Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Crafting a Nearly Flawless Second Season
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, raw, and fearless as what Phoebe Waller-Bridge has created here, which is full of its creators’...
Director AJ Eaton on his Lyrical new Doc David Crosby: Remember My Name
This past weekend, a new documentary played into theaters spotlighting musician David Crosby, called David Crosby: Remember My Name. He is most famous for his role in The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and most infamous for his troubles with drugs and the law. In this film, however, audiences get a raw, brutally honest look at the man from his own perspective. Crosby’s challenges, his solo work, and his insights as someone with multiple health issues and a desire to leave a legacy of love and kindness behind,...
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet Secretly Debuts Trailer Before Hobbs & Shaw
There are few filmmakers working today who revel in mystery as much as Christopher Nolan. He’s got company, for sure. The Russo Brothers go out of their way to toy with Marvel-heads before their big releases like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. J.J. Abrams is a big fan of the misdirection and the fakeout, and of course, he’ll be keeping Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker a state secret for as long as necessary...
A New It: Chapter Two Behind-the-Scenes Featurette Reveals Ambitious, Emotional Sequel
“Swear, if it isn’t dead, if it ever comes back, we’ll come back to.”
This was the promise the Losers Club made in Andy Muschietti’s brilliant adaptation of Stephen King’s It, after they thought they’d vanquished the shape-shifting, child-murdering Pennywise the Clown. Now in a new featurette titled “Come Home,” King himself describes the moment at the end of that film when it was revealed to audiences that what they had just witnessed was merely the end of “Chapter One.”...
Watch the First Trailer for Sam Mendes’ World War I Epic 1917
Director Sam Mendes is going to take us to hell. Hell, in this instance, is the battlefields of World War I. Universal has released the first trailer his upcoming WWI epic 1917, starring George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) as two young British soldiers trying to deliver a message that could save the lives of 1,600 soldiers. 1917 unfolds over a single day,...
Meet the Caricaturist who Created Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood‘s Classic MAD Magazine Cover
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on other shows. One indication of his former success is the magazine covers he appeared on, including that ultimate accolade,...
Quentin Tarantino & Leonardo DiCaprio Reveal his Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood Character is Bi-Polar
Now that Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood has bowed, we’ve had a chance to speak to Tarantino’s longtime cinematographer Robert Richardson and do our level best to break down that wild ending. The film follows a few days in the life of several people—Leonardo DiCaprio’s fading western TV and film star Rick Dalton, his good buddy and stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and, most ominously, rising star and future murder victim of the Manson Family,...
Orange Is the New Black‘s Production Designer Malchus Janocko’s Favorite Sets
Production designer Malchus Janocko set out to be a painter and glassblower before he discovered show business as a livelihood. Janocko art-directed the glossy Gossip Girl, then channeled small-town Americana for the first season of The Leftovers before taking a deep dive into the muted world of incarceration dramatized in Orange Is the New Black. When he started designing the Netflix production’s fourth season, the fictional Litchfield prison was mainly filmed at a former children’s psychiatric facility in Rockland County New York...
Bringing the Beautiful Beasts of Crawl to Life
It didn’t take much to convince Adrien Morot to sign on for the new feature Crawl. The producers had him at “alligator.”
When the makeup effects artist heard that the thriller involved a family of deadly reptiles terrorizing a small Florida town flooded by a hurricane, he immediately wanted in.
“I was like, ‘Holy crap, Yes,’” says Morot. “I was five years old when Jaws came out...
The Iconic Gotham Location That Ben Affleck’s Batman Movie was Going to Explore
Ben Affleck’s stand-alone Batman film will be one of those “what ifs” we’ll get to wonder about as the DCEU expands in a different direction. Affleck was, of course, Batman in two films—Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman and the Zack Snyder/Joss Whedon (who stepped in during production) crossover film Justice League. For a long while, the idea was that Affleck would write and direct his own Batman film, and he’d gotten fairly far along in the process when he ultimately decided to step away from the project...
Ava DuVernay Confirms The Furies & Darkseid to Appear in The New Gods
One of the most mysterious comic book movies in progress is the great Ava DuVernay‘s adaptation of Jack Kirby’s comic series The New Gods. Co-writing the film with comic book scribe Tom King, DuVernay has taken to Twitter to reveal some of the characters that will appear in the film. They include Darkseid and the Furies.
Darkseid is. #AskAva https://t.co/ypbVCXZ1je
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 30,...
Watch Avengers: Endgame Bloopers, Chunky Thor, & Robert Downey Jr.’s Rise as Iron Man
While Marvel is already full steam ahead with Phase 4, there’s still new stuff to learn about all that’s come before. Now that Avengers: Endgame is officially available for digital download, we’ll be getting a brand new batch of new footage, special features, and, our favorite, blooper reels to pore over. It’ll also give fans the chance to really take in Endgame in a way that wasn’t possible in the theater. You can pause it!...
The Irishman Teaser Reveals Long-Awaited Look at Martin Scorsese’s new Film
At long last, Netflix has revealed the first official teaser for Martin Scorsese‘s epic new film The Irishman. Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, The Irishman tells the (allegedly true) story of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (De Niro), better known as “The Irishman,” who looks back on his long life of crime. The film spans decades and utilizes cutting-edge technology to render the cast many years younger then they are now...
The Hunt Trailer Reveals Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse’s new Blumhouse Thriller
Imagine The Hunger Games, just much, much gorier. Also, swap out children for adults. Then, steep it in the kind of mind games beloved by Lost co-creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. Now, run all of this through the production company that brought you, among other modern horror classics, Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us, and you’ve got The Hunt. Produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, and directed by Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah), ...
Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe Go Crazy in The Lighthouse Trailer
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are a dream pairing if you ask us. They’ve both got an offbeat intensity that they’ve used to excellent effect in film after film. Dafoe is, at this point, Hollywood royalty. Pattinson long ago shed his Twilight-based heartthrob status to take on one compelling project after another. Before you see Pattinson in Christopher Nolan’s mysterious next film Tenet or take on the role of Batman,...
How I Am Mother‘s Editor Cut Netflix’s Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller
Humankind has all but gone extinct, but Mother (Rose Byrne) is on the case. The fact that Mother is a dulcet-voiced robot shouldn’t alarm you—at least, not yet. Her mission is to repopulate the earth, and she begins her work with a little girl (whom she simply calls daughter) who is all but perfect. Daughter grows up (played as a teenager by Clara Rugaard) loving Mother, learning from her, dutifully studying for her tests and essentially excelling at everything Mother throws at her...
The Russo Brothers Break Down Pivotal Thor Scene in new Avengers: Endgame Video
With Avengers: Endgame available for digital download today, you can be sure any piece we publish about the film will contain spoilers. You’ve been forewarned.
When you think of Chris Hemsworth’s performance in Avengers: Endgame, you think of a man who took on a 30-pound fat suit and just went for it. His Chunky Thor was one of the highlights—and surprises—of the film. Most fans adored Chunky Thor, and Hemsworth’s winning performance as the God of Thunder after one too many six-packs was a triumph of comedic timing...
Charlie Manson Appears in Mindhunter‘s Season 2 Trailer
Charlie Manson briefly appears in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, yet his ghoulish specter hangs over the entire movie. In season two of Netflix’s excellent Mindhunters, Manson is back, and like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he’s played by Damian Herriman. You’ll see him in a brief shot in the season two trailer which Netflix has just released. The trailer is but a minute long, yet it brings back season one’s breakout star,...
Let’s Discuss Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘s Ending
At long last, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino‘s 9th film, bowed this past weekend. Everyone knew that Tarantino’s star-studded ensemble film would deal, in some way, shape and form, with the gruesome murder of an 8-and-a-half-months-pregnant Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie) and four friends at the Hollywood Hills home she shared with director Roman Polanski. That night, August 9th, 1969, became one of the most infamous in American history. When word spread that Tarantino’s new film would deal,...
There Will be Multiple Black Widows in Black Widow
Now that San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone, we can start to take stock of what we learned. The projects coming out of Marvel alone require a lot of processing. We’ve been unpacking things like how Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will revisit one of Marvel’s most elusive villains. How Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster will fit into Thor: Love and Thunder now that it’s been revealed she’s going to become Mighty Thor...
