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Jessica Chastain And Anne Hathaway To Co-Star In Psychological Thriller Mothers’ Instinct Warner Bros / Apple TV+ By Shania Russell/May 11, 2022 2:53 pm EST Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia are key elements in the upcoming psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct,” which flashes back to the idyllic suburbs of the 1960s. Manicured lawns and happy-go-lucky nuclear families aren’t enough to keep the darkness away in this tale, which sees two mothers locked in a battle of wills — and who better to captivate audiences in a stand-off than two actresses so acclaimed, they each have Academy Awards on display?...

M. Night Shyamalan Paid Homage To A Forgotten Marlon Brando And Jack Nicholson Western Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/April 29, 2022 5:37 pm EST A beach that makes you old sounds right in the wheelhouse of M. Night Shyamalan, the filmmaker who gave us aliens that emit poison gas from their wrists in “Signs” and airborne plant toxins that make you kill yourself in “The Happening.” And a beach that makes you old is the premise at the heart of Shyamalan’s movie “Old,” itself loosely based on the French comic book “Sandcastle” written by Pierre Oscar Levy and illustrated by Frederik Peeters....

Quincy Isaiah On Filling Magic Johnson’s Shoes In Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty [Interview] HBO By Jack Giroux/March 17, 2022 11:48 am EST Whenever we see a film about an artist, that performance is picked apart. How much do they look like the figure in question? How much do they sound like them? The questioning never stops about these daunting roles, which often requires actors to recapture a singular greatness....

Resident Evil Trailer: It’s The End Of The World As We Know It Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/June 6, 2022 1:21 pm EST Everyone has “Resident Evil” fever these days, and I’m not talking about the kind that turns you into zombies and other twisted creatures. People just can’t get enough of the popular video game franchise that has spawned several beloved games, a number of live-action adaptations on the big screen (most of which resulted in mixed bags, at best), and now a soon-to-be-released Netflix series that promises to tell a more expansive story, beyond the scope of previous adaptations....

Teaching Batman To Fight On A Frozen Lake Was A Frightening Time For Liam Neeson Warner Bros. Pictures By Devin Meenan/June 24, 2022 6:23 pm EST A Batman movie will always have stunts, but one in “Batman Begins” frightened its stars. During the first act, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) trains under Henri Ducard aka Ra’s al Ghul (Liam Neeson). These opening scenes, set in the Himalayas, are some of the most beautiful in the film....

The Vampire Lovers (1970) Hammer Film Productions “If you dare … taste the deadly passion of the BLOOD-NYMPHS!” reads one of the posters for Roy Ward Baker’s 1970 film “The Vampire Lovers.” Other similarly evocative taglines for the movie include “Beautiful temptress … or Bloodthirsty monster?” and “An erotic nightmare of tormented lusts that throb in headless, undead bodies!” Hell yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. “The Vampire Lovers” is the first installment in the Karnstein Trilogy, a series of gothic horror vampire movies from famous British horror studio Hammer Film Productions....

The Canceled Green Lantern Show That Young Justice May Have Made Canon HBO Max By Rafael Motamayor/April 22, 2022 9:46 am EST “Young Justice” has long excelled at building an expansive superhero universe that feels lived in, with dozens upon dozens of characters from all corners of the DC Universe. This season, the show has greatly incorporated Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World” into the story, showing the cosmic side of the DC universe that the live-action movies refuse to dive into, while also introducing the Legion of Super-Heroes....

The Chance Encounter That Landed Chris Rock A Role In Spiral Lionsgate By BJ Colangelo/March 30, 2022 6:13 pm EST Comedian Chris Rock has been making audiences laugh for nearly four decades. The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member has put out some of the most memorable stand-up comedy specials of all time, and has enjoyed an impressive acting career, appearing in films like Kevin Smith’s “Dogma,” the dark comedy “Nurse Betty,” his starring turn in “Down to Earth,” the Adam Sandler remake of “The Longest Yard,” and he even provided the voice for the outlandish zebra named Marty in DreamWorks’ animated film franchise, “Madagascar....

Leaps and bounds Marvel Comics/Disney+ Created in 1982 by J.M. DeMatteis and Kerry Gammill for “Marvel Team-Up” #121, Frog-Man, aka Eugene Patilio, is the son of the supervillain Leap-Frog. After his father’s failed life of crime landed him in prison, Eugene started wearing the suit in an attempt to rehabilitate his family image into a symbol of good instead of evil. However, Frog-Man wasn’t exactly the most adept hero. On his first outing, he accidentally helped Spider-Man and the Human Torch defeat Speed Demon....

Relic IFC FIlms In “Relic,” nothing is more frightening than aging. The relentless march of time hangs over Natalie Erika James’ feature-length debut like a pendulum, informing its characters’ fears and intentions equally. It’s not just that the elderly Edna (Robyn Nevin) may be demented or possessed, it’s that two generations of her progeny need closure before illness or evil takes hold. That sounds remarkably cynical, but “Relic” is anything but....

The Wizard Of Oz Left An $80,000 Scene On The Cutting Room Floor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Travis Yates/Feb. 23, 2022 1:55 pm EST Despite being nearly eight decades old, it seems “The Wizard of Oz” still has a trick or two up its sleeve. The iconic 1939 Judy Garland musical has entertained audiences for years with its memorable characters, unique contrast of black and white and technicolor, and catchy musical numbers. It remains in the top 10 of the American Film Institute’s top films of all time and according to the Library of Congress, “The Wizard of Oz” is the most-watched movie of all time....

Top Gun: Maverick Ending Explained: The Need For Speed (And Redemption) Paramount By Witney Seibold/May 27, 2022 8:00 am EST Spoiler warning: This article will openly discuss the plot and the ending of “Top Gun: Maverick” In Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise plays Pete Mitchell, a Navy jet pilot who is still doing the same things at age 59 as he was doing at age 24. Namely: He’s flying planes very quickly, wearing a very particular leather jacket and aviator shades (fair play for an aviator), and zipping around various military installations on his vintage motorcycle....

TV, Interrupted: Sense8’s Globe-Trotting Sci-Fi Adventure Was Cut Short Netflix By Shania Russell/Feb. 20, 2022 12:43 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 tricky thing about opening your heart up to a TV series is the looming threat of a swift cancelation. This is made a million times worse when said series makes the effort to bare its soul and in doing so, reveals something hopeful, imaginative, and refreshingly new — something gloriously weird, and inevitably doomed to live on as a niche show, eliding the attention of a mainstream audience....

Violet Ending Explained: What Did We Learn Today? Relativity Media By Soham Gadre/Jan. 5, 2022 1:24 pm EST We’ve all had the nagging voice inside our own heads tell us things. For different people, the voice has a different tone and a different intent. In Justine Bateman’s “Violet,” the titular character (Olivia Munn) suffers because of this voice. Her particular ailments are not disclosed, but its clear that there is a crippling lack of self-worth that leads to pent-up anger and the fracturing of relationships in the film....

Westworld Star Evan Rachel Wood On How Dolores Is An Imperfect Hero For Our Times HBO By Danielle Ryan/June 22, 2022 9:00 am EST This piece discusses sexual assault and domestic abuse. Reader discretion is advised. Dolores Abernathy, the sweet farmer’s daughter on “Westworld,” undergoes an incredible metamorphosis over the course of the series. In the beginning, she’s just another prop in the Westworld park, though she is developing feelings and thoughts of her own....

Why Mary Harron Refused To Meet With Leonardo DiCaprio For American Psycho Paramount By Mike Shutt/April 13, 2022 5:47 pm EST Not sure if you all have heard about it, but in the year 1997, this movie called “Titanic” came out. It was a hit! One of the stars of that film was a young man by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio. Thanks to his role in this film and in Baz Luhrmann’s “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” the year before, he became one of the most in-demand actors of the time....

Why Shooting Skyfall’s High-Octane Train Fight Was So Challenging Eon Productions By Bill Bria/Feb. 10, 2022 2:43 pm EST There are numerous ingredients that make up a James Bond film, and one of the most prominent is the inclusion of pulse-pounding action set pieces that feature death-defying stuntwork. Beginning with the second Bond movie, 1963’s “From Russia With Love,” the series created an expectation for a shocking pre-title sequence to accompany each film, further raising the bar for subsequent entries....

You Won’t Be Alone Director Goran Stolevski And Actor Anamaria Marinca Talk Genre And Connection [Interview] Focus Features By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/April 4, 2022 1:26 pm EST Horror is often unfairly dismissed as being a less “serious” film genre, but there are more than a few scary movies that prove there’s plenty of beauty, hope, and thought-provoking themes to be found amid the gore and ghouls. Such is the case with “You Won’t Be Alone,” which is currently playing in select theaters....

15 Best Matt Damon Movies Ranked Miramax Films By Barry Levitt/May 13, 2022 3:49 pm EST Matt Damon is one of the most popular actors of our time, regularly collaborating with directors like Steven Soderbergh, Paul Greengrass, and Ridley Scott. Damon’s rise to fame is a fascinating one. He essentially created his own success out of thin air — well, not so much thin air as a fantastic screenplay he co-wrote with his buddy Ben Affleck....

Apollo 13’s Zero Gravity Scenes Were More Real Than You Think Universal Pictures By Lindsay Duke/Jan. 14, 2022 2:44 pm EST When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be an astronaut. Then, I realized how much math I’d have to learn, and that goal was swiftly set aside. Turns out, I think I just wanted to float in space. Frankly, I think that’s 50% of the motivation for most people who go to work at NASA — the desire to know what it feels like to be in zero gravity....