The Animated Flop That Nearly Killed (And Saved) The Iron Giant Warner Bros. Pictures By Collier Jennings/Feb. 16, 2022 4:11 pm EST “The Iron Giant” is many things. A parable on how someone can choose their own path in life — even if that someone is a massive robot from outer space. An example of how the medium of animation can yield stories as engaging and creative as any in live-action....
The Best Scene From Stranger Things 4 Is Now Officially Online Netflix By Danielle Ryan/June 3, 2022 11:40 am EST The first part of the fourth season of “Stranger Things” has been available on Netflix for a week now, and one scene has weighed heavily on everyone’s minds. A scene starring Sadie Sink as Max and featuring Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” has become this season’s defining moment, so much so that fans have propelled Bush’s song to the top of the iTunes charts....
The Film Genre That Inspired John Singleton’s Four Brothers Paramount By Anthony Crislip/June 8, 2022 4:18 pm EST Just a decade after the release of his 1991 classic debut “Boyz N The Hood,” John Singleton began to work pretty much exclusively on action films, devising his own slick, polished style for franchise sequels like 2000’s “Shaft” and 2003’s “2 Fast 2 Furious.” The social issue dramas on which his career had been built, movies with richness and depth like “Poetic Justice” or the unjustly ignored hate-crime saga “Rosewood,” were left behind....
The Morning Watch: Uncharted Honest Trailer, The Vehicles Of Halo’s TV Series & More Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/May 11, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, listen as the Honest Trailer for “Uncharted” makes it clear that we’ve gotten to many bad versions of “The Mummy” in the past couple years....
The Plot: Mahershala Ali Never Stops Working, Sets Up New Hulu Series A24 By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 11, 2022 9:38 am EST Mahershala Ali is keeping himself busy and we’re reaping all of the benefits. On top of making his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in an upcoming Netflix thriller, and performing in director Benjamin Cleary’s sci-fi film “Swan Song,” Ali is also the driving force behind the TV adaptation of “The Plot,” which will be debuting on Hulu via Disney’s Onyx Collective brand....
The Rock’s Script Wasn’t Enough To Satisfy Nicolas Cage Hollywood Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 23, 2022 1:46 pm EST In retrospect, Nicolas Cage’s casting in Michael Bay’s bloated 1996 noise-fest “The Rock” was a little odd. In the film, Cage plays Stanley Goodspeed, a chemical weapons expert who isn’t used to operating in the field. It’s established in dialogue that Stanley has never used a gun, but he finds himself being taken along on a high-stakes raid on Alcatraz, where nerve gas-equipped missiles have been set up, merely to defuse the weapons....
Three New Star Wars Games Announced, Including Jedi: Fallen Order Sequel Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Jan. 25, 2022 11:50 am EST It’s a big day for “Star Wars” fans who like to explore a galaxy far, far away beyond the movies and TV shows, as Lucasfilm Games has announced not one, but three games officially in development with Electonic Arts and Respawn Entertainment, the company behind the wildly popular “Apex Legends.” While none of the “Star Wars” games have official titles yet, one of them is going to be the sequel to 2019’s much-acclaimed “Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order,” which had been all but confirmed up to this point but now is officially official....
Why Miles Teller Hesitated To Accept His Role In Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Pictures By Christian Gainey/May 6, 2022 5:05 pm EST Like many, I first spotted Miles Teller in 2011’s totally unnecessary but likable “Footloose” remake. Reboots don’t generally create a breakout star, so I didn’t think his take on Willard made him destined for greatness or future blockbusters. But I like awkward underdogs with sarcastic tendencies, which is his “Footloose” role in a nutshell....
Why The Sopranos Had To Kill Christopher In Season 6 HBO By Michael Boyle/April 29, 2022 9:49 am EST One of the more unique aspects of “The Sopranos” was the way it killed off its major characters. Season 2 featured its main antagonistic figure Richie Aprile (David Proval) being taken down not by any of the main gangsters, but by a spur-of-the-moment decision made by his fiancée, Janice (Aida Turturro). Season 4 showed Ralph (Joe Pantoliano) getting killed halfway through the episode out of retaliation for suspicion of him killing a horse....
Why You Should Revisit The Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy Sony By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 16, 2021 4:00 pm EST With Tom Holland’s Peter Parker web-slinging his way back to theaters this weekend, it’s impossible not to feel nostalgic about everything the boy hero (in all his forms) has been through. For nearly two decades now, live-action variations of Spider-Man have been saving the world and growing up in front of our eyes in the process....
Year Of The Vampire: True Blood Sucked The World Into The Love Of Vampires Again HBO By Jenna Busch/March 12, 2022 10:55 am 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.) Every generation has its vampire show. Our grandparents had “Dark Shadows,” some of us older folks had “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and after that, we got “True Blood....
You’ll Never Escape The Scariest Scene In Final Destination 2 New Line Cinema By Matt Donato AND Ariel Fisher/Jan. 28, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror with your tour guides, horror experts Matt Donato and Ariel Fisher. In this edition: Matt recalls the scariest scene in any “Final Destination,” and Ariel reluctantly agrees … sort of.) I cast no shade by chasing Ariel’s “Final Destination 3” pick with the title’s elder sibling....
A Quiet Place: Day One Paramount Pictures Fans will no doubt begin to immediately speculate about what that title could imply. Without established characters like the Abbott family, led by Emily Blunt’s matriarch Evelyn, the spin-off is expected to follow new characters in a completely different location than the first two movies. In “Part II,” viewers caught a frenzied glimpse of the “day one” that the extraterrestrials landed on Earth, wreaking havoc on the Abbott family in particular before the action is moved forward by several years into the present....
Black Adam Trailer Breakdown: The Rock Has Super Powers, But He’s No Hero Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/June 8, 2022 1:40 pm EST Sometimes movies take years to get made. It’s just the nature of the beast. Even under the most optimistic of circumstances, a movie will take a couple of years from conception to release. But in some cases, a movie will take a really long time to see the light of day, and such is the case with “Black Adam” which, after well over a decade of development, finally has a trailer....
Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Uses Nostalgia To Look To The Future Disney+ By Barry Levitt/May 20, 2022 4:00 pm EST This post contains minor spoilers and story elements of “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers.” Are there any original ideas left in Hollywood? It’s a question that’s posed virtually every time a new remake, reboot, or sequel is announced. It’s certainly one asked when it was revealed that Disney’s beloved animated chipmunks were returning in the form of Akiva Schaffer’s “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers....
Christian Bale’s American Psycho Co-Stars Thought He Sucked At Acting Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/April 1, 2022 11:18 am EST Bret Easton Ellis’ novel “American Psycho” was published in 1991, serving as the final nail in the coffin for the once-flourishing toxic yuppie culture of Reagan’s 1980s. The protagonist of the book, Patrick Bateman, was a soulless stock-handling wonk and occasional serial killer whose intense obsessions with wealth, status, and the empty popular culture of the ’80s continually drove him to depravity and murder....
With a name like Unprecedented AJH Films Holder himself said in a statement about the documentary (again via Variety), “When we began this project in September 2020, we could have never predicted that our work would one day be subpoenaed by Congress […] As a British filmmaker, I had no agenda coming into this. We simply wanted to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately....
Frozen Went Through Many Iterations Walt Disney Animation Studios As per producer Del Vecho, every film the “Frozen” team has worked on led them in a different direction than their preconceived notions. If they were clever enough to see it through, the movie would end up being a lot more different than planned. While working on “Frozen,” the creative team decided to make a movie about Elsa, an evil female villain, and Anna, an innocent female heroine....
Elmo Is Right About Rocco And He Should Say It PBS By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 6, 2022 4:03 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything.) Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two decades, there’s been an ongoing beef on the streets of “Sesame Street,” that is finally hitting critical mass. Elmo, the beloved three-and-a-half-year-old red muppet monster has been thrust into the non-elementary aged spotlight, but this time it’s not for a massive toy craze or to promote his new Not-Too-Late Show, but because the world has finally become privy to a feud that makes Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel look like besties....
Everything We Know About The A Quiet Place Spin-Off So Far Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 20, 2022 10:10 am EST The John Krasinski-directed “A Quiet Place” was one of the rare original mid-budget films to hit it big at the box office in the past five years. It was also a captivating director-driven genre movie in which Krasinski used its setting — a world where the planet has been overrun by blind alien creatures that are extremely sensitive to sound — as a springboard for telling a personal story about parents and their relationship with their children....
