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There Wasn’t Much Room For Improv On The Set Of Edgar Wright’s The World’s End Focus Features By Devin Meenan/Sept. 24, 2022 8:00 pm EST Some directors encourage their actors to improvise while shooting, but not Edgar Wright. Many of Wright’s favorite camera tricks rely on precise timing and blocking, leaving little room for the actors to make things up as they go along. In 2013, Wright’s usual stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost sat down with Collider to discuss “The World’s End....

Thor: Love And Thunder Features A Sneaky Reference To An Iconic Marvel Villain Sony Pictures By Eric Vespe/July 8, 2022 2:00 pm EST In “Thor: Love and Thunder” we’re introduced to a deeply religious man who sacrifices everything for his god: comfort, family, skincare products. Everything. When he finally meets his deity face to face, he realizes that maybe the gods aren’t the most trustworthy beings in the universe. Luckily for him, the pompous god had just slain the wielder of the Necrosword, a blade that is capable of killing otherwise immortal beings....

U.S. Marshals Ending Explained: Silly Twists Within Silly Twists Warner Bros By Lee Adams/Sept. 11, 2022 11:59 pm EST It’s probably fair to say that when “The Fugitive” came out in 1993, people weren’t exactly demanding a big screen version of the ’60s show; even the director and star said they’d never seen it. Even so, the gripping, intelligent thriller for grown-ups became a box office smash and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, the first TV adaptation to compete for the big prize....

Detectives don’t usually make good protagonists Lionsgate This is hardly a new rule, of course. Most successful detective stories don’t center around the detective character’s point of view. Most famously, the Sherlock Holmes stories were written from John Watson’s point of view, which helped to force Holmes to explain his deductions so they made sense to the average reader. Most adaptations of “Sherlock Holmes,” the good ones at least, also make sure to center Watson as the main character....

A Quiet Place Stuck With Cillian Murphy In A Way He Couldn’t Ignore Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 18, 2022 5:26 pm EST John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” is a rare specimen. A mostly dialogue-free monster movie that keeps its actual monsters off-screen for much of the runtime, the 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller relies on purely visual storytelling to generate tension and suspense — all the while ruminating on the difficulties of being a parent and the value of teaching one’s offspring to do more than survive, no matter how hopeless the future may seem....

An On-Set Fire Wasn’t Going To Stop Terrence Malick From Finishing Badlands Warner Bros. By Demetra Nikolakakis/Sept. 10, 2022 11:00 pm EST There’s something about Terrence Malick’s “Badlands” that haunts you long after the end credits. The movie might be a neo-noir based on grizzly real-life murders, but the grittiness that marked the original genre (and many other films released in the ’70s) is replaced with a simple, childlike worldview. How many other movies see their protagonists seek refuge in an elaborate, fantastical treehouse?...

Avengers: Infinity War Cut Out Several Flashbacks With A Young Thanos Disney By Witney Seibold/July 18, 2022 5:53 pm EST Jim Starlin created the character Thanos in 1973 to serve as an ultra-powerful alien threat to multiple heroes in the pages of Marvel Comics. In the world of the comics, Thanos was often described as a nihilist — in the philosophical sense — who was deeply in love with Death (in Marvel Comics, Death is a physical, corporeal entity)....

Casting Johnny Depp In A Nightmare On Elm Street Came Down To Wes Craven’s Daughters New Line Cinema By Matt Rainis/Oct. 14, 2022 5:28 pm EST Wes Craven is considered one of the pioneers of the horror genre. Responsible for not only one genre-defining franchise (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”) but two (“Scream”), Craven’s work on scary movies cannot be discounted. Of course, 1984’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” was perhaps Craven’s greatest hit, achieving huge success even with a limited theater release....

Disney Wish Delivers Magic Without Drowning In Pixie Dust Disney By Matt Cabral/July 29, 2022 1:00 pm EST The Disney Wish is Disney Cruise Line’s latest ship in its fleet of five. It’s also its biggest and the first to be built in the last decade. As such, its design is the most modern, trading the classic maritime aesthetic of its sister ships for a more contemporary, elegant style. This updated take also extends to the vessel’s many posh amenities....

And you thought the Lannisters were dysfunctional HBO There’s no overlooking the parallels between the extended Targaryen clan and the Lannisters in “Game of Thrones,” from the in-fighting to the incestuous romances. At least the latter group had Twyin Lannister, a patriarch who never stopped trying to BS his way out of his problems (right up until his untimely death on the toilet). Viserys, on the other hand, just wants to bury his head in the sand and spend all day playing with his ye olden LEGOs....

Horrific Conditions on Set Warner Bros. Pictures Although she was barely old enough to be considered a teenager when filming “The Exorcist,” Linda Blair endured a number of physical and emotional challenges on set. One particularly upsetting issue is the fact that Blair was haphazardly strapped to a mechanically rigged bed for one of the film’s terrifying possession scenes, which resulted in the young actress’s lower spine being fractured. Even worse, the trauma of that moment was immortalized forever when the take of her incurring the injury made it into the final cut of the film....

Reefer Madness in Cuesta Verde Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The scene is one of the most charming of the entire film, a glimpse behind the bedroom doors of an average family. As Steve and Diane roll and puff, the conversation turns to sleepwalking and the valid fear that their daughter might sleepwalk her way into their unfinished swimming pool. Steve allays his wife’s worries the way many loving partners do — by deploying goofiness, distending his belly and sucking it in before a mirror and saying, “Before, after…” It takes less than three minutes for the movie to invite its audience to join the loving — and believable — family....

The one that got away Marvel Studios Stahelski might not have started out as a superhero fan, but he’s since thrown his hat in the ring to bring Blade back to the silver screen. It’s been over 20 years since Wesley Snipes first shrugged on the leather trench coat — and kickstarted superhero flicks as we know them today. But it’s definitely high time for another “Blade” film, and Stahelski might have been a great fit for the project....

Kevin Bacon Blames The Sixth Sense For Tanking Stir Of Echoes’ Release Artisan Entertainment By Witney Seibold/Dec. 23, 2022 3:00 pm EST Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson, David Koepp’s 1999 film “Stir of Echoes” is one of the richer, more notably creepy ghost stories of its time. Set in a relatively cloistered, working-class suburb of Chicago, “Stir of Echoes” is about how years-old crimes can leave a mark on the entire community....

Knox Goes Away: Everything We Know Far About Michael Keaton’s Directorial Debut Hulu By Jenna Busch/Dec. 24, 2022 5:00 pm EST DC fans have been eagerly anticipating the return of Michael Keaton (“Dopesick,” “Spotlight”) as Batman in … well, he was supposed to appear in the canceled “Batgirl,” but as far as we know right now, no one will get to look at that. All signs point to the release of “The Flash” — despite the troubling issues with its star Ezra Miller — where Keaton will don the suit of the caped crusader, but nothing is 100 percent right now....

Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner Says HBO Never Even Read The Pilot Script AMC By Michael Boyle/Nov. 2, 2022 1:35 pm EST Considering that “Mad Men” was created by Matthew Weiner, a writer who worked on “The Sopranos” beforehand, it’s always been a bit of a mystery why the ’60s-set drama didn’t air on HBO. With the show’s mature storytelling and often very adult subject matter, “Mad Men” often seemed like an HBO show squeezed into a more restricted cable format....

Matt Smith’s Doctor Who Audition Caught Steven Moffat Completely Off Guard BBC By Shania Russell/July 14, 2022 5:23 pm EST Even before he was fighting for his life to make that Morbin’ movie worth his Morbin’ time, Matt Smith was dazzling casting rooms everywhere. And thankfully, those rooms were sometimes filled with the right people, ready to thrust him into the spotlight where he belongs. One such person was Steven Moffat, way back in 2009, when the writer/director/showrunner was just gearing up to begin work on what would become two defining series in his career, “Sherlock” and “Doctor Who....

Maximum Overdrive is fun, actually De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Okay, yes, “Maximum Overdrive” had a very mixed reception and an infamously troubled development. The plot surrounding every electronic machine gaining sentience and being compelled to kill its creators is undeniably absurd. Emilio Estevez spends every scene he’s in looking like he doesn’t want to be there. On a technical and storytelling level, “Maximum Overdrive” is a bad movie. However, who actually cares about that when it’s as fun and hilarious to watch as it is?...

Minari is wonderful A24 While the cast of “Minari” is small, it can be argued that its most crucial role is Soon-ja (Youn Yuh-jung), the matriarch of the Yi family and the mother of Monica (Ha Ye-ri). Despite her cold exterior, she does introduce the theme of continued resilience in the face of hardships to young David (Alan Kim), and the stroke she suffers is a pivotal turning point. So, how does she factor into the original ending of “Minari”?...

Mindy Kaling’s Velma: Release Date, Cast, And More HBO Max By Ben F. Silverio/Dec. 25, 2022 10:00 am 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.) Jinkies! Scooby-Doo’s brainy buddy Velma Dinkley is getting her own show thanks to acclaimed actress, comedian, writer, and producer Mindy Kaling. However, this isn’t the same bespectacled super sleuth with an affinity for orange we’ve come to know and love since her first appearance in “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!...