The new Ant-Man and the Wasp Trailer is a Riot
We’ve been telling you how Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) is going to be the breakout star of Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp (she’s in the title, after all). Yet why take our word for it when it’s made clear in this new trailer? Lilly’s Wasp is the first female superhero to appear in the title of an MCU film, and its’ her quest—to find her mother, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer)—that provides the film it’s narrative thrust...
The Music of Lizzie Strikes a Sympathetic Tone for the Famous Killer
The four-line Lizzie Borden rhyme is graphic, if not particularly sympathetic. A woman commits a double homicide and the victims are her own parents. The real Borden was acquitted of the 1892 murders, but her legacy was condemned to the role of cold-blooded killer. Sundance selection Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, revisited the infamous crime with a compassion for Borden and explored the motivation that drove her to pick up the axe. Legion and Fargo composer,...
RBG Co-Directors/Producers on Their Groundbreaking Subject – Part 2
In Part 2 of our two-part interview with Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the filmmaking team behind the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG that opens May 4, the pair discusses what they learned while doing their research (the justice is a huge opera fan), her nearly 56-year fairy-tale marriage to her incredibly supportive college sweetheart Martin Ginsburg and how they got around not being able to film the Supreme Court in session.
I thought about the advice that Ginsburg’s mother,...
RBG Co-Directors/Producers on Their Groundbreaking Subject – Part I
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – the Brooklyn-born, 85-year-old grandmother of four who became the second female to be appointed as a Supreme Court justice in 1993 – has been having a pop-cultural moment since 2015 or so. That’s when the liberal-leaning Harvard grad was cheekily dubbed The Notorious RBG (a play on the late rapper Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. The Notorious BIG) by a pair of young female writers who saluted this petite powerhouse’s stealthy sense of bad-assery in book form. RBG T-shirts,...
Tully‘s Production Designer Anastasia Masaro on Finding Magic in Life’s Mess
It’s been seven years since Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the creative forces behind Juno and Young Adult, last collaborated. Now, with Tully, the pair close out a thematic trilogy of sorts – stories that have, at least in some way, been autobiographical for the pair of creatives. “They have this kind of connective tissue between all of them,” Reitman said at the New York premiere of the film...
New Ant-Man and the Wasp Poster & Images Highlights Hope van Dyne’s Central Role
Riding high after Avengers: Infinity War’s historic opening weekend, Marvel Studios would be forgiven for basking in the glory of the mega blockbuster for a few days. Yet when you have as many movies on your slate as they do (there’s a reason they call it the Marvel Cinematic Universe—it’s ever expanding), you’re always multitasking. Hence, a few new images and a new poster for Peyton Reed’s sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp...
New Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom TV Spot Proves a Scared Dinosaur is Extra Dangerous
The last trailer for J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom offered a welcome jolt of horror. Bayona has crafted some truly scary films (like 2007’s The Orphanage) as well as some gorgeously rendered stories (like 2016’s A Monster Calls). With Fallen Kingdom, Bayona is working on his largest canvass yet, and from what we’ve seen he’s taken the second installment in the proposed new trilogy into darker,...
Dolores Peels Back More Westworld Mysteries with Memories of Arnold
Season 1 of Westworld kept us wondering if the maze isn’t for the guests, who is it for? William saw the maze symbol and interpreted it as a key to unlocking the park like hidden code in a video game. Reach the end and uncover the true meaning of Westworld. What we came to know, however, is that the maze was Arnold’s (Jeffrey Wright) plan to bring the hosts to a heightened state of sentience. That explanation makes sense,...
Striking a Balance of Cruelty and Whimsy for the Score of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Child marriage, infant abuse, insatiable greed, and murder plots do not seem like the makings of a family program. And yet, Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events achieves just that by channeling the highly stylized essence of Daniel Handler’s classic thirteen book series for young adults. Now in season 2, the plots have grown wackier and darker. The show is reliant on composer Jim Dooley to maintain levity. Dooley can attest to the music’s influence, namely because has heard what happens when things are not quite right...
Could This Deadpool 2 Cameo Lead to Something More?
Deadpool 2 is just weeks away, so the Merc with the Mouth is making the press rounds. We knew we would see a lot of him around town stirring up trouble. The last place we expected him to end up, however, was in Hugh Jackman’s bed. Well, there is video evidence that happened and our curiosity outweighs our jealousy. What are those two doing together?
The Logan star appeared to be attempting to film a birthday video message when the surprise guest burst into lyrics from Annie...
Avengers: Infinity War Just Had the Biggest Opening Weekend of All-Time
There was never any question that Avengers: Infinity War was going to be a smash. None. The question was always whether or not it would be a record-setting smash. Following in the footsteps of the now historic Black Panther gave the question a new quality of fraternal competition—could it be as big as Black Panther? Well, the answer appears to be yes—the Russo Brothers’ Infinity War took in a record-smashing $630 million global haul,...
Lots of New Footage in This Solo: A Star Wars Story Featurette
How does one become Han Solo? That’s the story we’ll be getting when Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story premieres, and its the question explored in this great new featurette Disney released yesterday. What might surprise you is just how different a the galaxy looks in Solo, and just how much the young Han was shaped by the most powerful force in his world at that time-the Empire.
A pair of dice (that end up becoming a big prop in The Last Jedi) dangling from the windshield of a dusty old speeder,...
Dawn Porter on her Netflix Docuseries Bobby Kennedy for President
It’s been 50 years since the turbulence of 1968 changed this nation forever. From the escalating Vietnam War to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to the riots outside the Democratic convention, that year was one of the most difficult our nation has ever faced, and that serves as measuring stick anytime a particular year in America feels especially fraught. Last year was one such year. So was 2016. The same could said of 2018. Yet do they reach the level of world-shaking events that were contained within 1968?...
Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie Join Star-Studded David Copperfield Cast
Charles Dickens’ favorite novel is getting a modern twist in The Personal History of David Copperfield. Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Death of Stalin) will be directing the contemporary retelling and his cast is beginning to blossom. According to Variety, Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange, The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Hugh Laurie (House, Tomorrowland) have joined the cast. Dev Patel was previously announced in the starring role of David Copperfield...
Here’s Your Final Batch of Brand New Avengers: Infinity War Photos
It’s here. No more waiting. No more build up. No more speculation. After a decade’s worth of interconnected movies in the insanely ambitious, massively successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, the biggest film in their history has finally arrived—Avengers: Infinity War is here. We’ve shared with you the glowing reviews, and have been tracking the build-up by tracking trailers, teasers, TV spots, photos and posters...
Watch as the Stranger Things Cast Gather to Officially Begin Production on Season 3
It’s happening. Stranger Things season 3 officially began production on April 20, and Netflix has gifted fans with a video of what looks to be the cast arriving and setting up for the first table read—you can practically feel the collective excitement as they all walk towards the room and take their seats.
The video features both old and new faces as staff sets up the name plates. Those include our favorite band of heroes—Millie Bobby Brown,...
S.J. Clarkson Boards Star Trek 4, Becoming Franchise’s First Female Director
The extremely talented director S.J. Clarkson has now become a part of Star Trek history. The veteran TV director will be the first woman to direct a film in the franchise when she helms Star Trek 4. Clarkson has done excellent work on the small screen, directing episodes of Jessica Jones, The Defenders, Orange is the New Black, Dexter, Bates Motel and more. Now, she’ll be plying her talents on the big screen in one of cinema’s biggest,...
Director Sebastian Lelio on Capturing Forbidden Love in his Urgent new Film Disobedience
Director Sebastian Lelio has had quite the exciting past few months. Lelio’s last film, A Fantastic Woman, about a transgender woman whose partner tragically dies, swept the awards circuit. It won 17 awards including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film—which was the first Chilean film to do so. Right now, there’s no stopping Lelio and his work.
In theaters today, Lelio is tackling another story about women’s interior lives. Disobedience,...
Kevin Costner Defends His Family Ranch at All Costs in Yellowstone Trailer
Following in Waco’s footsteps of pivoting from hyper-adrenaline Spike TV into drama centric Paramount Network, the first trailer for Yellowstone has arrived. Kevin Costner leads the family drama set on the largest ranch in the U.S. There is a ton packed into the two-minute preview of season 1. If this show is any indication, the wild wild west is alive and well.
Costner stars as patriarch John Dutton who is the owner of a particularly desirable piece of land and has no plans to give it up...
The Synopsis for Shane Black’s The Predator is Finally Here
Fox gave the crowd at CinemaCon, among other treats, a glimpse at the synopsis for Shane Black’s upcoming The Predator. The last bit of information we had for Black’s highly anticipated humans-v-aliens actioner was way back last November, when one of the film’s stars, Thomas Jane, offered a bit of information about the plot. The most intriguing thing we learned from Jane was that the film’s heroes, much like the 1987 original, would be soldiers,...
