How Patty Jenkins Navigated Myriad Tones to Make Wonder Woman a Singular Film
Oscar nominations are coming soon—on January 24th to be exact—and one hopes that Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman will get a lot more love than it did at the Golden Globes (where it wasn’t nominated for anything). The good news for Jenkins, and Wonder Woman fans, is that the rest of the world has recognized the craft, skill and wonder (pun intended) that went into making the film. Forget the gonzo box office for a second (if you can forget $821.8 million worldwide) and focus instead on the critical acclaim...
Sad Porg, Gross Milk—This is Star Wars: The Last Jedi Post You’re Looking For
From the world of Star Wars creatures come two highlights from Disney featuring the most adorable—and most repulsive—moments in The Last Jedi.
First up, if it’s cute and it’s in The Last Jedi, it must be porgs (although those crystal foxes were pretty darn precious, too). For months we fawned over the adorable screaming porg who becomes Chewbacca’s sidekick. His alarm at Chewie’s wild driving was enough to make you want to snatch him right off the screen and cuddle him to death...
Pinhead Pulls New Victims to Hell in Hellraiser: Judgment Trailer
Before Saw, Hellraiser was the ultimate name in torture horror. The Cenobites are back to reclaim their dominance as the most sadistic characters in cinema in a trailer for Hellraiser: Judgment. Pinhead and his minions are stepping up the torture in new cringe worthy masochistic acts.
Effects master Gary J. Tunnicliffe directed the new installment, and it shows. Paul T. Taylor steps into the iconic Pinhead makeup, but the other new creature designs are just as hypnotizing...
IT Actor Bill Skarsgård Admits To Being Haunted by Pennywise
Here’s one thing we guarantee would keep anyone from sleeping – having Pennywise the clown haunt your dreams. Such is the curse for IT actor, Bill Skarsgård, who says he’s had difficulty letting go of the role. Months after the film was released, the actor is still getting nocturnal visits from the bloodthirsty monster.
“I was home, done with the movie, and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise dreams,” Skarsgård told EW...
Shape of Water Director Guillermo del Toro Delivers Gorgeous Golden Globes Speech
With seven Golden Globe nominations, The Shape of Water took home only two, but it included one of the most impactful wins of the night. In a quiet moment after Oprah rocked the house, Guillermo del Toro finally got his moment on the stage. As Best Director for his film The Shape of Water, the visual genius gave an understated but poignant speech about the power of movies in his life. After spending 25 years in the business,...
Method Man Joins the Cast of the Shaft Reboot
Clifford ‘Method Man’ Smith is really feeling that 1970s vibe. After appearing in David Simon’s fantastic new HBO series The Deuce, set in the early years of the decade, the iconic Wu Tang Clan member and actor (he was fantastic in Keanu, Simon’s groundbreaking The Wire and more) has now been cast in the latest Shaft film.
Released in 1971, the blaxplotation film Shaft starred Richard Roundtree as John Shaft,...
Blade Runner 2049, Three Billboards & The Shape of Water Lead BAFTA Noms
The British Academy of Television Arts has announced the nominations for their film awards for 2018, known as the BAFTAs, with Guillermo del Toro’s glorious creature feature, The Shape of Water, netting a best 12 nominations. Del Toro’s surprisingly tender film, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Score for composer Alexandre Desplat is nominated for Best Film, Director, Actress, Score, and Original Screenplay, among others. This is a haul Doug Jones’ aquatic fish-man could appreciate...
Black Panther Writer/Director Ryan Coogler on the Film’s Influences & More
While we doing a bit of research before publishing our story on the new Black Panther trailer, we came across this fantastic interview Fandango conducted with writer/director Ryan Coogler. They spoke a day after the news broke that Kendrick Lamar would be producing and curating the film’s soundtrack.
What Fandango points out at the top is something we, and everybody else, has been commenting on for a while—there’s something very special happening with Black Panther...
Erik Killmonger Demands T’Challa’s Throne in new Black Panther Trailer
Marvel Studios had been promising a new Black Panther trailer during last night’s National Championship game, and they delivered in a big way. The new look at writer/director Ryan Coogler’s film includes fresh footage, a thumping new song from Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples (Lamar is producing and curating the entire soundtrack), and a focus on the battle between Black Panther, now also known as King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and Erik Killmonger (Michael B...
Chris Hemsworth Addresses the Uncertain Future of Thor
With Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War on the way this year, it seems like the Marvel Universe will go on forever. Nothing in life is promised, however, and that includes the return of Chris Hemsworth as Thor. As we learned from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, the future is uncertain for many of our favorite superheroes. This is true both from a narrative standpoint and a contractual one, too. Thor: Ragnarok may have been one of the most unexpectedly funny Marvel movies ever,...
What We Learned About Dr. Murry’s Whereabouts in New A Wrinkle in Time Spot
Not only was Oprah the recipient of the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille award and the voice of the people at last night’s Golden Globes, she also starred in a new TV spot for A Wrinkle in Time. Oprah lays out for Meg (Storm Reid) the truth about her missing father and the perilous lengths to which she must go in order to save him.
Previously, we’ve seen Dr. Murry (Chris Pine) stuck in another dimension outside what we know of time and space...
Cecil B. DeMille Honoree Oprah Owns the Night at the Golden Globes
This year #MeToo movement, which led to Time Magazine’s ‘Silence Breakers’, which led to the Golden Globes theme of the night, ‘Time’s Up,’ was given a moment of such overpowering clarity, conviction and brilliance that it will stand the test of time. We are, of course, talking about Oprah Winfrey’s incredible acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award. We will be talking about it for a long time to come.
When it comes to stars, who has listened more closely and productively to people suffering than Oprah Winfrey?...
Watch Jennifer Lawrence’s Deadly Dance in the First Red Sparrow Trailer
The last time we got a look at Red Sparrow, director Francis Lawrence’s thriller about a brilliant Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) recruited into Russian intelligence through their ‘Sparrow School,’ we were marveling at how Lawrence dominated the teaser without saying a word. The director and star don’t just share a last name—they have a long history together, working on three of the four Hunger Games films—which probably goes some way to explaining why The Red Sparrow’s teaser was so effective,...
Helena Bonham Carter In Talks to Play Princess Margaret In The Crown
Due to both it’s popularity and critical acclaim, The Crown is becoming the ‘it’ show for actors to appear on. The luster seems to have attracted the eye of Helena Bonham Carter, who is reportedly nearing a deal to play Princess Margaret, according to EW.
The series intends to chart the Queen’s lifespan, she’s 91 now, over six seasons. That’s a lot of ground to cover in just a few years, so the original cast is being swapped out for older actors as the timeline progresses...
The Perpetual Construction in Winchester Becomes the Perfect Place for Ghosts to Hide
The new trailer for Winchester is a terrifying battle of wills. Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren) spent years on senseless construction in her California home to ward off spirits. The seven story monstrosity has unused rooms and doors leading nowhere to capture malevolent ghosts. The undead have a good reason for their haunting, as Winchester explains. They’re the victims of the rifles her family built their fortune on.
Sarah Winchester, and the mansion that never ended, actually lived,...
The Production Designer Who Recreated the Famous Kaczynski Evidence for Manhunt: Unabomber
Mentions of the Unabomber immediately call to mind the deadly postal packages containing explosives and that famous police sketch of the suspect in a hoodie. While working on Manhunt: Unabomber, production designer Erik Carlson realized, however, that the case actually hinged on hundreds of handwritten documents. The eight-episode Discovery Channel miniseries delved into the infamous FBI investigation that eventually resulted in Ted Kaczynski’s arrest. Carlson painstakingly recreated all 17 of the homemade bombs, the remote Michigan cabin that was Kaczynski’s hideout,...
Game of Thrones Final Season Will Air in 2019
While winter is here all across the country in a major way (who had heard of a bomb cyclone before this week?), we’ll have to wait an entire year (and possibly a bit more) for Winter with a capital W to end. HBO has confirmed that the final season of Game of Thrones will be airing in 2019. In a short press release, they announced season 8’s directors and writers:
Directors for the new season are: David Benioff &...
Which Would You Pick in This Deadly Game of Truth or Dare?
Truth or dare, spin the bottle, seven minutes in heaven, and many more are party games we have all grown up on for generations. In the awkward sea of our teenage years, they all seemed pretty scary at the time, but weren’t likely to be deadly. The players in Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare might not be so lucky.
The first trailer for the film lays out a sort of It Follows scenario in which you have to pass along the curse to keep it from coming back for you...
Lock All the Doors Before Watching This Insidious: The Last Key Clip
The holiday rush has come and gone, so what could be better than curling up on a cold day and getting scared out of your mind. Insidious: The Last Key creeps into theaters tomorrow, and the previews are deeply disturbing. The scare tactics are pretty classic and prove that some fears never go out of style.
The Last Key resurrects franchise favorite, Elise Ranier (Lin Shaye), who was offed in the series’ original. The latest film goes back in time to see Ranier investigating paranormal activity at her childhood home...
Listen to This Glorious Conversation Between Steven Spielberg and Wonder Woman Director Patty Jenkins
We had a chance to hear Steven Spielberg speak in person about his riveting, timely new film The Post, at its’ Washington D.C. premiere, back on December 14. Many of the film’s sensational cast were on hand, including Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Sarah Paulson and more. The Post chronicles the historic decision by The Washington Post to print the Pentagon papers, when publisher Katharine Graham (Streep) was fighting for financial solvency and against the real possibility that she and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) were facing the possibility that publishing the papers could ruin them and the newspaper...
