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15 Must-Watch Documentaries About Filmmaking Netflix By Jeremy Herbert/Nov. 3, 2021 7:56 pm EST On its best day, filmmaking is alchemy. On the rest, it’s an affront to the natural order. Forming something from nothing in any other medium is a fundamentally lonely pursuit. Movies, by contrast, are deceit as a team sport. Armies, anywhere from a handful to hundreds strong, must march in microscopic lockstep — no matter the scope, scale, or genre, all films are made one shot at a time....

Harrison Ford Called The Mosquito Coast His Best Film Role — Here’s Why The Saul Zaentz Company By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 9, 2021 11:39 am EST When moviegoers think Harrison Ford, most probably think of Indiana Jones or Han Solo. If you’re inclined to think outside the franchise box, your mind might also naturally drift toward Richard Kimble from “The Fugitive,” which we previously spotlighted as one of Ford’s best non-franchise roles....

Last Night In Soho Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns Wants The Director To Think It’s Their Idea [Interview] Focus Features By Jacob Hall/Nov. 1, 2021 1:34 pm EST Krysty Wilson-Cairns is a writer on the rise, and her credits back up the hype. She co-write the terrific new horror movie “Last Night on Soho” with director Edgar Wright. She’s fresh off an Oscar nomination for “1917.” She cut her teeth on the late, great Showtime series “Penny Dreadful....

Lena Waithe Is Making A Mary Tyler Moore Documentary By Danielle Ryan/July 20, 2021 2:20 pm EST It’s difficult to fully explain the impact of television icon Mary Tyler Moore, but Lena Waithe and James Adolphus are going to try. Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Endeavor Content announced they will be producing the upcoming documentary Being Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Documentary. Adolphus, who recently directed ABC’s documentary series Soul of a Nation, will direct....

Passing Trailer: Tessa Thompson And Ruth Negga Star In Rebecca Hall’s Acclaimed Directorial Debut Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 21, 2021 5:31 pm EST Rebecca Hall makes her feature directorial debut with “Passing,” a slow-burn drama about two very different women living in the 1920s. Both women are Black, but one of them, played by Ruth Negga, “passes” as white in public, while the other woman, played by Tessa Thompson, doesn’t. At least not all the time....

Pixar’s Delightful ‘Luca’ Dives Onto Home Video In August For The Perfect End To Summer By Ethan Anderton/July 1, 2021 8:31 am EST If you don’t have a Disney+ subscription for some reason, that means you missed out on the streaming debut of Pixar’s latest film Luca. The delightful tale of summer friendship arrived on the streaming service in June, but if you’re not signing up for Disney+ anytime soon, you won’t have to wait too much longer to grab Luca on home video....

Star Wars Bits: ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘War Of The Bounty Hunters’, ‘Darth Vader’, ‘The High Republic’, And More! By Adam Frazier/July 16, 2021 8:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: The Mandalorian Receives 24 Emmy Award Nominations A Special Episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian War of the Bounty Hunters and Darth Vader Exclusive Previews Star Wars: The High Republic: Out of the Shadows Excerpt New LEGO Playsets and Black Series Action Figures And More!...

DC’s New 52 Reboot Celebrates(?) Its 10th Anniversary DC Comics Back in 2011, DC Comics attempted to reboot its entire universe with a bold strategy dubbed the New 52. At first, it all went well. Sales were good. It opened the door for new readership. It seemed like a solid move. Then sales dried up. Things got messy, and by 2016, with DC’s “Rebirth,” it was all over. The folks at Polygon did a deep dive on the whole fiasco that is well worth taking a look at in honor of the 10th anniversary of the New 52....

The Daily Stream: Out Of The Past Is Film Noir At Its Finest RKO By Ariel Fisher/Nov. 8, 2021 9:49 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Out of the Past” Where You Can Stream It: Criterion Channel The Pitch: Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Markham, but if you live in Bridgeport, California, you may know him as Jeff Bailey, the owner of the local gas station....

The Essential Marvel Movies You Must Rewatch Before Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Dec. 7, 2021 8:00 pm EST “Spider-Man: No Way Home” feels like it’s been a long time coming, at least by Marvel Cinematic Universe standards. The end of 2019’s “Far From Home” left audiences with one heck of a cliffhanger, setting the stage for Tom Holland’s biggest cinematic adventure as the beloved superhero to date....

The Mayor Of Kingstown Trailer: Jeremy Renner And Kyle Chandler Wheel And Deal Paramount+ By Vanessa Armstrong/Oct. 14, 2021 2:51 pm EST Paramount+ has a new series from “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan, and it looks like a very intense, crime-filled drama. We’ve already gotten a first look at the show during CBSViacom’s Television Critics Association presentation in August, and we now have another trailer revealing that the McLusky family has got some twisted ties to the town they live in....

Unwelcome Trailer: It’s Hannah John-Kamen Versus Goblins In This Horror Movie Warner Bros By Shania Russell/Oct. 27, 2021 11:35 am EST Nothing screams horror movie quite like a mysterious country home bordering the woods. But in the world of “Unwelcome,” logic goes out the door once a young, pregnant couple are gifted a beautiful property in a remote part of Ireland, fit with a rustic household. As though they’ve never stumbled across a single horror movie in their lives, this couple jumps at the chance to leave the hustle and bustle of urban life behind....

West Side Story Lyricist Stephen Sondheim Prefers Spielberg’s Movie To The Original 20th Century Studios By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 17, 2021 3:41 pm EST Stephen Sondheim is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in all of 20th century musical theatre. The man is responsible for monumentally influential pieces like “Into the Woods,” “Gypsy,” “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Company,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Assassins,” and perhaps his lyrical magnum opus, “West Side Story....

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Legacy Annapurna The elder Hoffman was one of the most beloved actors working in Hollywood before he passed away at the age of 46, and much of the good will he earned was due to his performances in Paul Thomas Anderson movies. Philip Seymour Hoffman was with Anderson right from the beginning, appearing in Anderson’s directorial 1996 debut, “Hard Eight,” before eventually playing larger roles for him in “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” and “The Master....

‘Annihilation’ Is A Reminder That Natalie Portman Is One Of The Best Actresses Working Today By Lindsey Romain/Feb. 23, 2018 11:00 am EST Natalie Portman is always proving herself. It’s not a conscious effort, not some desperate act of retribution. There’s nothing cloying or even necessarily deliberate about her methods of reinvention, if you can even call it that. She’s been a professional actress since she was 11 years old. She’s a Harvard graduate, a wife and mother, an Oscar winner....

‘Nomadland’ Director Chloé Zhao And ‘Promising Young Woman’ Director Emerald Fennell Make History With 2021 DGA Film Nominations By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2021 12:30 pm EST The Directors Guild of America unveiled their 2021 DGA film nominations for theatrical feature film and first-time feature on Tuesday. Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell, David Fincher (Mank), Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7), and Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) all scored a nod for best director of a feature film, while Regina King (One Night in Miami), Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version), Florian Zeller (The Father), Darius Marder (Sound of Metal), and Fernando Frías de la Parra (I’m No Longer Here) were nominated best first-time feature director....

‘Pacific Rim: The Black’ Teaser: Get Back In The Jaeger With Netflix’s Anime Series Next Month By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 1, 2021 11:30 am EST Pacific Rim has gone full circle. Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi monster movie was a love letter to mecha animes and kaiju flicks, genres that started in Japan before making their way across the globe. And now, Pacific Rim has returned to those roots with the upcoming Netflix anime series Pacific Rim: The Black....

‘Retreat’ Will Reunite The Folks Behind ‘The OA’ And ‘Sound Of My Voice’ For An FX Series By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 15, 2021 9:46 am EST Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who co-created The OA and also collaborated on the films The East and Sound of My Voice (seen above), are reuniting for a new project at FX. Once again, Marling will star, Batmanglij will direct, and the pair will co-write the limited series, Retreat, which aims to deliver a fresh take on the murder mystery formula....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Featurette Clip Reveals More Ships From Massive Resistance Fleet By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2020 11:30 am EST The end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker included a bunch of surprising Easter Eggs and cameos from characters across the entire franchise, ranging from animated series to the blockbuster movie franchises. Not only did some of the most popular Jedi characters from Star Wars history make voice cameos, but hundreds of ships showed up to help take down The Final Order in the film’s climactic battle....

‘Super Mario Bros.’ Extended Cut Dares To Add 20 Minutes Of Deleted Scenes To The Bonkers Nintendo Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2021 9:30 am EST A group of inexplicably passionate and loyal fans of the box office bomb Super Mario Bros. have released an extended cut of the film that restores 20 minutes of previously unreleased (and at one time, undiscovered) deleted scenes. Because if there’s one thing that people have always said about bad movies, it’s that they wish they were much longer....