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Living Review: Bill Nighy Leads A Quietly Affecting Remake Of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru [Sundance 2022] Number 9 Films By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 22, 2022 9:00 am EST Remaking the work of Akira Kurosawa (“Seven Samurai,” “Rashomon”) is almost sacrilegious. How can any filmmaker possibly hope to measure up to the masterful storytelling of such a cinematic legend? Well, in the case of Kurosawa’s classic masterpiece “Ikiru,” it’s almost imperative that the film be remade....

Nightmare Alley Has A Hidden Easter Egg Referencing An Earlier Guillermo Del Toro Movie [Exclusive] Searchlight Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 27, 2021 1:58 pm EST Guillermo del Toro has seen his directing career flourish since he first set foot in Hollywood in the 1990s. He’s gone on to win a pair of Oscars (including one for Best Picture) for his 2017 monster romance “The Shape of Water” and garnered a loyal fanbase for his efforts on movies as varied in scope and genre as “Pacific Rim,” “Crimson Peak,” and most recently “Nightmare Alley....

One Of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid’s Biggest Stars Was Banned From Being On Set 20th Century Studios By Andrew Housman/March 24, 2022 9:25 am EST “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” immediately brings to mind the two titular lead characters, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford respectively. However, it’s important not to forget that Etta Place rounds out the gang as a third member, accompanying the boys on their outlaws’ journey from robbing trains in Wyoming to hiding out in Bolivia....

Paul Rudd Gets Properly Inducted Into SNL’s Five-Timers Club With John Mulaney NBC By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 27, 2022 3:05 pm EST On the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live,” host John Mulaney joined a very exclusive club. And we’re not just talking about the elite group of people that have opened for LCD Soundsystem. With this latest hosting gig, the comic and former writer for the long-running late night sketch comedy show entered the illustrious Five-Timers Club, a collection of people that have hosted SNL five times or more....

Richard Matheson, The Influential Science Fiction Writer You’ve Never Heard Of PolyGram Films By Margaret David/March 28, 2022 5:40 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Richard Matheson isn’t a name film fans have at the tip of their tongue. The Jersey-born writer gets a Google bump annually, as New Years’ anti-celebrants fixated on SyFy’s “The Twilight Zone” marathon will keep seeing his name come up in the writer’s credits....

Robert Pattinson Admits A Batman Suit Looks Like A Halloween Costume Until The Lighting Is Just Right Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 20, 2022 11:51 am EST There’s a real art to lighting actors in superhero outfits. It’s just as easy to make them look sharp and sophisticated as it is to make them look utterly clownish — which, to be fair, is sometimes the intent, like when Christopher Smith (John Cena) walks confidently into a public area wearing his shiny chrome helmet and brightly colored costume (sorry, uniform) on James Gunn’s “Peacemaker” series....

Samuel L. Jackson Doesn’t Mind Ignoring His Agents’ Advice New Line Cinema By J. Gabriel Ware/June 26, 2022 2:34 pm EST I’ve never seen a bad Samuel L. Jackson performance. I’ve seen bad movies with him in them, but he usually manages to save these films with his golden one-liners. Case in point: “Enough is enough! I have had it with these mutha****** snakes on this mutha****** plane!” 2006’s “Snakes on a Plane” had one of those campy movie scripts that agents beg their A-list clients to run away from....

Sex And The City Author Candace Bushnell Isn’t A Fan Of Carrie Bradshaw’s Transformation Over The Years HBO By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 18, 2022 10:32 am EST “And Just Like That,” the sequel series set in the world of “Sex and the City” took some pretty massive swings with their evolution of some of TV’s most iconic women, and plenty of people had some capital “O” Opinions™ on whether or not this was a good thing....

Star Wars Bits: Video Games, The Vintage Collection, The Mandalorian, The Book Of Boba Fett, Crimson Reign And More! By Adam Frazier/Jan. 28, 2022 10:05 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: EA Announces New “Star Wars” Games Lucasfilm Extends Relationship with Hasbro Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics “Star Wars” Podcast & YouTube Round-Up And More! EA Announces New Star Wars Games Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm Games Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm Games recently announced that they will team up for three new “Star Wars” video game titles: the next installment in the “Star Wars Jedi” franchise, a strategy game, and a first-person shooter, all currently in development from Respawn Entertainment....

The 20 Most Anticipated Shows And Films Of March 2022, Ranked A24 By Scott Thomas/March 1, 2022 9:06 pm EST If you pick randomly, you have a one in 9.2 quintillion chance of getting your “March Madness” bracket right; which film or TV show will emerge victorious on this month’s calendar is equally hard to predict. There are more than two dozen films and 100 shows vying for fans’ attention, including the year’s most-hyped superhero film, the return of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta,” and an erotic thriller starring two exes who were peak pandemic-era meme material....

The Biggest Influence On David Lynch Didn’t Come From A Filmmaker ABC By Erin Brady/June 29, 2022 3:59 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you’re a creative person, you probably understand more than anyone else that inspiration can come from anywhere. While many artists find themselves influenced by other artists or art movements, others have gone on record saying that things like nature or sociopolitical landscapes have inspired them to tell their story through an artistic lens....

The Boys: Watch The Full Music Video Of Soldier Boy Singing ‘Rapture’ Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/June 10, 2022 12:49 pm EST The folks at Prime Video promised fans that season 3 of the hit subversive superhero series “The Boys” would show the history of Vought through the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, but I never thought they’d take it quite this far. In a spankin’ new promotional video, season 3 cast member Jensen Ackles does his version of Blondie’s “Rapture” as the supe Soldier Boy on a fake episode of the 1980s television series “Solid Gold....

The One Scene Moon Knight Never Quite Recovered From Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/May 6, 2022 10:54 am EST The first and possibly last season of “Moon Knight” has come and gone, and as is ever the case with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, conversation is already shifting to the next big thing. In this case, that would be “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,” the 28th film in the ever-expanding MCU....

The Philosophy Of Severance: Consciousness And Theories Of The Self Atsushi Nishijima / Apple TV+ By Lindsay Traves/April 11, 2022 11:00 am EST Spoilers for “Severance” follow. “Severance,” the tale of the multifaceted employees of a mysterious company, made audiences ask themselves a lot of mind-bending questions. The ambiguously timed and highly stylized science fiction series posits a world where people can be “severed,” meaning they can insert an implant that allows them to have two sets of memories: one while they’re at work and one while they’re at play....

The Surprising Way The Maltese Falcon Influenced World War II Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/March 21, 2022 11:50 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After you make a film, you never can predict how finished product will be accepted by people. Sure, you hope the average audience member enjoys the picture you have made, but its lasting impact will always be completely unknown until far down the road....

The Terminal List Producer Antoine Fuqua Is Enjoying Creative Freedom In Streaming [Interview] Netflix By Jack Giroux/July 1, 2022 2:14 pm EST Antoine Fuqua is one of the voices behind Prime Video’s new action-thriller series, “The Terminal List.” The filmmaker produced the Chris Pratt-led series and directed the first episode. Fuqua sets the tone for the show, which casts Pratt in a more dramatic light than audiences may be used to seeing the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star....

These Patrick Troughton Doctor Who Episodes Were Missing For Decades BBC By Witney Seibold/March 23, 2022 11:05 am EST The early days of “Doctor Who” were the Wild West. The low-budget sci-fi show, which debuted in 1963 with William Hartnell as the title character, was a fast-and-dirty content mill with lightning-quick turnaround times and a production schedule like a diner during Sunday brunch. Individual BBC staff writers, working variously on multiple projects, would be assigned separate “Doctor Who” stories, and scripts had to be turned over as hastily as possible....

Tom Cruise Once Thought A Top Gun Sequel Would Be ‘Irresponsible’ Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 3, 2022 4:49 pm EST Tony Scott’s 1986 military film “Top Gun” is about a Navy pilot named Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) whose reckless antics in the cockpit of a fighter jet earned him the nickname of “Maverick.” Thanks to Cruise’s charm, an overwhelming helping of machismo, and a lot of really impressive, real-world piloting, “Top Gun” became an enormous hit, eventually becoming the highest grossing film of the year, having made $176 million domestically in its initial run (and that’s not counting re-releases or home video), which, when adjusted for inflation, comes out to over $460 million....

Who Are The Villains In Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio? Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 14, 2022 1:15 pm EST Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” is not your classic take on a familiar tale, as the stop-motion musical fantasy will be tinted with the director’s trademark twists. The project has been in development hell for quite some time and has finally been set back on track, allowing del Toro to actualize his unique vision concerning the classic fairy tale....

The Problem With Stoltz Universal Pictures While it has been known for many, many years that Eric Stoltz was not only cast as Marty but had filmed on the movie for weeks before being fired, the problems with the actor run a little deeper than him not just being right for the part in the eyes of the studio. Tom Wilson, who plays Biff in the “Back to the Future” trilogy, once talked about the issue at length on the Nerdist podcast....