Posts

A New Face Beneath the Nails Vh1 We’ve known for a while now that the new “Hellraiser” team was trying to do something new with the beloved character, as RuPaul’s Drag Race alumnus Gottmik was given the chance to audition for the role after walking the runway in a Pinhead inspired look. Gottmik (real name Kade Gottlieb) says they lost the role saying, “I wasn’t menacing enough! I had to read a bunch, I was in my apartment, against the wall, full-on trying to be Pinhead, pretending to pull needles out of my head, just going in!...

Paul W.S. Anderson Says We’ll Probably Never See A Full ‘Event Horizon’ Director’s Cut By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 22, 2020 3:30 pm EST Earlier this year, boutique Blu-ray label Scream Factory announced they’d be releasing a special edition of Event Horizon, Paul W.S. Anderson’s sci-fi horror flick about a space mission that goes to hell, literally. The film was a box office disappointment, but thanks to the miracle of home video, Event Horizon has built itself a nice little fanbase, and that fanbase has been clamoring to see some of the film’s long-lost footage....

The Best, Craziest, And Bloodiest Movies From The Scary Movies XI Festival By Matt Donato/Aug. 31, 2018 2:00 pm EST Another week, another horror film festival in the books. It’s barely been 14 days since my Fantasia Film Festival recap highlighted the scariest and most splendid programming notes of Montreal’s three-week-long shindig, but that didn’t stop New York City’s Scary Movies XI from happening. Each August, the Film Society of Lincoln Center spooks Manhattan with a week-long curation of Halloween season holdovers as a gift to genre fans....

The Middle Eastern Influences on Dune Warner Bros. Just look at the abundance of Arabic words that Herbert appropriated in his books: Muad’dib. Jihad. In Arabic, Muad’dib — which is the name for the desert mouse that Paul Atreides takes as his messianic title — means “educator/he who teaches.” And jihad is familiar for to anyone up to date with current events. In an unpublished 1978 interview with Tim O’Reilly, Herbert cites the “colloquial Arabic” as a signal to the reader that they are “not here and now, but that something of here and now has been carried to that faraway place and time....

Wes Anderson Is Getting An Austin Street Named After Him Alamo Drafthouse By Eric Vespe/Nov. 8, 2021 10:22 pm EST As a proud Austinite since 1993, I can vouch that we’re very proud of our hometown boy, Wes Anderson. He might be overshadowed a little bit locally by the reverence toward Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater, but this town does love our success stories. For the record, we also gave honorary hometown status to Mike Judge, Elijah Wood, and Quentin Tarantino because they’ve all adopted us as a city in some form over the years, and we like to collect talented people like they were Pokemon....

‘Disenchanted’ Is Bringing Back James Marsden And Idina Menzel In Disney+ Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 26, 2021 9:30 am EST How do you know that the Enchanted sequel is moving along smoothly? With the confirmation that 90% of the main cast are back in Disenchanted. James Marsden and Idina Menzel, who played the prince of Andalasia and his new bride from New York City, respectively, are both confirmed to be reprising their roles in Disenchanted, joining Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey....

‘Gremlins: Secrets Of The Mogwai’ Voice Cast Adds Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, James Hong, And Matthew Rhys By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 16, 2021 3:30 pm EST The animated Gremlins prequel series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai has revealed its voice actors: Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, James Hong, and Matthew Rhys. The series is set in 1920s Shanghai, and reveals how Sam Wing (who would grow up to be shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 Gremlins movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo....

‘Logan’ Director James Mangold Really, Really Hates Post-Credits Scenes By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 3, 2018 10:00 am EST Post-credit scenes have become a big deal for comic book film fans, but there’s one comic book movie director who wants no part of them. Logan filmmaker James Mangold recently took some time to express his thoughts on the post-credit craze, and let’s just say he didn’t pull any punches. Comic book movies didn’t invent post-credit scenes, but they’ve certainly made them popular....

‘Sasquatch’ Director Joshua Rofé Shares The Dangerous Details Behind The Enthralling New Hulu True Crime Series [Interview] By Jacob Hall/April 20, 2021 8:00 am EST In our interview, Rofé talks about what it was like to film an investigation in progress, taking cameras into areas that felt profoundly unsafe, and whether or not this project has changed whether or not he believes in bigfoot. Sasquatch is currently streaming on Hulu....

‘Shirley’: Regina King To Star In John Ridley’s Biopic About Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm By Ben Pearson/Feb. 18, 2021 2:00 pm EST Variety reports that Regina King will star in and produce John Ridley’s new film Shirley, which is being produced by Participant Media, the company behind films like Spotlight, Roma, American Factory, Contagion, The Help, and shows like Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us. According to the outlet, the movie’s story “tracks Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign, a groundbreaking historical moment, giving what’s described as ‘an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the most ground-breaking political leaders of our time....

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Stars Share The ‘Trek’ Characters They’d Want To Be Stuck With On Duty By Ben Pearson/Aug. 4, 2021 6:49 am EST Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2 debuts next week, and the animated comedy continues to be a delightful series that pokes fun at some of the franchise’s biggest tropes while simultaneously being a loving (and hilarious) homage. We had the chance to speak with Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome (who voices Beckett Mariner), Jack Quaid (Brad Boimler), Noël Wells (D’Vana Tendi), and Eugene Cordero (Samanthan Rutherford) during a recent press event, and in the very brief time we had with them, they each explained which Star Trek character they would want to be stuck on duty with if they were members of Starfleet....

‘Star Wars’ Series ‘Ahsoka’ On The Hunt For A Live-Action Sabine Wren By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 11, 2021 9:54 am EST First it was the beloved Star Wars character Ahsoka Tano who made the jump from animation to live action. Now she’ll be having some interesting company of her own, as the similarly fan-favorite Sabine Wren looks to be following in her footsteps in a development that’s sure to be a crowd-pleaser for fans of the animated shows....

‘The Last Of Us: Part II’ Is A Miserable Masterpiece And Possibly The Game Of The Generation By Robert Kojder/June 25, 2020 8:00 am EST Let’s start with something you don’t see in a lot of video game reviews: an accessibility disclaimer. There is unprecedented depth to the number of accessibility options within The Last of Us: Part II. This is intended for those visually/sonically impaired, those with physical disabilities (something that I personally am glad is being addressed), or people that simply don’t play video games enough to properly work a controller but that still want to experience a riveting narrative....

‘The Pentaverate’: Mike Myers To Play Seven Characters In New Netflix Series, Which Sounds Like A Threat By Ben Pearson/June 8, 2021 12:04 pm EST Mike Myers is heading to Netflix for a new TV show. The Austin Powers and Love Guru star is creating and executive producing a Netflix limited series called The Pentaverate, in which he will play seven “brand new characters” alongside a cast that includes Ken Jeong (Community), Keegan Michael-Key (Key and Peele), Debi Mazar (Goodfellas), and more....

‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman Consulted Dick Van Dyke, Who Is Adorably Clueless About The MCU By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 18, 2021 2:00 pm EST Marvel debuted the first two episodes of their new Disney+ series WandaVision this past weekend. The series finds Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) living a literal sitcom marriage in the style of classic TV shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched. Director Matt Shakman perfectly captured the style of those vintage programs, right down to the practical visual effects and the black and white cinematography, and he got some guidance from the perfect resource....

2021 Oscar Stats: Two Female Filmmakers Are Up For Best Director For The First Time; Plus Historic Nods For Viola Davis, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, More By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 15, 2021 11:30 am EST Six years after #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy Awards have finally turned the tide and delivered their most diverse slate of acting nominees in history. But that’s not the only historic statistic of the 2021 Oscars. For the first time in the Oscars’ nearly 100-year history, more than one female director has been nominated in the best director category....

After ‘The Green Knight’, Revisit David Lowery’s Previous Quiet Triumph: ‘The Old Man & The Gun’ By Jeremy Mathai/July 30, 2021 12:00 pm EST David Lowery’s The Green Knight, releasing in U.S. theaters today, may be receiving all the attention as the most exciting and downright weirdest display of all the filmmaker’s particular sensibilities…but what about his previous movie? Originally billed as legendary actor Robert Redford’s swan song before retirement (until Marvel and the Russo brothers came calling for one last Avengers: Endgame cameo, that is), The Old Man & the Gun relies on the same slow-burn, low-stakes charm as most of Lowery’s films....

Boldly Going: How ‘Star Trek’ And A Gay Sulu Gave Me The Courage To Come Out By Jacob Hall/July 12, 2016 8:00 am EST I carried two secrets with me as a I grew up. Secret number one: I was a Star Trek fan, a kid raised by an old-school fan of the original series who made sure to plant me in front of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which arrived at the perfect time to sink its hooks into me....

Casablanca Ending Explained: The Conclusion Of A Dizzying Romance, And The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship Warner Bros. By Lee Adams/Dec. 13, 2021 1:46 pm EST “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” It’s the perfect line to end the perfect movie. If I’m ever pressed to name my favorite film of all time, out of all the hundreds I absolutely adore, “Casablanca” is the title I usually throw out there....

Meat Merchants Monetize Shy Di Threads Georges De Keerle/Getty Images The jumper is modeled directly after the notable sheep-printed sweater that Diana wore to a Windsor polo match in 1981, designed by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne of the Warm and Wonderful knit studio in London. Featuring a repeating pattern of white sheep across a bold red background, the conspicuous inclusion of a single black sheep on the sweater raised eyebrows at the time, as it was seen as a reflection of Diana’s parallel black sheep status within the royal family she married into....