The Danish Girl Looks Utterly Moving
The word “Oscar” has been unavoidable ever since people learned Eddie Redmayne would be starring in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, playing transgender artist and pioneer Lili Elbe. Fresh off his Oscar win for his astonishing transformation into Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, all anybody needed to hear was "Redmayne" and "transgender artist" to grant him his second nomination for Best Actor in a row. Well, after watching the first trailer for ...
Let’s All Weep While Watching Downton Abbey Trailer for Season 6
As the cast and crew of Downton Abbey prepare to open their home to us for the final time, we can’t help but get emotional. ITV has released the newest trailer for the final season and it does not make saying farewell any easier. We will miss (oh, will we miss) the Dowager Countess’s one liners. Watch a few now and rejoice.
Or what about the love between Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson,...
Director David Ayer Shares Suicide Squad Wrap Photo
Can you pick out the various bad guys that star in David Ayer’s upcoming Suicide Squad in this sprawling wrap photo? Can you find the Enchantress (Cara Delevigne), Deadshot (Will Smith), and the Killer Croc (Adele Akinnuoye-Agbaje)? Ayer (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day) is perhaps the perfect director to tackle the story of a bunch of supervillains taking on a suicidal black ops mission, and if the Comic-Con trailer and this wrap photo of what appears to be a pretty happy group of stars and filmmakers are any indiction,...
Will Smith’s Concussion Trailer Drops Right in Time for NFL Season
As millions of fans get psyched up for the start of the 2015 NFL season, the sport’s brutality, and its subsequent, lasting effect on the players, is a fact that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore. And now comes writer/director Peter Landesman’s film Concussion, starring Will Smith’s as the real life forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, and his battle against the NFL, which just released its new trailer...
Back To School Watch List: High School Edition
The buses are hitting the road; new planners are blank slates primed for doodling and you're in the homework honeymoon period. Labor Day approaches, which means school is right around the corner, and there's no time like the present to travel back in time and share a little school anxiety and mischief with some of our favorite high school characters.
Who can forget surfer dude Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High or the spirit finger of the Mighty Toros in Bring It On (celebrating its 15th anniversary this week)...
Watch the Daredevil VFX Reel
One of the nice surprises about Daredevil is how the show has relied less on showy CGI effects and more on fine storytelling. Eschewing the big budget bomb of Daredevil the film, which put Ben Affleck in tights and had him leaping off buildings, Netflix’s version, created by Drew Goddard, builds on the story of Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), the blind lawyer who uses his other, hugely enhanced senses, to fight crime. With a fine supporting cast including Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple,...
Must-See Doc: He Named Me Malala Trailer Debuts
If you've never heard the story, you should read up on Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, and then you should see acclaimed director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about her when it's released on October 2.
At the age of 15, Yousafzai was targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan. She was shot in the head. The result wasn't Yousafzai's death, but rather international media outrage and the emboldening of the intended target. Far from silenced,...
We Are Your Friends & the History of DJs in Film
Inventing the next big app and selling it to Facebook for umpteen billion dollars is so last year. If We Are Your Friends, opening today and starring Zac Efron, is to be believed, contemporary, money-minded millennials would rather make it big throwing the party, rather than get rich in order to get into it. Coming up with the next big EDM hit is the new inventing Instagram for Efron’s Cole Carter, a college student busy DJing parties (with varying success),...
Finn’s Got A Lightsaber? Watch new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser
“There’s been an awakening. Have you felt it”? Um, yes, Star Wars, we have. And now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens released a teaser to a teaser trailer today on Instagram, we can be pretty sure that the 8 people who haven’t yet felt it (they’ve been on the International Space Station) have as well. While short in length, it reverberated with in sound, scope, and dramatic effect. Also, it showed our new favorite character,...
New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Images
Disney has released a few more choice images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and they give us quite a bit to chew on. Let's take a look:
Here's Finn (John Boyega) running towards (or by) a downed Tie-Fighter. Who shot it, and why is he in Stormtrooper gear?
We finally get a name for this cooler-than-your-average Stormtrooper, Captain Phasma (Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie).
Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) looking a little like a galactic Maverick as he marches away from his X-wing...
The Iron Giant: Signature Edition Re-Entering Theaters With 2 New Scenes
Yahoo! Movies! gives us this glimpse of Brad Bird's (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) 1999 classic The Iron Giant, now being re-released into theaters after getting remastered, including the addition two all-new scenes. The Iron Giant was two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird's debut, and is the story of an unlikely friendship between a rebellious boy named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) and a giant robot,...
Pixar in a Box: Learn Pixar’s Creative Process in Free Online Class
Animators, filmmakers, students of (almost) all ages, and fans of Pixar alike have reason to smile this morning, as a new online resource that explores the concepts behind Pixar's creative process goes online at KhanAcadmey.org. The series will consist of interactive exercises, video lessons and hands-on activities, where students from middle school up to people of all ages can learn the academic concepts Pixar filmmakers use to create their worlds.
Starting today, students can access Pixar in a Box and learn:
How combinatorics are used to create crowds,...
Creating Star Wars: The Force Awakens Newest Droid—BB-8
When it came to creating a new droid for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the task for J.J. Abrams and his fellow filmmakers was not without potential disaster—R2-D2 and C-3P0 are such iconic characters in the Star Wars universe that any new droid that was to have a decent sized role (larger a role than, say, the jealous droid R5-D4) would have to be worthy of its legendary predecessors. The folks at StarWars.com published this eye-opening long form article about the newest droid in the galaxy—BB-8,...
M. Night Shyamalan’s Surprising Choices While Making The Visit
Much has been made about the odyssey of M. Night Shyamalan’s film career. He had one of the most explosive debuts in modern film history, bursting onto the scene with The Sixth Sense, his 1999 blockbuster that resonated with audiences and had that incredible twist ending. The twist ending became the young director's hallmark, as would his ability to make intimate, uncannily creepy films. He followed The Sixth Sense up with two more hits—his ordinary man who is actually a superhero film, ...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toys Offer Chance to See Characters, Vehicles
Next Friday, September 4, has been christened “Force Friday” by the Walt Disney Company. That’s the day that more than 1,000 retail partners around the world will be opening their stores at midnight to unveil toys and products associated with the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Disney has also initiated a video component to promote the toys. Beginning in Australia on September 3 and continuing over the next 18 hours in 12 countries, their network of online video creators will open up the new toys...
9 Things You Might Not Have Known About Back to the Future
Our friends over at CineFix are it again, this time with a look at 9 things you might not know about Back to the Future as we celebrate it’s 30th anniversary.
While some of these are reasonably well known at this point (are you really unaware that Michael J. Fox wasn’t the original Marty McFly, but rather this guy was?), lots of these tidbits are juicy,...
Hayao Miyazaki’s Brilliant Princess Mononoke Retold as an 8-Bit Videogame
Princess Mononoke is one of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films. It’s been hailed as a landmark in the world of animation, an epic anime action historical fantasy written and directed by Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. Set in the late Muromachi period (roughly 1336-1573), the story follows young Emishi warrior Ashitaka and her role in the struggle between the forest gods and the humans who hope to plunder its resources. If you haven’t seen it,...
Kylo Ren’s Lightsaber! Stormtroopers! Beautiful Star Wars Fan Art
Perhaps more than any other film franchise in the history of the medium, Star Wars has created a vast universe of fan fiction, art, videos and more in a kind of parallel universe in which George Lucas’s creations live on, and on, and on. A lot of is very, very good, too.
Take “No country for old men,” an illustration by Ornicar (and named after Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name,...
The Joker Comes to Gotham
“The laugh is fabulous. Use that.” This comes from Theo Galavan (James Frain) as he gives some advice to a young, increasingly psychotic Jerome (Cameron Monaghan), who is sliding, gleefully, into the man he will become—the Joker.
Gotham is back for season 2, and at its best, the show has given the villains—all a lot more colorful than the good guys—free reign to run amok and wreak havoc on the city’s citizens. The aforementioned Theo Galvan himself seems to be some kind of super villain,...
Andy Milburn on Scoring Screams in Sinister 2
Bughuul (aka The Bogeyman) is back to his terrifying ways in Sinister 2. The Credits talks to composer Andy Milburn, one half of prolific composing duo tomandandy, on working on the score and why horror requires a more delicate touch than you would think.
So, I just saw Sinister 2, and I’m terrified of horror movies, but I got through it. It was scary but I survived,...
