FROM CINEMA FANATIC
🕴️ Vegas’ new John Wick Experience revealed — step into the Continental with interactive gameplay, themed bars, and assassin shops.
🧪 First look at Peter Dinklage as Toxie in The Toxic Avenger remake—Game of Thrones star transforms into the mutant superhero.
🧬 Universal pairs Glen Powell (Twisters) with Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) for sci-fi thriller The Natural Order.
🌌 From 1997, Contact’s mirror sequence remains cinema’s most jaw-dropping visual illusion — how did they do that?
🏝️ First look at live-action Stitch sparks backlash — fans prefer the cartoon, calling it another Sonic/Shrek design disaster (full trailer here).
🦸‍♂️ Jason “Bateman” fights Gotham crime in State Farm’s star-studded commercial featuring SZA’s and Kai Cenat (did they miss the Super Bowl?)
🖥️ Black Mirror S7’s trailer — plus trailers for Jon Hamm’s Your Friends and Neighbors and Mike Flanagan’s House of Chuck and Spinal Tap 2.
FEATURED PODCAST
The Comic Shop
OFFICIAL RELEASE: Mike D’Angelo owns a small comic shop in a Las Vegas strip mall. Though he finished art school and briefly worked as a comic book illustrator, Mike had to resort to what his parents call “Plan B,” building his own business. Having to give up most of his creative ambitions and with the pandemic taking a toll on Mike’s World Comics, he’s had to reinvent the store and lay off his best worker and closest friend, Alex. Though he thinks his dreams are behind him, he yearns to return to his true passion, art …then they meet Brandon and together, the three of them save each other and realize their dreams.
THE ASSESSMENT
In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of their society and what it truly means to be human.
A film by Fleur Fortuné
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, Minnie Driver, Indira Varma, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlotte Ritchie, and Leah Harvey
Blood Type
Official Release: Meet Ada, an immortal vampire whose misdeeds have landed her on the doorstep of an idyllic Caribbean resort. . . . An island paradise teeming with wealthy tourists and superstitious locals—an ample food supply for the thirsty vamp looking to get away from it all! But as Ada stalks the boundaries of her new hunting ground, she’ll soon become embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse by moonlight . . . as an older, wiser, and entirely different kind of predator reveals its own carnal hunger for greed and power.
Picking up in the immediate aftermath of Ada’s first appearance in the titular short story “Blood Type” from EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3, BLOOD TYPE is intended to be the first in a new slate of semi-regular EC Comics limited series that will spotlight and continue a select few of the razor-sharp short stories introduced in the pages of EC’s monthly anthology titles – be they horror, science fiction, fantasy, or more.
Tony Tellado
