I Wanna Dance With Somebody Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Warner Bros. As of this writing, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” has not staked out an official release date, although it’s rumored to be aiming for a Thanksgiving 2022 release. Sony is listed as the film’s distributor on IMDbPro, but the studio has not indicated whether it will release this in theaters or ultimately sell it off to a streaming service....
Joe Carnahan Is Back With A New Action Movie, And Omar Sy And Kerry Washington Are Starring Open Road Films By Shania Russell/April 8, 2022 4:22 pm EST Brace yourselves for incoming action: Joe Carnahan is bringing violence to a screen near you! The filmmaker, known for penning “Bad Boys For Life” and helming stylish action flicks like “Smokin’ Aces,” has just lined up his latest feature, a Lionsgate-produced action-thriller called “Shadow Force....
Maus Creator Has No Plans To Let Anyone Adapt His Masterpiece Pantheon Books By Witney Seibold/Feb. 4, 2022 2:17 pm EST In January of 2022, in Tennessee, the McMinn County Board of Education voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” from its eighth-grade curriculum. Citing foul language, the school board questioned whether or not the book’s depiction of the Holocaust — an account given to the author by his father Vladek, who survived — was appropriate for 13-year-olds....
Nanny Review: Nikyatu Jusu’s Haunting Parable Highlights The Pitfalls Of The American Dream [Sundance 2022] Sundance Institute By Shania Russell/Jan. 29, 2022 10:28 am EST The American Dream is a longheld myth, passed between generations and shuffled across cultures. Work hard enough and your dreams will come true, the lore promises. You’re the only thing standing in your way. Work harder. Do better. Be patient. But patience is a complicated luxury afforded to very few, a fact that “Nanny” deftly unpacks as it digs into the American Dream, exploring the murky depths of its reality....
The right to die Tribeca “Next Exit” is packed to the brim with gallows humor, Rose and Teddy at first spending the trip at each other’s throats before eventually bonding over their respective past suicide attempts. Both of them are incredibly troubled: Rose is a self-destructive drifter who has long lived in the shadow of her perfect sister (Rose McIver, making a brief “iZombie” reunion with Kohli), and who regrets never making amends with her mother before she passed....
Only Murders In The Building Explores Its Newest Victim’s Past In A Compelling New Episode Hulu By Josh Spiegel/July 5, 2022 12:00 pm EST So who was Bunny Folger, really? One of the early episodes of the first season of “Only Murders in the Building” asked the question, “Who was Tim Kono?”, but it’s worth noting that midway through the second season, we’re not much closer to getting a better understanding of who the latest victim, Arconia board president Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell), was....
Sam Raimi Loves A Good Skeleton (Even In A Marvel Movie) Marvel Studios/Renaissance Pictures By Sarah Milner/May 8, 2022 5:00 pm EST Two decades after his first Marvel film, Sam Raimi returns to the IP with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” — and boy, does this feel like a uniquely “Raimi” production. The movie is the 28th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it dovetails from the previous films nicely, while managing to continue storylines from the recent Disney+ Marvel miniseries....
Sing 2 Review: Let’s Close The Curtains On Sing-Off Movies Illumination By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2021 10:23 am EST It was 2012. “Pitch Perfect” was released at the height of the “singing competition” genre, one that had been popularized (and quickly run into the ground) by “Glee” — itself a thin satire riding on the coattails of popular reality shows like “American Idol” and “The X Factor.” Even by the time the first “Sing” movie hit theaters in 2016, the sing-off movie was starting to grow stale, harkening back to a simpler time when fresh covers of pop hits were a source of joy and not a product of a viral clip-making machine run by Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show....
The Janes Review: A Grim Reminder Of (Pro) Life Before Roe V. Wade HBO By Sarah Milner/June 9, 2022 10:26 am EST The following article includes reference to sexual assault. Unassuming and gentle, yet equal parts fierce and fearless, the women at the center of HBO’s documentary “The Janes” are impossible not to admire. These are a collection of feminists from various backgrounds who came together to help women in need — regardless of the laws....
Jaws Universal It’s well documented that “Jaws” nearly ended Steven Spielberg’s career when the film’s physically arduous Martha’s Vineyard shoot fell behind schedule due to weather issues and technical snafus (most notably a malfunctioning mechanical shark), but less discussed that the filmmaker had a steadying influence in scenarist Carl Gottlieb, a comedy-writing veteran who was simpatico with the young director when it came to transforming Peter Benchley’s trashy, subplot-ridden novel into a streamlined story powered by two immensely likable characters....
The Man Who Fell To Earth First Look: Chiwetel Ejiofor Steps Into David Bowie’s Space Shoes Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 17, 2021 12:23 pm EST There’s a starman waiting in the sky, but he’s (obviously) not the late David Bowie. No, it’s Chiwetel Ejiofor who’s starring in “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” a TV series that re-imagines elements of the 1963 sci-fi novel by Walter Tevis (who, fun fact, also wrote “The Queen’s Gambit”), as well as the 1976 film adaptation starring Bowie as a humanoid alien who crash-lands on Earth in search of water to help his drought-stricken home world....
Uncharted & The Batman Land Chinese Theatrical Release Dates Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Feb. 18, 2022 10:33 am EST A pair of major Hollywood blockbusters are going to have the increasingly rare chance to cash in by getting a release in the world’s largest moviegoing market. Both Warner Bros.’ “The Batman” and Sony’s “Uncharted” have secured release dates in China, giving them the opportunity to reach a much wider audience in a time when the box office is still on wildly uncertain ground as the industry attempts to emerge from the pandemic....
‘You know what I want to hear’: the song stays in the picture Warner Bros. If “As Time Goes By” seems like such a perfect fit for “Casablanca” that it feels like the two were always together, that’s no coincidence. The song was originally written in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld for the Broadway musical “Everybody’s Welcome,” and it made an impression on playwright Murray Burnett, who, along with Joan Alison, wrote the play “Everybody Comes to Rick’s,” the basis for “Casablanca....
12 Theories That Up The Fear Factor Of These Horror Films Dimension Films By Chad Collins/March 29, 2022 5:06 pm EST What makes the horror genre so sensational is that there’s something for everyone. There are killer clowns, ghostly children, haunted houses, and elevated subversive treats. Better yet, even within the same movie, audiences are liable to walk away with a favorite scare of their own. Ask fans of “The Conjuring” which scene rattled them most and you’ll get a dozen different answers....
Billy Eichner’s LGBTQ+ Rom-Com Bros Has Moved Release Dates NBC By Eric Vespe/Jan. 22, 2022 4:24 pm EST When Paramount announced that its 600lb gorilla (which we call “Mission: Impossible 7”) moved to 2023 earlier this week, it seemed to cause a bit of a reshuffle. That tends to happen when a franchise film moves off its date, because so much of the thought process that goes into a movie studio’s release schedule involves avoiding getting dwarfed by one of the giants....
Black Crab Trailer: Noomi Rapace Is A Post-Apocalyptic Soldier Sent On An Icy Suicide Mission Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 22, 2022 1:28 pm EST When Netflix released a preview of its original film slate for 2022, only a few titles stood out amidst a sea of star-studded yet homogenous-looking productions. Swedish post-apocalyptic thriller “Black Crab” wasn’t featured in the supercut, which is too bad, because it looks awesome. Now, the upcoming Netflix movie has a full trailer, which you can watch below....
Cruel Intentions Had A TV Adaptation That Was Canceled Before It Ever Aired Columbia TriStar By Christian Gainey/March 30, 2022 11:34 am EST I’m going to go ahead and admit this now: I love “Cruel Intentions.” The brooding bad boy falling for the innocent good girl, the overly articulate teenagers, the late ’90s fashion and music — all the things I look for in a guilty pleasure. While I love the movie, I also recognize it is not a cinematic achievement that will ever be studied in film school....
Daily Podcast: Our Most Anticipated Movies Of 2022 Warner Bros. By Ben Pearson/Dec. 21, 2021 6:12 pm EST On the December 21, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by chief film critic Chris Evangelista and /Film editors Jacob Hall, Hoai-Tran Bui, Brad Oman, and Ben Pearson to narrow down our most anticipated movies of 2022. All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm....
David Cronenberg Already Planning Next Movie The Shrouds, Starring Vincent Cassel As A Man Trying To Contact The Dead Sony Pictures Classics By Jeremy Mathai/May 11, 2022 11:37 am EST New David Cronenberg movies don’t come around very often, making each one into a kind of event for those on his particular wavelength. Rising from the ether every so often like some kind of profoundly disturbed Godzilla, the filmmaker seems to take a unique pleasure out of alternately delighting and repulsing the exact kind of viewer whose movie tastes are best summed up by that Sicko meme....
David Cronenberg Has A Simple Philosophy When It Comes To Working With Actors 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/June 4, 2022 11:05 am EST Some of the best filmmakers of all time are known for being total control freaks. “The Shining” director Stanley Kubrick is notoriously dictatorial on set, while David Fincher has a reputation for making actors shoot the same scenes over, and over, and over again. One cinematic master who would strongly disagree with this approach is David Cronenberg, known for body horror cult classics like “The Fly” and “Videodrome....
