Check out the First Footage of Wonder Woman in Action

You probably already know that Wonder Woman, played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, has a pretty decently sized part in the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. While her involvement in the film was always known, we finally got to see her in action, briefly, in the most recent trailer. And ironically, when she arrives it wasn't Superman (Henry Cavill) whose hide she saves at the nick of time,

Pee-wee is Back in new Trailer for his Netflix Original Film

“Heh, heh,” time for a winter’s giggle and bit of zany whimsy. Pee-wee Herman is hitting the road after a 30 year hiatus, and it's as if time stood still for the childlike Pee-wee. Netflix just released the first 39-second trailer for its original film, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, in all its Rube Goldberg glory. This feature will star the ageless Paul Reubens, reprising the role he created in the mid-1980s for his television show,

Writer/Director Andrew Haigh on his Quiet, Devastating 45 Years

Writer-director Andrew Haigh jokes that his new film 45 Years is a sequel to Weekend, his 2011, intimate look at a hookup between two young gay men that develops into more. Sure, 45 Years is about a long heterosexual marriage between Kate and Geoff Mercer (Charlotte Rampling, nominated for an Oscar for her performance, and Tom Courtenay) but it’s still about the nuances,

10 Cloverfield Lane and the Year of J.J. Abrams

Eight years ago, television impresario JJ Abrams triggered the biggest marketing juggernaut since The Blair Witch Project with a short, unassuming teaser for a then-unnamed horror film. Appearing in front of Michael Bay’s highly anticipated Transformers, the trailer featured familiar comedy faces in Lizzy Caplan and T.J Miller and clocked in at less than two minutes long. Despite its minimal length, the teaser didn’t lack in impact as it depicted the devolution of a casual house party into apocalyptic mania,

Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson Doc Coming to Showtime

Did you know that there are lyrics in Michael Jacskon's seminal "Don't Stop Until You Get Enough" that pertain to…Star Wars? Don't believe us? You can check out the lyrics here, you can hear them in the trailer below, and you can revel in the fact that the chorus for Jackson's first huge hit goes like this: Keep on with the force don't stop/Don't stop 'til you get enough.

Reporters Corner J.J. Abrams After Panel to Talk Star Wars Rumors

At some point, you sort of want to feel bad for J.J. Abrams. Okay, you don't, but the guy has moved the Star Wars franchise into the future admirably, after years of work and the most intense pre-release media scrutiny, possibly in film history, and he's still getting pigeonholed by reporters at events that have nothing to do with Star Wars. Poor guy! (Not really).  

Abrams was at the Television Critics Association for a panel on his upcoming Showtime series 

Writer/Director Michael J. Larnell on Cronies, His Inspirations & More

The NYU Production Lab helps finance a handful of student and alumni films every year. This past year, one of those films was the Spike Lee executive produced Cronies, which was a 2015 Sundance hit, and a first feature from NYU graduate Michael J. Larnell, who was one of Spike's students. Larnell wrote, directed, produced and edited it while earning his MFA at Tisch. Not too shabby a start for the young man.

Cronies is set in Larnell's hometown of St.

Marvel Nabs Ryan Coogler to Direct Black Panther

The Motion Picture Association of American hosted an evening with director Ryan Coogler after his breakout directorial debut, Fruitvale Station. Coogler was still fresh out of film school, and Fruitvale Station, which he wrote and directed, had recently won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature and Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and, a few months later,

Your Full List of Golden Globe Winners

That's a wrap for the Golden Globes. We'll be taking a look at the highlights from the show, but for now, here's a list of every winner in every category. 

Best Motion Picture, Drama

Winner: The Revenant

Carol

Mad Max: Fury Road

Room

Spotlight

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Winner: The Martian

The Big Short

Joy

Spy

Trainwreck

Best Director,

Get to Know Your Golden Globe Nominees for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Earlier we published a primer for the Golden Globe nominees for Best Motion Picture, Drama. The idea here is while you probably haven't had the time to see all these films, we have, and we've also interviewed a ton of people from them, thus offering you a chance to give these interviews a glance and bolster your film IQ going into the big night. You can do with this info what you want—we suggest you use it to casually mention minute details of the filmmaking process to whoever you might be watching with.

Get to Know Your Golden Globe Nominees for Best Motion Picture, Drama

With the Golden Globes airing this Sunday night, we figured we'd put together a little hyperlinked primer for you. Unless your job it is to know how these films are actually made, chances are you've seen some, missed others, and know who the bold faced names are. With that in mind, and to shed a little light on the folks behind the stars you'll be watching during the broadcast, we've rounded up the interviews we've done over the past year with the below-the-liners who helped make these movies.

I Like the Way You Die, Boy: Tarantino’s 8 Best Villains

It’s no secret that professional provocateur Quentin Tarantino has one of the most twisted minds in the business, spawning some of the most vile (and violent) characters to ever exist on screen, with quirks and sadism aplenty. 

Perhaps more unsettling is the knowledge that Tarantino’s cinematic worlds intersect, which means that Reservoir Dogs’ psychotic Mr. Blonde has ties to the menacing pawn shop owners Maynard and Zed of Pulp Fiction,

Director Vanessa Block & Producer Steve Tisch Discuss Their Oscar Shortlisted Doc The Testimony

"The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has cost more lives than any other since World War II." This startling fact is one of the first things you learn in director Vanessa Block's documentary short The Testimony, and it lingers in your mind long after the film is finished. What's more astonishing than this brutal metric is the unquestionable strength of the women who live in Congo, specifically Eastern Congo,

Director Amy Berg on her Joplin Doc Janis: Little Girl Blue

Director Amy Berg is best known for her hard-hitting investigative documentaries, particularly the Oscar-nominated Deliver Us From Evil (2006), about clergy sex abuse, and West of Memphis (2012), about the rush to judgement in the murder convictions of three young men in Arkansas who were released after spending nearly 20 years in prison. The prolific Berg also made An Open Secret, about the sexual abuse of teenagers and children within the entertainment industry,

Let’s Talk About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Have you seen The Force Awakens? If so, great, stick around so we can discuss it. If not, stop reading this article. This piece is going to do a bit of a deep dive and there's going to be spoilers aplenty. I'll give you a minute to bail. 

Are they gone? Good. Let's take a look.

The Big Picture

The script was penned by J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back,

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lands on AFI’s Movies of the Year List

While Star Wars: The Force Awakens only opened last night, it's probably safe to say the film is a huge successs. J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan have not only survived the most fraught resurrection in film history, they have plainly prevailed, with a 95% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes, a whopping 234 positive reviews out of the 246 that have been aggregated thus far.  

It was always going to be a success financially,

Director László Nemes & Actor Géza Röhrig on Their Heartbreaking Son of Saul

Director and co-writer Laszlo Nemes's Son of Saul, an astonishingly accomplished first feature, follows a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau for about 36 hours. Saul, played by Geza Rohrig, is a member of the Sonderkommando, the group that led people into the gas chambers and then disposed of their bodies. Saul identifies a new arrival as his son, and after the youth's murder attempts to arrange a proper burial for him.

Star Wars Countdown, 1st Star Trek Beyond Trailer & More

Slashfilm’s Peter Sciretta sat down with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams to discuss the future of the Star Wars saga. While Lucasfilm and Disney are clearly focused on this week’s premiere of The Force Awakens, they’re also deep into planning the remainder of the planned sequel trilogy. Check out the piece to find out what’s been planned thus far. 

The Critics’

Mark Hamill to Host Lightsaber Duel on ESPN, SAG Nominees Announced & More

Happy hump day, folks. Here's some of what we're reading about film and TV on this Wednesday, December 9th:

Did you know that the Screen Actors Guild is the largest nominating body within the Academy Awards? Well it is! And today they’ve doled out their 2016 Screen Actor Guilds Awards nominations (the ceremony will be simulcast live on Saturday, January 30, on TNT & TBS at 8 p.m. ET), with some wonderful surprises to boot.

Steven Spielberg’s The BFG Releases First Teaser

"Never get out of bed. Never go to the window. Never look behind the curtain." But, of course, this is exactly what Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) does, earning her first sight of the BFG (the Big Friendly Giant, played by the great Mark Rylance, who nearly stole Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg‘s last film, right out from under Tom Hanks). This first teaser of Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl‘s children’s classic looks very promising.

Barnhill is a newcomer,