A New Era Lucasfilm “The Acolyte” is being run and developed by Leslye Headland (“Russian Doll”) and is said to take place in the final days of The High Republic, a period of time that predates the movies and is when the Galactic Republic and Jedi Knights were at the height of their powers. It was a time of peace, which is probably why this show is set in the final days of this era....
The Baby-Sitters Club Season 2 Trailer: The Sitters Are Back In Business Netflix By Shania Russell/Sept. 9, 2021 11:56 am EST Some things never change: as summer comes to a close, the Baby-Sitters Club reunites for another year of childhood chaos. As usual, Kristy (Sophie Grace) and her crew have a bunch of personal drama to work through, on top of caring for the neighborhood kids that keep their business running....
Why It’s Essential Viewing Magnet Releasing Here’s the difficulty with recommending this movie to the average movie-watcher: there’s a pretty damn good English language remake from the great Matt Reeves called “Let Me In,” and we all know American audiences hate reading subtitles. As much as I love what Reeves did with “Let Me In,” and it is a very well-made, emotional film, there’s just something that hits a little harder in the Swedish language original....
The Matrix Resurrections Poster Takes Us Back To The Source Warner Bros. By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 17, 2021 12:50 pm EST It still seems kind of crazy that we’re getting a new “Matrix” movie this year, but we are! “The Matrix Resurrections,” which brings back original stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss, and original co-director Lana Wachowski, is set to arrive this holiday season. And ahead of that impending release, there’s a brand new poster featuring the cast front and center....
The Matrix Resurrections TV Spot The latest generation of moviegoers who are obsessed with “parallels” in film are going to have a field day with this, let’s just put it that way. Serving as a sort of crash course in the major events of the previous movies, this “Matrix Resurrections” TV spot flexes its editing muscles and puts several cleverly juxtaposed sequences side-by-side to show off just how carefully (and intentionally) composed the Wachowski sisters designed these movies to be....
The Original A Nightmare On Elm Street House Is For Sale - Sweet Dreams! New Line Cinema By Anya Stanley/Oct. 21, 2021 8:17 pm EST Dream Warriors, assemble! The idyllic suburban house from Wes Craven’s original horror classic, “A Nightmare On Elm Street,” is up for sale. If you have a spare $3.25 million, the slasher digs could be yours, but hurry — offers on the house are only being accepted until Halloween night this year....
The Quarantine Stream: ‘Labyrinth’ Is Jim Henson’s Dark, Weird Trip Through Wonderland By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 29, 2020 7:00 am EST I remember getting Labyrinth on VHS one Christmas when I was young, and being immediately frightened by the grotesque puppets and Bowie’s sneeringly seductive Goblin King. But returning to the film a few years later, I fell in love with this strange Wonderland that Henson drops us into. Part Alice in Wonderland riff, part coming-of-age fantasy, Labyrinth is a strangely sensual film whose sexually charged imagery can’t be totally attributed to Bowie (though you can probably pinpoint a lot of women’s sexual awakenings to the star’s infamous bulge)....
Things You Didn’t Know About DC’s Maxwell Lord Warner Bros. By Kirk Boxleitner/Aug. 28, 2021 6:21 pm EST Co-created by writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis and artist Kevin Maguire, Maxwell “Max” Lord IV made his debut in “Justice League” #1 in May of 1987 as a businessman whose behind-the-scenes backing helped make the Justice League International team possible. Later, he was revealed to have either manipulated, or been manipulated by, various villains and artificial intelligences, until DC Comics decided that, nope, he’d just been a bad guy all along....
Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Rom-Com Venom: Let There Be Carnage Sony By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 24, 2021 3:45 pm EST “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” the best rom-com of 2021, is now on digital. And in the spirit of reminding folks of that, Sony has gone ahead and put the first seven minutes of the movie online. This opening scene primarily focuses on Cletus Kasady, the serial killer who will one day become Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson....
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Will Introduce Dominique Thorne’s Ironheart Before Her Disney+ Series By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 19, 2021 1:35 pm EST Kevin Feige has gained quite a reputation for being notoriously tight-lipped about every possible facet of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But every so often, he’ll drop an exciting bit of news to get audiences even more excited about an upcoming project. That appears to be the case here, as Feige has spilled the beans that Dominique Thorne, previously announced to portray Riri Williams and the armored superhero Ironheart in her own Disney+ series, will be making her first appearance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever....
‘Chadwick Boseman: Portrait Of An Artist’ Trailer: Friends And Co-Stars Mourn The Actor In Limited-Time Netflix Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 13, 2021 4:30 pm EST Netflix is paying tribute to the star that has become their Oscar front-runner with a moving special that invites Chadwick Boseman’s co-stars, friends, and colleagues to mourn the irreplaceable actor and remember his craft. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more appear in the star-studded special Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist, which is set to stream on Netflix for a limited time....
‘False Positive’ Review: Ilana Glazer’s Pregnancy Horror Movie Is A Laborious ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Riff [Tribeca] By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 25, 2021 6:48 am EST Why can’t pregnancy horror movies escape the ghost of Rosemary’s Baby? More than 50 years have passed since the Roman Polanski classic hit our screens, but its shadow looms large over many a movie that attempts to tackle the horrifying realities — and fantasies — of childbirth. And it’s a shadow that False Positive, the Ilana Glazer-starring horror film directed by John Lee and co-written by Lee and Glazer, gets lost in....
‘Fear Street Part 1: 1994’ Trailer: The Witch Is Back In The First Part Of Netflix’s Horror Trilogy By Chris Evangelista/June 28, 2021 7:43 am EST The dream of the ’90s is alive on Fear Street. The teen-centered tales of terror from Goosebumps artisan R.L. Stine have become a trilogy of terror for Netflix, which will drop the first of three Fear Street movies this week. Each film is set in the same town during a different era, and first up, we’re going all the way back to the olden days – 1994....
‘I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore’ Gives Melanie Lynskey A Bloody, Quirky Crusade [Sundance Review] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 20, 2017 9:30 am EST Director Jeremy Saulnier has delivered chills, thrills and blood spills at the Sundance Film Festival before. His film, Blue Ruin, featured the relatively unknown actor Macon Blair setting out to track down the people who killed his parents and deliver his vengeance upon them. It appears some of Jeremy Saulnier’s filmmaking style has rubbed off on his leading man as Blair has returned to Sundance, this time as the writer and director of own twisted tale of revenge....
‘Masters Of The Universe: Revelation’ Trailer: Kevin Smith Revives The Classic Cartoon For Netflix By Ben Pearson/June 10, 2021 10:18 am EST Filmmaker Kevin Smith has the power – the power to continue a classic 1980s cartoon series that Hollywood has been trying to adapt into a movie for years. His new show, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, will pick up where the beloved original ’80s series left off and introduce a new generation to characters like He-Man, Skeletor, and more....
‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland,’ Possibly The Craziest Movie Of 2021, Has A Release Date By Shania Russell/Aug. 5, 2021 2:43 pm EST Nicolas Cage is having a great summer — which he very much deserves. His newest film Pig arrived last month and subsequently became his best reviewed live-action film on Rotten Tomatoes. His performance is hauntingly subdued, and garnered plenty of critical acclaim. And maybe subdued isn’t your first thought when it comes to the performances of Nic Cage, but isn’t that just further proof of his talent?...
‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ Finds Jessica Chastain Looking Unrecognizable As The Fallen Televangelist By Ethan Anderton/June 2, 2021 12:30 pm EST This fall will bring the story of scandalous televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in a new biopic starring Jessica Chastain. The Eyes of Tammy Faye will chronicle the inspiring rise and traumatic fall of the woman who created the wildly successful Christian news program The PTL Club with her husband Jim Bakker before a sex scandal destroyed their empire....
‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’ Review: Humor And Heart Drive Netflix’s Terrific Animated Film By Josh Spiegel/April 21, 2021 7:00 am EST One of the great modern animated comedies is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a loopy adaptation of the famous children’s story. The 2009 adaptation took the picture book’s basic concept of food falling from the sky instead of rain and snow, and warped it in delightful fashion as a disaster-movie parody with a surprisingly effective emotional undercurrent....
‘True Lies’ TV Series In The Works At CBS By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 11, 2021 12:30 pm EST Variety reports that CBS has ordered a pilot for a True Lies TV series, based on the 1994 film of the same name. The CBS pilot will be written by Matt Nix, the creator of the USA Network series Burn Notice, a glossy procedural series about a former spy working as a private investigator in Miami....
C’mon C’mon Director Mike Mills Personally Cut Joaquin Phoenix’s Hair For The Movie [Exclusive] A24 By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 30, 2021 10:21 am EST Can you imagine what an incredibly niche and also delightful brag it would be to have a haircut from Mike Mills? I would be recycling that story for the rest of my life. I would tell it at every party until I died. Even if the cut didn’t suit me, it would be too interesting of a story to pass up....
