How Misery Echoes Stephen King’s Real Experiences Castle Rock Entertainment By Michael Boyle/May 6, 2022 2:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over a decade before Stephen King was nearly killed when a car struck him, he wrote “Misery,” a 400-page psychological thriller that starts with a well-known author named Paul Sheldon nearly dying in a car accident in the middle of a snowstorm. Luckily(?...
Neil Patrick Harris Has Boarded The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Celebrations CBS By Ben F. Silverio/June 13, 2022 3:01 pm EST Long before he suited up as the womanizing Barney Stinson in the acclaimed CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Neil Patrick Harris entered our hearts and our television sets at the age of 16 as the young physician Doogie Howser, MD. During his time at Eastman Medical Center, Harris’ character had to deal with the trials and tribulations of being a teenager while facing a myriad of social issues such as racism, homophobia, and access to proper medical care....
Panda! Go, Panda!: Hayao Miyazaki And Isao Takahata’s Landmark Anime Returns Restored After 50 Years GKIDS By Caroline Cao/May 11, 2022 10:00 am EST Pandas in anime are ripe for cuteness, comedy, and just plain bizarreness. Just look at the currently running manga and anime “Jujutsu Kaisen,” where a large, talking anthropomorphic panda, casually combatting cursed spirits alongside human warriors, remains unexplained to the point that it baffles newcomers to the show’s main campus setting....
‘Run it again’ Warner Bros. Soderbergh cited a specific scene in “Ocean’s Thirteen” as an example of one that put him at a loss. He said: “There’s one scene in the third Ocean’s where there are a bunch of people in a hollowed-out cave, and they’re all looking at schematics of the hotel. You’ve got eight or nine people around a small table in a small space. And I just keep saying, ‘Run it again....
The Batman Has Hit $700 Million At The Global Box Office, Morbius Opens To $84 Million Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/April 4, 2022 12:59 pm EST It was a good weekend for superheroes at the box office (what else is new?), albeit one that comes with a couple of caveats for Marvel’s latest. But before diving into “Morbius” and how it fared in its global debut, Warner Bros.’ “The Batman” passed a big benchmark in its fifth weekend, cruising past the $700 million mark worldwide....
The Entire It Timeline Fully Explained Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/March 25, 2022 9:01 pm EST Master of horror Stephen King has been terrorizing audiences for almost 50 years. His work is responsible for sparking some of society’s most common phobias, none more so than coulrophobia — or the fear of clowns — thanks to Pennywise the Dancing Clown from his novel turned miniseries turned movie, “It.” First given the television miniseries treatment in 1990, the legendary Tim Curry scarred a generation with his horrifically cartoonish portrayal of Pennywise....
The First Lady Trailer: Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, And Gillian Anderson Transform Into First Ladies Showtime By Shania Russell/Feb. 17, 2022 2:50 pm EST Is there anything Hollywood loves more than a transformational character piece? What could be better than watching otherwise recognizable performers made into entirely new people — famous in their own right — to portray their life story in flashy biopic fashion?! These stories have a penchant for winning Oscars and Emmys, and lately, we can’t get enough of rehashing recent events through the lends of these fictional tales....
The Setup Cognetti Films “Hell House LLC” is a mockumentary about a (fake) haunted attraction in Rockland County, New York, that opened to tragedy on October 8, 2009. Documentary producer Diane Graves (Alice Bahlke) intends to uncover what happened the night fifteen people died when Hell House LLC opened their doors that Halloween season. She introduces the disaster with footage from tour-goers who were scrambling for the exits, intercut with talking-head interviews that speculate what could have slaughtered all those people....
The Stakes Were Sky High Filming Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Pictures By Ryan Leston/May 6, 2022 3:03 pm EST It’s been over 35 years since “Top Gun” saw Tom Cruise fly into the danger zone. Starring as Maverick, the now-iconic movie star made waves as the Navy flight school student who wanted to be the best of the best. It’s the quintessential ’80s flick with the coolest soundtrack and a whole load of impressive flight scenes....
The Stranger Things Scene That Grossed Out Millie Bobby Brown Netflix By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 2, 2022 9:13 am EST Note: spoilers for episodes 8 and 9 of “Stranger Things” season 4 below. Millie Bobby Brown’s superpowered Eleven has been rather brave during her battles with monsters of the Upside Down, but even she wasn’t ready to meet the latest big bad in her town of Hawkins. Filming her first scene with Vecna, the not-so-good-looking creator of the many monsters that have recently plagued Hawkins, caused the young actress to burst into tears....
Top Gun: Maverick Featurette: Believe It Or Not, Tom Cruise Risked His Life To Make Another Movie Paramount Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/April 18, 2022 2:06 pm EST Some have been quick to proclaim that the age of the movie star is dead and gone. They may have a very valid point, admittedly, given just how much moviegoer tastes have changed (and been forcibly changed) over recent years to prioritize viewing spectacle-driven franchise IP over almost any other movie out there — particularly those driven by brand-name actors....
The Batman is about the world’s greatest detective Warner Bros. “The Batman” doesn’t just have a nearly 3-hour runtime. It also features more batsuit screen-time than we have ever seen. It’s “year two” in Batman’s crime-fighting escapades, and the masked vigilante has formed a sort of partnership with Gotham cop Jim Gordon, and assists him in his sleuthing — he’s good at his job and finally embraces his identity as “the world’s greatest detective....
The trailer “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” was partly overseen by Funny or Die, and this trailer appears to be the joke from the 2013 short taken to feature-length. Radcliffe plays Yankovic, with Rainn Wilson as Barrett “Dr. Demento” Hansen, Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, and Toby Huss and Julianne Nicholson as Nick and Mary, Al’s parents. This isn’t the first time Yankovic has been involved in a jokey, semi-real documentary version of his life....
“You have to start at an origin, otherwise there’s no journey.” 20th Century Studios Like the other “Kingsman” films, “The King’s Man” still has high-octane action sequences. It’s also novel in the series for pivoting to far more serious emotional subject matter, and I wanted to ask you about the choice to focus on World War I, and on loss. Matthew Vaughn: Well, it all started when I re-watched “The Man Who Would Be King....
Midsommer Murders Meets Sin City BBC3 Conceptually, the show could be a masterpiece or a disaster. But a glance at the BBC3 series (fellow Yankees can find episodes on YouTube) foretells lightning-in-a-bottle energy that comedic talent like Arnett and Co. have proven track records of handling. The real source of laughter comes from watching everyone involved try to both keep a straight face and to get the rest of the cast to crack with wilder and wilder off-the-cuff dialogue....
Gyllenhaal steals the show Universal González is appropriately fiery and tough as Cam, and Abdul-Mateen II is stoic and sympathetic as Will. We like these characters, especially Will — it would be easy to judge him, since he’s ultimately a criminal who puts lives in danger. But Abdul-Mateen II carries himself with such dignity and poise that we accept his actions without question. But make no mistake: “Ambulance” belongs to Gyllenhaal....
Annihilation’s Story Wasn’t Why Alex Garland Made It A Movie Paramount By Mike Shutt/May 16, 2022 3:49 pm EST Novels have been adapted for the screen for as long as there have been movies. They receive the cinematic treatment for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes, there is a book that is so popular that a movie studio just has to quickly buy up the rights and turn it into a film to capitalize on the success....
Benedict Cumberbatch (Or One Of His Multiverse Variants) Will Return To Host SNL On May 7 NBC By Jenna Busch/April 17, 2022 4:39 pm EST Benedict Cumberbatch is set to reprise his hosting duties on “Saturday Night Live,” leading the upcoming May 7 episode, which airs on the opening weekend of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Everyone’s favorite Marvel wizard is coming off of his Oscar nomination for “The Power of the Dog,” and donning the sentient Cloak of Levitation once again for “Multiverse of Madness....
Benediction Star Jack Lowden On Finding The Person Beneath The Anti-War Poet [Interview] Roadside Attractions By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 1, 2022 4:41 pm EST “Benediction” is a movie about an anti-war poet that never shows a single shot of war — at least, none that’s filmed in the style of a typical somber war drama. Instead, “Benediction,” a biopic about the influential Great War poet Siegfried Sassoon, relies on archival footage of World War I, which is interwoven throughout Terence Davies’ film as Jack Lowden’s Sassoon mournfully recites his poems....
Bob Odenkirk Built Saul Goodman Around A Dark Part Of His Past AMC By Bill Bria/March 31, 2022 11:44 am EST When the character of Saul Goodman first turned up on “Breaking Bad,” he was seen as an injection of comic relief into the increasingly dramatic series if for no other reason than his being portrayed by actor Bob Odenkirk. Before his appearance on the show, Odenkirk had been most well known for his storied comedy career, being an integral part of series like “The Larry Sanders Show,” “The Ben Stiller Show,” and “Mr....
