Greta Gerwig & Lola Kirke Talk Mistress America
Mistress America is a sharply observed, witty story about Tracy, a freshman at NYU, played by Lola Kirke, who becomes friendly with her prospective stepsister named Brooke, played by Greta Gerwig., who co-wrote the film with director Noah Baumbach.
Tracy, a would-be writer who is feeling alone, uncertain, and a little lost, is initially dazzled by Brooke’s sophistication and confidence, though she admits that she often goes along with Brooke because it is fun, not because she believes everything Brooke says...
Sizzling Venice Lineup Includes Black Mass, Everest & Beasts of No Nation
Between September 2nd and October 11th, four major film festivals take place, each with their share of major world premieres. Venice runs from September 2-12, Telluride from September 4-7, Toronto from September 10-20, and finally New York, from September 25 to October 11. It's sort of insane to think that in a little over a month this many major films, many of them likely to end up vying for Oscars, will be seen in such a glut.
As the first of the four festivals to start,...
15 Years Later, They’re Younger? Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
The premise is, in our mind, perfect: the Wet Hot American Summer gang is back, 15-years after David Wain and Michael Showalter’s original classic, only they’re playing slightly younger versions of themselves in First Day of Camp.
“We’re supposedly playing 16-year olds,” says Elizabeth Banks.
“Everyone looks like they’re playing their own parents,” says Amy Poehler.
"We're all really too young to understand any of these things,"...
Fans Hilariously Answer Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Question
Hugh Jackman will put away the claws after his appearance in the upcoming, stand alone and as of yet untitled Wolverine film. Jackman’s been having fun with his long goodbye, as evidenced by the latest image he posted on his Twitter feed. We’ll assume he’s flipping off his adversaries and not us, his fans.
There have been hints that Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine will revolve around the Old Man Logan storyline from the comics, set fifty years into the future,...
Woody Allen’s Philosopher Fetish in Five Films
Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man, is likely to elicit groans or worse from Allen’s detractors. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Abe Lucas, a floundering philosophy professor for whom things get better after he enters into a relationship with a student, Jill Pollard (Emma Stone). He also considers murdering a judge — who, at least, is corrupt — which also lifts his spirits. Murder and May-December relationships aside, the film’s biggest non-surprise is that Allen finally put a philosopher,...
Need a Midweek Smile? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer & This Song Will Help
Need a midweek boost? Check out Pixar’s smile inducing trailer for The Good Dinosaur. The stunning visuals of glittering stars (the kind in the sky) and tumbling rocks make us forget that this movie is in fact animated – it's got that Pixar quality of being almost photo-realistic and yet entirely dreamlike – it is the kind of world we wished we lived in, no boring desks and long lines for a Mochachino.
In this world lives an Apatosaurus dinosaur named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) and a 6/7-year-old caveboy named Spot (voiced by Jack Bright) whose budding friendship warm even the coldest of hearts...
New Images & Details Emerge on Bond Women in Spectre
It's been a busy week in the news for Columbia Pictures' Spectre. First it was director Sam Mendes saying that this will definitely be his last Bond film (which is what he said after Skyfall, it should be noted). Tomorrow Columbia will be releasing a new trailer, and today, the film's four "Bond girls" (although this might not be a wholly accurate description of their characters, more on that in a second) were included in a new photo package published by USA Today...
Rectify Creator Ray McKinnon on Teaching Aussies the Georgia Accent
On the Sundance TV drama Rectify, which airs it's third episode of it's third season this Thursday evening (at 10/9 C), Daniel Holden moves back to his tiny Georgia hometown after spending 19 years on Death Row for the murder of a local 16-year old girl. Contending with tense family members and suspicious locals, Daniel articulates a jumble of confused feelings in a lugubrious, utterly convincing southern drawl. His Georgia dialect sounds authentic but in fact,...
Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg Kill it in New American Ultra Trailer
Jesse Eisenberg as a stoner? Sure, that’s easy enough to imagine. Jesse Eisenberg as a Jason Bourne-like secret government sleeper agent who was turned into the one of the most lethal humans alive, was relieved of the memory of his training, and then called back into action by a clandestine agent played by Connie Britton? We’re in. It's a major bonus that his love interest in American Ultra is played by Kristen Stewart, who gets to shed the seriousness of previous projects and let her laid back charm shine through...
Dissecting the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Comic-Con Trailer
Warner Bros. has only released a single photo from the set of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, of a gloomy looking Supe’(Henry Cavill) standing alone in the rain. In previous teasers, we've seen this rainy moment, and it's an epic one—Superman takes flight, hovering above a seriously pissed Batman (Ben Affleck), who promises to make him bleed.
The trailer released at Comic-Con, however, is 3-plus minutes of juicy action,...
Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy in Epic The Revenant Trailer
Fresh off Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematographer, Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki are back with The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy as two seriously bearded and bedraggled 19th century frontiersmen.
DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a man on a revenge mission after being left for dead following a bear attack (glimpsed in the trailer), and is based on true events...
“Welcome to NEVERLAND!” with the New Pan Trailer
The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s Pan tells a familiar and often told “story about a boy who would never grow up,” but does so with a whole new twist. This is not the story of the Peter Pan that we have all grown up with and cherished. Pan operates on the premise that to understand how the beloved story ends, we must explore its beginning – how “friends begin as enemies and enemies begin as friends.”...
Before You See Trainwreck, Watch Amy Schumer’s Best Relationship Jokes
Amy Schumer, the comedian best known for her eponymous Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, is making her leading role film debut this Friday in Trainwreck, the latest Judd Apatow-directed rom-com. Here too, Amy plays a character named Amy, a magazine writer with a hellish boss (Tilda Swinton) and a well-meaning boyfriend, Steve (John Cena) who doesn’t seem to have much a of a clue what’s up with his significant other...
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Throw a Rager in New Sisters Trailer
We’ve all been waiting for that perfect joint project between Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, longtime friends and collaborators who met at Second City in Chicago, helped return SNL to cultural and comedic significance, and then went on to star in their own beloved comedies on TV. Yes, they’ve starred in Baby Mama together, and have crossed paths in Anchorman 2, Mean Girls, and, of course, Martin & Orloff (Google it).
But now with Sisters,...
Comic-Con 2015: Suicide Squad‘s Bad Girls & Guys Wow Crowd
"Oh, I'm not gonna kill you," says Jared Leto's joker, whose wears less makeup and more bling in his teeth than Heath Ledger did in his iconic performance in the role in 2008's The Dark Knight. "I'm just gonna hurt you really, really bad." After watching the first look at David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, we're pretty sure Warner Bros. won't be hurting when they release this film in a little over a year...
Comic-Con 2015: The Stars of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Matt Smith and Jack Huston have a bit of a bro-mance going on. The eleventh Dr. Who and the Boardwalk Empire star play very different characters in the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but they both fail to gain the heart of Elizabeth Bennett (played by Cinderella star Lily James) and in an interview they joked that the main reason they made the film was the chance to work together...
The Next Han Solo Will Have to Live up to These Star Wars Moments
The ingredients for the recently announced standalone Han Solo film include two proven co-writers and directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (21 & 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie), who know how to stage witty, exciting action, a good combo for a film about the most beloved rogue in the Star Wars galaxy (yes, even more beloved than Boba Fett).
Mulder & Scully are Back in 201 Days of The X-Files
When people think of the iconic TV duos of all time they think of Laverne & Shirley, Lucy & Ethel, Felix & Oscar, Jerry & Elaine – and of course, Mulder & Scully. The new 40-second promo for the upcoming Fox X-Files miniseries has just been released; in it we get our first glimpse of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back together after 13, long, Mulder-and-Scully-less years.
When we say glimpse, we mean glimpse...
New Ant-Man Featurette: Marvel’s Biggest Avenger May Come in its Smallest Suit
He may not be as sexy a character as billionaire geinus (and narcissist) Tony Stark, as irresistibly rococo as the Hulk, or as satisfyingly kick-ass as the Black Widow, but you could argue none of these beloved Avengers are more important than Dr. Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man, and the man he puts in his miraculous suit, thief-turned-hero, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd).
As one of the original founders of the Avengers, and “one of the smartest people in the Marvel universe,”...
A Q&A With Sam Elliott, Whose Career, Like his Mustache, is as Strong as Ever
Veteran actor Sam Elliott, known for his impressive mustache and that velvet-in-gravel voice, at age 70 is experiencing a late-career resurgence.
Not only did he star in the final season of FX’s critically acclaimed series Justified (playing the clean-shaven Markham), Elliott was feted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for three films: Digging for Fire, directed by Joe Swanberg; I’ll See You in My Dreams, directed by Brett Haley; and Grandma,...
