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Daily Podcast: The Best Movies Of SXSW 2022 A24 By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2022 4:34 pm EST On the March 15, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editors Jacob Hall, Brad Oman, and editor/chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about the best things they saw at SXSW 2022. Opening Banter: In Our Feature Presentation: The Best of SXSW 2022 Brad: I Love My Dad, They Call Me Magic, Spaz, Linoleum, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off...

Watch the Deep Water trailer If I had a nickel for every time Ben Affleck starred as a down-on-his-luck husband, mysteriously caught up in a murder case involving his wife … I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice. If you liked seeing Ben Affleck caught between crisis mode and anger throughout the duration of “Gone Girl” and you too miss the joy of erotic thrillers, then “Deep Water” is godsent....

Doctor Strange 2 Reveals There Are Two Kinds Of Superhero Movie Viewers Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 10, 2022 3:00 pm EST Spoilers follow. Something odd happened to me last week as I watched “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” As I cheered, other audience members groaned. When I was inert and unreactive, they yelled and clapped. Our laughs and gasps, I discovered, were just as out of sync as our applause....

Here’s How To Watch Jacaranda Joe, A Long-Lost Short From The Late George A. Romero University of Pittsburgh Library By Kaylee Dugan/March 28, 2022 9:38 pm EST We can all recognize the many ways in which technology is both a blessing and a curse, and while anything you’ve ever seen (or done) on Twitter has absolutely been a curse, the University of Pittsburgh Library is doing the good horror lord’s work by dropping a blessing right in your lap....

How Black Christmas Changed Slasher Movies Forever Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 10, 2022 11:11 am EST Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” is a seminal slasher film that never reached the gigantic franchise levels of its contemporaries. But after two remakes and a pretty rabid fanbase screaming its praises, the general public has finally been recognizing what a brilliant work the film has been. To reference my description when I featured the film as part of our Daily Stream series around the holiday season, “Black Christmas” is, and has always been, a radical examination of the way society devalues the safety of young women, and one of the most prominent examples of showcasing women who refuse to conform to the standards of polite, conservative society....

How David Fincher’s Stubbornness Saved Seven’s Chilling Finale New Line Cinema By Joshua Meyer/June 30, 2022 10:02 pm EST This article contains spoilers for the ending of “Seven.” David Fincher’s “Seven” had more than one alternate ending, and its third act could have played out very differently had Andrew Kevin Walker’s screenplay landed in the hands of another director. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Walker revealed that he originally penned “Seven” when he had a job at Tower Records in New York (a city that helped inspire the nameless one in his script)....

How Sam Mendes’ Grandfather Helped Inspire 1917’s Story Universal Pictures By Steven Ward/April 1, 2022 1:44 pm EST I still remember not being able to remove myself from my seat after seeing “1917” in theaters for the first time. I felt a mixture of overwhelming exhaustion and awe over the story Sam Mendes had laid out for us in nearly real-time. I had also gone into the film relatively ignorant about Mendes beyond the handful of films I’d seen by him — including his two James Bond films....

Well, is it?! Netflix Unlike beloved cooking shows like “The Great British Bake-Off” or “Top Chef,” “Is It Cake?” isn’t really about making a confection that tastes good. It’s all about the illusion, the uncanny valley phenomenon of creating a dessert that looks just like, say, a rubber tire or an umbrella. I haven’t actually seen “Is It Cake?” at any great length, but I have wasted plenty of time on its creative predecessors: the inescapable, autoplaying Instagram videos and TikToks that show people cutting into things like plates of spaghetti or cans of beer, only to reveal the fondant and filling inside....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star As Johnny Carson In New Bio Series Showtime By Kaylee Dugan/March 22, 2022 10:13 pm EST Oh look, a new show to watch with your grandparents! They’re going to love that. In fact, why don’t you make a whole day out of it? Take them out to lunch, let them ask you prying questions, help them run an errand (in the case of my grandparents, it was always a liquor store run), get all the hot family gossip, and then settle down to binge-watch Johnny Carson via Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the upcoming series “King of Late Night....

Light Up The Bat Signal: Mondo Is Releasing A Limited Run Of The Batman Prints Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/March 3, 2022 8:42 am EST “The Batman” arrives this week, and you know you want to decorate every inch of your house with Bat art. Mondo is here to help you out with that, but only if you’re fast on the trigger. (Sorry. No guns for Batsy, so I mean, fast on the enter button....

Movies Like The Bourne Identity That You Really Need To See Universal Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Jan. 7, 2022 2:54 pm EST When “The Bourne Identity” premiered in 2002, the action genre was struggling to shed the corniness of the late ’90s and early ’00s, which had sent many of the most reliable spy movie franchises into a downward spiral. Pierce Brosnan’s last outing as 007 in “Die Another Day” failed to wrap up Bond’s storyline in a compelling way, while Ethan Hunt’s second adventure, “Mission: Impossible 2,” disappointed critics and fans alike....

Nightmare Alley Clips: Just See This Movie As Soon As Possible, All Right? Searchlight Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 22, 2021 10:03 am EST It doesn’t take a mentalist to know that something’s rotten in Denmark when theaters start canceling screenings of Guillermo del Toro’s new film on opening weekend to make room for more showings of the latest Marvel movie. That’s what happened this last weekend with del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” which didn’t stand a chance against “Spider-Man: No Way Home....

Nymphomaniac Ending Explained: The Not-So Little Death Magnolia Pictures By Caroline Madden/Dec. 27, 2021 2:15 pm EST The misanthropic auteur Lars Von Trier is known for making controversial and polarizing films, and his 2013 two-part, four-hour sex epic “Nymphomaniac” is no exception. The film began making waves when a series of “O-Face” posters, depicting the main stars at the peak of orgasm while (tastefully) nude, were released. One Room With a View surmised that “Nymphomaniac” was “the most sexually explicit film in mainstream cinema’s history....

Peacemaker Is The Biggest TV Series In The World Right Now HBO Max By Eric Vespe/Jan. 27, 2022 10:33 am EST It’s always treacherous diving into the murky waters of Streaming Numbers. Every streaming service wants to claim a victory lap when they have a hit, but at the same time they’re reluctant to release actual numbers on the regular. In short, they want to celebrate their wins and hide their losses in obscurity....

Scream 6 Bringing Back Scream 5 Survivors Paramount Pictures By Rafael Motamayor/May 10, 2022 1:44 pm EST It’s only been three months since it was officially announced that “Scream” would reach the six movies franchise club, with “Scream 6” getting the green light to both scare us and make us laugh yet again. Though the previous film in the franchise, awkwardly titled just “Scream,” didn’t really tease any future plans or ideas, this is “Scream,” and the franchise that needs no other excuse than just some nutjob deciding to try and become famous by killing people to justify another entry....

Superhero Bits: A Big Moon Knight Easter Egg, Tim Roth Talks She-Hulk & More HBO Max By Ryan Scott/Jan. 20, 2022 4:19 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Superhero Bits: The Harley Quinn Season 3 Release Date, Thor’s Future In The MCU & More Hot Toys By Ryan Scott/June 24, 2022 5:16 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Swimming With Sharks Stars Kiernan Shipka And Diane Kruger On Their Characters’ Odd Chemistry [Interview] The Roku Channel By Jenna Busch/April 15, 2022 2:00 pm EST The upcoming Roku Original series “Swimming with Sharks” premieres on The Roku Channel on April 15, 2022 in its entirety. It’s the story of Lou Simms (Kiernan Shipka), a brand new and lowly intern at a big Hollywood studio. But Lou isn’t as naïve as she appears....

The Contractor Actor Kiefer Sutherland On Shooting A Thriller With A Realistic Edge [Interview] Paramount By Jeff Ewing/April 1, 2022 1:57 pm EST Tarik Saleh’s “The Contractor” drops in theaters today, telling the story of former Special Forces soldier James Harper (Chris Pine), who gets more than he bargained for when he enters the messy world of private military contractors. He unknowingly makes a rhetorical devil’s bargain with Rusty Jennings (Kiefer Sutherland), the very persuasive leader of a military contractor crew....

The Famous Hitchcock Role That Took Its Toll On Jimmy Stewart Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 25, 2022 9:52 am EST Jimmy Stewart starred in four Alfred Hitchcock films. The first was the most difficult to shoot, and it almost proved to be a hurdle to the classics that would follow. In Hitchcock’s 1948 thriller “Rope,” the director continued his experiments in filming the action in a single setting — something he had begun in 1944 with “Lifeboat” and would carry further in 1954 with the one-two punch of “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” and “Rear Window....