Why It Took Jonathan Glazer A Decade To Make Under The Skin BFI/Film4 By Lee Adams/March 28, 2022 11:05 am EST Jonathan Glazer isn’t exactly the most prolific director. Terence Malick, who famously took a 20-year break between “Days of Heaven” and “The Thin Red Line,” is churning them out these days compared to him. Just three movies in 22 years have added an air of mystery to the idiosyncratic director....
Year Of The Vampire: Let The Right One In Is A Bloody Tale Of Young Love Magnolia Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 1, 2022 4:11 pm EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) I love vampires more than most, and that’s saying something. I’ve always loved the sexiness and capes, and the quippy lines they all seem to have (I guess living for a really long time gives you some comedy chops)....
Chariot Review: This Muddled, Messy Sci-Fi Shows Promise, Then Loses Grip Saban Films By Lex Briscuso/April 18, 2022 4:00 pm EST One of the core tenets of good sci-fi is crafting a believable world, one that’s easy to get lost in — but also one just as easy to navigate down the rabbit hole at the same time. Coherency is just as important as world-building. In fact, a good sci-fi story hinges on the collaboration of both....
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Banned In Saudi Arabia Due To LGBTQ Character Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/April 22, 2022 12:57 pm EST Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” will not be released in Saudi Arabia. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the country has banned the film due to its inclusion of America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a queer superhero who can travel between realities in the Marvel Comics universe....
Ewan McGregor’s Elephant Co-Star Had A Surprise In Store For The Big Fish Crew Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/June 8, 2022 7:17 pm EST Tim Burton’s 2003 film “Big Fish” is a Hollywood weepie of the finest order. The plot concerns a young man named Will (Billy Crudup) attempting to reconcile with his ailing father Edward (Albert Finney). Edward is a fantabulist — notorious for obfuscating the truth and hiding behind tall tales and stories that Will has long since lost patience with....
How Teenage Boredom Inspired Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/April 14, 2022 1:51 pm EST Ask a wildly talented filmmaker with oddball sensibilities about the inspirations and influences that went into their most personal films, and you’ll likely get some unexpected answers in return. Like all art, making movies that truly stand out sometimes requires the absolute best at their craft to put a few pieces of themselves into the stories they create....
Jon Watts Is No Longer Directing Fantastic Four For Marvel Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/April 29, 2022 5:33 pm EST In a bombshell shake-up for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the “Fantastic Four” movie reboot is now in need of new a director. When the project was originally announced in December 2020 by Disney and Marvel Studios, it was revealed at the time that Jon Watts, who has directed all three of Tom Holland’s “Spider-Man” films, including last year’s record-breaking “No Way Home,” was set to helm the reboot....
Telling Malcolm’s story Warner Bros. The cinematic saga of Malcolm X was decades in the making, as everybody from James Baldwin (with Arnold Perl) to Charles Fuller to David Mamet wrote screenplays based on Malcolm and Alex Haley’s “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” When Spike Lee came on board, he worked on the Baldwin-Perl screenplay, seeing in its sprawl and harsh truths the chance to tell a story of a personal hero for a new generation....
Man Vs. Bee Trailer: Rowan Atkinson Returns To Slapstick In A Very Literal Netflix Series Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 26, 2022 10:54 am EST Rowan Atkinson is back in another slapstick comedy, “Man vs. Bee.” The trailer for the Netflix comedy series confirms that the title for the show is quite literal, as it is exclusively about a man named Trevor (Atkinson) battling it out with a bee, who seems hell-bent on disrupting his life....
A legacy of character favorites Ryan enjoyed a successful start with his career on Broadway, having performed in “Wait Until Dark,” “Medea,” and “The Price.” In his own words, he “studied Shakespeare like you would study the Bible — that is, with great interest and diligence.” After his stint on “Dark Shadows,” Ryan starred on three different TV series throughout the 1970s: “Chase,” “Executive Sweet,” and “Having Babies.” A character actor with the commanding skill of a leading man, Ryan popped up in film and television across a multitude of genres....
The comedy king Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer As nice as it is to see Cage back in his zone, it also begs the question, what took him so long? According to an interview with the Los Angeles Times (via Indiewire), Cage has been asking the same question: “I’ve been scratching my head a little bit as to why Hollywood wasn’t offering me comedies anymore … I had done ‘Raising Arizona’ and ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ and ‘It Could Happen to You’ and ‘Moonstruck....
Nobody Thought Fight Club Would Make It Out Of Pre-Production By Travis Yates/March 24, 2022 10:39 am EST “Fight Club” is David Fincher’s stylistic, nuanced view on 21st-century masculinity and consumerism. The film is an adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name. The scathing indictment on modern workplaces and what we’re expected to do with our money was borne partly from Palahniuk’s own frustration with his lot in life....
The history of our obsession with fallen women GF Watts When Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said “well-behaved women rarely make history,” she wasn’t encouraging women to misbehave, but instead lamenting the fact that our society is only interested in women that break the rules. Beyond that, they’re almost always given their due in hindsight after facing an entire lifetime of scrutiny and unfair standards. The media and general public have always been tough on women, though our modern obsession with purity and pristine behavior developed in Victorian England, where the term “fallen woman” was coined to determine any woman who was no longer acceptable among polite company....
Paper Girls Trailer: From The Paper Route To Saving The World Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/June 29, 2022 12:53 pm EST Paper routes feel like something from a bygone era, when the news wasn’t delivered to us via our unhealthy obsession with our phones, but by some local kids who wanted to make a few bucks. It’s a part of Americana that feels almost forgotten even as we relish the resurgence of the Amblin “kids on bikes” sub-genre through shows like “Stranger Things” or the Andy Muschietti “It” movies....
Peacemaker Trailer: All Of This Is Extremely Inappropriate HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 1, 2022 8:36 am EST 2022 is about to start off with a bang, as HBO Max and DC have dropped a new trailer for “Peacemaker.” John Cena was the surprising stand-out of James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” as the soon-to-be titular character in this show, and luckily for us, a bored-in-quarantine Gunn must have foreseen how much we’d all love the foul-mouthed anti-villain....
Roar Trailer: Nicole Kidman, Alison Brie, And More Star In Anthology Series From GLOW Creators Apple TV+ By Danielle Ryan/March 24, 2022 2:20 pm EST Being a woman can be enough to make you want to roar, and that’s what the ladies of the latest Apple TV+ anthology series are doing. In the aptly titled “Roar,” we’ll see eight feminine fables that follow a different woman in a bizarre circumstance. There’s a woman who sits on a shelf, a woman who eats photographs, and a woman who solves her own murder, and that’s just for starters....
Steven Spielberg Supported Mike Myers’ Decision To Make Shrek Scottish DreamWorks By Witney Seibold/May 26, 2022 9:41 am EST Vicky Jenson’s and Andrew Adamson’s 2001 film “Shrek,” loosely based on a twisted children’s book by William Steig, was released as a direct criticism of the fairy tale tropes and clichés popularized by Disney-produced animated films like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “Beauty and the Beast.” While ultimately friendly and huggable, the title character was presented as gross and off-putting; he loves mud and filth, lives in a bog, picks his nose, farts....
Superhero Bits: The Making Of Eternals, The Batman’s Hardcore PG-13 Rating & More Disney+ By Ryan Scott/Feb. 16, 2022 5:51 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’s It, Russia, No Netflix For You Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/March 7, 2022 10:04 am EST It’s official: Netflix has suspended its service to Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. It joins a growing number of U.S. companies and organizations, including the five major Hollywood studios (Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Sony), to cut ties with the country. “Given the circumstances on the ground, we have decided to suspend our service in Russia,” said a spokesperson for Netflix, per a report from Variety....
The Batman Has The Best Superhero Score In Years Warner Bros. By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 5, 2022 5:24 pm EST Michael Giacchino! How did we get so lucky? The composer who built the themes for Pixar favorites like “Up” and modern sci-fi favorites like “Lost” and 2009’s “Star Trek” has lent his expansive talents to “The Batman,” and the world is better for it. I don’t know much about the hard work that goes into making music, but I know how it makes me feel....
