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How This Stanley Kubrick War Movie Influenced HBO’s The Wire HBO By Jeremy Smith/June 24, 2022 5:24 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “The Wire” is the defining 21-century portrait of top-down institutional failure in the United States. Over five seasons, creator David Simon and his brilliant team of writers used the whole of Baltimore, from the corruption of City Hall to the get-over-or-get-dead hustle of housing projects, as a microcosm that demonstrates in excruciating detail how the War on Drugs and mass incarceration are destroying urban communities all over the country....

Jim Carrey Nearly Starred In This Claustrophobic Thriller From The Early 2000s Focus Features By Danielle Ryan/April 5, 2022 3:03 pm EST Around the year 2000, Jim Carrey was really experimenting with his movie roles. The man best known for twisting his rubber face into a million different wild expressions in films like “Ace Venture: Pet Detective” and “The Mask” was branching out. Alongside silliness like “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Carrey starte taking on more dramatic roles i “Man on the Moon,” “The Majestic,” and “The Truman Show” between 1998 and 2001, showing that he had the acting chops to take on more than just slapstick comedies....

Kindred, The Octavia Butler Adaptation, Has Officially Been Ordered To Series At FX Doubleday By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 11, 2022 10:53 am EST Trailblazing sci-fi author and Black literary icon Octavia E. Butler’s work is finally headed to the screen, now that FX has given an official series order to “Kindred.” The show, which adapts Butler’s 1979 book of the same name, was picked up as a pilot in 2021, with Janicza Bravo (hot off directing the critically-acclaimed viral Twitter-thread-turned-film “Zola”) calling the shots and executive producing....

We demand laser armadillos! Disney Speaking at a panel hosted by the Royal Television Society in London (via ComicBook.com), Waldron talked about the need to constantly check where Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will and won’t draw the line when it comes to Loki’s antics. “You’ve got to test the fences,” he explained, adding: “With [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige, you get to see how far you can go. So you write in [Loki’s variant] Sylvie soccer kicking an armadillo with a laser mounted on its back and they tell you ‘OK, that’s too much....

Love Lies Bleeding: Everything We Know So Far About The Kristen Stewart A24 Romance Neon By Erin Brady/June 27, 2022 7:47 pm EST Thanks to her roles in films like “Spencer” and “Crimes of the Future,” Kristen Stewart has quickly found herself as one of Hollywood’s buzziest and most in-demand stars. While other actors in her position might transition into big blockbuster roles such as a stint in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stewart is going all-in on dramatic independently-funded titles....

Luke Skywalker’s First Star Wars Costume Had A Surprisingly Simple Piece Of Clothing Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/March 23, 2022 10:23 am EST Costume design is an indispensable — though typically inconspicuous — aspect of storytelling through film. Like production design, costuming helps to immerse the audience in the world of a film, offering a sense of place, time, and most of all: who the characters are. In some cases, it’s necessary for a character’s costume to blend seamlessly into the background — but in the case of a world like “Star Wars,” it’s hard to extricate the wardrobe from the characters who inhabit them....

Prisoners Ending Explained: Captive To A Vicious Circle Of Victimization Warner Bros. Pictures By Joshua Meyer/May 23, 2022 10:27 am EST “Prisoners” marked the English-language crossover of Denis Villeneuve, the director of “Sicario” and sci-fi heir apparent to Ridley Scott (with films such as “Arrival,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Dune”). Though Villeneuve actually shot another warm-up film with Jake Gyllenhaal — the spidery doppelgänger thriller “Enemy” — before “Prisoners,” its release would come after, meaning that “Prisoners” would be the first introduction to many stateside audiences for Villeneuve’s work — unless they were already versed in his earlier French-language movies like “Incendies....

Quentin Tarantino’s Next Project Is A Nonfiction Novel Titled Cinema Speculation Miramax By Lex Briscuso/May 31, 2022 11:54 am EST Yeah, we’re all waiting for word on Quentin Tarantino’s next and final movie project, but it seems we’ll have to make it through another book before his 10th film. According to book publisher HarperCollins, the famed director is releasing his second book, which is slated to be released in the fall....

Raiders Of The Lost Ark Could Have Included A Villain With Flamethrower Hands Paramount Pictures By Bill Bria/April 21, 2022 11:40 am EST “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is, among other things, one of the greatest collections of pulp adventure tropes in a single movie. Director Steven Spielberg and producer/co-writer George Lucas, deliberately making an homage to the adventure films and movie serials of their youth, stuffed as many exciting ideas and elements into the movie as they could: bullwhip fu, gritty fisticuffs, Nazi’s getting owned, boulder chases, car chases, a literal Deus ex Machina, and of course, snakes — lots of snakes....

Scream 6 Script Is ‘Really Good,’ Courteney Cox Teases Paramount Pictures By Michael Boyle/May 13, 2022 9:19 pm EST It’s a great time to be a “Scream” fan. Not only was this year’s most recent installment of the franchise a massive success that stayed true to the spirit of the original trilogy, but there seems to be no slowing down in the production of “Scream 6,” which will feature the returns of Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers, Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott, and even Hayden Panettiere as Kirby....

Sins of the Father: The Green River Killer Trailer In the early 2000s Gary Ridgway was found guilty of murdering 49 women, many of them prostitutes, between the years 1982 and 1998. This catapulted Ridgway to becoming the second-most-prolific serial killer in United States history after Samuel Little. He is currently 73 years old and serving out 49 consecutive life sentences at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. While “Sins of the Father” is only the latest in many documentaries made on Ridgway and his crimes, a number of narrative films have been based on the story as well....

Superhero Bits: Iman Vellani’s Ms. Marvel Trailer Reaction, A Huge Spider-Man 4 Rumor & More Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/March 21, 2022 4:25 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....

Blood in the water Hulu It seems they’re in the clear until whistleblowers Tyler Schultz (Dylan Minnette) and Erika Cheung (Camryn Mi-young Kim) decide to pursue their mission to bring down Theranos even further, unsatisfied with the way Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos are still going strong despite the Wall Street Journal article. Erika decides it’s time to enlist the help of a significantly less sensational, far less glamorous entity than a major publication: a government agency — specifically, the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services, referred to as CMS....

The Righteous Gemstones Season 2 Trailer: The HBO Comedy Returns In January HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 16, 2021 5:46 pm EST Put on your clogging shoes and get ready to “run through the house with a pickle in your mouth,” folks: “The Righteous Gemstones” is coming back soon. The uproariously blasphemous HBO series about a Christian corporate empire returns in January and has already received a third-season renewal, per Collider. Now it has a new trailer extolling the virtues of its upcoming episodes, which seem to include motorcycle-riding assassins, familial power moves, and a new religious tycoon played by none other than Eric André....

TV, Interrupted: Galavant Was A (Glorious) Fairy Tale Cliché ABC By Anya Stanley/April 24, 2022 4:25 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) The theme calls it out from the jump: ABC’s “Galavant” is a fairy tale cliché. Created by Dan Fogelman, who reunited with “Tangled” collaborators Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, the comedy-musical series was set to move into ABC’s replacement slot halfway through the fifth season of its hit fantasy show “Once Upon A Time....

Watch Three New Clips From David Cronenberg’s Crimes Of The Future, If You’ve Got The Stomach Neon By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 19, 2022 9:26 am EST Ahead of the Cannes premiere of David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” three brand-new clips from the upcoming body horror film have been released for your pleasure. The official trailer allowed a glimpse into the world of performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), and the future as a whole, which is extremely psychosexual in a purely Cronenbergian way....

Who Is Tarre Vizsla, The First Mandalorian Jedi? Disney+ By Caroline Cao/Feb. 2, 2022 4:24 pm EST Tarre Vizsla is a tantalizing Star Wars tale that could fill out legions of IP tie-ins, novels, comics, or multi-chaptered fanfictions (this writer here attempted and failed that endeavor). In Chapter 5 of “The Book of Boba Fett,” those familiar with the live-action Star Wars TV-verse were introduced to the thousand-year-old legend of Mandalorian Jedi Tarre Vizsla, as invoked by the Armorer when she educates the titular Din Djarin on the Darksaber’s first owner and creator....

Will Tom Holland Ever Star In A Horror Movie? Sony Pictures Releasing By BJ Colangelo/March 7, 2022 3:43 pm EST As the current incarnation of the Marvel “Spider-Man” character and the central focus of the internet law named “If You See Tom Holland’s Performance of ‘Umbrella’ from ‘Lip Sync Battle,’ You Must Share It,” 25-year-old Tom Holland has quickly become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand performers, and a favorite of both fans and critics alike....

A Brilliant Piece Of Improv Produced Battlestar Galactica’s Signature Line SYFY By Jenna Busch/April 10, 2022 7:40 pm EST The line, “So say we all” is a classic part of the reimagined “Battlestar Galactica” series. The show, which was based on the 1978 television series, aired on SYFY (then the Sci-Fi Channel) beginning with the two-part miniseries in 2003, followed by four seasons starting in 2004. It spawned the under-appreciated prequel series “Caprica” in 2010, and a spinoff called “Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” which was first released as a web series in 2012, then as a television movie on the channel in 2013....

Bel-Air Is A Massive Hit For Peacock Peacock By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 2, 2022 3:55 pm EST Who knew a YouTube homage could go so far? The team behind “Bel-Air” clearly had a hunch, because the series developed from a fake trailer for a dramatic reinterpretation of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” has turned out to be Peacock’s biggest hit yet. Deadline is reporting that “Bel-Air” has pulled in bigger streaming numbers for Peacock than any other original series on the NBC Universal platform to date....