Suicide Squad Test Screening Bodes Well for Film
We wrote last week about how the buzz surrounding Margot Robbie's performance as Harley Quinn (for the people at Warner Bros. who have seen a cut of the film) is such that the star is already in talks about starring as Quinn in an female-centric superhero movie. We're just like you, we've only seen the trailers, and those have been enough to excite us about this character—Robbie's Quinn has stolen each trailer with her preening, smiling nihilism.
Now,...
Game of Thrones Recap: The Door
And once again, Game of Thrones ends an episode with a stunning sequence that leaves you breathless, highlighted by a character fulfilling their destiny. After last week’s barn burner “Book of the Stranger” ended in a literal barn (of sorts) burning and Dany emerging as the undisputed leader of the Dothraki, “Hold the Door” somehow managed to top it. In fact, one could argue this was one of the most satisfying and emotional payoffs in the long,...
This Animated The Nice Guys Trailer is Awesome
You have to hand it to the whole The Nice Guys marketing team, their teasers, trailers and fake rants leading up to today's release have been fantastic. Even the packaging for their soundtrack was inspired (we spoke to the folks who did it). So it's not surprising that their new animated trailer captures the sleezy, breezy 1970s setting perfectly, with the super saturated colors and Scooby-Doo like animation you want and need...
Seth Rogen’s Sausage Party the Rare Existential Animated Film
Admit it, when you heard that Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill had written a film called Sausage Party, you were thinking "raunchy bromance with epic fart jokes, and bongs." Or something like that, perhaps a Superbad for the 30-set, which is sort of what Neighbors was, anyway. What Sausage Party actually is an existential animated movie about what it would be like if grocery store food had feelings,...
Join Xavier’s School for Gifted Children in This Retro Recruitment Video
Oh, Charles Xavier—what would the world's tenderhearted mutant children do without you and your beloved school? Ostracized by their non-mutant classmates, misunderstood (and often feared) by their own parents and siblings, and viewed with suspicion by the general public, these kids needed someone who understood them, and some place they could feel safe (and grow into the finest fighting unit this side of the Delta Force). In this fairly perfectly realized retro recruitment video, dated 1983, Jubilee exhorts young mutants to come to Xavier's School for the Gifted where,...
Magneto Gets Mean in New X-Men: Apocalypse Clip
Bow down, mortals: this new X-Men: Apocalypse clip features sometime good guy/mostly seriously bad guy Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) revealing himself as Magneto, the metal bending mutant who has been torturing poor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) ever since they became frenemies.
If you know anything about Erik Lehnsherr, it's that his transformation into a bad guy is weighted by history; his parents were ripped from him during the Holocaust, and his anger, his rage, and his power all flows from that original sin...
CBS Reveals new Star Trek Teaser
And they're back. CBS has just released this brand new Star Trek series teaser, offering the first look at the beloved sci-fi franchise’s return to the small screen in 2017. Bryan Fuller, who knows a little something about the Star Trek universe, having written for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, is the co-creator and executive producer on the new series.
The show will launch on CBS in January 2017...
Watch The Wild First 5 Minutes of AMC’s Preacher
There is a lot of exictement over AMC's Preacher, the supernatural dark comedic drama that follows Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a West Texas preacher who is inhabited by mysterious being that gives him a very weird power. Jesse's ex-girlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) have to come together, and once they do they find themselves in a psychotic world filled with characters from Heaven and Hell (and points in between). Now AMC has released the first five minutes...
Watch new Footage From Independence Day: Resurgence
It was just yesterday we introduced you to the space tug used by Liam Hemsworth’s character, ESD Pilot Jake Morrison, in Independence Day: Resurgence. Now 20th Century Fox has dropped some new footage into this featurette about director Roland Emmerich. The stars of the film, including Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum, discuss just how big Emmerich likes to go in his films (he practically re-invented the summer blockbuster spectacle with the original Independence Day),...
Check out the new Ghostbusters Trailer
Folks, there's a new Ghostbusters trailer, and if you're one of the millions of people who actually enjoy watching movies before deciding whether or not you like it, you should be excited. While a lot of press has been made about how the last trailer was the most "disliked" in YouTube history, it was obvious to most people the haters weren't motivated by what they saw in the trailer but by who, ...
The Birth of a Nation‘s Haunting ‘Living Poster’
We wrote back in January about the rapturous response to Nate Parker’s Sundance-shaking Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation. Parker's film is already considered a major contender for the Academy Award (the Sundance reviews were more or less in agreement that the film is a major achievement), and woke up the film world when it received a festival record-setting $17.5 million offer from Fox Searchlight. Today the studio released the very first bit of marketing around the film,...
Ryan Coogler on his Black Panther Film & More
Chadwick Boseman's turn as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War was one of the most satisfying parts of the film. While a lot of the buzz post Civil War has focused on Tom Holland's Spider-Man and the incredible second act climax that featured Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) doing something huge, we've seen these characters before. Boseman turn as Black Panther was the first time the character has been seen on the big screen, and it was a relief;...
Oscar Isaac & John Boyega (Briefly) Talk Star Wars: Episode VIII
While Star Wars: Episode VIII is in the midst of filming, actors naturally come and go depending upon their shooting schedules. This means they also occasionally need to do promotion for other films they're in, which is the case for Oscar Isaac and X-Men: Apocalypse (the premiere was in London), and, in John Boyega's case, he was down in Cannes to accept the Trophée Chopard. What this means is journalists can then ask them about Episode VIII, ...
Get Excited: Margot Robbie in Talks for Harley Quinn Movie
Suicide Squad isn't out until August 5, but we can already pretty much guarantee that Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn will be one of the best parts. She's practically stolen every trailer they've released thus far, including the very first trailer that hinted at Quinn's character being a potential linchpin to the whole sordid affair (and director David Ayer has said as much). Ayer posted this question, which would confirm the notion that Quinn's love for the Joker is a central plot point in ...
Introducing Independence Day: Resurgence‘s 40 Ton Space Tug
20th Century Fox dropped an exclusive first look at the space tug used by Liam Hemsworth’s character ESD Pilot Jake Morrison in Independence Day: Resurgence over at ComingSoon.net. Think of a tug boat in space, only for Resurgence, the crew actually built this 40 ton monster so the actors could interact with and act in a real space. It's this kind of commitment to real sets and props that has set recent sci-fi films,...
Professor X Welcomes Home Raven (But She’s Not Having It)
What we know about the relationship between Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Professor X (James McAvoy) is that he's always trying to get her to see humans in the same hopeful light he does, but she ends up sounding like a certain someone when she rejects humanity's potential for goodness; Magneto (Michael Fassbender). As you'll remember from Days of Future Past, one of Xavier's longstanding goals is recruiting Raven (when she's being bad, she goes by Mystique) to his side of the human-mutant divide...
The BFG‘s new Trailer is Here
The BFG had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and now Walt Disney Pictures has released a new trailer for director Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic.
The important part of the BFG's name is that F—he's friendly. This makes him an outlier in Giant Country. where giants like Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) are not known for placing nice. They're also much bigger than the BFG, who is 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell,...
Game of Thrones Recap: “Book of the Stranger”
"Book of the Stranger" was, in a word, hot. Episode four of season six was a busy, beautiful bit of television, with major moments for some of our favorite characters, including a glorious reunion (Jon Snow and Sansa's warm, tearful embrace was the definition of cathartic) and perhaps one of the best kickers to end an episode in the show's long history of great kickers to end episodes. Let's break it down:
Open the Gates!...
Ben Affleck is Your Murderous Number Cruncher in The Accountant
Director Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) has a new film coming that, on paper, might sound absurd—Ben Affleck plays a brilliant accountant/assassin—but might just be a sneaky, super enjoyable thriller. The Accountant looks pretty awesome, folks. First, O'Connor's no slouch as a director (if you saw Warrior, you already know that), and he's surrounded Affleck with a fantastic cast; Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow. What's more,...
Writer/Director Whit Stillman on his Jane Austen Comedy Love & Friendship
Most of the characters in Metropolitan, writer-director Whit Stillman's 1990 debut, are wealthy young Manhattan sophisticates with an enthusiasm for the artifacts of a refined past — notably, the novels of Jane Austen. Stillman's movie just happened to be followed by a rush of Austen adaptations.
Now the filmmaker has made his own Austen movie, Love & Friendship, which opens in limited release today, May 13. It's based on Lady Susan,...
