Things Predicted In Futuristic Sci-Fi Movies That Never Came True Tri-Star Pictures By Jack Hawkins/July 6, 2022 5:44 pm EST In film, futurism often falls within the domain of science fiction, a genre that’s been part of cinema since the medium’s inception. For example, 1902’s “A Trip to the Moon” depicted a surreal vision of a spacecraft crashing into the moon, creating perhaps the most iconic image of cinema’s silent age....
Tim Curry Prefers Psychological Fear Rather Than Blood, Gore, And Make-Up ABC By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 15, 2022 4:03 pm EST Out of the roughly 350 million books that Stephen King has sold throughout his career, the 1138 pages he wrote about an evil, trans-dimensional clown may encompass his most famous, lasting work. “It” hit bookstands in September of 1986 and went on terrorize suburban parents and the few brave children who stole a copy off the family bookshelf to read alone with a flashlight under their bed covers....
Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio Warner Bros./MovieTone News Casting for Monroe’s first husband, a factory worker who became a police officer, has not been announced, but her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, will be played by “Boardwalk Empire” star Bobby Cannavale. DiMaggio, the “Yankee Clipper,” was one of the most famous baseball players to ever live. Like Monroe, he was a rags-to-riches story, overcoming his own difficult childhood to become a sports legend....
Will Rick And Morty Season 6 Double Down On The Show’s Most Controversial Episode? Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Sept. 7, 2022 8:00 am EST When it comes to throwing a game-changing plot development into your season premiere, you’d think “destroying the entire Earth” would be a step too far. Most shows couldn’t continue after such an event, but the new “Rick and Morty” episode “Solaricks” does it almost as an afterthought....
A strange brew Disney “Willow,” like a lot of recent streaming series, is a feature film story stretched out to televisual episodic structure. There are some initial twists and turns regarding our protagonists, such as why Kit’s so displeased at being betrothed to a dorky stranger (it’s not just because he’s a dorky stranger) or the current whereabouts of Elora Danan. But the ways that these supposed shockers take form – especially the surprise regarding Kit’s personal life – takes an awfully long time to get going, doled out over the languorously-paced opening episodes....
Mysterious motivations Prime Video Ever since his highly anticipated introduction, a figure like Adar (Joseph Mawle) has benefited from the built-in mystique surrounding his place in the canon. Is he Sauron in disguise? Or another obscure character pulled from deep within the lore? Or perhaps a brand-new villain altogether? As fun as that speculation may be, however, all pales in comparison to the simple fact of whether or not the character has been engaging to watch....
The limits of D Sentai Filmworks Ashida and his staff had limited resources to work with while creating “Vampire Hunter D.” While there are moments of effective animation, the film resorts to cheap tricks that wouldn’t be out of place in an early television production in order to save costs. Footage is repeated, speed lines substitute for movement, and people’s legs are kept out of frame so as to avoid animating walking or running....
10 Horror Movies That Deserve The Legacy Sequel Treatment Paramount Pictures By Chad Collins/Oct. 2, 2022 2:56 pm EST Legacy horror sequels, dubbed “requels” in 2022’s “Scream” revival, are all the rage right now. While horror remakes were once the genre’s bread and butter (it seems like every property was dredged up at one point or another) filmmakers have now shifted to the next best (possibly even better) thing. Why remake a movie when you can just make a long-overdue sequel?...
A Character I’ve Always Been Drawn To DC Comics It’s rare to see an adult version of Dick Grayson in DC projects: Chris O’Donnell played him in “Batman & Robin,” and Brenton Thwaites plays him in the television series “Titans.” Now Massoud is angling to play the part in the DCEU, whether in the studio’s planned “Nightwing” movie that’s currently in development or potentially in one of the many projects DC is developing specifically for HBO Max....
All Quiet On The Western Front Is A Fiction, But The Horror Of World War I Is All Too Real Reiner Bajo / Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 11, 2022 5:57 pm EST War is hell, but a surprising number of movies about war seem to glorify it. Even movies that are anti-war frequently have heroic characters or heroic moments, making them inspiring stories of human endurance. Few delve into the fact that war is always horrible, moments of heroism are overshadowed by its misery, and there’s nothing worth glorifying....
‘Eyes open, possibilities everywhere’ Lucasfilm The early portions of episode 12 lay out reason after reason for why it’d be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision for Cassian to make his way back to Ferrix on account of Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) death. The Imperial occupiers are baiting the trap, Andor’s closest friends worry about what he’ll do next, and one even forms a plan to betray him for a bounty....
The end for Earn, Alfred, Van, and Darius After a European tour that took up all of the characters’ time in season 3, the crew is returning to Atlanta for the fourth and final season. While it was a lot of fun watching Darius in Amsterdam or Van having a wild Parisian adventure, part of what makes the show so great is how it depicts the city of Atlanta itself. I spent more than 20 years living just outside of the city and the series’ magical realism is the closest I’ve ever felt to the way that city actually is....
Blade Runner’s Journey From Book To Screen Technically Started With Martin Scorsese Warner Bros. By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 23, 2022 2:00 pm EST Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick wrote numerous novels and short stories that question the nature of reality and human perception by focusing on characters in capitalistic, dystopian futures. His 1968 novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is one of those works — it follows a bounty hunter named Rick Deckard who is assigned to “retire” six androids who escaped to off-world colonies....
Catherine Zeta-Jones Cast In ‘Rock Of Ages’ Tinseltown/Shutterstock Catherine Zeta-Jones hasn’t been on screen in the past few years (her last film, Bart Freundlich’s 2009 effort The Rebound, is still seeking distribution) but she is starting to get new roles. She’ll be in Lay the Favorite with Bruce Willis, and now Adam Shankman has cast her as a new character in his film adaptation of the stage musical Rock of Ages....
Central Park Season 3: Release Date, Cast, And More Apple TV+ By BJ Colangelo/July 19, 2022 3:39 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.) If you’ve ever watched “Bob’s Burgers” and thought to yourself, “Hey, I wish this show had at least 2x the musical numbers,” the Apple TV+ series “Central Park” is just what the doctor ordered....
A mind-portal and a forbidden office romance Universal Pictures Breaks between television seasons gave Kaufman time to start on a new project. “I wrote ‘Being John Malkovich’ while I was waiting for [the next sitcom] hiring season,” he explained. Still, he never imagined that the screenplay would be used as anything other than an example of his writing capabilities. “My idea was that I would write a script and use it to get work,” Kaufman claimed....
Clint Eastwood Doesn’t Do Much Thinking When It Comes To Choosing Films Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 4, 2022 10:00 pm EST On paper, Clint Eastwood seems to have enjoyed a well plotted out career. In the early 1960s, he made himself known to American television viewers via his role as Rowdy Yates on “Rawhide.” From there, he segued to the newfangled Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone as the laconic “Man with No Name” in the “Dollars Trilogy....
Daniel Craig Has No Hard Feelings About His Casino Royale Casting Controversy Sony Pictures By Miyako Pleines/Oct. 1, 2022 9:00 pm EST If you’re a James Bond fan, you have a favorite 007. That’s just the way it is. Sean Connery’s original depiction of the alluring spy typically tops the list as “most beloved.” Still, there are those who prefer Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton as their agent of choice. ’90s kids will have a soft spot for Pierce Brosnan....
End Of The Road Trailer: ‘Nobody Messes With My Family’ Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 15, 2022 4:36 pm EST When does an opportunity taken turn into the worst decision of your life? Netflix has released a new trailer for the upcoming thriller “End of the Road” starring Queen Latifah (“The Equalizer”) and Chris Bridges (The “Fast & Furious” franchise). What begins as a family traveling across the country to start new lives, quickly turns into a run for those lives....
House Of The Dragon’s Showrunner Isn’t Committing To George R.R. Martin’s ‘Four Season’ Claim HBO By Michael Boyle/Nov. 1, 2022 1:27 pm EST A lot of people thought that HBO could never recapture the public goodwill that was lost after that questionable “Game of Thrones” ending. And a lot of people were wrong. “House of the Dragon” was a major ratings and critical success, one that basically guaranteed a renewal from the moment the viewership numbers for the premiere rolled in....
