Talking to the Writer/Director of the Epic Balkan Western Aferim!
It’s a safe bet that you’ve never seen a movie quite like Aferim!
An epic Balkan Western shot in 35mm black-and-white, Romanian director Radu Jude’s third feature earned a Silver Bear for best director at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and was the Official Selection at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Aferim! (an Ottoman Turkish expression that apparently translates as “bravo!” and is used ironically in the film) is set in the barren landscape of mid-19th-century Wallachia.
10 Episodes to Get Caught up on the X-Files Before Sunday’s Premiere
Thanks to its hefty publicity campaign, you’re probably aware that Fox has announced an official revival of the beloved science fiction show X-Files. And while reboots might strike fear in the hearts of many, this ground-breaking, well-reviewed and highly-rated show seems fitting, considering it changed the landscape of television before the cable explosion and putting the network on the map. It premieres this Sunday, January 24, at 10ET/7PT.
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Not Just For Kids: Best Animated Feature Nominees
Though it wasn’t added to the Oscars slate until 2001 (when Shrek took home the statue), the Best Animated Feature category is more interesting than ever this year, pitting Inside Out, Pixar’s most astonishing and well-reviewed film in quite a few years, against the equally beloved but decidedly adult Anomalisa. Outside of the two front runners, the category remains a refreshing combination of stop motion,
Watch Key & Peele’s Hilarious, NSFW First Trailer for Keanu
Plug in your headphones so you can enjoy this trailer at work, because this is Key & Peele in Red Band mode for the first trailer for their film Keanu. It's fitting the title of the trailer includes "from the minds of Key & Peele," because Keanu looks like a feature-length skit from their hit Comedy Central show, and that, my friends, is a good thing. Key &
Production Designer Jon Billington Talks Alien Invasions in The 5th Wave
Director J Blakeson brings Rick Yancey’s novel The 5th Wave to the big screen this week, a blockbuster version of the popular young adult title. Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Cassie, a suburban teenager fighting for her life while searching for her younger brother, taken by aliens in the fifth of a series of deadly attacks on humanity. The unseen alien invaders, creative for their type, have explored a variety of ways to kill off humankind during the first four waves,
Dates Set for Dates for Star Wars: Episode VIII & Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Walt Disney Studios has announced new release dates for two of their biggest upcoming films, hoping (and very likely) to recapture the magic that The Force Awakens managed in its mid-December slot.
Owing to the crazy huge success of J.J. Abrams first installment in the new trilogy, Star Wars: Episode VIII, originally scheduled for release on May 26, 2017, will now debut on December 15,
Creating Clouds, Cigarettes, Feet & More in Anomalisa
We've already written about Starburns Industries, the mechanics behind the magic of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's Anomalisa. It's a film of tiny things. In order to populate every frame of Michael Stone's business trip to Cincinnati with those life-like things, the creators of Anomalisa were tasked with creating thousands of beautiful, identifiable elements in exacting, miniature detail. Thanks to a series of behind-the-scene featurettes released by Paramount Pictures,
Watch Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Extended Look
And the final piece of last night's "DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League" on The CW that we want to share with you is the three minute deep-dive into the film that's going to bring the Justice League to the big screen, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Director Zack Synder, and Batman and Superman themselves, Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, discuss the evolution of their characters and why,
Justice League Reveals First Looks at Aquaman, Cyborg & The Flash
As part of the The CW's "DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League” special that revealed the first footage of Wonder Woman in action in her own film (it only took 75 years), there were a whole bunch of other reveals worth mentioning. We'll let the clips do the talking.
Here's the first look at Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa in the title role.
Suicide Squad Drops Gleefully Bonkers First Official Trailer
It's tough to think of a better song to open the first official trailer for director David Ayer's superbad superhero movie Suicide Squad than Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." "Is this the real life, is this just fantasy…caught in a landslide, though escape from reality." All playing over the images of our incarcerated anti-heroes, who will know soon enough will be sprung from their subterranean cells to apply their special brand mayhem for a just cause—the capture of an even worse criminal and psychopath.
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,
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising Unleashes First Official Trailer
If you saw the first Neighbors, you got a lot of topless dude action, much of it in the jiggly form of Seth Rogen and the anything but Zac Efron. As you can see in the above photo, the dudes and their respective exposed torsos are back for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Before we look at the new film, a refresher on the first;
Watch Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Benicio Del Toro & More in THR’s Actors Roundtable
It's an uncensored group of some of the finest actors working today, all seated around one big table, talking about their craft. The Hollywood Reporter's annual roundup of some of the best and brightest in the industry never fails to impress. This year's actor group includes Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), Will Smith (Concussion), Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight),
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,
Ice Cube & Kevin Hart Finally End Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Dominance
It was going to happen eventually, but let's give a solid hat tip to Ice Cube and Kevin Hart nonetheless for being the ones who finally slayed Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the box office this past weekend. Cube and Hart's Ride Along 2 took in $34 million, edging out The Force Awakens, which has been, as expected, a one-film Sarlacc pit at the box office,
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,
Alan Rickman: A Generation’s Most Thrilling, Complex Villain
Alan Rickman, who passed away yesterday in London at the age of 69, was an accomplished British stage actor who stood out in any film or production he was a part of. Rickman's presence could make a decent film good and a good film great. His career spanned more than 40 years, and that longevity allowed him to embody characters along the entire spectrum of humanity, from the sweet and humble to the treacherous,
Talking to Carol’s Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy
Phyllis Nagy is a patient writer. The playwright (Disappeared, The Strip, and Never Land) and screenwriter wrote her first draft for Carol, an adaptation of her friend Patricia Highsmith's novel "The Price of Salt," back in 1997. Nagy adapted Highsmith's story of the burgeoning love affair between Therese, a New York City shopgirl, and Carol (Cate Blanchett), an affluent married woman, in 1950s New York. Nearly 20 years later, after several close calls evaporated and interested parties backed away, Nagy's
Joy Editors on Playing With Peak Performances
Behind every award-winning performance there is an editor, or editors, who play an integral part in shaping it for the big screen, and Jennifer Lawrence’s Golden Globe-winning performance in David O. Russell’s Joy is no exception. We talk to editors Alan Baumgarten and Jay Cassidy about the role of the editor and when it’s necessary to tell Russell to ‘go away’.
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