Kurt Russell & Dave Bautista Talk Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
In his long and epic career, Kurt Russell has worked with some of the best directors alive, which makes his praise for James Gunn, the visionary behind the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy (he’s staying on board to see the franchise through its first narrative cycle) all the sweeter. Russell joined Vol. 2 in a crucial role, as Ego, the Living Planet, who also happens to be Peter Quill’s (Chris Pratt) father. One of the things Russell marveled at (pun intended) was how Gunn managed to make sure the epic sequel was grounded in real emotion...
Behold Sir Paul McCartney in a New Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales Photo
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has a history of enlisting legendary British musicians in crucial cameos. You recall that none other than the Rolling Stones deathless guitarist Keith Richards played Jack Sparrow’s father in At World's End, and now, in Dead Men Tell No Tales, they’ve managed to employ possibly the only man even more iconic than Keith—Sir Paul McCartney. Now, for the first time, we’ve got a look at his character,...
The Facehugger Returns in Gruesome new Alien: Covenant Clip
If you don’t want to see a single moment from Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant before you’re in the theaters, then this clip is not for you. For those who do want a peek at Scott’s sci-fi horror, this “My Face” clip will do ample justice to recent critical reviews that say the film is a terrifying jolt. In the pantheon of awful creatures in the Alien franchise, perhaps the most feared is the ‘Facehugger,’...
Brad Pitt Plays Fast & Loose With the Rules in War Machine Trailer
Brad Pitt has comedic chops. This has been evident in scores of roles, from his inspired turn as certifiably insane people in 12 Monkeys and Snatch, to his more overt comedic roles like Burn After Reading. Consider that very early in his career, he stood out as characters that had but a handful of lines, like the stoner Floyd, in True Romance,...
It Comes at Night & Woodshock Add to A24’s Singular Slate
Founded in 2012, A24 has been paving its way through the film industry, uprooting the norm and making itself a household name in just five short years. A24 is the powerhouse indie production company that constantly brings new stories to the big screen, unleashing singular films that often take genres we known and love and jolt them. Whether it's sci-fi, horror or drama, this little powerhouse production company knows how to find the stories that expand what we think we know about how a certain type of narative is meant to unfold...
Critics Hail Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant
With a solid 76 percent fresh rating via Rotten Tomatoes, Alien: Covenant has been wowing critics leading up to the film’s theatrical release later this month. It’s full of enough nods to the original Alien, but also features plenty of updates and surprises to keep old and new fans alike on the edges of their seats. Here’s what the critics have to say:
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: “Gripping through its full two hours and spiked with some real surprises,...
Actor Tracy Letts & Writer/Director Azazel Jacobs Talk The Lovers
Writer-director Azazel Jacobs' rueful new drama began with Debra Winger's interest in its 2011 predecessor, Terri. The actress told Jacobs she liked that movie, so he consulted with her as he wrote what eventually emerged as The Lovers. In it, Winger and actor-playwright Tracy Letts are Mary and Michael, a suburban couple whose marriage has gone dormant. Each is dallying with another — Richard (Aiden Gillen) and Lucy (Melora Walters), respectively — yet is not quite ready to part...
The new Cars 3 Trailer Channels Rocky IV to Great Effect
This new Cars 3 trailer is a loving tribute to a film franchise that was famous for its training scenes. We’re talking about Sylvester Stallone’s iconic Rocky series, particularly Rocky IV, in which Rocky headed to Siberia to train in his fight against the Russian monolith known as Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Compared to Drago's high-tech training method, and the myth surrounding the Russian ("whateve he hits,...
Ridley Scott Says Alien: Covenant Sequel to Start Filming in 14 Months
With Alien: Covenant scoring positive early reviews, Ridley Scott is already talking about the sequel (and Covenant isn’t even out until May 19!). Starting with 2012’s Prometheus, Scott has been reverse engineering the Alien mythology, leading us back to his iconic 1979 masterpiece that started it all—and inspired countless sci-fil films since.
Considering Scott has been working on this since well before 2012, his contention that they’ll be filming the sequel in 14 months is really not that surprising...
Meet Baby Driver, the Beethoven of Get Away Driving
We told you this past March, and we’re telling you again; go see Baby Driver when it comes out on June 28. Edgar Wright's heist flick is as close to an action masterpiece as you can get, and we mean that quite literally. The film's conceit is a finely tuned thrill ride; a very young and very gifted getaway driver named Baby (Ansel Elgort) has to listen to his own bespoke playlists while he drives,...
Transformers: The Last Knight Reveals Secret History
“It started as legend. One of the greatest of all, one of the oldest of all. But every legend, has a secret.” – Sir Edmund Burton.
Sir Edmund Burton is played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, and its' his voice that we first hear in Paramount’s new “Secret History” featurette for Transformers: The Last Knight. Michael Bay has been teasing the Transformers long-standing presence on Earth for a while, making explicit reference to it in Age of Extinction,...
Watch the Incredible Human Effort Behind Alien: Covenant‘s World
HBO visited the set of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, hanging out with the cast and crew as they worked on what promises to be one of the year’s most brilliantly crafted films. And we do mean craft. The amount of technical and construction know-how that was poured into the creation of the sets, props and art design is staggering.
As you’ve seen from the trailers, teasers and promos we've been sharing,...
Watch a Bunch of Tom Cruise’s Crazy Stunts in The Mummy
We’ve written plenty about Tom Cruise’s stunt work. We’ve interviewed stunt coordinators he’s worked with, looked at specific stunts he’s done, from the time he held on to the outside of a cargo plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, to the zero gravity scene in the upcoming The Mummy. At this point in Cruise's career,...
Peter Parker’s Secret is Revealed in 1st Spider-Man: Homecoming Clip
Ah, to be young again. The the first clip from Spider-Man Homecoming reminds us that Peter Parker has always been the youngest of superheroes, which means that in order to fight crime, he needs to sneak in and out of the house or he’ll be grounded.
In the clip we find Peter (Tom Holland) sneaking back into his apartment after a night of heroics when he bump into his best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon),...
Watch (and Love) the Official Blade Runner 2049 Trailer
As we wrote last year, after director Dennis Villeneuve’s Arrival proved to be a sensational, Oscar-nominated sci-fi thriller, any fears that he wasn’t up for the monumental task of helming Blade Runner 2049 were obliterated. Arrival was last year’s best sci-fi film by a wide margin, and it made it clear that the Sicario director took inspiration from the very best sci-fi directors,...
Final Wonder Woman Trailer Introduces Origin of her Shield
In the past week alone, we’ve been treated to two new Wonder Woman TV spots and a new trailer. Now, less than a month before the film’s release, there’s yet another full length trailer to obsess over.
This new trailer– the final one in an extremely thorough marketing campaign— gives us even more of a glimpse into Diana’s backstory, including the introduction of Wonder Woman’s famous sword and shield. The shield,...
Watch the Gripping new Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
Writer/director Christopher Nolan is back with the World War II epic Dunkirk, which tells the story of the chaotic rescue of Allied soldiers during one of the bloodiest and most crucial battles of the war. It was May, 1940, and Germany looked poised to secure a decisive victory in their war effort, one that would have essentially made WWII unwinnable for the allies. The Germany army was pushing deeper into France, where they'd managed to trap Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk...
MUTHR Returns in new Aliens: Covenant Trailer
You'll be forgiven if you don’t remember MUTHR (pronounced ‘mother’) in Ridley Scott’s very first Alien, the artificial intelligence that powered the Nostromo, Ripley’s ship, with a cool, indifferent female-voiced appraisal. MUTHUR wasn’t as evil as Stanley Kubrick’s HAL, but she wasn’t a very maternal artificial being, either. Now, in Scott’s upcoming Alien: Covenant, MUTHR returns, and the A.I.'s inclusion likely means it plays a significant part in the deadly events in the film...
Let’s Discuss Those Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Post Credits Scenes
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has a whopping five post-credits scenes. Surely this is some kind of record. It's also fitting for James Gunn's sequel, as Vol. 2 is a wild film, with some of the biggest, most complex action set pieces of any Marvel film. The credits scenes themselves are little jewels, doing double duty of completing some storylines from the film and teasing upcoming films in Marvel's world conquering MCU...
Here’s Your Summer Movie Watch List
Every summer, you can count on crowds flocking to the movie theatres. Popcorn, air conditioning, and amazing movies – what’s not to love?
Here’s a list of some of the movies we’re looking forward to this summer, with everything from high-intensity Superhero movies to comedies guaranteed to make you laugh out loud (and plenty of things in between).
May
May 5th: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Join Star-lord,...
