Welcome to The Hollywood Handle’s NYCC liveblog series and Day 2 of NYCC! Throughout this series, we’ll be cataloguing the most important highlights from a range of panels during NYCC at the Javits Center! For this liveblog, we’ll be reporting on the sneak peek of Chucky‘s second season at the Empire Stage! Chucky creator Don Mancini is … Read more
There’s nothing worse than a young actor having their potential wasted down the drain project by project. Has any actor had a worse year — at least by mainstream media standards — than Elsie Fisher? The wonderfully-talented actress made a name for herself in the Despicable Me franchise but really got put on everyone’s radar … Read more
I don’t like trailers — I just don’t. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the beauty of a well-cut trailer, but I avoid them like the plague when I can because they often give away too much. At least we’re well past the days of the old Rocky trailer, which gave away all three acts … Read more
2022 has been an awesome year for slashers. You had the “requel” Scream, Ti West’s X (with a prequel coming out this fall), and now, Bodies Bodies Bodies. A slasher-comedy about a party game that goes too far — kind of like Ready or Not — Bodies Bodies Bodies (simplified to Bodies for this review going forward except for references to the game itself) puts … Read more
Top Gun: Maverick has been a resounding success for Paramount as the legacy sequel grossed $30,500,176 (-31.7%) in its fifth weekend — narrowly beating out new release Elvis ($30.5 million) — to fly its way back up to first place after coming in third last weekend. This is Tom Cruise’s first $1 billion grosser, and … Read more
When The Black Phone was initially pushed from its early 2022 release dates (the film moved from late January to early February) to late June, I was devastated. The teaser trailer and images for the film displaying Ethan Hawke in a haunting mask kidnapping children made this one of my most-anticipated films of the year. … Read more
