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Why John Woo Doesn’t Use The Same Slow Motion Technique For Every Actor Paramount By Lyvie Scott/March 25, 2022 2:49 pm EST Action auteur John Woo is recognized as much for his signature style as he is for the films that put him on the map. The mere mention of his name conjures images of stylized gun fights (affectionately titled “gun-fu”), heavily-tinted sunglasses and leather jackets, and of course, doves — but none of that would look half as cool without Woo’s best-known trick: slow motion....

A Brief History Of Womp Rats In Star Wars Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 26, 2022 5:34 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” The residents of Tatooine might not agree on much, but they all sure seem to share a mutual disdain for womp rats. In fact, it feels like just about everyone in the “Star Wars” universe hates them, going back to Luke Skywalker casually boasting about bulls-eyeing womp rats from his T-16 skyhopper in 1977’s “Star Wars: A New Hope....

A Reliable ‘Assimilation’ For Episode 3 Of Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Paramount By Witney Seibold/March 17, 2022 4:00 am EST It’s astonishing what a departure the second season of “Picard” is from the first. There may still be some lingering trepidation from those who recall the awfulness and the absurdity of “Picard”’s first season, but there may come a point soon where one can cease waiting for the other shoe to drop....

Animaniacs Season 2 Release Date and Where to Watch Hulu The first season of the “Animaniacs” revival debuted on November 20 last year with 13 episodes comprised of 42 different short animated segments. However, the second season will arrive a little earlier this fall with a release date set for November 5, 2021. The show’s revival is available exclusively on Hulu in the United States. What is Animaniacs? The original “Animaniacs” is an animated series executive produced by Steven Spielberg and created by Tom Ruegger....

Avatar 2 Is Officially Titled Avatar: The Way Of Water, Trailer To Play With Doctor Strange 2 [CinemaCon 2022] 20th Century Studios By BJ Colangelo/April 27, 2022 3:06 pm EST No one could have anticipated the monumental success that would follow James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic, “Avatar.” No one, that is, other than James Cameron. That film still reigns supreme as the highest-grossing movie of all time, and the highly-anticipated series of sequels are on the horizon....

Benedict Cumberbatch Had A Weird Year Full Of Peters Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 17, 2021 1:28 pm EST Benedict Cumberbatch is a busy guy. He seems to always be working, and this year, he appeared in three very different films – “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” “The Power of the Dog,” and, of course, “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” While these films could not be more dissimilar in tone or content, they do share a surprisingly strange connection....

Boardwalk Empire’s Stephen Graham Joins Daisy Ridley In Young Woman And The Sea HBO By Joshua Meyer/March 15, 2022 9:57 am EST Stephen Graham, fresh off his BAFTA-nominated role in the tense, real-time restaurant drama “Boiling Point,” has joined the cast of “Young Woman and the Sea” opposite Daisy Ridley. Graham is known for his performances in crime movies like “Snatch” and “The Irishman” and for playing Al Capone on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” but he was also seen last year in “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” and he appeared in the last two “Pirates of the Caribbean” films....

Brad Bird Movies Ranked Worst To Best lev radin/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/April 18, 2022 2:29 pm EST Despite his relatively short filmography, Brad Bird is one of the most influential directors working today. Bird brought a new level of respect to the art of animation. He had been a prominent staffer on game-changing animated shows from the 1990s, including “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill,” and “The Critic.” These shows proved that animated sitcoms could tackle adult material....

Can Pam & Tommy Avoid Being Exploitative? Hulu By Lyvie Scott/Feb. 4, 2022 9:00 am EST “Pam & Tommy” opens with a shot of a period-accurate television screen. On it: Pamela Anderson, sitting for an interview with Jay Leno — or rather Lily James as Pamela Anderson. Platinum blond wig, penciled-on eyebrows and prosthetic bust are all present and accounted for. It’s the kind of transformation that invites awards season prestige, but James makes her performance about more than a mere imitation of the “Baywatch” star....

Cowboy Bebop’s Ending Might Not Be So Tragic After All Sunrise Entertainment By Devin Meenan/April 11, 2022 10:18 am EST “Cowboy Bebop” is effortlessly cool. The series has breathtaking animation, both in the hyper-detailed backgrounds and unmatched dynamism of the action, and Yoko Kanno’s score is chock full of bangers. Each of the 26 episodes (or “sessions”) were approached as if they were short films, and so the anime traverses multiple genres: film noir, western, sci-fi, heist, horror, comedy, and more....

Daily Podcast: Mini-Water Cooler: Castle In The Sky, Pig, Daredevil Season 3, And More Studio Ghibli By Ben Pearson/Jan. 6, 2022 5:02 pm EST On the January 6, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler. Opening Banter: News is still relatively light. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:...

Darth Vader Is Scary Again, And That Rules Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/June 2, 2022 11:00 am EST Spoilers ahead through episode 3 of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” You’ve been warned. As a little kid, someone doing the mouth-breathing noises of Darth Vader on the playground would scare the crap out of me. Back then, before Anakin Skywalker was redeemed by his son Luke, Vader was terrifying. We don’t see him do a lot of physical damage in person, but he was a presence that menaced....

Everything We Know About Ozark Season 4 Part 2 So Far Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 21, 2022 5:42 pm EST “Ozark” is officially entering its endgame. The popular Netflix crime series has dropped seven episodes of its fourth season with seven more set to conclude the series later this year. The first half of the season included a record number of double-crosses, shady dealings, and master manipulations. The Byrde family, who moved to the Ozarks in the series’ first episode under threat of death at the hands of a drug cartel, are now heading up an empire of their own....

The all Korean cast is incredible CJ ENM Korean actress Bae Doona has also joined the “Broker” cast. Doona previously co-starred with Kang-ho in Bong Joon-ho’s horror film “The Host” (2013) and “Oldboy” director Park Chan-wook’s thriller “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” (2002), among other projects. She is also a favorite of the Wachowski twins (“The Matrix”) and is featured in their 2012 sci-fi epic “Cloud Atlas” as well as their Netflix dramatic series “Sense8....

Guillermo Del Toro Says Modern Cinema Is ‘Not Sustainable’ - And He’s Right Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images By Jeremy Smith/May 25, 2022 8:37 am EST Guillermo del Toro didn’t bring a new movie to the 2022 Cannes Film Festival this month, but that didn’t stop him from bringing some serious rhetorical ruckus about the future of movies. Speaking at a symposium about the purpose and survival of cinema in a pandemic world (alongside visionaries like Lynne Ramsay, Gaspar Noé and Paolo Sorrentino), the Academy Award-winning director of “The Shape of Water” sounded a dire warning about the future of the medium....

Hawkeye Episode 6 Credits Scene Explained: The Most Important MCU Moment In Years?! Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 22, 2021 12:14 pm EST Spoilers abound for episode 6 of “Hawkeye.” Last night’s series finale of “Hawkeye” put a bow (that’s a very intentional pun right there, for those who pay attention to such things) on an incredibly busy year for Marvel Studios’ superhero output. Things first kicked off in January with “WandaVision,” eventually leading to the debuts of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Loki,” “Black Widow,” “What If…?...

How Gareth Evans Kept The Raid From Being Too Over The Top Sony Pictures Classics By BJ Colangelo/April 6, 2022 9:58 am EST Hyperbolic language is all the rage these days, with every movie being described as either the “best/worst thing ever,” but I can say with no exaggeration — “The Raid” is the coolest f***ing movie of all time. Don’t @ me. Don’t fight me. Just accept that this is a correct statement and take a deep breath....

How George Romero Cobbled Together A Cast For Night Of The Living Dead Image 10 By Travis Yates/March 18, 2022 10:57 am EST Even in death, it seems that George Romero still has some tricks up his sleeve. We should expect nothing less from the father of the modern zombie movie. The filmmaker made his directorial debut in 1968 with the seminal zombie film, “Night of the Living Dead.” The movie would spawn a six-film zombie franchise for Romero ending in 2009 with “Survival of the Dead....

Charlie and Mac Do Some Soul-Searching FXX This week’s second episode, “The Gang’s Still in Ireland,” splits the gang into three separate plots. Charlie and Frank go find Charlie’s pen pal, who turns out to actually be his father. For years, Charlie has assumed that Frank is his father due to the latter’s affair with Charlie’s mother. Now, he’s discovered that his biological father is in fact Shelley Kelly, a cheesemonger in rural Ireland who smashes rats, loves ghouls, and breaks into song much like Charlie....

Ken Watanabe Believes The Last Samurai Was A Turning Point In Asian Representation In Hollywood Warner Bros. Pictures By Lyvie Scott/May 20, 2022 3:12 pm EST How do you spot a white savior film? In many cases, the trappings are pretty obvious: a white protagonist finds himself in unfamiliar, predominantly non-white territory, immersed in a culture they either hold prejudice towards or know next to nothing about. The protagonist eventually “goes native,” fully embracing whatever culture they’ve come to love (or respectfully appropriated) and singlehandedly saving a marginalized group from whatever injustice they face....