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The Guilty Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Tries To Save A Life Through The Power Of His Voice Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 30, 2021 10:38 am EST Jake Gyllenhaal has made a name for himself by going out of his way to choose ambitious, unconventional, and demanding roles. When you see his name on an upcoming movie poster, you never know just what kind of performance you might be in for: thoughtful and melancholic, motivated and obsessive, frenzied and over-the-top, paranoid and entirely out of his depth, or anything in between....

The Rescue Directors On The Challenges Of Making A Documentary During The Pandemic [Interview] National Geographic By Ben Pearson/Oct. 4, 2021 1:41 pm EST After winning an Oscar for their work on the astounding rock climbing documentary “Free Solo,” directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are back with another stellar doc about how single-minded devotion to one’s passion can lead to incredible results. But instead of detailing the achievement of a single person, “The Rescue” expands the scope and tells the unbelievable true story of how several of the world’s best cave divers came together to save a teen soccer team in Thailand....

‘1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything’ Trailer: AppleTV+ Docuseries From The Team That Made ‘Amy’ By Ben Pearson/May 11, 2021 5:30 pm EST After winning an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for their 2015 movie Amy that chronicled the life of the late singer Amy Winehouse, filmmakers Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees are heading to the small screen to explore a much more wide-ranging piece of music history. 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything is an eight-episode documentary series that uses archival footage and interviews to weave a tapestry depicting the collision of politics and music in 1971, and how it impacted artists like Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, and many more....

/Answers: The Greatest Movie Spies (Who Are Not Named James Bond) By /Film Staff/Sept. 20, 2017 11:30 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. Tying in with the release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, this week’s edition asks “Who is your favorite movie spy (who is not named James Bond because that’s the easy answer and you have to try harder than that)?...

The Beginning – Bachelor Party (1984) Rick Gassko (Hanks) is a lucky man. Not only does he have a sweet job driving a school bus for a Catholic school, but he’s also engaged to marry the lovely Debbie Thompson. Her family isn’t nearly as keen on the idea seeing as they’re wealthy, classy, snooty folks, and he’s none of those things with nothing in common, but except Rick has bigger problems, though, as his best friends have planned an epic bachelor party to send him off into married life....

‘Behind Her Eyes’ Trailer: Netflix’s New Thriller Teases A Twisted Love Triangle By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 4, 2021 4:30 pm EST At this point, movies that position themselves as the next Gone Girl (see: The Girl on the Train, the upcoming Woman in the Window) are becoming a little old-hat. So why not a Netflix miniseries that does that instead! Behind Her Eyes is more trippy psycho-sexual thriller than Hitchcockian suspense movie, however, with an ending so shocking that Netflix is marketing the film almost exclusively around it....

‘Bride’: Scarlett Johansson To Star In New Movie For A24 And AppleTV+ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST Scarlett Johansson is set to produce and star in Bride, which is being described as a “genre-bending” film from A24 and AppleTV+. Get details about the next significant Scarlett Johansson movie below. Deadline reports that Johansson will headline her first streaming movie with Bride, which hails from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience, Gloria Bell)....

‘Concrete Cowboy’ Trailer: Idris Elba And Caleb McLaughlin Trot Into North Philadelphia By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2021 9:30 am EST After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, Netflix is bringing the father-son drama Concrete Cowboy to the streaming service in April. The first Concrete Cowboy trailer has arrived, setting up the story of troublemaking teenager Cole (Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things) who gets sent from Detroit to North Philadelphia, where he’s dumped on the doorstep of his estranged father, Harp (Idris Elba)....

‘Death On The Nile’ Not Expected To Reshoot Armie Hammer Scenes In Wake Of Sexual Assault Allegations By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 31, 2021 7:30 am EST Over the last few months, Hammer’s star has publicly imploded as numerous horrifying allegations against him have been made, leading to one woman to publicly accuse him of rape. Hammer dropped out of multiple projects, lost his agent, and is now at the center of an LAPD sex crimes investigation that has opened up over the rape allegation....

‘Florida Man’ Netflix Series Will Star Edgar Ramirez By Chris Evangelista/April 19, 2021 4:30 pm EST Florida, America’s most questionable state, is the setting of Florida Man, a new Netflix drama series that will star Edgar Ramirez. The series finds Ramirez playing an ex-cop who heads to the Sunshine State on a job to find a missing person, only to have everything go very, very wrong, as things are often wont to do down there in Florida....

‘Jojo Rabbit’ Is One Of The Strangest Adaptations Ever – Here’s How It Differs From The Book By Leigh Monson/Oct. 22, 2019 7:00 am EST Adaptation, by its very nature, is transformative. A screenwriter must necessarily make changes to another form of written work in order for that work to function in the medium of film. Fans of the original work will often judge the value of the adaptation by fidelity to the source material, judging a film by how much it adheres to the story beats, tone, and even specific dialogue that they remember and appreciate from the work they grew to love in the first place....

‘The Godfather’ Making-Of Movie Adds Elisabeth Moss As Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola’s Wife By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 10, 2021 10:30 am EST Barry Levinson’s The Godfather making-of movie, which may or may not be called Francis and the Godfather, has added yet another impressive cast member. Elisabeth Moss will play Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker and wife of Francis Ford Coppola. Moss joins previously-announced cast members Oscar Isaac, who is playing Francis Ford Coppola, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who will play legendary producer Robert Evans....

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Trailer: It’s Time To Fight The Devil And His Army By Ethan Anderton/March 14, 2021 3:01 pm EST In less than a week, fans can feast their eyes on Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the four-hour cut of the DC Comics superhero assembly that almost never was. Arriving on HBO Max next week, the director’s cut has been demanded by die-hard fans for years, ever since the theatrical cut of the the movie disappointed back in 2017....

20 Movies About Aliens That You Definitely Need To Watch New Line Cinema By Margaret David/Aug. 27, 2021 12:57 pm EST Films with aliens are rarely about the aliens themselves. These interstellar visitors usually serve as metaphors for human nature, a reflection of our politics, or a means to discuss strange natural phenomena. As Stephen King explained in “Danse Macabre,” his non-fiction exploration of the horror genre, the things that frighten or confuse us change shape with each generation....

Cool Stuff: Galactus Becomes The Biggest Marvel Legends Figure Ever In HasLab’s Latest Offering By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2021 6:00 am EST If you thought the HasLab crowd-funded Sentinel from Marvel Legends was as big as a comic book action figure could get from Hasbro, think again. The latest effort from HasLab has been revealed, and it’s a massive 32-inch action figure version of The Devourer of Worlds himself, Galactus. Find out how many backers the HasLab Marvel Legends Galactus figure needs, and how much it will cost you to add it to your action figure collection....

Copshop Star Frank Grillo Says Jiu Jitsu Saved His Life [Interview] Open Road Films By Jack Giroux/Sept. 17, 2021 10:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Actor Frank Grillo can fight. When he’s on-screen, he’s bringing over 30 years of experience from wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, and boxing. He even trained with one of the greatest fighters of all time, Rickson Gracie, who’s a master of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu....

Cyrano Trailer: Peter Dinklage Stars In Joe Wright’s Musical Twist On A Classic Love Story MGM By Max Evry/Oct. 6, 2021 10:20 am EST MGM has released the debut trailer for “Cyrano,” the musical twist on the classic French love story hailing from period piece master Joe Wright (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Anna Karenina”) and starring “Game of Thrones” icon Peter Dinklage as the lovesick poet Cyrano de Bergerac. What is the twist?...

Does ‘30 Days Of Night: Dark Days’ Live Up To Its Predecessor’s Awesomeness? By Rob Hunter/Sept. 13, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to DTV Descent, a series that explores the weird and wild world of direct-to-video sequels to theatrically released movies. This week’s entry takes a bite out of a sequel to one of the best vampire movies of the past two decades.) Vampires are something of a ubiquitous presence in horror films, and while there are more than a few brilliant examples both celebrated and more obscure the bulk seem content with offering basic thrills from head to fangs – they suck your blood, they hate Christian iconography, they can multiply with a bite, etc....

Ikaris Flies Too Close To The Sun Marvel Studios The event in question occurs shortly after the climactic battle scene, where Ikaris (Richard Madden) attempted to keep his fellow Eternals from stopping the emergence of Tiamut. After the Celestial has been destroyed via Sersi’s transmutation abilities (enhanced by the group’s Uni-Mind), Ikaris apologizes to Sersi (Gemma Chan) for going against the group as well as for his murder of Ajak (Salma Hayek)....

Eternals Is Heading For A $69.5 Million Opening Weekend At The Box Office Disney By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Nov. 6, 2021 2:34 pm EST After 7000 years on Earth, how will the Eternals fare in their first weekend at the box office? Pretty well, if the early numbers are anywhere to go by! Based on Thursday night previews and Friday’s ticket sales, “Eternals” is expected to finish out the weekend with a gross of $69....