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The Morning Watch: Moon Knight At The Museum, The Music Of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds & More Marvel Studios By Danielle Ryan/May 20, 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....

Abbott Elementary And WBTV Partnering With Feeding America To Combat Food Insecurity ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 11, 2022 5:55 pm EST ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” has already proven itself one of the best new comedies on TV this year, and now the school-set comedy is proving (again!) that it’s also a force for good for real kids. Ahead of the show’s season one finale on April 12, 2022, the series’ distributor, Warner Bros....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Had One Big Problem With James Cameron’s Terminator 2 Script Tri-Star Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/March 25, 2022 5:33 pm EST 25 years prior to visiting Pandora and more than a decade before he sunk the Titanic, James Cameron made a name for himself by directing 1984’s “The Terminator.” (Yep, that was definitely the first movie he directed, no idea why anyone would think otherwise…) But as lucrative as the sci-fi thriller was, it was 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” that gave Cameron his first real taste of mega-blockbuster success....

Bong Joon-Ho Had A Subtle Impact On The King Kong Franchise Warner Bros. By Matthew Bilodeau/May 3, 2022 3:40 pm EST Warner Bros’ Monsterverse seems to be doing pretty well for itself, having just greenlit two television shows for Apple, and a sequel to “Godzilla vs. Kong” after its box office success. People love seeing giant monsters do their thing. While Gareth Edwards’ melancholic “Godzilla” is still my favorite of the four film franchise, I’ve slightly come around a bit on director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ “Kong: Skull Island....

Alias (2001) Touchstone Television A show that’s full of twists and turns, “Alias” is a blueprint for how to combine conspiracy and intrigue with wider mythology and world-building. Sydney (played by Jennifer Garner) is a college graduate who works for the CIA. Well, sort of. Except, not really. She’s actually in the employ of a shadowy group known as SD-6. Or is she? Throughout “Alias,” Sydney’s allegiances are constantly tested, shifting from one side to another, and then another, as new information reveals the real motives of those pulling the strings....

Daredevil’s Famous One-Take Fight Scene Was A Tough Sell To Marvel Execs Netflix By Devin Meenan/June 13, 2022 10:44 am EST One of the most famous scenes from Netflix’s “Daredevil” is the conclusion of season 1, episode two, “Cut Man.” Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) takes on multiple men at once to rescue a kidnapped child. The five-minute scene takes place in a single hallway and an adjacent room and was a one-take shot, or “oner....

Dark City’s Matrix Connection Goes Deeper Than Its Plot New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/April 8, 2022 4:19 pm EST Alex Proyas’ 1998 film “Dark City” was, conceptually speaking, the first part of the “Matrix” trilogy. The second part was Wachowski Starship’s own 1999 film “The Matrix,” and the third was David Cronenberg’s “eXistenZ,” released the month after “The Matrix.” All three films deal with insidious machines that can erase one’s sense of identity and rob them of their agency....

Painting the battlefield 20th Century Studios No movie production could ever be described as “easy,” but the challenges and complexities involved in taking “Master and Commander” from the script to the screen would likely put many other modern films — even $200+ million superhero movies — to shame. Having been nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography (which it won), Best Costume Design, and Best Visual Effects, it sure seems as if all that hard work paid off....

Horror Actors Who Did All Their Own Stunts Rosebud Releasing Corporation By Chad Collins/June 27, 2022 10:43 am EST Stunt work can be dangerous. Unless an actor is Tom Cruise, performing one’s own stunts often carries with it a huge liability for the production. Additionally, stunt performers — having long gone unnoticed by the Academy, it should be noted — are trained to perform death-defying feats, often with accompanying contracts and insurance policies taken out just in case anything goes awry....

How The Government Shaped John Wayne’s Most Controversial Film Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 1, 2022 10:42 am EST John Wayne made a lot of movies over his long career, appearing in 181 credited roles over his lifetime. The Western star is only officially credited with directing two films, though. One is 1960’s “The Alley.” The other is 1968’s “The Green Berets,” the rare Vietnam War film that was actually made while the war was still happening....

Come what Bay Universal Pictures “Ambulance” stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as two brothers who, after a bank heist gone wrong, hijack an occupied ambulance to make their escape. Gyllenhaal especially feels right at home playing a zany, manipulative master thief. The actor dials up the chaotic energy that made his turns in “Okja” and “Spider-Man: Far From Home” such pleasant surprises — and, to Bay’s credit, it’s a performance he actively encouraged....

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area Trailer: Welcome To Capitalism Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 20, 2022 1:36 pm EST The first trailer for “Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area” is here, and it looks like a slick thriller that could be a big hit for Netflix. The streamer first announced its intent to remake the super-popular Spanish series “Money Heist” in 2020, before “Squid Game” took over the world....

Obi-Wan Kenobi Scored Disney+ Its Most-Watched Premiere Ever Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 31, 2022 4:05 pm EST He may be trying to lay low in the series, but the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) has certainly made a splash among “Star Wars” fans. Disney+ has reported that the two-episode premiere of the new series is their most-watched Disney+ premiere to date. To be clear, the series didn’t just reportedly beat out past premieres of “The Mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba Fett,” but every other Disney+ original series premiere since the streamer’s debut in 2019....

Pam Anderson’s Barb Wire Is Awesome, You All Just Hate Fun Gramercy Pictures By BJ Colangelo/March 2, 2022 10:04 am EST The turn of the century was an absolutely atrocious time to be a woman in the public eye. In the wake of the #FreeBritney movement and the public reckoning with how the world treated Monica Lewinsky, now is the prime time for reassessments of some of pop culture’s biggest scandals....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Afterparty’s Evolution From Film To TV, Honing Its Music, And More [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2022 10:32 am EST Phil Lord and Chris Miller are two of my favorite working filmmakers. I also love Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries. So when word came out that Miller had taken an unrealized movie idea from more than 10 years ago and converted it into an eight-episode series for Apple TV+ called “The Afterparty,” it seemed like a best-case scenario....

Poser Filmmakers Ori Segev And Noah Dixon Show Love For Columbus, Ohio [Interview] Oscilloscope By Jack Giroux/June 17, 2022 2:24 pm EST “We’re excited to show the world Columbus, Ohio.” Directors Ori Segev and Noah Dixon bring the city’s art scene to light in their low-key thriller, “Poser.” Lennon Gates (Sylvie Mix) is a podcaster and an artist without a voice, but she becomes obsessed with one voice in particular. The wallflower sets her sights on the lead singer of Damn the Witch Siren, Bobbi Kitten....

Robert Pattinson Would Love For A Batman Sequel To Adapt One Infamous Comic Storyline Warner Bros. By Kaylee Dugan/Feb. 16, 2022 9:29 am EST It feels like we’re legally mandated to have a new Batman movie every few years, so it’s no surprise that Matt Reeves, director of the upcoming “The Batman” movie starring Robert Pattinson, is already talking about his film’s franchise material. Maybe one day we’ll run out of Batman storylines to explore, but today is certainly not that day and luckily for Reeves, it sounds like Pattinson is fully onboard....

Rutherford Falls Season 2 Trailer: Costume Parties, Rez Fights & More Peacock By Sandy Schaefer/June 1, 2022 1:55 pm EST As easy and natural as it is, it’s also a little unfair to compare “Rutherford Falls” and “Reservation Dogs” (which stream on Peacock and FX on Hulu, respectively). Yes, they’re both acclaimed comedy shows that premiered in 2021, with Indigenous American talent leading the charge on both sides of the camera....

‘It’s our turn now.’ Hulu There’s been a trend towards more male full-frontal nudity in both movies and television, a trend that I thoroughly appreciate as an adult human male enthusiast. While the “Jackass” guys were way ahead of the trend and have been dropping trou onscreen since 2002, it appears that the rest of Hollywood is finally catching up. In recent years, we’ve seen stars like Chris Pine and Jack Reynor do full-frontal scenes in “Outlaw King” and “Midsommar,” respectively, and the nude scenes on TV and streaming have been even more numerous....

Streets Of Rage Movie In The Works From John Wick And Nobody Writer Sega By Ben F. Silverio/April 18, 2022 10:49 pm EST Movies based on video games are nothing new. Though they may be much maligned by some, many fondly remember movies of the 1990s like “Street Fighter,” “Mortal Kombat,” and “Super Mario Bros.” Sure, that last one is more of a “so bad it’s good” situation, but it’s still fun to watch those kinds of movies....