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A Quick Recap Warner Bros. The season premiere of “Raised by Wolves” kicks off with a group of atheist colonists finding Mother in the jungle. They bring her back to run some tests at the behest of their overlord, who happens to be some kind of artificial intelligence. While complaining about being bossed around by a robot, one of the colonists digs in Mother’s guts. This triggers a defense mechanism that causes contact with her blood to mutate human flesh, quickly turning the poor colonist into a nightmarish Cronenbergian freak....

The Reason Gene Hackman Was Fired From The Graduate Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/March 14, 2022 1:05 pm EST Nobody likes to be fired, especially if you are still trying to find solid footing within your profession. Getting fired amplifies every single insecurity within yourself, but sometimes the job just was not meant to be. But when it comes to acting, getting fired is probably even rarer than in most other jobs....

The Staircase Review: Colin Firth And Toni Collette Are Equally Strong In This Expansion Of The True Crime Saga HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2022 10:00 am EST What happened to Kathleen Peterson? True crime aficionados, especially those who watched the docuseries “The Staircase,” have their theories. Said theories can be distilled down into two primary choices: Kathleen’s death was an accident caused by a fall, or Kathleen was murdered by her husband, Michael Peterson....

Upcoming Romantic-Comedies To Keep On Your Radar Universal Pictures By Shania Russell/Dec. 28, 2021 11:23 am EST The romantic-comedy genre has suffered its share of indignities over the years, often the subject of jokes, parody, and eyerolls. It’s even survived a few death hoaxes, with people claiming that rom-coms are dead and the time for big studio romances is in the past. But even though the hits keep coming, nothing stands a chance against the power of a well executed romantic-comedy....

The perks of filming on-location 1091 Pictures The trailer for Waititi’s “Ragnarok” sequel, “Thor: Love and Thunder,” opens with an in-camera, one-shot montage (this time in the form of a tracking shot) of Thor running through a forest at different ages, evoking this scene from “Hunt for the Wilderpeople.” Still, for as much as Waititi has carried over the tricks he used in his early New Zealand indie movies into his big-budget films, there’s one aspect he’s had to leave behind: The real-world locations around his native island country where he shot Ricky and Hector’s odyssey....

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi Lucasfilm One of the few actors to escape the Star Wars prequels with his career intact, Ewan McGregor is pretty much the lone bright spot of all three movies. Although known in the indie world for his work in “Trainspotting” before “The Phantom Menace” started shooting, McGregor’s professional trajectory has gone nowhere but up since he first appeared in a galaxy far, far away, a tribute to both his talent and his charisma....

2nd Chance Review: The Wild True Story Of The Inventor Of The Bulletproof Vest [Sundance 2022] Sundance Institute By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 24, 2022 5:30 pm EST This is the story of Richard Davis. After not one but two different pizza shops owned by Davis burned to the ground in 1969, Davis moved on to something different: Inventing the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove it worked when he was just getting started out, Davis staged demonstrations in which he would slap on the vest and then shoot himself point-blank in the chest....

You can’t ever really leave the life of a spy As our own Hoai-Tran Bui pointed out a while back, Pine has been attached to the film for a number of years, and in 2017, he was reported to star opposite Michelle Williams. Here is the synopsis for “All the Old Knives:” When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham (Chris Pine) is assigned to root out the mole from among his former officemates at the agency’s Vienna station....

American McGee’s Alice Is Becoming A TV Show, X-Men And Watchmen Screenwriter Attached Electronic Arts By Ryan Scott/Jan. 31, 2022 2:22 pm EST A pretty unique take on “Alice In Wonderland” is getting the TV treatment. “American McGee’s Alice,” the violent interpretation of author Lewis Carroll’s works from the early 2000s, is being adapted for TV by Radar Pictures. What’s more, David Hayter (“X-Men, “The Scorpion King”) is on board to script the adaptation of the video game for the small screen....

Benedict Cumberbatch Hopes Horror Fans Keep Their Doctor Strange 2 Expectations In Check Marvel Studios By Fatemeh Mirjalili/May 2, 2022 10:00 am EST It’s a year of change for Marvel Studios. A distinct shift in theme has occurred since Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe began — with “WandaVision” and “Moon Knight,” we’ve plunged into an era that uses Marvel’s traditional heroes but allows for a more complex storytelling narrative that can teeter on the edge of what can be called “family-friendly....

Co-Creator Nick Antosca Doesn’t Think Brand New Cherry Flavor Was Supposed To Be Perfect Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/June 22, 2022 10:29 am EST “Brand New Cherry Flavor” might not have been a perfect show in the eyes of its creator, but it is a delectable little fever dream, a cherry topped slice of a body horror cake that’s covered in a solid layer of surreal LA frosting. It goes down smooth and comes right back up even smoother, like vomiting up a gooey kitten....

DC Superhero Movie Blue Beetle Adds Sharon Stone As Villain Victoria Kord TriStar Pictures By Ben F. Silverio/March 29, 2022 5:45 pm EST The jury is still out on whether or not Zach Braff will get to play the Ted Kord version of the Blue Beetle opposite Donald Faison’s Booster Gold on “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” on The CW. However, it looks like the DC Extended Universe is looking to play a different Kord in the upcoming “Blue Beetle” film starring Xolo Maridueña as the working-class Mexican American teen hero Jaime Reyes....

Every Alternate Death Scene For Alien’s Lambert Explained 20th Century Studios By Hannah Shaw-Williams/June 24, 2022 10:38 am EST Throughout the many versions of the script for “Alien,” there was one scene that always stayed more or less the same: the “chestburster” sequence where John Hurt’s character, Kane, suddenly gives birth to an alien at the dinner table. Initial Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett knew early on that they wanted to have the alien impregnate one of the crew members of the Nostromo, resulting in a truly horrifying demise....

Gentleman Jack Is A Speed-Walking Contradiction In ‘A Lucky And Narrow Escape’ HBO By Shania Russell/May 23, 2022 11:00 pm EST We interrupt your regularly scheduled lesbian period drama to bring you this breaking news update: Anne Lister was a Tory. This is certainly not new information (see: Anne in the pilot, putting her tenants in their place. Or Anne last week, telling a crying preteen servant girl to accept her lot in life and work harder), but given the political uproar in Halifax, her politics are especially front and center in “A Lucky and Narrow Escape....

Jack Ryan To End After Season 4, But A Michael Peña-Led Spin-Off Is Being Considered Prime Video By Joshua Meyer/May 9, 2022 10:18 pm EST “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” the Prime Video series starring John Krasinski, will reportedly be ending after four seasons. Only two seasons of “Jack Ryan” have aired thus far, and the last was back in October 2019 before the pandemic hit. In February of that year, the series received an early pickup for a third season before its second season had even aired, and now its ending has received an early announcement while production on the fourth season is still underway....

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Ending Explained: A Prequel That Enriches The Series Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/March 24, 2022 8:46 am EST The new anime film “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” features stunning animation, memorable characters, a great mix of action, horror and comedy, along with a story that is as epic as it is intimate and emotional. It is also a perfect entry point into one of the most popular anime series right now....

A Great Biopic? Wouldn’t It Be Loverly Warner Bros. Biopics, especially those about famous actors, are admittedly a dicey prospect, no matter who’s making them. As /Film’s Kayleigh Donaldson wrote about in her feature, “Why Biopics Are Bad For Acting,” they too often lead people to conflate a vivid imitation of a real-life person whose mannerisms are well-documented with being a subtle or nuanced performance, be that the case or not....

That’s not Egypt Disney First and foremost, Diab wanted to make sure to correct the usual whiffing of Egypt’s geography: “As an Egyptian, most of the time that you see Egypt in movies, it’s not Egypt. They’ll shoot a different country for Egypt, but imagine seeing Paris and then seeing Big Ben in the back. It hurts. Or it’s shot in a way that shows the pyramids in the desert. If you actually panned just a little bit, the Pyramids are in the middle of [Cairo]....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Producer Amy Pascal Explains How Past Actors Were Convinced To Return Sony Pictures Releasing By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 20, 2021 10:22 am EST It’s clear that one of the cornerstones of making “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was that several of the hero’s villains from past incarnations of the character return to fight another battle. But how do you convince an actor to give time to a cameo of their past character — especially in a superhero tentpole film where it could end up being a waste of that actor’s time?...

Release Date and Poster for Obi-Wan Kenobi Lucasfilm “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” the upcoming limited original series from Lucasfilm, will debut May 25, exclusively on Disney+. The series stars Ewan McGregor, reprising his role as the iconic Jedi Master alongside Hayden Christensen in the role of Darth Vader. Get a gander at the new “Obi-Wan Kenobi” teaser poster below! Obi-Wan Kenobi, a limited Original series, starts streaming May 25 on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/XCV1xQZhDR — Star Wars (@starwars) February 9, 2022...