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A luxury item that seemingly every warm-weather homeowner covets, the swimming pool has somehow become troubled waters for a wide range of movie and TV characters. In The Swimmer, it’s a symbol of personal decay for Burt Lancaster’s alcoholic suburbanite. In the simply-titled Swimming Pool it’s the stuff of Franco-British erotic intrigue. And in Stranger Things, there’s all manner of nastiness lurking beneath the seemingly placid chlorinated surface. In short, there are – ahem – depths to the onscreen pool party, more…

Image: NetflixAlthough we’ve only just got access to the first half of Henry Cavill’s swansong as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s Witcher adaptation, we’ve known for a good while yet the actor was on his way out of the Continent for good. But Netflix is, bizarrely, using that fact to lure viewers back—while feeling like it’s negging its own casting choice in the process.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksTo celebrate the first volume of Witcher’s third season hitting the streaming…

via Umbrella Entertainment While some may take offense to calling Avengers: Endgame one of the best time travel movies ever made, nobody’s got a leg to stand on if they don’t agree that Blade Runner is a top-tier sci-fi classic that’s rarely if ever been bettered. However, likening the pair to the exceedingly ambitious 2067 certainly feels as though it’s a step too far. Not to dunk on writer and director Seth Larney’s visually stunning lo-fi feature, but a Rotten Tomatoes score of 32 percent to go with a 39…

Image: Marvel Studios Perfectly balanced, as all things should be, as fans theorize Thanos is to thank for preventing the pandemic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Commentators have widely compared The Blip to the coronavirus pandemic as society saw distinct parallels between fiction and reality, but within the Marvel universe did such a pandemic hit them in 2019? Well, perhaps not, as fans are now speculating that the events of Avengers: Infinity War led to Earth-616 completely avoiding the pandemic. The fan…

Chet Hanks has sent people into a frenzy with his intense impersonation of Heath Ledger’s Joker.The controversial actor, musician and son of Tom Hanks delivered the impression of the Batman villain – as brought to life by Ledger in 2008’s The Dark Knight – while appearing on Ziwe Fumudoh’s Showtime interview series.Shirtless and sitting on an excercise ball, Hanks was filmed reciting several lines from the film, apparently unprompted. The clip is embedded below.“I don’t have any plans,” he says, in response to a question.…