The First No Time to Die Trailer Reveals Epic Bond Action

And we’re off! The first official trailer for co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die is here, and it reveals the kind of epic Bond action you’d hope for. Daniel Craig is back as 007, and from this two-and-a-half-minute glimpse, it looks like he’s found yet another great collaborator in Fukunaga. The director of True Detective‘s excellent first season and Beasts of No Nation knows a thing or two about riveting action scenes...

New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker TV Spot Reveals Rey vs. Kylo Duel

At this point perhaps you’re hoping to just put the blinders on and not see another piece of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker promo material. We get that. With the December 20 premiere date heading towards us faster than the Millennium Falcon in hyperdrive, we’ve been getting a lot of fresh TV spots. Yet for those of us who can’t help ourselves (or write about this for a living), every spot offers a glimpse of something new from the 9th and final installment in the Skywalker Saga...

Rami Malek’s Bond Villain Revealed in new No Time to Die Posters

Yesterday we got the teaser. Tomorrow we’ll get the trailer. Today, we get a bunch of new posters from No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the venerable Bond franchise. The new posters give us a look at our main characters—minus a Ralph Fiennes’ M here and a Naomie Harris’s Moneypenny there. Who we do have are James Bond himself (Daniel Craig, obviously), Léa Seydoux’s Madeline Swann, Ana de Armas’s new character Paloma,...

Heading Abroad With Charlie’s Angels Location Manager

After a sixteen-year hiatus, the sorority, camaraderie, and crime-fighting of Charlie’s Angels is back, newly helmed by Elizabeth Banks, who also wrote the script and plays one of the movie’s chief supporting roles. No longer reporting to a Los Angeles-based Charlie, the Angels are taking on lawlessness around the globe for the Townsend Agency, supported by a gaggle of Bosleys (played by Patrick Stewart, Djimon Hounsou, and Banks). At the heart of the caper is Elena (Naomi Scott),...

The Thrilling Black Widow Trailer Reveals a Pre-Avenger Natasha Romanoff

Many folks have been waiting for a stand-alone Black Widow film for a long time—we’re among them. When Marvel finally revealed that Scarlett Johansson’s super-spy would, in fact, be getting her own movie, there was plenty of reason to rejoice. Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff has been one of the most compelling characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a former KGB super-spy who somehow broke free from her former captors/trainers and, after a very long and winding road,...

A New No Time to Die Teaser Reveals Glimpse of next Bond Movie

We are very much looking forward to the official trailer for No Time to Die, the 25th installment in the Bond franchise, which arrives this Wednesday. We know this thanks to a new teaser, which gives us a look at co-writer and director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s upcoming film. No Time to Die sees our favorite super-spy trying out retirement (you can guess how that goes). Fukunaga will unveil the official trailer during his appearance on Good Morning America in two days...

Composer Christophe Beck on Returning for a Second Round of Ice & Earworms in Frozen II

In Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck’s Frozen II, sisters Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell) are back, older and wiser and reunited for good. Unfortunately, Elsa, now Queen of Arendelle, is still having trouble with her ice-making powers, a disturbance that arrives this time around via a mysterious siren call she can’t make anything of without following it to the Enchanted Forest, where it turns out an indigenous people, the Northuldra, have been living since the girls’ grandfather made the last state visit decades before they were born...

Flying Stormtroopers & Rey’s Jedi Mind Trick Highlight new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker TV Spot

We’ve seen Rey (Daisy Ridley) take out Praetorian Guards, best Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in a lightsaber duel, and generally exhibit an incredible amount of Force ability since she burst on the scene in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. Yet in this new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clip, we get to see her use a Jedi mind trick for the first time. The results are so impressive both Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) are both awed and a little concerned...

Leia Holds a Lightsaber in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Spot

When Carrie Fisher passed away on December 27, 2016, the world lost not only an incredible actress but also a sensational writer—and one of the funniest, most bracingly honest talents in Hollywood. For the world of Star Wars, Fisher’s passing meant that her most iconic role of all—Leia Organa—would now possibly have her arc handled off-screen, a deeply sad development for one of the franchise’s most important characters. Then we learned that she would appear in Episode IX after all (now titled Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) when co-writer and director J.J...

Sam Mendes’ World War I Epic 1917 is Being Hailed as a Masterpiece

We knew co-writer/director Sam Mendes’ 1917 was going to be special (he wrote the script with Krysty Wilson-Cairns). He’s a director of extraordinary talent who surrounds himself with the same caliber of cast and crew. When we heard that his cinematographer was not only the legendary Roger Deakins but that the film had been conceived to essentially feel like a single continuous shot, we were even more excited.

The story follows two young British soldiers (George MacKay’s Schofield and Dean-Charles Chapman’s Blake) on their mission to deliver a message that could save 1,600 lives during World War I...

A New The Irishman Featurette Focuses on The Incredible Cast

To say that Martin Scorsese’s new film The Irishman is a movie by a heavyweight and starring heavyweights would be putting it mildly. The legendary auteur has assembled yet another incredible cast (Scorsese has never struggled to attract talent), yet The Irishman‘s ensemble feels almost valedictory. De Niro. Pescio. And, for the first time, Pacino starring in a Scorsese film. And these are just your three leads. The rest of the cast is gangbusters, too...

Writer/Director Noah Baumbach on his Devastating Marriage Story

Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s substantial body of work has often explored families in all their painful, darkly funny dysfunction, evolving from the perspective of an adolescent witness to the break-up of his parents in his 2005 second feature, the Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, to the poignant, middle-aged observations of a son coming to terms with his estranged family and self-absorbed father in 2017’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). But Baumbach’s Marriage Story,...

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy Consulted George Lucas Before The Rise of Skywalker

As we approach the premiere date for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the saga that George Lucas began 42-years ago nears its end. Sure, Star Wars will live on, but the Skywalker Saga that Lucas dreamed up four decades ago and has spanned three distinct trilogies is finally coming to a close. Co-writer and director J.J. Abrams, his cast and his crew will have the final say over the fates of Luke, Leia, and our new heroes like Rey,...

Revel in Four Decades of Star Wars in This New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Special Look

The new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker material is coming fast and furious. Disney is giving us all something to be thankful for—a few days early, in fact—before this Thanksgiving with a glut of fresh footage and glimpses at this era-capping epic. We’ve seen an actual clip from the film (!!), a new TV spot, and now this “Special Look” featurette, which takes us back 42-years to the very beginning of the Skywalker Saga. If you can watch this two-and-a-half-minute video without getting chills,...

Stormtroopers Fly in New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Clip

Stormtroopers fly now. Seriously.

Okay, we knew there would be a flurry of TV spots and a few new photos before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters in less than a month, but an actual clip from the film? Yeah, this is surprising. If you’re of the mind that you know all you need to before seeing the 9th and final film in the Skywalker Saga, we get that. Don’t watch this clip (which includes,...

Knights of Ren Appear in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker TV Spot

A new TV spot for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker gives credence to the notion that this will be the most action-packed Star Wars film in the franchise’s 42-year history. Co-writer and director J.J. Abrams and his huge, talented cast and crew aren’t just ending the new trilogy, they’re delivering the coda to the entire Skywalker Saga. That’s 9 feature films dating back to 1977’s Star Wars: IV – A New Hope. In the new spot we get our clearest glimpse yet at the Knights of Ren,...

Frozen II Head of Special Effects Marlon West on the Sequel’s Epic Ambitions

Frozen II co-director and screenwriter Jennifer Lee says that if the Disney Oscar-winning blockbuster Frozen was about a happily ever after, then Frozen II is about the day after happily ever after. Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf are back, and fans get to see this found family take on new challenges and learn more about themselves and each other. As part of this chapter in their story, viewers are introduced to a number of new characters,...

Watch J.J. Abrams Discuss the Challenge of Crafting Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Ending

“Endings are the things that scare me the most.”

This comes from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker co-writer and director J.J. Abrams in a new video from Entertainment Weekly in which Abrams discusses the massive challenge—and opportunity—of bringing the 9-film Skywalker Saga to a close. With The Rise of Skywalker due in theaters in less than a month (!!), the world is very close to finding out just what kind of coda Abrams and his team have crafted for a franchise that began 42-years ago...

The First Trailer for Emma is Witty & Winning

Director Autumn de Wilde has updated Jane Austen’s seminal novel “Emma” for the big screen, and now we’ve got our first look. Focus Features has just released the first trailer for Emma, starring the always excellent Anya Taylor-Joy as Austen’s iconic heroine. Austen has been, of course, a much-beloved writer by filmmakers for years now. Her works have been adapted, again and again, for screens big and small, by talented directors from Whit Stillman to Joe Wright...

Waves Writer/Director Trey Edward Shults & Stars Kelvin Harrison & Taylor Russell on Their Powerful Drama

From the moment the new film Waves had its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in August, it started getting awards mentions. Touted were the emotional intensity and authenticity of the script by writer/director Trey Edward Shults, and the powerhouse performances served up by an ensemble cast that included stars Kelvin Harrison, Taylor Russell, Lucas Hedges, and Sterling K. Brown. The story centers on the members of one South Floridian family, and how their personal challenges lead variously to trauma,...