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Fifty Shades of Intimacy Nick Wall Directed by Sophie Hyde from a script by Katy Brand, “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” is expected to stream exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. Apart from seasoned thespian Thompson, the film also stars Daryl McCormack, who plays a sex worker named Leo Grande. Thompson plays retired school teacher Nancy Stokes, and she enlists Leo’s help to navigate her sexual fantasies better, which had otherwise eluded her through most of her life....

Even Nicolas Cage Thinks He Took This Face/Off Scene Too Far Paramount Pictures By Mike Williams/April 1, 2022 8:34 am EST Some of the best filmmaking happens when the cast and crew throw caution to the wind and really commit to an idea. When certain creators really give it their all, we get films like “Venom,” “Adaptation,” or “Evil Dead 2.” Movies that have nothing in common except that you find yourself sitting slack-jawed and mystified about what you’re watching, sometimes for good and some times for not....

Girl Picture Review: Coming Of Age Is A Whole Vibe In This Tender Teen Portrait [Sundance 2022] Sundance Institute By Shania Russell/Jan. 26, 2022 11:15 am EST Clichés are a double-edged sword in “Girl Picture,” (“Työt Työt Työt”) a heartfelt portrait highlighting the messy highs and lows of girlhood. This turbulent Finnish coming-of-age tale sees three girls navigating the impossibilities of teenage love, wanting lives led by adventure but held back by their emotional baggage....

Lightyear Director Of Photography Jeremy Lasky On Crafting Pixar’s Big Sci-Fi Adventure [Interview] Disney By Ryan Scott/April 21, 2022 2:15 pm EST When looking at any art form or craft that requires a lot of moving parts to bring the final project to life, a common saying used to describe that collective effort is “it takes an army.” Movies are an exceptionally apt example of that phrase in action. Yes, the director is the position through which this army flows, but it really is a collaborative undertaking between a whole lot of people....

Men Director Alex Garland Thinks All His Films Are ‘Surrealist’ A24 By Shae Sennett/May 16, 2022 5:43 pm EST Director Alex Garland is venturing into the genre of folk horror for the first time with his 2022 film “Men.” The highly anticipated project is a new direction for the filmmaker but will still bear many tonal similarities to his acclaimed sci-fi films, “Ex Machina” (2014) and “Annihilation” (2018). “Men” stars indie darling Jessie Buckley as Harper, a woman who escapes to the English countryside to grieve the death of her ex-husband....

Mr. Malcolm’s List Director Emma Holly Jones Wants To Bring Back ‘Feel-Good’ Cinema [Interview] Bleecker Street By Lyvie Scott/June 30, 2022 5:00 pm EST “Mr. Malcolm’s List” has been a longtime coming for Emma Holly Jones. The director is a lifelong fan of period romance — she’s named after the “handsome, clever” protagonist of a certain Jane Austen novel — but it took a while to find the perfect project for her feature film debut, something timeless that could still resonate with a modern audience....

Netflix Teases Cliff Beasts 6, The Movie-Inside-A-Movie From Judd Apatow’s The Bubble Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/March 2, 2022 2:52 pm EST Ready, cliffers!? After half a decade of waiting, we finally have a trailer for the hotly anticipated blockbuster event of the spring — “Cliff Beasts 6: Battle for Everest” (actually stylized as “Cliff Bea6ts”). The long-in-the-making sequel finds the team reuniting once again to fight the titular Cliff Beasts, an ancient dinosaur species that is threatening mankind, only this time the battle will take place on Mount Everest....

Don’t Watch This Video with the Kiddies While Peacemaker tries to imply that he was in charge of the team of not-so-great anti-heroes, Agent Harcourt sets him straight. The whole thing gives you an idea of the rapid fire dialogue we’re going to get in the “Peacemaker” series. We also find out what happened after he was injured and a building fell on him in “The Suicide Squad.” He woke up in the hospital three months later, and with so many of the team members gone, the agency doesn’t have a choice but to use him to deal with what’s coming....

Watch for falling cars Jim Calafiore / Batman x Spyscape In DC Comics, Talia al Ghul (the character played by Marion Cotillard in “The Dark Knight Rises”) founded Leviathan after striking out on her own and away from her dad Ra’s al Ghul’s League of Assassins (who went by the less murderous name of the League of Shadows in “Batman Begins.”) There’s no mention of Talia in Variety’s look at the Batman x Spyscape experience, but it’s a safe bet she might be lurking in the background somewhere — along with Batman, who, alas, doesn’t show up in person in the experience....

R2-D2 and C-3PO Lucasfilm R2-D2 and C-3PO are the first characters that the audience got acquainted with during 1977’s “Star Wars” premiere, and they’ve been fan-favorites ever since. Both of them are loosely — I mean, loosely — based on the pair of bickering peasants in Akira Kurosawa’s “Hidden Fortress,” and they’ve brought both unbridled heroism and comedic relief to the Star Wars universe throughout its entire run. What’s there not to love about R2-D2, our beeping blue-and-white astromech droid?...

Formula 51 Paramount Pictures/YouTube Samuel L. Jackson is having the time of his life in this daft caper film that plays like bargain brand Guy Ritchie. Hong Kong veteran Ronny Yu directs Jackson and a cast of colorful supporting characters in “Formula 51,” including a deranged Rhys Ifans, Emily Mortimer, Meat Loaf (as a drug kingpin named “The Lizard”), and a slumming Robert Carlyle. Jackson’s master chemist Elmo McElroy has developed a new superdrug he calls Power of Suggestion 51, or POS-51 for short....

The Battle Of Geonosis In Attack Of The Clones Was Quite A Production Challenge Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/May 31, 2022 11:44 am EST Few ongoing franchises could hope to have as much history and legacy to support annual conventions, where fans and artists can come together and learn brand-new tidbits about any and all facets of their favorite movies. “Star Wars,” to put it mildly, is simply on another level when it comes to these sorts of events....

The Book Of Boba Fett Review: Boba Fett Treads Familiar Ground In ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Dec. 29, 2021 10:00 am EST Warning: there are spoilers for the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” ahead. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Jon Favreau, the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” shows us two timelines. First is the present, established at the end of the last episode of the second season of “The Mandalorian,” where Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) is wrestling for control of Jabba the Hutt’s criminal Empire on Mos Espa with the help of Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen)....

The Daily Stream: Down With Love Expertly Revives A Genre We Never See Nowadays By Mike Shutt/April 12, 2022 4:00 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 Movie: “Down with Love” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: It’s the early 1960s, and society’s relationships with gender and sex are on the brink of a massive overhaul....

The Disturbing IT Scene Left On The Cutting Room Floor Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 17, 2021 4:16 pm EST Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, “IT” tells the story of an ancient trans-dimensional evil who arrived on Earth during a cataclysmic event, landing in the location that would later become Derry, Maine. After settlers began moving to the location, the titular It adopted a hibernation pattern of 27 years, waking to terrify, torment, kill, and eat....

The Peacemaker Opening Credits Are Incredible HBO Max By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 13, 2022 8:23 am EST Opening credits sequences began as a functional part of film and television. They existed simply to let the audience know the title of the thing that they were watching and the creatives involved with it such as the production company, the writer, the director, and the main stars. However, as time went on, they would evolve to set the tone for the movie or the show they were preceding....

The Thing’s VFX Were Detailed Down To An Absurd Level Universal By Jeremy Smith/June 24, 2022 10:52 pm EST If you ever get to utter the phrase “the day we shot the sequence of my chest exploding,” you were probably involved in the making of a first-rate motion picture. John Carpenter’s “The Thing” was not well-received during its initial theatrical release 40 years ago, but its combination of bleak social commentary and psyche-scarring makeup fx quickly turned it into a horror/sci-fi classic....

There’s A Reason So Many Park Chan-Wook Movies Are About Revenge Show East By Witney Seibold/May 16, 2022 9:14 am EST 2002’s “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” was Park Chan-wook’s fourth film as a director, but it established a motif. “Mr. Vengeance” is about a man named Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun) who donates a kidney to a black market organ harvester in exchange for a matching kidney intended for his ailing sister. When he gets ripped off and can no longer afford the operation, he watches her die....

What You Should Know About Each Suit In Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony / Hot Toys By Eric Vespe/Dec. 18, 2021 1:05 pm EST Like millions of other geeks, I snagged tickets for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” for the earliest possible showing I could. It was clear that there was going to be a lot to talk about and not everybody has the good sense to talk about these things in articles clearly labeled as spoiler-heavy....

Yellowjackets Season 1 Ending Explained: Iced Out Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 16, 2022 11:05 pm EST (This article includes major spoilers from the “Yellowjackets” season 1 finale, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”) Well, “Yellowjackets” hive, the show’s first season has come to an end, with an emotional finale that showcased its ensemble cast’s talents and left us with a whole host of tantalizing cliffhangers. Its final episode confirmed a couple of fans’ most popular theories while upending several more....