How Sissy Spacek Convinced Brian De Palma To Give Her The Role Of Carrie United Artists By Anthony Crislip/March 23, 2022 1:14 pm EST 1976’s “Carrie” climaxes with an unforgettable image — the one that got put on all the posters — of Sissy Spacek in a prom dress covered in blood. The best qualities of director Brian De Palma, master of erotic and lurid suspense (and a Hitchcock heir), come together in that moment....
Hustle Trailer: Adam Sandler Returns To Drama With Netflix Sports Movie Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 10, 2022 12:15 pm EST Adam Sandler is back in a Netflix original, this time taking on the mantle of a down-on-their-luck basketball scout who finds a potential star wishing to prove himself against all odds. The latest official trailer for Netflix’s “Hustle” just dropped, and we get a closer look at Sandler’s character, Stanley Beren, in for the long fight as his team is hesitant to back him up on his discovery of a generational talent....
Shooting The Abyss Nearly Killed James Cameron By Christian Gainey/April 22, 2022 12:57 pm EST James Cameron is a blockbuster director known for massive hits, like “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” “Titanic,” and “Avatar.” His films are always visually appealing, and often require technical innovations to pull off. However, Cameron’s films have also been criticized for focusing on spectacle while neglecting character and story development. While that just might be true in some cases, everyone still loves a good optical feast....
Snowpiercer Season 3 Trailer: We Keep Everyone As Alive As Possible, Minus An Arm Or Two TNT By Jenna Busch/Jan. 3, 2022 3:57 pm EST It’s almost time for “Snowpiercer” season 3, and if your eyes are as wide as Daveed Diggs’ in this picture, you’ll be happy to know that there is a new trailer out from TNT. We had one a month ago that revealed some secrets about the Earth healing and a mystery about a survivor, and this new one expands on those ideas....
South Park Finally Gave Liane Cartman A Win And We’re All Here For It Paramount+ By BJ Colangelo/June 27, 2022 3:31 pm EST Since the debut of “South Park” 25 years ago, the mother of the series’ greatest villain, Eric Cartman, has existed without any real arc that didn’t come at the expense of her own humanity. Liane Cartman is notably one of the only single parents in the town of South Park, Colorado, consistently doting on her sociopathic, bigoted child, and bending to his any and every desire....
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Could Bring Back Khan, But Should They? Paramount Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 1, 2022 10:10 pm EST This week, the TCA virtual winter press tour brought plenty of news about shows we love, along with several new ones we’re eager to check out. Somewhere in between lies “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” the upcoming Paramount+ series that will help expand the streamers’ Star Trek universe to new horizons....
Superhero Bits: Chris Hemsworth May Be Done With Thor, Marvel And DC Tribute Tim Sale & More Marvel Comics By Ryan Scott/June 17, 2022 4:45 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....
The Karate Kid II Reference You May Have Missed In Cobra Kai Season 4 Episode 4 Netflix By Jenna Busch/Dec. 31, 2021 9:30 am EST Decades before “Cobra Kai” made its mark, “The Karate Kid Part II” was one of the biggest films of 1986. In it, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) travels to Okinawa with Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) after he learns that his sensei’s father has passed away. While there, he falls in love with a young woman named Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita)....
The Original Get Out Ending Was Way Darker Universal By Anthony Orlando/April 26, 2022 12:26 pm EST Jordan Peele’s shocking debut film, “Get Out,” has one of the most clever and memorable endings to come out of cinema in recent years. In this modern horror classic, the Black protagonist, Chris, takes a trip with his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, to meet her parents at their house in the countryside. Chris is nervous about meeting them as he is led to believe that he is her first Black boyfriend....
The eyes hate it Disney Anyone who has seen Nebula in any of her four film appearances — Nebula appeared in two “Guardians of the Galaxy” films and two “Avengers” films — knows that she is a bald, blue-skinned, black-eyed cyborg with a robotic arm and a mechanical skull. According to an interview with Business Insider, makeup artist David White explains that Nebula’s facial prosthetics was even more complex than that of her space alien co-stars....
Marvel’s answer to DC’s Suicide Squad Marvel Studios The Thunderbolts, as a team, first debuted in the pages of “Incredible Hulk” #449 in 1997 and were created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley. The team has had many, many members over the years but the core idea of this being a group of bad guys carrying out dangerous missions has largely been at the core of it all. As for Schreier, he has directed music videos for artists such as Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, as well as TV such as “Dave” and “Brand New Cherry Flavor....
What Zack Snyder’s Justice League Hitting Digital Says About The Future Of Warner Bros. – And Streaming Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/June 29, 2022 3:18 pm EST Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” arrived on HBO Max last year, marking the end of a long, messy journey to see the director’s vision for the film realized. No need to rehash history here, but the theatrical version of the movie did not represent what Snyder had in mind....
12 Sci-Fi Movies To Watch If You Liked Lightyear Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Ryan Leston/June 17, 2022 3:30 pm EST It’s space, Buzz, but not as we know it. “Lightyear” brings Pixar’s toy hero to the big screen in his very own epic sci-fi adventure. An origin story like no other, “Lightyear” is the movie that inspired the action figure. As the tagline goes, “In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie … this is that movie....
A Quiet Place Can Be Traced Back To A Single Steven Spielberg Scene Platinum Dunes By Michael Boyle/March 25, 2022 11:30 am EST Back in the mid and late-’00s, when John Krasinski was mostly known as the guy playing the goofy, sarcastic Jim Halpert on “The Office,” it was impossible to imagine him writing, directing, and starring in one of the most successful horror movies in the past decade. “A Quiet Place” was a massive box office hit thanks in part to its unique premise: blind monsters with advanced hearing have taken over the earth, killing every human they find....
After Life Season 3 Trailer: There Are Angels — They Don’t Have Wings Or Live In Clouds Netflix By Jenna Busch/Jan. 4, 2022 11:53 am EST Did you need a good cry to start off 2022? Was Betty White’s death not enough to unfreeze your cold, black heart? If so, you’re in luck. Today Netflix has released a new trailer for the third and final season of “After Life” starring Ricky Gervais....
Chariot Director Adam Sigal Went From Being A Private Investigator To Filmmaker [Interview] Saban Films By Jack Giroux/April 18, 2022 5:59 pm EST Adam Sigal had a unique path towards filmmaking. Prior to getting behind the camera, he was a private investigator. He’s not the first to transition from that overly romanticized job to storytelling. As Sigal told us, there’s some crossover between the two gigs, both requiring observational eyes. One day, he decided to write a script, called “Daydreamer....
Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Anime A24 By Rafael Motamayor/March 25, 2022 2:00 pm EST It is still early in the year, but there is little doubt that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is one of the best movies of 2022. It’s a film about coming to terms with the choices you’ve made, about knowing that the world is on fire, staring at the dark abyss of despair, and choosing kindness and love instead....
Everything You Need To Know About Quinlan Vos Dark Horse Comics By Lyvie Scott/June 1, 2022 12:07 pm EST Warning: spoilers follow for Part III of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” It doesn’t take much to get a “Star Wars” fan excited. The mere mention of their favorite character — or even an allusion to a deep cut of “Star Wars” lore — is often enough to kick one’s imagination into overdrive. That’s definitely the case for the latest episode of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” which seems to tease a reunion with a beloved (if not lesser known) member of the Jedi order....
Good Omens Season 2 Rounds Out Its Cast; Benedict Cumberbatch & Frances McDormand Not Returning By Shania Russell/Jan. 26, 2022 11:02 am EST The Cast of Good Omens Season 2 Kicking off with the bad news first — not everyone is making a return to the end times. Benedict Cumberbatch and Frances McDormand, who voice Satan and God respectively, will not return for season 2. Perhaps the otherworldly rulers have had enough of Angel-Demon hijinks for one eternity....
Guillermo Del Toro’s Stop-Motion Pinocchio Movie Will Explore Heavy Themes About Humanity The Jim Henson Company By Anya Stanley/Dec. 29, 2021 5:50 pm EST From a ghost story set against the closing months of the Spanish Civil War to a romance amid Cold War-era American patriarchy, Guillermo del Toro does not let his movies’ settings go to waste. His latest is “Nightmare Alley,” an adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette....
