NYFF: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet & More Talk Steve Jobs
Last Saturday we attended the New York Film Festival’s (NYFF) powerful panel discussion on and screening of Steve Job in anticipation of the film’s wide release on October 23. Earlier today, as part of our coverage of the Festival, we focused on the insights of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, director Danny Boyle and author Walter Isaacson.
Today we are turning to the actors – their thoughts in their words.
Benedict Cumberbatch is Back as Sherlock in 19th Century Special
Dr. Holmes (Cumberbatch) and Watson (Martin Freeman) are back at 221B Baker Street, only they’ve given up their contemporary garb and technology’s trappings in the special, Victorian-era Sherlock. Our favorite obsessive sleuth and his indefatigable partner are now plying their trade in the 19th century, which is interesting considering it’s the era when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was living in when he wrote Holmes and Watson into existence. Everything’s different (especially Watson’s facial hair),
Everything That Happened Last Season on The Walking Dead in 3 Minutes
AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, a riveting look at a few families in Los Angeles just as the world's becoming aware of the horror to come, recently ended it's first season. Knowing what we do of that future from The Walking Dead, Fear packed an extra layer of despair into the viewing experience. The conceit of showing the first days of the zombie apocalypse could have felt unnecessary,
HBO’s New Vinyl Trailer is Fast, Dirty, and Smashes You Over the Head
Back in September we interviewed Boardwalk Empire’s production designer Bill Groom, who was nominated for his fourth Emmy in a row for Terrence Winter’s prohibition era gangland drama. When we spoke, Groom was hard at work on HBO’s and Winter’s next big project, Vinyl, starring Boardwalk Empire alum Bobby Canavale as Richie Finestra, a hard charging music executive in 1970’s New York.
Batman v Superman: Lex Luthor Jr. Grants an Interview to Fortune Mag
It’s a pretty clever piece of viral marketing: Fortune Magazine has published an exclusive interview with Lex Luthor Jr. , the “31-year-old wunderkind who transformed an aging petrochemical and heavy machinery dinosaur into a tech darling of the Fortune 500 in what some call a superhuman feat.” There were rumors that Warner Bros. was going to drop a new trailer for Batman v Superman on us sometime this month,
The First Clip From The Night Before Recalls Iconic Scene From ’80s
Three lifelong best friends, Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have a tradition—they go out and cause mayhem on Christmas Eve. To get a sense of how wild Jonathan Levine’s film might be, take a look at the cast—along with the aforementioned leads, you’ve got the always great Lizzy Caplan and Michael Shannon, Miley Cyrus and Kayne West, and for good measure, Mindy Kaling. That’s a ludicrously potent list of personalities for
Watch the Final Spectre Trailer
In a compact 75 seconds, the final Spectre trailer gives us James Bond (Daniel Craig) at his most decisive. Whether by helicopter, foot, fist or gun, James is prepared to do what he must to bring down Franz Oberhausen (Christoph Waltz) and the Spectre organization.
Craig recently said that he would be willing to play Bond for as long as he’s physically able. At 47 and in great physical shape,
New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Clip puts Katniss in her Place
When this new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 clip, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is reunited with friend Finnick (Sam Claflin) as her squad, 451, assembles under the command of Boggs (Mahershala Ali) and his second in command, Lt. Jackson (Michelle Forbes). What Katniss discovers in this moment is that her mission, along with friends Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are in the “Star Squad”—meaning, they will not be fighting on the front lines (despite their unique skill sets),
Filmmaker Gillian Armstrong on her Doc Women He’s Undressed
Gillian Armstrong, whose now-classic My Brilliant Career (1979) was the first Australian feature length film to be directed by a woman for 46 years, has worked both inside and outside of Hollywood her entire career. Her latest film merges both worlds: Women He’s Undressed(it comes out on October 10 in select cities), a documentary about fellow Australian Orry George Kelly, the three-time Oscar-winning costume designer (for An American in Paris,
Don’t Get Into a Bar Fight With Jessica Jones
With Jessica Jones release date of November 20 creeping up, Netflix and Marvel Entertainment have released another teaser for their upcoming series, which features Krysten Ritter in the title role.
In this teaser, we see the aftermath of a few unlucky bar patrons who have clearly picked a fight with Jessica Jones, unaware she's a superhero and that one of her abilities is superhuman strength. It'll be fun to see the actual fight—for now,
Meet Tigris, the New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Character
Model-turned actress Eugenie Bondurant is a tall, striking beauty who appears in the final The Hunger Game: Mockingjay – Part 2 as a character named Tigris, a former Hunger Games champion who so identifies with tigers that she has had plastic surgery to make herself look more feline. Bondurant worked with a dance choreographer to help develop tiger-like movements and “just a rhythm for this character. I looked on YouTube and went to the zoo and did things like that but really the main thing is working with the choreographer because she helped tremendously.”
With NASA’s Help, The Martian Plumbs Real Science for Thrills
As a genre, science fiction tends to lean more heavily on the fiction side of things than the science. Think Star Wars, The Matrix, and Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s latest movie The Martian, on the other hand, is an ode to the compelling nature of actual science, with both a plausible plot and realistic aesthetics.
Why is Everyone Dancing on the set of Pan?
Why couldn’t Hugh Jackman cut through this sheet?
And why is everybody dancing on the set of Pan? These are the questions that arise when watching these two 15 second teasers of outtakes from the set of Pan, which opens on October 9.
Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice),
Watch a Brutal Bear Attack inThe Revenant’s New Trailer
At 50 seconds into The Revenant's new trailer, you see the moment that changes everything for trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio). Glass and his fellow trappers, including John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), are moving through the forest when a huge grizzly attacks, crashing atop Glass. The moment is thrilling, terrifying, and very realistic. Grievously wounded and therefore a burden, Fitzgerald decides to bury Glass alive rather than care for him until he's healed.
Watch Trevor Noah’s First 11 Minutes on The Daily Show
"Growing up in the dusty streets of South Africa, I never dreamed that I would one day have, well, two things, really," Trevor Noah began as the new host of The Daily Show. "An indoor toilet and a job as host of The Daily Show. Now I have both, and I'm quite comfortable with one of them." It was a humble, funny start for the new host, one who faced his fair share of controversy from the moment he was selected,
Watch Bradley Cooper as a Rampaging Chef in Burnt
Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a hotshot (and hot headed) American chef who made more enemies than he did meals in an epic flameout in Paris in Burnt. Now, Jones wants to resurrect his career in London, putting his diva behavior and past drug use behind him as he attempts to create the most ambitious kitchen on the planet.
We all know Cooper can do intensity, and with Sienna Miller,
New Photos of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy in The Revenant
As we wrote back in July, there is just a ton of reasons to be very, very excited for The Revenant. The film's director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki (we've interviewed both, you can read our chat with Iñárritu here, and and Lubezki here), both took home Academy Awards last year for their work on Birdman (which also won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay).
Has Rick Met his Match? Watch Epic Season 6 Teaser for The Walking Dead
We're inching closer to the first episode of The Walking Dead's sixth season, after one hell of a ride in season 5.
Let's take a quick look back on last season to get us up to speed on what's coming. Season 5 showed our main group, still led by Rich Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), begin to fray in Alexandria. Compared to the Alexandrians, who have lived relatively safely behind the walls of their city,
Watch the Norn Cave Deleted Scene From Avengers: Age of Ultron
You can excuse director Joss Whedon for having to leave quite a bit on the cutting room floor considering how much ground (and sky, and space) he had to cover in Avengers: Age of Ultron. One of the scenes that didn't make it into the film was this extended look at the Norn Cave that Marvel has just released.
The Norn Cave has a small but very magically potent pool that Thor prepares to enter,
Watch the Cold Open for Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The premiere for season three of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't until next Tuesday on ABC, but they've released the cold episode of that episode early, a full five minutes of juicy material. It seems a lot has changed since season two's finale, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was battling with Jiaying (Dichen Lachman) and her army of Inhumans.
The opening sequence is a stunner—the ruins of a kitchen and some petrified body parts,
