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‘Spiral’ Director Darren Lynn Bousman On Reinventing ‘Saw’ And The One Scene That Was A “Big Problem” For The MPAA [Interview] By Jacob Hall/May 14, 2021 12:30 pm EST Director Darren Lynn Bousman didn’t create Saw, but he arguably defined it. Following the success of the first film, Bousman was handed the reins of the series and transformed it into a decade-defining horror franchise with Saw II, Saw III, and Saw IV....

‘Star Wars’ Voice Actor Vanessa Marshall On Making Her Surprise Return As Hera Syndulla In ‘The Bad Batch’ [Interview] By Bryan Young/July 14, 2021 1:00 pm EST Vanessa Marshall has been a part of the Star Wars family for a long time now. As the voice of Hera Syndulla, she burst onto the scene with Star Wars Rebels and the character keeps making appearances. She featured prominently in the short lived Forces of Destiny cartoon, she has appeared in books like A New Dawn and the Alphabet Squadron series, she’s featured in comics and video games....

‘Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street’ Trailer Reveals The Origins Of The Beloved Children’s TV Show By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2021 7:30 am EST One of the standouts from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. The documentary from Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom) dives into the origins of the beloved children’s program Sesame Street, a groudbreaking venture that dared to use television to educate children at a time when it was being used for nothing but mindless entertainment to keep them occupied....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Review: The Horror Series Continues To Thrive Thanks To Patrick Wilson And Vera Farmiga By Chris Evangelista/June 1, 2021 9:00 am EST James Wan was really onto something when he brought the Warrens to the big screen with The Conjuring. Wan may not have known it at the time, but he was launching one of the most successful horror franchises ever, and the secret to the series success remains the ghost-hunting couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, as played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga....

‘The Green Knight’ Ending Explained: David Lowery Turns To A Martin Scorsese Classic To Conclude His Thoughtful Fantasy Epic By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2021 7:00 am EST The Green Knight has been out for over a week now, so I think it’s safe to start talking about the film’s beautiful, bewitching ending. I’ve seen some proclaim the finale to be “confusing,” but I respectfully disagree. Director David Lowery cloaks the final moments of his fantasy epic in mystery, but everything you need to truly know is there, waiting for you....

‘The Shining Girls’ Cast With Elisabeth Moss Adds Jamie Bell As A Time-Traveling Serial Killer By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2021 10:30 am EST The Shining Girls, an upcoming Apple TV+ series based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, has found its time-traveling serial killer in the form of Jamie Bell. The series tells the story of a killer in Depression-era Chicago who finds a way to travel through time – a feat he uses to target women in different eras....

Ambulance Trailer “Ambulance” is a loose remake of a 2005 Danish movie called “Ambulancen,” which followed two brothers who used an ambulance as their getaway vehicle after a robbery gone wrong. This new version tweaks that premise just slightly: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays a guy who desperately needs money for his wife’s surgery, and he approaches an old friend (Gyllenhaal) who ropes him into a $32 million heist. Naturally, things don’t go as planned: a cop is shot at the scene, and the guys steal the ambulance with the officer and a paramedic (Eiza González) in the back....

DC Fandome Returning In October With New Looks At The Batman, The Flash, Peacemaker And More Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 31, 2021 10:30 am EST Who needs Comic-Con anymore? Last year, the pandemic forced studios to get creative in figuring out how to deliver information about their upcoming projects to the masses. Going fully digital was apparently the answer. For Warner Bros., the DC FanDome online convention had its share of hiccups and technical snafus, but for the most part it performed as well as could be hoped for....

Gareth Evans’ Crime Series ‘Gangs Of London’ Will Finally Air On AMC Starting In April By Ethan Anderton/March 17, 2021 5:00 pm EST Unless you live in the United Kingdom or subscribe to AMC+, you haven’t been able to partake in the crime series Gangs of London from The Raid franchise director Gareth Evans. Thankfully, that’s about to change, because the first season of Gangs of London is about to start airing on the regular AMC cable channel starting in April....

How ‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Will Try To Emulate The Adventure Of ‘Indiana Jones’ By Ethan Anderton/June 22, 2021 2:53 pm EST Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will introduce us to several new tribes of Transformers that we’ve yet to see on the big screen. But it will also take us to some new locations the franchise hasn’t stomped around before. Along with a story set in 1990s New York City, the next installment of Transformers will also be heading to Cusco, Peru, where it will dig into the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu, a historic sanctuary of an ancient civilization that goes back to the 15th century....

Lord And Miller Producing ‘Strays’, A Live-Action Comedy About An Abandoned Dog Seeking Revenge By Chris Evangelista/May 27, 2021 3:30 pm EST Phil Lord and Chris Miller are continuing their path to producing dominance with Strays, a live-action comedy that’s just been picked up by Universal Pictures. Based on an original pitch from writer Dan Perrault, the film will follow a dog looking to enact revenge against the human that abandoned it, and that’s the kind of premise I can get behind....

Movie Review: In Bruges By Zach Lawrence/Feb. 24, 2008 12:16 pm EST In my days of movie reviewing, I’ve always found it quite easy to come up with content and material to describe how wonderful a movie is. This is one of those rare instances where I am at a loss. To get right to the point, In Bruges was such a shockingly decent movie that it was like a jab from a blind man, you don’t expect it, and neither of you see it coming....

Movies To Watch If You Loved The Green Knight A24 By Marshall Shaffer/Aug. 25, 2021 4:04 pm EST The pandemic kept fans from seeing “The Green Knight” for well over a year after its planned premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival was canceled. And now, filmmaker David Lowery’s distinctive, striking take on the tale of Sir Gawain belongs to the fans. Though it presents Arthurian legend in a light that feels fresh and exciting, “The Green Knight” is by no means the first film to take a crack at bringing the fabled mythology to the big screen — nor is it the first time that the ace filmmaking team behind the fantasy film has wowed audiences with their considerable talents....

Peacemaker Featurette: John Cena Is The ‘Douchey Captain America Who Would Shoot A Kid’ Warner Bros By Shania Russell/Oct. 11, 2021 10:37 am EST Amongst the countless degenerate delinquents introduced in “The Suicide Squad,” one jerk managed to rise above them all as not only the douchiest, but the one guy to get his own spin-off series. That’s right, Peacemaker (John Cena) is on his way back, each day bringing us a little closer to the release of his upcoming solo outing....

‘A Bit Of A Soul-Sucking Moment’ Disney Is there a lot of communication between effects houses in terms of maintaining aesthetic consistency? Yes, a lot actually. It does come down a lot to [senior visual effects supervisor] Chris Townsend. He has to oversee everything and make sure we are consistent in our looks, and we’re all using the same lighting, and the same plates and grades. For the end sequence, because we started just after the fight between the villagers and the soldiers, we shared the village as an asset....

Hawkeye Little Golden Book View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marvel Entertainment (@marvel) “Hawkeye” is nearing the end of its run on Disney+, and things are getting a bit violent. But hey, young kids like Marvel too! As such, Randomhouse Kids is releasing a new Little Golden Book based on the MCU series, and we can see the cover art in the above Instagram post. The book is available for pre-order now for anyone who might feel compelled to secure a copy for the youngin in your life....

Tales From The Box Office: Resident Evil Beat The Video Game Movie Curse Constantine Film By Ryan Scott/Dec. 4, 2021 1:49 pm EST Video games have been wildly popular for decades now, but it was in the ’90s when Hollywood first became interested in the notion of turning these interactive experiences into movies. These began in earnest with the likes of the legendarily bad “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993 and the A-for-effort “Mortal Kombat” in 1995....

The 14 Greatest ’80s Romantic Comedies Ranked The Samuel Goldwyn Company By Liam Gaughan/Oct. 14, 2021 6:27 pm EST Rom-coms have been popular since the ’30s and ’40s, when classics like “It Happened One Night,” “His Girl Friday,” “The Philadelphia Story,” “Bringing Up Baby,” and “Some Like It Hot” courted moviegoers. It wasn’t uncommon for these uproarious films to receive rave reviews from both critics and viewers, and they continued to permeate as Hollywood moved into the ’50s and beyond....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Disney+ And Hulu In May 2021 By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2021 5:00 pm EST April is slowly drawing to a close, which means it’ll soon be May! The weather will be getting warmer, summer will be bearing down on us, and Disney+ and Hulu will have a whole bunch of new stuff for you to watch, if you subscribe to either of them....

The Daily Stream: Night Of The Ghoul Log Will Provide Halloween Comfort During These Weird Times Shudder By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 27, 2021 5:24 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: “Night of the Ghoul Log” Where to Watch It: Shudder The Pitch: A Jack O’Lantern sits on a porch, candle burning....