Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry has Arrived
As Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles on FX’s critically acclaimed Atlanta which ended its second season in May (and was just picked up for a third season), Brian Tyree Henry can do more with one grimace than many can do with their whole body. He’s instilled Paper Boi with heart, humor and a lovability that makes him one of the best characters on television right now.
But he hasn’t stopped there, after a Tony nominated run in the Kenneth Lonergan scribed Lobby Hero—Henry’s now setting his sights on the big screen...
Westworld’s Production Designer Breaks Down Season 2
Production designer Howard Cummings’s thirty year career has encompassed an incredible range of varied and stylized work: from the fantastical designs showcased in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, to the grounded realism seen in such films as Francis Coppola’s The Rainmaker, to the expressive realism seen in his 20 year stint working with director Steven Soderbergh on movies like The Underneath, Contagion, Haywire,...
HBO Orders Game of Thrones Pilot Featuring White Walker Origin Story
If you are a history buff and Game of Thrones fan, then the upcoming franchise spinoff is for you. HBO is developing a Game of Thrones prequel set millennia before the Mad King went on the bloody rampage that sparked the original series. The cable network has been juggling ideas, and it seems like they have settled on a dark tale featuring the characters that most keep us up at night.
A pilot for the new series has been greenlit and the project will focus on an era thousands of years before the Westeros we have come to know...
Al Pacino Collaborates with Quentin Tarantino For the First Time in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has become a Who’s Who of Hollywood. Al Pacino will join the impressive ensemble of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family inspired film. The news follows a yesterday’s announcement of a flood of talent who had signed onto the project.
Previous Tarantino collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt will lead the cast. DiCaprio will play aging western star Rick Dalton with Pitt as Dalton’s stunt double, Cliff Booth...
Hope Takes Charge in New Ant-Man and the Wasp TV Spot
Being under house arrest is actually more peaceful than working, it turns out. At least that’s the case when you’re a superhero who has to save the world from a dangerous new supervillain. If Ant-Man and the Wasp are going to stop the Ghost, first they have to get him out of the house in this new spot.
Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) reveals the origin of the newest threat in the Marvel Universe. The Ghost was unleashed in a lab,...
Laurie Gets Her Wish to Face Michael Myers Again in Halloween Trailer
Laurie Strode is a grandmother now, but there is one thing missing from her happy ending. Having the pleasure of killing Michael once and for all. Laurie has spent 40 years praying Michael will escape and give her the opportunity to take him out. Of course, she gets her wish. The new Halloween trailer has some delightful treats for those of us who have worshipped the John Carpenter masterpiece all our lives.
If you don’t remember what happened in the original Halloween,...
FX Renews Donald Glover’s Atlanta for Third Season
FX has ordered another season of Donald Glover’s award-winning, mind-bending comedy Atlanta. This series has been a hit for FX, both critically and commercially. Atlanta has won Emmys, Golden Globes, an AFI Award and a Peabody, to name a few of the accolades the show’s piled up. For the uninitiated, Atlanta follows Earn (Glover) and his cousin Al (Brian Tyree Henry) as they attempt to make it in Atlanta’s competitive rap world...
The First Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer Promises a Very Good Time
We’re always interested in what writer/director Drew Goddard is up to. From writing The Martian‘s to co-writing and directing the insane (and great) Cabin the Woods, Goddard makes good stuff. Now we’ve got the first trailer for his thriller Bad Times at the El Royale, and we’re enthused. It’s deliciously bonkers. Goddard’s working with an incredible cast and a great setting—the titular hotel is situated in Lake Tahoe, right on the border of Nevada and California...
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Teases Epic End to the Trilogy
As soon as those notes from John Powell’s magnificent score begin to play, we’re reminded of just how special this movie franchise is. After two excellent How to Train Your Dragon movies, the first trailer for The Hidden World dropped today. It promises to be a special way to close the trilogy.
Our heroes are back. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), Astrid (America Ferrera), and of course, Toothless, living in their dream world. Cate Blanchett, who stole the show in How to Train Your Dragon 2,...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cast Gets Even More Appropriately Insane
Once upon a time, Quentin Tarantino put together one of the best casts in modern movie history. That time is now. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood already tapped top talent including Leonardo DiCaprio and his Wolf of Wall Street costar, Margot Robbie. DiCaprio will star as Rick Dalton, an actor who used to be a big name in Western television. Brad Pitt plays his stunt double and actress Sharon Tate’s (Robbie) neighbor. The Manson Family famously murdered Tate and others in cold blood in 1969...
Black Panther‘s VFX Team Reveals how They Built Wakanda
It turns out that Wakanda is real. The nation’s most stunning vistas weren’t taken from another country, or the product of various other environments blended together. Wakanda is real—in a sense—in that it was created almost entirely by the visual effects wizards who brought Ryan Coogler’s vision of the fictional African nation into reality. The most astonishing location in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was nearly entirely created by digital effects. A new VFX reel shows just how these environments were created...
15 New Ant-Man and the Wasp Images Reveal Hannah John-Kamen’s Villain Ghost
Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost looks like one of the most interesting villains we’ve seen in a Marvel film. For starters, she’s a woman, and as Cate Blanchett proved in Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel’s female villains seem to have more fun. In a set of 15 new images released by Marvel and Walt Disney Studios, John-Kamen’s Ghost is revealed in her all her shape-shifting, hooded glory. There are also great shots of Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in his Giant-Man iteration,...
Claire Foy Nearly Unrecognizable as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web Trailer
This is not the Claire Foy you’re used to seeing. The talented actress best known for playing the young Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s The Crown is completely transformed in Sony Pictures’ The Girl in the Spider’s Web. From high tea and corsets to torture and leather, Foy plays the iconic computer hacker and avenging angel Lisbeth Salander. The Girl in the Spider’s Web was shot by Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez,...
Writer/Director Ari Aster on his Terrifying Debut Hereditary
When critics bend over backwards to keep a movie’s secrets under wraps, presume that the title in question is a step beyond the norm and well worth seeing. That is the case with Hereditary. Writer-director Ari Aster’s feature debut caused festival goers at Sundance and South by Southwest to squirm, shudder and gasp out loud at what transpires onscreen. Starting on June 8, the public will get to witness this grandly operatic yet exceedingly unsettling horror thriller about a grieving family seemingly beset by sinister forces – if they dare...
Actress-Turned-Composer Amelia Warner Helps Re-Imagine Frankenstein Origin Story in Mary Shelley
It was a dark and stormy night two centuries ago when 18-year old Mary Shelley, staying at Lord Byron’s estate in Geneva, Switzerland, responded to her host’s scary story contest by writing “Frankenstein.” Then came the hard part: persuading someone in London’s male-dominated book industry to publish the story under her own name. Starring Elle Fanning, Mary Shelley, which recently opened wide, tracks the heroine’s love affair with poet Percy Shelley and the crushing disappointments leading up to her creation of the now-classic horror tale...
Review Roundup: Ocean’s 8 Pulls Off the Daring Heist
The early feedback for Gary Ross’s Ocean’s 8 has been released, and it is easy to say that the critics are thrilled with the audacious and comical all-female cast. The replacement of the all-male crew was a bold way to spin-off the infamous Ocean’s 11 trilogy, starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean. The trilogy enthralls its audiences as Danny Ocean and his crew embark on several journeys around the world stealing from casinos and wealthy companies...
The Melodic First Trailer for Bradley Cooper’s Directorial Debut A Star is Born
If you are going to direct your first movie about music, you might as well cast Lady Gaga in the lead. Bradley Cooper shows us all how it is done in the first trailer for A Star is Born. Cooper stars opposite Lady Gaga as a famous musician helping spark her budding career. Gaga’s character is struggling to break into the scene, but you can’t hide those pipes for long.
Cooper shows off a lot of new talents in the largely impressive trailer...
Check out the Suitably Creepy Halloween Trailer Teaser
While little is known about David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot, we know enough to be excited. Now a new teaser trailer from Blumhouse and Universal (the same folks who brought you Jordan Peele’s game changing Get Out) gives us our first taste. The limited that we do know about Halloween is that Green co-wrote the script with Danny McBride, and that they’re going to ignore most of the sequels and include only parts one and two in their new Halloween universe...
Chris Hemsworth Says The Surprises in Avengers 4 Could Top Infinity War
We are still reeling nearly a month after the release of Avengers: Infinity War. It will take time and hours of self-reflection to heal from what we have witnessed. Watch out, SPOILERS: We lost more than a few good Avengers in the battle against Thanos. We have been scraping and scrounging to find hope that Avengers 4 will lighten our load, but hope has yet to appear. In fact, one of the surviving characters implied that it could get worse from here...
A Grown Up Peter Parker Mentors Miles in New Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer
When we first heard about Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s take on Spider-Man, we were undeniably giddy. After all, these are the guys who directed the 21 Jump Street movies and The Lego Movie. Lord and Miller both have comedic chops and experience working with animation. The first trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a burst of energy and color that left our jaws on the floor. That previous look introduced us to Miles Morales,...
