Get to Know GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
When entertainment journalist and critic John Griffiths founded the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association in 2009, the group, now known as GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, had 20 members. Today, it has a membership of nearly 200 writers, including myself, who cover film and television for print, online and broadcast outlets and honor the best in entertainment every year through the Dorian Awards.
“There are tons of critics groups. I think there’s probably fifty across the country...
Witness the Making of that Deadpool 2 Music Video
What is the one foolproof thing that could make any music video more fun? If you have been paying attention over the past six months, you know where this is headed. You have to include Deadpool, of course. And he has to shake it.
Nearly a month after the Merc with a Mouth returned to theaters, Fox released a behind the scenes look at the making of the ‘Welcome To The Party’...
1,000 Minutes of New Looney Tunes Are On the Way
Here a tune, there a tune, everywhere a Looney Tune. Warner Bros. is going to start dropping new and creative Looney Tunes content all over the place, and it could be really interesting. Our favorite iconic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote will soon be starring in a series of short films. Once upon a time, the characters starred regularly on the big and small screen, but they haven’t been so active in recent years...
James Wan is Bringing the Eight-Legged Monsters From Arachnophobia Back
As someone who recently put 12 spider traps in a one-bedroom apartment after finding a single eight-legged creature, I can confirm they are scary little beasts. Apparently, James Wan feels the same way. His company, Atomic Monster, is teaming up with Amblin to remake the comedy horror Arachnophobia.
Fear of spiders is one of the most common phobias, which makes it perfect fodder for horror master, James Wan. Arachnophobia was unleashed in 1990 starring John Goodman and Jeff Daniels and hundreds of Avondale spiders...
The Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Bright, Especially for Female Directors
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is going to look very different after the Infinity War arc concludes with Avengers 4. And in this case, different is good.
Marvel President Kevin Feige has already stated that the studio will produce another round of twenty films once Phase 4 gets up and running. There are plans to release Marvel titles through at least 2028, with three being released each year through 2022. While this is old news,...
Review Roundup: Incredibles 2 is one of Pixar’s Best Sequels
We’ve all been patiently waiting a long 14 years for the return of our favorite family film, The Incredibles, and the time has finally come with the upcoming release of Incredibles 2. Writer-director Brad Bird had a lot to live up to from his first magnificent Pixar film that changed the game and set the bar high for superhero movies. The critics have weighed in—Bird has successfully reached, and possibly even surpassed,...
Gal Gadot Joins Dwayne Johnson’s Red Notice
Skyscraper will not burst into theaters until next month, but Hollywood is already looking toward the next action collaboration between Dwayne Johnson and Rawson Marshall Thurber. Universal won a heated bidding battle to snag their next project, Red Notice. Deadline has now confirmed that Gal Gadot is set to join the cast.
Thurber wrote the original screenplay and will also direct the film. Thurber and Johnson are a proven team, having previously collaborated on the amusing Central Intelligence prior to summer fare,...
The Losers’ Club in It: Chapter 2 is Finally Complete
The club is all here. One of the most fun guessing games in Hollywood was trying to predict who will play the adult version of the Losers’ Club in It: Chapter 2. The young cast of It set such a high bar, raising expectations for their grownup counterparts. The group’s moral center, Mike Hanlon, has now been cast and the club is complete. Isaiah Mustafa will play the adult Mike in Chapter 2.
Chosen Jacobs portrayed the tender-hearted Mike in It...
Making the Met Gala in Ocean’s 8 Sound as Cool as it Looks
There are few things more frustrating to a moviegoer than missing a line of dialogue. Scripts have been carefully crafted to tell a story in merely a few hours making nearly every word vital to the plot. If you can’t hear what is said, you could miss something important. Particularly in the dialogue heavy Ocean’s 8 where the heist of the century is discussed in detail by eight sharp, savvy, and hilarious women. You won’t want to miss a word of it...
Jeff Goldblum Reveals the Grandmaster Is “Very Much Around” After Avengers: Infinity War
This story contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War.
“It’s a tie,” the Grandmaster says at the end of Thor: Ragnarok, while he is surrounded by revolutionaries planning to kill him. For many, this was surely the end of Jeff Goldblum’s eccentric character, but the actor recently revealed in an interview with Digital Spy that this is not necessarily the case. Goldblum said:
“Grandmaster is more superheroed than all of [the Avengers] put together...
Ryan Gosling Takes Giant Leap for Mankind in First Man Trailer
Are you feeling the Monday blues and think your job is just a little too stressful? At least you aren’t the first person to ever be sealed into a flammable metal box and launched beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Ryan Gosling channels the pressure Neil Armstrong faced in the first flight to the moon in the First Man trailer.
Gosling, fresh off hugely entertaining films La La Land and Blade Runner 2049, takes charge as Neil Armstrong,...
Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry has Arrived
As Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles on FX’s critically acclaimed Atlanta which ended its second season in May (and was just picked up for a third season), Brian Tyree Henry can do more with one grimace than many can do with their whole body. He’s instilled Paper Boi with heart, humor and a lovability that makes him one of the best characters on television right now.
But he hasn’t stopped there, after a Tony nominated run in the Kenneth Lonergan scribed Lobby Hero—Henry’s now setting his sights on the big screen...
Al Pacino Collaborates with Quentin Tarantino For the First Time in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has become a Who’s Who of Hollywood. Al Pacino will join the impressive ensemble of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family inspired film. The news follows a yesterday’s announcement of a flood of talent who had signed onto the project.
Previous Tarantino collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will lead the cast. DiCaprio will play aging western star Rick Dalton with Pitt as Dalton’s stunt double, Cliff Booth...
Hope Takes Charge in New Ant-Man and the Wasp TV Spot
Being under house arrest is actually more peaceful than working, it turns out. At least that’s the case when you’re a superhero who has to save the world from a dangerous new supervillain. If Ant-Man and the Wasp are going to stop the Ghost, first they have to get him out of the house in this new spot.
Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) reveals the origin of the newest threat in the Marvel Universe. The Ghost was unleashed in a lab,...
Laurie Gets Her Wish to Face Michael Myers Again in Halloween Trailer
Laurie Strode is a grandmother now, but there is one thing missing from her happy ending. Having the pleasure of killing Michael once and for all. Laurie has spent 40 years praying Michael will escape and give her the opportunity to take him out. Of course, she gets her wish. The new Halloween trailer has some delightful treats for those of us who have worshipped the John Carpenter masterpiece all our lives.
If you don’t remember what happened in the original Halloween,...
The First Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer Promises a Very Good Time
We’re always interested in what writer/director Drew Goddard is up to. From writing The Martian‘s to co-writing and directing the insane (and great) Cabin the Woods, Goddard makes good stuff. Now we’ve got the first trailer for his thriller Bad Times at the El Royale, and we’re enthused. It’s deliciously bonkers. Goddard’s working with an incredible cast and a great setting—the titular hotel is situated in Lake Tahoe, right on the border of Nevada and California...
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Teases Epic End to the Trilogy
As soon as those notes from John Powell’s magnificent score begin to play, we’re reminded of just how special this movie franchise is. After two excellent How to Train Your Dragon movies, the first trailer for The Hidden World dropped today. It promises to be a special way to close the trilogy.
Our heroes are back. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), Astrid (America Ferrera), and of course, Toothless, living in their dream world. Cate Blanchett, who stole the show in How to Train Your Dragon 2,...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cast Gets Even More Appropriately Insane
Once upon a time, Quentin Tarantino put together one of the best casts in modern movie history. That time is now. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood already tapped top talent including Leonardo DiCaprio and his Wolf of Wall Street costar, Margot Robbie. DiCaprio will star as Rick Dalton, an actor who used to be a big name in Western television. Brad Pitt plays his stunt double and actress Sharon Tate’s (Robbie) neighbor. The Manson Family famously murdered Tate and others in cold blood in 1969...
Black Panther‘s VFX Team Reveals how They Built Wakanda
It turns out that Wakanda is real. The nation’s most stunning vistas weren’t taken from another country, or the product of various other environments blended together. Wakanda is real—in a sense—in that it was created almost entirely by the visual effects wizards who brought Ryan Coogler’s vision of the fictional African nation into reality. The most astonishing location in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was nearly entirely created by digital effects. A new VFX reel shows just how these environments were created...
15 New Ant-Man and the Wasp Images Reveal Hannah John-Kamen’s Villain Ghost
Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost looks like one of the most interesting villains we’ve seen in a Marvel film. For starters, she’s a woman, and as Cate Blanchett proved in Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel’s female villains seem to have more fun. In a set of 15 new images released by Marvel and Walt Disney Studios, John-Kamen’s Ghost is revealed in her all her shape-shifting, hooded glory. There are also great shots of Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in his Giant-Man iteration,...
