Wicked Good: Black Mass, Spotlight & 7 Killer Boston Films
This movie season it’s the city of Boston that’s a major scene stealer
What are the signs that we’re shifting out of sluggish summer into tweedy autumn? Changing leaves, cool nights and, of course, early Oscar forecasting. Coming straight out of the festival circuit two films—Black Mass and Spotlight—are attracting awards chatter that’s threatening to reach a roar. And both films happen to be set and tell distinctly Boston true stories.
The Visit & 23 More Great Horror Films About Crazy Family Members
With M. Night Shayamalan’s The Visit opening today, his take on creepy, murderous grandparents terrifying the grandkids, we thought to take a look at movies that explore the most horrifying horror of all: family horror.
Horrible Hubbies and Dastardly Dads:
Do husbands really have to try so hard to make their wives go nuts? In Gaslight they do. Gaslight (1940 British version,
Lady Gaga Terrifies in American Horror Story: Hotel Teaser
The hallways and rooms of the Hotel Cortez are alive in the new teaser for Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel. The 30-second sneak peak gives us our first look at all the major characters. The teaser is titled ‘Hallways,” and as we take a trip through those creepy corridors we are introduced to the ridiculously talented ensemble cast set to the freaky and repetitive score, “Bury Me” by Brodinski.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Meet the First Order
With more information trickling onto StarWars.com’s massive, universe-spanning database, we’re starting to get a clearer picture of the pecking order of the First Order, the latest iteration of the Galactic Empire. In The Force Awakens, it's the First Order that will be giving the Jedis and other assorted good guys (we're looking at you, Han, Chewy, R2D2, C3P0 and BB-8) major trouble. Also, those fighting The First Order are no longer the Rebel Alliance,
Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett Smolder in Carol Trailer
Today the Weinstein Company released their first full-length trailer for director Todd Haynes’ Carol, the studio’s Palme D’Or competition entry at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (earning co-star Rooney Mara a tie for Best Actress with Emmanuel Bercot for Mon Roi.) An Official Selection for competition at the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, Carol looks to be a major player come awards season.
A Sizzling Teaser for Season 2 of The Flash
The Flash returns to the CW Network on October 6, bringing back our favorite lightning-struck superhero Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) for season two. Here comes Jay Garrick, the first Flash (?), who has come to warn the current Flash and everybody else that their world is in danger! This prompts the reasonable question from Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) of exactly how many worlds there are? Many, apparently, but the important take-away here is ours is in danger.
Room Will Likely Break Your Heart
For readers of Emma Donoghue’s novel of the same name, the idea of watching a film adaptation of a book that was at turns devastating and impossible to put down begs the question; can I put myself through this again, but also, how could I not?
Director Lenny Abarhamson’s Room premiered to some pretty spectacular reviews at the Telluride Film Festival, and as it heads to the Toronto International Film Festival it does so with major buzz.
Jake Gyllenhaal Loses it All in Demolition Trailer
Jake Gyllenhaal plays an investment banker on the brink after losing his wife in director Jean-Marc Vallé’s (Wild, Dallas Buyers Club) latest film, Demolition. Only it’s not quite as simple as that sounds. With a script from Bryan Sipe, Demolition looks at a man who finds that he wasn’t paying close enough attention to life, and is trying to mourn someone he didn’t try hard enough to truly know.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Era Gets Off to Great Start
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert started with a bit of The Colbert Report patriotic absurdity—there was our host, joining Americans from all over the country in a duet of “The Star Spangled Banner,” from bowling alleys to mechanic shops to baseball fields—ending with an umpire yelling “play ball!” The umpire? Watch and see who it is:
Thus begun Stephen Colbert’s reign as the host of the The Late Show,
Mysterious Secret Weapon at the Starkiller Base in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Force Friday wasn’t just a massive merchandising bacchanal (although it was that), it was also a chance for some new information on the film to be released. One such tidbit was the official naming of the Starkiller Base, which has been added to Starwars.com’s database. Described as an “ice planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order,” the Starkiller base is “armed with a fiercely destructive new weapon capable of destroying entire star systems.”
New Teaser Connects Black Panther to Avengers: Age of Ultron
With Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron available today on Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA), the studio is releasing a few new bonus features to remind fans (as if they needed reminding) about how interconnected the vast Marvel universe really is. DMA is available via iTunes, Google Play, and Walmart’s VUDU, and adds more devices next week as Roku and Android TV come on board.
The latest example clues us in on a few hints to the Black Panther’s ghostly presence in Age of Ultron.
Sam Smith Will Sing Your Spectre Title Song
It was always going to be hard to top Adele's thrilling, gorgeous song "Skyfall" for the last James Bond film. Adele's "Skyfall" won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. For a quick refresher, have a listen to what was, in our opinion, the greatest title song in the modern Bond era.
Watch This Avengers: Age of Ultron Blooper Reel
If you're curious how they were able to actually make Avengers: Age of Ultron, look no further than our interview with the film's production designer, Charles Wood, right here. If you're wondering what prominent authors and scientists think about the possibility of an sentient artificial intelligence becoming Ultron-like (evil, that is), you can read this piece to find out. Or, if you want to watch Chris Evans forget possibly the easiest line in the film,
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Force Friday is Upon Us
BB-8 in a Hot Wheels, Kylo Ren's mask, a Lego Millennium Falcon—all this and more is available at retailers around the globe as ‘Force Friday’ is officially underway. It's a merch extravaganza, inspired, of course, by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and following the 18+ hour global live unboxing event on YouTube, where the new product range were officially unveiled. Now more than the 3,000 retail locations in the U.S.
This Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 Toy is Gonna be Huge
The company Sphero has unleashed a toy so adorable it may just blow your (or your 10-year old son's) mind. Behold, the already-beloved BB-8, now in miniature form, controllable from your Android or iOS device. Bow down to your new master:
You can drive your new BB-8, you can put the BB-8 in "patrol mode," its autonomous setting, so it can keep an eye on you while you raid the fridge (data on the BB-8's speed,
Great Quotes From J.J. Abrams About Making Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Internet is abuzz with speculation this morning that a new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be coming next week, while The Force Awakens global toy unboxing live stream event is happening now. If you’re looking for more concrete Star Wars info, however, the Associated Press’s Jake Coyle nabbed an interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J.
Everest Opens Venice Film Festival With Thrills & Chills
The 72nd Venice Film Festival got off to a thrilling, chilling start with Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest. The 3D drama premiered out of competition at the festival, the first of several high-profile U.S. films playing alongside films by a slew of international superstar directors.
Described by The Hollywood Reporter’s chief critic Todd McCarthy as a “gripping and immersive dramatization of a tragic trek,” Everest follows the real life account of a deadly 1996 expedition by two different climbing teams during one of the mountain’s legendarily brutal storms.
Three Seriously Talented Actresses on Star Wars: Episode VIII Shortlist
The folks over at The Wrap reported that Oprhan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Olivia Cooke are all on the shortlist for Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, to be directed by Rian Johnson (Looper,
Killer Cars: Check out This Mad Max: Fury Road Infographic
Back in May, we introduced you to Jacinta Leong, art director on Mad Max: Fury Road and one of the people responsible for bringing you those beastly machines. Leong's task was huge, both literally and narratively, as without the machines, Mad Max: Fury Road can't exist. Fusing two Cadillacs bodies together, installing a massive engine and having the thing actually drive was just part of her task.
Today,
Downton Abbey Season Six Fashions: The Times They Are A Changin’
The Crawleys and their downstairs gang will be roaring into the ‘20s bedecked and bejeweled in the latest in 1925 fashions thanks to Downton Abbey costume designer Anna Mary Scott Robins. Robins’ fashions are a vital character in this period drama, and serve the crucial function of moving us along in time.
Gone are the conservative and quite restrictive gear, and slipping are the attitudes of Edwardian England in 1912,
