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.
Why Taylor Swift Gave the Best Speech Last Night at the VMAs
At the VMAs last night, Taylor Swift did something pretty classy after accepting the award for Best Female Video for "Blank Space"—she thanked her director, the prolific Joseph Kahn, and had him come up on the stage to accept the award alongside her. Then Kahn, as any proper director must, went on to name members of his crew, from his cinematographer Christopher Probst to his stylist, Edda Gudman, and then offered a shout out to his mom,
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,
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.
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,
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,
The Witch Will Freak You Out
“What were out in this wilderness to find, leaving our country, kindred, our father’s houses, for what? For the kingdom of God. Let us pray.”
These are the words that open The Witch trailer, writer/director Robert Eggers' (The Tell-Tale Heart, Hansel and Gretel) feature film debut that plants us in a world at once very American but also weirdly, creepily, alien—17th century New England, 62 years before the Salem witch trials.
Things Go Bump in the Night in 1st Victor Frankenstein Trailer
James McAvoy is Victor Von Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe is his loyal assistant Igor in 20th Century Fox's Victor Frankenstein. So that’s a pretty good start there. Told from Igor’s perspective, this seemingly kinetic take on Mary Shelley’s deathless classic looks like good fun. At 1:30 in, your first glimpse at a now very much alive monster promises that director Paul McGuigan screenwriter Max Landis are not pulling any deadly punches.
Star Wars: Rogue One Cast Photo Revealed
The massive D-23 Expo this past weekend in Anaheim has given us a ton of fresh Star Wars news, including this cast photo from the set of Gareth Edwards' Star Wars: Rogue One.
The new standalone Star Wars stories series has begun principal photography, with director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters) at the helm, Rogue One centers on resistance fighters, led by Felicity Jones,
Trumbo: A Powerful Look at Hollywood and the Blacklist
Hollywood loves the topic of Hollywood. Most movies about movies illuminate the wonderful, creative, even magical process of bringing stories to the screen, but with Trumbo, a critical eye is being turned towards a less savory aspect of Tinsel Town, in particular the effects that the House Committee on Un-American Activities had on those who plied their trade in the movie business, and those who helped created and maintain the Hollywood Blacklist.
The first trailer for the biopic Trumbo has just been released,
Get to Know the New Bond Women of Spectre
In a new behind-the-scenes video about Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, we get to meet the latest in the franchise’s tough, resilient – and beautiful “Bond women.” Director Sam Mendes shares his vision for the type of women to play against the character of James Bond, and why he selected Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color, Midnight in Paris and Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded,
Finally a Look at Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
For those of you (and we know there are many) who have been jonesing for a little Tarantino in your diet, finally, finally we’ve got a taste of his upcoming The Hateful Eight. And just look at that opening shot! Imagine that in ultra Panavision 70mm, which Tarantino promised the entire film would be shot in and which The Weinstein Company is promising to give the format it's widest release in 20 years.
Director Ty Evans on his Skateboard Documentary We Are Blood
Director Ty Evans is a skateboarder and self-taught filmmaker who went from filming his friends using whatever cameras he could scrounge the money for to using state-of-the-art camera equipment, some times mounting cameras to a helicopter, for his groundbreaking work on We Are Blood. The documentary features renown skateboarder Paul Rodriguez (P-Rod) and his skateboarding family (Theotis “Theo” Beasely, Chris “Cookie” Colbourn and Boo Johnson) as they travel around the world, with Evans and his small crew,
HBO Teases Westworld & Amy Schumer Live at the Apollo
It almost looks like a conventional western, which wouldn’t be a bad thing for HBO considering the last time they tackled the genre they gave us Deadwood. Only Westworld is hardly a proper western, as many of those cowboys and cowgirls aren’t actually human.
HBO dropped the teaser right before the True Detective finale last night, and it’s a creepy little number. Loosely based on the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton,
The Intern Trailer: Using Humor to Tackle Ageism
Warner Bros. Pictures just released the second official trailer for The Intern by Oscar-nominated and award-winning writer/filmmaker Nancy Meyers. Meyers, the highest-grossing female director, with a body of work which includes hits like It’s Complicated, Something’s Gotta Give, and Private Benjamin, has that rare ability to use humor to subtly guide her audiences to confront their attitudes about vital societal issues. At 65,
Michael Bay’s Benghazi Movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Paramount released the first trailer for Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, portraying the Sept. 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. The trailer begins with swiftly cut images of the U.S. consulate, one familiar face (John Krasinski, playing Jack Silva, a former Navy SEAL who we'll assume is one of the secret soldiers of the film's title) and text that read, "In 2012, the threat level in Benghazi,
A Look Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs Doc The Man in the Machine
While people are understandably excited about director Danny Boyle’s upcoming Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and based on a script by Aaron Sorkin, there’s another Jobs film you might want to set a reminder for on your iPhone (or Apple Watch): Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. A new trailer, and the pedigree of the director, should pique your interest.
Directed by Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Going Clear,
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,
Do You Recognize Last Seconds of New Hunger Games Teaser?
Lionsgate will release a new Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 trailer this week, ahead of that, they gave us this little taste in this 14-second long tease:
The clip is most notable for the last few seconds. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is pulling back her bow in a crucial moment that book readers may recognize. Do you? At Comic-Con, director Francis Lawrence said that anyone who loves the book’s ending will love the end of his film as well.
Jane Anderson on her Moving HBO Doc Packed in a Trunk
Writer-director Jane Anderson’s career has spanned film, theater and television. She never planned to make a documentary, let alone figure so prominently in one. But for nearly half her life, Anderson, most recently Emmy-nominated for her adaptation of Olive Kitteridge for HBO, has yearned to bring the artwork and the story of her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, to the public.
That has happened with Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,
