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It’s A Wonder Fred Gwynne Could Even Walk In His Munsters Costume CBS By Erin Brady/May 25, 2022 3:30 pm EST If you are an actor in Hollywood, the chances that you have worn an uncomfortable costume are high. From itchy materials to bulky additions, actors still wear clothes they might not be the most comfortable in the world. This, of course, is not the fault of the costume designers; sometimes, a character requires a specific article of clothing or full costume that just cannot be made more comfortably....

Battle without honor and humanity, but with Shrek Miramax The answer isn’t as surprising as the rationale. Tomoyasu Hotei’s thumping track for “New Battles Without Honor and Humanity” (a ho-hum remake of Kinji Fukasaku’s classic “Battle Without Honor and Humanity”) rocketed to the top of every cinephile’s playlist when Tarantino attached it to the 2002 teaser for “Kill Bill” (prior to the film’s Harvey Weinstein-mandated halving in 2003). In the film, it jolts the audience from the sword-making lull of Okinawa and gets them ready for an all-time showdown at the House of Blue Leaves....

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Movie Moving Forward After Scoring $14 Million Tax Credit, This Is Not A Mad-Lib Netflix By Jenna Busch/Feb. 28, 2022 2:59 pm EST I’m pretty sure I ate breakfast this morning and I’m not hallucinating this story. I mean, I’m not 100% positive, but here we are. I’m not sure how I missed the news that Jerry Seinfeld was making a Pop Tart movie, but it’s entirely possible that I thought it was a joke....

Kurt Russell’s Soldier Is Considered A Sequel To Blade Runner – But Is It Really? Warner Bros. By Bill Bria/March 24, 2022 10:35 am EST Shared universes are all the rage now, ever since the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to pass. But the MCU was hardly the first cinematic venture to willfully connect its disparate characters and franchises — Universal Pictures put their Monsters together as early as 1943’s “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” and the movies of filmmakers like John Hughes, Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino all have varying degrees of connective tissue....

Lena Headey To Make Directorial Debut With Psychological Thriller Violet Netflix By Witney Seibold/March 22, 2022 8:54 am EST In an announcement from Deadline today, actress Lena Headey, star of “Game of Thrones,” the hit film “300,” and the recent Netflix actioner “Gunpowder Milkshake” will make her directorial debut with a psychological thriller called “Violet,” based on the 2019 novel by SJI Holliday. Holliday is the author behind the Banktoun book series, and most of her psychological thrillers take place in that fictional town, itself based on the real-life Scottish town of Haddington....

Meet Lav Diaz, The Director Who Makes 647-Minute Long Movies Kristina Nikishina / Getty Images By Witney Seibold/Jan. 28, 2022 11:00 am EST 2022 will see the release of “Servando Magdamag” and “When the Waves Are Gone,” two new films from director Lav Diaz. This is a cause for celebration, and an opportunity for this budding Lav Diaz fanboy to share. Articles about Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz typically begin by noting the prodigious length of his films, and it appears this one is no different....

Moonfall Has Bombed Its Way Into The Record Books, And That’s Concerning Lionsgate By Ryan Scott/March 8, 2022 12:26 pm EST For the past year and change, virtually every big movie that has been released has come with a bit of a caveat. We’re attempting to emerge from a global pandemic and what used to be, no longer is. Yes, movies like “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “The Batman” can still make hundreds of millions at the box office, but everything else is out there fighting for enough eyeballs to keep non-superhero flicks financially viable....

Netflix Will Finally Let You Remove Movies And Shows From Your Continue Watching List Netflix By Witney Seibold/Feb. 4, 2022 4:43 pm EST Back in the days of VHS, if you failed to complete a film, the magnetic tape inside the cassette would stay wound to the point where you stopped it and removed it from your VCR. The stalwart and reliable cassette would stay wound to that exact point for as long as you wanted, waiting — sometimes for a few days, sometimes for a decade or more — for you to return and complete the film....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Was Originally Written As A Movie Trilogy, Not A TV Show Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/June 28, 2022 1:37 pm EST Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a major streamer comes out with a new franchise-based series that noticeably stretches out several hours worth of story into multiple episodes, even though it probably would’ve been better served as a feature-length movie. More often than not, all sorts of coldblooded business decisions factor into why and how we end up with this turn of events....

Queer People Aren’t A Monolith, And Sir Ian McKellen’s Thoughts On ‘Playing Gay’ Are Lacking Context Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/March 7, 2022 4:19 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) Ah, yes, it seems as if the endless debate regarding whether or not gay roles in entertainment should be specifically reserved for gay actors has reared its annoying head yet again....

Rachel Brosnahan Promises More Scenes With Midge And Lenny Bruce In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 Prime Video By Kaylee Dugan/April 25, 2022 8:54 pm EST Season 4 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” may have simultaneously built up and broke some hearts, but I have a feeling that season 5 is going to be the real doozy. After hitting us with that one-two punch of Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) finally getting together and then ending the season with Lenny emotionally chastising Midge for wasting her comedy opportunities, I highly doubt that we’ll see a truly happy ending between the two (especially considering Lenny’s heroin addiction and real life death in 1966)....

Ready Or Not’s Production Went Through A Stunning Number Of Wedding Dresses By Natalia Keogan/March 24, 2022 12:59 pm EST If you dug the elaborate kills and intricate set design on the latest “Scream” requel, you simply must check out “Ready or Not,” the previous theatrical feature from the filmmaking troupe known as Radio Silence. Comprised of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella, the collective has largely been behind the camera of anthologies (including the first installment of “V/H/S” and its recent reboot “V/H/S/94”), though they also conjured up “Devil’s Due,” an overt homage to “Rosemary’s Baby” that had Eli Roth solidly in the bag....

Reno 911! Defunded Trailer: Jamie Lee Curtis Joins The Crew In Short Shorts And An Eye Patch Roku By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 10, 2022 3:21 pm EST The incompetent cops of the fictional version of the Reno Sheriff’s Department are back in action, this time streaming on Roku. “Reno 911! Defunded” will bring us back to the faux-documentary hilarity of following the world’s worst cops as they try to solve crimes, apprehend criminals, and occasionally stumble into international incidents....

Rick And Morty Is Getting An Anime Spin-Off At Adult Swim Cartoon Network By Ryan Scott/May 18, 2022 11:11 am EST Adult Swim is doubling down on “Rick and Morty” as the network has announced an anime spin-off of the popular animated series simply titled “Rick and Morty: The Anime.” Takashi Sano (“Tower of God”) is set to direct the first season of the show, which will consist of 10 episodes....

Rita Ora Boards The Beauty And The Beast Prequel Series At Disney+ Black Dog Films By Marisa Mirabal/Feb. 8, 2022 10:51 am EST The tale as old as time is getting the royal prequel treatment and added a cinematic queen to the cast this week. TV Line announced British singer/songwriter Rita Ora is the latest actor on board for Disney+’s “Beauty and the Beast” series which starts production this spring. Returning to the small French town of Villeneuve, the series will take places years before Beast and Belle fall in love....

Tales From The Box Office: Nic Cage’s Ghost Rider Flopped Its Way To A Franchise 15 Years Ago Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Feb. 19, 2022 3:49 pm EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) There are moments where it is easy to forget just how far we’ve come in terms of superhero movies over the last 15 years or so....

With 12 Nominations, The Power of The Dog Leads The Pack Netflix “The Power of the Dog” is up for a dozen awards at the upcoming Oscars ceremony, including the most prestigious trophy of all, Best Picture. Overall, the stunning neo-Western from Jane Campion came out on top, especially in the acting categories where it earned nods for all four of its lead performers, Benedict Cumberbatch (Best Actor), Kirsten Dunst (Best Supporting Actress), Jesse Plemons (Best Supporting Actor) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Best Supporting Actor)....

The Alfred Hitchcock Easter Egg You May Not Have Noticed In La La Land Lionsgate A musical with singing and dancing and bright costumes isn’t necessarily the first place you would expect to find an Alfred Hitchcock Easter egg, but Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” has a nice hidden treat for those looking for it. On the surface, it may not have much in common with Hitchcock’s thrillers. However, when you consider the mood of wistful regret and longing that permeates it, it’s not hard to see why Chazelle might use a scene in it to homage “Vertigo,” the dark and devastating Hitchcock film that dethroned “Citizen Kane” as the greatest movie of all time in a once-a-decade poll that last happened in 2012....

The Batman Is Basically If Batman Was In Se7en, But That’s Why It Rules, Actually Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/March 7, 2022 10:49 am EST Matt Reeves’s “The Batman” does many things really well. It gives us a Caped Crusader worthy of being called “World’s Greatest Detective,” a Gordon/Batman relationship so wholesome and good it feels like a “Teen Titans Go!” sketch, and a truly relatable and miserable sad boy Batman....

The Best Easter Eggs And Cartoon References In Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/May 22, 2022 6:53 pm EST When the first trailer for “Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers” dropped earlier this year, it was bursting at the seams with Easter eggs. Based on that, one could assume that there would be a good amount of cameos and references throughout the reboot/sequel/comeback. However, once it was available to watch on Disney+ and we got to see for ourselves, I don’t think that anyone could have predicted the sheer number of Easter eggs contained within this movie directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer and written by the team of Doug Mand and Dan Gregor....