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Pam And Tommy Director Hannah Fidell Lets Silence Speak Loudly [Interview] Hulu By Jack Giroux/March 3, 2022 12:46 pm EST Hannah Fidell tells stories through the eyes and ears of her characters. The filmmaker behind “A Teacher,” both the acclaimed film and the FX show, expresses point-of-view in a way that’s both dramatic and cinematic. In the case of her episode of “Pam & Tommy,” titled “Pam in Wonderland,” the pauses can be as painful as the unsettling dialogue....

RWBY: Ice Queendom Trailer: The Hit Web Series Gets An Anime Spin-Off Rooster Teeth By Joshua Meyer/March 27, 2022 10:36 am EST “RWBY,” the anime-influenced American CG web series, is getting the true Japanese anime treatment in 2022. Rooster Teeth Productions is partnering with the Japanese animation studio, Shaft, for the spinoff, “RWBY: Ice Queendom,” and has accompanied its announcement of the series with an English-subtitled trailer. “RWBY” was created by the late Monty Oum in 2013 and has since gone on to air eight volumes, with a ninth that is also on the way in 2022....

The Annecy Festival Will Get A First Look At Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/May 26, 2022 10:36 am EST Once upon a time, Netflix was a haven for ambitious animated projects that couldn’t find a home, picking up stop-motion movies by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and Henry Selick that had long struggled to secure funding. It even stepped in to save the animated movie version of ND Stevenson’s ground-breaking LGBTQ+ fantasy comic book series “Nimona” after Disney shut down its original studio, Blue Sky, and pushed back against a same-sex kiss in the film....

The Apartment Ending Explained: Shut Up And Deal United Artists By Mike Shutt/Feb. 2, 2022 12:29 pm EST Few directors nail endings as well as Billy Wilder, with even fewer (perhaps none) as consistently. The director’s best films all culminate in a line or a moment that makes your heart soar into the sky or sink to the bottom of the ocean. From Norma Desmond’s haunting and frequently misquoted, “All right, Mr....

A Fracture at his Core Warner Bros. Thus far, we’ve mostly only seen Oswaldo Cobblepot looking intimidating or, well, being intimidated by an out-of-control Batman. Despite Colin Farrell’s previous quotes that fans shouldn’t expect much more than a brief supporting role for the Penguin, it’s also safe to say that the marketing has held back on much of his presence in the film. For example, we’ve only received a hint as to his actual personality through a few lines of dialogue....

The Final Season Of Star Trek: Picard Has Already Finished Filming Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/March 9, 2022 3:00 pm EST I’m not caught up yet on “Star Trek: Picard,” so this news hits me a little easier than it might hit you. A little easier, but not much. I am sad to report that, according to star Jeri Ryan’s Twitter, “Star Trek: Picard” season 3 has wrapped filming. This will be the third and final season of the series, and I’m not ready to say goodbye to Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) yet....

The Kill Room: Samuel L. Jackson And Uma Thurman To Reunite For Dark Comedy Showtime By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 1, 2022 1:41 pm EST Acting legends Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman are reuniting on the big screen by teaming up for a thrilling dark comedy named “The Kill Room” (via The Hollywood Reporter). Jackson and Thurman starred together in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 “Pulp Fiction,” and made a joint appearance alongside John Travolta as a part of the film’s 28th-year reunion at the Academy Awards last week....

“I’m grateful these Marvel movies with Thor and Loki are popular right now” Focus Features Most modern audiences’ conception of Norse mythology comes from the “Thor” movies. What are some aspects about those myths which have been lost in translation that you wanted to get across in your movie? Since Wagner put horns on helmets in his operas in the 19th century, pop culture has been reinventing Vikings to be whatever they want....

Opus Film By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 16, 2021 4:29 pm EST BookTok is leaking and it’s too late to stop its favorite YA series from taking over the world! Kind of. If your brain hasn’t rotted and you don’t spend an alarming amount of time swiping through what is unfortunately the generation-defining app TikTok, all of this might be brand new information for you, so let me break it down real quick....

Why Amy Heckerling Hated Working On National Lampoon’s European Vacation Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/May 21, 2022 8:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1985, Amy Heckerling was one of the most promising comedy directors working in Hollywood. Although most critics didn’t get it at the time, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” was one of the defining teen comedies of the era. Her follow-up, “Johnny Dangerously,” also missed with critics, but thanks to a high-wattage star turn by Michael Keaton and an uproariously profane performance by Richard Dimitri as the English-mangling mobster Roman Moronie, it has stood the test of time as a gloriously silly goof on gangster movies....

’90s Kids Horror Shows That Are Scarier Than You Remember Warner Bros. By Chad Collins/June 6, 2022 10:02 am EST Gateway horror has waned in recent years. Several decades ago, it seemed that every network had at least one or two distinctly horror-themed shows aimed at young audiences. Currently, the vagaries of genre have shifted more toward fantasy and dystopia, though the advent of digital streaming has reignited interest in several classic pieces of ’90s horror media....

12 Movies Like Step Brothers That Will Surely Make You Laugh Sony Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Jan. 19, 2022 11:26 am EST “Step Brothers” is one of the funniest movies of the 21st Century, and it’s a true testament to writer-director Adam McKay’s outlandish sense of humor. McKay is now established as one of the most important political filmmakers in the industry, spotlighting notorious scandals in his biopics “The Big Short” and “Vice....

Better Call Saul’s ‘Bagman’ Put The Cast In Just As Much Potential Danger As The Characters AMC By Rafael Motamayor/April 4, 2022 5:39 pm EST “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” are many things: meticulously plotted out, nerve-wracking, exquisitely acted and directed, critically acclaimed. But one thing they are not: a great advertisement for tourism in the New Mexico desert. From the very first episode of “Breaking Bad,” and the second episode of “Better Call Saul,” the desert became a place of danger, one for sketchy meetings at gunpoint, execution threats, actual executions....

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer Trailer: The Netflix True Crime Series Goes Back To The New York Of The ’70s And ’80s Imagine Documentaries By Anya Stanley/Dec. 15, 2021 4:47 pm EST “The whole world is attracted to Times Square, but in the late 70s, Times Square was considered an atrocity.” Last year, Joe Berlinger’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” anthology docuseries, focused on the mysterious death of Elisa Lam, got the eyes of 45 million households watching on Netflix in its first month....

Daily Podcast: Star Wars Celebration 2022 Preview Lucasfilm By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2022 2:31 pm EST On the May 19, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by editor Brad Oman to talk about Star Wars Celebration 2022, and speculate wildly about what might happen. In Our Feature Presentation: Star Wars Celebration 2022 Preview Celebration memories from the past Two year postponement Panels Will there even be any big news after this Vanity Fair article?...

Downton Abbey: A New Era Review: A Vibrant And Emotional Sequel That Brings Out The Best Of These Charming Characters Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/April 25, 2022 7:00 pm EST It didn’t seem to matter that “Downton Abbey” had come to a close with its sixth and final season, because people wanted more of these characters. I hopped aboard the show right around its third season when it was airing on PBS’ Masterpiece Theater in the US....

Easter Eggs You May Have Missed In Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Paramount By Collier Jennings/April 8, 2022 11:00 am EST Warning: the following post contains spoilers for “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”. “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” has hit theaters and it looks to be one of the rare video game-based movies that succeeds in being both a satisfying standalone story, and also a love letter to fans of the original games — at least, from where I’m standing....

Final Destination Originally Had A Very Different Ending New Line Cinema By BJ Colangelo/April 27, 2022 9:26 am EST When we think of a horror franchise, the first image that comes to mind is likely a slasher film. But the 2000s brought a horror franchise with an even more relentless villain than all of the heavy hitters like Freddy, Jason, Chucky, and Leatherface combined. Directed by James Wong and based on an original story idea from Jeffrey Reddick, “Final Destination” ushered in the horror scene of the new millennium by pitting teenagers against the greatest enemy imaginable — death itself....

How All About Eve Revived The Career Of A Hollywood Legend 20th Century Studios By Anthony Crislip/March 23, 2022 12:05 pm EST While many movies have used the setting of show business as a backdrop for larger stories about greed or ambition, few have done it with the venom of “All About Eve.” Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ 1950 film about the cruel and unforgiving world of the theater tells the story of two women at odds with one another: one older, an established and beloved actress, the other younger, hungry for more and prepared to do whatever she can to get it....

How Hayao Miyazaki’s Career Almost Ended Before It Began Studio Ghibli By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 21, 2022 2:00 pm EST The great Hayao Miyazaki almost quit being an animator before he even really got off the ground. Through Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki has produced a rich library of Japanese animated classics, with “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away” being his breakthrough hits in the West. When he was starting out, however, Miyazaki went through a dry patch where he was close to giving up on the pursuit of his animation career....