Avengers Named-Dropped in new Doctor Strange Teaser
There's been a lot of speculation over whether there'd be any crossover between The Avengers and the newest Marvel superhero to hit the big screen, Doctor Strange. In the latest Doctor Strange teaser dropped by Marvel & Walt Disney Pictures, we hear the first mention of the Avengers, coming from Wong (Benedict Wong), who explains to the newly minted metaphysical Doctor (Benedict Cumberbatch) that while the Avengers protect the planet from physical danger,...
Start Planning Your JT Watch Party Now
Soon you’ll be able to relive the life-affirming Justin Timberlake 20/20 Experience World Tour every night for the price of a Netflix membership. The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme is releasing Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, featuring the concert stop at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Demme is a big music buff who has made other concert films including Talking Head’s Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold...
Westworld Drops New Featurette as Premiere Looms
If you’re not excited about HBO’s sci-fi/western epic Westworld, you might not have been paying close enough attention. Luckily, HBO keeps giving us new glimpses into their ambitious series (a re-make of the 1973 Michael Crichton film that takes the premise and expands it, grounds it, and gives it much grittier, gutsier tone).
"Imagined you were completely immersed in a fantasy, one in which you could do whatever you want, consequence free. If a simulation was immersive enough,...
Superman Joins Supergirl in Season 2 Trailer
After sharing the CW’s season three trailer for The Flash with you yesterday, we’re back to give you the good stuff once more, this time it’s the season two trailer for Supergirl. We’re a little less than two weeks away from the season two premiere, which is titled “The Adventures of Supergirl.”
Here’s a synopsis for the premiere:
“When a new threat emerges in National City,...
Talking to the Director Robert Kenner & Writer Eric Schlosser About Command & Control
In September 1980, a Titan II missile bearing a nuclear warhead caught on fire in a Air Force silo near Damascus, Arkansas. The incident was reported at the time, but the full implications of the conflagration weren't widely known until Eric Schlosser's book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, was published in 2013.
The author interviewed Harold Brown, then the U.S. Secretary of Defense; Bob Peurifoy, head of nuclear weapons development at Sandia Labs;...
This Proposal in Loving Will Break Your Heart
The emotional real life drama of Richard and Mildred Loving is destined to be the love story of the year. Loving portrays the couple’s romance that led to a 1967 Supreme Court victory overturning U.S. laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
Focus Features released a tearjerking clip from the film today. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga are way too adorable as the lovestruck couple. The one-two punch of Richard secretly buying the land for their future home and asking Mildred to marry him will be too much for your tear ducts to contain...
New Teaser for The Accountant Sees Ben Affleck Crunching More Than Numbers
In a new TV teaser for The Accountant, Ben Affleck’s character doesn’t do much number crunching. Wielding a wide arsenal of firearms, Christian Wolff (Affleck) isn’t your typical tax man. Ray King (J.K. Simmons) explains the math savant, “risks his life doing accounting for the scariest people on the planet then gives all of it away.”
While some think Wolff has gone rogue, there may be a method to his mathematic murders. The mystery appears to be if his criminal misconduct is for good or evil...
Here’s the Final Two Chapters in Fan-Created Rogue One Film
The final chapter of the epic, toy-driven Go Rogue fan-created film has arrived. We've shared chapters one and two with you, and below we've embeded the final two chapters for your viewing pleasure. This four chapter mini-epic was written, directed and produced by a team of Star Wars superfans, a stop motion that turns Rogue One toys into the stars of a witty galactic adventure. The four-part series also served as a preview for the ...
New Doctor Strange TV Spots Expand Marvel’s Latest, Weirdest World
Folks, Marvel's weirdest, wildest superhero is finally making his big screen debut in just a little more than a month. Doctor Strange is coming to theaters on November 4, and as we near this date, Disney and Marvel have been flooding the airwaves with TV spots showcasing the most mystical and mind-bending of all the supes. With Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role, and a cast that includes a veritable who's who of acting legends, ...
Kid Flash is Back inThe Flash’s Season 3 Trailer
The CW has released an extended trailer for season three ofThe Flash, and it's a hoot. A lot of crazy stuff went down in season two, and the new trailer catches us up to all the mayhem that took place, including a clue as to how Kid Flash is going to play out this season. The takeaway is this; two Flashes are better than one…until they're not.
The premiere of season three is titled “Flashpoint,”...
The Russo Brothers Explain why no Avengers Died in Captain America: Civil War
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo and Marvel president Kevin Feige have been making the rounds lately as they gear up for awards season (Captain America: Civil War will likely be up in a few categories, no doubt for special effects and possibly a bunch more), which means they've also been discussing the film itself. As you know by now, although there were some pretty brutal injuries in the film (with Don Cheadle's War Machine suffering the worst of all),...
Kevin Hart, Jack Black & the Rock Hang out New Jumanji set Videos
Looks like the gang’s having a pretty good time down on the set of Jumanji. Production has officially began, and thanks to a new photo and these set videos, we have a little bit more knowledge on what this version of Jumanji is all about. Dwayne Johnson plays Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Kevin Hart is Moose Finbar, Karen Gillan is Ruby Roundhouse, and Jack Black is Professor Shelly Oberon.
The photo that Johnson shared has led many observers to believe that the stars are playing gronwn avatars of the kids who are playing the game in the film...
World’s Loneliest Dog the Star of Transformers: The Last Knight Set Videos
Filming has been well under way on Transformers: The Last Knight in London, and two new set videos, released by Paramount Pictures, gives us a glimpse of the action. At the center of the first video is not Sir Anthony Hopkins, although his involvement in the latest installment is a huge boon for the franchise, but rather the dog in the picture, Freya. Director and Transformers creator Michael Bay had heard about Freya in the British press,...
Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson Creates Cinematic Memoir From Outtakes
Sifting through outtakes from some three dozen documentaries she shot over the years, cinematographer Kirsten Johnson initially came up with a cinematic memoir she now calls the "trauma cut." Johnson, whose credits include Fahrenheit 9/11 and Oscar-winning Citizenfour and, says "I reached out for material that had been the most haunting to me."
The New York filmmaker had plenty of disturbing stuff to pick from, given her non-fiction coverage of genocide in Bosnia,...
Tom Hardy & Ridley Scott Team up for FX’s Taboo
Tom Hardy came up with the story for Taboo with his father, Chips. Yup, you’re already intrigued, and also a bit touched. And you're well aware Hardy doesn't really make bad career decisions, so anything he's involved in warrants a good long look.
In Taboo, Hardy plays a rogue adventurer named James Keziah Delaney, who spends a decade swashbuckling around Africa in the early 19th century. He finally returns to London in 1814 and discovers he’s been left a strange legacy (and a huge shipping empire!) by his murdered father...
The Walking Dead Introduces King Ezekiel
The last time we checked in with The Walking Dead, we were parsing a new promo to see if there were any clues as to who Negan (Jeffery Dean Morgan) had offed in season 6's brutal finale. Now with the season 7 premiere only a few weeks away, AMC has dropped a new teaser, including an introduction to a brand new character…and his pet tiger.
Introducing King Ezekiel (Khary Payton), a man with a pretty serious bodyguard (the aforementioned tiger) and one who seems,...
Fist Fight Trailer is Every Kid’s Fantasy
Just in time for back to school, Warner Bros. has released the movie version of every kid’s fantasy – a school yard fight between two teachers. Yup, it's a Fist Fight, folks. For an unstated reason, Campbell (Charlie Day) has become the target of fellow teacher Strickland’s (Ice Cube) wrath and is destined for a beating. As the parking lot face off nears, their fellow teachers, every single student in the school, and even the authorities become aware of the absurdity of the situation,...
We Can’t Wait for Ghost in the Shell: Here are 5 Reasons Why
Here's something you might not know about Scarlett Johansson; she's fantastic in creepy sci-fi movies. And we're not even talking about Lucy, in which she played an unwitting drug mule turned super powered cosmic goddess. No, we're talking about Jonathan Glazer's haunting Under the Skin, where Johansson played an alien who harvests human beings for their skin. The film is sensational, and has a few scenes that are some of the most disturbing you'll see (one in particular,...
Designated Survivor Premieres on ABC
The conceit for Designated Survivor is a chilling one, especially in a time of ambient anxiety over of terrorism. A low-level cabinet member named Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) is whiling away the 90 minutes or so while the president is giving his State of the Union Address in a secure location, serving as the country's "designated survivor." In the unlikely event that something happens during the State of the Union and, say, everyone there is eviscerated, Kirkman steps into the role of the presidency. ...
Jonathan Ames Talks Season 2 of Blunt Talk
The idea was an inspired one. Novelist, screenwriter and TV creator Jonathan Ames, the man behind HBO's beloved (but short-lived) detective comedy Bored to Death, got an email from his agent saying that Seth McFarlane was looking to create a comedy for Sir Patrick Stewart. Stewart had proven his comedic chops by lending his voice to several episodes of McFardland's Family Guy, and now the budding mogul wanted to create a whole show around the legendary British thespian and movie star...
