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Eleven months in to 2021, and Warner Bros. movie streaming strategy on HBO Max is still going strong. Now the list of new releases for November 2021 on HBO Max is highlighted by yet another big ticket film.

King Richard, starring Will Smith, is set to arrive on HBO Max and in theaters on Nov. 19. The movie will tell the story of Richard Williams, the father and coach of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. Smith is already getting some early awards buzz for the role so Oscar-heads may want to check this one out.

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Aside from that, it’s a relatively light month for originals on HBO Max. The streamer is clearly attempting to step up its non-English...

November is a good month for saying goodbye on HBO Max. The streaming platform will host the final 2021 episodes of HBO late-night staples “Real Time with Bill Maher” and the Emmy Award-winning “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” the season finales of Max originals “Love Life” and “Doom Patrol,” and also provide home viewers their last opportunity to watch “Dune” on HBO Max until sometime in 2022 (“Dune” leaves HBO Max on November 21).

But beyond those conclusions, there are some huge premieres as well: Oscar contender “King Richard” arrives on November 19 with Will Smith in the lead role, the back-half of “Gossip Girl” Season 1 will make its debut at some point, and the HBO Music Box series continues with the Alanis Morrisette documentary “Jagged” (which the singer roundly criticized) and a new feature on Dmx. All of that content, plus a number of library classics, including but not limited to “Moonstruck,...

While I used to use Hulu primarily for next-day TV episodes, I've recently come to appreciate its vast and varied library of films. To my delight, it currently hosts a ton of '80s, '90s, and '00s movies that I either owned on VHS or repeatedly rented from my nearest Blockbuster. It's a strange list - probably the only lineup that will ever feature both The Care Bears Movie and Deuce Bigalo: Male Gigalo - because it's unique to my weird cinematic taste as a kid, but I guarantee there are some titles that you've watched on repeat as well. Here are 25 of my favorite childhood films from its current catalog!

Before we get to your Amazon Prime June updates, the streaming service has a special surprise for its members: every season of “Dawson’s Creek” is available now, and you don’t even have to wait until next month.

Starting June 1, stream “All or Nothing” which follows the New Zealand rugby team the All Blacks throughout their 2017 season. On June 3, you can stream the Oscar-nominated “Lady Bird,” followed by Amazon Original series “Goliath” Season 2 on June 15.

See below for the complete list of titles hitting Amazon next month.

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Available June 1

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

2 Days in the Valley (1996)

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)

As Good As Dead (2010)

August Rush (2007)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Beer for My Horses (2008)

Beowulf (2007)

Black Widow (Aka: Before It Had a Name) (2005)

Blitz (2011)

Blood and Glory (2016)

Blue Like Jazz...

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Emojis. Playmobil. Lego. Brands seem to be here to stay in movies. Ryan looks at its rise and rise...

On paper, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Curse Of The Black Pearl probably shouldn’t have been a hit. Earlier movies based on Disney’s theme park rides certainly hadn’t been a success - least of all The Country Bears, a family film released a year before Pirates and largely shunned by audiences. Disney boss Michael Eisner moaned at Pirates’ steep $140m bill. Did it have to be so expensive? And could Johnny Depp - hardly known as a bankable star - really lead the movie to box office glory?

The answer was a resounding yes; released in the summer of 2003, Pirates Of The Caribbean made over $650m worldwide. Pirates also appeared to break two curses in one blow: first, it proved that adventure movies set on the...

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Blood and guts aren’t what they used to be. Back in the 1980s, all you had to do to was create a video cover that a showed a screaming female, a monster and a disembodied head, and you could turn a reasonable profit on an otherwise unremarkable film.

Skip forward 3 decades and not only are the video stores history, but the producers of low-budget horror movies need to be able to sell their titles through the large chains, meaning the films have to be fairly mainstream in content.

You know what that means: no torn off limbs, no cannibalism and almost certainly no power tools entering a man’s head above the tagline, “The blood flows in rivers, and the drill keeps tearing through flesh and bone.” As the title of a Rob Zombie song informs us, “Everything Is Boring Now.”

Those of us who look back on...

This week it’s Ingrid’s pick with 1985’s “The Care Bears Movie.” Though it wanders without a strong plot and makes little sense, it’s still worth discussing here on Sketchy. Enjoy!

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It’s almost July and that means Netflix is about to give their content a refresh. Some of the notable titles leaving include: Super Troopers, Descent, and The Muppets take Manhattan. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including the premiere of Bojack Horseman’s second season (voiced by Will Arnett) and one of my favorite movies Alive, pictured above.

We also get the return of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp; the eight-episode series is a prequel to Wain’s 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer. The series will launch July 31.

Available July 1

Alive (1993)

An Honest Liar (2014)

Bad Hair Day (2015)

Bionicle: The Legend Reborn (2009)

Bulworth (1998)

Dave Attell: Road Work (2014)

Death in Paradise: Season Three (2014)

Grandma’s Boy (2006)

Hostage (2005)

Invizimals: The Alliance Files (2014)

La Reina del Sur (2011)

Octonauts:...

Want to revisit "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" before "Terminator: Genisys" opens? Better do it before July 1, when Netflix says "Hasta la vista" to the 1991 sequel.

If you have a hankering to watch "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Moonstruck," "Cast Away," or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," get on it, because those are also disappearing in July.

And start marathoning these TV classics before they go poof: "Leave it to Beaver," "Dragnet," "Mission: Impossible," "Hawaii Five-o," "Magnum P.I.," "Miami Vice," "Knight Rider," "Melrose Place" and "Wings." Also bid goodbye to the Stephen King miniseries "The Stand" (1994) and "The Langoliers" (1995).

Below is a complete list of the movies that Netflix is pulling from your streaming list. And, just so you're not left empty-handed, here's a list of what's new on Netflix in July 2015. (All titles and dates provided by Netflix and subject to change.)​

Leaving July 1

"Beauty and the Beast" Seasons 1-...

It’s over 60 years since the release of Walt’s famous animated fairytale, and the 2015 remake is still all princes, ponies and playing nice. Let it live happily ever after…

I wonder what old dead Walt Disney might have made of Kenneth Branagh’s live-action remake of his classic animated 1950 version of Cinderella. Back then, it was still widely supposed that every girl’s dream was to marry a handsome prince and live happily ever after in a Tyrolean castle attended upon by mice and dressed each morning by bluebirds. These days, I thought, maybe not so much.

But I was wrong, judging by the massed ranks of ecstatically expectant pre-adolescent girls at the multiplex this weekend. (I confess I felt a lot like John Waters in the 1980s, when he attended – for research purposes, and alone – a Saturday-morning screening of The Care Bears Movie during the notorious McMartin pre-school devil-worship and child-abuse trial.

Ghosts, ghouls, vampires, demons—they've been frightening kids for centuries, and with good reason. But children's brains are strange, malleable places that can perceive even the most unassuming figures—a cute, helpful Jedi Grand Master, a cuddly elephantine creature, a precocious baby dinosaur—as sinister agents of terror. Which brings us to today's Halloween-inspired PopWatch Confessional: What's the unintentionally scary thing that frightened you most when you were a kid? (Bonus: Reading through is a great way to stealthily learn how old we all are.) Ashley Fetters, online news editor: I was about eight when I saw the original...

Los Angeles (AP) — Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, died Sunday at age 93. Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died at his North Hollywood home. Smith said police took a death report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and it was not a police case. He said he had no additional details on the circumstances of his passing. Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking up film and TV credits more than 80 years later — a tenure likely unmatched in the history of show business. "I always say, 'Don't retire — inspire,'" he told The Associated Press in March 2008. "There's a lot to be done.

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Los Angeles (AP) - Mickey Rooney, the pint-size, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, died Sunday at age 93.

Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died at his North Hollywood home.

Smith said police took a death report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and he had no additional details on the circumstances of his passing. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office said it was not their case because Rooney died a natural death.

There were no further immediate details on the cause of death, but Rooney did attend an Oscar party last month.

Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking...

The mercurial director describes his latest film, Prince Avalanche, as an art movie invaded by a pair of multiplex goofballs – it's a tribute to the wide-ranging films of his adolescence

Prince Avalanche is a poignant comedy featuring tender performances from Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as mutually antagonistic road-painters working the fire-scorched highways of late 1980s Texas. But as delicious as the film is, cinemagoers with long memories may regard it with justifiable caution. It's the latest movie from the writer-director David Gordon Green, whose work is best approached as the cinematic equivalent of a perpetually spinning coin. If a Green film falls shiny side up, it will transpire to be a lyrical arthouse elegy such as his debut, George Washington, which led to the director being anointed the new Terrence Malick, or All the Real Girls, a faltering love story from that bygone age before its star, Zooey Deschanel,...

With "Ted," Seth MacFarlane's tale of a grown man and his anthropomorphic, foul-mouthed teddy bear, opening this weekend (and for the most part proving to be foul-mouthed fun; look for our review very soon), we got to thinking about the childhood playthings of our (cinematic) past. Considering what a truly influential and fundamental part of childhood having a teddy bear is, it's kind of astounding that there aren't more memorable teddy bears on the big or small screen out there.

Still there's more than one who've found their way into key roles in major motion pictures, and as a result, we've put together a little bluffer's guide into the history of the cinematic history of our ursine pals, with the major proviso that, like Ted in "Ted," they had to be animated -- fans of "Grizzly Man" should look elsewhere. Check out our selection below, and you can see "Ted" in theaters from Friday,...

When talking about the upcoming live action version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie his Platinum Dunes production company is helming, fan favorite and media whipping boy Michael Bay wandered into a non-controversy that is apparently still news. Fans of Tmnt and Bay-haters alike got all up in a tizzy after the Transformers director made a statement about the film and casually dropped the info that the turtles will actually be aliens, not mutants. I’m surprised you didn’t feel the earthquake that happened shortly thereafter, because the world is ending. Before I tell you why this does not matter in the slightest, let’s see what Bay said: “These turtles are from an alien race, and they’re going to be tough, edgy, funny, and completely lovable. Kids will believe one day that these turtles do exist when we’re done with this movie.” Oh Snap. I think I just caused a mega-volcano eruption...

The Fine Brothers have released a new episode of their entertaining "Spoiler" series. This time they bring us 50 Animated Movie Spoilers in 3 Minutes. Check out the video below and tell us what you think! Just a reminder they do these videos in only one take, which is pretty impressive. 

Movies Spoiled in this episode:

Toy Story, Toy Story 2, a bug's life, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Cars 2, Ratatouille, Wall-e, The Hobbit, Fluppy Dogs, The Flight of Dragoms, GI Joe: The Movie, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, The Land Before Time, The Care Bears Movie, The Care Bears Movie II, Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Rango, Rock A Doodle, All Dogs Go to Heaven, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, An American Tail, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Anastasia, Thumbelina, The Pebble and the Penguin, Titan A.E., Gnomeo & Juliet, Rio,...

[1] The endearingly geeky, impressively fast-talking Fine Brothers are at it again. The same guys who managed to sum up nearly five decades of Doctor Who [2] in six minutes and every single Best Picture winner through 2009 [3] in five minutes have now released "50 Animated Spoilers in 3 Minutes." (Spoiler alert: They actually make it in two minutes and thirty seconds. But I guess "50 Animated Spoilers in 2 Minutes and 30 Seconds" just doesn't have the same ring to it.) The Fines don't discriminate when it comes to ruining endings -- the video touches upon everything from enduring childhood classics like An American Tail and adult-oriented favorites like South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut to long-forgotten endeavors like Fluppy Dogs. Watch the video after the jump. If you're wondering why no Disney classics were included in "50 Animated Spoilers," it's because the Fine Brothers have already put out a whole other video containing "50 Disney Spoilers in 3 Minutes.

As of this weekend, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon has made over $645 million worldwide in 12 days, a massive yet not unexpected feat that has already pushed Paramount past the $1 billion mark before any other studio this year. The domestic total alone is $261 million, meaning it is the highest-grossing movie of 2011 and has easily recouped the roughly $195M production budget ponied up for a third CGI-laden explosion-fest, with much more to come.

Ordinarily, those kind of numbers would mean an instant sequel in development. Talent deals would be hashed out, budgets drawn up, familiar stories slapped together, and its off to the races again with high hopes of more millions. Just like what we’re seeing with an inevitable fifth Pirates of the Caribbean at Disney with more of the same starring Pirate Johnny Depp. But what if the players don’t want to return?

Shia Labeouf says he’s not coming back.

Alright fans of I Love the 80s! It seems that The Care Bears are headed back to TV in a new CGI-animated series being produced by American Greetings Properties in honor of the characters’ 30th anniversary in 2012. They are also planning on creating a new toy line for release in 2013 (via Variety).

The original characters were created in 1982 by American Greetings as greeting-cards, which then morphed into the highly popular toy line and numerous TV specials. The Care Bears Movie grossed more than $22 million at the U.S. box office. The toy line was relaunched in 2002, and has generated more than $2.6 billion in global sales.

Here is what a representative from American Greetings had to say:

“The Care Bears are not just a piece of ’80s pop culture, but enduring and still-beloved properties whose messages of caring and sharing are as relevant today as they were when the property was first introduced.

The Care Bears are headed back to TV in a new CGI-animated series being produced by American Greetings Properties in honor of the characters' 30th anniversary in 2012. They are also planning on creating a new toy line for release in 2013, Variety reports.

The original characters were created in 1982 by American Greetings as greeting-cards, which then morphed into the highly popular toy line and numerous TV specials. The Care Bears Movie grossed more than $22 million at the U.S. box office. The toy line was relaunched in 2002, and has generated more than $2.6 billion in global sales.

Here is what a respresentative from American Greetings had to say:

"The Care Bears are not just a piece of '80s pop culture, but enduring and still-beloved properties whose messages of caring and sharing are as relevant today as they were when the property was first introduced. By producing a new television series, we...

In the west, the 1980s represent the nadir of quality animation. Prior to the Disney renaissance of the 90s, animated films were being made on the cheap and often had a rough, dingy look to them. In 1985 Disney’s The Black Cauldron was infamously out-grossed by The Care Bears Movie at the box office. It was a dark time. And yet across the Pacific, 1985 marked the founding of Studio Ghibli – arguably the world’s best traditional animation studio. The studio’s first feature, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, has just been released on Blu-ray for the first time.

In stark contrast to the sort of animation available stateside at the time, Castle in the Sky is colourful and dynamic. The movement is fluid and backgrounds are rich with detail. The film marked Hayao Miyazaki’s third feature as director, but already present are visual motifs and themes that would becomes...

So why hasn't there been a Go-Bots movie? Oh, I know why. Because the Go-Bots Suck. Leader-1 would lose in a fight to a Yugo. Remember the movie where they had molten Go-Bot looking dudes? I haven't seen the cartoon since it hit the theater but I remember it being one of the strupidest things I had ever seen. Even The Care Bears Movie and The Last Unicorn had more machismo than the Go-Bots.Thankfully we've got other robot franchises the studios can go after like Gaiking, part of The Shogun Warriors. THR spoke with Jules Urbach about the film and where the direction they plan on going with it. Here's a bit from the interview: Heat Vision: What can you tell us about the genesis of the "Gaiking" movie? Jules Urbach: It came out of our work with Fincher. We were talking about doing something for "Heavy Metal." At the time,...

Alice in Wonderland may not, to the casual observer, seem like a horror film; but take a look at the Lewis Carroll classics on which it's based – they're more bizarre, more demented and, yes, more frightening than any number of more obvious candidates. And with Tim Burton helming this sequel/adaptation (due out in theaters next Friday, March 5th, and starring Burton's favorite leading man Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter) you can be certain you won't exactly be getting The Care Bears Movie. Last weekend, we hit the Los Angeles press junket for the film, where we heard from the cast -- Helena Bonham Carter as The Queen of Hearts, Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts, Michael...