Alright, Prodigies. Now that you’ve expended all that energy shouting at your screens every Tuesday, you can now (kind of) have it shout back. Jessica Whitly herself, Bellamy Young, is officially available to book on Cameo.
At the time of this writing, Young’s Cameos are $75, with direct messaging available for $5.99. You can request short video messages from Young for you or someone else ranging from burning questions about Prodigal Son to congratulatory messages to a few words of wisdom when you’re feeling a little down. Book your Cameo from Young here.
Young is known for her roles on Scandal, Criminal Minds, and more. She can currently be seen in the FOX series Prodigal Son, which returns on Tuesday, April 13 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT.
Disney has announced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be joining the cast of the untitled Indiana Jones 5.
Waller-Bridge, who is known for her leading role in comedy series Fleabag, will star in the movie alongside Harrison Ford, who is donning his fedora and whip once again as Indiana Jones.
It has also been announced that John Williams will return to score the film. Williams scored the last four movies and created the iconic Indiana Jones theme tune that we all know and love.
Indiana Jones is due to hit our screens July 29, 2022 and we can’t wait to check it out! Make sure you check back here for the latest Indiana Jones news.
Supergirl is about to gain one more Super Friend. Peta Sergeant (Snowfall) has joined the sixth and final season of Supergirl in a series regular role. Deadline was first to report the news.
Sergeant will play Nyxly, “a quirky and kind 5th Dimensional Imp.” She was wrongfully imprisoned in the Phantom Zone and holds a tragic backstory. This season will see her help and befriend Kara, and their friendship will provide emotional healing for Nyxly, as well as help her reclaim her powers.
Nyxly will be introduced in episode 4 of the season, titled “Lost Souls.” Viewers got a first look at Sergeant in the role in recently released photos from the episode, which you can find here. The episode will air on Tuesday, April 20 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on The CW.
We all knew it was coming, but it didn’t make watching it any easier. John Walker has officially become Captain America and now, as of episode 4 of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, is a Super Soldier just as his predecessor before him. But if we’ve learned anything, it takes more than a shield and some serum to make someone Captain America. It takes character.
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Back in 1941, we met a small, sickly man named Steve Rogers. Desperate to join the Army and do his part in helping stop the Nazis, he was turned away time after time, name after fake name. That is, until Dr. Abraham Erskine overheard his pleas, and knew that Steve was the man for a very particular job.
The serum amplifies everything that is inside. So, good becomes great. Bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. -Dr. Abraham Erskine
The events of “The World Is Watching” brought up an interesting parallel to not only the obvious moment in Captain America: Civil War with the shield being used as a weapon, but Captain America: The First Avenger. It’s easy to forget those pre-serum moments but at the training facility when Colonel Phillips, Peggy Carter, and Dr. Erskine were evaluating the recruits for who would be the best fit to become a Super Soldier. In those moments, Colonel Phillips was very tuned in to one recruit in particular, and it wasn’t Steve.
Then throw me a bone. Hodge passed every test we gave him. He’s big, he’s fast, he obeys orders – he’s a soldier. -Colonel Phillips
We remember what came next very well. Steve Rogers leapt onto a grenade, hoping to save his fellow recruits from an untimely death, and proving himself worthy of the serum.
Had Colonel Phillips gotten what he’d wanted it’s not a hard bet to make to that Hodge would have turned out to be exactly like John Walker. Colonel Phillips is obviously a U.S. Government man as an officer in the Army, and the government then went and chose Walker to replace Steve Rogers in the end. Maybe they’re just not so great at choosing Captain America …
“Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.”-Dr. Erskine
The show thus far has done an impeccable job at painting Walker as the polar opposite of Steve Rogers from the way they’re presenting John and his backstory as well as his less than honorable antics carrying the shield. They’ve emphasized this perfect soldier, his medals of honor, his incredible physique that was studied at MIT. Steve Rogers was a 5’4″, 95 pound asthmatic who got pummeled in alleyways for his smart ass mouth. But what John Walker has not been portrayed, seen, or even reminisced as is a good man. In the eternal words of Dr. Erskine, from what we’ve seen, “He’s a bully.”
Obviously, the end of episode 4 was brutal and jarring, but it carried so much weight in truly and definitively separating Walker from Rogers. We’ve seen Walker do some questionable things already, but nothing that really screamed “You don’t deserve that shield” quite like those closing moments.
“You can’t justify murder by masking it with a cause.”-Steve Rogers
After Bucky’s death in Captain America: The First Avenger, Arnim Zola is taken into custody and Steve is seen attempting to drink himself to numbness in the ruins of war’s destruction. Peggy comes to check on him and he promises to go after Schmidt and not stop until all of Hydra is dead or captured, which was already the mission. They’re literal Nazis.
Would he have had that same feeling had Walker and him, and Lemar and Bucky, been reversed? Unlikely. But Steve Rogers would have never behaved as Walker had in this situation in the first place. He’d have had faith in Sam Wilson and not gone barrelling in to the memorial service guns blazing. He’d have sympathized with Karli and her cause. He’d want to help her, just as he’d helped Wanda Maximoff before.
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In Captain America: Civil War, when Bucky’s life is on the line again, Steve allows himself to be arrested for what he’s done in trying to help Bucky escape. The fight at the airport is not to harm his fellow Avengers, his friends, in fact, he never went there to fight. He went to that airport to escape. But when it comes down to a fight, his intent is still the same — fight enough to Bucky out safely.
After Lemar’s death, however, John Walker snaps like a crab leg and takes off to avenge his friend’s death without a second thought. He grabs the first of the Flag Smashers he can reach, Nico, and murders him in cold blood in front of a crowd of civilians. Nico was innocent. Sure, they were in some hand to hand combat, but Karli Morganthau killed Lemar Hoskins, not Nico.
For the first time in its MCU history, the shield was used as a weapon to kill in the hands of John Walker.
That moment brought all of us back to Captain America: Civil War again, where we saw Steve Rogers raise the shield in that exact manner, Tony Stark its impending victim. But just as he’d always done before, the shield was used as a vessel of protection. He destroyed Tony’s Arc Reactor so he and Bucky could escape, harm was never his intent. Not in that moment, and not ever before.
“That’s why it’s yours.” -Steve Rogers
Sam Wilson has proven himself worthy of the shield 10 times over already, but that was really heightened in episode 4.
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Just as Steve before him, Sam Wilson is not a man whose first instinct is violence. Sam might actually exceed Steve in this mentality. When it comes to Karli and the Flag Smashers, Sam understands her cause, understands her pain and her struggle, really in a way only Sam can. But in a manner of parallels this is very akin to Steve protecting Wanda in Civil War after the events in Lagos and the events that follow with the Sokovian Accords. His instinct is to protect, not to fight or ruin lives, just as Steve’s was.
Three times in episode 4 the same question is asked, one is an internal battle, “Would you take the serum?” John asks Lemar, John asks himself, and Zemo asks Sam, and the answers are telling into who each of these men are.
When John asks Lemar, he says yes, but we all know that John is truly asking himself. He needs that reassurance from Lemar’s answer to this hypothetical for his own decision. But we’d seen John already internally struggling when Bucky had stopped him from going in after Karli earlier in the episode and when the Dora Milaje served him the ass whooping we’ve been wanting to see. He wants the serum to be able to fight, to not be weak, to be powerful and strong. And that’s what makes him unfit to be Cap, unfit to carry that shield, and unfit to be a Super Soldier (too late now though.)
Sam, on the other hand, responds with a quick and resounding no, impressing even Zemo. Sam knows what that serum does, he knows what it comes with, he knows the risks, and he knows himself well enough to know he’s at his best self as he is. He doesn’t need it. There’s a strong power in this alone, one worthy of carrying the legacy of Steve Rogers and everything that comes with it.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier has two episodes remaining. Episode 5 premieres Friday, April 16.
There are just two episodes left of Marvel’s hit new series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and the first volume of the official soundtrack has been released!
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier sees the return of Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes. The show picks up in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, in which Steve Rogers made the decision to pass on his iconic vibranium shield to Sam. With the weight of the shield weighing on his mind, Sam teams back up with Bucky and the two set off on a global adventure that tests both their skills and their patience with one another.
Composer Henry Jackman is responsible for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier‘s epic score, which is fitting given his previous work on Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the subsequent film Civil War. The series greatly benefits from having Jackman on board, because he has spent years developing the themes and motifs for these characters. Jackman recently shared his thought process behind all of this in an exclusive interview with Nerds and Beyond.
The 31-track first volume, which covers the songs used in the first three episodes, is available now on Spotify and Apple Music. The second volume will be available on April 30.
Back in 2019, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier‘s Sebastian Stan attended Jibland, a convention located in Rome, Italy. This was Sebastian’s first European convention, and one of our staff photographers, Mandi, was on hand at the convention taking photos.
With The Falcon and The Winter Soldier right in the middle of its epic story, we thought we’d throw it back to the photos of Sebastian at the convention for our viewers to enjoy.
Take a look at some of our photos of Sebastian at Jibland below.
Thunder Force, Netflix’s newest addition to the superhero universe has arrived, and we’re ready to move to any city Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy are defending.
Thunder Force follows Emily and Lydia, two childhood best friends who reunite years later to protect their city. When Lydia is accidentally injected with a serum Emily created to give ordinary people superpowers, the two become a superhero duo called Thunder Force to protect their city from Miscreants (the bad guys). The movie stars Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Taylor Mosby, Melissa Leo, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, and Pom Klementieff. It was written and directed by Ben Falcone.
The first aspect of this movie that I noticed comes right at the very beginning, where viewers are told right away the circumstances of how superpowers came about and who has them – people with sociopathic tendencies, and those who gained powers are called Miscreants. The movie doesn’t try to force the viewer to guess what happened that led to powers or hide it under its plot. As a result, the context provided allows viewers to watch without really having to worry about who got what powers and how. It also uses its opening sequence to provide background on Lydia and Emily’s friendship and the reason they drifted apart from one another.
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The movie also thrives in the way it approaches how Lydia, and later Emily, adjusts to gaining superpowers. Rather than give the pair powers and bring them to a place of immediately knowing how to use those powers, Lydia receives training, and Emily also faces a learning curve. It keeps the duo at a more grounded level that creates a greater level of believability as far as imbuing normal people with superpowers is concerned. Lydia and Emily are portrayed as normal people with jobs and personal lives who are trying to take the hits as they come and do the best they can, given the circumstances.
No movie is complete, however, without compelling leads, and Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy are just that. Spencer’s Emily and McCarthy’s Lydia are easy complements for each other. They bring the awkwardness of their past to the forefront but also grow together as they navigate their new powers. Their humor fits well with each other and the general tone of the movie. The rest of the cast also brings their own flair. Taylor Mosby is delightful as Emily’s daughter Tracy, using her knowledge and passion to help Thunder Force become heroes. Bobby Cannavale, Pom Klementieff, and Jason Bateman are fitting antagonists for Emily and Lydia, each bringing their own qualities to the table.
Overall, Thunder Force is a movie worth watching. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, providing a slew of ridiculous and entertaining humor that presents a more lighthearted side to the genre. McCarthy and Spencer are wonderful on screen together and add a feel-good quality to the movie, perfect for times you need to take a break from life for a bit.
Thunder Force is streaming now on Netflix. Check out the trailer below.
On April 7, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation held a “Journey of the Working Actor” panel online where various actors talked about their experience in the industry and gave advice. Among the participants included 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s very own, Ronen Rubinstein! Watch the panel below!
Rubinstein was joined by Brandon Kyle Goodman from Big Mouth, Shalita Grant from YOU, Rebecca Lamarche from The Wedding Planners, and Tyler Dean Flores from The Dark Knight Rises. The panel was moderated by Lori Hammel. The nearly hour-long panel involved the actors revealing how they got their start, roles that opened doors, juggling their career and personal lives, and sharing their own experiences.
You can catch Rubinstein on FOX’s 9-1-1: Lone Star, which will have its spring premiere on Monday, April 19 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT. The first season, as well as the first half of the second season, are streaming on Hulu.
Sony has announced that the release date for the fourth installment in their highly popular Hotel Trasylvania series, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, will be moving forward two weeks this summer. The film will now open on July 23 instead of August 6.
Taking advantage of one of the caps in this summer’s release schedule, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is being moved off of a weekend where it would be directly competing with Warner Bros./HBO Max’s The Suicide Squad. Granted, the two films are aimed at vastly different audiences but moving to a weekend with less high-profile releases should mean a better opening for Hotel Transylvania. It also sandwiches the film between the releases of Disney’s Jungle Cruise, Warner Bros./HBO Max’s Space Jam: A New Legacy, and Sony’s Cinderella, which will give families three weeks in a row of fun new movies to experience.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is set to be the final film in the animated franchise, which started in 2012. This film is directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, written by Genndy Tartakovsky, produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone, and executive produced by Selena Gomez, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Michelle Murdocca. Given the popularity and success of the previous three films, we can expect this new installment to be a feature worth watching, especially with returning voice cast members Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, among others. So be sure to catch it after its release on July 23.
Things are getting dangerous for the Stones in this week’s episode of Manifest! With Jace, Pete, and Corey officially out of the lake and on their own and Michaela and Drea following after them, Grace and Cal go to Grace’s step-brother’s place to hide out while Ben stays with Olive and Angelina as they follow their own Calling.
Keep reading for a recap of the newest episode of Manifest, “Deadhead.”
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Angelina is running through a church and a creature comes out at her. However, it turns out to be a Calling and she is still reeling from it. Grace comes into the room with a drink, telling Angelina she thought she could use a bit of caffeine. She asks Angelina how she’s doing and although she says she’s doing fine, she does not look like it. It’s been 24 hours. She does not have to be fine, Grace tells her. She’s sure Angelina doesn’t want to be around people, but she tells her whenever she’s ready, they’re there for her.
Michaela returns to the precinct for the first time since coming home and when she goes over to her desk, she sees piles of files. Jared goes over to her and welcomes her back. Michaela notices his new badge as he’s been promoted to Lieutenant. “Every time I go away for a minute I come back and you’ve been promoted.” Except this time, Michaela’s the one who’s married. Jared sees Michaela’s workload and adds one more file, the one with the girl who’s mother is missing. The Major. Michaela sees a message from a fish and game warden and she tells Jared she gave her card to the guy at the lake so he can call her if anything unusual happens.
Later, after getting permission from Captain Bowers to get back into the case that nearly caused her suspension, Michaela finally reunites with Drea as she’s downloading footage from the lake. Drea mentions it’s crazy they never found the bodies. Could they have snuck away that night? It’s a possibility, Michaela says. However, when the footage downloads, the impossible happens and Jace, Pete, and Corey are seen walking out of the lake. Michaela tries to call Ben but it goes straight to voicemail. She tells him the three men who kidnapped Cal are alive.
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Ben and Grace go into their room after being informed that Jace, Pete and Corey are back. Grace wonders why they get to come back after everything they’ve done to them, to Cal. Ben doesn’t know. Griffin came back and he was a cold-blooded killer. Grace puts themselves in their shoes. They come out of that lake, alive. Last thing they remember is kidnapping Cal and falling into the ice with him. “What if they want revenge?” Ben suggests they might think he’s dead and Grace says good. Ben realizes that they were gone for 84 days. They only have 84 days until they die. So for 84 days they just keep Cal far, far away from them. The question is where? They need to take him somewhere no one will ever connect them to. Grace mentions her step-dad’s place. It’s off a beaten path, it’d be difficult to trace back to their family. Although she hasn’t talked to her step-brother in years, they could all go.
Michaela and Drea walk through the woods to find the area of the lake that the video footage was taken from. They spot a wet item of clothing on the ground, indicating they’re on the right track. The two of them hear a woman yelling for help and they run towards a campsite. Drea goes over to an unconscious man on the ground and Michaela goes over to the woman, her hands tied. She tells Michaela three men came out of nowhere and they started hitting her husband with a rock, repeatedly. They took their RV and one of them kept screaming, “What month is it?” They have to catch them.
Angelina gets another Calling, the same one, only more intense. Olive finds her hugging her knees and asks if she’s okay. Angelina says it happens, pleading to Olive to not tell anyone. Olive says her Aunt Mick told her a little bit about her, about how her parents reacted to the Callings. Angelina tells Olive they thought her visions were a sign of the end of days. It won’t stop, it keeps coming back. “That just means you haven’t solved it yet.” Angelina tells Olive about what she saw and Olive says sometimes the Callings only show her what she knows. Angelina says there was a stained-glass window at her old school, and a house, an archangel. Maybe the Callings want her to go back to her old school.
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Ben, Grace and Cal are getting the last of their things ready. Olive and Angelina come downstairs with no suitcases. Olive tells her parents they’re not going, but Grace tells her there are dangerous men out there. Olive says they might have just figured out what Angelina’s Calling might mean. She’s had the same one over and over again. And she’s finally able to follow it. Olive says they can’t let her ignore a Calling. Ben mentions if Angelina stays, he can help her. Olive, however, knows that Ben doesn’t think she can do this. Grace says they’re worried. Olive has to do this with Angelina, she’s supposed to help her. She knows it. Cal knows it, too. “Our family split up like this before. Seven years ago in an airport in Jamaica.” And it ended up saving Cal’s life, Ben points out. This is going to keep him safe, too. “I guess this is goodbye.” “For now.”
Ben visits Saanvi at work and he tells her the meth heads aren’t the only problem. Some agents from the DOD and the NSA were in his neighborhood earlier. Even though he didn’t say a word, Vance’s old deputy seemed suspicious. Saanvi wonders if they know anything about the tailfin and the implications it could have. The scrutiny they would be under. And what if the Major found out? Especially if she saw what happened to Ben’s hand. Saanvi takes a sample so she can analyze it.
Michaela and Drea soon get a hit on the RV, thanks to Jared, and they soon pass one on the road. Jace looks out the window and Michaela stops the breaks and turns around, immediately following the RV. Noticing they’re getting close, Jace throws a flammable canister at them, making Michaela crash the car and the guys get away. In the RV, Pete tells his brother this is insane and Jace agrees. They fell through the ice and made it out alive. It was winter when they went in the lake and spring when they came out. They should be dead. “I think we were dead.” Corey thinks they came back to life somehow, like 828. Pete wonders why they can’t just stop running and give up. It’s a miracle and they know it. They shouldn’t be beating people up and firebombing the cops. Maybe they came back to do things differently. “Maybe you’re right.”
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Olive and Angelina get to Angelina’s old school, finding the stained-glass windows. Olive notices the wings on one of the designs are peacock feathers. They’re supposed to be there. “This is what’s been following me.” Olive asks if scales mean anything to her and she says that archangel Michael used them to weigh souls on Judgement Day to see if you were worthy. The figure in Angelina’s Calling didn’t have a face, neither does the archangel. She was there when it happened. Her class made time capsules and when they were choosing where they each wanted to bury them, they were messing around and a rock went sailing right through the window. She knows exactly where hers would be but there’s not much in the box. The Callings led them there, leading them to the box. When they get to the spot, Olive starts using a rock to dig into the ground.
The two of them sit down on a bench and Angelina starts going through the box, taking out bracelets from various trips. She spots a picture of her younger self at King Kone, her parents would take her there on special occasions to get a slushie. “They were almost normal then.” Olive keeps trying to find the right thing to say, to tell her how sorry she is for all that she’s been through. The only reasonable thing she can think of is, “That sucks.” Angelina says it’s hard to believe she was ever happy but in this picture, she was. Maybe the Calling wanted her to have that photo to remind her how happy she was. To cheer her up, Olive suggests taking Angelina to get a slushie. At King Kone, Angelina asks Olive if she really thinks the Calling wanted them to get slushies. Olive has no idea but she’s so glad they did. She asks Angelina for a napkin and when she takes one out of her pocket, her photo drops to the ground.
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Jace, Kory, and Pete park at King Kone after Olive and Angelina leave. Jace says Pete jogged his memory of how he used to be, when he worked there. Though the reason they’re there is to steal money. Pete suggests it might be better if everyone still thought they were at the bottom of the lake. “You saw the look on those cops’ faces. They know we’re back.” Pete says they can disappear, maybe go to Canada. Jace, however, says he has scores to settle. Corey asks if they’re going to smash and grab and peel out in an RV. They might have to improvise, Jace says.
Jace, Pete, and Corey hear Cal’s voice, “Go to her,” in their heads. “It’s the damn kid that died in the lake.” Corey wonders what the hell “Go to her” is supposed to mean. While getting closer to the ground, Pete spots Angelina’s photo. Cal’s voice is getting louder, as are police sirens. That kid is trying to mind control them to turn themselves in. Jace tells Pete they have to go but Pete doesn’t leave, still looking at the photo. He thinks he’s supposed to go to the girl in the photo. Jace and Corey leave Pete as Michaela and Drea drive up to him. Drea handcuffs him and Michaela wonders where the others are.
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After reading Pete his rights, Michaela and Drea ask if he wants to tell them what he was doing there or where his brother went. Pete doesn’t speak, but as Drea takes him to the car, he tells Michaela that’s his photo. “Actually it’s NYPD’s.” Olive and Angelina walk up to Michaela and Olive tells her that Angelina had a Calling. The reason they’re there is they lost something from the box, they’re just trying to retrace their steps. Michaela asks what it was and Angelina grabs the photo from the clipboard. Pete sees her and pleads with her to not take it, the photo belongs to him. Angelina says it’s hers, she dropped it. Pete wonders how she could have a picture of him, but Angelina says this is a picture of her. She points to her 10-year-old self holding the slushie and Pete tells her that in the background, that’s his brother Jace working the counter. The boy staring at the girl with the slushie is him. Drea asks Michaela what they’re going to do and after some thinking, she says they’re going by the books. She tells Olive they need to go home, the other two are still at large.
Ben gets ready to leave but he sees a news report about the 828 tailfin being discovered and the new speculations about the flight and its passengers. News vans show up outside the house and Ben tells Olive and Angelina they can’t go. They’ll follow them all the way to Grace’s step-brother’s. News reporters tap on the door, trying to get Ben to say some words. He, Olive, and Angelina head back upstairs.
At the precinct, Michaela looks through some more files and sees the picture of the Major. Meanwhile, once Saanvi leaves her lab, Ben’s sample is glowing, and so is his hand, and his handprint on the 828 tailfin that is in a lockup bay in Cuba.
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Manifest airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on NBC, streaming the next day on Hulu and Peacock!
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