The Lego Movie 2 Has an Even Catchier Song than ‘Everything is Awesome’
The Lego Movie was a totally surprising, clever, and fresh take on THE toy that has defined all of our childhoods. The plot was adorable and the characters were so dang likable. However, it is impossible to think about the film without thinking of the hit movie that emerged with it. Yes, in Bricksburg ‘Everything is Awesome,’ but will that be the case in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part?
How Godzilla: King of the Monsters Pays Homage to the Original
Krampus has become one of my favorite films and one of the highlights was absolutely the creature building. The attic toy attack was a gruesome burst of creativity and the Christmas demon himself was fearsome and mesmerizing. That’s why I was thrilled to hear director Michael Dougherty would be helming the next installment of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
The franchise is picking directors on the rise and giving a few different creators a shot at the atomic lizard.
Oscar Watch: Writer/Director Nadine Labaki on her Riveting Drama Capernaum
Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki took to the streets to make her third feature, Capernaum, which centers on a neglected young boy. Furious with his parents after they sell his barely pubescent sister to an older man, the boy runs away from his ramshackle home. He befriends an Ethiopian refugee and then becomes the caretaker for her baby after the woman is arrested.
Playing a child who shares his own first name,
Halle Berry is John Wick’s Sole Protector in Parabellum Trailer
I feel powerful. It is John Wick (Keanu Reeves) against the world in the first trailer for Parabellum and his incredible focus and drive are very motivating. Also, I have never loved the use of Andy Williams’ The Impossible Dream more and man, have I loved it in my lifetime.
This might be one of the most exciting trailers released in recent years. The hunt is on for the hitman on the run and there appears to be only one person,
Know Before You Go: Five Things to Prepare You to See Glass
When M. Night Shyamalan released Unbreakable in 2000, it was initially met with confusion. The horror movie master had released a film with two of the day’s biggest stars, but it wasn’t typical scare fare. The thriller was deeply disturbing, but without things going ‘boo,’ the genius of Shyamalan’s approach was missed. In the years that followed, fans became more appreciative of the hidden surprises, but it really wasn’t until 2016 that things became as clear as,
Oscar Watch: Black Panther Co-Editor Michael Shawver on the key to Cutting Fight Scenes
Editor Michael Shawver goes way back with writer/director Ryan Coogler. In fact, he edited Coogler’s first two films, his 2013 breakout film Fruitvale Station, and his deft resurrection of the Rocky franchise with 2015’s Creed. His work on Creed turned out to be the perfect training for his next Coogler project; the epic, game-changing Black Panther.
Shawver’s gut—and keen eye—led him to feel very connected to the hand-to-hand combat scenes that took place at Warrior Falls.
John Boyega Teases Shocking Moment in Star Wars: Episode IX
Star Wars has not lacked for wild moments. In fact, the entire, mega franchise has been built around them, from the first time we plunged into the Mos Eisley Cantina with Obi-Wan and Luke to the game-changing Darth Vader reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, the early films set the template for the big, shocking moment. Once J.J. Abrams launched the new trilogy with The Force Awakens, the major moments have been coming hard and fast (Han Solo’s death,
Here’s Where the Ghostbusters Have Been Hiding
Sometimes we wait months or even more than a year to see the first trailer for a highly anticipated film. For Ghostbusters, however, 30 years is long enough. We just learned that director Jason Reitman would be dropping a new sequel and we’re already getting a taste of what revisiting the paranormal hunting movie will be like.
Reitman tweeted out a brief clip this morning reintroducing some familiar sights and sounds to Ghostbusters fans.
How’s this for Size? Warner Bros. Will Release Six Movies in ScreenX Format
Forget a 180 — how would you like to do a 270? Warner Bros. recently declared that it is releasing six movies in the ScreenX format worldwide, which allows for films to be viewed at a whopping 270 degrees.
The Hollywood Reporter stated that among the six proposed, three have already been announced: Shazam! and The Curse of La Llorona by New Line Cinema, out April 5 and April 19,
Jason Reitman to Direct new Ghostbusters Following Original Film’s Storyline
“Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!” The rumors are true: a new Ghostbusters film is coming to a theater near you. What’s even better: this chapter will be set in the same world fans of the 1984 original fell in love with.
Entertainment Weekly broke the story and spoke with the film’s slated director and co-writer, Jason Reitman (his father, Ivan Reitman, directed the original Ghostbusters.) Reitman spoke to EW about visiting the set as a kid,
A Grieving Detective Drives the Action in Film Noir State Like Sleep
Like her brooding State Like Sleep heroine Katherine Grand, filmmaker Meredith Danluck lost a close friend to suicide. Like Katherine, she moved from the United States to Belgium to live with a highly secretive partner. And like Katherine, Danluck rushed to a Brussels hospital after her mother suffered a stroke. Now currently available on Digital, On Demand, and in select theaters, State Like Sleep may draw many of its plot points from Danluck’s adult life but one of its most offbeat sequences comes straight out of a movie she saw at the age of seven.
Geeking out Over the Elementals in the Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer
Sony dropped the first trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home yesterday, and it made quite the splash. We speculated this past August that Hydro-Man could be in the film after Tom Holland shared some behind-the-scenes footage that included a whole lot of water being blasted everywhere. Yet the Hydro-Man of the comics is human named Morris Bench who gets transformed into the watery beast after (you guessed it) an experiment gone wrong.
New Spider-Man: Far From Home Poster Teases Peter Parker’s Travels
Pack your bags and grab your passport: Peter Parker is heading to Europe! In a surprise tweet this morning, Sony Pictures revealed the first poster for Spider-Man: Far From Home.
In theaters July 5. #SpiderManFarFromHome ?️ pic.twitter.com/K3xfXuqk3D
— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) January 15, 2019
Minutes later, Marvel showcased an epic teaser trailer, which we discuss here.
Peter Parker Fights the Elementals in First Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer
Behold, Spidey-fans; Sony has dropped the first Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. The youngest member of the Avengers has returned from the dead (somehow) after the events in Avengers: Infinity War and has taken his talents abroad. Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his high school pals are on a school trip to Europe, but you know that wherever Peter goes trouble awaits. The poor kid has already had to fight against Captain America in Germany (Captain America: Civil War),
Can the Night King Resurrect Long Dead Starks & Other Questions Following the Game of Thrones Teaser
So we’ve all watched that cryptic Game of Thrones teaser, correct? HBO has become expert at creating teasers that don’t actually show us footage from the upcoming season but are more like very beautifully crafted, narratively relevant art pieces. This most recent teaser was not the kind of fan-baiting that we’ve seen in the past (that melting block of ice, anyone?), but rather an artfully staged trip both into the past and the future,
Oscar Watch: The Favourite‘s Production Designer Re-Designs History With a Flourish
England’s Queen Anne, who only reigned from 1707 to 1714, is hardly the most notable female British sovereign, but to watch her played by Olivia Colman in director Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, one might wonder why this the first we’re hearing of her in so long. True to history, Lanthimos’s depiction of the queen shows her nearly constantly ill and in other ways unwell—she is in possession of 17 rabbits,
Oscar Watch: Composer Nicholas Britell on Nailing the Tone for Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk
Juilliard-trained New York composer Nicholas Britell worked non-stop in 2018 and now he’s got two Oscar shortlisted movie scores to show for it. Early in the year, he teamed with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to write the music for If Beale Street Could Talk, the tragic love story set in early-’70s Harlem. Then he scored Dick Cheney bio-pic Vice, featuring Oscar front runner Christian Bale,
Oscar Watch: How NASA Footage Inspired the First Man Editor’s Style
The moon landing was welcomed as a shared triumph in American history, but no one had more at stake than the men who traveled there. The mission’s success was as much a feat of will as of science. First Man captures the danger and courage of pioneering space travel in both broad historic and intensely microscopic ways. Editor Tom Cross was inspired by the movie’s ambition of telling a famous story from a human perspective.
Oscar Watch: How BlacKkKlansman‘s Composer Channeled Jimi Hendrix’s Iconic Riffs
Terence Blanchard landed on this year’s Best Original Score Oscar shortlist by crafting the stirring score for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. Based on a true story and set in 1971, the movie casts John David Washington as Ron Stallworth, a black cop who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with his Jewish colleague (Adam Driver) by impersonating a white supremacist over the phone. Blanchard, a jazz trumpeter who grew up in New Orleans alongside Wynton Marsalis,
Oscar Watch: A Quiet Place‘s Sound Designers on Triggering our Brain’s Reptilian Fear Response
Supervising sound editors Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn had the unusual challenge of applying their expertise to a film that would be so quiet, it had the word in its title. John Krasinski’s thrilling, chilling A Quiet Place was predicated on a brilliant idea; alien monsters have turned the planet into one giant Amtrak quiet car. Only in this world, if you make a sound you’ll suffer a fate far worse than the annoyance of your fellow train passengers.
