Watch Will Smith in the Wild First Trailer for Netflix’s Bright

Viewers of the 89th Academy Awards last night were in for a few surprises— and not just the already infamous “Best Picture” flub. Netflix debuted the first trailer for its upcoming original film, Bright, which bends genres in a way most movies never attempt.

The crime/sci-fi/fantasy flick takes place in an alternate present in which humans, orcs, elves and fairies co-exist. It stars Will Smith (Men in Black) and Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) as Ward and Jakoby,...

Watch the Beauty and the Beast Oscar Spot

Hey, did you catch the Oscars last night? 

If so, you will be forgiven for perhaps overlooking this great new spot for Beauty and the Beast that dropped during one of the show's commerical breaks. The live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic is coming in just a few weeks (March 17 to be exact), with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in your title roles. The film is not only a lush,...

The Most Shocking Moment in Oscars History

It will be remembered as the most shocking moment in Oscars history. Before last night, you could credibly argue over which Oscars moment was the craziest. Was it the when Adrien Brody accepted his award for Best Actor by kissing presenter Halle Berry?  Or how about when Marlon Brando sent Native American civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather to the podium to reject the award on his behalf in 1973. No, the most stunning moment had to be when artist and gay rights activist ...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Best Picture

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Take Our Oscars Emoji Movie Challenge

If you've been following our Oscars coverage this year, you know we just completed our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, ...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Original Score

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Fate of the Furious Drops new International Trailer

What we know thus far about The Fate of the Furious is pretty grim. The once proud, violently loyal Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has abandoned his family (his family and his crew are one in the same) for a serious femme fatale by the name of Cipher (Charlize Theron). Part of the fun of the film will be to find out how in the hell she got Dom to switch sides. You have to assume she’s got leverage on him somehow,...

Stellar Reviews Suggest Logan‘s a Superhero Flick for the Ages

It turns out that director James Mangold and star Hugh Jackman have made the best X-Men spinoff ever, and one of the more gruesome, bold superhero films of all time. So far, Logan is sitting at a super fresh 96% rating on RottenTomatoes. Let's take a quick tour of some of the reviews:

USA Today's Brian Truitt writes: "Easily the best Wolverine outing, Logan is ...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Original Screenplay

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Director

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

New Kong: Skull Island Clips Showcase Most Ambitious Kong Film yet

Yesterday we discussed how Kong: Skull Island will introduce the largest Kong ever put on screen. Standing more than 100 feet tall, this Kong is more than four times the size of the incarnation we saw in Peter Jackson’s 2005 film, and rules as a god over an island with more beasts and monsters than we’ve seen in any previous Kong film. Skull Island follows a team of explorers, led by Colonel James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) as they venture onto the primordial island to find a missing man and a mythical serum. ...

Watch the Nearly 5-Minute Alien: Covenant Prologue

If you’re one of the many people who loves FX’s new X-Men show Legion, you may have caught this fantastic, nearly five minute long prologue for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Eschewing any alien frights (well, save for one tense moment), the prologue introduces you to the crew of the Covenant before they enter cryosleep. Their mission is to colonize a remote planet and form a new human settlement. As they laugh,...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Cinematography

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...

Oscar Watch: Kubo Costume Designer Infuses Clothes with Ancient Japanese Tradition

She's been styling puppets for a decade in stop-motion classics like Corpse Bride,  Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline. Now, British émigré Deborah Cook has been nominated by the Costume Designers Guild for her intricately detailed contributions to Animation Feature Film Oscar contender Kubo and the Two Strings. The young hero's quest to become a Samurai warrior takes place in the distant past,...

Kong: Skull Island IMAX Featurette Delivers Biggest Kong of All-Time

One of the long-standing issues in a Godzilla versus Kong narrative is their size discrepancy. Judging on their most recent incarnations (Skull Island notwithstanding), Gareth Edwards Godzilla was roughly 350 feet tall, while Peter Jackson’s Kong was only a puny 25 feet fall. Naturally, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are more than aware about this, that’s likely why (or at least one of the reasons) that in Kong: Skull Island, which has already teased its connection to Godzilla and the upcoming battle between them,...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Updates

While pretty much the entirety of the Internet awaits the first trailer for writer/director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there have been a few developments we can report on.

The first is the above photo that Johnson published to his Tumbler and Twitter page. The behind-the-scenes shot of a phalanx of Stromtroopers is accompanied by the news that Johnson will be attending the Star Wars Celebration panel in Orlando on April 14...

Berlinale 2017 — Wrap-Up

The 67th Berlinale is a wrap, with the Golden Bear awarded to Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi for Testről és lélekről, or On Body and Soul, a love story set in a Budapest slaughterhouse. A number of women directors had strong entries in the festival — Sally Potter’s The Party comes to mind, a theatrical black-and-white comedy of (sometimes very strange) upper-middle-class manners set in a London townhouse and starring Kristin Scott Thomas,...

Disney Releases Han Solo Cast Photo

Disney has released the first cast photo from the Han Solo spinoff, and it’s nothing but smiles. Along with the photo, Disney has confirmed that filming officially began on Monday at Pinewood Studios in London. The photo was released on the Star Wars official twitter page, along with this Tweet:

“Han Solo – Smuggler. Scoundrel. Hero. A new Star Wars Story begins.”

Let’s do a quick roll call for the photo,...

Talking With David Oyelowo About A United Kingdom, Acting & More

For actor David Oyelowo, “different and more diverse perspectives behind the camera” are necessary “for audiences not to be malnourished.”

Oyelowo certainly backs up those words with his film choices. Best known for playing Dr. Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Oyelowo last year played a sensitive chess coach who recognizes a young African girl’s unique skills in Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe. He also produced and starred in British director Amma Asante’s recently released A United Kingdom...

Know Your 2017 Oscar Nominees: Actor in a Supporting Role

We’ve gone big for our Oscars coverage this year. Our annual "Know Your Nominee" series once again looks at every category, giving you the information you need to conquer your Oscars pool. Learn more about the nominees for Lead Actor, Foreign Language Film, Costume Designers, Documentary Short, Editing, Live Action Short, Actress in a Supporting Role, Makeup &...