Host or Human? Aaron Paul Joins Season 3 of Westworld

Aaron Paul is heading west once more. According to Deadline, the Breaking Bad and The Path star has landed a spot on season 3 of Westworld. Details are scarce about the role, including if Paul’s character will be human, host, or something in between. He is, however, expected to be a series regular which means we’ll have plenty of time to find out everything about him.

My theory on who he might be is wrapped up in season 2 spoilers,

TIFF 2018: The Front Runner Composer Rob Simonsen on Scoring a Political Upheaval

Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner centers on Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman)’s doomed 1988 presidential campaign, undone by the candidate’s extramarital affairs and a media landscape shifting beneath his feet. The film plunges you into the fevered weeks when Hart’s campaign unravels, seemingly hour by hour, as the talented senator refuses to face the reality of his actions and his staff is left scrambling to play defense.

You’ll likely be too caught up in the drama (and marveling at a time when a politicians’ infidelities were career-enders) to notice just what composer Rob Simonsen‘s score is doing,

Your Nominees Cheat Sheet for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards

Television was once considered a more commonplace form of entertainment than movies. Cinema held the prestige and TV was focused on quantity for more regular consumption. Those days are no longer. Television is now achieving film quality programming, often on tighter schedules and lower budgets than it’s theatrical relative. The increase in excellent programming is clearly represented in the nominees for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards.

Shows like Ozark and Godless that are dark and daring grabbed our attention.

TIFF 2018: The Time-Altering Superpower of the Widows Editor

Oscar-nominated editor Joe Walker has spent a lot of time thinking about time. Our perception of time may change over the course of our lives, but in truth, it’s always experienced forwards. One thing happens after another and there is no way (yet) to go back. In Walker’s movies, however, time is a tool he can use to manipulate a story. When does a character know something? Is there a secret in the past that explains the present?

Sabrina Celebrates Her 16th Birthday in First Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Trailer

Birthdays are apparently a big deal among the Spellman clan. The first poster and teaser for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina feature the teenage witch celebrating another trip around the sun. Her party has the normal things all birthday parties do. Cake, dancing, and a horned demon that everyone worships.

Ok, maybe that last part is a little unusual. In fact, there’s a lot of unique happenings in the first look at the Riverdale spinoff.

Solo: A Star Wars Story Deleted Scene Features a Callback to 1977 Original

The best thing about a big movie like Solo coming out on digital download and Blu-ray are the extras. Yes, seeing the film again is the main point, but it’s all the behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, director commentary and gag reels that give the movie lover the most bang for their buck. With Solo: A Star Wars Story coming home this month, you can expect a whole lot of juicy extras to enjoy.

TIFF 2018: The Sister Brothers Director & Co-Writer on Their Funny, Soulful Western

When Patrick DeWitt’s novel “The Sisters Brothers” was published in 2011, something new was afoot in its pages. A bloody western set during the gold rush, it had everything you’d expect; gunfights, whiskey, brothels, and ne’er-do-wells of all stripes lusting after the riches buried in the rivers and mountains of California. These genre tropes, expertly handled by DeWitt, were the grimy, gritty package in which he delivered the story’s real gold— the titular Sister brothers and their endless,

Bradley Cooper Gets Personal in A Star is Born

Writer/director/star Bradley Cooper’s first stop on a nationwide series of A Star is Born screenings was in Washington D.C., where he answered questions from American Film Institute founder George Stevens, Jr., and the audience. Since then, the film has made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to wowed critics and enthused fans.  “The most nourishing aspect of promoting a movie is just going to the various cities around the country and talk to people who are willing to sit through this movie and talk to me.

TIFF 2018: The Hate U Give Has the Potential to Empower a Generation

A teenage girl and boy who didn’t know each other were making friends in line for the 2nd screening of The Hate U Give at TIFF. “So, you already saw it?” he asked her. “Yeah, at the premiere with the cast and everything. They came out after to talk about it,” she said excitedly. This would be his first festival film. “I didn’t even know until recently you could come to this. I thought it was some snobbish thing,” he said.

The Solo: A Star Wars Story Cast On What It’s Like to Jump into Hyperspace

In the fall of 2019, Star Wars fans will have the opportunity to climb into the Millenium Falcon cockpit and try their hand at flying like Han in Disney World. Until then, we’ll have to take the cast of Solo’s word for it that it’s incredibly awesome. The special effects team actually built the Star Wars ride of our dreams for the infamous Kessel Run scene. i09 has an exclusive featurette from the Solo: A Star Wars Story home video release where the cast recalls filming on board the ship.

Henry Cavill is Hanging up the Cape as Superman

Henry Cavill is hanging up the cape after playing Superman in three films. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story that Cavill and Warner Bros. have parted ways (neither side has confirmed this as of yet) after three films, beginning with 2013’s Man of Steel, then 2016’s Batman v Superman and last year’s Justice League. Cavill’s arc as Superman saw him in a bruising three-part story that began with his arrival on Earth,

TIFF 2018: First Man Actor Skyler Bible on Working on Damien Chazelle’s Revelatory Space Drama

First Man represents the first time we’re getting a full-blown biopic about the legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong. Academy-award winning director Damien Chazelle‘s film, scripted by Spotlight and The Post‘s Academy-award winning scribe Josh Singer (based on the book by James R. Hansen) tells the story behind the first manned mission to the moon, with the focus squarely on Armstrong (Ryan Gosling). The Apollo 11 mission that ultimately leads to Armstrong’s iconic first steps on the moon took a decade to prepare,

TIFF 2018: Hans Zimmer on The Dark Knight, Wonder Woman 1984 & More

Hans Zimmer is no stranger to working with directors who have a ferocious passion. Yesterday, we published our interview with the Oscar-winning composer about his score for Steve McQueen’s thrilling crime drama Widows. Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score blended perfectly with McQueen’s film about three women navigating the criminal underworld in Chicago to pull off a nearly impossible bank heist. They’re attempting to pay off their dead husband’s deaths and forge their own paths,

TIFF 2018: Legendary Composer Hans Zimmer on Scoring Steve McQueen’s Sensational Widows

Hans Zimmer’s minimalist, intimate score for Widows gets under your skin. The legendary composer creates a sonic environment that feels as pressurized and cloistered as the predicament of our four heroines. When you see Steve McQueen’s brilliant crime drama, you’ll notice a persistent humming throughout. As the stakes rise for the three women at the center of the story (the widows of three dead criminals who now must pull off a monumentally dangerous heist to pay off their debts and forge a path of their own),

TIFF 2018: Compassion Transcends a Harrowing True Story in Hotel Mumbai

Hotel Mumbai is searing. It is a full two hours of terror that seems nearly unbearable at times. Just recalling it, I find myself shifting in my seat, made anxious by the memory. It is the type of film that needs no 3D or virtual reality technology to immerse you fully. There is no way to transfer trauma, but this film is the closest I could imagine you can get to understanding the pain of these victims.

Jordan Peele in Talks to Bring Back the Candyman

Hellraiser might be the film that comes to mind most quickly when you hear the name Clive Barker, but Candyman is an even juicier slice of Barker’s works. The horror legend began both ideas as short stories with Candyman being adapted into a 1992 film starring Tony Todd. If you’re unfamiliar with the 90s trilogy, the story is gruesomely scary. It also has a socio-political narrative that begs to be explored and Jordan Peele may just be the man to do it.

Here’s Photographic Proof that Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye Will be in Avengers 4

We all had a lot of fun in the lead-up to Avengers: Infinity War regarding Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye. It became reasonably evident about mid-way through the promotional period that Hawkeye was not going to be in the Russo Brothers franchise-tilting epic. Once Hawkeye didn’t appear in any of the teasers or trailers, an entire cottage industry of “where’s Hawkeye?” faux outrage was born. It was fun. The artist Boss Logic got involved,

TIFF 2018: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s A Star is Born Shimmers & Soars

We’ve seen a lot of really good films at the Toronto International Film Festival thus far, including the Halloween‘s return to terrifying form and Jason Reitman’s political drama The Front Runner. David Mackenzie’s bloody, muddy epic Outlaw King gave us Chris Pine as the 14th-century Scottish nobleman and rebel Robert the Bruce, and Shane Black delivered a funny, vicious buddies-versus-aliens romp in The Predator. 

TIFF 2018: The Front Runner Depicts a Politician who Pays for his Infidelities

Pity the politician whose purity of purpose is undone by a puerile media (and pardon the journalist’s alliteration). This seems to be the overarching belief of 1988 presidential candidate Gary Hart (an excellent Hugh Jackman) in Jason Reitman‘s The Front Runner. Hart had the misfortune of running for the highest office in the land just as the media landscape was changing forever. He’d been in politics nearly two decades by then,

TIFF 2018: Halloween Really is That Good

I have never belonged to the camp that believes something you truly love can be tarnished in the slightest by adding to it. Don’t like an adaptation of your favorite novel? Enjoy the book. Hate the film version of your favorite Broadway musical? No need to rip up the playbill. Loathe the sequel to your favorite film? Enjoy the original. In short, love what you love and ignore the rest.

And yet, I shuddered a little when I first heard a new Halloween was in the works.