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The Unlikely Murderer: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Ryan Scott/Oct. 6, 2021 3:33 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) True crime has become one of the dominant genres, oddly enough, in modern entertainment. Perhaps we can thank “Serial” for that. This is especially true on Netflix, where they have been churning out both documentaries and scripted shows at a rapid clip based on real-life crimes....

Tim Burton’s Wednesday Netflix Series Reveals Its Full Creepy And Kooky Cast Paramount Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 27, 2021 11:27 am EST Tim Burton helming a new adaptation of the Addams Family has felt like a match made in heaven ever since we first started hearing about this project. Casting news has been coming in at a slow trickle in recent months, filling in the charming matriarch and patriarch of the family with such big names as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán respectively....

What ‘Sausage Party’ Had To Cut To Avoid An NC-17 Rating By Jack Giroux/Aug. 11, 2016 5:30 am EST Sausage Party is a hard-R comedy. Around the time the project was first announced, actor, producer, and co-writer Seth Rogen described it as “an R-rated Pixar-style movie” that’s “f***ing filthy” and “really, really, really dirty.” Pretty much everyone who has seen the film, including our own Jacob Hall, agrees with Rogen that it truly is one dirty movie....

‘Brahms: The Boy 2’ Review: A Movie So Boring It’s Almost Impressive By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 21, 2020 7:00 am EST No one walks into a movie called Brahms: The Boy 2 expecting a masterpiece, but for the love of Brahms, why is this thing so boring? William Brent Bell’s follow-up to his mostly okay The Boy has a new group of people being plagued by a tiny antique doll, and expands the mythology, taking it to increasingly silly places....

‘Dune’ Star David Dastmalchian Says Script Is “True To The Spirit Of The Novel,” His Character “Not Like Any Human” Encountered Before By Jeremy Mathai/July 8, 2021 8:33 am EST Dune may be one of our most anticipated pandemic-delayed movies currently on the calendar. Let’s put it this way: if vaunted filmmakers such as Alejandro Jodorowsky (whose planned project ultimately fell through, though that doesn’t mean he has any shortage of Dune opinions) and David Lynch (whose idiosyncratic 1984 film of the same name, love it or hate it, is set for a 4K release) found the appeal in adapting Frank Herbert’s touchstone novel, we should be on pins and needles to see what auteur and Film Twitter favorite Denis Villeneuve has up his sleeve for his two-part blockbuster....

‘Edge Of Tomorrow 2’ Might Be “Too Expensive” To Ever Get Made, Says Emily Blunt By Ben Pearson/May 12, 2021 5:00 pm EST Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow was not only a pleasant surprise when it debuted in 2014 – it was also one of the best sci-fi action movies of the past 20 years. So it’s no wonder that whenever people interview Liman or stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, the conversation inevitably turns to the status of the much-discussed sequel....

‘Separation’ Trailer: A Death In The Family Awakens Ghoulish Creatures By Chris Evangelista/March 25, 2021 4:00 pm EST There’s an entire sub-genre of horror films devoted to kids who become aware of creepy, malevolent forces before the adults around them realize what the hell is going on, and Separation seems to fit nicely into that sub-genre. In this creepy-looking horror film from director William Brent Bell (The Boy), a death in the family seems to awaken all kinds of malevolent forces....

‘Southland Tales’ Director Richard Kelly Revisits His Infamous Cult Curiosity [Interview] By Jack Giroux/Feb. 3, 2021 3:00 pm EST Southland Tales debuted almost 15 years ago at the Cannes Film festival. All of these years later, love it or hate it, the Richard Kelly film remains something movie fans keep talking about. The conversation around the ambitious science fiction film continues as Arrow Films has released a limited edition Blu-Ray, including the infamous “Cannes cut,” which runs longer than the theatrical version....

‘Stillwater’ Review: Emotions Run Deep In The Surprising Matt Damon Blue-Collar Crime Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 30, 2021 8:15 am EST Stillwater has the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines premise that is sure to immediately get eyes rolling: an American student is convicted of the murder of her roommate in a foreign country, and her father will have to take the law into his own hands to try to liberate her. It sounds like Amanda Knox meets blue-collar Taken, and it’s surely the kind of sordid, sentimental thriller that is barely worth a second thought....

‘The Actor’ Will Star Ryan Gosling As An Actor With Amnesia Stranded In A Mysterious Small Town By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2021 11:30 am EST Ryan Gosling already has several new projects in the works, but one more won’t hurt. Gosling is now set to star in The Actor, a thriller based on the Donald E. Westlake novel Memory. Gosling will play a 1950s actor from New York named Paul Cole, who is beaten, left for dead, and suffering from amnesia in a small, mysterious Ohio town....

‘The Amusement Park’ Review: George Romero’s Long-Lost Film Is One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2021 8:00 am EST The Amusement Park is technically not a horror film, but it might just be the most disturbing, scariest thing George A. Romero ever directed. Romero became renowned for his iconic Night of the Living Dead, but it often felt like we took the filmmaker – who died in 2017 – for granted....

‘The Devil In The White City’ Movie Is Now A Hulu Series From Leonardo DiCaprio And Martin Scorsese Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio were hoping to one day adapt Erik Larson’s fantastic book The Devil in the White City into a feature film, with Scorsese directing, and DiCaprio starring as the notorious H.H. Holmes, thought to be America’s first serial killer. But now, things have changed. Instead of a movie, we’re getting a Devil in the White City Hulu show, and while Scorsese and DiCaprio will still be producing, it’s doubtful their involvement will go much further than that....

By Chris Evangelista/June 2, 2021 3:30 pm EST Justin Theroux, Melissa George, Logan Polish, and Gabriel Bateman star. Star Justin Theroux is the nephew of Mosquito Coast novelist Paul Theroux, making the show a family affair. “I think he just wants everything off his back and by proxy, his family’s too,” Justin Theroux previously said of his character. “We probably saw elements of this guy a lot during the pandemic, when everyone fled New York and wanted to buy a place upstate....

‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Will Continue The Franchise, Explore The ‘Beast Wars’ Characters By Ben Pearson/June 22, 2021 12:17 pm EST It’s been three years since Bumblebee, and since Paramount doesn’t want one of its biggest film franchises to gather dust, we’re getting a new Transformers movie. Today, the studio revealed that the next film will be a prequel called Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and it will explore characters from Beast Wars, a spin-off of the original Transformers animated series that focused on descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons....

Alien 20th Century Studios If this were a fight between the original “Alien” and any one “Final Destination” film, well, this would be thoroughly anticlimactic. Who could possibly argue against the Ridley Scott classic that consistently ranks among the scariest movies ever made? But the addition of the sequels and those pesky, divisive prequels helps even the playing field a bit … or does it? Try to name any horror franchise that bests “Alien” in terms of taking a one-off story and putting idiosyncratic stamps on each subsequent film....

Daily Podcast: Hawkeye Episodes 1 & 2 Spoiler Discussion Marvel By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2021 4:35 pm EST On the November 24, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Brad Oman to have a spoiler filled discussion about Hawkeye episode 1 and 2. Opening Banter: We’ll be off tomorrow giving thanks, but we’ll be back on Friday. In The Spoiler Room: Hawkeye Episode 1 & 2 “Never Meet Your Heroes” and “Hide and Seek”...

Denis Villeneuve Thinks Christopher Nolan Is A ‘Master,’ Doesn’t Consider Himself On That Level David M. Benett / Getty Images By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 28, 2021 9:45 pm EST Christopher Nolan was arguably the quintessential filmmaker of the 2000s, but if there’s any filmmaker who could give him a run for his money in the 2010s and 2020s, it’s “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve. With thrillers and sci-fi epics like “Prisoners,” “Enemy,” “Sicario,” “Arrival,” and “Blade Runner,” Villeneuve has established himself as one of the most exciting new auteurs to come along in the last decade or so....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Villain Revealed, Via New Merchandise, Of Course Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 1, 2021 12:43 pm EST We’re all in this together, folks. If you’re reading this right now, then you — like me — can count yourself as one of the many cursed with the title of being “Extremely Online.” We’re generally more well-informed and up-to-date on all matters (both important and unimportant) than the average person, sure, but at what cost!...

Dune Final Trailer: Denis Villeneuve’s Science Fiction Epic Is Almost Here Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 7, 2021 1:17 pm EST We’re officially in the home stretch. After months and months of fevered anticipation, “Dune” is rapidly approaching the finish line as audiences around the world are closer than ever to finally getting a taste of everything the sci-fi/fantasy epic will have to offer. Keep in mind that the afore-mentioned “taste” would likely consist of lots and lots of sand so, uh, maybe any literalists reading these words should proceed with caution....

Emily Blunt In Talks To Join Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Disney By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 20, 2021 12:57 pm EST Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, folks, but director Christopher Nolan is once again making major moves to fill out the cast of his latest high-profile project. “Oppenheimer” has been reported to revolve around the actions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who spearheaded the Manhattan Project and was ultimately the man responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians at the tail-end of World War II....