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Respect: Release Date, Trailer And More By Ethan Anderton/July 15, 2021 10:55 am EST Hollywood never gets tired of biopics about iconic musicians. Bohemian Rhapsody was a big hit in telling the story of Freddie Mercury and Queen, and Rocketman gave us a fantastical story about the wonderful Elton John. Now the music biopic genre is getting a dose of soul with Respect, the story of singer Aretha Franklin and her rise to fame with an unmistakable, powerful voice that always brought down the house....

Succession Season 3 Power Rankings: All The Bells Say It’s Time To Rip Off The Bandaid HBO By Shania Russell/Dec. 13, 2021 6:45 pm EST (The bid for power has intensified in season 3 of “Succession,” meaning now more than ever, anyone can come out on top. As the war rages on, we’ll be tracking the rise and descent of the Roys, their allies and their never-ending list of enemies.)...

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Orange County’ Has An Indie Comedy Spirit And It’s Totally Underrated By Ethan Anderton/June 3, 2021 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Orange CountyWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks) is a former surf-bro turned aspiring writer who is hellbent on getting out of the vapid, artificial confines of Orange County, California so he can go to Stanford University and study under his favorite writer....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Booksellers’ Explores The Rare Book Business In New York City By Ben Pearson/Feb. 22, 2021 8:00 am EST The biggest downside of this doc, though, was that it raised a lot of interesting ideas but rarely followed through on them in a satisfying way. Take two moments in the trailer as example: when the prospective bookstore owners talk about how their soon-to-open shop will engage with the neighborhood in a way that larger bookstores never did, and when the young female bookseller talks about how older colleagues express a doom-and-gloom outlook about the future of the industry but she counters by excitedly saying she has tons of ideas....

VOTD: Side-By-Side Comparison Of ‘Whiplash’ And The Short Film That Inspired It By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2015 5:00 am EST In a surprise run that doesn’t normally happen, Damien Chazelle’s stupendous film Whiplash went all the way from a premiere at Sundance to a Best Picture nomination the following year. It didn’t take home the big prize, but J.K. Simmons ended up pulling off a deserved win for Best Supporting Actor, and the film also got the Film Editing and Sound Mixing awards....

What Secrets Does That Image Hold? I was immediately struck by how much the visual aesthetic appears to be following the template laid out by Peter Jackson, but once that similarity wore off, the image itself contains a world of possibilities. For example: is that figure in the white cloak actually Ben Mendelsohn reprising his role as Orson Krennic from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story? (No, of course not. But think about how nuts the geek community would go if that happened!...

‘Mare Of Easttown’ Trailer: Kate Winslet Investigates A Murder In A Small Town By Chris Evangelista/March 31, 2021 3:30 pm EST Kate Winslet is a one-time high school basketball star turned miserable local police detective in Mare of Easttown, a new HBO series premiering in April. Winslet’s weary, broken cop Mare Sheehan gets tangled up in a murder mystery that unfolds while her own life is coming apart around her. In addition to Winslet, the series features Evan Peters, Guy Pearce, Jean Smart, and more....

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Kickstarter Campaign Returns To Fund New Episodes And Virtual Theater By Chris Evangelista/April 7, 2021 5:30 pm EST In 2015, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson launched a Kickstater campaign to bring back MST3K – and broke records in the process. The campaign resulted in the highest amount ever raised for a video project on Kickstarter, and Netflix eventually came in and picked up the revival....

‘Only Murders In The Building’ Trailer: Steve Martin, Martin Short, And Selena Gomez Are True Crime Podcasters By Chris Evangelista/July 27, 2021 9:11 am EST Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are trying to solve a mystery in Only Murders in the Building. The Hulu series follows three strangers who team up to record a podcast after a murder happens in their apartment building. But their amateur investigation leads to an unraveling of secrets of the other residents of the building....

‘Pride’ Trailer Showcases FX’s Documentary Series On The Long Struggle For LGBTQ+ Civil Rights By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2021 4:00 pm EST Pride Month doesn’t start until June, but FX will be kicking off the celebrations a little early with a new documentary series that will dive into the history of the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights from the 1950s through the 2000s. Pride hails from LGBTQ+ filmmakers and shines a light on the decades of fighting and prejudice that the people of this marginalized community had to endure and unfortunately still have to confront to this very day....

First Man Universal Pictures “The Martian” captures the reality of space travel and life at NASA in such specific detail that it almost doesn’t feel like science fiction. The advancements made in space travel technology feel like the natural progression of science, and all of Watney’s cutting edge techniques to survive his dangerous circumstances are grounded in actual scientific principles. For more like that, check out Damien Chazelle’s 2018 biopic “First Man,” which explores early achievements in outer space travel by telling the story of Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), a figure who Watney himself comedically references in “The Martian....

Michael Myers: Murder Champ Universal Pictures ComicBook.com (of all places) pointed out the record-setting murder count achieved by “Halloween Kills,” with most of the kills coming from Michael Myers himself. The film shows 30 people being killed in the film, and 25 of them are confirmed to die at the hands of Michael Myers. Not only is that enough to beat out any of the “Halloween” movies, with the next closest being “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” with 17 kills (and we’re not counting the “Halloween” remake’s 18 kills in 2007)....

Earth-Shattering Godzilla Vs. Space Godzilla Statues Will Dominate Your Shelves XM Studios By Max Evry/Oct. 7, 2021 4:15 pm EST Singapore-based XM Studios, the award-winning premium collectibles brand most famous for its DC and Marvel comics-based statues, has revealed new cold cast porcelain pieces for their New York Comic Con Booth (#1337) at NYC’s Javits Center beginning today through October 10. Probably the coolest of the bunch are a pair of amazing Godzilla statues, namely of the big guy himself as well as one of his title nemesis from 1994’s bizarro cult classic Heisei-era flick “Godzilla vs....

HBO’s ‘The Nevers’ Gets A New Showrunner As Philippa Goslett Replaces Joss Whedon By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2021 11:30 am EST Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) was poised to make his big return to television with The Nevers, a fantasy series he created for HBO that is set to premiere later this year. But Whedon walked away from the series in late 2020, and since the show must go on, HBO has hired his replacement....

How To Watch ‘Snake Eyes’ At Home By Jeremy Mathai/July 15, 2021 2:21 pm EST (Welcome to How to Watch, where we get down to brass tacks and tell you “Hey, here’s how you can watch this thing.” In this edition: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins.) We wouldn’t hold it against you if you’ve sort of glazed over all the finer details regarding the previous two attempts to bring G.I. Joe to the big screen....

Jason Blum Shares Possibility Of ‘Happy Death Day 3’ And The State Of Karyn Kusama’s ‘Dracula’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/June 30, 2021 2:49 pm EST Blumhouse is busy. The studio, which has made a name for itself with horror films but dabbles in other genres, is back at the multiplex this week with The Forever Purge. But what’s next for Blumhouse? Plenty – although several potential projects remain in a kind of limbo, or netherworld....

Jay Baruchel Offers Update On ‘Goon 2’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2012 11:40 am EST One of the early surprises of 2012 was the hockey comedy Goon. Directed by Michael Dowse and written by Evan Goldberg and Jay Baruchel, the film starred Seann William Scott as a small-time hockey enforcer whose talent for violence leads him to the big time. Not only does the film feature a classic sports story, it has heart, violence and lots of character....

Kristen Stewart Princess Diana Movie ‘Spencer’ Will Open In November By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 17, 2021 10:35 am EST Earlier today, we got our first look at Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown season 5. But if you thought that was on the only Princess Diana news for today, think again! We’ve just learned that Spencer, the Pablo Larraín-directed film starring Kristen Stewart as the late Princess of Wales, now has an official release date set for November of this year....

New Batgirl Actress Leslie Grace Says Being Cast ‘Actually Broke’ Her Brain Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 16, 2021 10:04 am EST “In The Heights” breakout star Leslie Grace is our new Batgirl — and the story of how she was given the part is enough to make someone think fairy tales are real and all dreams come true. The Bronx native revealed to Variety that she got on a last-minute Zoom call with the HBO Max film’s creative team for a final casting test, which turned into a sweet moment where the filmmakers asked her to read an email from them out loud....

Noah Baumbach Signs Exclusive Deal With Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 28, 2021 4:30 pm EST Noah Baumbach is sticking with Netflix. The director has already made two movies for the streaming service – The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) and Marriage Story – and he already has a third, White Noise, in the works. And that’s just the beginning, as the filmmaker just signed a deal with Netflix to exclusively write and direct films for Netflix for the next several years....