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Barry Season 3 Review: Bill Hader’s Extremely Dark Comedy Remains One Of The Best Shows Around Right Now HBO By Chris Evangelista/April 18, 2022 10:00 am EST Can Barry ever really be forgiven for the horrible things he’s done? It’s a question that arises early in season 3 of “Barry,” the consistently great, increasingly bleak dark comedy from creators Alec Berg and Bill Hader. What started with a simple, seemingly goofy premise — a hitman moves to Hollywood and becomes an actor!...

Bruce Willis Worried His ‘Baggage’ Would Bring Down 12 Monkeys Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/June 24, 2022 5:31 pm EST Everyone knows Bruce Willis the action movie star, the actor famed for playing stubborn, wise-cracking heroes in the “Die Hard” film series, “The Fifth Element,” “Armageddon,” and so on. Lesser-known or, perhaps more accurately, lesser-appreciated, is Bruce Willis the character actor, the star who portrayed a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD in the movie “In Country,” a dispirited child psychologist and security guard in, respectively, “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” and a worn-down police captain in “Moonrise Kingdom,” among other roles....

Daily Podcast: Obi-Wan Kenobi Cast And Crew On Making The New Star Wars Series Lucasfilm On the May 25, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film news writer Ryan Scott presents audio from the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” press conference, featuring some of the cast and crew. Opening Banter: Happy Anniversary to Star Wars: A New Hope. In Our Feature Presentation: An interview with the cast & crew of Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan Kenobi Revealed The Challenges Of Telling A Story Between Trilogies...

Daily Podcast: The Book Of Boba Fett Chapter 7 Spoiler Discussion In The Name Of Honor Lucasfilm By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2022 8:14 pm EST On the February 9, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman and Star Wars expert Bryan Young to have a spoiler-filled discussion about The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 7 “In The Name of Honor”....

How Wes Anderson Influenced The Umbrella Academy Aesthetic Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 21, 2022 4:05 pm EST Any emo kid of a certain age will tell you that Gerard Way was the blueprint for our adolescent aesthetic. So it’s keenly interesting to hear about the aesthetic blueprint the My Chemical Romance frontman himself follows. No, it isn’t The Cure or The Misfits — we’re talking comic books today, not music. When it comes to bringing his graphic novel series “The Umbrella Academy” to life on Netflix, the author cites one influence more than any other, and it’s a surprising one....

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On Animation Director Kirsten Lepore Wants To Slow Things Down [Interview] A24 By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 24, 2022 3:47 pm EST Kirsten Lepore has been celebrated for her work in stop-motion animation, such as the acclaimed “Adventure Time” episode “Bad Jubies” and her short films like “Sweet Dreams,” “Bottle,” and “Move Mountain.” But it’s probably rare for her to get the direction to animate something “less good....

One Of Lethal Weapon 3’s Most Memorable Scenes Wasn’t In The Script Warner Bros. Pictures By Ryan Leston/Feb. 22, 2022 3:54 pm EST “Lethal Weapon” redefined action movies for a generation with the antics of Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover). Helicopter shoot-outs and drive-by killings as well as a healthy dose of exploding buildings add up to a high-octane buddy cop movie that made us think twice about what makes an action movie....

Space Force Season 2: VR With John Malkovich, Trying Not To Mention Jim And Pam, And More [Interview] Netflix By Jenna Busch/Feb. 18, 2022 2:28 pm EST “Space Force” season 2 has already blasted off on Netflix, continuing the adventures of General Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) and his crew. The moon mission was a success, but there’s a new administration in charge. Budgets are cut, there are tensions with the Chinese space force, Erin (Diana Silvers) is deciding on colleges … things are rough....

Stranger Things Season 5 Will Keep The Action (And The Characters) In Hawkins Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 4, 2022 4:31 pm EST “Stranger Things” season 4 was all over the place in more ways than one. While the latest and biggest season of the Netflix hit was inconsistently entertaining, it also saw the heroes of Hawkins in all corners of the world. Some members of the original D&D party — and their older teen counterparts — stayed home to protect Indiana, whereas other characters spent much of the season in a Russian prison, or a desert laboratory, or a California suburb....

The Babadook Entertainment One Coming in at the No. 10 spot, with 242 reviews, is the only woman-directed film in the RT Top Ten, and it was creepy enough to scare the pants off of the man behind “The Exorcist.” That’s high praise. Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent wrote and directed her feature debut, “The Babadook,” based on her own short film, “Monster.” The 2014 story is a structurally familiar one to horror fans, wherein a child’s imaginary monster under the bed turns out to be very real and very angry....

The Old Guard 2 Adds Uma Thurman And Henry Golding Miramax By Danielle Ryan/June 10, 2022 12:00 pm EST While we’ve known for a little while now that a sequel to the 2020 Netflix action film “The Old Guard” was headed our way, and now there’s a new reason to get excited. Two new reasons, actually. “The Old Guard” was a neat experiment in female-led action, centered around Charlize Theron’s ageless assassin Andy, but the cast for the sequel just stepped things up a notch....

The Wilds Stars Discuss Their Favorite Season 2 Friendships And Their Characters’ Challenges [Interview] Prime Video By Shania Russell/May 6, 2022 5:12 pm EST Without a doubt, the best part of Prime Video’s teen survival drama “The Wilds” is the relationships between its personality-forward ensemble cast. The series brings together a group of teenage girls from different backgrounds, each carrying their own baggage of complex trauma but forced to shove it aside for the sake of staying alive....

Top Gun: Maverick Is Jetting Off To An Estimated $150 Million Memorial Day Weekend Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/May 28, 2022 1:25 pm EST Tom Cruise blew right past the danger zone and decided to land his plane in some very exclusive territory: the $100 million opening club. Believe it or not, one of the world’s biggest movie stars — whose career has spanned four action-packed decades — has never had an opening weekend hit the $100 million mark....

You Can Expect A Lot Of Dungeons & Dragons Movies And TV Shows In The Future Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 19, 2022 12:42 pm EST If you’ve been a hardcore “Dungeons & Dragons” (D&D) fan since a formative age, we have some good news for you. The fantasy tabletop role-playing game has been around since the 1970s, but the once-niche nerdy pastime is now more mainstream and popular than ever before....

Candyman: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/June 21, 2021 6:18 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Say his name five times in front of a mirror: Candyman is back. Nia DaCosta directs a continuation of the now-iconic horror film released in 1992, based loosely on a story by Clive Barker....

Charlotte Trailer: Keira Knightly Makes Art And Comes Of Age As A Jewish Woman At The Onset Of World War II Good Deed Entertainment By Joshua Meyer/March 22, 2022 10:54 am EST In “Charlotte,” the new animated film from directors Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, Keira Knightly voices a Jewish painter coming of age in Germany as World War II breaks out. This is no family movie, but rather one that tackles history and the Holocaust head-on....

Dune Featurette: Denis Villeneuve Reveals The Challenges Of Adapting Frank Herbert’s World Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Jan. 13, 2022 10:22 am EST The Warner Bros. Pictures film “Dune” is out right now on Blu-ray, and today there is a new featurette from Collider that goes into how director Denis Villeneuve created his version of the world of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi book series. The film is the first half of the 1965 book “Dune,” which is the first book in the series....

Batman (1943) & Batman and Robin (1949) Columbia Pictures Few fans recall Batman’s first big-screen appearance in Columbia Pictures’ 15-chapter serial in 1943, which featured the first appearances of the Batcave and the trim, mustachioed version of Alfred, versus the portly buffoon who’d appeared in the comics. In the “Batman” serial, both Batman and Robin are government agents who, in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, become aware of a Japanese espionage and sabotage ring, led by Dr....

As the secret of this mystery case is revealed, the secret about his personal flaws are also revealed Apple TV Plus [To Kim Jee-woon] For this series, you added a number of complex emotional story lines and mystery in your adaptation of the source material. And I wanted to ask why was that so essential for you? Kim Jee-woon: The most interesting part for me in the original webtoon was this story about the main character scanning other people’s brains and using the clues that he picked up in their memories to solve a mystery....

Lightyear Trailer The first full trailer for “Lightyear” arrived back in October of 2021, blasting the glorious strains of David Bowie’s “Starman” alongside some stirring imagery of the actual Buzz blasting off into the cosmos and exploring the furthest reaches of the unknown. Everyone rushed to break down and dive deep into the hints and teases of the wider story to come — us included! — and this latest trailer just might provide even more intriguing plot details to sink our teeth into all over again....