No Foolin' ! Spring Into April With These 6 Movies + Shows
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6 Must-See Shows + Movies This April
April is heeeere and going to be SO. MUCH. WIN.
Spring is my absolute favorite season with blazing yellow daffodils popping up and trumpeting the arrival of longer, warmer, sunnier days to come, sweet birdsong filling the air each golden morning and afternoon, and ADORABLE wild bunnies hopping their floofy brown selves all around my neighborhood and woods. The nature trails aren’t quite as fragrant as I’d like, and the sun isn’t quite as hot, but I know those days are coming...and with them SO many EPIC movies and tv shows.
So, friends, let’s get geeky!
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1. The Twilight Zone
Episodes released weekly beginning April 1st on CBS All Access
Episodes released weekly beginning April 1st on CBS All Access
Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele, maker of modern day horror masterpieces, dabbles in the disturbing “dimension of mind” in The Twilight Zone reboot. Stepping in to carry on Rod Serling’s legacy Peele is hosting this Rated-R take on Serling’s eerie sci-fi horror anthology and reviving some of the classic fan- favorite OG Twilight Zone episodes. The Eye of the Beholder, anyone?
Deadpool 2’s Zazie Beetz, American Horror Story’s Taissa Farmiga, and Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott are just a few of the prolific actors starring in Peele’s take on the frightful fifth dimension.
Come into The Twilight Zone for the scares, stay for the social commentary, morality tales, and the searing surprisingly twisted endings
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2. Shazam!
In Theatres April 5th
DC ditches the darkness and drama of previous comic book to cinema screen forays (ugh… Batman V. Superman) in favor of camp and comedy. Thanks to the zap of an ancient wizard, 14-year-old foster kid Billy Batson (Asher Angel) goes from scrappy misfit to a towering, red spandex-clad man with the bod of a Greek God and the ability to shoot lightning bolts out of his hands. Billy’s fun and games transformation takes a sharp turn down Scooby Doo’s Ruh-Ro street when he inadvertently attracts the attention of an arch-nemesis.
In other words Shazam! Is an action-packed, fizzy fun, sugar high of a superhero movie that looks to be more in the vein of Marvel romps Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy rather than the grim Man of Steel or bloated, ploddingly slow Justice League.
In other words Shazam! Is an action-packed, fizzy fun, sugar high of a superhero movie that looks to be more in the vein of Marvel romps Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy rather than the grim Man of Steel or bloated, ploddingly slow Justice League.
Could Shazam! Be a game changer for the DCEU? After all,
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| Messy hair don't care? The 8 different catctors who play the family Maine Coon Church were capital D Divas . |
3. Pet Sematary
In Theatres April 5th
In the 1989 Pet Sematary film the gray-haired gravelly voiced Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne) warns his neighbor Louis Creed “sometimes, death is better”. Those ominous words ring true in this year’s remake directed by three-time horror directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. This time John Lithgow plays the grandfather neighbor Jud opposite Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) , a doctor from Boston who moved to the woodsy, rural Maine town Ludlow with his wife, Rachel, their two kids, and the family cat. Far from quaint and pastoral, darkness lurks deep in the wood surrounding their home--a peculiar, unsettling burial ground, or “pet sematary” (as it’s scrawled on a sign in a messy, childlike hand), with the powers to raise the dead. Animals...and people... Jud says it best when he tells Louis, “whatever lives in the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain't human at all.”
Full. Body. Chills.
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4. Killing Eve Season 2
Premiers April 7th - Simulcast on BBC America and AMC
Killing Eve went out with a, erm, jab when British intelligence operative and serial killer fangirl Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) stuck sociopathic assassin Villanelle/Oksana (Jodie Comer) with the pointy end after trashing Villanelle’s boho-chic Parisian apartment. (#sorrybaby) Killing Eve is a female-led, globe-trotting, spy thriller with irresistibly dark comedy, more twists than a bag of pretzels, and some of the most gorgeous displays of cinematography on tv today.
With such palpable chemistry between the two flawed, hilarious, and lethal main characters, compelling performances from Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, and fast-paced plotting, Killing Eve is downright binge-worthy. Add in a brilliant cast of supporting characters a whip-smart team of writers (Phoebe Waller-Bridge 💗) penning each episode and Eve and Villanelle’s cat and cat dynamic--riddled with obsession, stakes ratcheting sky high, and insane risk-taking-- Killing Eve is hella addictive. True crime addict? Murderino? Feminist eager for more complex female representation in media? This one’s for you, baby!
With such palpable chemistry between the two flawed, hilarious, and lethal main characters, compelling performances from Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, and fast-paced plotting, Killing Eve is downright binge-worthy. Add in a brilliant cast of supporting characters a whip-smart team of writers (Phoebe Waller-Bridge 💗) penning each episode and Eve and Villanelle’s cat and cat dynamic--riddled with obsession, stakes ratcheting sky high, and insane risk-taking-- Killing Eve is hella addictive. True crime addict? Murderino? Feminist eager for more complex female representation in media? This one’s for you, baby!
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| Sansa Stark has been my favorite character since S1, and is my pick to win the Game! |
5. Game of Thrones Season 8
Premiers April 14th on HBO
Game of Thrones season 8 returns mid-April with Westeros on the brink of destruction facing legions of undead invaders from the outside (White walkers! Zombie ice dragon!) and the warring Houses grappling for the Iron Throne on the inside. Thronies, brace yourselves for more bloody, brutal battles, plot twists, and characters meeting their gruesome ends. George R.R. Martin, David Benioff, and D.B. Weiss make no secret of how they gleefully ax seemingly as many A Song of Ice and Fire denizens as they can get their claws...I mean hands on.
They’ve got a rep for pulling off the most grandly grotesque ways for their Westerosies to bite the dust. On the highlights reel? Scheming Viserys being “crowned” by a pot of molten gold, psychopathic Ramsey Bolton being devoured by his pack of hounds, and charming casanova Oberyn Martell horrifically getting his entire skull crushed by The Mountain.
They’ve got a rep for pulling off the most grandly grotesque ways for their Westerosies to bite the dust. On the highlights reel? Scheming Viserys being “crowned” by a pot of molten gold, psychopathic Ramsey Bolton being devoured by his pack of hounds, and charming casanova Oberyn Martell horrifically getting his entire skull crushed by The Mountain.
The trio also has a wicked affinity for smashing our hearts to smithereens by offing the show’s heroes, and many a Thronies most beloved characters: Ned Stark losing his head (and unfortch’ not going ghostly like Hogwarts friendly Gryffindor phantom Nearly Headless Nick), Catelyn, Robb and Talisa’s Red Wedding murders orchestrated by crusty bastard Walder Frey and double-crossing Roose Bolton, and Robb’s majestic dire wolf Grey Wind fired upon by Frey crossbows and lingering on death’s door just long enough to lock eyes with Arya (Lost. My. Damn. Mind.)
Sooo where does that leave us in this FINAL season? Readying ourselves to cheer for the characters we love to hate meeting their maker AND bracing ourselves for more of the characters we just straight up love to be cut down.
My one request? *whispers fervently* “pleasedon’tletSansaStarkdiepleasedon’tletSansaStarkdie pleasedon’tletSansaStarkdie”
For the love of the old gods, spare Sophie Turner!
(A girl has no shame!)
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| Directed by the Super Russo Bros. Avengers: Endgame rumored to have a 3+ hours runtime O.M..G. |
6. Avengers: Endgame
Premiers in Theatres April 26th
Traitorous Eunuchs, a conniving twincest Queen, and a chronically drunk dwarf who knows things not your thing? Marvel’s gotcha covered with its own finale.
Phase 4 of the MCU ends with, well, Endgame-- a cumulation of a whopping 22 interconnected Marvel movies. With half the Avengers and um WORLD snapped to dust (and Tony Stark stranded in space) in Infinity War, the remaining Avengers -- Captain America! Ant-Man! Thor! Black Widow! Nebula! And more! Do what they do best.
Phase 4 of the MCU ends with, well, Endgame-- a cumulation of a whopping 22 interconnected Marvel movies. With half the Avengers and um WORLD snapped to dust (and Tony Stark stranded in space) in Infinity War, the remaining Avengers -- Captain America! Ant-Man! Thor! Black Widow! Nebula! And more! Do what they do best.
Join forces and try to reassemble their friends and comrades, reverse Thanos’s destruction, and restore balance to the universe. THIS time while wearing matching silver and black superhero suits! (And I can’t stop talking in exclamation points! #sorrynotsorry ! )
With the Avengers latest recruit, half-Kree, full-badass bombshell Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) on the team, the end is nigh! Carol Danvers may be just the shero to open a can of Binary whoop ass on the douchey Thanos and photon-blast him into oblivion. Or she can just sic Goose on the prune-faced, purple megalomaniac and really Flerk him up. Whatever battle goes down Thanos’s days are numbered, and that is something to smile about.
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So what are you most excited for this month? Drop a comment below, or chat me up on Geek For the Win, or my twitter @thebadgerbabe_ ! As Squirrel Girl says, LET’S GET NUTS.
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