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Star Trek: Resurgence Trailer: Go Boldly In This Story-Driven Game From Former Telltale Developers Dramatic Labs By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 10, 2021 3:50 pm EST If you’ve ever wanted to be at the center of a “Star Trek” story, now’s your chance. A new narrative-driven “Star Trek” game is coming to PC and consoles from Dramatic Labs, a new studio created by former Telltale Games writers and developers. The announcement came during The Game Awards along with a short reveal trailer featuring a familiar face and introducing a few new ones....

Big Drummer Alien Lucasfilm We open with a very intriguing shot of a grey-skinned humanoid of an unconfirmed species banging on some drums. We see lots of him and his drum-banging counterparts throughout the footage. We’ll get a lot of unconfirmed stuff in this trailer, since this is new territory, and that means lots of new stuff. That being said, another shot later in the trailer opens the door for some speculation (we’ll get there....

Evil Dead II Rosebud Releasing Coporation Sam Raimi’s 1981 directorial debut “The Evil Dead” was game changing, proving that low budget horror filmmakers could reach a wide audience. Raimi’s hand-crafted practical gore effects and quirky dark comic tone felt personal in a way studio horror films didn’t. It made expectations high for Raimi’s follow up, but 1987’s “Evil Dead II” was even more audacious, bloody, and hilarious than the original....

The 2022 Independent Spirit Award Nominations Are Here A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 14, 2021 6:21 pm EST Award season is officially in full swing, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards are the latest to announce a new batch of nominees. Per Deadline, Janicza Bravo’s incisive, genre-exploding film “Zola” leads a wide-ranging group of nominees with six nominations. A24 in general came away with plenty to celebrate. Aside from “Zola,” the always-hip studio took home several nods for films including Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” and the Joaquin Phoenix-led Mike Mills movie “C’mon C’mon....

The Guinness World Record James Bond Set With Spectre Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2021 1:41 pm EST Thanks to the release of “No Time to Die,” the second biggest movie of 2021 so far, James Bond has the honor of being the film franchise with the most movies. But that’s an honor it currently shares with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with both standing at 25 films. Unfortunately for 007, the second longest-running film franchise in cinema history will soon fall behind Marvel when “Eternals” hits theaters, and with several films coming from Marvel Studios each year, James Bond will have no hope of catching up....

The Morning Watch: ‘Wonder Woman’ Behind The Camera, James McAvoy Does ‘Great British Bake-Off’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 19, 2021 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a featurette that highlights the immense female talent behind the camera of Woman Woman....

Dirt Bikes Play A Crucial Role in No Time To Die MGM According to Sandgren here’s how it went down: So we put it on dirt bikes, the camera, and it worked. And people were like, “Oh, it actually works.” And we got underwater housing for it, shot underwater. We also started to use it handheld, because in Matera as well, we wanted it to be handled. So we tried. And the operators were like, “Actually works....

Tribeca Film Festival Will Be First Big North American Festival To Bring Back In-Person Screenings By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 29, 2021 1:30 pm EST Ever since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit the U.S. in March, film festivals have gone almost entirely virtual — with all the major North American festivals like SXSW, Sundance, TIFF, and more foregoing the in-person experience in favor of digital ones (minus the occasional drive-in or arthouse theater screening)....

A Journal for Jordan Columbia Pictures Denzel Washington will direct Michael B. Jordan for the film “A Journal for Jordan.” The film is set to be released on Christmas Day, 2021. Based on a true story, the film stars Jordan as soldier Sergeant Charles Monroe King, documenting his experiences in a journal while deployed in Iraq in the hopes to one day share it with his son. The film plays mostly as a love story between Jordan’s character and that of New York Times editor Dana Canedy, exploring the couple’s relationship and the trials deployment brought them just after their son’s birth....

Upcoming Nicolas Cage Movies To Keep On Your Radar Roadside Attractions By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 3, 2021 6:20 pm EST (Welcome to On Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited … or not.) Currently boasting 109 credits to his name, Nicolas Cage is one of Hollywood’s most prolific performers, and there’s no signs of that slowing down anytime soon....

By Chris Evangelista/May 24, 2021 11:30 am EST Black Adam, the DC film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Dwayne Johnson, is currently in production. And Johnson, ever the social media showman, decided to give us a glimpse of his character. Sort of. It’s a shadowy image that has Johnson looking a little bit like Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, but for fans hungry for any sort of look at this film, I suppose this will do....

‘Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil’ Trailer: YouTube Original Docuseries Is A Harrowing Look At Addiction By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 18, 2021 4:30 pm EST Things looked like they were on the upswing for Demi Lovato in 2018. At just 25 years old, the pop singer had tallied a billion views for her music videos on YouTube, scored a Grammy nomination, two Billboard Pop Song number one hits, and was counting six years sober after a battle with addiction early in her teens....

‘Demonic’ Review: Neill Blomkamp’s Dull Entry Into Horror Is Devoid Of Scares By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 16, 2021 6:47 am EST Is there anything left to be done with demonic possession on screen? For nearly 50 years, these movies have been chasing after the glory of the granddaddy of them all, The Exorcist. And while not every follow-up flick about demons inhabiting the bodies of innocent victims has been good, some have been pretty darn enjoyable in their own ways....

‘Flashback’ Trailer: Dylan O’Brien Goes On A Strange Trip By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2021 10:00 am EST In the trailer for Flashback, Dylan O’Brien is a bored office worker who suddenly starts having creepy visions of a girl (Maika Monroe) who vanished when he was still in high school. Is the disappearance related to a mysterious drug? Is O’Brien’s character suffering from some sort of strange drug trip? Is this trailer maybe too vague for its own good?...

‘Foundation’ Trailer: David S. Goyer Brings Isaac Asimov’s Sci-Fi Series To Apple TV+ By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 19, 2021 7:44 am EST Isaac Asimov’s influential Foundation trilogy is now a series on Apple TV+, and a new trailer for the series looks pretty darn slick. Created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, the series promises “a thrilling and emotional journey following a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it....

‘Stalker’ Trailer: An L.A. Rideshare Driver Becomes Obsessed With A Passenger By Ben Pearson/May 13, 2021 11:15 am EST Stalker, the new movie from Inheritance writer/director Tyler Savage, is the latest entry into the “unhinged rideshare driver” subgenre, joining films like the Joe Keery-led Spree and the Quibi project The Stranger. Fair warning: watching the trailer for this movie might make you think twice about ordering that Uber or Lyft next time you need to go somewhere....

Hail Hera This second part could exclude the main Clone Force 99 and proceed to be only Hera Syndulla’s (Vanessa Marshall) story, so I was skeptical when the Batchers were pulled back into the narrative. But it’s a bare minimum compliment that the Batch’s return does not hijack the central story away from the Syndulla family (Robin Atkin Downes, Ferelith Young) just as the episode still raises the stakes for the Batchers’ themselves....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Trailer Breakdown: Six Things We Learned From The New Trailer For James Gunn’s Supervillain Extravaganza By Chris Evangelista/June 22, 2021 12:04 pm EST There’s a brand new The Suicide Squad trailer, which means it’s time for us to obsessively nerd out over the latest footage. This trailer goes heavy on the action, but also drops some new tantalizing info about what can expect to see in James Gunn’s supervillain action-comedy....

‘Those Who We Wish Me Dead’ Trailer: Angelina Jolie Fights A Forest Fire And Deadly Assassins In The New Taylor Sheridan Film By Chris Evangelista/April 7, 2021 8:30 am EST Angelina Jolie has to deal with an army of deadly killers and a raging forest fire in the trailer for Those Who Wish Me Dead. Jolie plays a fire lookout and survival expert who has to protect a teenage boy from some deadly killers, all while a fire rages around them....

The Book of Mormon Dave M. Benett/Getty Images The smash hit sensation “The Book of Mormon” benefited from the cinematic experiences of its creators. The shows’ music and lyrics came from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who had previously created the beloved 1999 film “South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut.” The “South Park” movie re-energized the series with its creative songs. Parker and Stone crafted clever, foul-mouthed satire within music worthy of Broadway, and the film’s acclaim laid the groundwork for their Tony Award winning work on “The Book of Mormon....