“C’mon C’mon” Writer/Director Mike Mills on Creating a Space For Intimacy

When it comes to family, we all have our own story. In C’mon C’mon, from writer/director Mike Mills, we connect with a tale not often told, one that drops us in the living room of a sister and brother who have been living their own adult lives on separate coasts and slowly drifting apart from each other. When her husband has an abrupt mental health issue, she asks her brother to step in to watch their child while she attempts to piece back their marriage.

New “Peacemaker” Video Reveals Vigilante’s Unwanted Attention

Peacemaker (John Cena) is going through some changes when the HBO Max series bearing his name begins. A spinoff from James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker finds the beefy brute who became that film’s villain questioning his entire worldview. That worldview is simple; peace, at all costs, no matter who Peacemaker has to kill. In the film, Peacemaker ended up in a duel with Bloodsport (Idris Elba), his ostensible ally, and revealed himself to be as broken as his belief system.

Apple to Produce Adam McKay’s “Bad Blood” Starring Jennifer Lawrence

Adam McKay and Jennifer Lawrence are just getting started. The writer/director and the star of the upcoming film Don’t Look Up are re-teaming for Bad Blood, a feature film about infamous Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, for Apple Original Films.

McKay, ever the auteur, will write, direct, and produce the film, with Lawrence playing Holmes, a woman whose incredible ascension into the ranks of Silicon Valley’s most promising and successful young innovators was only outdone by her swift,

“Shang-Chi” Sequel With Director Destin Daniel Cretton in The Works

Buckle up, Shang-Chi fans—a sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is officially happening, with director Destin Daniel Cretton returning to write and helm. Want more good news on this front? Cretton is also developing a Marvel series for Disney+.

For those of you who loved Shang-Chi (and we are legion), and are especially excited for what the future holds for the character after that post-credits scene with his equally potent sister,

Colin Farrell Will Star in “The Batman” HBO Max Spinoff Series About The Penguin

Oswald Cobblepot is coming to HBO Max.

Variety has confirmed that Colin Farrell and HBO Max have made it official, with Farrell set to star in and executive producing a new spinoff series based on his The Batman character Oswald Cobblepot, better known as The Penguin. The series will explore The Penguin’s rise within Gotham’s murky criminal underworld, which is well-known for breeding some of the most legendary villains in the comics world.

“The Matrix Resurrections” Drops Stunning Second Trailer

“We can’t see it, but we’re all trapped inside these strange repeating loops.” These words, spoken by Morpheus (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) in the opening of the second trailer for The Matrix Resurrections hint at the déjà vu that will haunt Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) in Lana Wachowski’s new film. The new trailer packs a punch, offering a more coherent look at the film’s plot and a ton of action.

Charlie Cox Will Play Daredevil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

It’s official—Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed that Charlie Cox will be reprising his role of Daredevil for the MCU. Speaking with CinemaBlend, Feige said if there’s a Daredevil inclusion in any future MCU project, it would be Cox again inhabiting the role. Only now, Cox would be moving from the small screen and Netflix into the MCU, whether that’s on a Disney+ show or a Marvel film has yet to be determined,

Watch The “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Opening Scene

At long last, we’ve got our first look at Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Three years after the gangbusters release of 2018’s sensational Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse we have the reveal of Across the Spider-Verse, the two-part sequel that will track Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) as he reprises his role as Spider-Man—well, one of the Spider-Men in the abundant, gloriously creative animated world that revealed a slew of Spider-People (and a pig) spread across the multiverse.

New “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Footage Gives Glimpse of Green Goblin’s New Suit

We are swinging seriously close to the release date of director Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, and that means fresh details are starting to pile up. For example, this weekend three of the film’s big stars, all reprising their roles as supervillains from previous Spider-Man franchises, gathered for a panel for CCXP. We’re talking about Willem Dafoe, who plays the Green Goblin, Alfred Molina, returning as Doc Ock, and Jamie Foxx,

New “Morbius” Scene Reveals Jared Leto’s Transformation Into Marvel’s Bloodsucking Antihero

Sony Pictures released a rousing, 3-plus minute scene from Morbius over the weekend, revealing the moment Jared Leto’s Dr. Michael Morbius goes from an emaciated, dying man into the superhuman antihero Morbius. The transformation is not without its victims, however. The set-up is this; Dr. Morbius is on a freighter at sea, being helped by fellow doctor Martine Bancroft (Adria Arjona) in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Using a serum that Dr.

Dwayne Johnson Reveals a “Black Adam” Close-Up of His Supervillain

Dwayne Johnson wants to send you into your weekend with some fresh Black Adam hype. Johnson tweeted an image of his titular character, a supervillain who promises to shake up the power hierarchy in the DCEU the moment he arrives, looking downright possessed. The image of Johnson as Black Adam is going to be the cover of an upcoming issue of Total Film, his firey eyes matching the magazine’s title design.

“Peacemaker” Official Trailer Reveals One Beefy Brute’s Rude Awakening

James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad spinoff series Peacemaker‘s release is nigh, and now HBO Max has released the official trailer. When we last saw John Cena’s titular character in The Suicide Squad, he’d miraculously survived a duel with Bloodsport (Idris Elba) after becoming the film’s villain. Peacemaker is a character at war with himself (and, unfortunately, everybody else) because he’s a man who will pursue peace, no matter who he hurts in the process,

“Nightmare Alley” Early Reactions: Guillermo del Toro’s Luminously Dark Noir Shines

The buzz is building for Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, the visionary director’s plunge into a world that seems tailor-made for his particular skill set. Set in a mid-20th-century second-rate carnival filled with schemers, dreamers, hustlers, weirdos, and femme Fatales, Del Toro gets to play 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.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Snags Record Advance Ticket Sales

The first Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy (there will be a second) is about to come to an end with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and unsurprisingly, people are very excited to see it in the theater. The demand for advanced tickets, which went on sale on November 29, has been such that the rush of would-be buyers crashed a few of the online sites selling tickets.

New “The Matrix Resurrections” Teaser Explores Dangerous Déjà Vu

In the Matrix franchise, déjà vu isn’t just a curious but ultimately harmless experience of something you’re experiencing for the first time feeling like a memory. It is, rather, a glitch in the Matrix itself, and one of the early lessons that Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) taught Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the original film. In a new teaser for The Matrix Resurrections, we get to revisit the importance of déjà vu in the franchise,

Expect Insanity in “Thor: Love and Thunder” Says MCU Artist Andy Park

While MCU fans have had already their hands full in 2021 with new films (Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals) and new series on Disney+ (WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and now Hawkeye), there’s still a big premiere left—Spider-Man: No Way Home. That’s a lot of Marvel madness for a single year,

“The Power of the Dog” Cinematographer Ari Wegner on Finding the Light in Jane Campion’s Mythic Western

Auteur writer/director Jane Campion is known for being one of the few female filmmakers to garner a Best Director Oscar nomination, for 1993’s The Piano, which won her an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Fans have been anxiously awaiting her first feature film release since 2009’s Bright Star, and she’ll do them proud with The Power of the Dog, an intense period drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as bullying 1920s rancher Phil Burbank.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Breakout Star Meng’er Zhang on her Knockout Debut

From the second she enters the frame, Xialing radiates a younger sibling’s mixture of hurt and defiance at the brother who abandoned her. Yet Xialing is no longer a little girl, and as the daughter of the crime boss and formidable, superpowered martial arts master Wenwu, she’s become everything her older brother—Shang-Chi—was meant to be. Only unlike her brother, she wasn’t handpicked as Wenwu’s successor, and her training to become an unparalleled martial arts expert and assassin was done on the sly.

“Passing” Writer/Director Rebecca Hall On Navigating the Complicated History of Racial Identity

The complexity of bringing a thematically laced film like Passing to the screen isn’t a simple one. For Rebecca Hall, who makes her directorial debut, it was also a personal journey, “an extended catharsis” that allowed her “to get to the bottom of a lot of mysteries” in her family.

The story, which is adapted by Hall from the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, follows two Black women, Irene (Tessa Thompson) and Clare (Ruth Negga),

How Vietnamese Filmmaker Bui Kim Quy Faced Death, Real & Imagined, in Her Film “Memoryland”

When her second film Memoryland held its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents competition last month, Vietnamese director Bui Kim Quy had to give it a miss due to her health conditions.

“I was diagnosed with lung cancer after the shoot wrapped in late 2018. Since then I have been undergoing treatment (which also explains why we had a drawn-out post-production). This pre-existing medical condition prevented me from getting the vaccines.