15 Best Films Of The 1930s United Archives/Getty Images By Audrey Fox/July 3, 2022 3:29 pm EST Just a few short years after the introduction of sound, 1930s cinema would explode with possibilities. Filmmakers creatively experimented with not just musicals, introducing song and dance to the big screen, but screwball comedies, which featured fast-paced, witty dialogue that title cards in silent film never would have been able to keep up with....
Beetlejuice Was Tim Burton’s Anti-Spielberg Movie Warner Bros. By Miyako Pleines/Feb. 24, 2022 4:06 pm EST There are certain directors with such a distinct style that when you watch their films, you just know it’s their movie. You don’t even have to look it up to check, the vibes are just that obvious. Take Wes Anderson for example. As soon as you see those symmetrical shots, art nouveau color palette, and Jason Schwartzman, you just know....
Bradley Cooper Skipped A Major Life Moment To Film Wet Hot American Summer USA Films By Mike Shutt/April 25, 2022 9:42 am EST A lot of people have opinions on method acting without really knowing what it means. The concept of an actor staying in character all the time and being a jerk to everyone around them for the sake of art is not it. Method acting was an evolution of the system developed by Russian theater director and actor Konstantin Stanislavsky....
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! Trailer: Netflix Docuseries Asks The Question That Loki Already Answered Netflix By Joshua Meyer/June 16, 2022 7:10 pm EST Until last summer, the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the real-life skyjacker who parachuted out of a plane with $200,000 in stolen cash in 1971, remained an unsolved mystery. Then, the Disney+ series, “Loki,” kindly stepped in to explain that it was in fact, the fictional Marvel character, Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, who was masquerading as Cooper and who had simply been teleported away mid-air via the Rainbow Bridge....
Dual Director Riley Stearns On Mentor Characters And Subverting Expectations [Interview] RLJE Films By Anthony Crislip/April 14, 2022 12:00 pm EST In his films, writer/director Riley Stearns has often played around with morbid comedy, the dark relationships between mentors and students, and the challenges in finding one’s place in the world –- all while his characters keep deadly straight faces. In his latest movie, “Dual,” those themes are revisited in spectacular, downbeat sci-fi fashion as Sarah (Karen Gillan) clones herself in the wake of a terminal diagnosis....
Every Time Futurama Predicted The Future 20th Television By Witney Seibold/June 15, 2022 9:07 am EST Matt Gorening’s and David X. Cohen’s “Futurama,” soon to be rebooted for the third or fourth time, was never meant to be speculative science fiction along the lines of, say “Star Trek.” The show begins with the hapless twentysomething dimwit Philip J. Fry (Billy West) accidentally getting cryogenically frozen for a millennium, waking in the year 3000....
Everything Everywhere All At Once: Release Date, Cast, And More A24 By Jamie Gerber/Dec. 17, 2021 1:00 pm 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.) Move over Spider-Man, you’re not the only one poised to crack open the multiverse! The first extended look at “Everything Everywhere All At Once” recently dropped and it might just be the best trailer of 2021....
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande Trailer: Emma Thompson Seeks A Sexual Awakening In The Sundance Sensation Hulu By Jeremy Mathai/May 16, 2022 10:05 am EST It’s fascinating to realize that as much as we Americans have such bizarre hang-ups over sex (if I had a nickel for every time I saw the exact same baseless criticism about the apparent scourge of “unnecessary sex scenes” in media, well, I’d probably still be here because I’m an enormous nerd....
Jurassic World Dominion Super Bowl Trailer: Life Finds A Way, Again Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 13, 2022 6:41 pm EST Remember the sign in the original “Jurassic Park” film that said, “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth”? The one that so charmingly and obviously fluttered down around the T-Rex at the end of the film? Well, while dinosaurs may not rule it completely, in the upcoming film “Jurassic World: Dominion,” they’re living among us, four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar....
Like You, Sam Raimi Enjoyed Spider-Man: No Way Home: ‘It Was So Much Fun’ Columbia Pictures By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 25, 2022 4:00 pm EST Despite being the topic of one of the biggest songs in history, we still don’t talk about Bruno. Although, luckily, it seems like we’re all good to talk about “Spider-Man: No Way Home” now. Ever since the first official image of Tom Holland’s friendly neighborhood web-slinger standing (or crouching) alongside Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s multiversal Spider-Men was released this week, the floodgates have opened and now everyone is talking about what is potentially the most spoiled spoiler in recent cinematic history....
Mad Men Ending Explained: Enlightenment, Transformation, And A Coke Ad AMC By Caroline Madden/Jan. 19, 2022 2:24 pm EST Since its premiere in 2007, “Mad Men” has been considered one of the finest television dramas of all time. “Mad Men smashes history, desires, dreams, and life’s mundanity together like Douglas Sirk’s Large Hadron Collider. It’s a classic,” an Esquire review said in 2015. Taking place over the course of a decade from 1960 to 1970, “Mad Men” explores the innovative world of advertising on Madison Avenue through the lens of Don Draper, a creative genius with a haunted past....
Michael Bay Didn’t Have Much Fun Playing A Frat Boy For Mystery Men Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/April 12, 2022 5:32 pm EST Easily one of the best films of 1999, Kinka Usher’s “Mystery Men” deconstructed the superhero genre before the genre was even ascendant in cinema. Coming only a year after “Blade” and a year before “X-Men,” “Mystery Men,” based on the works of Bob “The Flaming Carrot” Burden, told the story of outsider superheroes who never got the publicity or the exciting action of the world’s more “mainstream” superhero, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear)....
Pacific Rim Required Guillermo Del Toro To Rewrite His Rules For Filmmaking Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/April 15, 2022 4:40 pm EST How many directors can claim to have helmed one of the more entertaining, gleefully lowbrow blockbusters in recent memory (about giant robots fighting kaiju, of all things) before going on to win Best Picture for a very different kind of movie a few years later (about a woman who falls in love with a fish-man, of all things) … all while both films managed to maintain all of that filmmaker’s unique sensibilities?...
Paul W.S. Anderson Hoped Avatar’s Tech Could Revive The Resident Evil Franchise Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/April 8, 2022 5:13 pm EST The whole “Resident Evil” mishegoss began way back in 1996 with the release of the first “Resident Evil” video game on the Sony PlayStation. It was followed by many, many sequels — which is nothing to say of the mobile games, the seven live-action feature films, the four animated feature films, the two TV shows (one is still in production), the 21 novels, the nine separate comic book series, and the three stage plays....
Much more than a gangster NBC Far from being pigeon-holed into gangster movie roles, Ray Liotta devoted his acting career to working on everything from sensitive dramas (1988’s “Dominick and Eugene”) to broad Disney-backed comedies (1995’s “Operation Dumbo Drop” and 2007’s “Wild Hogs”) to gritty tales of crime and corruption (1997’s “Cop Land” and 2002’s “Narc”). He even gave us an all-time notorious horror-thriller moment with the climactic scene in 2001’s “Hannibal” where Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter gives Liotta’s character (the dirty U....
Showtime Cancels Comedy Shows Black Monday And Work In Progress Showtime By Jenna Busch/Jan. 29, 2022 10:31 am EST Showtime has canceled its comedy series “Black Monday” after three seasons and “Work in Progress” after two seasons according to Deadline. The “Work in Progress” news came first from showrunner Lilly Wachowski on Twitter, saying the show would not be back for a third season and that “it was a major bummer....
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 Trailer: Attack Of The Clones, Again Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/May 29, 2022 2:55 pm EST There’s just something different about “Star Wars” in animation. Both “The Clone Wars” and “Rebels” took advantage of the medium, pushing the boundaries of what George Lucas’ original vision could look and feel like on their way to becoming some of the most well-received and critically acclaimed installments of the entire franchise (though not without some growing pains, of course)....
The Art Of The Mitchells Vs The Machines Book Is Officially Free To Read Online Netflix By Jenna Busch/Jan. 10, 2022 10:14 pm EST The Netflix film “The Mitchells vs The Machines” is just the sweetest thing out there. It was one of the only films my entire family could agree on during the holidays. Aside from the lovely story about creativity, reliance on technology, and the love of family, it’s got Monchi, played by famous doggie personality Doug the Pug....
The Best Lightsaber Fight We’ll Never See, According To Star Wars Stunt Coordinator Nick Gillard Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/May 21, 2022 12:01 pm EST “The Phantom Menace” isn’t the most popular “Star Wars” movie, and in a lot of ways, the long-awaited prequel and first theatrical series entry since “Return of the Jedi” wound up being upstaged by “The Matrix” and its revolutionary action techniques in 1999. However, despite its many flaws, “Phantom Menace” does feature one of the most memorable lightsaber fights in “Star Wars” history....
The Book Of Boba Fett Navigates The Wild, Crime-Ridden ‘Streets Of Mos Espa’ Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Jan. 12, 2022 9:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for the new episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Robert Rodriguez returns to the director’s chair for the third episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” dubbed “The Streets of Mos Espa.” Where last week’s episode kept us rooted mostly in the past, this episode brings us back into the present where Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) struggles with the respect required to control a place as wild as Mos Espa....
