New “What If…?” Featurette Teases The Watcher’s Unparalleled Visibility Into The MCU

“Reality is not a straight line,” Jeffrey Wright’s The Watcher says at the top of this new What If…? featurette. “Every passing moment is a chance for a new offshoot. A new variation. In fact there are more realities than you can possibly fathom.”

This is as good a synopsis as any we’ve heard about Marvel Studios’ first-ever animated series What If…?, which was inspired by a line of comics of the same name that explored alternate realities within the Marvel comics universe.

Hold Your Breath During This “Don’t Breathe 2” Trailer

If you’re a character in a movie and are planning on pulling off a little light B&E (breaking and entering), pick anybody else’s place but the house of Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang). Then again, there’d be no movie without some misguided folks’ barging in on Norman’s quiet life. In the first Don’t Breathe, a surprise hit from director Fede Alvarez, based on a script he co-wrote with Rodo Sayagues, it was some silly teenagers trying to take advantage of a blind old man and rob him.

A New “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” Featurette Reveals Fresh Footage

This Monday saw the release of the official trailer for director Andy Serkis‘s Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Now, a new featurette reveals just how seriously the multi-talented Serkis took on the challenge of stepping into Venom’s world.

“I’ve been making this directing journey for a decade,” Serkis says at the top of the video. “To enter into this level of fan-based, really adored franchise world,

Final “Annette” Trailer Sheds Fresh Light on Cannes Crowd Pleaser

Fresh from earning a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, Amazon has revealed the final trailer for Leos Carax’s Annette. The visionary director behind Holy Motors (2012) and Boy Meets Girl (1984) has dispatched Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in his latest, genre-defying feature, this one inspired by a chance encounter he had at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

That encounter involved Carax meeting the pop/rock band The Sparks at the festival.

New “What If…?” Clip Re-Imagines Peggy Carter as the First Avenger

Yesterday we shared the latest What If…? teaser, which gave us a fresh glimpse at Marvel Studios’ first-ever animated series. Today, Marvel has revealed a clip from the first episode, which is centered on Captain Peggy Carter, a new spin on the Agent Peggy Carter we all know (and Steve Rogers very much loved) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The clip reveals Captain Carter leading her Howling Commandos on a charge during World War II.

A New “What If…?” Teaser Reveals Marvel’s Mind-Bending New Disney+ Series

What if you combined The Twilight Zone with Marvel Studios and remixed some of the most iconic moments in the latter’s history with the exploratory chutzpah of the former? That’s roughly what Marvel’s new series What If…? offers viewers, and a new teaser asks us to imagine a world where, say, T’Challa (Black Panther to the uninitiated) arrives in Star-lord’s mask and the villain Killmonger is a force for good. Such is the world that What If…? 

New Image of Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Getting Jacked For “Aquaman 2”

Black Manta isn’t messing around.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is returning for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and he’s making sure he’s prepared. In a brand new Instagram post, the man who plays Aquaman’s nemesis Black Manta can be seen at the gym getting to work. The caption, “Under Construction! #Aquaman2” lets you know that he’s building himself up for director James Wan‘s return trip to Atlantis. (For you weightlifters out there,

Amazon Reveals First Image From “The Lord of the Rings” Series

In case you missed it, Amazon has, at long last, revealed the first image from The Lord of the Rings series that we’ve all been patiently waiting for. What’s more, we now know the release date. You can expect to head back to Middle-earth on September 2, 2022, with each new episode dropping weekly.

Filming for the long-awaited series just wrapped on August 2 in New Zealand, and the first image,

Let “The Green Knight” Director David Lowery Take You Through A Haunting Scene

Writer/director David Lowery is here to walk you through a scene in his ravishing, critically acclaimed The Green Knight thanks to a new “Anatomy of Scene” video from the New York Times. If you’re a reader of The Credits, then you know we’ve been tracking Lowery’s film since we first heard about it last year (it was, like so many other releases, delayed due to the pandemic).

“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” Unleashes Official Trailer

The official trailer for Sony Pictures’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage reveals a serious symbiote vs symbiote brawl for the ages. While the last time we saw Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), he had thrown down with another symbiote, Riot, who was being hosted by the body of Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), it’s safe to say Eddie and his symbiote life partner Venom have an even tougher challenge ahead. They’ll be facing—and fighting—the titular king of the alien symbiote carnivores Carnage,

Marlee Matlin on Her New Film “CODA” & Its Refreshing Focus on a Deaf Family

Marlee Matlin is unquestionably the best-known and most successful deaf actor working in American film and television. She exploded on the scene with her Oscar-winning performance as Sarah in the 1986 movie Children of a Lesser God and has worked steadily ever since. From her Emmy-nominated performances in Law and Order, The Practice, Seinfield, and Picket Fences to the memorable characters she created for The L Word,

“Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings” Will Connect Directly to First “Iron Man”

“We’re going back to the very beginning of the MCU,” Kevin Feige says in a new Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings featurette. The Marvel Studios president confirms that the MCU’s first Asian superhero’s story will connect directly to the film that started it all, Jon Favreau’s 2008 Iron Man. “We have a keystone event, and that event is Tony Stark becoming Iron Man. He’s forced to build these weapons for an organization,

Marvel Reveals First Look At Next Disney+ Series “Hawkeye”

Fresh off the MCU-shaping revelations from Loki, Marvel is already teasing their next Disney+ series by revealing the first look at Hawkeye. The image, courtesy of an Entertainment Weekly exclusive (via tweet) shows series star Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop standing next to Hawkeye himself, Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton. Along with the image, Marvel has also revealed Hawkeye’s release date—November 24.

Steinfeld is wearing purple,

Emmy-Nominee Hannah Waddingham on the Joy of Making “Ted Lasso”

Before Ted Lasso became a phenomenon, setting a record for most Emmy nominations by a freshman comedy (20 total, including seven for its actors), its virtues were spread, among my friends, more like a whisper campaign. One buddy in particular kept needling me via text. What finally broke me was the realization that here was my most sports-agnostic pal pressuring me to watch a show about an American football coach being hired to lead an English Premier League soccer team.

Feel the Power in New “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Teaser

A fresh Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings teaser has the kind of umph that’ll get your morning going, from the fight sequences to the soundtrack. The minute-long look is pure adrenalin, focusing on the core of the film’s by giving us a relentlessly paced montage of action sequences set around an epic intra-family faceoff. This is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian superhero, and with director Destin Daniel Cretton at the helm and Simu Liu starring as the titular Shang-Chi,

Sound Editor Trevor Gates on Keeping “Fear Street” Real, Upbeat, & Horrifying

Based on master of teen horror genre fiction R.L. Stine’s novels, Netflix released writer-director Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy over the past three successive Fridays. Opening with a neon-lit shopping mall murder spree, Part One – 1994 introduces the seemingly cursed teenaged residents of Shadyside and their luckier next-door neighbors in Sunnyvale. In Part Two – 1978, intrepid Deena (Kiana Madeira) and her nerdy younger brother,

“The Suicide Squad” Review Round-Up: James Gunn Crafts a Bloody Good Time

Writer/director James Gunn seems to have hit a home run in his first outing for the DC Extended Universe. With the review embargo lifted for The Suicide Squad, the reviews are starting to roll in, and they expand on the rapturous early buzz. Gunn’s film borrows a few characters from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad and then goes its own way, and the result is a bonkers, bloody,

“Jungle Cruise” Review Roundup: A Fun Family Adventure Led By Two Charismatic Leads

The reviews are in for Jungle Cruise, director starring Jaume Collet-Serra’s (The Shallows, Orphan) family-friendly adventure starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson. Spoiler alert—Blunt and Johnson are charismatic and have chemistry to spare, and Collet-Serra, a nimble director with a great sense for action, has done a good job of goosing the film with plenty of adventure.

Johnson stars as riverboat captain Frank Wolff,

A Special Look at Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story”

20th Century Studios has revealed a new special look at Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, his long-awaited adaptation of the legendary musical. This fresh glimpse gives us a nearly wordless teaser set to Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein’s song “Somewhere” from the original 1957 Broadway show. We see our two star-crossed lovers, Rachel Zegler as Maria and Ansel Elgort as Tony, caught between two warring gangs in mid-century New York,

“The Card Counter” Trailer Sees Oscar Isaac Going All In

There are filmmaker’s filmmakers, the kinds of writer/directors admired by their peers, filmmakers who aren’t household names but who quietly, patiently create a body of work that are esteemed by their colleagues and movie lovers alike. Writer/director Paul Schrader is one of those filmmakers, and the trailer for his latest work, The Card Counter, lays out why his new work is one of the most anticipated entrants to this year’s Venice Film Festival.