Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. A long montage of character introductions, with the names of each character splashed on the screen: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Sound Effects Smurf, Baker Smurf, and so on. Some of these characters barely appear again in the movie; many are visually indistinguishable Multiple musical numbers, with the Smurfs...

Netflix teased a very action-heavy final season of Stranger Things with its first teaser trailer. Set in the fall of 1987, more than a year after the events of season 4, the trailer reveals how Hawkins has been transformed by the rifts Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) opened. The town is under military quarantine, with soldiers using controlled burns to try to contain the influence of the Upside Down. That doesn’t...

In an extremely contentious interview with her boyfriend/coworker Superman/Clark Kent (David Corenswet) in James Gunn’s 2025 reboot movie Superman, Lois Lane presses him about the fallout of his intervention in an overseas war between the aggressive country of Boravia and its weaker neighbor, Jarhanpur. “You seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world,” she notes. He testily counters, “I wasn’t representing anybody...

The roles of Link and Zelda in the forthcoming Legend of Zelda live-action movie have been filled with two young British actors. Bo Bragason will play Zelda, and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will play Link. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto made the announcement Wednesday via Nintendo’s X account. “I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen,” the great man said. This is Miyamoto. I am...