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Heartstopper Review: A Queer Romance That Knows Exactly How To Make Your Heart Flutter Netflix By Shania Russell/April 15, 2022 3:02 am EST The stories best suited to whisking us away from reality often promise unreachable worlds, fantastical creatures, and extraordinary characters. Then come worlds not so different from our own, yet so carefully crafted that their specificity triumphs above all else: there should be nothing novel about bustling high school hallways or expansive fields of grass, but when characters Nick (Kit Connor) and Charlie (Joe Locke) so much as share a glance, “Heartstopper” transports its audience to another plane entirely....

Here’s Why Stephen King Hated 1984’s Firestarter Universal By Bill Bria/April 27, 2022 5:13 pm EST Stephen King does not mince words when it comes to movies adapted from his novels. Indeed, the prolific author is famously a vocal critic of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” a film that is widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. King undeniably has his reasons for dismissing it, however, and even the most staunch fan of Kubrick’s film can understand where King is coming from....

Home Team: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Ryan Scott/Dec. 28, 2021 11:32 am 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.) Netflix has had a long, fruitful relationship with Adam Sandler, who has starred in several films for the streamer including “Murder Mystery” and “Sandy Wexler.” But his company Happy Madison is also producing films for the streamer as well....

How Pam & Tommy Used Prosthetics To Transform Lily James And Sebastian Stan (And Sebastian Stan’s Package) Hulu By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Feb. 3, 2022 4:10 pm EST “Is that Sebastian Stan’s actual penis” is the phrase I typed into Google shortly after watching episode two of Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” series. This purely scientific inquiry yielded interesting information about how the massive talking penis (voiced by Jason Mantzoukas) is:...

Matt Reeves Went Out Of The Box To Capture The Batman’s ‘Beautiful Imperfections’ Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/March 7, 2022 11:50 am EST The world has been full of superhero movies for well over a decade now, with no signs of the trend slowing down in the future. But one of the biggest of the big superheroes around recently got quite the makeover in “The Batman,” which sees Robert Pattinson in the cape and cowl with director Matt Reeves (“Cloverfield,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”) behind the camera....

Steven Spielberg’s True Influence On Color Out Of Space SpectreVision By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 29, 2022 11:19 am EST Richard Stanley’s sci-fi Lovecraftian horror, “Color Out of Space,” marked a comeback for the director after a span of 20 years. Best known for “Hardware” and “Dust Devils,” which morphed into cult classics years after their release, Stanley largely stepped away from the industry in the ’90s following his negative experiences as the director of “The Island of Dr....

The 15 Best George Clooney Movies, Ranked Warner Bros. By Liam Gaughan/Jan. 26, 2022 11:40 am EST George Clooney is one of the most charismatic actors on the planet, but Clooney’s inherent likeability shouldn’t disguise what a great actor he is. While Clooney has a classical “movie star” sensibility reminiscent of Old Hollywood stars like Cary Grant, he’s shown that he has incredible range and can deliver in all sorts of projects....

The Batman Funeral Clip Shows Peter Sarsgaard’s Gil Colson Making Quite An Entrance Warner Bros. Pictures By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Jan. 23, 2022 12:31 pm EST If you like to skip YouTube ads, you may miss out on the fresh clip of “The Batman” that Warner Bros. has released as a pre-video advertisement. The ad runs around two minutes and 40 seconds, and features Peter Sarsgaard’s Gil Colson as a last-minute funeral attendee....

Hughie’s supe era: the comics vs the show Prime Video First off, the actual power Hughie possesses is a little different than comic readers will remember, but superhuman strength and durability carry over in both iterations. After being injected with Temp V, Hughie becomes strong enough to punch a hole in a man’s chest. In the show, the unlucky victim is a lab guard in the Russian-controlled facility that hides Soldier Boy, whereas in the comics Hughie takes down an actual supe with his punch — Teenage Kix member Blarney Cock....

Mia Didn’t Deserve Her Fate Sony Pictures On Bloody Disgusting’s “Boo Crew” podcast, Álvarez explained that he originally had a very different ending in mind for his “Evil Dead” adaptation. In the original conclusion, they ended things much like in the 1980 original. Mia limps away from the house and the evil comes through the woods. She turns around and screams, and that would be the end, just like when Bruce Campbell’s Ash spun around at the end of the original....

The Northman Red Band Trailer: Heads Will Roll In This Viking Revenge Epic Focus Features By Ryan Scott/April 19, 2022 11:27 am EST When was the last time you saw a big Viking epic on the big screen? Better yet, when was the last time you saw an R-rated Viking epic from the same guy who made “The Witch?” Well, that’s exactly what is coming our way this weekend when “The Northman” hits theaters ,and the folks at Focus Features decided to give us one last trailer before the movie arrives....

The Wild Bunch’s Gruesome Finale Was As Brutal To Film As It Is To Watch Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/March 8, 2022 11:20 am EST In its 145 minute runtime, Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac Western “The Wild Bunch” tipped its hat to a bygone era while ushering in a new cinematic one. Near the Mexican-American border, a band of fading outlaws — that’s Pike Bishop (William Holden), Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine), and the brothers Gorch ( Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), a decimation of their former crew — reckon with the shift towards modernity and away from the old days of the West in 1913....

There’s A Reason Kaley Cuoco’s Harley Quinn Voice Is So Consistently Inconsistent HBO Max By Jenna Busch/July 1, 2022 10:09 am EST The HBO Max animated series “Harley Quinn” is coming back for its third season in July, and Harley (voice of Kaley Cuoco) and Poison Ivy (voice of Lake Bell) are not just fighting crime together. They’re a couple. It’s a much healthier relationship than when Harley was with the Joker (voice of Alan Tudyk)....

Tobe Hooper’s Idea For Leatherface’s Mask Actually Came From Greek Tragedy Bryanston Distributing Company By Miyako Pleines/May 7, 2022 11:58 am EST There’s a lot to be said about Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror film “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” It is a movie well worth taking the time to unpack, paying close attention to its not-so-subtle commentary on 1970s politics. There are, of course, many people who dislike it, finding it too raw and disturbing to ever be considered a work of art....

TV, Interrupted: High Fidelity Was The One That Got Away Hulu By Lyvie Scott/March 6, 2022 3:17 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) Growing up, I found that consuming TV as religiously as I did endeared me to two kinds of characters: the women of color who looked like me (but didn’t necessarily share many internal sensibilities), and the cranky, curmudgeonly white dudes that I felt were me personified....

Why Pushing Daisies was great ABC “Pushing Daisies” was great for a myriad of reasons almost as complex and detailed as the first 20 minutes of the pilot episode (aptly named “Pie-lette”). It blended genres without a second thought, combining murder mystery, romance, and comedy with specific thriller and horror elements. It periodically crosses into musical territory (when you have the great Kristin Chenoweth in your cast, you make use of her gifts!...

Uncharted Featurette Reveals The Toughest Stunt Tom Holland Has Ever Done Columbia Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Jan. 25, 2022 8:55 am EST Tom Holland has been involved in plenty of stunts over the past few years, beginning with his acrobatic Spider-Man audition. Despite his action-heavy role in six Marvel movies and counting, the actor has revealed that his most intense stunt work to date was done outside the Spidey suit. The stunt in question was performed for “Uncharted,” the long-awaited adaptation of the popular video game series of the same name....

Walker Scobell Was Uniquely Prepared To Play The Adam Project’s Young Ryan Reynolds Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/March 11, 2022 9:21 am EST “The Adam Project” is a sweet, sad, time travel-laced family adventure that you’re going to be hearing about non-stop for the next week or so. The film, directed by Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things,” “Free Guy”), is chockablock filled with stars, including Ryan Reynolds, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Catherine Keener, and is aiming for that perfect family niche....

Why Dustin Hoffman Didn’t Think He’d Get His Role In The Graduate Embassy Pictures By Mike Shutt/Feb. 28, 2022 2:13 pm EST Dustin Hoffman had never been the lead of a film before “The Graduate.” Hollywood is always wary about casting relatively unknown performers to be first on the call sheet of motion pictures, even if they have had tremendous success on stage or on television. Of course, the trouble with not casting unproven leads in films is it becomes enormously challenging to actually create new bankable stars....

Xena The Warrior Princess Had A Sneaky Cameo In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Renaissance Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Jan. 24, 2022 12:23 pm EST Director Sam Raimi sure does love to have his “Evil Dead” trilogy star Bruce Campbell show up in his other movies, and who can blame him? Of course, the groovy actor is far from the only member of Raimi’s inner-circle to appear time and time again in his films and TV shows....