“Drive My Car” Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on His Moving Portrait of Life’s Twists & Turns

One of the most intriguing cinematic journeys of 2021 emanates from Japan and is aptly named Drive My Car.

A mesmerizing sojourn that exactingly unfolds over a three-hour running time, the film follows acclaimed actor and theatre director Yûsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), beginning with his unorthodox marriage to Oto (Reika Kirishima), before segueing to a stage production he is directing of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. The latter brings him together with Misaki Watari (Tôko Miura),

“The Batman” Drops New TV Spot Teasing the Riddler’s Deadly Game

We are getting ever closer to seeing writer/director Matt Reeves’s The Batman, which means we can expect more TV spots to emerge in the coming weeks. To that end, a new Riddler-focused spot titled “Game” is focused on The Batman‘s main villain, Edward Nashton/The Riddler, played by Paul Dano. The new spot is centered on the Riddler’s psychotic interest in Batman (Robert Pattinson), which takes the form, as you’d expect given his personality,

“Pinocchio” Teaser Reveals Guillermo del Toro’s Take on the Iconic Tale

If you’re going to take a fresh look at Carlo Collodi’s deathless story about a wooden marionette who’s magically brought to life to help heal the soul of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto, can you think of a better filmmaker for the task than Guillermo del Toro? The visionary director has appropriately chosen to tackle the tale via a stop-motion musical, and Netflix has delivered the first official teaser. Del Toro co-directs the film alongside Mark Gustafson,

Costume Designer Justine Seymour on Subtle Power on Display in “Women of the Movement”

After his 1955 murder, Emmett Till’s death became a galvanizing event for the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. The mutilated 14-year-old was given an open casket funeral at the behest of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who wished the world to see what Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam had done to her son. Lynched while on holiday to visit family in Money, Mississippi, after being falsely accused of whistling at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, (Emmett had a stutter,

“The Batman” Runtime Reveals one of the Longest Superhero Movies Ever

The Batman has already surpassed all previous stand-alone films based on Gotham’s Dark Knight in one way—it’s going to be the longest film in the franchise. Writer/director Matt Reeves’s forthcoming trip to Gotham has a runtime of two hours and fifty-five minutes, topping Christopher Nolan’s trilogy capping The Dark Knight Rises, which ran to two hours and forty-four minutes.

The Hollywood Reporter scooped the runtime,

How the “Scream” Team Created The Best Film in the Franchise Since The Original

How do you create the fifth film in a beloved slasher franchise that’s both a nod to everything that’s come before, a clever meta-commentary on horror films and toxic fandom, and something that’s entirely your own? This was one of the questions we put to Scream directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and their producing partner and the third member of their Radio Silence triumvirate, Chad Villella. The trio has once again brought the same passion that imbued their last outing,

“West Side Story” Music Supervisor Matt Sullivan on The Cast, Spielberg, and Capturing Magic

When we interviewed West Side Story‘s music producer David Newman, he made clear not only how massive of an effort was required to pull off Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece musical, but how personal it all felt. “There were hundreds of us involved in it, and I loved it. It just was a completely pure feeling,” Newman told us. “We were all just doing it for the love of it. That is the feeling I get with this movie.

“The Batman” Drops Two New Posters Highlighting a Different Kind of Gotham

The look of writer/director Matt Reeves’s upcoming The Batman has a distinct feel to it we haven’t quite seen before. Two new posters released by Warner Brothers highlight this aesthetic, one offering the rare sunny day in Gotham and featuring Batman (Robert Pattison) and Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), and another a darker nod towards the film’s central struggle.

The new posters got us thinking about the ever-morphing look of the entire Batman franchise.

“Ray Donovan: The Movie” Writer/Director David Hollander Gets Inside the Anti-Hero’s Head One Last Time

When Ray Donovan debuted on Showtime in 2013, Liev Schreiber introduced the character as a brooding fixer who uses a baseball bat to make problems go away for shallow celebrities and sleazy Hollywood moguls. But over the course of seven seasons, the one thing Donovan could never fix was his own broken family, headed by the charming but awful con artist father Mickey (Jon Voight).

In February 2020, Showtime dumped the series without warning.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Swings to 4th on All-Time Box Office List

Spider-Man: No Way Home has swung into history. The multiverse-tripping, Spider-Man tripling mega-hit officially became the fourth-highest-grossing film ever on Monday, passing Black Panther to end the day with $702.6 million in ticket sales. No Way Home joins only five films to ever cross the $700 million mark domestically—Black Panther ($700.4m), Avatar ($760.5m), Avengers: Endgame ($858.4m), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.7m).

How Andrew Garfield Kept His “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Secret Mostly Hidden

How hard did Andrew Garfield work to keep his appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home secret hidden? He lied to his ex-girlfriend and good friend Emma Stone. In an interview with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Garfield admitted that he had to lie to his ex, who was also his The Amazing Spider-Man co-star.

“Emma kept on texting me, and she was like,

Robert Pattinson Hints His Batman Isn’t Straight-Up Heroic

It was never a question that Robert Pattinson would be a different kind of Batman. He’s a wholly different kind of performer from the last two talented men who donned the cape and cowl, Ben Affleck and Christian Bale. What’s more, writer/director Matt Reeves had already promised that The Batman would be less like your typical superhero movie and more of a noir detective film. Add to that the fact that The Batman‘s synopsis calls Bruce Wayne a “

“The Marvels” Adds Rising Star Composer Laura Karpman

Director Nia DaCosta’s upcoming Captain Marvel sequel just nabbed composer Laura Karpman, a rising star in the industry. The five-time Emmy-nominee will join DaCosta’s The Marvels, adding yet another ace filmmaker to the talented crew. “I am thrilled to be going on this wild adventure with Nia DaCosta and Carol Danvers and am really looking forward to the collaboration,” Karpman said in a statement. She becomes the second female composer on a Marvel film,

“The Tragedy of Macbeth” Production Designer Stefan Dechant on Joel Coen’s Minimalist Masterpiece

Production designer Stefan Dechant has worked on detail-packed cinematic spectacles like Jurassic Park, Avatar, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Kong: Skull Island. When he signed up for Joel Coen‘s black and white adaptation of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Dechant had to embrace a new aesthetic, stripping all decorative embellishments that might distract from the drama at hand.

“Aquaman 2” Has Officially Wrapped Production

We’re officially one big step closer to seeing director James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Wan took to Instagram to reveal that production has officially wrapped. The post shows Wan, Aquaman himself Jason Momoa, and Patrick Wilson, who plays Orm, looking pretty thrilled on a beach in Malibu, California. Here’s what Wan has to say in the post:

And finally, finally, finally picture wrap on the actual last day of #Aquaman2 in Malibu with these two gents @prideofgypsies @thereelpatrickwilson Yes,

“Dune” Writer/Director Denis Villeneuve on Bringing a Sci-Fi Epic to Life

When writer/director Denis Villeneuve set out to adapt Frank Herbert’s iconic opus “Dune” for the big screen, he was facing some massive obstacles. Herbert’s classic, set in part on the resource-rich, dangerous desert planet of Arrakis, is notoriously dense and massive. It inspired Star Wars creator George Lucas and Star Trek mastermind Gene Roddenberry, but they had the advantage of taking bits and pieces of Herbert’s iconography—the dangerous desert planet, warring intergalactic tribes,

“No Time To Die” Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb on Dressing Bond’s Allies & Adversaries

In part one of our conversation with No Time To Die costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, we focused on the tall order of outfitting Daniel Craig for his fifth and final assignment as James Bond. In part two, we turn our attention to the allies and adversaries that populate Bond’s world, including two new agents, the love of his life, and a scarred sociopath who has designed a weapon that—spoiler alert—forces Bond to make the ultimate sacrifice. 

“No Time To Die” Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb on Building the Apex Tuxedo

“Before Daniel, the Bond style, which was always very definitive, was being worn by someone who was more of a superhero character,” says No Time To Die costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb about the tall order of outfitting Daniel Craig for his fifth and final assignment as James Bond. “We didn’t really get the emotional landscape. We got the look, we got the icon, but we didn’t delve that much deeper. Daniel is a consummate actor and I really felt this responsibly to be able to costume him in a way that would live up to that Bond stratosphere,

Final “Scream” Trailer Suggests the Rules of The Game Have Changed

We’re just a few days away from the fifth Scream to hit theaters, and it’s already earning plaudits and raves. Paramount Pictures has delivered one final trailer to whet your appetite for a return trip to Woodsboro, and the gist of this last look is that it’s not enough to simply know the rules of the game to survive the new Ghostface.

The final Scream trailer focuses on how the return of the franchise’s stalwarts—Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell),

How “Nightmare Alley” Hair Designer Cliona Furey & Makeup Designer Jo-Ann MacNeil Made Magic

In Guillermo del Toro’s carnival noir Nightmare Alley, the visionary director eschews the supernatural for a period noir to fantastic effect. The film is set largely at a mid-20th-century second-rate carnival filled with schemers, dreamers, hustlers, weirdos, and femme Fatales, with del Toro acting as our carnival barker (that role in the movie actually belongs to Willem Dafoe), taking us on a tour of the lost souls plying their various trades in this shadowy world.