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Youn Yuh-Jung Sees Pachinko As A Story About Looking To The Future [Interview] AppleTV+ By Shania Russell/April 1, 2022 1:35 pm EST Based on the bestselling novel from Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko” traces a family history through three generations, largely revolving around the life of Sunja, the prized daughter of a proud family who believes she will carry on their legacy. Set against the backdrop of war, with Sunja growing up in Japanese-occupied Korea, “Pachinko” is the story of her perseverance as she fights to build a home for generations of her family to come....

10 Banned Horror Movies That Found A Home In The US Warner Bros. Pictures By Ryan Leston/June 10, 2022 8:51 am EST It’s been a long time since the video nasties of the ’80s gave pause to U.K. censors. Nevertheless, horror movies remain one of the most banned film genres across the globe. Whether it’s the leather-faced antics of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” or the gross-out horror of “The Human Centipede,” governments and censors across the world still blame the corruption of youth on these cinematic horrors....

15 Movies Like Greenland That Are Definitely Worth Watching STXfilms By Chad Collins/Dec. 28, 2021 7:33 pm EST Disaster movies are as enduring as, well, world ending disasters themselves. Despite a world where it frequently feels like the end of days, there’s something curiously cathartic about watching the world crumble on a jumbo cinema screen. In recent years, the disaster subgenre, in some sense, has become synonymous with director Roland Emmerich, a filmmaker with an uncanny knack for blowing things up....

Dr. Brain Trailer This trailer and the prospect of seeing Kim Jee-woon cross over from film into television has definitely garnered my interest. I remain a low-key advocate for Apple TV+ shows, and not just because of “Foundation” and the Emmy-winning “Ted Lasso.” Just last Friday, the streamer premiered the first three episodes of “Invasion,” which reframes the typical alien invasion story (by its nature, predicated on the idea that we’re not alone in the universe) as a character drama about humans who are each, in their own way, alone in the world....

Edie Falco To Play Pete Davidson’s Mom In Peacock’s Biographical Comedy Series Bupkis Showtime By Jenna Busch/May 16, 2022 9:18 pm EST Is there something we didn’t know about Pete Davidson’s life? If there is, that will be remedied soon, friends. At the NBC Universal Upfront presentation today, we learned from the Peacock segment that the role of Davidson’s mom has been cast for the upcoming autobiographical comedy “Bupkis.” What? You say you aren’t a writer, but you could probably pen a comedy about him because every third news story is about him and his personal life/tattoos/relationship?...

Episode 6: Murn After Reading HBO Max Track 1: “New Thing” by Enuff Z’Nuff As much as it pains Detectives Song and Fitzgibbon, the Evergreen Police Department is forced to let White Dragon go free. As Auggie Smith reveals that he’s going to eliminate his son once and for all, this track begins to play around 9:54. It continues as Peacemaker returns home after show and tell to feed Eagly and Butterfly Goff....

Every Star Trek Episode Title That Is Actually A Shakespeare Reference Paramount By Witney Seibold/June 23, 2022 3:00 pm EST A recent episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” — called “The Serene Squall” — opened with a conversation between T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) and Spock (Ethan Peck) on the lack of sexual passion in their long-distance relationship. T’Pring reveals that, since Spock has been living among humans, she has been reading several human authors said to be experts in sexuality....

Night on Bald Mountain Walt Disney Productions Unfortunately, while “Fantasia” was a groundbreaking achievement, it was also doomed. The idea of a series of experimental short films set to classical music was simply too much for audiences who had fallen in love with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Others found the idea of a cartoon for children engaging on equal terms with high art to be a ridiculous idea. To be fair, if you aren’t willing to take the film on its own terms, “Fantasia” is a tough sit....

The blood Lionsgate In the same interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rock’s co-star Max Minghella revealed that the death traps — just as elaborate in “Spiral” has they have been throughout the series — were impressive and, in some cases, fully functional. Which means actors had to be strapped into them as act as if they were being tortured. Additionally, there is a great deal of blood used in “Saw” movies, as there will have to be at least one saw ripping through human flesh....

Law & Order Has Been Renewed For Season 22 After Its Successful Return NBC By Jeremy Mathai/May 11, 2022 10:34 am EST Dads and uncles worldwide, rejoice! One of television’s most successful and longest-running shows to ever hit cable apparently still has some juice to wring out of it, over three decades later. Not even 12 years of remaining off the airwaves after its cancellation could put a nail in the coffin for “Law & Order,” which made its return for season 21 earlier this year....

Paramount Movie Network Has Been Nixed Paramount Network By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 24, 2022 10:01 pm EST A major rebrand of Paramount Network that’s been in the works for over a year has now been reversed, according to Deadline. The change in strategy reportedly comes in part thanks to the continued success of the network’s biggest series, “Yellowstone.” In September 2020, the channel’s parent company, ViacomCBS, reportedly started making moves towards turning the network into Paramount Movie Network....

Rebel Without A Cause Ending Explained: The Immortal James Dean Warner Bros. By Anthony Crislip/March 24, 2022 1:15 pm EST James Dean’s significance as an icon — so potent that he’s apparently being resurrected by CGI in an upcoming film – goes far beyond the three film performances he delivered. His is the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of adolescent cool and alienation. It’s hard to separate him from his screen persona, just as it’s hard to separate him from the tragic circumstances around his death at 24, driving fast down a California freeway....

Steven Spielberg Only Trusted One Man To Bring Jurassic Park To Life Universal By Andrew Housman/March 3, 2022 1:15 pm EST The revolutionary technology of “Jurassic Park” was so groundbreaking at the time that its impact is difficult to imagine for those who weren’t around when the film was first released. Audiences today are used to giant spectacles brought to life through mostly CGI, but “Jurassic Park” represented a huge step in visual effects for cinema, fully realizing the possibility of bringing dinosaurs to life on the big screen....

Tales Of The Walking Dead: Release Date, Cast, And More AMC By Ryan Scott/June 6, 2022 6:42 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.) “The Walking Dead” is without a doubt one of the defining cable TV shows of the last decade. Based on Robert Kirkman’s wildly popular zombie comic of the same name from Image Comics, the show on AMC managed to bring horror to mainstream TV in a gigantic way, becoming one of the most popular shows on all of television — by a wide mile mind you....

Three Days of the Condor Paramount Pictures The opening scene of 1975’s “Three Days of The Condor” name-checks both Dick Tracy and Dashiell Hammett, the novelist behind Humphrey Bogart’s classic “The Maltese Falcon.” Spy movies and classic film noirs have a lot in common. They’re both procedural mysteries with a central hero pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy they must solve or die. Robert Redford plays Joseph Turner, a bookish CIA analyst working in a Manhattan spook shop hidden in plain sight....

The Afterparty Actor Ike Barinholtz On His Character’s Hilarious Urinal Stand-Off With Dave Franco [Interview] Apple TV+ By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2022 9:15 am EST Ike Barinholtz has an unironic appreciation of action movie hero Steven Seagal. Maybe not so much the late-stage, direct to video, filmed-in-Bucharest-because-of-absurd-tax-breaks era of Seagal’s filmography, but, as he told me in a recent interview, “[Seagal’s] personality was so strange and terrible and funny” that Barinholtz was oddly drawn to his movies....

The Classic Sci-Fi Short Story You Should Read After This Week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Paramount+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 9, 2022 2:42 pm EST This post contains spoilers for episode 6 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” It’s only been on the air for a little over a month, yet “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is already known for its deep cut pop culture references. The wildly entertaining “Star Trek: The Original Series” prequel show has already thrown it back to everything from “The Day the Earth Stood Still” to William Shatner in a mustache....

The Flash Star Grant Gustin Nears One-Year Deal, Opening Door For Season 9 The CW By Ben F. Silverio/Jan. 29, 2022 4:46 pm EST Despite reports of a potential sale of The CW, the Arrowverse is still trucking along. The network announced recently that the long-running, interconnected DC Comics-based universe would be expanding, thanks to a brand new show starring David Ramsey called “Justice U.” After appearing in the franchise’s flagship series “Arrow” for eight seasons and guest-starring on other shows such as “Legends of Tomorrow” and “Supergirl,” Ramsey’s John Diggle (aka Spartan) finally gets to helm his own show....

The Morning Watch: Designing Moon Knight’s Armor, On Set With The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel & More Marvel Entertainment By BJ Colangelo/May 13, 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.)...

The Stranger Review: A Bleak And Subdued Australian Thriller Starring Joel Edgerton [Cannes] See-Saw Films By Rafael Motamayor/May 22, 2022 11:57 am EST Featuring great performances from its two incredibly bearded leading men, and bosting a twist that offers something truly unique to the true crime genre, “The Stranger” takes loose inspiration from a true story to deliver a bleak yet subdued thriller. Sadly, the film banks everything on this reveal, which recontextualizes everything that came before but deflates all the tension....