By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2016 5:00 am EST The Witch was one of the most unnerving and masterful horror films of the year. Some complained that they didn’t find it scary, but the terror at the center of this movie felt more horrifying than any of the jump scares that countless other horror movies brought to the table this year. But what if the movie was directed by Wes Anderson?...
Martin Scorsese Still Working On ‘The Devil In The White City’ With Leonardo DiCaprio By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2016 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have made five movies together. However, it’s been a few years since the two collaborated. Their last film together was The Wolf of Wall Street back in 2013, which landed nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, though they didn’t win any of those trophies by the end of the night....
By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2017 5:00 am EST In case you haven’t heard, the new Iron Man in the current run of Marvel Comics is a teenage black girl named Riri Williams. She’s taken on the mantle of the superhero since Tony Stark stepped down, and she goes by the name Ironheart. Though we’ve wondered if Marvel Studios would ever take the same route with the character on the big screen once Robert Downey Jr....
Rumor: Universal Studios Might Be Planning A Star Trek Land To Compete Against Disney World’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge By Ben Pearson/May 23, 2018 1:30 pm EST Set phasers to stunned. Rumor has it that Universal Studios is developing an entire Star Trek-themed land in a new Orlando park that would directly compete with Walt Disney World’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Read on for more information about a potential Universal Studios Star Trek land....
See The Real Instagram Account Used In The Making Of Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Ingrid Goest West’ By Jack Giroux/Aug. 12, 2017 10:00 am EST Characters talking on the phone or looking at a phone can be pretty boring in a movie. That’s not the case with Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West, in which his deeply lonely protagonist, Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza), spends a lot of her time and life on her iPhone....
The Morning Watch: Banksy Teams Up With Danny Boyle, ‘The LEGO Movie’ Influences & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2017 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, famed street artist Banksy teams up with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle for a satirical nativity play....
There Is Only One Blockbuster Video Store Left In America By Chris Evangelista/July 13, 2018 10:30 am EST It was the great poet Percy Shelley who once wrote: “And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Blockbuster, Video Store of Video Stores; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away....
This Week In Trailers: Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, The View From Tall, I Am Not Madame Bovary, Food Coop, The Stairs By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 14, 2016 3:30 pm EST You’re in the presence of a filmmaker who can take the average goings on of a life and make it nothing short of compelling. In Hoop Dreams, The War Tapes, The Interrupters, Life Itself, James has a talent for finding those narratives within a moment and crafting it into something moving, something that speak to our shared experience as human beings....
VOTD: Watch A Stress-Inducing ‘Saturday Night Live’ Set Change In Under Two Minutes By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2016 5:00 am EST When people watch Saturday Night Live, I don’t think many of them realize just how small of a space Studio 8H actually is in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. There’s only so much room for the various sets created for SNL that some of them are put up and taken down in just a few minutes, either during the opening credits or over commercial breaks....
We May Be Heading Back To Darth Vader’s Castle In Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Movies By Ben Pearson/March 31, 2017 11:30 am EST An obsidian castle rises out of boiling lava. Inside, the Sith Lord Darth Vader – seen out of his iconic armor – floats in a bacta tank and contemplates his evil plans, his constant pain eased by the rejuvenating water… This was our most recent look at the planet Mustafar in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but new evidence suggests future Star Wars films will return to the planet again before the new saga trilogy is complete....
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Footage Reaction: A Telling Scene About Officer K [Comic-Con 2017] By Jack Giroux/July 22, 2017 2:43 pm EST Below, check out our Blade Runner 2049 Comic-Con reaction. During the panel, conversation about the film mostly revolved around the pressure and surreality around making a Blade Runner sequel all these years later. “I didn’t want somebody else to fuck it up,” Villeneuve said, when asked why he wanted to direct the sci-fi film....
‘Captain Marvel’s Carol Danvers Is Part-Human, Part-Kree By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 6, 2018 12:30 pm EST Captain Marvel’s titular hero is a new kind of superhero. Not just because Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers is the first solo female hero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But because she’s angry. And because she may not be fully human. In the upcoming Marvel film Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers is a part-Kree, part-human warrior with the powers of a god — though she won’t likely act like one....
‘Deidra & Laney Rob A Train’ Trailer: Netflix Hits Sundance With Teen Heist Charmer By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2017 1:00 pm EST Sundance is now in full swing, which means those of you at home might be feeling festival envy right about now. But the good news is that we won’t have long to wait until some of this year’s promising features get released. As a matter of fact, we’re less than two months away from seeing Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, which was first announced by Netflix last year....
‘Ghost In The Shell’ Super Bowl Spot: Scarlett Johansson Goes Full Anime RoboCop By Jacob Hall/Feb. 2, 2017 7:00 am EST As I’m not familiar with the original Ghost in the Shell manga or anime, I can only watch the trailers for the new film as a detached observer with no real stake. For example, I can note that the first trailer for director Rupert Sanders’ live-action take starring Scarlett Johansson gives off some serious Blade Runner and RoboCop vibes, mainly because I have no idea whether or not it looks or feels anything like the source material....
‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Trailer: The Hard-Drinking Anti-Heroine Is Back, With Even More Problems By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 7, 2018 8:30 am EST Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is finally back in her acclaimed solo series, but her newfound fame has not been kind to her. Despite the triumphant defeat of her rapist Kilgrave in Jessica Jones season 1 and a new alliance with her fellow streetwise vigilantes in The Defenders, Jessica is spiraling....
‘New Mutants’ Will Bring Back James McAvoy’s Professor X By Angie Han/Jan. 5, 2017 2:30 pm EST She was more forthcoming, however, about McAvoy’s involvement in New Mutants. “I mean, I think James is already a part of it, isn’t he?” she said when asked if she might reunite with her Split co-star. I have [seen the Demon Bear animatic], it’s pretty cool. I’m a big fan so I’d love to be a part of it....
‘Ready Player One’ VR Content Will Bring Viewers Into The OASIS By Jack Giroux/March 28, 2017 2:00 pm EST In Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, much of the world’s population spends their time in a virtual reality world called the OASIS. The story’s heroes, Wade Watts/Parzival (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha Evelyn Cook/Art3miss (Olivia Cooke), aren’t living the highest quality of life in the real world, so they live and breathe the OASIS....
‘Riverdale’ Teaser Trailer: Archie & Friends Get A Sexy, Murder-Y Makeover By Angie Han/Dec. 20, 2016 2:45 pm EST Take Archie, mash it up with Gossip Girl, and add a sprinkling of Twin Peaks, and you’ll probably end up with something like Riverdale, The CW’s new sexed-up murder mystery drama about suspiciously hot teenagers in a seemingly sleepy, actually quite creepy little town. As the show’s midseason premiere date approaches, The CW has unveiled a new Riverdale teaser trailer that sets up some of the major drama to come....
‘Song To Song’ Trailer: Terrence Malick’s New Love Story By Jack Giroux/Feb. 17, 2017 3:00 pm EST Over three years ago, Val Kilmer pulled out a chainsaw at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Music Festival when he was performing on stage with The Black Lips. Kilmer wasn’t a new addition to the band gone mad or anything; he was shooting a scene for Terrence Malick’s long-awaited upcoming film, Song to Song, previously titled Weightless....
‘The Greatest American Hero’ Remake Casts ‘New Girl’ Star Hannah Simone By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 13, 2018 1:30 pm EST Hannah Simone is best known for her role as CeCe on the FOX comedy series New Girl, but that show is coming to an end with the seventh and final season. Her new gig will be taking on the moniker of a superhero. In case you didn’t hear, The Greatest American Hero is being remade at ABC....
