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Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Playback, Strikes Deal With Dish Network LoveNetflixbut suffer from unreliable Wi-Fi? You’re probably SOL. Netflix has said offline playback is “never going to happen,” leaving services like iTunes and Google Play to meet your no-stream needs. Meanwhile, Netflix is branching out in other ways. The company recently struck a deal withDish Network, its first with a major American pay-TV provider. More about the Netflix offline playback comments and the Netflix Dish partnership after the jump....

New ‘Power Rangers’ TV Spots Unleash Elizabeth Banks As Rita Replusa We’re not even halfway through March, and we’ve already had a good month of blockbusters.Loganblew fans away to kick off the month right,Kong: Skull Islanddelivered some big monster movie fun, and Disney fans will enjoy themselves this week with the box office monster that will beBeauty and the Beast. But the week after that, it’s morphin' time. Power Rangersarrives in theaters in just under a couple weeks, and the onslaught of TV marketing is in full swing, and that means plenty of new footage is starting to hit the web....

Nine Perfect Strangers Review: A Masterclass In Acting, But That’s All What can broken people offer each other? “Nine Perfect Strangers” transports viewers to the breezy, ethereal world of Tranquillum House where it seeks an answer to this heavy question. But the light air of this wellness retreat is quickly disrupted by the arrival of its nine messy guests. The jagged edges that emerge never quite smooth down, but that’s part of the show’s allure....

Star Wars Celebration Is Officially Back With An In-Person Event “Star Wars Celebration,” the days-long fan convention, boasts major announcements, screenings, celebrity guest appearances, new merchandise, exhibits, and more. In 2020, the event was one of many that werecanceleddue to the pandemic. Celebration was slated to return between August 18-21, 2022 before being shifted up toMay 2022. Today, the official website confirmed that the 2022 iteration of Star Wars Celebration will be going on as planned....

Stephen Chow Producing Animated Sequel To CJ7 Since Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino sky-rocketed Stephen Chow’s US reputation with their effusive praise ofShaolin Soccer, you’ll probably find that the least well received picture in Chow’s ouevre has been the sci-fi family filmCJ7. Personally though, I absolutely love it, and this is in spite of its sometimes woeful CG work and the occasionally confusing slapstick non-sequiturs (see also:Drag Me to Hell). Despite the director’s long standing promise of a sequel to the masterfulKung Fu Hustle, it seems the first direct follow up to be spawned from one of Chow’s pictures will be aCJ7continuation –CJ72, if you will....

Superhero Bits: ‘Aquaman’ LEGO Set Reveals Black Manta’s Sub, ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Rumors & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What’s the latest inStan Lee’s legal battle with his former manager and guardian? Is there aWolverinereference hidden inThe Greatest Showman? What isChris Hemsworth’s honest assessment of the first two movies in theThorfranchise? Want a look atBlack Manta’s submarine in anAquamanLEGO set? WillDoctor Strange 2be shooting next spring?...

Superhero Bits: An New Behind The Scenes Look At Aquaman 2, Moon Knight Posters & More (Superhero Bitsis 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: “Moon Knight” gets some new posters....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, Dark Knight Rises Want to see a new image fromMan of Steel? What was the inspiration for the new poster fromThe Wolverine? Which part ofIron Man 3isGuy Pearcemost excited about? HasTom Hiddlestontalked toJoss WhedonaboutThe Avengers 2? How did the actor changeLokiforThor: The Dark World? DoesThe Amazing Spider-Man 2need circus performers? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: New ‘Swamp Thing’ Series Details, Batman Vs John Wick & More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Want to seeBatmantake onJohn Wick? Which comic issues will inspire DC Universe’sSwamp Thingseries? Which comic book movies are female moviegoers most interested in seeing this fall? How does an action sequence come together in a video game likeSpider-Manon the PS4? What prestigious showbiz award isKevin Feigereceiving? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Outrage’ Red Band Trailer Lovers of film are likely lovers ofTakeshi Kitano. Sometimes billed as Beat Takeshi, he’s not only the evil star ofBattle Royale, he’s the talented director of films likeThe Blind Swordsman: ZatoichiandFireworks. In 2010, he directed and starred inOutrage, a twisting, turningcrime drama in the veinof Martin Scorsese. It played several festivals, spawneda few trailersand was successful enough that a sequel,Outrage 2, is on the way....

Talent Switch On The Tourist: Alfonso Cuarón And Johnny Depp I wrote recently about the movieThe Touristthat some projects just don’t seem to die, no matter how the talent involved comes and goes. Maybe they should, though. Especially if they end up beingAngelina Joliefilms. We’ve just seen theUS trailerforSalt, and the more I look at that, the more it looks ridiculous. (And I’m told it’s a disaster; we’ll see about that....

The 11 Movies That Redefined Animation This Decade (This article is part of ourBest of the Decadeseries.)As we exit the 2010s, one thing is certain. The decade brought advancements in technology, bold choices in storytelling, and more creative diversity than cinema has ever seen before, trends that all apply to animation as it does to live-action. This medium remained the one in which artists can dream up wonders that we’ll never see in the real world and make them move, and the 2020s will be shaped by what we watched in the 2010s....

The Best ‘Mission: Impossible’ Action Scenes Brian De Palma’s firstMission: Impossiblefilm wasn’t packed with action setpieces — there are only three, really, but those three are all top-tier action filmmaking, and one of those three defined the series for years to come. In the two decades since, the series has been tackled by a variety of directors —John Woo,J.J. Abrams,Brad Bird, and nowChristopher McQuarrie— each of whom bring a slightly different balance of action and espionage to their respective mix....