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Every Insane Thing Jake Gyllenhaal Does In Ambulance Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/April 8, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Ambulance.” The main character in Michael Bay’s new Dramamine commercial “Ambulance” is his new collection of drone-mounted cameras. Cameras zip under flying cars, through narrow openings in scaffolding, in and out of tiny escape hatches, and quickly up and down the exteriors of several tall buildings in L....

How A Throwaway Stanley Kubrick Line Became John Landis’ Calling Card Paramount Pictures By Travis Yates/March 9, 2022 10:49 am EST Filmmakers are often called auteurs, the sole author responsible for the overall look and feel of a movie. From the gritty realism of early Scorsese films to the vivid landscapes painted by Tim Burton, these become a filmmaker’s “calling card.” Sometimes directors take it a step further with Easter eggs in their films that contain a hidden meanings or references....

Hunter X Hunter Season 7: Is It Ever Going To Happen? Nippon Animation By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 16, 2022 11:24 am EST According to the current status of the “Hunter x Hunter” hiatus clock, it has been 1164 days (or roughly 3 years and 2 months) since the last chapter of the manga series was released, with Chapter 390 dropping on November 26, 2018. Yoshihiro Togashi’s ridiculously popular manga has been adapted into two separate anime series, two feature films, two different stage musicals, and a stage play, with fans eagerly awaiting the seventh season of the anime series....

Johnny Knoxville And Chris Pontius On Wildboyz And The Future Of Jackass Paramount Pictures By Anya Stanley/Feb. 9, 2022 11:02 am EST “Jackass Forever” just dropped last Friday across theaters, and the 20-plus year old cringe comedy brand laughed all the way to the bank. The fifth installment in the “Jackass” feature film franchise (its first sequel in 11 years) raked in a $23.5 million opening over its first weekend, rocketing past Lionsgate’s “Moonfall” at $9....

Keanu Reeves Confirms He’s Met With Marvel And Kevin Feige Warner Bros. Pictures By Max Evry/Dec. 21, 2021 10:22 am EST Tonight at 3:00 A.M. eastern time, the fourth movie in the Matrix saga, “The Matrix Resurrections,” will land on HBO Max and we’re guessing it’s going to be the thing that officially crashes the internet. Those wishing to not have their experience interrupted by server errors can always head to their local cineplex, where they will have to decide whether to take the Blue Pill (“Matrix”) or the Red Pill (“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” probably for the third time already)....

Lightyear Isn’t Pixar Making More Toy Story, It’s Pixar Doing A Classic Sci-Fi Adventure Flick [Footage Reaction] Disney/Pixar By Ryan Scott/April 21, 2022 12:00 pm EST For more than 30 years, Pixar has been more than just an animation studio that churns out hit movies for kids. It has also been one of the great homes of original and compelling animated cinema. There is a reason Pixar films are so often in the running for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars....

McKenna Grace Announced The Release Of The Bad Seed Returns Has Been Delayed Following Uvalde Shooting Lifetime By Eric Vespe/May 25, 2022 10:33 pm EST Variety is reporting that Lifetime is pushing the release of “The Bad Seed Returns” in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, TX that has claimed the lives of 19 children and 2 adults. “The Bad Seed” originated as a novel that was then adapted as a stage play and subsequently a film in 1956 starring Patty McCormack as a precocious pig-tailed little girl who also happened to be a murderous sociopath....

Morbius Director Addresses That Post-Credits Team-Up Tease Sony Pictures Releasing By Jenna Busch/April 3, 2022 12:05 pm EST After being delayed somewhat from its release date of July, 2020, the living vampire movie “Morbius,” starring Jared Leto as the titular living vampire, has finally been set loose in theaters. You’ve probably heard about it, and it might not be nice things that you’ve heard. At the time of this writing, the film is at 17 percent with critics and 67 percent with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes....

Bloody Hell Sony Pictures According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Morbius” will move from January 28 to April 1. Daniel Espinosa’s upcoming Marvel tale has been pushed back a number of times already. Most recently, it was scheduled to drop in October 2021 before settling in to that early 2022 slot. But because of this Omicron surge, the studio is likely moving the film in the hopes that more people will see it in theaters....

This Man thisman.org Back in 2009, the still functional website ThisMan.org appeared, asking viewers if they have ever had a dream that featured the face of a balding man with dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, and a wide grin. The website claims that a patient seeking psychiatric assistance drew the face of the man that she kept seeing in her dreams, despite swearing she’s never met him in real life. Her doctor kept the portrait on his desk but was alarmed when a different patient with no connection to the first saw the portrait and identified the man from their dreams....

Ridley Scott Reveals The Day Vangelis Found The Sound Of Blade Runner Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/June 9, 2022 10:19 am EST What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the original “Blade Runner” film? Tears in the Rain? The great “Is Decker a replicant?” debate? Harrison Ford’s hilariously disinterested voiceover narration? All of these answers are perfectly valid, but for many there’s nothing that sums up the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed classic like the unforgettable soundscape of the movie....

Shifting His Focus To Female-Led Films Felt Natural For Park Chan-Wook CJ ENM By Shae Sennett/May 17, 2022 9:38 am EST Park Chan-wook earned worldwide acclaim for his 2003 thriller “Oldboy,” but with each new film the director proves his commitment to centering well-developed female characters in his stories. His 2022 Cannes entry, “Decision to Leave,” features a female lead as the primary suspect in the murder of her husband. An antagonistic woman would be an interesting new direction for Park Chan-wook, but things in his films are rarely as they seem....

The Alternate Ending Of 1408 Couldn’t Be More Different Dimension Films By Kaylee Dugan/May 6, 2022 11:21 am EST Stephen King is no stranger to adaptations. His doorstopper works like “The Shining” and brisker short stories like “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” have inspired some of the most popular films of the 21st century. You could spend hours, days, maybe even weeks watching nothing but Stephen King adaptations and not get bored....

The Best New Blu-Ray Releases: Licorice Pizza, Turning Red, And More United Artists By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2022 5:00 pm EST Calling all Blu-ray fans: here’s a post about Blu-rays! As always, I have gathered up some of the hottest new home media releases, all in the name of advising you on what to seek out. Missed these titles in the theater? Want to just watch them again? I can help!...

The Boys Crew Went Through The Wringer Filming Season 3 Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/June 22, 2022 4:30 pm EST You just never know what you’re going to get with “The Boys.” In season 3 alone, after the release of the first five episodes, fans of the superhero satire have watched the rabidly anti-Supe Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) willingly gain temporary superpowers of his own, Homelander (Antony Starr) go off on another one of his terrifyingly psychopathic public displays of fascism again, and even a full-scale musical number starring the power couple of Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara)....

The Daily Stream: Yellowjackets Knows How To Build A Mystery Showtime By Sandy Schaefer/March 11, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Yellowjackets” Where You Can Stream It: Showtime Now The Pitch: When you see the phrase “multi-timeline cannibal thriller” being used to sum up a series, you know you’re in for some Doc Brown-level “serious s**t....

It’s dys-praxia, not dyspraxi-ah Hannah Shaw-Williams Unlike dyslexia, which can be fairly easily summarized as difficulty with reading and writing, dyspraxia is a little harder to explain. It’s also known as developmental co-ordination disorder — a phrase that, like “representation,” is accurate but not very illuminating. Fundamentally, having mild dyspraxia is like having a body that’s just a little bit drunk all the time. Even though your brain is sober, your body is like a friend who’s had a few too many beers, and so you have to pay careful attention to make sure that they don’t wander into traffic or trip over their own feet....

The High-Concept RoboCop Sequel We’ll Never Get To See Orion Pictures By Witney Seibold/Jan. 24, 2022 12:52 pm EST Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film “RoboCop” is the rare film to have feet firmly planted in both the realms of trashy schlock and brilliant cinematic masterpieces. Unabashedly violent, weird, and gory (the film initially received an X rating from the MPAA), “RoboCop” is one of the sharpest satires of Ronald Reagan’s America that you will ever find....

The Morning Watch: Stuntmen React To The Phantom Menace, NYC Locations Movies Love To Use Repeatedly & More Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 24, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

Top Gun: Maverick Passes $800 Million At The Box Office, Becoming Tom Cruise’s Biggest Hit Ever Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/June 17, 2022 2:22 pm EST Tom Cruise has been a staple of the box office for nearly 40 years at this point dating back to the original “Top Gun.” Now, all these years later, “Top Gun: Maverick” has done the unthinkable and become a global smash hit as well as a critical darling, delighting both critics and audiences alike across the globe....