Director Alex Garland is venturing into the genre of folk horror for the first time with his 2022 film “Men.” The highly anticipated project is a new direction for the filmmaker but will still bear many tonal similarities to his acclaimed sci-fi films, “Ex Machina” (2014) and “Annihilation” (2018). “Men” stars indie darling Jessie Buckley […]

It’s been an awfully long time since Academy Award-winning writer/director Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind“) made a full-length film. The last ones were “Green Hornet” in 2011, “Mood Indigo” in 2013, “Microbe & Gasoline” in 2015, and a lot of shorts and music videos since then, as well as the TV series […]

La la la la la … the “Daria” spin-off series, “Jodie,” is going to be a movie instead. The animated spin-off to the cult MTV series “Daria” has been in the works for some time, but now MTV Entertainment Studios has announced that it will be a feature film instead of a series, and they’ve […]

Every great filmmaker will take inspiration from those who came before them. Quentin Tarantino serves as a great example of someone who is clearly inspired by the work of many artists, yet uses lessons of other masters of cinema to make something that feels entirely unique. Alex Garland, who film lovers likely know from his […]

Warning: spoilers ahead for “Moon Knight.” Adventure, fantasy, horror, and romance: Composer Hesham Nazih infuses the score for “Moon Knight” with a wide range of emotions. It all comes to an end in episode 6, “Gods and Monsters,” in which Nazih unleashes his biggest track yet (the propulsive “New Skillsets”) and introduces Scarlet Scarab with sounds of […]

The latest Alex Garland-directed film, “Men,” is hitting theaters in the U.S. and the U.K. very shortly. The reactions are wildly positive so far, though I’m doing my very best to stay away from any spoilers. If you’re doing the same, the simple synopsis is that a young woman (Jessie Buckley) goes on a holiday […]

When we first met President Coriolanus Snow in “The Hunger Games,” he was the tyrannical president of Panem and played by the brilliant Donald Sutherland. Now, the young “Coryo” Snow is heading to the big screen, with the Juilliard School graduate Tom Blyth taking on the role in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds […]

Spring is here, the weather is finally heating up again, and those of us suffering from a little cabin fever during the dreary winter months can look forward to getting some fresh air again. But the real boon of this time of year, of course, comes from the fact that we’re about to get another […]

Zack Snyder’s space epic “Rebel Moon” has just added several more actors to its increasingly sprawling cast, including Ed Skrein taking over for Rupert Friend. Deadline reports that Friend is exiting the project due to scheduling conflicts. The project began production last month. Friend was initially on board to play the film’s main villain, who […]

(Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks.) In this edition of Superhero Bits: The […]