“Women Talking” Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on Scoring Sarah Polley’s Astonishing New Film
Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, writer/director Sarah Polley’s new narrative Women Talking considers how a group of women can move forward after the shocking betrayal and abuse by men in their isolated religious community. The backstory of the novel and subsequent film, which is set in 2010, mirrors horrific true events that took place at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. For over four years, nine men secretly sedated over a hundred girls and women, raping them while they were unconscious...
First “Harry & Meghan” Trailer Reveals Netflix’s Inside Look at the Royal Couple
Netflix is taking you inside the Duke and Dutchess of Sussex’s love story in a documentary event that will likely draw many, many eyeballs. Two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy-winning documentarian Liz Garbus was given unprecedented access to the prince and princess for Harry & Meghan, a six-episode series that will explore the relationship, from their point of view as well as those of friends and family members, from their secret courtship through their epochal move to California...
“The Witcher: Blood Origin” Trailer Reveals 4-Part Special Prequel Series
The great Michelle Yeoh centers our first look at The Witcher: Blood Origin, the new prequel series set in an elven world 1200 years before the events in The Witcher. Blood Origin takes place during the Elven Golden Era, before the arrival of humans or monsters (some might claim they’re one and the same?), yet all is not well even in this, non-monstrous realm. The first trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin introduces us to seven warriors,...
“The Legacy of Ant-Man” Special Looks Reveals Glimpse at “Quantumania”
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania officially kicks off Marvel’s Phase 5. Now, thanks to a special look at the legacy of Ant-Man revealed at Brazil’s Comic-Con, we’ve got fresh footage of the microscopic mayhem coming our way in Quantumania.
Quantumania will find Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) all heading into the Quantum Realm...
First “Indiana Jones 5” Trailer Reveals Indy’s Epic Return
At long last, we have our first look at Indiana Jones 5. What’s more, we’ve got the official title—Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Indy (Harris Ford, naturally) is back for one last adventure, and he’s in good hands in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with ace director James Mangold. The first trailer opens with Indy’s old pal Sallah (John Rhys-Davies) talking about how much he misses the magic and adventure of the old days...
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Trailer Reveals Big Changes for Our Galactic Misfits
Everyone’s favorite band of galactic misfits is back.
The trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been revealed—Marvel Studios presented it at the Comic-Con Experience 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil, where Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige presented the trailer alongside Zoe Saldana (Gamora, of course). The trailer opens in perfect Guardians fashion, with our cosmos-hopping pals arriving on an Earth-like planet (folks, it’s not Earth) and Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) letting the awed planetary inhabitants know that the Guardians come in peace...
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” Trailer Reveals the Maximals, Predacons, & Terrorcons
The seventh installment of the Transformers franchise arrives with a trailer that boasts snippets of a Biggie Smalls classic, the reveal of some beastly Transformers like a massive metallic giant ape, and the reveal of the most terrifying alien robots of them all. The film, inspired by the ’90s Beast Wars cartoon, also boasts a fresh new cast, led by stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, with new transformers voiced by none other than Michelle Yeoh (!!) and Pete Davidson...
Getting Sea Sick With “Triangle of Sadness” Production Designer Josefin Åsberg
Satirical black comedy Triangle of Sadness, writer/director Ruben Östlund’s first English-language feature, debuted at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. The Swedish auteur is known for 2014’s Force Majeure and The Square, which in 2017 also won the Palme d’Or and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Triangle of Sadness, like Östlund’s previous films, examines classism and the decadence of the famous and the ultra-rich...
Netflix Unveils Trailer For “Harry & Meghan” Doc Series
We’ve got our first look at the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming docu-series Harry & Meghan, which promises viewers access to the life of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle that you simply cannot get anywhere else. Two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?) has been given unprecedented access to the royal couple, and the result is a six-part series that promises to give us their story in their own words, from their secretive early romance to the headiest and most public days of their marriage,...
“Avatar: The Way of Water” IMAX Featurette Focuses on Jake & Neytiri’s Family
“The first film was a discovery of the forest, a discovery of Pandora on your banshee,” says Avatar: The Way of Water star Zoe Saldana in this new IMAX featurette. “It was unlike anything any of us had ever seen. And now it’s The Way of Water, and it’s a world all on its own, and I felt like I was rediscovering Pandora all over again.”
We are now just two weeks and change away from James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to his 2009 record-breaker Avatar, ...
“Emily in Paris” Season 3 Trailer Finds Our Heroine Juggling Multiple Jobs & Romances
Can you blame Emily for still being in Paris?
Netflix has released the trailer for season 3 of Emily in Paris, where our titular heroine (played by Lily Collins) is still in the City of Lights. Emily arrived in Paris back in season one with a plum new job, and the trials and tribulations of trying to succeed at work were the primary focus. In season two, Emily’s romantic life took center stage, and now, appropriately,...
“Willow” Reviews Call it Fun, Funny, & a Little Bit Frightening
The reviews for Disney+’s Willow are arriving, and for fans of Ron Howard’s original 1988 film and intrigued newbies who love the fantasy genre, you’ll be pleased. Three decades after Howard’s film, Willow is “back as a series and better than ever,” writes the Los Angeles Times‘s Robert Lloyd. Howard’s film found an aspiring sorcerer and farmer named Willow (Warwick Davis) setting off on an epic quest to deliver a human baby found by his people to the care of the bigger people...
“Wednesday” Breaks “Stranger Things 4” Record For Most Hours Viewed in a Week
Move over kids from Hawkins, Indiana, Wednesday Addams has arrived.
Tim Burton’s Wednesday has had an incredible opening week, with the Jenna Ortega-led series breaking the record for an English-language TV series for most hours viewed in one week with 341.2 million, according to Netflix’s data. Wednesday‘s astonishing opening week began on November 21 and lasted until November 27—the premiere was actually on November 23. That number amounts to more than 50 million households streaming Wednesday since it premiered...
Keke Palmer Was Born to Host “SNL”
The mega-talented Keke Palmer is making her Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and we can all but guarantee she is going to crush it. The hilarious, hard-working, multi-talented Palmer broke out this summer in Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope, but she’s been on her way for a while now. She’s been acting since she was a kid, from Barbershop 2: Back in Business in 2004 (she was 11) to starring in Akeelah and the Bee in 2006 and portraying the title character in Nickelodeon’s True Jackson,...
Scarlett Johansson Will Executive Produce & Star in TV Debut For Amazon
Scarlett Johansson is about to take on her first major TV role in her career. Deadline reports that Johansson will star and executive produce the thriller Just Cause, based on John Katzenbach’s 1992 novel, in a limited series. Amazon Prime Video landed Just Cause, which comes from writer Christy Hall in a collaboration with Johansson’s These Pictures studio and Warner Bros. TV, in a straight-to-series order.
The adaptation will find the main character in Katzenach’s novel,...
“Bones And All” Writer/Producer David Kajganich on Creating a Consuming Cannibal Love Story
When screenwriter David Kajganich decided to adapt the YA novel Bones And All by Camille DeAngelis, he approached his friend and longtime collaborator, director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name), about taking on the project — the two had worked together on Suspiria and A Bigger Splash. Though professional commitments initially prevented Guadagnino from doing so, eventually, all the pieces fell into place,...
“Babylon” Official Trailer Finds Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie Living the High Life
“I think what we have here in Hollywood is high art,” says Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) in the official trailer for writer/director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Yet before Jack can finish his sentence, Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) screams, “Party time, sparkle c*cks!” from atop the shoulders of some half-naked men, despoiling Jack’s make-believe vision of a proper, high-falutin’ version of Hollywood. The Hollywood on display in Babylon is anything but prim and proper.
Such is the vibe in Chazelle’s latest,...
“1923” Official Trailer Finds Helen Mirren & Harrison Ford Ready to Defend the Dutton Home
Time to saddle up. The Yellowstone prequel 1923 has unveiled its official trailer, and it finds two of cinema’s biggest stars stepping into the Dutton family drama.
Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford are front and center in the new trailer as Cara and Jacob Dutton. We open with Cara Dutton meeting newcomer Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), who introduces himself and reveals that he’s her new neighbor—he’s “acquired” the ranch next door. This introduction is interwoven with shots of carnage and people lying dead in the grass...
New “Avatar: The Way of Water” Teaser Reveals the Deadly Return of Humans to Pandora
“This is our home. This is our family. This is our fortress.” This is the message from Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the human-turned-Na’vi tribe member who centered the action in James Cameron’s original Avatar, in the latest teaser for the sequel. Now, a decade later, Jake has been living with his wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and their children on her planet of Pandora. Yet as this new Avatar: The Way of Water teaser shows us, humans have once again returned to the lush planet,...
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story” Editor Bob Ducsay on Cutting a Razor Sharp Whodunit
Award-winning editor Bob Ducsay has been cutting blockbusters for decades, including 1999’s The Mummy and 2015’s Godzilla, and has worked with Rian Johnson since 2012’s Looper. He edited both The Last Jedi and Johnson’s first film in the Benoit Blanc series, Knives Out, in 2019. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which hits theaters on November 23 and then Netflix on December 23rd,...
