Could We See an all Female Marvel Film?
Tessa Thompson just looked deep into our souls and uncovered our greatest film franchise desires. Thompson is appearing in Thor: Ragnarok as Valkyrie (and generating heaps of praise), and the experience inspired a great idea. What if all the Marvel women made a movie together?
io9 reports that Thompson and a group of the other female stars already approached Marvel president Kevin Feige about the idea.
“Recently,
Kate McKinnon Dominates this Week’s SNL Highlights
This week’s SNL was a knock out episode in what has already started out as a strong season. It’s always top notch when a comedian hosts, and Kumail Nanjiani was no exception. His opening monologue was an extension of his summer hit The Big Sick that tackled racial tensions. Nanjiani called out in hilarious fashion the atrocities of racism, namely attacking someone of the wrong race.
Nanjiani starred in some other solid sketches,
Blade Runner: 2049‘s Wild Alternate Titles
Blade Runner: 2049 is one of the most gorgeous, haunting sci-fi films in recent memory, and, in our opinion, one of the great sci-fi sequels of all time. The franchise’s glamour is reliant on its mysteries, and the creators were protective of them. Thirty years after the original, the title is pretty self-explanatory, and got us caught up to speed on where we’d be in the timeline. Rick Deckard has been missing for three decades and there are still Blade Runners hunting replicants.
The New Mutants to be the First in a Trilogy of X-Men Horror Films
The first trailer for director Josh Boone’s The New Mutants delivered on a promise he made a while back; that this would be the first horror film in the X-Men universe. The trailer delivered the goods, and proved that Boone, Marvel and 20th Century Fox were serious about taking the X-Men into dark new territory.
In a conversation with IGN,
Doctor Strange Issues Spooky Warning in new Thor: Ragnarok Spot
There’s a surprising amount of new footage in this Thor: Ragnarok 30 second spot, including a fun bit of showboating by Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie (who is being singled out as one of the film’s best characters), Hulk doing his Hulk thing (part of his story arc, no doubt), and a bit of arch spookiness from Thor’s old pal, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch).
Director Taiki Waititi has infused
This Brand new Black Panther Trailer is the Best Thing You’ll See all Week
Happy Monday, gang. Marvel Studios has dropped a new Black Panther trailer, and it’s likely going to the best thing you see all week. Director and co-writer Ryan Coogler (he penned the script with his longtime collaborator Joe Robert Cole) looks to have made a legitimate mind-blower here, the first stand-alone film for T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), better known as Black Panther.
We first met T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War,
The 55th Annual New York Film Festival: The Best From Week Two
The 55th edition of the New York film Festival wraps up on October 15. On the one hand, it’s been a superb smorgasbord that testifies to the continuing capacity of feature films to tell great, relevant, unexpected stories. On the other hand, I’m stuffed (but only temporarily). Here is a roundup of films from the second week of the festival’s main slate, plus one documentary about a Hollywood icon.
Disturbingly Accurate (I Should Know) Portrait of SIngle,
Here’s Hope that Beetlejuice Could be Coming Back
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! We are hoping the same old trick will get our favorite gross out ghoul back on the big screen.
Our chances of resurrecting Beetlejuice are looking better today after Deadline announced that Beetlejuice 2 has a writer officially attached. Warner Bros. has tasked Mike Vukadinovich with penning the sequel. Vukadinovich wrote the Sundance sci-fi flick Rememory starring Peter Dinklage and Julie Ormond. He also was a writer on upcoming projects Marvel’s Runaways and Disney’s Mr.
The Epic Final Trailer for Stranger Things 2
Friday the 13th turned out to be our lucky day. With exactly 2 weeks to go before Stranger Things 2 binge watching begins, the final trailer has been unleashed.
Another Halloween in the 1980s, another string of strange events. Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) had a pretty miserable first season, but it doesn’t look like things turn around for the poor kid. It’s been a year since the events of season 1 occurred that ended with Will being rescued,
Gambit Gets a Valentines Day Release Date
Fresh off the announcement of Gore Verbinski’s direction of the Marvel Comics film, Gambit, Twentieth Century Fox has set a release date for the much anticipated motion picture. The superhero film is set to hit theaters February 14th, 2019.
The long awaited film will follow in Deadpool’s footsteps with a Valentine’s Day release. The fellow X-Men spin-off had very favorable sales and generated a total of 783 million dollars worldwide,
Ai Weiwei’s Heartbreaking, Mesmerizing Documentary Human Flow
Human migration is natural; borders and checkpoints and barbed wire are not. War causes mass suffering, but the indifference of the comfortable exacerbates it unimaginably. Tolerance and compassion are in short supply when they are needed more than ever. These ideas are central to Human Flow, the artist Ai Weiwei’s heartbreaking but mesmerizing documentary on the worst refugee crisis (the United Nations estimates there are currently 65 million people displaced globally) since World War II.
How the Marshall Costume Designer Recreated the 1940s with Authentic Vintage Pieces
Ruth E. Carter’s designs have recreated some of the most powerful, tragic, triumphant, and moving stories in American history. She has already had a momentous career designing the costumes for the 2016 television remake of Roots, Denzel Washington’s stunning turn as Malcolm X, and the transcendent Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, Selma. Carter’s work is a master class in meticulous research meeting visionary creativity and it’s most recently displayed in new release,
Behind The Scenes of The Walking Dead Season 8
AMC just released a behind the scenes look at Season 8 of The Walking Dead that is a pretty good highlight of everything we love about the show. It also strongly foreshadows the violence to come.
Rick, played by Andrew Lincoln, has united a formidable army to fight Negan and the Saviors, but they are ruthless. Last season was almost too much for us to bear from these conscienceless monsters. Season 8 is going to be total war between the groups and the cast and crew are all but preparing us for a lot of losses.
Miley Cyrus and James Corden Carpool Karaoke and Cry on Command
Miley Cyrus just made her debut appearance on what is one of the strongest sketches to come out of late night TV, Carpool Karaoke.
Cyrus was James Corden’s most recent carpool lane buddy. In an era of abundant auto tuning, Miley proves her chops are the real deal. You can see her technique up close as she sings along to her own tunes and the girl has got it. There’s a reason she’s on The Voice.
Tyler Perry Will Play Colin Powell in Dick Cheney Biopic
This is no joke. Deadline has reported that director Adam McKay has cast Tyler Perry as General Colin Powell in his upcoming Dick Cheney film.
The plot about the former Vice President during the Bush Administration sounds like serious stuff, but McKay, Perry, and other cast members have comedic backgrounds. McKay flexed his funny muscles on SNL, Step Brothers, and Anchorman, but he’s also tackled more dramatic fare like The Big Short.
Mr. Robot‘s Production Designer on Designing Disintegration in Season 3
From the outset, Mr. Robot and hacker Elliot (Rami Malek) have been barreling toward a doomsday scenario, so fans of the USA Network show, which began Season 3 Wednesday at 10/9 pm, will be happy to see that things are only getting worse. “The theme for Season 3 is ‘Disintegration,'” says production designer Anastasia White, who teamed with show creator Sam Esmail to implement his vision of a chaotic New York City beset by a power outage.
Listen to a Bunch of Porgs Sing the Star Wars Theme Song
Yes, everyone really is losing it over Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s porgs. As we wrote yesterday, ever since folks first laid eyes on them in that behind-the-scenes sizzle reel from the D23 Expo, porgs have been the ‘new cute’ in the Star Wars galaxy, picking up where BB-8 left off in The Force Awakens. The fluffy little creatures, with their tiny wings and big,
This Gorgeous Clip From Call Me By Your Name Perfectly Timed With National Coming Out Day
As our writer David Thorpe wrote in his New York Film Festival wrap-up, director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is “a first-person tale of obsession bursting with adolescent lust. Guadagnino seems like the perfect director to translate the novel to the big screen, given the extreme sensuality of his previous film’s I Am Love and A Bigger Splash.” The film follows the son of an American professor,
Jeff Goldblum’s Deep Musings on the Meaning of Ragnarok
We’ve all been crazy for Thor: Ragnarok for pretty close to two years now, but who among us knows what Ragnarok actually means? Is it a great and mighty villain who can take on the likes of Thor? Is it a mystical land that Thor is destined to inherit? Is it, as I once thought for whatever reason, a Rubik’s cube style vessel that harvests all the power of the universe?
Thor: Ragnarok is Part One of Three-Part Story Arc for Hulk
The next installment in the Marvel Comic Universe is technically a Thor movie, but this is the franchise’s time to Hulk out. The green guy may not be headlining any of his own movies, but this is his time to shine.
Mark Ruffalo said that the supersized Avenger is going through a growing stage, and Ragnarok is the beginning of the journey. The Hulk and Thor seem to have done some serious bonding and he really stands out in the hilarious Ragnarok trailers.
