Joey King

“Be careful what you wish for.” While some viewers believe that the principle was fully and adequately explored by the Brendan Fraser-starring remake of Bedazzled in 2000, the new film Wish Upon suggests otherwise. On June 30, the upcoming horror film will hit theaters with a reminder that wish-granting entities are by and large not to be trusted, prone to twisting words or misconstruing intentions all to teach the user a valuable lesson about... phrasing? Or not being malevolent? The real underlying moral of the “be careful what you wish for” movies is probably something closer to “use specific and unambiguous language when forging a binding contract,” but the youth of America could probably use a lesson on legal entrapment too, so it’s really all good.

Two seasons in, The Flash very quickly burned through introductions of the character’s major comic “Rogues Gallery,” albeit with one notable exception. New reports suggest Season 3 will finally cast the infamous Mirror Master, among other Flash villains the likes of The Top, and others.

The last time we saw Brent Spiner’s Dr. Brackish Okun, his body was being forcibly used as a psychic transmitter to convey the malicious intentions of the invading aliens in Roland Emmerich’s bombastic, semi-masterpiece Independence Day. And then his weak, human husk was thrown across the room and he died. But now, some new Independence Day 2 casting supposes that ... maybe he didn’t?