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Things Take A Very Sharp, Very Harsh Turn In The Latest Outlander Episode Starz By Vanessa Armstrong/April 10, 2022 10:00 pm EST If last week was mostly about the upcoming revolution, this week’s “Outlander” keeps us at Fraser’s Ridge the entire time, and things get rough there. Real rough. There’s a lot of death (including more than one baby dying, so be warned); someone who turns on the Frasers (though maybe not who you think); and a haircut of “Felicity” level proportions....

Why Kevin Feige Thinks Batman & Robin Is One Of The Most Important Comic Book Movies Ever Made Warner Bros. Pictures By Devin Meenan/March 9, 2022 2:50 pm EST 25 years on, “Batman & Robin” remains as maligned as when it debuted. Even as rankings of Batman movies grow longer and longer, it stays near the bottom. Director Joel Schumacher, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, and star George Clooney have all disparaged the film since....

Why Star Wars’ Most Famous Droids Couldn’t Get Along On Set I loved Laurel and Hardy movies when I was a little kid, and I got rather upset when I found out that they were both married and lived in separate houses. I just assumed they must really live together and share a bed in real life. I had a similar feeling of disappointment not so long ago as a grown up when I found out that the relationship between Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker, AKA C-3PO and R2-D2, was strained to say the least....

Will There Be A Sequel To The Grudge Reboot? Here’s What We Know Sony Pictures By Ryan Leston/Jan. 28, 2022 10:12 am EST It never forgives. It never forgets. No, not Film Twitter, I’m talking about “The Grudge,” which stumbled back onto our screens in 2020 with a new reboot. It was 16 years after “The Grudge” first haunted American audiences, and while the reboot may have failed to make an impression, it might not be long before the long-standing horror franchise crawls back into theaters....

You’ll Be Able To Listen To The Batman Theme Music Tonight Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 20, 2022 1:24 pm EST Some of you reading this may not know Michael Giacchino by name just yet, but you’ve definitely heard his music. The Oscar winner has become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand composers over the last two decades thanks to his work on everything from Pixar movies (yes, he’s the one who made you cry your eyes out with his “Married Life” theme from “Up”) to the MCU’s “Spider-Man” film trilogy, the “Jurassic World” movies, and such acclaimed non-franchise titles as “Bad Times at the El Royale” and “Jojo Rabbit....

Andrew Garfield Had Lots Of Fun Lying About Spider-Man: No Way Home Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Jan. 9, 2022 6:06 pm EST For some Hollywood actors, particularly those bound up in the web of secrecy surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe, non-disclosure agreements are a burden. Then there’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” star Andrew Garfield, who describes the experience of lying to the press as “rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable.” Garfield’s return in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” alongside fellow former Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire, was pretty much the world’s worst-kept secret in the lead-up to the release of “No Way Home....

Antoine Fuqua’s Will Smith-Led Emancipation Postponed Until 2023 At Apple TV+ Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/May 7, 2022 11:00 am EST “Emancipation,” the upcoming runaway slave drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, has reportedly had its Apple TV+ release delayed in the aftermath of Smith’s onstage assault of comedian and host Chris Rock at this year’s Academy Awards. The film had been eyeing a festival run for the fall of 2022 and was considered a possible Oscar contender, with some even predicting that Smith might pull off two consecutive Best Actor wins for it and “King Richard....

David Morse On Why Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile Is Still Relevant Today [Interview] Warner Bros. Pictures By Max Evry/Feb. 21, 2022 12:05 pm EST Warner Bros. is releasing 1999’s classic supernatural prison drama “The Green Mile” on 4K UHD disc for the first time on February 22, 2022. To celebrate the release, the studio invited us to chat with the film’s co-star, David Morse, who portrayed the sympathetic prison guard Brutus “Brutal” Howell who works alongside Tom Hanks’ Paul Edgecomb....

Due To Recent Events, Netflix Won’t Allow Russian Government-Controlled Channels Andrew Fall / Shutterstock By Anya Stanley/Feb. 28, 2022 10:55 pm EST As Russia and Ukraine end the first round of ceasefire talks following the former’s violation of the latter’s sovereignty last week, penalties have come down against what President Biden calls a “flagrant violation of international law.” The Pentagon is sending jets and troops into Eastern Europe, and a number of Kremlin-connected banks have been dropped from the SWIFT system in an attempt to dissuade Vladimir Putin from any further acts of war....

Felicia Day And Jonah Ray On Returning Mystery Science Theater 3000 To Its Scrappy Roots [Interview] Shout! Studios By Witney Seibold/May 2, 2022 12:15 pm EST “Mystery Science Theater 3000” started in the mind of show creator Joel Hodgson before debuting on KTMA in Minnesota in 1988, with the show eventually moving to The Comedy Channel (later Comedy Central) for several lucrative seasons, and then shunting over to the Sci-Fi Channel (later SyFy) to wrap up its run, before returning on Netflix (still Netflix) for two additional seasons....

Gene Hackman Thought He Would Never Work Again After Hoosiers Orion Pictures By Mike Shutt/May 23, 2022 8:44 am EST Nowadays, if you make a list of the greatest sports movies of all time and you don’t put “Hoosiers” on it, you’ll most certainly receive a cavalcade of flack. The picture about a small town Indiana high school basketball team pulls those inspirational sports story heartstrings better than most other movies of its genre, and regardless of what sport they are about, most modern sports movies essentially use “Hoosiers” as a blueprint....

Here’s Where You Can Watch The Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Reunion Online Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 28, 2021 12:35 pm EST Are you ready to take a trip back to the Wizarding World? Oddly enough, it’d be easy to feel as if we never even left in the first place. Between the end of the “Harry Potter” saga in 2011 and the beginning of the “Fantastic Beasts” prequel series in 2016, we’ve hardly gone without the beloved fantasy franchise in some form or another since, well, 2001....

Listen to the master Constantin Film In the same interview mentioned above, Anderson admits that he — like so many genre film fans in the world — is an aficionado of John Carpenter, and is especially fond of Carpenter’s scores. Carpenter is an accomplished musician in his own right — he plays in a band called The Coupe de Villes with Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace — and had an unusual approach to scoring his movies....

Jordan Peele’s Favorite Horror Movies List Is A Perfect Study In Terror Universal Pictures By Natalia Keogan/April 30, 2022 9:53 am EST With his long-awaited third feature, “Nope,” hitting theaters in a few short months, it feels like the perfect time to delve into Jordan Peele’s directorial influences. Although little has been revealed about the forthcoming film’s plot, it is easily one of the most anticipated titles of the summer — and honestly, the hushed mystery surrounding it only adds to the hype....

What Has Joss Whedon Been Accused Of? Christopher Polk/Getty Images In the ’90s and early aughts, Whedon’s feminist credentials seemed unshakable. After all, the idea for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was born of wanting to give power to the petite blond who so often died at the beginning of many horror movies. Whedon succeeded in that, and Buffy Summers became the feminist icon of a generation. However, as Whedon’s projects continued to evolve, viewers began to notice that not all aspects of his particular brand of feminism had aged all that gracefully, and indeed, featured some rather troubling patterns of women undergoing immense trauma in order to maintain or reclaim their strength....

No, Not Every Movie Needs To Pass The Bechdel Test Hulu By BJ Colangelo/June 8, 2022 6:00 pm EST In 2019, Twitter user @MapleCocaine tweeted out an innocuous statement that would become one of Twitter’s core axioms: “Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it.” Usually the wearer of the main character crown has either said something so out of pocket that anyone with more than two brain cells can see that “the best time to delete the tweet was immediately after sending it, the second best time is now,” or someone who makes a statement so bafflingly offensive with an unfounded sense of confidence, we’re shocked to discover the tweeter wasn’t just two junior high boys in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult behind a keyboard....

Not Okay Trailer: Dylan O’Brien And Zoey Deutch Star In Influencer Culture Satire Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 21, 2022 9:08 am EST Dylan O’Brien may not be reprising the role of Stiles Stilinski in the “Teen Wolf” movie this year, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be popping up on our TV screens soon. The actor is set to star alongside “Set It Up” star Zoey Deutch in Quinn Shephard’s satire “Not Okay,” which will premiere exclusively on Hulu in July....

On The Waterfront Ending Explained: A Canary In A Coal Mine Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/March 23, 2022 12:36 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No actor in the history of cinema has had a greater impact on how to craft a performance than Marlon Brando. A student of legendary acting teacher Stella Adler, Brando broke open what a performer could do on screen in terms of spontaneity, speech, and internality....

Oscar Isaac Helped May Calamawy Get Her Bearings On The Moon Knight Set Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 14, 2022 10:08 am EST Marvel’s “Moon Knight” obviously has die-hard Marvel Comics fans excited for what the series has to offer in the remaining episodes, as episode 3, “The Friendly Type,” fully embraced the Egyptian mythology at the heart of the titular superhero. While “Moon Knight” sees Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke assuming the central roles of Steven Grant/Marc Spector and cult leader Arthur Harrow, respectively, May Calamawy’s Layla has also been revealed to be a key part of the puzzle — and has helped ground the storyline in meaningful ways....

‘Sometimes you get lucky’ Apple TV+ During an exclusive interview with HollywoodLife, Liz Flahive echoed Brie’s sentiments, saying, “sometimes you get lucky.” Flahive also noted the irony of Alison Brie and Chris Lowell co-starring on “Roar,” given that the two seldom shared one-on-one scenes during “GLOW.” According to Flahive: “They were thrilled obviously to see each other, and the other reunion that people may not realize is that a lot of our crew from ‘GLOW’ came on board ‘Roar,’ so our hair and makeup teams, our costume team, we had so our production designer, we had so many people that we had previously worked with come with us to build 8 worlds, which was super lucky … I think it was also nice for them to see some familiar faces behind the camera....