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Park Ji-Hu Reveals Her Biggest Regret About Her All Of Us Are Dead Role Netflix By BJ Colangelo/March 1, 2022 11:00 am EST The post-apocalyptic teenage zombie drama “All Of Us Are Dead” has continued the South Korean trend of becoming the most popular show on Netflix, following the trends set by Hwang Dong-hyuk’s “Squid Game” and Yeon Sang-ho’s “Hellbound.” Based on the popular webcomic “Now At Our School,” the Netflix show “All Of Us Are Dead” is a twelve-part series about a group of students at Hyosan High School as their science laboratory becomes ground zero for an outbreak of the manmade Jonas Virus, which transforms people into rage-filled monsters that act like the zombies of “Train to Busan” or “28 Days Later....

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Super Bowl Trailer: Sonic And Tails Get 2 Fast 2 Furry-Ous Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 11, 2022 9:13 am EST Sonic “Blue Blur” the Hedgehog and perfect angel Miles “Tails” Prower are finally sharing a movie screen together because the team behind “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” are proof that god is real and she wants us to be happy. After an understandable pandemic delay, cinematic Sonic is back and doing his best to protect the world like a very fast, even more reckless Batman with a penchant for chili dogs....

Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 Ending Explained: Welcome To The New Hawkins Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 1, 2022 6:00 am EST This post contains major spoilers for the final two episodes of “Stranger Things” season 4. The end of “Stranger Things 4” is here, and Hawkins will never be the same. Sure, that’s the type of line that’s been bandied about pretty much every season since the show began, but this time, it genuinely feels true....

After Yang A24 “After Yang,” Kogonada’s follow-up to his exquisite 2017 film “Columbus” is another minimalist masterpiece. Set in a near future where android helpers are a common staple of families, “After Yang” is a meditative drama that uses its sci-fi premise to ask a key question: what do we really know about each other’s inner lives? Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) purchased a recycled android named Yang (Justin H....

The Daily Stream: Fran Kranz’s Mass Is A One-Room Tour De Force Of Cathartic Proportions Bleecker Street By Lex Briscuso/April 11, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Mass” Where You Can Watch It: Hulu The Pitch: Set almost entirely in a back room at a church facility, “Mass” follows two sets of grieving parents who decide to face their overwhelming fears and emotions, and come together to talk things out in the wake of an unspeakable violent tragedy that shook both of their families to the core years earlier....

The Fast Saga Producer Thinks The Franchise Should Go Smaller Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/April 14, 2022 3:19 pm EST Okay, let’s clear up a few things right off the bat here. First of all, there’s a reason why I’m merely writing about movies instead of actually writing movies. You know it, I know it, and Vegetable Lasagna here knows it. Secondly, rest assured that I will never use my platform to call for anyone’s job merely over a difference of opinion — especially when that opinion has to do with utterly meaningless things like the direction that future “Fast & Furious” movies ought to take....

The Inspiration For The Black Phone Comes From Stephen King’s Real-Life Creepy Basement Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/June 22, 2022 1:44 pm EST Scott Derrickson’s upcoming horror thriller, “The Black Phone,” is based on Joe Hill’s short story of the same name. Being the son of a legendary horror writer Stephen King surely lends solid inspiration to some of the stories Hill writes, and a key location in “The Black Phone” was inspired by an actual, super-creepybasement in his former family home....

The Three Must-Watch Anime That Inspired Turning Red Director Domee Shi Disney+ By BJ Colangelo/March 7, 2022 1:00 pm EST When director Domee Shi began providing artistic inspiration for her film “Turning Red,” she knew she would be forcing some of the animators out of their comfort zone, and others into a world they’d only dreamed of creating. Inspired heavily by 1990s and early 2000s anime, “Turning Red” effortlessly combines the western style of animation that made Pixar iconic, and the massively influential eastern style of anime that Shi grew up loving....

There Is A Five-Season Plan For Yellowjackets Showtime By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 13, 2022 9:43 am EST We’re only a few days away from the season finale of “Yellowjackets,” Showtime’s addictive new series that’s “The Lord of the Flies” meets your favorite ’90s teen girl coming-of-age movie. I’ve been providing episode recaps all season, coming up with theories to the great teenage cannibal mysteries that have been plaguing viewers. Well, Fellowjackets, I’ve got some good news and bad news....

Twister Almost Starred Garth Brooks, But He Didn’t Want To Compete With A Tornado CBS/YouTube By BJ Colangelo/March 28, 2022 11:20 am EST Hollywood is responsible for some of the most ridiculous headlines imaginable, but this one is definitely in the running as an all-time great. Back in the 1990s, there was no bigger star than country singer Garth Brooks. You may think this claim is exaggerated considering the popularity of bubblegum pop icons and boy bands of this era, but Brooks is the only artist in music history to release nine albums to reach diamond status in the United States....

Will There Be A Sequel To Moonfall? Here’s What We Know Lionsgate By Ryan Scott/Feb. 4, 2022 9:17 am EST (Welcome to Will There Be a Sequel?, a series where we answer that question and explore what comes next.) There are perhaps no other filmmakers in history that can say they blow stuff up good like Roland Emmerich. The man has made a ton of big-budget disaster flicks in his career, ranging from “Independence Day” to “The Day After Tomorrow,” and even “2012,” which was based on the idea that the Mayans predicted the world would end in that very year....

‘The Pool’ Review: This Crocodile Attack Movie Continually Tops Itself [Fantastic Fest 2019] By Matt Donato/Sept. 26, 2019 8:00 am EST The Pool is a pro-life crocodile attack flick set in a drained Olympic-sized swimming pool that is incredibly mean-spirited towards its main character, improbably audacious…and sponsored by Pizza Hut? Ping Lumpraploeng’s Thai creature feature is cheesily melodramatic and has it out for the few characters on screen with such meanness, which ensures a cackle-worthy “WTF” brand of riotous watching experience....

A New Star Wars Game Is On The Way From Skydance And Lucasfilm Games Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/April 19, 2022 1:07 pm EST Another day, another new “Star Wars” video game on the way. Lucasfilm Games has announced a new partnership with Skydance New Media today that will bring a brand new game set within a galaxy far, far away. Amy Henning (“Jak and Daxter,” “Uncharted”) is heading up the division for Skydance and will, as a result, be at the top of the creative pyramid for this mysterious new game....

Devs’ Complexity Comes From One Seemingly Simple Question FX By Joshua Meyer/May 7, 2022 10:09 am EST This article contains spoilers for a major plot point in “Devs.” As a filmmaker, Alex Garland has shown himself adept at tackling profound questions while maneuvering between science fiction and horror, sometimes within the same movie. You can see it carried forward from his early screenwriting projects like “28 Days Later” and “Sunshine,” to later directorial efforts like “Annihilation” and “Men....

Dexter Fletcher On The Offer He Couldn’t Refuse To Direct [Interview] Paramount+ By Max Evry/April 28, 2022 1:38 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Director Dexter Fletcher has made biopics of sportsman Eddie Edwards (“Eddie the Eagle”), musician Elton John (“Rocketman”), and even had an uncredited hand in finishing “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Now he’s taking a stab at a large-scale Hollywood biopic with “The Offer,” the sprawling 10-episode story of the making of 1972’s classic “The Godfather....

Disney+ Docuseries Sketchbook Will Herald The Studio’s Return To 2D Hand-Drawn Animation Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/April 24, 2022 9:15 pm EST When Walt and Roy Disney launched the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation put them on the map. After the massive success of the first animated feature film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” in 1937, the studio that would eventually become known as Walt Disney Pictures would continue to produce acclaimed animated classics in that style for decades....

Douglas Trumbull, Legendary Visual Effects Pioneer, Has Died At 79 ARTE Distribution By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 8, 2022 1:54 pm EST Douglas Trumbull, director, visual effects wizard, and three-time Oscar nominee, has passed away at the age of 79. The legendary and immensely talented figure died last night, February 7, 2022, according to his daughter Amy, who wrote a heartfelt memoriam on her Facebook page in announcing Trumbull’s death earlier today. As she mentions, his cause of death stems from cancer, a brain tumor, and a stroke....

The Updated Blu-rays ViacomCBS But VHS and DVD are formats of the past, old man. Where’s the HD-DVD or Blu-ray editions? After the success of the 2006 Blu-ray remasterings of the original series (wherein the show’s special effects needed to be redone digitally as the original FX masters were, in many cases, no longer viable), CBS decided to do the same with “Next Generation” in 2012. There was a minor controversy with these Blu-rays and the studio chose to add motivation for fans to buy the series one more time: a new slate of special features and the like — but only if you bought certain versions at certain big box stores....

How Seabiscuit Almost Cost Tobey Maguire His Spot As Spider-Man Sony By Caroline Madden/Jan. 13, 2022 12:19 pm EST In the spring of 2002, Tobey Maguire became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars after taking on the lead role in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man.” A rousing box office and critical triumph, “Spider-Man” ushered in a new wave of superhero films, setting the stage for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s reign. This success meant there would inevitably be a sequel, and plans for “Spider-Man 2” were quickly underway....

Riding the Shai-Hulud Warner Bros. Pictures When someone like Javier Bardem says he wants to ride a sandworm, you let him ride a sandworm. He said: “The only thing I’m asking is that I get to ride a sandworm … Denis told me he’s going to try to make that happen. That does happen in the book, by the way. Stilgar teaches Paul [Atreides] how to take the desert power, which is to domesticate those huge animals in order to use their force, their strength, and their huge size against the Harkonnen....