-ground folk back on Earth, this is something literally on a far, far bigger and more dangerous scale. And with the sheer terror given the size and scope of the threat Galactus presents, it seems only Johnny really remembers and tries to understand the Herald, Shalla-Bal (Julia Garner), believing she can be made into an ally and help subvert Galactus somehow.

After a whole bunch of life-threatening events, our heroes manage to make it back to Earth with a fifth little one cradled in Sue’s arms, and Reed, devastated by everything that happened, makes the seriously unwise decision to inform all of Earth of Galactus’ bargain – give him the newborn child, Franklin Richards, and he will not eat the Earth whole. Of course the Richards refused, but this sends humanity into a spiral of selfishness, with many claiming their superheroes should have, and still could, give up the baby to a bigger-than-Kaiju-sized monstrous maw in order to save everyone else. Which is honestly neither a human nor humane mindset, but people have a tendency to demonstrate the worst of themselves first during a crisis. We go on.

Reeds Archimedes-based plan for saving the Earth requires a hell of a lot of cooperation globally, but impending doom has a tendency to make a person put in extra effort, and soon construction on a never-before-seen worldwide scale is happening. Of course, Sue ends up bringing in her old friend Moleman to help move things along, and after her rousing speech, proceeds to “mother” the world leaders into cooperating, right freaking now already. In this iteration of the Fantastic Four franchise, Johnny Storm is of course a tad bit woman-crazy, but also, clearly demonstrates that he is far from a dummy, willing to put in the work, and certainly qualified to do things like go into space as an astronaut, or you know, translate most of an entire alien species language. And our dear pal Ben, now sporting a rock beard in an effort to help with the world energy conservation mandate, has summoned up his courage to speak shyly but charmingly with Rachel, for who knows if he’ll ever get the chance again. Ben has always been the soft-hearted rock-covered lodestone of our quartet, giving kind advice with all the best intentions, and also quite able to let loose by throwing an entire firetruck like a Tonka truck and the like at the bad guys.

Yes there is an easter egg after the credits, this is a Marvel movie after all, and yes the entire theater did stay for it and yes they did go absolutely bonkers upon seeing it. There is another tiny easter egg of sorts after the entire credits run, but it’s more for the folk who grew up on OG Fantastic Four comics and Hanna-Barbera-style cartoons.

Cheer on your favorite newest and likely best version of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, in theaters now!

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I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 : Get hooked all over again!

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A gang of friends are terrorized by a gruesome stalker with a hook to grind over an incident from all of their recent pasts.

Welcome back fans and friends and odds and ends, to Southport, a seaside town where nothing evil or newsworthy as far as murders go ever happens, the cops are all your friends, and the fourth of July is a totally safe holiday to celebrate. Southport is the kind of place where you can meet with to discuss the more new-age ideals of life and death with your local Church Pastor Judah (Austin Nichols), be assured that the local real estate developer with all the cops in his pocket has your best interests at heart, and still take a murder-spree tour of the slaughter of a group of friends that happened here some 30-odd years ago, so make sure your fishermans slicker is all buttoned up to cover your face and let’s get into this!

So, we meet Ava (Chase Sui Wonders) as she returns to Southport in anticipation of her friend Danica’s (Madelyn Cline) engagement party to Teddy Winters (Tyriq Withers). Already weirded out that her old high school best friends are about to get married, Ava obsesses over what to wear, worries about seeing an old flame Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), and is generally a charming bumble of nerves even after the party is over. Danica and Teddy insist Ava and Milo join them all to go out to an unsafe area to watch the 4th of July fireworks just like they used to, Reapers Curve has the best view after all, and after awkwardly running into Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon), another of their former high school crew they kind of dropped like a hot rock when she got into druuuuugs following issues with her family, Stevie gets invited to go out with them, just like old times. The old crew is all back together like nothing has changed, though everything is about to.

Alcohol and weed is being passed around and yes nepo-baby Teddy is an idiotic show-off for playing “chicken” with cars on this road, but none of that is a good enough excuse when a Dodge truck swerves to avoid Teddy and despite all their horrified efforts to stop it, goes through the railing and down over the side, killing the driver. Each pal has their own gut reaction to what just happened, but its only an entirely aghast Ava that demands they go down the high embankment and try to help the driver. Everyone else is only concerned with covering their own asses for various reasons, but its Teddy with his wealthy and connected beyond all reason father Grant Spencer (Billy Campbell) who gets it all hushed up and covered up and dealt with. And we’re left with our terrorized gang of friends who made a pact to never, ever speak of the secret they all now share.

Now, it’s a year later and Ava is reluctantly returning to Southport, with only a brief interlude of some kinky sex with a friendly horror podcaster she met on the plane, singer Gabriette as Tyler Trevino, to attend yet another of Danica’s engagement parties, but this time to someone entirely different, apparent nice-guy Wyatt (Joshua Orpin). And the opening of engagement gifts is the

perfect place and time to start the opening gambit of the end game, with an unsigned note that says, inevitably, I know what you did last summer!

So apparently in the last year since Ava hasn’t been around to be the beloved best friend, Stevie has latched onto the bubble-headed Danica, despite still having her job at a tourist bar, where it turns out Stevie works for a much-older and rather bitter Ray (Freddie Prinz Jr.). And as the hook and the fishermans slicker start making murderous appearances and the bodies begin to pile up, including sadly the podcaster Tyler who was obsessed with the hushed-up murders back in ‘97 of more or less the exact same MO, our would-be Final Girl Ava thinks to contact the OG Final Girl who’s also still alive and working as a college professor, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt).

The film is full of self-aware snark, mainly having to do with nostalgia and how it has a tendency to ruin the lives of the ones actually involved in such original events. It’s pretty clear the filmmakers had to work their brains overtime to figure out a way to shoehorn in a Sarah Michelle Gellar as Croaker Queen Helen Shivers cameo into the movie, but the moment actually works out pretty well and practically winks at the audience in its melting cheekiness. And a happily

still-sassy OG cameo awaits movie-goers with enough attention span left over to wait around til after the main closing credits.

Most of us know and remember the OG I Know What You Did Last Summer films, the first one that kind of reignited the whole Teen-Slasher Horror trope for a newer generation, or at least paved the way for the original Scream film to do that. The sequel movie, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, didn’t do anywhere near as well as the first, despite having three principal actors from the first film reprising their roles for the sequel, and a third movie, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer was a straight-to-video release and barely even connected to the franchise, featuring all-new characters and a different setting entirely. The point is, these movies were basically the flashpoints for a whole lot of things, not the least of which are amazing film careers for Freddie Prinz Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and several others, but one doesn’t absolutely have to have seen the original I Know What You Did Last Summer films in order to appreciate this new one. It would help if you had though, to fully appreciate all the snark, nostalgia, cameos and callbacks in this new film!

Get hooked into the old that claws the way for the new in I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025, in theaters now!

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