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‘The Courier’ Trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch Smuggles Secrets Behind The Iron Curtain By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2021 2:00 pm EST How many real-life British men who played a significant role in history can Benedict Cumberbatch play? A lot, as we’re coming to see with his latest “based on a true story” film, The Courier. Cumberbatch stars in The Courier as unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne, who gets recruited by American spies to smuggle information on the KGB....

‘The Little Things’ Featurette Highlights The Film’s Three Oscar-Winning Leads By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 28, 2021 4:00 pm EST The Little Things has a pretty big selling point: all three of its leads – Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto – are Oscar winners. That fact has been plastered all over the poster for the flick, and now, a featurette is here to sing the praises of those actors. In the behind-the-scenes look at the film below, Washington, Malek, and Leto talk about how cool it is to be working together....

‘The Serpent’ Trailer: Tahar Rahim Is A Seductive Serial Killer In Netflix Limited Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 5, 2021 6:00 pm EST Tahar Rahim is currently a dark-horse awards contender for his performance in The Mauritanian, a legal thriller based on the memoir of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was innocent for the crimes for which he was imprisoned. But in the upcoming Netflix limited series The Serpent, Rahim is playing a real-life con man and serial killer who was guilty of all his crimes, and probably more....

‘Wolfgang’ Trailer: Get Up Close And Personal With The Celebrity Chef In A New Documentary By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2021 11:35 am EST Wolfgang Puck is one of the most famous chefs on the planet. Known as the chef to the stars, his restaurant Spago is a Los Angeles hot spot for the biggest celebs in Hollywood, and he’s known for catering many Academy Awards parties. But there’s so much more to Wolfgang Puck than being a celebrity chef, and a new documentary coming to Disney+ later this month will get up close and personal with the man who got people to start noticing who was cooking some of the best food around....

Adam Driver Almost Passed On Girls Because He ‘Didn’t Understand It’ HBO By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 12, 2021 10:26 am EST Lena Dunham’s HBO series “Girls” has a rather complicated legacy, but one positive thing it did was launch the career of superstar Adam Driver, who has gone on to be one of Hollywood’s most prolific and sought-after actors. Before he was Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” or singing with Marion Cotillard in “Annette,” Driver was best known as the sweetly forlorn artist Adam on the HBO series, which ran for six seasons before ending in 2017....

‘Before I Even Knew What a Director Was, I Was Enjoying His Movies’ Universal Pictures Green said that he “constantly” asked Carpenter for input while creating both of his “Halloween” franchise films. He was relatably reticent to show Carpenter the first draft or first cut, but once he had gotten a tiny bit of polish on it, he turned to the master: “Once I like it, and I feel this is the path we’re on, now I bring him in and get his criticism, and inspirations, and ideas....

Die Hard Characters As Dungeons & Dragons Character Alignments Beyond the storytelling possibilities afforded by its fantastical settings, the key to any “Dungeons & Dragons” campaign is the diverse field of social dynamics that can emerge from just a few different character archetypes — from rangers and barbarians to rogues and sorcerers — and the color-wheel spectrum of character alignments any player can draw from its four compass points of Chaotic, Lawful, Good and Evil....

Dual First Look: Karen Gillan Fights Herself Sony Pictures By Shania Russell/Dec. 1, 2021 10:53 am EST Karren Gillan has taken down her fair share of onscreen enemies. “Doctor Who” fans will remember her fending off Daleks and Weeping Angels as Amy Pond, while others know her as Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, squaring off against both heroes and villains alike. Earlier this year, she leaned away from fantasy to kick ass in the flashy Netflix action flick “Gunpowder Milkshake,” and in her upcoming film “Dual,” she’s diving headfirst into sci-fi to take down her greatest nemesis yet: herself....

Jeff Ewing’s Favorite Movies Of All Time Magnet Releasing By Jeff Ewing/Nov. 9, 2021 1:00 pm EST As long as I’ve been a thing on this planet who knew what movies were, they’ve meant the world to me. I vividly remember being a scared but enraptured youngster watching “FernGully,” laughing with my family at “Anchorman,” or seeing “Age of Ultron” with a friend twice in a row on the same day — which was great, might I add....

Why is JoJo Siwa Famous? Nickelodeon In 2012, JoJo Siwa applied to compete on “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” the reality show produced by the loud and boisterous Abby Lee Miller of “Dance Moms” fame, the same show that gave us Sia’s muse, Maddie Ziegler. JoJo was later invited to join the Abby Lee Dance Company, putting her on the “Dance Moms” reality TV roster. Even as a small kiddo, JoJo was a dynamic personality with her bubbly attitude and now-trademark hairbows and side ponytails....

LOL: Comedian Pete Holmes Offers His Own Version Of ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2013 4:30 pm EST The real Batman vs. Superman won’t hit theaters for another two years, but while we wait comedian Pete Holmes offers his own vision for us to ponder. In his Batman vs. Superman, the Man of Steel proposes a team-up — only for the Caped Crusader to shoot him down, dismissing him as “f***ing whitebread....

The Hillverse The long-running King of the Hill was Mike Judge’s take on a southern family in Texas. Spivey decided her North Carolinian Harts should be shared universe.This will be confirmed by a certain store at which they shop.“I talked to Mike Judge about using Mega Lo Mart,” Spivey said. “He was so sweet he said yes. I really feel Bless the Harts and King of the Hill exist in the same world....

Money Heist Season 5 Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Tamara Arranz/Netflix The fifth and final part of Money Heist consists of ten episodes in total and is being split into two batches. The first will be released on September 3, 2021, while the second and final batch will land on December 3, 2021. Both will be available exclusively on Netflix. What is Money Heist? Tamara Arranz/Netflix The show is a crime story about two elaborate heists told from multiple perspectives....

September 2021 Netflix September 8 Into the Night: Season 1 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL September 10 Lucifer — NETFLIX ORIGINAL This is it, the final season of Lucifer. For real this time. The devil himself has become God… almost. Why is he hesitating? And as the world starts to unravel without a God, what will he do in response? Join us as we say a bittersweet goodbye to Lucifer, Chloe, Amenadiel, Maze, Linda, Ella and Dan....

New Midnight Mass Poster Teases Mike Flanagan’s New Netflix Show, Trailer Coming Next Week Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2021 10:45 am EST “Midnight Mass,” the latest Netflix tale of terror from Mike Flanagan, is set to give us all the creeps later this month. But before the series drops, a new trailer will arrive to give us a taste of the horrors to come. The trailer won’t arrive until next week, but for now, we can all take a gander at a new poster for the show in all its artistic glory....

No Country For Old Men Ending Explained: You Can’t Stop What’s Coming Miramax Films By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 29, 2021 12:48 pm EST Ethan and Joel Coen tend to oscillate between making films about hapless law-breakers who get in over their heads and movies that cheekily subvert genre conventions (be they those of the gangster flick, screwball comedies, or Golden Age musicals). 2007’s “No Country for Old Men” marked the rare occasion where the brothers directed a film based on a story they didn’t come up with, instead adapting the 2005 neo-western novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy....

Rob Zombie Interview Part 1: H2 (Halloween 2), Michael Myers As A Serial Killer, “White Trash,” And Weird Al By Hunter Stephenson/May 11, 2009 11:00 pm EST Last month, /Film visited the set of H2 (Halloween 2). After flying into Atlanta, Georgia, a colleague and I followed a publicity firm’s map and drove far out into the country, down winding roads encased by high trees that exhaled into healthy farmland. The sun was setting, the temperature was cooling, and our cell phones were no longer getting reception....

Stranger Things Season 4 Release Set For Summer 2022, Three Years After Season 3 Netflix By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 6, 2021 6:31 pm EST If you noticed that the “Stranger Things” kids are looking kind of tall in the new teaser for season 4, it’s because we haven’t seen them since summer 2019. “Stranger Things” season 4 had the misfortune to begin filming in February 2020, just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic tore across the world and led to widespread lockdowns....

Superhero Bits: Ant-Man 3 Gets A New Logo, Ruby Rose Batwoman Drama Continues & More Mondo By Ryan Scott/Oct. 25, 2021 5:41 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Something’s in the Shadows in The Babadook Entertainment One “The Babadook” is one of the most emotionally rich and thematically compelling horror movies in recent memory. It’s also scary as hell. Director Jennifer Kent uses the titular monster as a stand-in for grief, trauma, and mental illness, proving once again that our greatest monsters are always metaphors. It helps that, you know, the Babadook is really good at appearing suddenly without warning....