Glimpse Three of the Year’s Best Performances in First Full The Favourite Trailer
A new Yorgos Lanthimos is an event. It’s an opportunity to go into a theater and either white-knuckle your way through something deeply alarming (here’s looking at you, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Dogtooth), or something offbeat, funny, and deliciously weird (The Lobster). Now the unpredictable director is back with The Favourite, a period piece set in 18th century England, and Fox Searchlight has released the film’s first trailer. ...
The Meg VFX Breakdown Reveals Creation of the Summer’s Biggest Predator
The Meg was one of this summer’s more joyous films, giving us Jason Statham, a massive shark, and breakout star Kelly the dog (an actual dog). The movie was fun, silly, and again, had a 75-foot long prehistoric shark (the Megalodon, hence the film’s title) going tooth-to-toe with Statham’s deep-sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor. Now, we’ve got a look at how effects shop Scanline VFX helped create some of The Meg‘s wildest visuals,...
Hear the First Hypnotic Bars of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria Score
We go to the ballet to watch incredible athletes in action, but the ballet company is Suspiria is looking right back. Everyone is watching you from a disturbing new poster for the film.
Splattered across the page are six bloody pairs of eyes. Only Dakota Johnson’s seem alert. They’re larger, but also more defined and looking a different direction than anyone else. Will she be able to survive the madnees looming around her? The other pairs presumably belong to Tilda Swinton,...
Fantastic Beasts Cast and Crew Reflect on the Joy of Returning to Hogwarts
Jude Law lived the ultimate fan experience on the set of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The most magical place in the wizarding world is undoubtedly Hogwarts. In the Harry Potter series, we got to experience it for the first time along with Harry and his fellow first years. Pictures talked, rooms took shape as needed, plants screamed. There were surprises and mysteries around every corner. Now on the set of The Crimes of Grindelwald,...
The Final Predator Trailer Goes Full Throttle
Let it never be said that The Predator held anything back. If the final 2-minute trailer is any indication, Shane Black goes all in. The plot is outrageous and certainly doesn’t attempt to carry the psychological weight of a film like Alien. This is a gory action-palooza that is completely self-aware of its own over the top nature. And holy hell are there some wild moments.
Behold the long promised Preda-dogs...
Review Roundup: Critics Hail the Breathtaking Beauty of Roma
Roma made a predictably elegant debut at the Venice Film Festival last night, dazzling critics. Phrases like “achingly beautiful” and “engrossing” were used to describe the semi-autobiographical work.
The audience in Venice obviously got to experience Cuarón’s work on a theater screen, which is how the director intends the film to be viewed. However, Roma’s theatrical run will coincide with its release on Netflix. That gives audiences the potential to view the piece on their 4-inch phone screen,...
The Trailer for Orson Welles’ Unfinished Film The Other Side of the Wind Was Just Released
Streaming sites have made some really interesting things possible. The primary example is binge watching, but also reviving canceled series and now, resurrecting lost work. Ironically, Orson Welles’ unfinished work, The Other Side of the Wind, was a satire piece reflecting the evolution of Hollywood in the 1970s. Ironically, the film will now screen on Netflix more than 40 years after filming was completed.
Welles was a prodigious director who first made a splash on radio with a colorful reading of H.G...
Hugh Jackman Caught in a Political Sex Scandal in the First The Front Runner Trailer
One of the films we’re most excited about seeing at the Toronto International Film Festival is Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner. Sony Pictures has just dropped the film’s first trailer, giving you a peek at why we’re looking forward to it. Co-written by Reitman (Juno and Up in the Air) and House of Cards scribe Jay Carson and based on the book Matt Bai, The Front Runner chronicles the true story of Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman),...
A Quiet Place 2 is Coming in 2020
When awards season rolls around we’re betting that John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will get some serious love. While Krasinski’s surprise horror hit was almost nothing like Jordan Peele’s 2016 masterpiece Get Out, it shares two salient points; it was released early in the year and was a fully realized, deliciously scary passion project. Starring Krasinski, his real-life wife Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe as a family forced to live in total silence, lest they be slaughtered by alien predators who hunt by sound,...
Early Reviews Hail First Man as a Revelatory Space Drama
There are few sure things in film, as in life, but sometimes the combination of talent and subject matter can get you very close to one. When we heard that Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle was re-teaming with Ryan Gosling to star as Neil Armstrong in a biopic of the legendary astronaut’s historic journey to the moon, we were as sure as you can be about these things that the film would be good...
This new First Man Trailer Passes the Goosebump Test
Right about now seems like an excellent time for Damien Chazelle’s First Man. The story of Neil Armstrong’s world-changing trip to the moon is the kind of momentous, moving big-picture tale we could use, about a mission that while steeped in the politics of its time, was ultimately one that would touch all of mankind. Starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong, the second trailer for First Man passes the goosebump test and gives us (shockingly) the first proper biopic about the legendary Armstrong’s very personal,...
Quentin Tarantino has Finally Cast His Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
It was only yesterday we were writing about how Quentin Tarantino had cast Polish actor Rafal Zawierucha to play Roman Polanski in his upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We’d been wondering whether or not Tarantino would have Polanski in his movie, but he settled that with the casting news. Polanski was the husband of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), the most famous of the victims of the horrific Manson Murders,...
Star Wars: Episode IX Adds The Crown‘s Matt Smith
It’s always fascinating when a well-known actor’s added to film during production. That’s precisely the case with what Variety is reporting; The Crown star Matt Smith is joining J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: Episode IX (or Star Wars: A New Order if you believe that particular fan theory). Who will Smith be playing? We have no idea! So by all means, fire up your hot takes,...
Bad Times at the El Royale Drops a Twisted new Trailer
Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale looks like it might be a juicy October treat, something delicious and dark to snack on before Halloween and the release of a slew of horror films. Goddard first made his name when he directed the wickedly surprising The Cabin in the Woods, and now he’s back writing and directing El Royale for 20th Century Fox. This new trailer gives us a glimpse at one of Goddard’s many skills;...
Quentin Tarantino has Cast his Roman Polanski in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Actors flock to a Quentin Tarantino film for obvious reasons. The dialogue. The juicy roles. The excitement of working with a large ensemble of their peers. Tarantino’s got a track record for making big, bold, brash films that give performers a lot of room to do their thing. His way with actors was evident in Pulp Fiction, again in Jackie Brown, and has been true ever since, from Inglourious Basterds to Django Unchained to The Hateful Eight...
Alec Baldwin to Play Batman’s Dad Thomas Wayne in Joker Movie
How good is the cast for Todd Phillips’ stand-alone Joker film for Warner Bros.? Let’s have a quick glance at the call sheet: Joaquin Phoenix as the clown prince of crime himself, Zazie Beetz as his potential love interest, France Conroy, Marc Maron, Robert De Niro (!!), and now Alec Baldwin. The Hollywood Reporter has it that Baldwin will be playing Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas, one half of Bruce’s tragic backstory and what ultimately compels him to use his fortune—and his rage—to become Batman...
Did a Fan Find a Hidden Message in Black Panther‘s Suit?
Have you tried using the Wakanda translator? This site claims to be able to turn your text into Wakandan text. This translation site has been especially helpful to those eagle-eyed Reddit users over at the Movie Details subreddit, where folks spot often hidden Easter eggs and other easy-to-miss secrets in films. One user, u/thecruiser, believes he/she has uncovered a hidden message on Black Panther’s suit (h/t to i09). The suit T’Challa wears in Black Panther is upgraded early on the film by his genius little sister Shuri...
Avengers: Infinity War VFX Reel Reveals Hulkbuster, Doctor Strange’s Torture Scene & More
There were a lot of bleak moments in Avengers: Infinity War. There was that ending, of course, but that goes without saying. There were a lot of brutal moments leading up to the infamous Thanos snap. One moment, in particular, was watching Ebony Maw torture Doctor Strange. Maw was after the Time Stone that Strange wears around his neck. Thanos’s head goon found out the hard way that you can’t just rip the thing off (Doctor Strange had applied a reasonably robust spell that made that impossible),...
Marvel Positioning Black Panther for a Best Picture Nomination
When the news broke that the Oscars were expanding to create an “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film” category, there was, to put it mildly, some concern. Lots of critics, like The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody, weighed in on why this wasn’t a good idea. He brought up two films from recent years that were both extremely popular and worthy of Best Picture nominations:
“Occasionally, those big-budget movies are made by inspired directors who,...
Top Gun: Maverick Cast Additions
Yesterday Deadline broke the news that Top Gun: Maverick had added a bunch of new stars, and now The Hollywood Reporter reveals a couple of more seasoned gents may be joining the cast. They’ll all be surrounding Maverick himself, the somehow ageless Tom Cruise, who’s reprising one of his early iconic roles as the titular ace fighter pilot from Tony Scott’s 1986 original. THR reports that Jon Hamm (possibly) is a possible new addition,...
