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There Was A Method To The Madness In David Bowie’s Labyrinth Costume TriStar Pictures By Jamie Gerber/June 16, 2022 8:45 am EST “Dance magic, dance!” “Labyrinth” released in 1986, and while hardly a hit critically or commercially at the time, the Jim Henson film has become widely beloved in the years since. The movie follows Sarah (the fantastic Jennifer Connelly), a teenager desperate to rescue her baby brother from Jareth, the Goblin King (played to perfection by David Bowie)....

Turning Red Director Domee Shi And Producer Lindsey Collins Talk Parent/Child Dynamics, Anime, And Making Pixar History [Interview] Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 7, 2022 12:29 pm EST The buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Pixar’s “Turning Red” has been overwhelmingly positive, and with good reason. The 2000s-set coming-of-age story about a teen girl who discovers she poofs into a giant red panda whenever her emotions get too big to process is one of the best Pixar films in years, and offers an important message of empathy and understanding for both parents and their children....

Watch Every Short That Inspired The Marcel The Shell With Shoes On Movie A24 By BJ Colangelo/April 5, 2022 5:14 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I wish there was a way to properly convey in text the high-pitch screaming of “OH MY GOD, MARCEL, I LOVE YOU!” I did this morning when the trailer for “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” dropped. The first foray into family-friendly films for A24, the live-action/animation hybrid centers on everyone’s favorite googly-eyed seashell (voiced by Jenny Slate) as he grapples with newfound internet fame, his budding friendship with filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp, caring for his ailing grandmother Connie (Isabella Rossellini), and trying to find the rest of his shell family....

‘They also scream quite a lot’ In Norse mythology, these two goats of war are named Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, and in the tales we find out that Thor can eat them every night (eew), and they resurrect themselves the next morning. Even worse? If someone sucks the marrow from the bones while snacking on them, the goats end up lame. I mean, that doesn’t sound great for the goats, but that’s not our version....

15 Underrated Action Movies You Need To Watch MGM By Jeremy Herbert/Dec. 29, 2021 12:26 pm EST Depending on who you ask, the action genre has either been around since Justus D. Barnes shot the audience in “The Great Train Robbery” or sometime in the 1980s, when car, war, and cop movies took a collective evolutionary step forward. Defining it has only gotten more difficult since, now that every dominant flavor of blockbuster (superhero, space epic, “Fast” and/or “Furious”) has at least a little kiss-kiss-bang-bang in the mix....

Alamo Drafthouse Announces Seven-Theater Expansion, Including Chicago Ricardo Garza/Shutterstock By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 3, 2022 3:02 pm EST Good news, movie fans in Chicago, St. Louis, and Birmingham — Alamo Drafthouse is coming to your city! The cinema chain just announced the opening of seven new theaters after a surprisingly strong 2021, where Alamo saw major returns for films like “Licorice Pizza,” “The Green Knight,” and “The French Dispatch.” Despite the ups and downs of the pandemic, Alamo Drafthouse is continuing to expand, and the inclusion of three new markets is exciting....

Alfred Hitchcock Gave Ingrid Bergman The Best Acting Advice Of Her Career Central Press/Getty Images By Shae Sennett/April 29, 2022 1:08 pm EST Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s controlling approach to filmmaking earned him the distinguished reputation as a master of suspense, but not without causing some controversy along the way. Hitchcock’s harsh words for actors in particular have landed him in hot water, having famously called them “cows” and “stupid children” (via Hitchcock Interviews)....

Being Behind The Camera On Brokeback Mountain Put Ang Lee To Sleep Focus Features By Mike Shutt/May 12, 2022 3:16 pm EST One of the truly great moments in the history of the Academy Awards was Jack Nicholson announcing that the Best Picture winner of 2005 was “Crash.” Not because “Crash” won. No, the moment is phenomenal because of the absolutely incredulous reaction to seeing who won by Jack Nicholson. After announcing the title, he looks off to the side of the stage, mouthing an over exaggerated “Whoa!...

Daily Podcast: Moon Knight Episode 3 - The Friendly Type Marvel On the April 13, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to have a spoiler-filled discussion about “Moon Knight” episode 3, “The Friendly Type.” In The Spoiler Room: Moon Knight episode 3 “The Friendly Type”. Feedback Brief reactions Moon Knight Episode 3 Has Us Scrambling Around Egypt For Yet Another MacGuffin...

Dan Stevens Joins Adam Wingard’s Godzilla Vs Kong 2 HanWay Films By BJ Colangelo/May 12, 2022 9:44 pm EST The lion of love must have broken out of his cage because Dan Stevens was just announced as having joined the cast of “Godzilla vs. Kong 2,” reuniting him with Adam Wingard who directed Stevens in the action-thriller “The Guest.” Stevens’ announcement is the first major casting news from “Godzilla vs. Kong 2,” the highly-anticipated sequel to Wingard’s 2021 ultimate kaiju battle flick and the next addition to Legendary’s Monsterverse film franchise....

If Not Netflix, Where? Netflix Let’s say these shows do leave the Netflix platform on March 1 as per the rumor mill — marking the first time a Netflix Original has ever left the streamer. What comes next? Where these shows will end up is currently unknown, so as of right now, the fate of these well-loved Marvel Cinematic Universe entries hangs in the balance. However, it stands to reason that these shows might at some point end up on Disney+....

David Cronenberg On Pushing The Body To Its Limits In Crimes Of The Future, His First Film In 8 Years [Interview] Paramount By Lex Briscuso/May 26, 2022 9:30 am EST The body isn’t just a vessel for the soul; it’s a vessel for performance, for experimentation, for breathing life into something new. We are vehicles for evolution by default, and thus it stands to reason that some time in the future, we may bear witness to ourselves evolving in real time, becoming that something new....

Dirty Work, Bob Saget’s Hilarious Feature Directorial Debut, Is Now Streaming On HBO Max MGM By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 10, 2022 12:43 pm EST Bob Saget died over the weekend at the way-too-young age of 65. Saget was an unapologetically dirty stand-up comedian who became the face of safe wholesomeness thanks to his role as a widowed dad on “Full House” and his hosting duties on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Week after week, audiences invited Saget into their homes, and he was so good at playing a square that his perceived boringness clung to him....

Emergency Trailer: A Dark College Comedy With A Timely Edge Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 3, 2022 2:39 pm EST Another Sundance favorite is making its way to wider audiences, and this one looks like intense. “Emergency” follows two college best friends, both Black, as they attempt to help an unconscious girl they find in their apartment without calling the police. It’s an interesting premise for a serious thriller or drama, but “Emergency” throws a major curveball from the start: it’s actually a comedy....

Eraser: Reborn Trailer: The ’90s Action Flick Gets A Reboot Without Schwarzenegger Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 23, 2022 2:20 pm EST Hollywood absolutely loves a reboot, and even movies that people seem to care very little about are not immune to this phenomenon. Case in point: Warner Bros. is giving us a home video sequel to the kind-of-forgotten ’90s Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick “Eraser” in the form of “Eraser: Reborn” this summer....

Everyone In Moon Knight Is Bad At Their Jobs (And It Works) Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/April 14, 2022 9:00 am EST “You had one job and you STILL failed.” This sentence has provided an endless amount of memes across the internet for many years and it probably isn’t going away any time soon. Although, as memes are known to do from time to time, this idea can be found in other aspects of life....

Ewan McGregor Forgot How To Obi-Wan Kenobi Before Returning To The Character Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/May 13, 2022 11:00 am EST It’s been 17 years since Ewan McGregor picked up his lightsaber to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2005’s “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” giving birth to a plethora of the internet’s favorite reaction gifs and memes. (“Hello there!”) But after so many years away from the role, it took the actor a while to regain the high ground and figure out how to Obi-Wan his way once more for the character’s solo series on Disney+....

But Who Are These ‘Great’ Cast Additions? Universal Among those expected to join Diesel in the “Fast 10” cast are his longtime “Fast & Furious” co-stars Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, as well as Nathalie Emmanuel (who boarded the franchise in “Furious 7”) and Sung Kang as the newly “resurrected” Han Lue. The credits scene for “F9” also showed Han coming face-to-face with his would-be killer Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), so presumably “Fast 10” will pay off that stinger in some fashion (unless that’s being saved for “Fast 11”)....

The untold story of Fruits Basket - prelude - Crunchyroll “Fruits Basket – prelude -” tells the story of Kyoko Honda and how she fell in love with Katsuya, Tohru’s father who had died when she was young and who never makes an appearance in the anime show proper (apart from one shadowy memory). In the manga, the story is told in a series of flashbacks from the point of view of Kyo, who reveals that he knew Kyoko long before he met and fell in love with Tohru....

Harrison Ford Was Actually A Last Minute Pick To Play Indiana Jones Paramount Pictures By Travis Yates/April 22, 2022 10:58 am EST After an iconic film role, it’s often hard to imagine any other actor playing the character. Think Bruce Willis as John McClane or Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. With a film franchise as successful as “Indiana Jones,” it’s really hard, almost impossible, to imagine anyone other than Harrison Ford in the role of Indy....