The Bespoke Technology That Made Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Possible
Sugar puffs or frosties? Yell at dad or pour tea all over a keyboard? By now, the audience choices and subsequent on-screen fallout possibilities in Netflix’s first interactive film for adults, Bandersnatch, have been well documented across the web. Home-made flow charts painstakingly illustrate the complexity of 19-year-old video game creator Stefan’s journey as he tries to develop an interactive computer game in 1984, navigating relationships with his irritating father, new boss, and brilliant but off-the-wall colleague,...
Official Spider-Man: Far From Home Synopsis & Stealth Suit Explained
“Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.”
The above is the brief synopsis for Spider-Man: Far From Home, confirming what we all saw from that surprisingly heavy new trailer. (Avengers: Endgame spoilers ahead). We now know that Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will be dealing with not only the Elementals in Far From Home but also the loss of his mentor,...
Avengers: Endgame‘s Editor Came up With the Film’s Most Iconic Line
All the spoiler alerts, right here.
So you’ve seen Avengers: Endgame, yes? Great. Now we can discuss the film’s best line. It also doubled as the moment that fans had been waiting for since Thanos snapped half the universe to dust in Infinity War. The line came in the climatic, MCU-shaking final battle with the Mad Titan. At this point in the film, we’d already lost Black Widow,...
A Whole new Generation of Star Wars Films Begins in 2022
While you wait for J.J. Abrams Stars Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to hit theaters this December 20, Disney is hard at work expanding the galaxy. A new Star Wars saga will begin in 2022, although the details are being kept in the Sarlacc pit on Tatooine. Are these three films a new trilogy? Are they going to be one-offs (unlikely, but not impossible)? Who’s making them? What are they about?
Disney has revealed a slew of new release dates for their upcoming slate of films...
Spider-Man: Far From Home Director Confirms Multiverse Coming to MCU
Avengers: Endgame forever altered the landscape of the MCU in myriad ways. (Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen the film yet.) Peter Parker (Tom Holland)’s trip abroad in Far From Home will be upended by more than just Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). The new trailer confirmed that Far From Home will deal directly with the aftermath of Endgame, both in who was lost and what the world—or should we say, ...
Finding the Funny With Long Shot Director Jonathan Levine & Actress June Diane Raphael
Long Shot stars Charlize Theron as Charlotte, an elegant, poised, hyper-competent Secretary of State who wants to run for President and Seth Rogen as Fred, an awkward, shlumpy, but principled journalist. Charlotte hires Fred to help write speeches that will reveal her warmer, more accessible side. It is romantic, it is funny, and it is surprisingly sweet. In an interview with The Credits, director Jonathan Levine and June Diane Raphael,...
Can Dany’s Last Dragon Survive Game of Thrones Episode 5?
And then there was one. We’ve watched Dany’s dragons grow from wee babies to apex predators capable of torching an entire “Loot Train” and every Lannister soldier who protected it. They’ve inspired fear and awe, a trio of mystical, mayhem-creating monsters that are the only children Dany has ever known or loved. Yet looking back, they’ve never been even close to invincible. They were, of course, vulnerable as babies, but they even proved susceptible to harm by human hands as adults...
Chris Evans Reveals Spoiler-Riffic Video From set of Avengers: Endgame
The video ban has been lifted. Now that Avengers: Endgame has traveled around the world on thousands and thousands of screens—and broken box office records left and right—the on-set videos and other juicy reveals are starting to find their way onto the internet. Yesterday we learned who Katherine Langford’s was supposed to play in Endgame and why her scene was ultimately cut. We also got our look at a brand new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer that deals directly with the Endgame aftermath...
Katherine Langford’s Mysterious Avengers: Endgame Role Revealed
Lots of folks were intrigued and excited when news spread that Katherine Langford had a mysterious role in Avengers: Endgame. Then the movie came out and Langford was nowhere to be found. We now know what happened—Langford had a really big scene, but ultimately it was cut from the finished film.
Spoilers ahead!
And who did Langford play, you wonder? A grown-up version of Tony Stark’s daughter, Morgan, whom we meet earlier in the film as a young child (played by Lexi Rabe)...
New Spider-Man: Far From Home Images Reveal a Changed Peter Parker
We just shared the new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer, which you can’t watch unless you’ve seen Avengers: Endgame. The reason for that is the new trailer deals directly with the MCU-shaking events in that film, while also simultaneously revealing just how much Sony had to hold back on showing us much of anything about this film until Endgame premiered. If you’ve seen Endgame (last spoiler alert,...
New Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer Reveals Post Endgame World
Folks, if you still haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame, then don’t watch this new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. The MCU-shaking events in Endgame are teased in the new trailer, which is the best look yet we’ve gotten at the next Spidey adventure. It also becomes obvious watching this new trailer how much they had to hold back in our previous glimpses of the film before Endgame premiered...
Watch Adam Sandler’s Touching Tribute Song to Chris Farley on SNL
If you weren’t in front of your TV on Saturday night and missed Adam Sandler’s return to Saturday Night Live, we’ve got you covered. This was—shockingly—Sandler’s first time back to SNL since he left the show—or, in his words, was “fired”— back in 1995. The show utilized Sandler’s musical chops on several occasions, but none were as profound and touching as his tribute to fellow SNL alum, the dearly missed Chris Farley...
“The Last of the Starks”: Game of Thrones Episode 4 Review
For a minute there, the fourth episode in Game of Thrones 8th and final season was reminiscent of a college kegger. There were drinking games, hookups, unexpected and faux-profound statements and the very real possibility of vomiting. There was Tormund, and his drinking horn, and his lack of any discernible tact. There was a lot of bro behavior in general (Tormund singing Jon Snow’s praises while ignoring the fact that Dany also fought atop a dragon and nearly died was peak bro)...
The Moment That Hinted at Arya’s Epic Future
You’ve likely heard about these folks online questioning Arya Stark‘s ability to do what she did in “The Long Night.” (If you haven’t seen the last episode of Game of Thrones, head to the Godswood and stop reading.) You’ve probably come across the smear that Arya is a “Mary Sue,” an antiquated, misogynistic, lazy catch-all for women who men feel couldn’t possibly do the thing they just saw them do...
Star Michael Ealy on Household Horror in his new Thriller The Intruder
New thriller The Intruder stars Michael Ealy and Meagan Good as Scott and Annie Russell, a newly married couple who have bought what they hope is their dream home from longtime owner Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid). They slowly discover Charlie is not only having a hard time letting go, but he’s also getting obsessive. Michael Ealy talked to The Credits about his good guy role, the joy of working opposite Dennis Quaid,...
Uncovering the Avengers: Endgame Easter Eggs, Call Backs & More
Spoiler warning, folks!
We’ve already discussed the meaning of that secret sound that played after the Avengers: Endgame credits. We’ve parsed the epic ending, including those shocking reveals late in the battle with Thanos. We mourned the characters we lost, especially the one who dies a little more than halfway through the film. Avengers: Endgame is such a global phenomenon even folks who despise superhero movies are talking about...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer Talks Life, Sex, & Ask Dr. Ruth
As a follow-up to The Keepers, documentary director Ryan White found a very different, very inspiring story in Ask Dr. Ruth, which is releasing in theaters on May 3rd. The film examines the fascinating life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became the country’s most widely known and celebrated sex therapist. In following this famously straightforward woman as she enters her 90s, audiences will see she is as energetic and enthusiastic as she’s ever been...
Julianne Moore on Craft, Coming of Age, & Women in Hollywood
Julianne Moore’s fearless approach to her craft has forged a career that seamlessly mixes commercial blockbusters such as The Hunger Games with independent films. Her signature roles range from a cocaine-fueled porn star and maternal figure in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights to a 1950s housewife suffocated by social convention in Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven.
At a recent onstage interview with me at the Boston’s premiere art house cinema,...
New Game of Thrones Images Tease Drogon & the Dearly Departed
While we had already made a pretty solid determination on the results of the dragon dogfight in “The Long Night,” it’s still good to see Drogon in a new image. Dany’s alpha dragon was nearly killed not during the aerial battle with Viserion, but by a deluge of wights. Although we saw Drogon shake off the zombies, and then once more in the episode, when he came to comfort Dany as she wept over Jorah’s body,...
Craig Mazin on Getting the Details Right for the Shocking Chernobyl
In April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded, sending radiation into the atmosphere and ultimately causing many radiation-related deaths. While the disastrous accident, attributed to faulty reactor design and insufficiently trained operators, is widely known, the details of its aftermath are less so. Screenwriter Craig Mazin looks to change this and up the knowledge base with Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries starting May 6 on HBO that is directed by Johan Renck and stars Jared Harris,...
