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Halle Berry To Star In Alexandre Aja’s Supernatural Thriller Mother Land Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/May 9, 2022 10:00 pm EST I haven’t spent a lot of time really analyzing this thought, but doesn’t it feel like the thriller is back? I don’t know if it ever entirely left, after all. While genres come in and out of style, it’s hard to argue that something as broad as the thriller has completely fallen off, but I also feel like they kind of peaked and then plateaued after 2014’s “Gone Girl,” from the thriller king himself David Fincher....

How Minx’s Makeup Maestro Perfected The Performers’ Prosthetic Penises HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/June 17, 2022 5:34 pm EST HBO has never been a company to shy away from sex and nudity, with the premium network embracing its reputation of encouraging creative projects with content that might be viewed as too extreme for the status quo. One of HBO’s latest endeavors is the period piece comedy “Minx,” about a young woman named Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) who moves to Los Angeles to follow her dream of launching a counter-cultural magazine as second-wave feminism is in full swing....

James Wan Thinks Jump Scares Are Just Misunderstood New Line Cinema By Jeremy Smith/June 17, 2022 12:54 pm EST There is no cheaper form of fright than a jump scare. It’s the horror movie equivalent of hiding in a sibling’s closet while they’re not paying attention, and springing out when they least expect it: extremely gratifying to the jerk doing the scaring, and astronomically annoying to the person getting scared....

‘I got scared for Jared’ Sony Pictures /Film contributor Kayleigh Donaldson recently wrote an excellent piece about why we need to stop romanticizing the idea of actors tormenting themselves and those around them to portray Batman villains like the Joker. In doing so, she aptly described Leto’s behavior on the “Suicide Squad” set as being “less the actions of a dedicated actor and more an example of workplace harassment.” So far, though, it seems that Leto limited his method acting for “Morbius” to doing things like using crutches and contorting his body to portray Dr....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Special Features Reveal How The Meme (You Know Which One) Was Made Sony By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 15, 2022 4:16 pm EST “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is finally available on digital, which means anybody who is still fighting the good fight against spoilers can finally take off their blinders and unmute half of Twitter. It also means we can all collectively bask in one of the most satisfying surprises in recent blockbuster memory: the Peter Parker reunion....

Spider-Man Beats Scream At The Box Office, Which Is Impressive And Sobering Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Jan. 24, 2022 1:20 pm EST It was an interesting weekend at the box office as “Spider-Man: No Way Home” pulled off an incredibly rare feat. After losing to “Scream” last weekend, it then reclaimed the top spot once again in its sixth week, a very rare feat that demonstrates just how much of a must-see, pop culture phenomenon this movie has become....

Superhero Bits: A New Cinematic MultiVersus Trailer, The Spider-Man Villain Named Joe Biden & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/May 16, 2022 4:03 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

What has it all meant? Lionsgate In a March 2022 profile for GQ, Nicolas Cage confronted the memeification of himself: “I still don’t really fully understand what the fascination is with my face or facial expressions that happen in these memes,” he said. Here’s one thing it is: an acknowledgment that Cage is hysterical. He’s not a comedian in the traditional sense. The moments when he is a laugh riot are born from thespian instincts and often achieve the feeling of classic clowning by proxy....

The Leprechaun Horror Franchise Is Ready For Its Comeback As Lionsgate Eyes A Reboot Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/April 18, 2022 4:56 pm EST To date, there have been eight films in the “Leprechaun” series. The first film, released in 1993, starred Warwick Davis as the title character, an evil, smiling immortal monster with an obsession with his pot o’ gold, a shoe fetish, and a propensity for murder. Davis would return for “Leprechaun 2” (1994), “Leprechaun 3” (1995), “Leprechaun 4: In Space” (1997), “Leprechaun in the Hood” (2000), and “Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood” (2003)....

The Most Controversial Deaths In Sci-Fi Movies Paramount Pictures By David Court/June 5, 2022 1:20 pm EST James T. Kirk may have famously referred to space as “the final frontier” in the introduction to “Star Trek,” but he’d eventually be proven wrong in 1994’s “Star Trek Generations.” Death is the final frontier, the uncharted territory we all travel to at the end. With resurrection or last-minute reprieves just a technological gizmo away, science fiction is a genre in which death is often not the great hindrance it once was, but there comes a time when even cloaking devices can only hide you from the Grim Reaper for so long....

The Northman Was A Life-Long Dream For Alexander Skarsgard Focus Features By Ryan Scott/April 21, 2022 1:15 pm EST One of the most interesting blockbusters hitting theaters in all of 2022 is “The Northman,” a Viking epic and revenge tale from director Robert Eggers, known as the man behind “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse.” But what happens when you give that filmmaker a $90 million budget and an A-list cast led by Alexander Skarsgard?...

Titane Ending Explained: Finding Your True Family Neon By Lex Briscuso/Feb. 18, 2022 4:16 pm EST Julia Ducornau’s Palme d’Or-winning second feature, “Titane,” is a film with a lot of layers. It is a movie that is many things at once in a way that not many movies are: a horror story, a family drama, and a hopeful story about acceptance in spite of the drama and the terror. It is cathartic in ways most films dream of — and that most people assume just doesn’t come with the genre....

Does Valhalla exist in Marvel Comics? Marvel Studios In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the land of dead warriors and gods, the afterlife where they dine with their fellows, taken there by the Valkyries. Well, half of them, anyway. The other half are taken by the goddess Freyja to the field called Fólkvangr. Odin is there, and so are the warriors of legend. In “Thor: Ragnarok,” Odin (Anthony Hopkins) dies and Thor says, “Odin, I bid you take your place in the halls of Valhalla … Where the brave shall live forever....

Why Matt Damon Turned Down The Chance To Play His Favorite Superhero 20th Century Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/May 20, 2022 10:26 am EST Today, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is teeming with a roster of award-winning actors. But back in its beginning, not every Hollywood star was thrilled about playing a superhero. In the early 2000s, 20th Century Studios was working on a “Daredevil” stand-alone film starring major comic book characters, including the Man Without Fear, Elektra, Bullseye, and even Kingpin....

The Spoils of Eternal Youth Warner Bros The film’s title in itself references a static state of adolescence, referring to the un-aging clan of boys from “Peter Pan” whose eternal youth has stunted their maturity, but dually grants them with an otherworldly power. Similarly, the band of vamps in “The Lost Boys” operate out of a malicious brand of masculinity generally reserved for boorish teenage boys, exemplified by their proclivity for petty vandalism alongside their unquenchable thirst for blood....

Dane DeHaan Boards Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 7, 2022 4:36 pm EST How great must life be for Christopher Nolan? His most recent movie, “Tenet,” managed to rise above some ugly pandemic-affected theatrical snafus and become the face of “No understanding, just vibes” cinema that the masses (read: people like me) just can’t get enough of these days. Upon deciding on his newest script, the acclaimed filmmaker took his talents elsewhere and stirred up a heated bidding war, ultimately landing with Universal Studios for his latest project, a World War II-set J....

Everything We Know About Walker: Independence So Far The CW By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 20, 2021 1:12 pm EST The “Walker: Texas Ranger” reboot, “Walker,” starring Jared Padalecki, has done well enough over at the CW to warrant a second season, and now the creative team behind “Walker” are developing a prequel spin-off series, “Walker: Independence.” While the series is still in very early development, some details have been revealed about the setting and characters in the series....

How Calamari Ended Up On Tatooine In The Book Of Boba Fett: An Investigation Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 13, 2022 11:07 am EST This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Like any story told in the sprawling “Star Wars” universe, “The Book of Boba Fett” has left us with plenty of intriguing details and questions to ponder. Chief among them remains the fascinating tension at the core of this new spin-off series, particularly when it comes to depicting Boba Fett as the ruthless bounty hunter of the original trilogy versus this new “Man with a code” version who clearly has rules, a conscience, and a leadership style based on morals (as far as that can apply to crime lords, at least), which we’ve written about before....

Meltdown: Three Mile Island Trailer: The World Needs To Know What Happened Here Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 19, 2022 2:18 pm EST The partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in 1979 was a near-catastrophe, considered one of the most critical accidents in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. A brand-new Netflix documentary, “Meltdown: Three Mile Island,” is attempting to shed light on the aftereffects of the near-disaster, along with systemic drawbacks and failures that contributed to the incident....

Neelix’s Makeup Was A Struggle Behind The Scenes Of Star Trek: Voyager Paramount By Jenna Busch/April 11, 2022 11:13 am EST Neelix the Talaxian from “Star Trek: Voyager” is beloved by some, and disliked by others, though how you can dislike such a cheerful character is beyond comprehension. Aside from that, just knowing what went into the makeup job on Ethan Phillips should be enough to make you love him all the more....