Chatting With Mississippi Grind Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are a filmmaking duo best known for 2006’s Half Nelson. They’re latest collaboration, Mississippi Grind, is a character driven story exploring addiction and redemption, starring Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn and Sienna Miller. The Credits talks to the pair about recapturing the aesthetic of seventies classics and cracking that elusive on-set chemistry.
What originally drew you to making this film in the south?
New Truth Trailer Recalls the Scandal That Rocked Washington
“Why did you get into journalism?” young reporter Mike Smith (Topher Grace) asks Dan Rather (Robert Redford). “Curiosity” he replies, the trait that would serve him well on a remarkable career that would end, abruptly, in disgrace.
Truth is based on the book “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power” by his producer Mary Mapes (played by Cate Blanchett). It delves into the drama surrounding CBS’s handling of a incendiary investigative report in 2004 detailing George W.
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,
Go Behind the Scenes of Spectre
A plane crashing through a house and skidding down a huge, snowy slope? Check. James Bond (Daniel Craig) scrambling, for real, across the rooftops of Mexico City while real helicopters corkscrew 360 degrees above him? Check. A chase involving a plane, a helicopter, and three cars along an alpine road with a precipitous drop off the side of a cliff. Check.
Access is everything, and for the folks at ScreenSlam.com,
Found Foot-age: Finders Keepers Directors on Their Insane Doc
In Finder Keepers, filmmakers Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel chronicle one of the strangest feuds in the history of small-town America. John Wood, who lost his foot in a small-plane crash, lost it again when he couldn't pay the rent on the Maiden, N.C. storage unit where he'd stored the amputated, embalmed limb in a BBQ smoker. The contents were sold at auction to Shannon Whishnant, a local entrepreneur with more ambition than shame.
The two men disputed custody of the leg for years,
Duck! The Angry Birds Movie Trailer is Here
It started it’s life as an app for the iPhone, developed by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. It was the game that every other person was playing on the subway, bus, in line at the grocery store, waiting for the movie to start and in just about every other possible situation in which their attention wasn’t necessary. It was an app so wildly popular that it was featured in an 100-page report on innovation and jobs written by two Oxford University economists.
Watch Giant Praying Mantis Terrify Jack Black, Kids in Goosebumps Clip
A good family film around Halloween is nothing to sneeze at. Especially a live-action horror-comedy starring Jack Black as horror author R.L. Stine, whose creations have burst out into the real world and are now terrifying the community of Greendale, Maryland. This is the world of Goosebumps.
Teaming up with his daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush) and some teenagers from town, Goosebumps is based on the book of the same name by real life author R.L.
The Brilliant Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write “Black Panther” Comic Series
National correspondent for The Atlantic, author of "Between the World and Me," a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize and arguably one of the most important books of the year, and unabashed Marvel Comics geek. These all describe Ta-Nehisi Coates, and they're all reasons to find the news that Marvel has asked him to write the new "Black Panther" comic series very exciting indeed.
The series is set to be published next spring,
The Peanuts Movie has a Trailer
They've had Christmas specials galore, but Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Woodstock and Linus have never had a big theatrical film before. Finally, after 65 years and countless adventures (and misadventures—sorry, Charlie Brown), the gang's got a film. The whole bunch is here—along with our aforementioned favorites, there’s Peppermint Patty, Pig Pen, Sally, Schroeder and Lucy van Pelt, to name a few.
Director Steve Martino, writers Bryan and Craig Schulz and Cornelius Uliano look to have crafted a film that’s of our time (a dance interlude starring eternal klutz Charlie Brown set to DJ Khaled’s “All I Do is Win”
Watch Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling & More in The Big Short
The dark knight is coming back… whoa, not Batman (this time), the dark knight of financial scandal – Christian Bale. Bale has jetted forward in time from the ABSCAM financial sting of the late 1970s/early 1980s in American Hustle to the global banking crash of the late 2000s in Paramount’s The Big Short.
The Big Short is based on New York Times non-fiction best-seller “The Big Short –
Jordan Peele’s Making a Horror Film Called Get Out—YES!
The Hollywood Reporter broke the story and the rest of the Internet (those who have seen Key & Peele, at least) became very excited about the news: Jordan Peele is going to make a horror film called Get Out.
Key & Peele just ended their incredible 5-year run on Comedy Central, and while it's fantastic to see people going out at the very top of their game,
New Supergirl Footage Reveals Some Freaky Villains
24 year old Kara Zor-El is ready to go toe-to-toe with a host of weird villains in CBS’s Supergirl. New footage released by CBS gives you a peek at some of the baddies Superman’s cousin is going to have to contend with. The show's two big stars are Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl and Mehcad Brooks as Jimmy Olsen, but also includes a bunch of strong actors including Calista Flockhart,
Awesome Theory of how Darth Vader Fits Into Star Wars: The Force Awakens
There’s a theory that’s been floated by very knowledgeable Star Wars fan and journalist Germain Lussier that very intriguing. It sounds credible to us on a lot of levels, not least of which is the fact that Lussier is parsing things said by the very people who made the film, finding nuggets and teasing them out into potential motives.
Because this theory could be true, we have to warn you right now that read no further if you want to go into Star Wars: The Force Awakens without even a chance of knowing what a big character like Kylo Ren might be up to.
The Good Dinosaur‘s International Trailer
We get a bit more of an introduction to the star of The Good Dinosaur, the young apatosaurus named Arlo, and his feral human friend, Spot. But this new international trailer is all about the other dinosaurs that will challenge our fearless (in Spot's case, anyway) heroes as they journey through their wild world.
Check out the new trailer and catch a few very familiar (and wonderful) voices of some of the dinosaurs,
Amanda Seyfried & Balthazar Getty Join Twin Peaks
We're patiently, quietly growing very excited about Showtime's upcoming Twin Peaks revival. Written by the creators of the original series, David Lynch and Mark Frost, with every episode directed by Lynch, Twin Peaks will be one of the most exciting shows in television when it premieres sometime in 2017. When we went and listened to Lynch speak at Brooklyn's Academy of Music way back in May of 2014,
Female Directors Shone at the Toronto International Film Festival
One of the surprises and highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the number of films about women and the number directed by women. Sure, most were small indies. But in an industry where only 1.9 percent of the 100 top-grossing fictional films distributed in the United States from 2007 to 2014 were directed by women, according to a report released in August by the University of Southern California, the news at TIFF was encouraging.
Viola Davis, Tracy Morgan Highlight an Emotional, Funny 67th Emmy Awards
It was an emotional night at the Emmy’s, where some longtime bridesmaids finally became the bride (we’re looking at you, Jon Hamm), some very major milestones ocurred (yay, Viola Davis!!) and legends said their final (for now), goodbyes.
We could give you a list of the highlights, but why bother, just watch them below for yourself.
Let’s start with Andy Samberg’s opening number, which captured how it can feel to live in an era of too much good stuff on TV:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Making history,
First Photos of Netflix Original Series Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Hot off the presses, an official first look at actress Krysten Ritter as perhaps our new favorite superhero Marvel’s Jessica Jones. To get us excited for the upcoming original series, Netflix has released a fresh batch of photos.
Here is the official Marvel description of this 2001 addition to their Avengers pantheon (who debuted in the MarvelMax imprint series Alias) – Jessica Campell Jones “possesses superhuman strength—she can lift an automobile with no discernible effort.
Black Mass & Johnny Depp’s Many Film Transformations Recalls his Idol
With Black Mass opening today, audiences will once again witness Johnny Depp completely transform himself into his newest character, the terrifying and notorious Boston gangster Whitely Bulger. Depp is nearly unrecognizable as this killer with a devil’s smile, and to help him achieve this startling transformation, the actor turned to longtime make-up artist Joel Harlow and hair designer Gloria Casny, both Oscar winners, to fabricate the complex silicone and hair prosthetics.
Talking to the Ashley Smith, The Real Woman Behind Captive
Kate Mara and David Oyelowo star in Captive, the gripping, intense film version of Ashley Smith’s memoir "Unlikely Angel." In the book Smith recounts her experience in 2005 when she had a terrifying but ultimately life-changing encounter with Brian Nichols, who had escaped custody in an Atlanta courthouse and fatally shot four people. Smith- at the time a young widow battling drug-addiction- was held hostage by Nichols in her apartment overnight.
