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What Queer Westerns The Power Of The Dog And Brokeback Mountain Owe To A Silent Movie Star Netflix By La Donna Pietra/Jan. 28, 2022 2:00 pm EST The following contains spoilers for “The Power of the Dog” (film and novel) and “Brokeback Mountain” (film and short story). Early in Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel “The Power of the Dog,” a fascinating sentence appears: “Phil had never seen a moving picture and by God never would, but these young fellows had magazines about the moving pictures in the bunkhouse, and a fellow name of W....

Why The Saving Private Ryan Cast Nearly Quit Before Filming Even Started DreamWorks Distribution By Caroline Madden/March 15, 2022 10:50 am EST When Steven Spielberg made “Saving Private Ryan, he wanted to portray the terrors of D-Day as genuinely as possible — not only visually, but also through the actors’ performances. To help with the authenticity, the director sent his ensemble cast to a boot camp led by U.S. Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye, Hollywood’s top military consultant who worked on other significant war films such as “Platoon” and “Casualties of War....

Rent The Hot Ticket/YouTube At the age of 17, Lin-Manuel Miranda witnessed the original Broadway production of “Rent,” composed and written by the late Jonathan Larson. Over two decades later, Miranda directed the film adaptation of Larson’s autobiographical musical “tick, tick… BOOM!” which stealthily chronicles how Larson would craft “Rent.” “Rent” became a groundbreaking hit in 1996 and is often cited as a gateway musical for millennial theater fans. While rock musicals were nothing new, “Rent” was credited with changing the game for Broadway as a sung-through rock opera with little dialogue in-between....

27 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Universal Pictures By Rob Hunter/May 9, 2022 3:33 pm EST In the realm of creature features and monster movies, the werewolf flick occupies a unique spot. Typically speaking, monsters are monsters and people are people, but werewolf films feature characters who shift back and forth between human and creature. Not only does that offer room for mystery and intrigue, but it also means filmmakers get a crack at executing a memorable transformation sequence....

Anthony Hopkins Will Play Sigmund Freud In Freud’s Last Session HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 21, 2022 7:49 pm EST Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins is set to play controversial but foundational psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in an upcoming fantasy-tinged film that tells a fictionalized story about the end of Freud’s life (per The Hollywood Reporter). The news comes from Cannes, where the film “Freud’s Last Session” is being shopped at market. “Freud’s Last Session” will follow Austrian analyst Freud during the last years of his life, as he meets with author and Christian thinker C....

Christian Bale Took His Thor: Love And Thunder Role Because His Kids Forced Him To Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/June 28, 2022 12:28 pm EST Every high-profile actor has their own unique process for what roles they pick and why. Some embrace the challenge of doing something new and outside of their comfort zone, getting a crash course in new skills, and flexing different performing muscles that they might not have had a chance to do previously....

Dark Horse, Company Behind Hellboy, Sold To Video Game Group Embracer Dark Horse Comics By Ryan Scott/Dec. 21, 2021 1:49 pm EST Mike Richardson, founder and CEO of Dark Horse, had this to say in a statement: “I can’t express the excitement I feel as Dark Horse moves into this new chapter in our history. The synergies that exist with the Embracer network of companies promise exciting new opportunities not only for Dark Horse, but also for the creators and companies we work with....

Tilt-A-Whirl spaceship Paramount Pictures “Explorers” was directed by Joe Dante, who had achieved success with “Gremlins,” and was the world’s first introduction to future stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. Hawke’s character, Ben, is a hardcore space lover who devours B-movies about aliens. He’s the polar opposite of the thoughtful, brooding characters Hawke often plays these days. Ben is imaginative and impulsive, the kind of guy who dreams about bizarre technology and automatically enlists a friend to build it....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Clip: Possibly The Best Movie Of 2022 Arrives Tomorrow A24 By Sandy Schaefer/March 24, 2022 11:58 am EST If you’ve been on a social media app or visited a movie and TV news site lately (you know, like the one you’re reading right now), then you’ve no doubt noticed film enthusiasts of the world carrying on about “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The much-buzzed-about movie comes from writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka Daniels), the duo behind the surreal 2016 dramedy “Swiss Army Man” (aka the film where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting, multi-purpose corpse) and helmers of the awe-inspiringly wild music video for “Turn Down for What,” among other things....

Evil’s Kurt Fuller Teases Dr. Boggs Will ‘Really Transform’ This Season [Interview] Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+ By Vanessa Armstrong/July 3, 2022 12:00 pm EST The third season of “Evil” is in full swing, with the show living up to past seasons by continuing to be one of the scariest and smartest shows out there. One of the characters who has already been on quite a journey on the series is the therapist Dr....

How Drunken Master Completely Changed Jackie Chan’s Career Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment By Adam Wescott/July 2, 2022 11:15 am EST 1978 was a great year for kung fu films. First came “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin,” featuring the greatest and most detailed martial arts training sequence in cinema to date. Then came “The Seven Deadly Venoms,” the beginning of a popular series directed by master of sadomasochistic revenge thrillers Chang Cheh....

It Took A Unique Screenwriting Approach To Keep The Joy Luck Club’s Stories Intact Buena Vista Pictures By Travis Yates/May 24, 2022 1:12 pm EST The fact that “The Joy Luck Club” was made is really a miracle in itself. The film that The Hollywood Reporter called “25 years too early” examines the culture clash between four Asian-American women and their mothers. The film is based on Amy Tan’s 1989 novel and presents a complex narrative that follows the interwoven lives of four families and their heritage....

Lightyear’s Animators Had To Do Some Acting Of Their Own Pixar By Jeremy Mathai/June 17, 2022 1:41 pm EST As Pixar’s latest film, “Lightyear,” marks the studio’s long-delayed return to theaters (not without some controversy, mind you), the origin story for “the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on” has left viewers abuzz (sorry) with all sorts of intriguing questions. Does it somehow remove that really fun “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command” series from canon?...

What’s in a name? Jon Hamm in Mad Men Don Draper’s backstory is very Gatsby-esque: he’s a man who changes his name in order to transcend his destitute background. Growing up on a farm and in a brothel, Dick Whitman is made to believe he is just a lowly “whore child,” the illegitimate son of a poor farmer and young sex worker who died during childbirth. He imagines being named after his dying mother saying, “I’m gonna cut his dick off and boil it in hog fat!...

Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 2 Stages A Thrilling Cyberpunk Rescue Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/May 27, 2022 12:30 pm EST There will be spoilers ahed for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Episode II. As Obi-Wan Kenobi sets out to the planet Daiyu in order to rescue Princess Leia Organa (played to perfection by Viven Lyra Blair), he finds that the galaxy is not the same as he left it. He struggles to find his footing and make his way to Leia Organa....

One Table Read Nearly Tanked Burton’s Batman Warner Bros By Michael Boyle/March 9, 2022 2:49 pm EST As Robert Pattinson makes his debut as one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, it’s easy to forget how the first live-action Batman film helped to cement the character as an irreplaceable figure in American pop culture. Tim Burton’s “Batman” was a financial and critical success that spawned three sequels, one of which was good....

Ridley Scott Knows No Sequel Will Ever Top The Original Alien By Anya Stanley/April 26, 2022 10:00 am EST with The Hollywood Reporter. Despite coming back to direct “Alien” prequels “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant,” Scott acknowledges that nothing can beat the OG, which he characterized to the Los Angeles Times as “a great B movie … that elevated itself.” He said to The Hollywood Reporter: Two other sci-fi films swirled together in the head of the director, creating a tempest from which a xenomorph would eventually emerge....

Sam Raimi Wouldn’t Mind Making Another Low-Budget Horror Movie Or Thriller [Exclusive] Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/May 1, 2022 9:29 pm EST Though he’s become known in the 21st century for helming big-budget superhero films like Sony’s original “Spider-Man” trilogy, starring Tobey Maguire, as well as the upcoming “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” for Marvel Studios, Sam Raimi comes from much humbler directorial roots. As anyone worth their salt as a genre fan should know, Raimi got his start as an indie filmmaker specializing in horror....

Strange World Teaser: Take A Journey To A Place Of Infinite Mystery Walt Disney Animation By Jeremy Mathai/June 6, 2022 11:17 am EST Disney didn’t become a pop culture juggernaut by accident, folks. As general audiences can attest, the studio’s ability to produce some of the most consistently reliable franchises and turn them into brand names all to themselves practically speaks for itself. From Marvel to Pixar to “Star Wars” to Disney Animation, the conglomerate has built up a formidable array of some of the most popular IPs currently out there....

Elysium (2013) Sony Pictures Economic disparity is a major theme in cyberpunk stories. As is the case in real life, those with the ability to help others are not always generous in sharing resources. Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 science fiction action thriller “Elysium” looked at the lengths that disadvantaged characters must go to in order to keep themselves safe. In the 22nd Century, Earth has become an overpopulated wasteland. The wealthy elite reside in a space station called “Elysium” which contains advanced medical technology and scientific advancements....