New Doctor Strange TV Spots Expand Marvel’s Latest, Weirdest World

Folks, Marvel's weirdest, wildest superhero is finally making his big screen debut in just a little more than a month. Doctor Strange is coming to theaters on November 4, and as we near this date, Disney and Marvel have been flooding the airwaves with TV spots showcasing the most mystical and mind-bending of all the supes. With Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role, and a cast that includes a veritable who's who of acting legends, ...

The Russo Brothers Explain why no Avengers Died in Captain America: Civil War

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo and Marvel president Kevin Feige have been making the rounds lately as they gear up for awards season (Captain America: Civil War will likely be up in a few categories, no doubt for special effects and possibly a bunch more), which  means they've also been discussing the film itself. As you know by now, although there were some pretty brutal injuries in the film (with Don Cheadle's War Machine suffering the worst of all),...

Kevin Hart, Jack Black & the Rock Hang out New Jumanji set Videos

Looks like the gang’s having a pretty good time down on the set of Jumanji. Production has officially began, and thanks to a new photo and these set videos, we have a little bit more knowledge on what this version of Jumanji is all about. Dwayne Johnson plays Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Kevin Hart is Moose Finbar, Karen Gillan is Ruby Roundhouse, and Jack Black is Professor Shelly Oberon.

The photo that Johnson shared has led many observers to believe that the stars are playing gronwn avatars of the kids who are playing the game in the film...

World’s Loneliest Dog the Star of Transformers: The Last Knight Set Videos

Filming has been well under way on Transformers: The Last Knight in London, and two new set videos, released by Paramount Pictures, gives us a glimpse of the action. At the center of the first video is not Sir Anthony Hopkins, although his involvement in the latest installment is a huge boon for the franchise, but rather the dog in the picture, Freya. Director and Transformers creator Michael Bay had heard about Freya in the British press,...

Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson Creates Cinematic Memoir From Outtakes

Sifting through outtakes from some three dozen documentaries she shot over the years,  cinematographer Kirsten Johnson initially came up with a cinematic memoir she now calls the "trauma cut." Johnson, whose credits include Fahrenheit 9/11 and Oscar-winning Citizenfour and,  says "I reached out for material that had been the most haunting to me."

The New York filmmaker had plenty of disturbing stuff to pick from, given her non-fiction coverage of genocide in Bosnia,...

New Power Ranger Posters Connect Past to Present

What we'd love to see is the Power Rangers all together as a Megazord. Stop pretending you don't know what the Megazord is (it's the combination of the five Dinozords who make up your Power Rangers: Tyrannosaurus, Pterodactyl, Mastodon, Triceratops, and Sabertooth Tiger.) Lionsgate has finally given us our first look at the dinosaur mechs those fearsome teenagers will be wearing in the upcoming Power Rangers movie with these character posters, which gives you a nice glimpse at each Zord and how they do a great job of updating,...

First Glimpse at Smurfs: The Lost Village

If you’re watching the new Smurfs: The Lost Village teaser trailer, don’t worry. Your computer didn’t freeze. The little blue guys (and girl) have some fun with the ratings card before revealing their deceptively beautiful surroundings. Hefty, Clumsy, Brainy and Smurfette find themselves lost in the Forbidden Forest in search of The Lost Village. We quickly learn why the forest is forbidden when Brainy becomes a snack to an oversized flower and the other plants stare the audience down...

Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard Star in new Allied Trailer

The new trailer for Paramount's Allied is here, a thriller in which Pitt plays a spy who, in order to infiltrate a seriosly dangerous situation, needs to pose as a married couple with another spy, a beautiful woman played by Marion Cotillard. The film looks pretty fantastic and intriguing. 

Set during WWII, Pitt and Cotillard's spies go behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany in order to kill a high ranking official, posing as a married couple. Do they begin to have feelings for one another?...

Black Panther’s all CGI Suit a True Marvel

The inclusion of the new Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War was a big deal for Marvel-heads. What was especially interesting was his new look—specifically his clearly CGI-assisted changing eye sizes (which the internet has speculated are actually camera-assisted eyes, thanks to Tony Stark). The look was a hit, and fans went away very excited for the Tom Holland-led version of Spidey going forward. Then there was Giant-Man, which we touched upon yesterday...

The Making of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Stay peculiar. This is the theme not only for the fictional world of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, but for the production, too. Director Tim Burton, the man behind Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, used this notion as a mission statement for the creation of the film. Is there are more perfect fit for a film about peculiar children who find comfort and strength with one another than Burton?  ...

Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt Wake up 90 Years too Early in 1st Passengers Trailer

Director Morten Tyldum’s Passengers is based on a delicious conceit; Two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) aboard a spaceship awake from cryogenic sleep 90 years before anyone else. Tyldum is no stranger to mind-bending stories; he was the man behind 2014’s The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the father of the computer. 

While Turing’s story is a tragic one, the sci-fi romance of Passengers at least offers a chance for happiness...

Doctor Strange Has Some Pretty Cool Powers in International Trailer

The latest Doctor Strange international teaser is light on plot clues but heavy on mind bending effects. We see Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange injured in a car wreck, but from there it is all mind-bending CGI at work. The Doctor walks through a fractured glass dimension, erects a crystal wall from sheer will, and wields a molten whip with his bare hands. 

Of course, with any superhero movie, there’s the threat of using awesome powers for evil...

Turning Ant-Man Into Giant-Man in Captain America: Civil War

“In a scene where there’s so much going on you need something new, something bigger and crazier. It kind of put the final stamp on it and go into the rest of the movie and that seemed like a good way to go.” So says Paul Rudd in this behind-the-scenes glimpse at arguably the most delightful part of Captain America: Civil War;  the shocking reveal of Giant-Man. That's the moment when Scott Lang (Rudd) goes from being the diminutive Ant-Man in the big battle between Team Iron Man and Team Cap into Giant-Man,...

Tim Squyres on Editing Ang Lee’s Groundbreaking Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Tim Squyres has been director Ang Lee’s go-to film editor for years. The pair first worked together in the early 1990s when Lee was shooting his debut film, Pushing Hands. “They would have liked an editor who spoke Mandarin, but they couldn’t find one,” says Squyres, who remembers editing that feature in a closet off of a noisy production office.

Times have certainly changed since then. Squyres now performs his cinematic magic in a fully equipped,...

TIFF 2016: What We Loved

It's been a whirlwind of smart, senuous films at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Besides generating increased enthusiasm for Damien Chazelle’s luminous musical La La Land which jumped to the head of the awards season race after Emma Stone nabbed best actress honors at the Venice Film Festival, two smaller films created strong buzz among audiences and insiders alike at TIFF, which closes Sept. 18.

Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, his first English-language film,...

Snowden Adds New Chapter to “The Oliver Stone Experience”

When director Oliver Stone shares his take on NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Snowden (opening Sept. 16), he'll be adding one more chapter to an Oscar-laden body of work that dramatizes the dark side of American experience with uncanny precision. Inspired by Stone movies like Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK, Pulitzer Prize nominated critic Matt Zoller Seitz drilled into the auteur's life and work  to produce massive new picture book "The Oliver Stone Experience"...

Fox Searchlight Nabs Jackie at TIFF, Portman’s Performance Drawing Raves

The reviews for director Pablo Larraín's Jackie coming out of the Toronto Film Festival have been stellar. Natalie Portman's performance as Jackie Kennedy in the days after her husband’s assassination has been called "riveting" by Vanity Fair, and the film itself as something unique, strange and soulful. "Larraín’s film, shot in spare 16-mm, is looping and dizzy, sad and intimate," VF's Richard Lawson writes. "Noah Oppenheim’s script, mulling faith and fame and the death of an American fantasy,...

Sing Delights Critics at TIFF

A veritable who's who of Hollywood royalty lend their voices to Garth Jennings' animated feature Sing, and so far the results from the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere, are some super solid reviews.

Sing centers on a theater-owning koala (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) who falls on hard times, and, in an effort to save his theater and himself, decides to hold a singing competition. Critics from TheWrap ...

Fans Create Gonzo Rogue One Film Using Star Wars Toys

Here's chapter two of a four-part stop-motion mini-movie (and we do mean mini) featuring toys, both large and small, based on characters from Rogue One. (You can check out chapter one here.) This ingenious second chapter of the Go Rogue fan film gives us our first glimpse at the toy-version of Director Krennic, while re-introducing us to the rebels who plan to steal the Death Star plans, lead by Jyn Erso. It's a cleverly made short,...

First set Photo From Avengers: Infinity War

The Russo brothers have shared the first photo from the set (of sorts) of Avengers: Infinity War, even though they’re still only in pre-production. The shot shows Josh Brolin, who plays the all important Big Bad, Thanos, in a purple motion-capture suit. On their Facebook page, they caption this photo simply ‘rehearsal.’ Thanos has been the huge off-screen prime mover of many of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, popping up in 2012’s The Avengers,...