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As fantastic and rewarding as the new live-actionStar Warsfilms have been for fans of the iconic franchise, the animated seriesStar Wars: The Clone Warsand its follow-up seriesStar Wars Rebelsare every bit as entertaining. They serve to fill in the gaps in time between films but also feature truly interesting and complex characters who go on life-changing adventures throughout the many worlds of theStar Warsuniverse. If you’ve only watched the movies, you’re missing out on a wealth of quality storytelling from theStar Warscanon....

Amazon Prime Video has announced three new documentaries from Academy Award-winning directorSteve McQueen. Picking up on themes from his Emmy-winningSmall Axeanthology for the streamer, the new documentaries examine important moments in Black British history. The announcement was accompanied by trailers and clips from the upcoming films, offering a glimpse of their approach to the material. Uprising, which McQueen co-directed with documentarianJames Rogan, is a three-part series, each episode examining a key event from 1981: The New Cross Fire, the Black People’s Day of Action, and the Brixton riots....

Apple TV+ released the first trailer ofSuspicion, its highly-anticipated “whodunit?” series starringUma Thurmanas a successful businesswoman whose son gets kidnapped from a hotel in New York. The trailer teases the expected level of paranoia and mistrust as four different British citizens get accused of committing the crime. The trailer opens with a marriage scene, where the bride, Nathalie Thompson (Georgina Campbell), gets arrested with no further explanations. Nathalie is taken to a questioning room, where she’s accused of conspiring to kidnap Katherine Newman’s (Thurman) son....

If there’s anything you need to get right with a new interpretation of the Dark Knight, it’s the voice.Robert Pattinsonis among the greatest talents of his generation, so you’d expect he’s nailed it forThe Batman, wherein he takes up the role for the first time. But in conversation at a recent panel event that Collider attended, the actor opened up on the process of finding the right vocal performance for their version of the Caped Crusader....

Anyone who has seen even a few minutes of the satirical superhero seriesThe Boysknows that it is a show that is brutal, bloody, and not scared to show the carnage left behind by these less than heroic characters. With the third and most recent season going to some absolutely absurd areas likethatTermite scenein the season’s premiere episode and the infamous Herogasm episode, fans are waiting with bated breath for what new and outlandish violence will be on display in the upcoming Season 4, which iscurrently filming in Toronto....

Yes, it’sRebecca Hall, but hold your horses, it’s not aGodzillateaser by any chance. The BAFTA nominated actress is set to lead a new BBC limited series, titledThe Listeners. The four-part series made its highly anticipatedToronto International Film Festival premiere in September, and is well positioned to be one of the most thought-provoking dramas of the year so far. Ahead of its release later this fall on November 19, a new trailer has been released to offer more context to the mysterious situation Hall’s character finds herself....

It’s rare for an actor to maintain popularity and longevity in Hollywood, and yet,Keanu Reeveshas been a box office darling for over three decades. From Ted inBill & Ted’s Excellent Adventureto shooting his way through Paris as John Wick inJohn Wick: Chapter 4, Reeves is one of the few movie stars left to bring audiences to the theaters. With so many iconic roles in the expanse of his filmography, such as Neo inThe Matrixmovies, it would be safe to assume that one of Reeves’ franchise movies has crossed over into the $1 billion box office club....

Watching theOutlanderSeason 4 finale, “Man of Worth,” made me think of when I sawHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I went with a friend who had only seen the movies and not read the books, and she was thoroughly confused by the end of it.Phoenixplayed out like the most basic Cliff Notes of the book itself; to keep the runtime manageable, it skimmed through plotlines and emotional beats needed to really make it work....

Alex Garland’s2014 sci-fi thrillerEx Machinaexamines the possibilities of the relationships between humans and AI and how our treatment of those perceived as non-human may expose some deeper truths about our relationship with the world. The film follows Caleb (Domnhall Gleeson), a timid programmer working for Blue Book (a sort of Google/Meta parody) who wins a contest to spend two weeks withfounder and CEO Nathan (Oscar Issac)at his secluded tech mansion. Living completely isolated, Nathan’s only other companion is Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno), his live-in housemaid whom he uses solely for his pleasure....

One of the biggest names in the long-lost golden age of horse opera television, the (mostly) black-and-whiteWagon Trainis a noteworthy series for a few reasons. For starters, the show’s engaging anthology-like commitment to exploring new characters in each episode was a draw that kept the program — which originally aired on NBC before jumping to ABC in its final years — fresh for eight seasons. It also just happens to be a series thathelped inspire the originalStar Trek....

ABC’s 90s comedyFresh Off the Boatwas originally developed to revolve around the exploits of Eddie Huang (Hudson Yang), having been based off of the memoirs of therealEddie Huang. But as the real-life Huang distanced himself from the show and it became clear that its breakout star was his on-screen mother Jessica (Constance Wu), the show began to pivot in its second season to include more of the adults and somewhat less of the kids....

The Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, recently held the 18th Annual VES Awards, the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues. ComedianPatton Oswaltserved as host for the 9th time to the more than 1000 guests gathered at the Beverly Hilton to celebrate VFX talent in 25 awards categories.The Lion Kingwas named the photoreal feature winner, garnering three awards....

Watership Downis one of the greatest stories of the last 50 years, if not all time. Originally written byRichard Adamsback in 1972, the award-winning novel was adapted into a fantastic animated feature in 1978 and a more recent animated series at the turn of the millennium. Adams' story about anthropomorphic rabbits attempting to survive the harsh realities of the natural world and the humans who are encroaching on their territory has also been adapted into other media over the years....