Lucifer was last on our screens way back in August 2020, with the first half of its fifth – and penultimate – season ending on one wild cliffhanger. As Tom Ellis’ Lucifer Morningstar and Amenadiel (D.B. Woodside) battled Lucifer’s evil twin brother Michael, the trio’s father dropped by to stop the infighting – God himself (Dennis Haysbert). Now, a new trailer for season 5B has finally arrived and it teases the family reunion to end all family reunions when the DC supernatural series returns to Netflix in May.

Following his cameo in the midseason finale, Haysbert’s God will be sticking around Los Angeles for the back half of this run, leaving his sons to help him adjust to life on Earth in much the way that they’ve had to over the past few years. What’s more, this batch of episodes also contains the highly-anticipated all-singing, all-dancing musical outing which we’ve had teased before.

New Lucifer Season 5B Poster Teases Twin Trouble

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Remember, season 5 was originally conceived as the show’s last before Netflix ultimately renewed it for one more year. In a strange stroke of fate, the pandemic had prevented filming from being completed on the finale, so changes were able to be implemented to make it more open ended when shooting resumed, after which the cast and crew plowed ahead with the final run, which will consist of 10 episodes in total. There’s no word yet on when that could arrive, but we might find out more once 5B debuts.

Before we have to think about the end of Lucifer and Chloe Decker’s (Lauren German) adventures, though, we have a whole eight further installments of season 5 to go first. Unfortunately, we still have to wait another month until they get here, but you can start counting down to the return of Lucifer on Netflix on Friday, May 28th.

Emma Stone’s queen of mean makes a fiery entrance in this first clip from Disney’s Cruella. In just one month’s time, the 101 Dalmatians prequel starring Stone as the evil Ms. DeVil launches in both theaters and on streaming and, to mark the occasion, the studio has revealed our first look at the movie. And just as we suspected, it proves that it’s going to be hard to hate this version of the iconic villainess.

The minute-long clip opens with Emma Thompson’s haughty Baroness, Cruella’s boss, turning heads at a swanky society ball, until the future dog kidnapper steals her thunder with a heck of an entrance, literally crashing the party as she sends champagne glasses smashing. “Do you have a light?” Stone asks someone before setting her white cloak on fire to reveal her red gown underneath. Going by the trailers, this might be where the antiheroine makes her debut public appearance as Cruella, complete with legendary black and white hair.

First Poster For Cruella Reveals Emma Stone As Ms. De Vil

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Initially, she’ll be going by Estella DeVil, a lowly employee at the Baroness’ fashion house in 1970s London, before her obsession to be top dog leads her down a dark path. Yes, as Twitter likes to point out, the film is essentially The Devil Wears Prada meets Joker. That’s a blend of influences we never expected to see and Stone’s clearly going to kill it in the role. So hopefully this’ll be one of Disney’s stronger reimaginings of their classic IPs.

I, Tonya‘s Craig Gillespie directs, with the cast also including Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beecham, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Mark Strong as the Baroness’ valet John, who features in this clip. Stone has been attached to the project since 2016, too, so we’ve been waiting a long time to see this one. And we’ll find out if Cruella lives up to the hype once it lands on the big screen and on Disney Plus Premier Access on May 28th.

The Bad Batch is set to be the centrepiece of this year’s Star Wars Day. The 75-minute debut episode will reintroduce us to Clone Force 99, who we last saw in the final season of The Clone Wars. All indications are that it’s going to be something special, though by the time it drops I’m hoping we’ll have also seen new teasers for at least some of the many upcoming Disney+ Star Wars shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and The Book of Boba Fett.

In any case, to get folks caught up on what they need to know before The Bad Batch arrives, the Mouse House has now put together a handy little promo which you can see up above. Remember, they also suggested Clone Wars episodes to catch up on prior to the premiere and between that and this new video, folks should be able to get fully up to speed in no time.

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Rumors are that the show’s arc will see one of the Bad Batch members betray the others and side with the Empire. I can’t imagine the rest of them taking this lying down, so expect some serious sparks to fly when they finally get their revenge. Along the way we’re also due to receive guest spots from several already established characters, with The Mandalorian‘s Fennec Shand, Rogue One‘s Saw Gerrara, The Clone Wars‘ Captain Rex, and A New Hope‘s Grand Moff Tarkin all confirmed to make appearances.

A previously released poster hints at Emperor Palpatine playing a part in the story as well, but his role remains mysterious as of now. Everything should become clear soon, though, when The Bad Batch premieres on Disney Plus on May 4th.

Disney has a lot to answer for when it comes to the depiction of classic fairy tales, with their saccharine dilution of frequently sinister and violent stories leaving people with the wrong impression of what they were originally like. In such a tradition is British horror flick The Curse of Humpty Dumpty, a trailer for which has now been released.

The plot sees sisters Hazel and Elizabeth arriving to care for their mother Wendy, whose dementia-afflicted mind has deteriorated to the extent that it’s no longer safe for her to live alone. They’re greeted at the door by a creepy old doll thought disposed of years ago and who has ties to a tragic incident in the past, the details of which, along with whether or not the hideous creation might actually be alive, are locked in the faded shadows of Wendy’s memories.

Although it’s standard to depict Humpty Dumpty as an anthropomorphic egg, nowhere in the famous rhyme does it explicitly state him to be such. While the image of a pool of yolk and shell irreparably smashed on the ground certainly fits the lyrics, the notion actually stems from a description of the character in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1871. This interpretation blends the two, with the doll’s smooth pallid skin certainly being reminiscent of an eggshell, while the spiderweb of black cracks invokes the idea of it being broken and put back together.

It’s entirely possible that rather than merely being a straightforward tale of a killer doll coming to life, the story will be a metaphorical one exploring the ramifications of the soul-consuming black hole that is mental illness, if for no other reason than it would be a little disappointing to see the condition used merely as a plot device to justify why nobody remembers what previously happened. Either way, we’ll find out when The Curse of Humpty Dumpty is released in the UK on November 21st.