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The Legend Of Vox Machina Clip: Critical Role’s Animated Series Will Premiere Earlier Than Expected Prime Video By Shania Russell/Dec. 21, 2021 1:25 pm EST Great news, Critters — the long wait for “The Legend of Vox Machina” has nearly reached its end. The animated fantasy series (based on Critical Role’s first Dungeons & Dragons campaign) was once expected to grace our screens in late 2020, but pandemic delays put production a year behind schedule....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Image Teases A Cinematic Return To Middle-Earth, Episode 1 Title Prime Video By Jenna Busch/June 9, 2022 5:50 pm EST “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will hit Prime Video on September 2, 2022. Today we not only have a new image (and some close up shots) giving us a look at the loveliness of the elves on Instagram, but the title of the first episode has been revealed by Empire Magazine....

The Police Had A Big Problem With Apocalypse Now’s Prop Department United Artists By Caroline Madden/April 4, 2022 10:50 am EST Though “Apocalypse Now” is known as one of cinema’s finest war epics, it’s also well known for having a controversial production that involved actor disputes, near-death experiences, and a deadly hurricane. Director Francis Ford Coppola had invested millions of his own money into the project and contemplated killing himself on the hellish shoot, according to Independent....

The Silent Twins Review: A Moving, Creative Story About Individuality And Belonging [Cannes] Focus Features By Rafael Motamayor/May 26, 2022 6:45 pm EST “The Silent Twins” tries to balance its many ideas, from mental health, to race, to creativity and sibling rivalry, without really saying anything that meaningful about any of them. Still, Agnieszka Smoczyńska directs the hell out of her third feature, which at its best is a brilliant love letter to misunderstood creativity and the ways we try to express ourselves....

The Top 15 Best Benedict Cumberbatch Movies Ranked Mick Atkins/Shutterstock By Liam Gaughan/Feb. 3, 2022 5:11 pm EST Benedict Cumberbatch is easily one of the most popular actors working today. He’s also quickly become one of the best. Cumberbatch has appeared in some of the biggest franchises in film history, and he’s also an award-winning television and theater actor. Many viewers worldwide were first introduced to Cumberbatch thanks to his reinvention of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective in the acclaimed BBC series “Sherlock....

Wait, Is The Batman The Best Batman Movie? Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 4, 2022 8:00 am EST You’ve read the title of this article, so you can probably guess what I’m going to say. I’m going to keep “The Batman” spoilers low for this story, but do be warned that you’ll get a sense of some of what’s happening in the film. I remember the first time I saw a poster for the Michael Keaton “Batman....

Trevorrow on Battle at Big Rock Looking for validation from fans or even critics can be a double-edged sword. It’s arguably where “The Rise of Skywalker” ran into trouble: by catering too much to some amorphous fan desire. One can’t help but wonder if “Duel of the Fates” would have faced more scrutiny had it moved from the script to the actual screen like that film did. At the same time, Trevorrow’s attitude seems healthy insofar as it recognizes that making movies isn’t a solipsistic exercise — something he’s only doing for himself — but rather a delivery system for ideas and communication with an audience....

Why Bathrooms Always Mean Bad News In Stanley Kubrick Films Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 19, 2022 3:46 pm EST Weirdly enough, some of the most famous scenes in Stanley Kubrick’s filmography are set in and around bathrooms. Perhaps the most obvious film to illustrate this is “The Shining,” which sticks Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, in several scenes involving bathrooms in the Overlook Hotel. A bathroom is where Jack encounters the frightening lady in Room 237, who appears to him first as a beautiful naked woman, rising up out of the bathtub....

A message of material gain Universal Pictures For “Back to the Future Part II,” fans may have noticed that George McFly looked markedly different. Glover had been replaced by actor Jeffrey Weissman, outfitted with facial appliances to make him look more like the original George. There is a notable scene in “Part II” that takes place in the future (2015), and an elderly George comes to visit a middle-aged Marty. George is suspended upside-down by a futuristic, floating medical device that is meant to do something for his back....

Familiar Territory New Line Cinema Right off the bat, the early seconds of the clip put us on solid and recognizable ground, particularly for those familiar with both author J.R.R. Tolkien’s landmark fantasy series and Peter Jackson’s live-action adaptation. Eager fans, many of whom have been hunting for the slightest hint about the direction that “The Rings of Power” will take, couldn’t have missed the implication of choosing Morfydd Clark — rumored to portray a young Galadriel in this series — to recite the voiceover narration that guides us through the title announcement....

Disenchanted First Look Features Amy Adams And Maya Rudolph, Release Date Revealed Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By BJ Colangelo/May 17, 2022 7:38 pm EST It’s been fifteen years since we were first blessed by the beautiful maiden Giselle (Amy Adams), when she was pushed through a magical vortex transporting her from the 2D animated fairy tale world of Andalasia and into the bustling live-action land of New York City by her wicked future stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) in “Enchanted....

Domhnall Gleeson Thought They Should Have Cut This About Time Scene Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 3, 2022 10:43 am EST Richard Curtis’ 2013 romance “About Time” is just one of the sweetest things you’ll ever see. In the director’s tradition — Curtis is the screenwriter behind twee, sentimental comedies like “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Notting Hill,” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” and director of “Love, Actually” — “About Time” believes in the power of love, the strength of sentimentality, and the theory that humanity is bound together by romance....

How I Met Your Father’s Is Wasting Kim Cattrall’s Talent - Let’s Hope They Fix It Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 18, 2022 5:13 pm EST When “How I Met Your Mother” debuted in 2005, nobody involved could have possibly predicted the show would last nine seasons and become one of the most definitive sitcoms of the aughts. The show followed the adventures of Ted, Marshall, Lily, Barney, and Robin as they explore love, loss, and laughter in New York City as told through the dramatized flashbacks of the stories from Future Ted (a voiceover role by the late, great Bob Saget) as he tells his children the story of how he met their children’s mother, and how all of the beloved adults in their life fit together as friends....

How John McTiernan Filmed Die Hard With A Vengeance’s Explosive Opening Scene By Steven Ward/March 28, 2022 12:12 pm EST Not to be outdone by previous films, “Die Hard with a Vengeance” immediately raises the stakes within the first few minutes. The film opens with the detonation of a Bonwit Teller department store that wreaks catastrophe on a busy street in downtown New York. Eventually, it’s revealed that the bomb is the work of Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons), as part of his elaborate plan to exact revenge upon John McClane (Bruce Willis) for the death of Simon’s brother Hans....

Let Superheroines Be Muscular, Dammit! Marvel Studios // Disney+ By Kayleigh Donaldson/May 25, 2022 12:00 pm EST The first trailer for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” the latest Marvel and Disney+ series, introduces audiences to Jennifer Walters, the hot-shot lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner who becomes another green-hued muscled superhero. Tatiana Maslany of “Orphan Black” fame is in the leading role, CGI-d to a taller height with some added arm and calf definition for good measure....

My Best Friend Anne Frank Trailer: The Real-Life Holocaust Story Heads To Netflix Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 1, 2022 11:26 am EST Netflix is kicking off the month of February with “My Best Friend Anne Frank,” a new movie “based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.” The Dutch-language film is based on the YA (young adult) book, “Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend” by Alison Leslie Gold, who also co-authored the adult non-fiction book, “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family....

New Spider-Man: No Way Home Promo Sends Ned To The Raimi And Webb Universes Sony Pictures Releasing By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 15, 2022 2:22 pm EST Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) is hands-down one of the best sidekicks in the MCU. He’s enthusiastic, a great hype man for his best bro Peter (Tom Holland), and generally a super-helpful ally in times of superhero-adjacent stress. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” finally recognized his (and Batalon’s) full potential by giving Ned portal-opening capabilities, leading fans to speculate about whether or not the character would headline his own series or movie soon....

Pachinko Trailer: Epic New Series Spans Decades In Three Languages Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 23, 2022 7:23 pm EST Today Apple TV+ has released the official trailer for the highly anticipated drama series “Pachinko.” I wrote about this one before and I’m 100 on board. I was intrigued before when I read that the series will be told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and now I’m hooked by this stunningly beautiful trailer....

Shang-Chi Director Wants Jackie Chan In The Sequel, And Now So Do We Golden Harvest By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 16, 2021 3:21 pm EST Now that a second “Shang-Chi” movie is officially in the works, returning director Destin Daniel Cretton is weighing in about his dream casting for the sequel. The martial arts-influenced superhero movie garnered praise this year for its action sequences and stunt work, so Cretton’s first choice might be a no-brainer....

Snowpiercer Features A Small Tribute To Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining CJ Entertainment By Jeff Ewing/April 5, 2022 3:22 pm EST Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho is widely known to have a deep bench of cinematic knowledge and influences. It’s consequently unsurprising that, in his foray into sci-fi action with “Snowpiercer,” the director found a way to pay subtle tribute another classic film about, deep inhale, characters surviving sometimes axe-wielding antagonists in an isolated location while surrounded by inhospitable, sub-zero snow....