Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness Brings the Pain

Earlier today, we wrote about the upcoming film Rings, which continues the American take on the 1998 Japanese horror film The Ring, by Hideo Nakata. The first remake of that film was by director Gore Verbinski, whose 2002 adaptation scared the pants off American audiences. 

Verbinski is back with another horror, A Cure For Wellness, which plumbs one of the most interesting sub genres in horror—the hospital setting...

Rihanna Joins Bates Motel in Season 5

A&E’s Bates Motel has had a great run, and now season five is adding a global superstar to their cast. Rihanna is joining the cast as the iconic Marion Crane in the show’s final season.

Bates Motel is the contemporary prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, providing fans with a glimpse into how Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) became the monster that we met in Hitchcock’s iconic 1960 film...

Star Trek: Discovery has Begun Production

CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery has begun promotion, bringing the beloved Starfleet back to the small screen for the first time since 2005. The series is brought to you by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek). You can think of Discovery as the Star Trek version of Rogue One (yes, we just compared Star Trek and Star Wars),...

First Look at FX’s new Marvel Series Legion

FX and Marvel Entertainment’s upcoming Legion is finally bringing a live-action TV series that’s connected X-Men to the screen. Now we’re getting our first look at the new series, which premieres on FX on February 8. 

Legion’s creator is Noah Hawley, the visionary behind FX’s Fargo, and is based on the eponymous Marvel comic by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz. Legion tells the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens, who’s in the middle of a big year),...

GLAAD Award Nominees: Moonlight, Star Trek Beyond & TV Shines

GLADD has announced its nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, with Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond earning nominations for films in wide release. The organization chooses the nominees based on fair and inclusive representation, with an eye towards originality, boldness, impact and overall quality. 

TV boasts 10 nominees in the comedy category alone, which includes shows from NBCU, Amazon, Netflix, The CW, TLC and ABC. These comedies include Amazon's Transparent ...

Rian Johnson on The Last Jedi‘s Influences

Now that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is only months (11 and change, to be exact) away from coming out, writer/director Rian Johnson has begun speaking about the film. We know the film was shot in Skellig Michael (where Rey finds Luke at the end of The Force Awakens), the massive Pinewood studios, Dubrovnik, Croatia and County Cork. Since they wrapped filming, Johnson has started to reveal, in dribs and drabs, the film's influences,...

Behold the Final, Stunning Beauty and the Beast Trailer

Perhaps with the exception of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the most eagerly anticipated film of 2017 is the live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. The source material helps—this is arguably the most iconic story in Disney's rich canon—but it's also the talent behind the film (and the gorgeous glimpses we've gotten of their work thus far) that has generated the huge amount of excitement. Director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ...

Ocean’s 8 Cast Goes Underground

Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' have just delivered a first look at Ocean's 8, capturing our heroines in an iconic New York City location—the subway. The ensemble film stars Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean (the sister of George Clooney's Danny Ocean), who, like her brother, assembles the perfect crew to pull off easily the most stylish heist of all time, at the star-studded annual Met Gala. Her crew consists of Lou (Cate Blanchett), Nine Ball (Rihanna),...

SAG Awards 2017: An Emotional Night

After a second weekend in a row that saw protests around the world, this time in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration, the Screen Actors Guild Awards presented Hollywood with an opportunity to speak out—and speak out they did. 

Winners took to the stage to accept their words and make their voices heard, clearly and unequivocally. Pleas for community and acceptance of immigrants and strangers were joined by pointed reminders of our country’s proud, and crucial,...

John Wick: Chapter 2 Clip: Dressed to Kill

With any hit action film like John Wick, you can expect the sequel to follow Moore’s Law. You know Moore’s Law; it’s the one that refers to an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. To quote directly from the Wiki page: Moore noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Moore's law predicts that this trend will continue into the foreseeable future. The same holds for action films—the intensity needs to double for every new film in the franchise...

Mark Hamill Talks Star Wars: The Last Jedi at Sundance

You can always count on Mark Hamill to give up the goods. And by goods, we don't mean reveal major plot points of certain upcoming films, but rather, by having fun with the fact that he's the central character in the hugest film franchise of all time. One of the actor's charms is how lightly he wears his lightsaber, and how much he enjoys playing with our Star Wars-related obsession. 

Hamill is at Sundance promoting ...

How Lion Director Guided a Child to Inspire Two Oscar-Nominated Adults

For a man whose previous experience draws largely from award-winning TV commercials, Australian director Garth Davis demonstrates a remarkable touch with actors in his feature film debut Lion. For the Academy Award Best Picture nominee, Davis not only steered Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman to Oscar-nominated star turns; he also coaxed a deeply moving performance from a seven-year old boy with no previous acting experience.

In the fact-based movie, Hindi-speaking Indian child Sunny Pawar plays five-year Saroo,...

Robert DeNiro Tries to Recapture the Funny in new The Comedian Clips

Jackie Burke (Robert De Niro), is a well-past-his-prime comic icon. A little (really, only a very little) like Bojack Horseman, Jackie's attempts to reinvent himself are hampered by the public's refusal to see him as anything other than the former television character he once played. Things reach their nadir when Jackie's arrested for roughing up an audience member, and is forced to atone for his sins through community service. This is where he meets Harmony (Leslie Mann),...

Hear the Score From Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2

Director James Gunn has once again taken to Facebook to give us a fresh look at how Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is coming together in post production. His latest reveal focuses on the film's all important score; no Marvel film has better music than the Guardians franchise—even the title of the sequel is a nod to song.

The score for the film is being recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, where Star Wars,...

Oscar Nominee Allison Schroeder on Adapting Hidden Figures

It’s an exciting and extraordinary time for screenwriter Allison Schroeder. The Hidden Figures scribe has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, is a finalist for a Humanitas Prize, and also received WGA, BAFTA and Critic’s Choice nods — all this after being named one of Variety’s “10 Screenwriters to Watch” this past November and giving birth to her first child.

“It’s incredibly surreal, and I would say that my little baby girl has been keeping me incredibly grounded,”...

The Path Creator Jessica Goldberg on Finding Religion

If you haven't watched Hulu's The Path, now's your time to catch up before the second season begins tonight. The show, created by Jessica Goldberg, is a rarity for TV: a twisting, intriguing deep dive into the pitfalls of belief, the difficulties of marriage, and the risks of zealotry. 

The story follows Eddie Lane (Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul), who lives in upstate New York with his wife Sarah (Michelle Monaghan) and their two children,...

The Oscars 2017: A Deeper Look

As expected, the breezy musical La La Land earned the lions’ share of Oscar nominations — 14 in total, tying it with Titanic and All About Eve for the most in Academy Award history — and Oscar voters reversed last year’s dearth of nominees of color by nominating a record six black actors for awards.

Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris each received a nod for their supporting work in Moonlight...

Here’s What Rogue One Would Look Like as a 1980s Video Game

With so much going on in the world right now, it's nice to find comfort where you can. One of our favorite ongoing video series is Cinefix's 8-Bit Cinema videos, which take some of your favorite films and render them as classic 8-bit video games. We've shared their 8-bit versions of George Miller's instant classic Mad Max: Fury Road and Hayao Miyazaki's gorgeous Princess Mononoke. Today, CineFix dropped their version of Gareth Edwards' ...

Speculating About Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Including Possible Tom Hardy Cameo

Yesterday we shared the news that writer/director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII released the official title—Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It's a great title. It's short, intriguing and open to breathless interpretation until the film bows on December 15. Johnson revealed a few weeks ago that he'd had the title since his very first draft of the script. 

Since the news broke, the internet has been abuzz about all the possible implications of the title...

Oscar Nominations 2017: La La Land Nabs 14, 6 Black Actors Nominated

La La Land follows up its historic night at the Golden Globes by tying a record with 14 Oscar nominations on Tuesday (sharing the most nominations in history with 1950's All About Eve and 1997's Titanic). The bigger story, however, is how Oscar voters this year nominated six black actors from a range of excellent films—for every acting category—which is a record. These actors came from a diverse range of movies,...