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Beverly D’Angelo Always Thought Of The Vacation Movies As Romantic Comedies Warner Bros. By Travis Yates/June 1, 2022 5:12 pm EST Whether it’s an epic cross-country journey to Walley World or a trip across the pond to Europe, the Griswold family has been bringing laughs to audiences since the early 1980s. But they’ve also provided some warm and fuzzy feelings, at least according to one cast member. The initial “Vacation” series is made of four movies, three of which are from the National Lampoon magazine and written by John Hughes....

Bros Release Date and Where to Watch It FX “Bros” was originally set to go into production in April of 2020, but given the state of the world, that obviously didn’t happen. However, Eichner confirmed that “Bros” was in production via Instagram on September 28, 2021 after posting a picture of a director’s chair with the title printed on the back. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Billy Eichner (@billyeichner)...

DMZ Featurettes Take You Behind The Scenes Of Rosario Dawson’s HBO Max Series HBO By Jenna Busch/March 19, 2022 3:01 pm EST HBO has put out two new featurettes about “DMZ,” starring Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt. The miniseries premieres today on HBO Max and is based on the DC Comics title from its Vertigo imprint about the story of a fictional 21st-century civil war in the United States. I feel like I had to put in the word “fictional” here because there are so many indications that this might not continue to be fiction....

Grading The New Versions Of Classic Star Trek Characters On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 6, 2022 1:40 pm EST The new Enterprise crew has officially taken to the skies. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” debuted this week with a premiere that introduces the team that explored the galaxy before Captain Kirk ever stepped on board the Enterprise. Yet despite being primarily a “Star Trek: The Original Series” prequel, the new series has still found a way to incorporate plenty of familiar faces from Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of the series....

Hatching Review: Practical Effects Enhance This Striking Creature Feature [Sundance 2022] IFC Films By Ben Pearson/Jan. 23, 2022 3:30 am EST Twelve-year-old Tinja, an aspiring gymnast, stretches in her family’s pristine living room. It almost feels more like a showroom than a familiar space where people actually live, and the camera sneaks closer to the girl, winding past a marble statue, two ottomans, a glass coffee table, and under a chandelier until it finally reaches her....

Lightyear Filmmakers Pull Back The Curtain On Turning Buzz Into A Sci-Fi Action Hero Disney By Ryan Scott/April 21, 2022 1:00 pm EST Pixar has made a lot of great films since “Toy Story” launched one of the most trusted names in animation (if not all of cinema in general) back in 1995. They’ve arguably made some of the greatest movies of all time, and have done so by crafting works within a variety of genres....

Matt Reeves Went To Wild Lengths To Hide The Batman’s Big Reveal Warner Bros. By Fatemeh Mirjalili/March 5, 2022 7:48 pm EST Warning: This article includes major spoilers for “The Batman.” From Alfred Stryker to The Riddler, Batman has always had a compelling set of supervillains to fight against. Bruce Wayne’s alter ego was born to fight crime in Gotham, and without his home being a lawless city overrun by criminals, there could be no Batman....

Ralph Fiennes Almost Became James Bond Before Bossing Daniel Craig Around Columbia By Jeremy Smith/June 16, 2022 3:39 pm EST In 2004, if you were a handsome young actor from the British Isles (or thereabouts) with any degree of notoriety, you were in the running to succeed Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Producer Barbara Broccoli cast the widest of nets, bringing in the likes of Henry Cavill, Ewan McGregor, Rupert Friend, and the man who was almost Wolverine, Dougray Scott, to audition....

Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Hide Which Indiana Jones Film He Likes The Least Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/April 22, 2022 8:49 am EST 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” is an important entry in Steven Spielberg’s career as a director. It opens with a razzle-dazzle song-and-dance number in a 1930s nightclub, a marvelous sequence that spoke to the filmmaker’s ability to make a killer movie musical decades before he finally realized that promise with 2021’s “West Side Story....

Superhero Bits: Marvel’s Wild New Midnight Suns Trailer, Black Adam Character Posters & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/June 9, 2022 4:52 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

That Time Steven Spielberg Almost Made A Doctor Who Movie BBC By Lee Adams/Feb. 9, 2022 11:09 am EST Just like everyone has “their” James Bond, most British people have their Doctor Who. Or just “Doctor.” It’s usually the actor who inhabited the part when they first came to the series at an impressionable age. My Bond was Roger Moore, because his movies always seemed to be on telly on Saturday nights and over the holidays, and my Doctor was Peter Davison, looking so young and dashing in his cricket jumper....

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad Disney This charming film made at the end of Disney’s wartime era is comprised of two segments. The first is based on “The Wind in the Willows,” which follows an adventurous frog, J. Thaddeus Toad, Esq., and his madcap mission to maintain his estate. It’s a lot of fun and has plenty of charm. The second, based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is one of the best things Disney has ever produced....

The Best Kills In Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ranked Netflix By Anya Stanley/Feb. 23, 2022 10:58 am EST The post which you are about to read is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of four youths, in particular Melody (Sarah Yarkin) and her traumatized sister Lila (Elsie Fisher). It is none the more tragic in that they were, in the words of one but the sentiment of many, total “gentri-f***ers....

The Clockwork Orange Scene You May Not Have Known Was Improvised Warner Bros. By Caroline Madden/Feb. 3, 2022 3:03 pm EST A grim, ultraviolent tale set in a dystopian future, “A Clockwork Orange” is one of Stanley Kubrick’s most controversial films. Malcolm McDowell gives a spine-tingling performance as Alex DeLarge, a charismatic yet psychopathic delinquent with nefarious, loyal followers called “droogs” who spend their days torturing others for fun. The twisted film was stamped with an X rating and removed from distribution in Britain....

The Scariest Scene In Krampus Is Full Of Festive Fear Universal Pictures By Ariel Fisher AND Matt Donato/Dec. 24, 2021 11:20 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: Ariel unwraps a terrifying gift in Michael Dougherty’s “Krampus,” and Matt chimes in with his unabashed love for the festive fright-fest....

The Straw Dogs Controversy Explained: The Trouble With Amy Cinerama Releasing Corporation By BJ Colangelo/March 8, 2022 6:26 pm EST Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault/Rape The last film class I took in college was titled “Violence in American Cinema,” and the curriculum provided by the remarkable Roberta Di Carmine, Ph.D. included two films by “Bloody” Sam Peckinpah, “The Wild Bunch” and “Straw Dogs.” While every class inspired heated discussions — imagine Midwest college kids debating Quentin Tarantino — none were as passionate as the ones that surrounded “Straw Dogs....

Who’s the real burglar, anyway? Warne Bros. In both “The Lord of the Rings” movies and “The Hobbit” trilogy, Ian McKellan’s wizard Gandalf is portrayed as wise, dignified, and an immensely powerful figure (if a little short-tempered). Much of those same attributes would easily apply to Ian McKellan as well (though based on his public persona, we have a hard time believing anything negative about his temperament), but with the addition of a very endearing sense of playfulness....

Tom Cruise Unknowingly Helped Jennifer Connelly Overcome Her Fear Of Flying During Top Gun: Maverick Paramount By Mike Shutt/May 9, 2022 10:59 am EST Flying has never been something I have been afraid of. Plenty of people out there strap into their seat belts on an airplane and lose their minds. I have seen people grab hold of the seat in front of them and the person beside them simultaneously at the slightest bump in the air with the fear of god in their eyes....

Actors, gravity, and training Paramount Pictures Were you ever concerned about having the actors go up in the planes? Absolutely. I mean sending Tom up in one of these things is one thing, but sending up these young actors — for some, this is like their first big movie — certainly that was something that weighed on me every night before the flights, but I knew they were with the best of the best in terms of the Naval aviators that were flying them out....

Why The Wire Couldn’t Work Before The HBO Era HBO By Erin Brady/June 8, 2022 4:51 pm EST In many ways, the 2002 premiere of “The Wire” on HBO helped signal a shift in how the medium of television was perceived. Sure, crime dramas had long existed and had been taken seriously when David Simon’s Baltimore-set drama was released. However, “The Wire,” not unlike its HBO contemporaries “The Sopranos” and “Carnivàle,” took an accessible idea and injected it with much more philosophical and mythical themes....