Best of Summer 2019: Mark Hamill Finally Explains The Last Jedi‘s Blue Milk
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories
Rian Johnson‘s Star Wars: The Last Jedi was bold in so many ways. The writer/director took the narrative baton from J.J. Abrams after The Force Awakens and gave us a rich, complex middle trilogy film that challenged fans’ long-held beliefs about what made a Jedi and Rey (Daisy Ridley)’s parentage...
Best of Summer 2019: Here’s What Made Dany’s Assault on King’s Landing so Viscerally Terrifying
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Director Miguel Sapochnik and cinematographer Fabian Wagner have worked together on four of Game of Thrones most ambitious episodes. The two teamed up for season 5’s skirmish with the Night King, “Hardhome,” season 6’s muddy epic “Battle of the Bastards,” this season’s Battle of Winterfell in “The Long Night,” and finally, last night’s shockingly horrific “...
Best of Summer 2019: Ready or Not’s Editor on Cutting This Devilish Delight
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet’s Ready or Not has been getting rave reviews. They’ve taken a simple childhood game and turned it on its head, to devilishly delightful results.
Samara Weaving plays Grace, a young woman enjoying her wedding day. She joins her husband Alex (Mark O’Brien), whose wealthy family built their empire on board games...
Best of Summer 2019: Dark Rey in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
This weekend Disney gave revealed a lot at their D23 Expo. The first trailer and a bunch of images from the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. We also got a look at the new poster for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. ...
Best of Summer 2019: Editor Spencer Averick on Cutting When They See Us
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
Netflix rarely releases viewer numbers, but on June 12th, the streaming service tweeted that Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us has been its most-watched content in the US since the show’s premiere on May 31st. In the UK, When They See Us has been running second only to Black Mirror...
Best of Summer 2019: Jared Harris on Creating Valery Legasov, Chernobyl’s Reluctant Hero
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
It’s the lies told throughout Craig Mazin’s five-episode series Chernobyl that get you. After all, most anybody watching the HBO program set in today’s northern Ukraine will already know that the Soviet nuclear plant exploded in 1986, the area was eventually evacuated, and the adjacent newly-built town of Pripyat transformed into a ghost city,...
Best of Summer 2019: Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Capturing Cutting-Edge Comedy
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
There’s no such thing as flawless art. Flaws are baked right into anything a human being creates, and often they are hard to disassociate from the strengths that make any art worthwhile. Yet I’ve heard several people call Fleabag‘s second season flawless, and I’ve been hard-pressed to argue the point. Few shows on television are as personal,...
Best of Summer 2019: Russo Bros Finally Reveal How Captain America was Able to [Spoiler Alert]
*As summer draws to a close, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews and stories.
With Avengers: Endgame headed for its digital HD release next week, lots of interesting, spoiler-riffic tidbits are finding their way online. Here’s one that just caught our attention.
Quick—what was the single most shocking moment in Avengers: Endgame? [Spoiler alert, obviously.] Very good arguments could be made for the film’s two major deaths—Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow,...
The Final Joker Trailer Puts on a Happy Face
We get a touch of his humanity. We get the laugh. And most of all, we get a sense of just how different Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix‘s take on the most iconic villain in DC comics history is before half a minute is up in the final Joker trailer. We now have a clearer picture of what’s in store, and this final look speaks to a comic book film quite unlike any that have come before it...
See Sacha Baron Cohen as You’ve Never Seen Him Before in The Spy
“If your country needed you to lie to your friends, your family, your wife, would you do it? If your country asked you to risk your life, would you do it?” This is the question posed to Mossad agent Eli Cohen (Sacha Baron Cohen) in Gideon Raff’s new Netflix series The Spy. Netflix has released the first trailer for the drama, which is based on the incredible true story of Cohen going undercover in Syria in the early 1960s to ferret out their secret initiatives aimed at Israel...
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Adding Nathan Fillion & Possibly Taika Waititi
The cast for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad keeps getting better and better. Deadline reports that Nathan Fillion is joining Gunn’s star-studded cast in an unknown role. The two have worked together a bunch, with Fillion doing voice work for Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy (he played an inmate at the prison the Guardians are in), played the Holy Avenger in Gunn’s 2010 Super and Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror/comedy Slither. ...
Netflix’s Marianne Looks Deliciously Creepy
There is something sublime happening with Netflix’s new French horror series Marianne, as the first trailer attests. The premise is wonderful; a famous novelist is battling a soul-stealing witch by writing books. The thing is, the writer is having trouble figuring out how the protagonist of her novel, Lizzie, is going to vanquish the witch. Unless she can come up with that ending, the actual witch is going to make life a living hell for her.
For those of you who devoured Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and want more, ...
Timothée Chalamet is The King in First Trailer for Netflix’s Star-Studded Film
All hail director David Michôd‘s The King, which deploys a star-studded cast in this adaptation of a trio of Shakespeare’s plays—Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V—from a script from Michôd and Joel Edgerton.
The King centers on Timothée Chalamet’s Prince Hal, a young man not at all interested in royal trappings until his father dies and he finds himself on the English Throne as King Henry V. Things are not great in England,...
See the Creation of Avengers: Endgame‘s Final Battle With Thanos
With Avengers: Endgame available on Blu-ray and digital download, we can now finally see just how the Russo Brothers and their huge cast and crew managed to pull off the biggest film in history. Marvel has just released a new video that details how they created the climactic final battle with Thanos, which completely changed the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just the number of characters required for that scene alone is insane, to say nothing of the fact they’re fighting a largely digital army,...
Woody Harrelson & Cinematographer Robert Richardson Confirmed for Venom 2
Everything about Venom 2 keeps getting better and better. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson has joined director Andy Serkis’s sequel. Richardson joining Serkis and stars Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams raises all sorts of interesting questions about what Venom 2‘s look might be, and how different it might feel from director Ruben Fleischer’s original. Richardson has not only shot six films with Tarantino,...
Breaking Down the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Footage
So we’ve all watched the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser a few dozen times. Excellent. Now it’s time to break down the new footage. While everyone is justifiably talking about that wild last shot of Dark Rey in the Sith-like robes brandishing the double-bladed red lightsaber, there’s more to parse than just Rey potentially breaking bad.
The new teaser was revealed at Disney’s D23 Expo this past weekend. It begins with a sequence of some of the most iconic shots from the previous installments of the epic Skywalker saga...
The Poster for Marvel’s WandaVision Series is Delightfully Weird
The goodies that Disney’s D23 Expo delivered this past weekend are, in a word, delicious. Let us count the ways—a new teaser for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? Check. A new Rise of Skywalker poster? Check. The first trailer for the first-ever live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian? Check. A fresh batch of photos from The Mandalorian?...
Six new Joker Clips Reveal Gritty Origin Story
This Wednesday, August 28, we’ll get a new trailer for Joker. Warner Bros. doesn’t want you to twiddle your thumbs until then, so they’ve taken to Instagram and released six fresh clips from the film. These include some bits we’ve seen before, but also some intriguing new material. These brief clips also help establish the grittier tone that co-writer/director Todd Phillips has gone for here. We’ve been hearing quite a bit lately about the inspiration behind Joaquin Phoenix’s take on the most iconic villain of all time,...
Rey Wields Double Lightsaber in new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser
This weekend Disney gave revealed a lot at their D23 Expo. The first trailer and a bunch of images from the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. We also got a look at the new poster for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We weren’t sure if we were going to get any new footage from the film, but then word spread from Anaheim that Abrams was on hand to reveal a “Special Look”...
New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Poster Reveals Rey v Kylo-Ren Duel
This past weekend’s Disney’s D23 Expo revealed a bounty hunter’s haul of fresh Star Wars information. We got The Mandalorian‘s first trailer and a batch of photos. Now we’ve got our first look at a brand new poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which gives us Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo-Ren (Adam Driver) engaged in a lightsaber duel. Lording above them,...
