Watch the Training that Went Into Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s Fight Scenes
From the moment we met Daisy Ridley’s Rey in The Force Awakens, she was already one tough cookie. We watched her repel deep into a ruined a Star Destroyer, fight off some First Order goons with her staff and generally hold herself in such a way where you never questioned how tough she was. And this was before it became clear she had some serious abilities that even she didn’t know about. One presumes that in The Last Jedi,...
New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Images Showcase Laura Dern’s Mysterious Vice Admiral Holdo
The great Laura Dern was one of the most exciting additions to the Star Wars: The Last Jedi cast, an actress with immense gifts whose presence improves any film. Dern, along with Benicio del Toro’s mysterious code breaker DJ, is not someone you bring onboard your film to play a minor role. As Vice Admiral Holdo, Dern’s playing a prominent officer in the Resistance, and judging by this Entertainment Weekly cover photo of Holdo alongside Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron,...
New Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Teaser Unleashes a Load of Terrified Dinosaurs
Life finds a way. This has been the credo, of sorts, to the entire Jurassic Park/World franchise, from Steven Spielberg’s first, ground-breaking film Jurassic Park to Colin Trevorrow’s massive Jurassic World. No matter how hard humans try to control their dino creations, whether by locking them in pens or designing them in labs, life, which always brings death, finds a way. Jurassic World ended with our hero, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and heroine,...
Stranger Things is Officially Coming Back for Season 3
Poor Hawkins, Indiana has been through a lot. Detective Hopper has been doing his best to battle the evils of the Upside Down, but there are more monsters to come. Netflix announced that Stranger Things has secured a third season.
FOR THE LOVE OF STEVE, DUH! So hold tight baby darts — season 3 is officially happening.
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 1, 2017
Netflix posted a poll on Friday asking followers if there should be a season 3...
Netflix Orders Season 2 of Mindhunter
The serial killer mind has more mysteries to unlock. Mindhunter announced today on its twitter page that they’ll be back for more. The Netflix show that asked the question ‘Is there method in madness?’ is getting renewed for a second season.
The announcement suggested that new killers will be probed in upcoming episodes. The tweet read simply, “We need to talk to more subjects.” Set in 1977, the show follows a pair of FBI agents and a psychologist seeking to find a pattern in the methods of serial killers...
Here’s How You Can See Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Two Weeks Early
If you’re looking to be among the first to visit the jungle, Amazon Prime can take you there. Members of the company’s paid subscription plan have earned perks like free shipping and original programming in the past. Now, Amazon is offering its Prime members an advanced in theater screening of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
The film starring Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillam, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black is one of the most anticipated releases of the holidays...
VFX Artist Dream Big & Think Small for Downsizing
Writer-director Alexander Payne has won two Academy Awards and 17 more Oscar nominations for films that specialize in low key stories about flawed characters. But unlike Nebraska, The Descendants, About Schmidt and Sideways, his new movie Downsizing (opening Dec. 22) goes high concept: Matt Damon stars as a five-inch human who tries to leave his problems behind by living in the pint-sized “Leisure Land” community alongside normal-sized earthlings...
Ant-Man and the Wasp Actress Evangeline Lilly Has an Interesting Theory about the Future of the MCU
Today we saw the first Avengers: Infinity War trailer and the tides are clearly shifting. Alliances that were once fractured are uniting again to battle Thanos. Big changes are coming to the MCU, and that could mean crossing over into entirely new realms. We are in the midst of Phase 3 of the Marvel arc and it’s unclear how the storylines will shift to something new, but we know it is coming. The Guardians of the Galaxy fight on an intergalactic scale,...
Disney Casts the Star of Live Action Mulan
Disney’s casting requirement for the actress who would play the live action Mulan was a tall order, but the search has finally come to an end. Liu Yifei, who also goes by Crystal Liu, has landed the role and it seems like she could be a perfect fit. Casting agents were on the lookout for a Chinese actress who speaks English with martial arts experience and singing ability. Check, check, and check for Liu.
Disney announced the decision on Twitter earlier today...
Black Mirror‘s ‘Black Museum’ Trailer is Chilling and Mysterious
The latest Black Mirror trailer may preview the goriest episode yet. Proprietor Rolo Haynes’ welcomes a tourist to his “World Famous” Black Museum that has a blood splatter logo in the shape of a screaming head. It appears that the attractions are a collection of the show’s most violent and disturbing technologies. The owner invites guests to “inflict pain on yourself but not terror.” Rolo and I have very different definitions of fun. The museum looks as if it might be interactive,...
Behold the Epic First Trailer for Avengers: Infinity War
The first official trailer for Avengers: Infinity War is here, and it’s as massive and chill inducing as you’d hoped. Giving us our first glimpse of the super villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) in action, and arraying against him just about every character from a decade’s worth of Marvel movies, the Avengers: Infinity War trailer feels genuinely momentous.
We’ve known next to nothing about the plot, save for that the Russo Brothers’ upcoming film is based on Thanos finally squaring off against the Avengers in the flesh,...
Here’s the SNL Lineup for the Rest of the Year
Saturday Night Live is ringing in the holiday season with a bang. With holiday blockbusters upon us and awards season around the corner, the biggest names in Hollywood are embarking on an all-out media blitz. Hosting the show or appearing as a musical guest is always a boost for the performers, and SNL seemingly had their pick of talent for the month of December. The official lineup was posted yesterday to the show’s official Facebook page...
The Walking Dead‘s Morgan is Moving to Fear The Walking Dead
With the post-apocalyptic setting of The Walking Dead, long distance transportation has been set back a long way. In fact, the dangers of travel have been a focus on the show, including such season-long plot points as getting Eugene to Washington, DC in season 4. Spoiler, due to significant hurdles and the fact that Eugene was lying, that never actually happened. That is going to make bridging the gap between The Walking Dead in Atlanta and Fear the Walking Dead in Mexico all that more difficult...
James Cameron Reveals New Details About the Avatar Sequels
James Cameron has some colossal blockbusters under his belt, and he touched on almost all of them in an interview with Vanity Fair. Cameron talked about the 20th anniversary of Titanic, the expansion of the Terminator franchise, and most interestingly, the extensive future of Avatar. Excitement has been building for the new installments as casting announcements are made, and Disney opened the new Pandora area in the Disney world Animal Kingdom park...
Jordan Peele’s Get Out Leads Pack at Gotham Independent Film Awards
The Gotham Independent Film Awards are considered the very first step on the long, often winding road towards Oscar glory. Two very different and very excellent films, Jordan Peele’s social thriller/horror/comedy masterpiece Get Out, and Luca Guadagnino’s gorgeous gay romance Call Me By Your Name can now be credibly considered two early frontrunners.
Get Out nabbed breakthrough director, for Peele, best screenplay (Peele again), and the audience award. Peele’s film, which bakes social commentary and comedy into a horror template in a way that recalls the best horror films of all time,...
Joe Manganiello’s Deathstroke Costume is Unbelievably Cool
Joe Manganiello gave us all something to be thankful for this holiday weekend, the first image of him as Deathstroke. The True Blood actor tweeted out the photo with no caption, but the ammo does all of the talking. Fans were expecting the assassin to make an onscreen appearance soon, but we weren’t sure how close we were until he popped up in the Justice League post-credits scene.
In the brief clip, Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) returns and propositions Deathstroke,...
Black Mirror Teasers for new Episodes “Arkangel” and “Crocodile” are Predictably Awesome
The film and TV world has long explored the future, even imagining technology before it actually existed. No show, however, has instilled the palpable terror of technology as effectively and freakishly clairvoyantly as Black Mirror has. Who knew there were so many ways for technology to go so terribly wrong, and who knew that one show could so expertly map our current anxieties and fears over technology run amok? Black Mirror is coming up on season 4 and will feature six new episodes,...
Blade Runner 2049‘s Makeup Designer on the Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
Revisiting the world of Blade Runner decades after the original movie drove the filmmakers to look 30 years farther into the future of Rick Deckard’s (Harrison Ford) world. The world of Blade Runner: 2049 is one of incredible technology and a completely ravaged environment, where massive holograms lope around a lurid Los Angeles slicked with acid rain and ashy snow. A Blade Runner by the name of K (Ryan Gosling) works on behalf of humans in the same capacity Deckard had;...
Kit Harington Plots to Assassinate King James in Gunpowder Trailer
We may not know yet what Jon Snow’s fate will be in Game of Thrones, but Kit Harington’s character is sure to meet a gruesome end in the new Gunpowder miniseries. HBO has released the first trailer for Gunpowder featuring Harington as Robert Catesby and it looks like a brutal time in history.
The trailer opens with an execution and the commoners are distinctly dirtied and desperate in comparison to the well-groomed royals...
Rey’s Tempted by the Dark Side in new Star Wars: The Last Jedi Teaser
One of the most surprising moments in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer was when Rey (Daisy Ridley) appeared to be about ready to accept the outstretched hand of Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), her mortal enemy and the poster child (er, man) of the Dark Side. At the time we assumed this was a clever head fake by the marketing team, a way to throw us off the scent of the film’s real narrative trajectory. While it neatly echoed the battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader,...
