The Goldbergs Composer on Bringing Fresh Life to 1980s Nostalgia

The 1980s were an awkward time for us all. No one escaped the fashion nightmares of track suits in bright colors, the huge hair, and an abundance of shoulder pads. Nearly all sins are forgiven with the passing of time, and The Goldbergs, now in season 5, proves there has been enough space between then and now for us to laugh at ourselves again.

The decade was, however, a golden age for nerds as cinematic classics like Ghostbusters,

I, Tonya Screenwriter Steven Rogers on the Many Sides to one of the ’90s Most Infamous Antiheroes

Steven Rogers remembers watching Tonya Harding at the televised 1994 Olympics when she complained to judges about a broken shoe lace a few weeks after being accused of ordering an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. “I thought, ‘Oh, she just wants attention, anything for attention,’ because that’s what I was being fed,” says Rogers. “That’s what we were all being fed.”

Two decades later, Rogers burrowed beneath the scandalous surface and wrote I,

VFX Supervisor Swaps Man For Primate in Oscar-Shortlisted War For the Planet of the Apes

“I’ve pretty much spent my last decade doing almost nothing but monkeys and apes.” That’s Oscar-winning visual effects artist Dan Lemmon talking about his adventures in motion capture on behalf of the re-booted Planet of the Apes trilogy and Peter Jackson’s 2005 gorilla spectacle King Kong. “Between that and The Jungle Book I’ve been pretty busy,” says Lemmon during a recent visit to Los Angeles. New York born,

The Last Jedi, Blade Runner 2049 & Wonder Woman Among Oscar’s Visual Effects Shortlist

The Oscar race for Best Visual Effects this year might be the stiffest in recent memory. The Academy has released this year’s shortlist, and it stands to reason that this could be the most challenging group of films they’ve had to winnow down in a few years. A few of the reasons include the wide range of genres these effects were deployed in, the culmination of a groundbreaking trilogy (the Apes franchise), and creature features from some of the most creative filmmakers on the planet.

Watch the Making of a Chewbacca Mask Using Stuart Freeborn’s Original, Brilliant Design

The late Stuart Freeborn was a giant in the make-up artist realm, considered by many to the one of the originators of make-up design as we know it today. His long, incredible career touched some of the biggest films in history, including Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (he created the incredible “Dawn of Man” sequence, which gave poetic beauty to the transformation of apes into homo sapiens), as well as Kubrick’s Dr.

I, Tonya Director Craig Gillepsie on Revisiting the Second Most Surreal Sports-Related Crime in the ’90s

Back in 1994, when  tabloid TV shows such as “Hard Copy” and “Inside Edition” became the rage and CNN fed the public’s hunger for 24-hour news coverage, two crime-related stories revolving around sports figures would provide ample sustenance. One involved the arrest of football hero O.J. Simpson for the lurid murders of wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. The other was a good vs. evil  scenario that pitted skating princess Nancy Kerrigan against the less-polished, more athletic Tonya Harding.

Black Mirror Trailer for ‘Metalhead’ is Intense and Mysterious

Tomorrow will mark the long awaited conclusion of the Netflix rollout of the Black Mirror season 4 trailers. What that means we can’t say for sure, but we hope it brings us much closer to the full episode drop. Five of the six announced episodes have now been teased with Black Mirror tweeting out a mysterious trailer for ‘Metalhead’ yesterday.

The plot of this episode is by far the most cryptic of the season’s trailers.

Stranger Things is Officially Coming Back for Season 3

Poor Hawkins, Indiana has been through a lot. Detective Hopper has been doing his best to battle the evils of the Upside Down, but there are more monsters to come. Netflix announced that Stranger Things has secured a third season.

FOR THE LOVE OF STEVE, DUH! So hold tight baby darts — season 3 is officially happening.

— Netflix US (@netflix) December 1, 2017

Netflix posted a poll on Friday asking followers if there should be a season 3.

Daisy Ridley Likely Done With Rey After Star Wars: Episode IX

As we rapidly approach the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on December 15th, it has been announced that Daisy Ridley is planned to say goodbye to the fierce heroine, Rey, once the trilogy concludes. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the cast (Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver) and director Rian Johnson discussed their experience working on the Star Wars films and what viewers should expect to see in future episodes, Collider reports.

Margot Robbie Reveals the Development of Another Harley Quinn Spinoff

In Suicide Squad, Margot Robbie’s performance as the provocatively twisted, baseball bat swinging supervillain, Harley Quinn, earned high praise for being brilliantly over the top. Although a supervillain, fans immediately fell in love her sweet yet psychotic personality. Thus, it’s no surprise that Warner Bros. plans to feature her character, once again, in four upcoming DC films-one of which includes a Harley Quinn solo movie.

Initially perceived as a sidekick and ‘daddy’s little monster’ to her lunatic boyfriend the Joker in the comic book series,

The Ending of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Changed at the Last Second

With Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiering in just a few short weeks on December 15, we’re being treated to major cover stories, timed to pique interest (as if we really needed it) right before the film takes over the world. These have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Empire and Rolling Stone recently, and while the filmmakers and folks from Lucasfilm were careful not to let any spoilers spill,

The First Mary Magdalene Trailer Shows a Close Bond Between Jesus and His Follower

Rooney Mara takes on one of the most controversial characters in one of the most famous stories of all time. Mara plays the title role in the big screen retelling of Mary Magdalene. The trailer, released this week, teases tender private moments alongside famous public scenes between Jesus and his most famous female follower.

Joaquin Phoenix costars as Jesus, and honestly, we can’t believe no one has cast him in the role before.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Supreme Leader Snoke is not a Sith Lord

You’d have been forgiven for assuming that Supreme Leader Snoke, played by Andy Serkis, was a Sith Lord. While we only saw him in holographic form in The Force Awakens, it was made crystal clear he was the man—er, being—in charge. Both General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) genuflected before him like two squabbling brothers before their overbearing, terrifying father. And while Hux complained to Snoke that Kylo Ren’s petulance was hurting the First Order’s cause, it was clear that Snoke liked,

Watch the First Trailer for All the Money in the World With Christopher Plummer in Kevin Spacey’s Role

Here is your first trailer for Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World that features Christopher Plummer, who now famously stepped in—after production had wrapped—to reshoot all of the scenes once occupied by Kevin Spacey, who was fired after allegations of sexual harassment and assault surfaced. Scott made the decision that he was going to remove Spacey from the film completely, somehow managing to conduct the reshoots and still hit the already set release date. 

VFX Artist Dream Big & Think Small for Downsizing

Writer-director Alexander Payne has won two Academy Awards and 17 more Oscar nominations for films that specialize in low key stories about flawed characters. But unlike Nebraska, The Descendants, About Schmidt and Sideways, his new movie Downsizing (opening Dec. 22) goes high concept: Matt Damon stars as a five-inch human who tries to leave his problems behind by living in the pint-sized “Leisure Land”

Costume Designer Luis Sequeira on Giving The Shape of Water its Sartorial Form

Guillermo del Toro’s much-anticipated suspense-fantasy fairy tale The Shape of Water opens this weekend. Much of the moody, Cold War-era film is set in a secret government laboratory, where mute, kindly janitor Elisa (Sally Hawkins), forges a deep bond with a mystery aquatic Amazon creature referred to in the lab as the Asset. For research or worse, various factions want the Asset killed, and with the help of co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) and her artist neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins),

The First Trailer Tease for Avengers: Infinity War is one for the Fans

The first thing to know about this Avengers: Infinity War trailer teaser is there’s no actual footage from the upcoming, mega-sized film. Yet, you’ll still likely get the chills (if you’re an MCU fan, that is), as this teaser links together a ton of defining moments from nearly every Marvel film to date to prep you for the actual Infinity War trailer, which drops today. The focus in the teaser is on the fans,

Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd on Creating The Beguiled‘s Elegant Terror

Earlier this year, Sofia Coppola premiered her version of The Beguiled, an atmospheric Southern drama based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Thomas P. Cullinan. Set in a remote Virginia girls’ school during the Civil War, the story depicts the ill-starred arrival of a wounded Union solder, John McBurney (Colin Farrell), whose manipulative presence is subtly pernicious, until descending into quiet chaos. Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) icily, elegantly steers her remaining students (among them,

Cinematographer Dan Laustsen on The Shape of Water‘s Fluid Fable

Danish cinematographer Dan Laustsen worked alongside Guillermo del Toro on and off for two decades, so when it came time to shoot The Shape of Water, he shared the director’s penchant for precision. Lush, lyrical and rich in metaphor, the film pays homage to Universal Pictures’ 1940’s-era monster as it follows Sally Hawkins’ mute cleaning lady, who eventually falls in love with a creature from a South American lagoon (Doug Jones) held captive in a Cold War laboratory by a brutal bureaucrat (Michael Shannon). 

Kevin Feige Calls Avengers 4 a Finale, Promises Cataclysmic Events

If there’s one long story you want to read about the film industry today, look no further than Vanity Fair’s piece on Marvel’s ten-year anniversary, in which all the stars (and we do mean all) from the studio’s massive cinematic universe gathered over the course of a few days to be interviewed and photographed. Writer Joanna Robinson and photographer Jason Bell got to sit down with the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU),