Ad Astra Reactions Hail James Gray and Brad Pitt’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Co-writer and director James Gray teamed up with Brad Pitt for their sci-fi epic Ad Astra. The film bowed at the Venice Film Festival this past weekend and thus far, the reactions and reviews are more or less raves. Gray and Pitt’s pairing is like Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix’s teaming up for Joker in one way and one way only; they took a beloved genre (in Gray and Pitt’s case,...
Joker Reactions Highlight Game-Changing Superhero Film
Todd Phillips‘ standalone Joker bowed at the Venice Film Festival this past weekend and the reactions have been, well, intense. Phillips and his star Joaquin Phoenix joined forces to do something different, something unexpected, with their origin story. They succeeded. The reviews are impassioned, with some hailing the film as a masterpiece, and many pointing out that it received an astonishing 8-minute long ovation after it bowed at the festival.
#Joker received an eight-minute standing ovation following its premiere at the #VeniceFilmFestival https://t.co/68bfwKWoeX
— Variety (@Variety) September 1,...
Best of Summer 2019: Mark Hamill Finally Explains The Last Jedi‘s Blue Milk
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories
Rian Johnson‘s Star Wars: The Last Jedi was bold in so many ways. The writer/director took the narrative baton from J.J. Abrams after The Force Awakens and gave us a rich, complex middle trilogy film that challenged fans’ long-held beliefs about what made a Jedi and Rey (Daisy Ridley)’s parentage...
Best of Summer 2019: Ready or Not’s Editor on Cutting This Devilish Delight
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or Not has been getting rave reviews. They’ve taken a simple childhood game and turned it on its head, to devilishly delightful results.
Samara Weaving plays Grace, a young woman enjoying her wedding day. She joins her husband Alex (Mark O’Brien), whose wealthy family built their empire on board games...
Best of Summer 2019: Dark Rey in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
This weekend Disney gave revealed a lot at their D23 Expo. The first trailer and a bunch of images from the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. We also got a look at the new poster for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. ...
Best of Summer 2019: Russo Bros Finally Reveal How Captain America was Able to [Spoiler Alert]
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
With Avengers: Endgame headed for its digital HD release next week, lots of interesting, spoiler-riffic tidbits are finding their way online. Here’s one that just caught our attention.
Quick—what was the single most shocking moment in Avengers: Endgame? [Spoiler alert, obviously.] Very good arguments could be made for the film’s two major deaths—Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow,...
The Final Joker Trailer Puts on a Happy Face
We get a touch of his humanity. We get the laugh. And most of all, we get a sense of just how different Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s take on the most iconic villain in DC comics history is before half a minute is up in the final Joker trailer. We now have a clearer picture of what’s in store, and this final look speaks to a comic book film quite unlike any that have come before it...
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Adding Nathan Fillion & Possibly Taika Waititi
The cast for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad keeps getting better and better. Deadline reports that Nathan Fillion is joining Gunn’s star-studded cast in an unknown role. The two have worked together a bunch, with Fillion doing voice work for Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (he played an inmate at the prison the Guardians are in), played the Holy Avenger in Gunn’s 2010 Super and Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror/comedy Slither. ...
Netflix’s Marianne Looks Deliciously Creepy
There is something sublime happening with Netflix’s new French horror series Marianne, as the first trailer attests. The premise is wonderful; a famous novelist is battling a soul-stealing witch by writing books. The thing is, the writer is having trouble figuring out how the protagonist of her novel, Lizzie, is going to vanquish the witch. Unless she can come up with that ending, the actual witch is going to make life a living hell for her.
For those of you who devoured Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and want more, ...
Timothée Chalamet is The King in First Trailer for Netflix’s Star-Studded Film
All hail director David Michôd‘s The King, which deploys a star-studded cast in this adaptation of a trio of Shakespeare’s plays—Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V—from a script from Michôd and Joel Edgerton.
The King centers on Timothée Chalamet’s Prince Hal, a young man not at all interested in royal trappings until his father dies and he finds himself on the English Throne as King Henry V. Things are not great in England,...
See the Creation of Avengers: Endgame‘s Final Battle With Thanos
With Avengers: Endgame available on Blu-ray and digital download, we can now finally see just how the Russo Brothers and their huge cast and crew managed to pull off the biggest film in history. Marvel has just released a new video that details how they created the climactic final battle with Thanos, which completely changed the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just the number of characters required for that scene alone is insane, to say nothing of the fact they’re fighting a largely digital army,...
Woody Harrelson & Cinematographer Robert Richardson Confirmed for Venom 2
Everything about Venom 2 keeps getting better and better. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson has joined director Andy Serkis’s sequel. Richardson joining Serkis and stars Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams raises all sorts of interesting questions about what Venom 2‘s look might be, and how different it might feel from director Ruben Fleischer’s original. Richardson has not only shot six films with Tarantino,...
Breaking Down the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Footage
So we’ve all watched the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser a few dozen times. Excellent. Now it’s time to break down the new footage. While everyone is justifiably talking about that wild last shot of Dark Rey in the Sith-like robes brandishing the double-bladed red lightsaber, there’s more to parse than just Rey potentially breaking bad.
The new teaser was revealed at Disney’s D23 Expo this past weekend. It begins with a sequence of some of the most iconic shots from the previous installments of the epic Skywalker saga...
Six new Joker Clips Reveal Gritty Origin Story
This Wednesday, August 28, we’ll get a new trailer for Joker. Warner Bros. doesn’t want you to twiddle your thumbs until then, so they’ve taken to Instagram and released six fresh clips from the film. These include some bits we’ve seen before, but also some intriguing new material. These brief clips also help establish the grittier tone that co-writer/director Todd Phillips has gone for here. We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the inspiration behind Joaquin Phoenix’s take on the most iconic villain of all time,...
Rey Wields Double Lightsaber in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser
This weekend Disney gave revealed a lot at their D23 Expo. The first trailer and a bunch of images from the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. We also got a look at the new poster for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We weren’t sure if we were going to get any new footage from the film, but then word spread from Anaheim that Abrams was on hand to reveal a “Special Look”...
New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Poster Reveals Rey v Kylo-Ren Duel
This past weekend’s Disney’s D23 Expo revealed a bounty hunter’s haul of fresh Star Wars information. We got The Mandalorian‘s first trailer and a batch of photos. Now we’ve got our first look at a brand new poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which gives us Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo-Ren (Adam Driver) engaged in a lightsaber duel. Lording above them,...
Angel Has Fallen‘s Director & a Former Assistant Director of the Secret Service Talk Riveting Realism
The latest in Gerard Butler’s Fallen series about secret service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is out in theaters today. This time, in Angel has Fallen, it’s Banning himself who is in trouble when he’s framed in an assassination attempt on President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman). On the run, he hides out with the father who abandoned him, Clay, played by Nick Nolte. The Credits spoke to director Ric Roman Waugh and technical advisor Mickey Nelson,...
Edward Norton is a Detective With Tourette’s in First Motherless Brooklyn Trailer
As Heinz Ketchup told us in their ubiquitous ad campaigns of yesteryear, good things come to those who wait. Behold, the first trailer for Edward Norton’s two-decades-in-the-making Motherless Brooklyn, which he adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel. Norton is not only the writer/director but also stars as Lionel Essrog, a private detective in 1950s New York with Tourette’s syndrome. Essrog is thrust into a major case when his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), a small-time mobster,...
The First Trailer for Amazon’s The Report is Riveting
Well, this looks downright terrific. Amazon Studios has released the first trailer for The Report, a political thriller starring Adam Driver (and a huge, awesome ensemble cast), written and directed by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion). This trailer zips right along and manages to be both immensely satisfying and deeply sad, simultaneously. That’s because the titular report refers to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture, which was a very dispiriting chapter in American history...
Joaquin Phoenix Explains What Made him Want to do Joker
Most people know by now that Joaquin Phoenix was, at one point, circling the character of Doctor Strange. While it’s hard to imagine Phoenix in that role now (Benedict Cumberbatch has been an excellent Sorcerer Supreme), Phoenix has the acting chops to play just about anyone he wants. So when the news broke that he was going to take on the most iconic villain role of all time, people were both enthused and a little shocked.
With Joker premiering next week at the Venice Film Festival and opening wide on October 4,...
