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Review: Apple TV's "Prehistoric Planet" Is A Must See Docuseries

Review: Apple TV’s “Prehistoric Planet” Is A Must See Docuseries

I have watched a lot of documentaries about dinosaurs; I am a colossal dino nerd and proud of it. Judging by the trailer for Apple TV’s “Prehistoric Planets” docuseries, I knew I was in for something good. I was wrong; what I got was something far beyond “good,” it’s incredible! Narrated by David Attenborough, who has long been the voice of the BBC and many scientific documentaries, series, and specials, “Prehistoric Planet” rolls back the clock 66 million years to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. With a combination of CGI and filming, the stunning docuseries explores the locations the beasts once called home. The first episode is titled “Coasts” and takes viewers to coastal lands and islands where we see a family of T-Rex, giant turtles, and more. The next episode takes us deep into the “Desert,” where dinosaurs struggle to survive. Next Prehistoric Plant delves into the “Freshwater” before giving us a glimpse into “Ice Worlds,” and finally, the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Renews Hit Zombie Series For Season 2

Netflix Renews Hit Zombie Series For Season 2

Earlier this year, the South Korean zombie series “All of Us Are Dead” became a quick hit, and rightfully so; it’s a great coming-of-age series that features a ton of gore, action, great effects, and hordes of hungry zombies. With the way the show ended (not going to spoil it), fans wondered if we’d see more of it. The answer is yes! Netflix has renewed the series for another season! That’s not the only good news for fans of the series about high school students fighting to survive both zombies and each other. The first season’s directors, Lee JQ and Kim Nam-Su, and its writer, Chun Sung-il, will be back for season two. The first season was based on the digital comic by Dong-Geun. As for the first season’s success, Netflix states, “After its premiere, All of Us Are Dead shot straight into the top 10 most-watched non-English TV series in 91 countries and stayed there for two consecutive weeks.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Shares Premiere Date For Third And Final Season Of "Locke & Key" (Trailer)

Netflix Shares Premiere Date For Third And Final Season Of “Locke & Key” (Trailer)

Netflix will unlock the magic of “Locke & Key” one last time. The streaming giant has announced the summer premiere date for the series’ third and final season. Another of Netflix’s Geek Week reveals, the first look teaser reveals the Locke family rallying to face the bag guy, played by Kevin Durand. In the series, “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death.” From Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Meredith Averill (The Haunting of Hill House), the series is a coming-of-age mystery about love, loss, and the unshakable bonds that define family.” The series, an adaptation of Joe Hill‘s best-selling graphic novel “Locke and Key,” stars Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”), Jackson Robert Scott (IT), Connor Jessup (“American Crime”), Bill Heck (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Emilia Jones (“Horrible Histories”), Layla De

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Unveils First Look At "The Sandman" Series And Its Premiere Date!

Netflix Unveils First Look At “The Sandman” Series And Its Premiere Date!

Netflix continues to release glimpses of their upcoming series at Geek Week, such as Tim Burton’s “Wednesday.” The streaming giant has also just announced the premiere date and given us our first look at the new “The Sandman” series, based on the comic books of Neil Gaiman. The highly anticipated series is described as “A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven; the Sandman follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.” The cast includes Tom Sturridge as Drea, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Charles dance as Rodrick Burgess, and Asim Chaudry as Abel. Gaiman will be serving as executive producer and co-writer for the series. Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, Grey’s Anatomy) will serve as executive producer and showrunner, with David

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Jenna Ortega Is "Wednesday" In First Teaser From Tim Burton's Series

Jenna Ortega Is “Wednesday” In First Teaser From Tim Burton’s Series

Tim Burton’s highly anticipated Addams Family spin-off, “Wednesday,” is set to premiere this fall. Today, we get our first look at Jenna Ortega (Scream) as Wednesday Addams via a teaser shared at Geek Week this afternoon. The series sees the “Addams Family” star Christina Ricci returns as a yet-to-be-named character. The actress’s iconic role of Wednesday will this time be played by Jenna Ortega (Scream). “The Addams Family” spin-off also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman in the roles of Morticia and Gomez. “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie will play the role of “Larissa Weems,” the principal of Nevermore Academy. The cast also includes Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane, and Thora Birch, and Riki Lindhome. “Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Jena Malone Reunites With 'Ruins' Director For Horror Film 'Swallowed'

Jena Malone Reunites With ‘Ruins’ Director For Horror Film ‘Swallowed’

Nearly a year ago, we reported that director Crater Smith and actress Jena Malone are reuniting for the upcoming horror film Swallowed, which Smith describes as a “slimy wild queer horror nightmare of a movie.” The movie has just made its debut at the Overlook Film Festival, followed by the release of its trailer. In the indie film, “After a drug run goes bad – two childhood friends must survive a horrific night in a backwoods hell of drugs, bugs, and obscene intimacy in this queer horror nightmare.” Malone stars alongside Mark Patton (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge), Cooper Koch (Power Book II: Ghost), Roe Pacheco (Bloody Pi), and newcomers Michael Shawn Curtis and Jose Colon. Smith made his directorial debut with the oh-so creepy 2008 film The Ruins, in which Malone starred, about a group of friends on vacation who visit a remote Myan temple only to face hostile locals and terrifying vines that mimic sounds

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
A 'Family Dinner' Turns Into A Nightmare In New Teaser

A ‘Family Dinner’ Turns Into A Nightmare In New Teaser

Let’s be honest; family dinners are a nightmare for most people. The new film, titled Family Dinner, turns into terror. Ahead of its premiere at Tribeca on June 10th, the teaser trailer has arrived for the film, written and directed by Peter Hengl. In the foreign-language film (with English subtitles), “Tired of feeling down about her weight, plus-sized 15-year-old Simi (Nina Katlein) heads to her aunt Claudia’s house for Easter weekend. Claudia (Pia Hierzegger), a popular nutritionist who’s written best-selling health books, so for Simi, spending a few days together could help change her diet and inspire weight loss.” “What should’ve been a nice holiday weekend with family quickly reveals anything but. Simi’s cousin, Filipp (Alexander Sladek), is curiously hostile towards her, while Filipp’s stepdad, Stefan (Michael Pink), is curiously the opposite towards Simi. At the same time, Claudia’s dietary guidance verges on becoming overly militant. What’s causing everyone to act so strangely and aggressively? The answers are even worse

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Teaser For New Movie Turns A 'Smile' Into Something Sinister

Teaser For New Movie Turns A ‘Smile’ Into Something Sinister

Everyone loves a smile, but a big grin can become very unsettling in some situations. That’s the case with Paramount’s Smile, whose new teaser, which showed in theaters ahead of Top Gun and Crimes of the Future, will leave you with an uneasy feeling. From writer-director Parker Finn comes the mysterious film that has been made under the radar. So far, all we know is that the movie follows “a doctor whose mind begins to turn on her after she witnesses a traumatic event that involves a patient.” The film’s official Twitter account has now shared a version of the teaser that sees a woman pass a man, frozen with a fixed grin, on a hospital bed. She leans in to examine him to no avail. But he’s not the only one with a creepy AF smile. The cast includes Sosie Bacon (“Scream” TV), Jesse T. Usher (“The Boys”), Rob Morgan (“Stranger Things”), Kyle Gallner (Scream 2022), and Caitlin Stasey

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Dermot Mulroney Joins The Cast Of 'Scream 6'

Dermot Mulroney Joins The Cast Of ‘Scream 6’

The cast continues to expand for the next installment of the Scream franchise with new and returning stars, including the survivors from this year’s movie, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega, as well as franchise star Courtney Cox, and Hayden Panettiere from Scream 4. THR reports that the newest addition to the cast is Dermot Mulroney, who has starred in films such as Insidious 3, as well as “The Purge” series, “American Horror Story,” and the killer series “Hanna” and “Prodigal Son.” Mulroney will play the role of a cop in the new movie. This time, “the saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.” Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not) will helm the film, with James Vanderbilt (Scream, Murder Mystery) and Guy Busick (Scream, Ready or Not) writing the script. Project X Entertainment’s Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein, and William

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'The Summoned' Unleashed Today On VOD

XYZ Fast Tracks Supernatural Horror ‘The Summoned’ For A Summer Release

XYZ Films has just snagged Mark Meir‘s Faustian morality tale, The Summoned, and fast-tracked it for a July release following Its premiere last night at the Overlook Film Festival. In the film, young Elijah ( J. Quinton Johnson) attends a self-help retreat with his rock-star girlfriend Lyn, unaware that the enigmatic doctor who runs the estate has summoned him here to settle a generations-old supernatural debt. Directed by Mark Meir from the script written by Jewish-Ukrainian writer Yuri Baranovsky, The Summoned‘s cast includes J. Quinton Johnson (Hamilton on Broadway, AMC’s The Son), Emma Fitzpatrick (“The Social Network”), Salvador Chacon (FX’s Mayans M.C.), Angela Gulner (Netflix’s GLOW), and Freddy Douglas (Hallmark’s The Odyssey). A Wicked Myth and Happy Little Guillotine Studios co-production, the picture is Produced by Baranovsky, Meir, Gulner, Justin Mark Morrison, and Dashiell Reinhardt. “All I can say is that I felt summoned to work on THE SUMMONED! Mark, Yuri, and Angela created something smart and scary, and I

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2022

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Review: Apple TV's "Prehistoric Planet" Is A Must See Docuseries

Review: Apple TV’s “Prehistoric Planet” Is A Must See Docuseries

I have watched a lot of documentaries about dinosaurs; I am a colossal dino nerd and proud of it. Judging by the trailer for Apple TV’s “Prehistoric Planets” docuseries, I knew I was in for something good. I was wrong; what I got was something far beyond “good,” it’s incredible! Narrated by David Attenborough, who has long been the voice of the BBC and many scientific documentaries, series, and specials, “Prehistoric Planet” rolls back the clock 66 million years to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. With a combination of CGI and filming, the stunning docuseries explores the locations the beasts once called home. The first episode is titled “Coasts” and takes viewers to coastal lands and islands where we see a family of T-Rex, giant turtles, and more. The next episode takes us deep into the “Desert,” where dinosaurs struggle to survive. Next Prehistoric Plant delves into the “Freshwater” before giving us a glimpse into “Ice Worlds,” and finally, the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Renews Hit Zombie Series For Season 2

Netflix Renews Hit Zombie Series For Season 2

Earlier this year, the South Korean zombie series “All of Us Are Dead” became a quick hit, and rightfully so; it’s a great coming-of-age series that features a ton of gore, action, great effects, and hordes of hungry zombies. With the way the show ended (not going to spoil it), fans wondered if we’d see more of it. The answer is yes! Netflix has renewed the series for another season! That’s not the only good news for fans of the series about high school students fighting to survive both zombies and each other. The first season’s directors, Lee JQ and Kim Nam-Su, and its writer, Chun Sung-il, will be back for season two. The first season was based on the digital comic by Dong-Geun. As for the first season’s success, Netflix states, “After its premiere, All of Us Are Dead shot straight into the top 10 most-watched non-English TV series in 91 countries and stayed there for two consecutive weeks.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Shares Premiere Date For Third And Final Season Of "Locke & Key" (Trailer)

Netflix Shares Premiere Date For Third And Final Season Of “Locke & Key” (Trailer)

Netflix will unlock the magic of “Locke & Key” one last time. The streaming giant has announced the summer premiere date for the series’ third and final season. Another of Netflix’s Geek Week reveals, the first look teaser reveals the Locke family rallying to face the bag guy, played by Kevin Durand. In the series, “After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death.” From Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) and Meredith Averill (The Haunting of Hill House), the series is a coming-of-age mystery about love, loss, and the unshakable bonds that define family.” The series, an adaptation of Joe Hill‘s best-selling graphic novel “Locke and Key,” stars Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”), Jackson Robert Scott (IT), Connor Jessup (“American Crime”), Bill Heck (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Emilia Jones (“Horrible Histories”), Layla De

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 7, 2022
Netflix Unveils First Look At "The Sandman" Series And Its Premiere Date!

Netflix Unveils First Look At “The Sandman” Series And Its Premiere Date!

Netflix continues to release glimpses of their upcoming series at Geek Week, such as Tim Burton’s “Wednesday.” The streaming giant has also just announced the premiere date and given us our first look at the new “The Sandman” series, based on the comic books of Neil Gaiman. The highly anticipated series is described as “A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven; the Sandman follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.” The cast includes Tom Sturridge as Drea, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Charles dance as Rodrick Burgess, and Asim Chaudry as Abel. Gaiman will be serving as executive producer and co-writer for the series. Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, Grey’s Anatomy) will serve as executive producer and showrunner, with David

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Jenna Ortega Is "Wednesday" In First Teaser From Tim Burton's Series

Jenna Ortega Is “Wednesday” In First Teaser From Tim Burton’s Series

Tim Burton’s highly anticipated Addams Family spin-off, “Wednesday,” is set to premiere this fall. Today, we get our first look at Jenna Ortega (Scream) as Wednesday Addams via a teaser shared at Geek Week this afternoon. The series sees the “Addams Family” star Christina Ricci returns as a yet-to-be-named character. The actress’s iconic role of Wednesday will this time be played by Jenna Ortega (Scream). “The Addams Family” spin-off also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman in the roles of Morticia and Gomez. “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie will play the role of “Larissa Weems,” the principal of Nevermore Academy. The cast also includes Joy Sunday, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Naomi J. Ogawa, Percy Hynes White, Jamie McShane, and Thora Birch, and Riki Lindhome. “Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Jena Malone Reunites With 'Ruins' Director For Horror Film 'Swallowed'

Jena Malone Reunites With ‘Ruins’ Director For Horror Film ‘Swallowed’

Nearly a year ago, we reported that director Crater Smith and actress Jena Malone are reuniting for the upcoming horror film Swallowed, which Smith describes as a “slimy wild queer horror nightmare of a movie.” The movie has just made its debut at the Overlook Film Festival, followed by the release of its trailer. In the indie film, “After a drug run goes bad – two childhood friends must survive a horrific night in a backwoods hell of drugs, bugs, and obscene intimacy in this queer horror nightmare.” Malone stars alongside Mark Patton (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge), Cooper Koch (Power Book II: Ghost), Roe Pacheco (Bloody Pi), and newcomers Michael Shawn Curtis and Jose Colon. Smith made his directorial debut with the oh-so creepy 2008 film The Ruins, in which Malone starred, about a group of friends on vacation who visit a remote Myan temple only to face hostile locals and terrifying vines that mimic sounds

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
A 'Family Dinner' Turns Into A Nightmare In New Teaser

A ‘Family Dinner’ Turns Into A Nightmare In New Teaser

Let’s be honest; family dinners are a nightmare for most people. The new film, titled Family Dinner, turns into terror. Ahead of its premiere at Tribeca on June 10th, the teaser trailer has arrived for the film, written and directed by Peter Hengl. In the foreign-language film (with English subtitles), “Tired of feeling down about her weight, plus-sized 15-year-old Simi (Nina Katlein) heads to her aunt Claudia’s house for Easter weekend. Claudia (Pia Hierzegger), a popular nutritionist who’s written best-selling health books, so for Simi, spending a few days together could help change her diet and inspire weight loss.” “What should’ve been a nice holiday weekend with family quickly reveals anything but. Simi’s cousin, Filipp (Alexander Sladek), is curiously hostile towards her, while Filipp’s stepdad, Stefan (Michael Pink), is curiously the opposite towards Simi. At the same time, Claudia’s dietary guidance verges on becoming overly militant. What’s causing everyone to act so strangely and aggressively? The answers are even worse

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Teaser For New Movie Turns A 'Smile' Into Something Sinister

Teaser For New Movie Turns A ‘Smile’ Into Something Sinister

Everyone loves a smile, but a big grin can become very unsettling in some situations. That’s the case with Paramount’s Smile, whose new teaser, which showed in theaters ahead of Top Gun and Crimes of the Future, will leave you with an uneasy feeling. From writer-director Parker Finn comes the mysterious film that has been made under the radar. So far, all we know is that the movie follows “a doctor whose mind begins to turn on her after she witnesses a traumatic event that involves a patient.” The film’s official Twitter account has now shared a version of the teaser that sees a woman pass a man, frozen with a fixed grin, on a hospital bed. She leans in to examine him to no avail. But he’s not the only one with a creepy AF smile. The cast includes Sosie Bacon (“Scream” TV), Jesse T. Usher (“The Boys”), Rob Morgan (“Stranger Things”), Kyle Gallner (Scream 2022), and Caitlin Stasey

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2022
Dermot Mulroney Joins The Cast Of 'Scream 6'

Dermot Mulroney Joins The Cast Of ‘Scream 6’

The cast continues to expand for the next installment of the Scream franchise with new and returning stars, including the survivors from this year’s movie, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega, as well as franchise star Courtney Cox, and Hayden Panettiere from Scream 4. THR reports that the newest addition to the cast is Dermot Mulroney, who has starred in films such as Insidious 3, as well as “The Purge” series, “American Horror Story,” and the killer series “Hanna” and “Prodigal Son.” Mulroney will play the role of a cop in the new movie. This time, “the saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.” Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not) will helm the film, with James Vanderbilt (Scream, Murder Mystery) and Guy Busick (Scream, Ready or Not) writing the script. Project X Entertainment’s Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein, and William

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2022
Supernatural Horror 'The Summoned' Unleashed Today On VOD

XYZ Fast Tracks Supernatural Horror ‘The Summoned’ For A Summer Release

XYZ Films has just snagged Mark Meir‘s Faustian morality tale, The Summoned, and fast-tracked it for a July release following Its premiere last night at the Overlook Film Festival. In the film, young Elijah ( J. Quinton Johnson) attends a self-help retreat with his rock-star girlfriend Lyn, unaware that the enigmatic doctor who runs the estate has summoned him here to settle a generations-old supernatural debt. Directed by Mark Meir from the script written by Jewish-Ukrainian writer Yuri Baranovsky, The Summoned‘s cast includes J. Quinton Johnson (Hamilton on Broadway, AMC’s The Son), Emma Fitzpatrick (“The Social Network”), Salvador Chacon (FX’s Mayans M.C.), Angela Gulner (Netflix’s GLOW), and Freddy Douglas (Hallmark’s The Odyssey). A Wicked Myth and Happy Little Guillotine Studios co-production, the picture is Produced by Baranovsky, Meir, Gulner, Justin Mark Morrison, and Dashiell Reinhardt. “All I can say is that I felt summoned to work on THE SUMMONED! Mark, Yuri, and Angela created something smart and scary, and I

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 5, 2022
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