How They Built the Props for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
One of the things that has always made Star Wars such a delight is the intense care that went into the design of the franchise's many iconic props. It's not just that they're cool (they are), but that they looked like objects that have been in use for years or more. As far back as A New Hope, the Star Wars films have always made sure the things the characters wear and use look like they've been worn and used...
Costume Designer Colleen Atwood Talks Alice Through the Looking Glass
A longtime Tim Burton collaborator, the costume designer Colleen Atwood is responsible for Johnny Depp’s now-iconic Edward Scissorhands get-up, won an Oscar for 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, and was nominated for Burton’s Sweeney Todd. The release of the Burton-produced Alice Through the Looking Glass sees Atwood back at the fanciful-yet-functional drawing board. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) has returned to Wonderland and makes her first visit to Underland,...
Paul Rudd Stars in The Fundamentals of Caring
Paul Rudd stars in The Fundamentals of Caring, the Sundance closing film, scooped up by Netflix, which will be available on the streaming service on June 24.
The film follows Ben (Rudd), a retired writer with some not insignificant personal problems (including a busted marriage he can't move on from) who becomes a caregiver for his first client, Trevor (Craig Roberts), an angry 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy and a way with brutal one-liners. Ben and Trevor take an impromptu road trip to all the country's most absurd places that Trevor longs to see,...
Video From 1st Day of Filming Fast 8
The crew are back for Universal Pictures Fast 8, as evidenced from this video featuring the first time Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team are together for the shoot. The video gives you some brief glimpses of Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Kurt Russell, Scott Eastwood, Jason Statham and Nathalie Emmanuel, as well as Dwayne Johnson (flexing, no less). The feature image was provided by Johnson on his Instagram page, the first shot of him in character as Hobbs. ...
Game of Thrones Recap: “Blood of my Blood”
Is there a show in television history with worse fathers than Game of Thrones? In this week’s episode, directed once again by Jack Bender (the man behind last week’s sensational “The Door”) we meet Randyll Tarly, Sam’s father. The man is, to put it mildly, an awful person to break bread with. He doesn't speak for the first few minutes, and you just know when he finally does it won't be,...
How the Amazing Quicksilver Rescue was Created in X-Men: Apocalypse
Arguably the best scene in the new X-Men: Apocalypse was the stunning sequence in which Quicksilver (Evan Peters) arrives at Xavier's School for Gifted Children. For those of you who haven't seen the film, you can stop reading now. For those of you who have, you can also check out our spoiler-free review here.
Quicksilver's big scene comes rather early on in the film (as it did in Days of Future Past)—he arrives at Xavier's school to find it in the midst of exploding...
Happy Memorial Day Weekend: Your Hilarious Outtakes From Silicon Valley
HBO’s comedy Silicon Valley is one of those rare gems (along with Veep) that is perfectly cast. There are really no weak links on either show. On Silicon Valley, series regular T.J. Miller is reliably one of the funniest people on the show, and on TV in general. When it comes to quips, outbursts, put downs and insults, Miller's in a class of his own. In a perfect world,...
Talking to Weiner Directors Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg
When co-directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg started making Weiner in 2013, two years after their subject had resigned from the U.S. Congress because of a sexting scandal, Anthony Weiner seemed to be a comeback kid. He was making a second run for mayor of New York, and this time the polls predicted success. Then more embarrassing e-mails and inappropriate cellphone photos surfaced, and Weiner's campaign hit a wall of media derision and voter disgust.
The candidate didn't banish the filmmakers when things went wrong,...
The Academy Reveals Rare Revenge of the Jedi Teaser from 1982
Folks, this is a treat. Thanks in part (we assume) to today being the 39th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope, which hit theaters on May 25, 1977, the Academy has released a very rare teaser of Revenge of the Jedi, the third and final installment in George Lucas's original trilogy that, famously, had that very aggressive and un-Jedi title, before it was changed to the more appropriate Return.
We'll let the Academy explain the hows and whys of this discovery...
First Photo From Set of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant
Here’s a photo from the set of Ridley Scott’s follow up to Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, that shows star Katherine Waterston looking very Ridley-esque. It’s actually a photo from a monitor, where Scott and his crew can see what they’re filming. It was posted on the official Alien Facebook page.
Joining Waterston is Prometheus star Michael Fassbender, and what little we know about the film is that it's the second in a trilogy that leads us to the action of 1979's seminal ...
X-Men: Apocalypse Spoiler-Free Review
Let's talk about X-Men: Apocalypse. We'll do this without any major spoilers. A few minor reveals might seep in here and there, but nothing that's going to really surprise anyone who's been paying attention to run-up to Bryan Singer's latest installment.
Let's begin with your title villain.
Oscar Isaac is Apocalypse. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
Much has been made about the wisdom of slathering beloved Oscar Isaac in enough prosthetics,...
Rogue One Art & Star Wars: Episode VIII Director Rian Johnson & Chewbacca on set
It was exactly 39 years ago today on May 25, 1977, that Star Wars: A New Hope was released in theaters. To celebrate the anniversary, Lucasfilm released a new episode on YouTube of The Star Wars Show. In the show's cold open, you get Chewbacca on the set of Star Wars: Episode VIII acting very much like a millennial (or, frankly, non-millennials at this point, too) by enjoying images of himself on his iPad...
Game of Thrones Actor Kristian Nairn on the World’s Love of Hodor
If you're not caught up with Game of Thrones, now's the time to turn back.
As we discussed in our recap, the final minutes of last Sunday's episode "The Door" were a revelation—the gentle giant known as Hodor (and revealed this season to have originally been named Wyllis, a Winterfell stable boy who could very much speak) went from one of GoT's plainest, most laughable characters into one of its most astonishing heroes...
Check out the new Star Trek Beyond Poster
We wrote yesterday about Star Trek Beyond's pretty spectacular new trailer, which finally gave us a glimpse of Idris Elba's Krall. Now we want to share this still image of Krall showing Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) just how strong he is, and, the new theatrical poster for the film, which is pretty glorious.
Left to right: Chris Pine plays Kirk and Idris Elba plays Crowl in Star Trek Beyond from Paramount Pictures,...
This New Beauty and the Beast Teaser Tops Star Wars: Force Awakens in 1st Day
Yup, you read that headline right. This new teaser for Disney's Beauty and the Beast broke the record for most views in its first 24 hours with an astonshing 91.8 million. This topped Disney's very own Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which garnered 88 million views with it's second teaser trailer, Captain America: Civil War, which received 61 million views, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, which received 34 million...
A new Finding Dory Trailer Hints Pixar’s Latest was Worth the Wait
Rejoice, Pixar fans—the new trailer for Finding Dory is here. As you're well aware, Dory returns many of the stars from Finding Nemo, including leads Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks. The action picks up just six months after the first movie (13 years in actual human time, of course), with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) living a quiet life among her clown fish friends. Only when Dory joins Nemo on a class trip to see a manta ray migration,...
New Warcraft Featurette Shows Promise for Epic Film
In the New York Times, director Duncan Jones spoke about the personal hardships he endured during the production process of Warcraft. Mind you, these were not the usual growing pains of jumping from relatively small films (his excellent debut, Moon, and the bigger Source Code) into the world of big budget blockbuster, but rather, the illness of his wife (she’s recovered) and the death of his father,...
Chatting With X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Composer, Editor & Co-Producer John Ottman
John Ottman is a very busy guy. He was composer, editor, and co-producer of X-Men: Apocalypse, which he describes as “running the store.” But that’s not all – he also composed the score for another film opening this month, The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling and written and directed by Shane Black. Somehow, he managed to find a few minutes to chat about both projects.
You’ve worked on X-Men movies before. ...
Matthew McConaughey Stars in Civil War Drama Free State of Jones
Matthew McConaughey stars in STX Entertainment's Free State of Jones as Newt Knight, a defiant Southern farmer who waged an armed rebellion against the Confederacy alongside other small farmers and with the assistance of local slaves. The uprising led Jones County, Mississippi, to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. The film's first trailer is finally here, and it's a taut, ripping minute of action. McConaughey seems right at home as the noble Knight, with a solid supporting cast and a true story that seems tailor made for the big screen...
Ready or Not, Here Comes Adam Sandler’s The Do-Over for Netflix
Adam Sandler's second film for Netflix is upon us. Behold The Do-Over, which premieres Friday, May 27, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Sandler and old SNL pal David Spade play Max and Charlie, old friends who reunite at their 25th high school reunion and, thanks to Max's doing, engage in the ultimate deception; they fake their deaths. Now they can take a second crack at life under assumed identities. What could possibly go wrong?
Before you immediately dismiss this due to Sandler's recent track record,...
