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'Til death do they part... Written and directed by Kelly Marcel, Venom: The Last Dance is the superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom. This is the third installment of the Venom trilogy following Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and is the fifth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe. Eddie (Tom Hardy) and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and...

Produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, Superman & Lois is the superhero television series based on the DC Comics characters Superman and Lois Lane. Luke and Jason check in on the fourth and final season of this CW series which stars Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as the titular characters. Clark and Lois continue to deal with all the stress, pressures, and complexities...

Directed by Jeff Fowler, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series published by Sega. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles (Ben Schwartz, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Idris Elba) face a powerful and mysterious new adversary, Shadow the Hedgehog (Keanu Reeves). Defeated by Shadow in every single way, the trio forms an unlikely alliance with Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) in...

Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Dear Santa is the Christmas comedy film starring Jack Black (not as Santa). When a young dyslexic and meek six-grader Liam (Robert Timothy Smith) mails his Christmas wish list to Santa with one crucial spelling error, the devilish Satan (Jack Black) arrives to help him out – or to wreak havoc.

Is Cap back for Avengers: Doomsday? From The Bear to The Hutt, we've got the latest casting addition to The Mandalorian & Grogu movie, we've got trailers for Star Trek: Section 31 and 28 Years Later, and the Final Destination franchise continues to cheat death. It could be time to put your Scrubs back on, Reacher takes on someone twice his size, and has HBO found its Severus Snape?

Question everything. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Heretic is the psychological horror film starring Hugh Grant. Two young missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Directed by Brandon Vietti, Batman: Under the Red Hood is the 2010 animated direct-to-video superhero film featuring characters from DC Comics. Luke and Nathan revisit the eighth film of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies which is directly derived from the Batman storyline "Under the Hood". Red Hood (Jensen Ackles), a villain who knows Batman's (Bruce Greenwood) every move, takes Gotham City...

Infinite space. Infinite terror. Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, Event Horizon is the science fiction horror film starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. Luke and Jae return to 1997 to take on this 2047 set space rescue mission. Captain Miller and his team discover unbelievable secrets when they board the Event Horizon, a starship that had mysteriously disappeared during its maiden voyage, whi...

Created by David S. Goyer, Blade: The Series is the 2004 television series based on the Marvel Comics character Blade. Luke and [co-host] this single season sequel series which shares continuity with New Line Cinema's Blade film series and takes place after the events of the film Blade: Trinity (2004). Krista Starr (Jill Wagner) returns from military service in Iraq to learn that her twin brother,...

That Film Stew Ep 537 - Saturday Night (Review) by That Film Stew Podcast

Hiccup and Toothless come to life, the Voltron movie is real, an Idle Hands remake is coming together, and Christopher Nolan adds more actors to the cast of his next movie. Looks like the Tulsa King will be back, Clayface is confirmed for the DCU, and From will return to raise even more questions.

Love can be a beast. Written and directed by Caroline Lindy, Your Monster is the romantic comedy-horror film based on Lindy’s 2019 short film. Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera) is a young actress enduring a cancer diagnosis and upsetting relationship breakup when she discovers a terrifying, yet weirdly charming monster (Tommy Dewey) living in her closet.

Developed by Lauren LeFranc (who also serves as showrunner) for HBO, The Penguin is the crime drama television miniseries based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Luke and Jae return to Matt Reeves' Gotham for this spin-off sequel to the film The Batman (2022). Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell), A.K.A. the Penguin, begins his rise in the underworld of Gotham City as he contends with the daughter (...

If life isn’t kicking your ass, it’s not doing its job. Written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Goodrich is the comedy film starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis. Art dealer Andy Goodrich’s (Michael Keaton) life gets upended when his younger wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program while also threatening divorce. Andy takes charge of their 9-year-old twins, thrusting him into the wo...

Written and directed by Jon M. Chu, Wicked is the musical fantasy film which is the first of a two-part film adaption of the stage musical Wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, which is loosely based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire and explores the origins of some of the characters from The Wizard of Oz prior to the events of that story and the film from 1939. Misunderstood because o...

Created by Jac Schaeffer (also showrunner and lead director) for Disney+, Agatha All Along is the television miniseries based on the Marvel Comics featuring the character Agatha Harkness. Luke and Jason walk the Witches' Road to check out this spin-off of the series WandaVision (2021) - the 11th television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios. Three years after...

Scary Movie is back, Captain America: Brave New World drops its first full trailer, a new trilogy of Star Wars movies may be coming, and the Mission: Impossible franchise is supposedly coming to and end. The Lanterns cast continues to grow, Macaulay Culkin emerges from the Fallout, and what if What If...? actually comes to an end?

Witness the origin. Directed by Josh Cooley, Transformers One is the animated science fiction action film based on Hasbro’s Transformers toy line. The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron: better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

Directed by Michael Dougherty, Krampus is the Christmas comedy horror film based on the eponymous character from Austro-Bavarian folklore. Luke and Nathan kick off the festive season early as they go back to this 2015 Yuletide feature which was co-written by Dogherty alongside Todd Casey and Zach Shields. When dysfunctional family squabbling causes young Max (Emjay Anthony) to lose his festive spi...

Directed by Brad Bird (in his directorial debut), The Iron Giant is the animated science fiction film based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Luke and Nathan revisit this 1999 classic which stars the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald, and M. Emmet Walsh. A giant alien robot (Vin D...

Written and directed by Frank Miller, The Spirit is the neo-noir superhero film based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name by Will Eisner. Luke and Nathan revist this 2008 film to get a reminder of why The Spirit is something the world needs. Apparently murdered cop Denny Colt (Gabriel Macht) returns as the Spirit, dedicated to protecting Central City from crime. His archenemy, the Octopu...

Directed by James Wan, The Conjuring is the supernatural horror starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren - paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Luke and Jason go back to the start of The Conjuring Universe franchise to revisit the inaugural first installment. In 1970, paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine (Vera Fa...

It's all about Tom Holland as he teams up with one of the biggest directors for his next film and dishes on Spider-Man 4. The game is back on as Jumanji 3 gets a release date, James Gunn delivers the official trailer for Creature Commandos, Superman has a dog, Nick Frost is a droid, and a Stephen King classic is set for the small screen with Mike Flanagan at the helm.

Written and directed by Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first instalment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and our first introduction to the man of our dreams, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Rob and Jason drift off back to 1985 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this supernatural slasher film. Several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger, a disfigured midnight...

Written and directed by Kevin Smith, The 4:30 Movie is the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy film loosely based on Smith's experiences sneaking into movie theatres as a teenager and his earliest romantic endeavours. During the summer of 1986, three 16-year-old buddies spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to s...