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Hacks Season 2 Adds Ming-Na Wen, Laurie Metcalf, & More To Recurring Cast A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 20, 2022 12:14 pm EST HBO Max’s “Hacks” already boasts one of the funniest casts on TV, but the series is upping the ante in season two with the announcement of four new actors. Variety reports that Laurie Metcalf, Martha Kelly, and Ming-Na Wen will be joining the show as recurring guest stars, with Margaret Cho also guest starring....

Jurassic Park’s CGI Tech Was A Test Of Patience For Its Stars Universal Pictures By Steven Ward/June 13, 2022 2:21 pm EST Few examples of early CGI in films hold up with each passing decade — fewer still can lay claim to actually looking better than modern renderings. Enter “Jurassic Park,” a film that boasts such impressive digitally-enhanced dinosaurs that even modern attempts just don’t cut it in comparison. But the extinct creatures in Steven Spielberg’s film were brought to life using a mixture of both practical effects and CGI wizardry....

Psychokinesis Netflix It may come as a shock, but there are awesome superhero movies that exist outside of the canon of Marvel and DC. In “Psychokinesis,” the very first superhero movie ever made in South Korea, a bank security guard gains telekinetic superpowers after drinking water from a mountain spring affected by a meteor, and chooses to use his new powers to save his estranged daughter and her neighborhood from an evil construction company....

Nielsen Will Start Releasing More Data About Streaming Ratings Sony Pictures Releasing By Lex Briscuso/Feb. 23, 2022 6:56 pm EST It looks like Nielsen, the age-old rating system that measures viewership, is making more moves to acquiesce to the digital age. And, at this point, it’s a smart business model. According to Variety, the company is expected to announce soon that it will collect streaming data from connected TV sets. That information will then give advertisers, media buyers, media companies, and other relevant parties more to work with as they attempt to understand how audiences behave across different screens and platforms....

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe Has A Big Problem After Morbius Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 12, 2022 3:00 pm EST Superheroes are by far the most reliable thing at the box office and have been, for going on at least 15 years now; though DC is locked up at Warner Bros. and the majority of Marvel’s characters are safely in the hands of Marvel Studios at Disney, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe ranking as the most bankable brand in all of entertainment....

Studio Ghibli Theme Park Concept Art Features Howl’s Moving Castle, Mononoke Village, And More Studio Ghibli By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 1, 2022 3:16 pm EST Beloved Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli has been working on opening a theme park since 2017. Now, with the November 1, 2022 opening date coming up fast, we’re finally getting a look at concept art of the coming attractions for Ghibli Park at Japan’s Aichi Prefecture in the Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park....

The Movie: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Disney The initial seeds of “Rogue One” were planted years and years ago, dating back to the first moments anyone ever saw of “Star Wars” on screen. In the opening text crawl of George Lucas’ seminal 1977 sci-fi flick, there were these two lines: “Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armoured space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet....

Pulp Fiction Miramax The No. 1 best Bruce Willis movie according to Letterboxd is “Pulp Fiction.” It’s a result that’s hard to argue with. Quentin Tarantino’s ensemble-led, commercial breakout film earned the director his first Academy Award nominations and first win for Best Screenplay, helped revitalize the career of John Travolta, made a star out of Uma Thurman, and gifted us with some iconic scenes and performances along the way....

The 20 Best Detective Movies Ranked Warner Bros. By Gino Orlandini/Feb. 25, 2022 3:59 pm EST Detective movies and film noir became synonymous in the 1940s with films like “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Big Sleep.” Both classics feature a rogue private eye played by Humphrey Bogart, framed in dramatic shadows, as he plays a daring game of wits with femme fatales and scheming elites. Of course, not all great noirs are detectives stories....

Desert Hearts The Samuel Goldwyn Company Released in 1985, “Desert Hearts” was revolutionary. The story is set in 1959, and it follows Vivian (Helen Shaver), an English professor from New York who visits Nevada to establish a teaching residency. She’s 35 (well on her way to becoming a spinster in that era), and going through a divorce. In Nevada, she meets Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), a younger woman who leads a completely different life of making art and living in the moment....

The Aviary Writer/Directors On Cults, Influencers, And Why Chris Messina Works As A Cult Leader [Interview] Paramount Pictures By Jenna Busch/April 29, 2022 10:59 am EST “The Aviary” hits theaters, digital, and on demand on April 29, 2022. The thriller stars Malin Akerman, Lorenza Izzo, and Chris Messina, and follows two women who flee into the New Mexican desert to escape a sinister cult. It’s a low-budget cult thriller that features a fantastic turn from Akerman, and a particularly chilling performance from Messina....

Back to the Future comes to Broadway Everyone knows the story by now: thanks to the irrepressible Marty McFly and the brilliant Doc, the pair changed the course of history forever once that gorgeous-looking DeLorean hit 85 miles per hour at the Twin Pines Mall at midnight. But what if that famous story was retold … but with musical numbers this time around? It doesn’t sound like this idea should work on paper, but Broadway’s conquered far more impossible-sounding challenges before....

The Biggest Challenge Dave Filoni Faced With The Clone Wars’ Final Season Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/May 3, 2022 4:12 pm EST The animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” led an unusual life. It began as a 2008 feature film that hastily stitched what were originally meant to be the first three episodes of the show together, with pretty clunky results. (That’s not to say it didn’t turn a profit; this is “Star Wars” we’re talking about....

The Book Of Boba Fett Delivers Expected Surprises In ‘From The Desert Comes A Stranger’ Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Feb. 2, 2022 10:01 am EST This will contain major spoilers for the sixth episode of “The Book of Boba Fett.” “Star Wars” wunderkind Dave Filoni returns to direct the sixth installment of “The Book of Boba Fett” called “From the Desert Comes a Stranger.” It begins with Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant revisiting the role he originated in the second season of “The Mandalorian”) driving the Pyke Syndicate from the Mos Pelgo territories....

The Daily Stream: The Swerve Is Essential If You Can Appreciate A Bleak Descent Into Madness Epic Pictures Group By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 19, 2021 6:27 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: The Swerve Where You Can Stream It: Tubi The Pitch: Holly is a housewife and mother who seemingly has a good life: a pretty solid teaching job, a loving husband who is about to be promoted, and a great set of kids....

The Duffer Brothers Have A ‘Very, Very Different’ Idea For A Stranger Things Spin-Off, And Only Finn Wolfhard Knows What It Is Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 23, 2022 4:44 pm EST They say all good things must come to an end, but in our sequel, prequel, and spin-off fueled pop culture landscape, it seems like some things don’t have to. As “Stranger Things” amps up for its final two seasons, it makes sense for all involved to start brainstorming ways in which the indelible world of Hawkins and the Upside Down can live on in some new capacity....

The Inescapable Feeling That Inspired Tim Burton To Make Edward Scissorhands By Lee Adams/March 11, 2022 10:38 am EST The crazy thing is, the chimp situation isn’t even the worst thing Tim Burton has done in the 21st century. But it was the moment when I started seeing his movies through different eyes. Before that, I was totally willing to forgive any blips or errors of judgement (“Mars Attacks!”) for the unconfined joy that many of his earlier films gave me....

Nancy Thompson’s Death in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 New Line Cinema Heather Langenkamp’s Nancy Thompson is one of horror’s most iconic final girls. Whereas the prior era of ’70s slashers often pushed women characters into flat roles that lacked agency, Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” showed 1984 (and the genre’s future) what could happen when you give power to your female characters to fight against the monsters in this world....

The Simpsons Casts Kerry Washington As Bart’s New Teacher, Replacing Mrs. Krabappel By Jeremy Mathai/April 21, 2022 12:16 pm EST Bart Simpson may never actually age throughout the entire 30-plus season run of “The Simpsons” (and counting!), but that doesn’t mean he or the show overall are immune to change. In one of the more significant additions to the incredibly long-running animated comedy series, the creators have finally found a permanent replacement for the beloved supporting character, Mrs....

The Terminal List Teaser: Chris Pratt Is Back In Action By Jeremy Mathai/March 8, 2022 10:49 am EST Though the streaming studio is clearly setting this series up as one of their prime (er, no pun intended) original offerings to lure more subscribers to the service, we’ve only received very few glimpses of the actual project to this point. That’s another trend that continues today, as our first real look at “The Terminal List” takes the form of a breezy 18-second teaser that’s mostly trying to sell potential viewers on a certain mood, as opposed to the actual story....