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Inside Trailer: Willem Dafoe’s Thieving Ways Get Him Locked In A Penthouse Focus Features By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 17, 2022 10:31 pm EST Like many of us in the 2020s, Willem Dafoe is no stranger to being stranded in a single location. His crusty old lighthouse keeper in “The Lighthouse” spent the whole movie marooned on an island with Robert Pattinson. (Not a bad way to spend 109 minutes … for him, since Pattinson’s character had to endure his flatulence....

Kate Hudson Was Going To Get Cast In Glass Onion Whether Rian Johnson Liked It Or Not Netflix By Mike Shutt/Nov. 14, 2022 5:36 pm EST After every actor who wasn’t already in “Knives Out” watched “Knives Out,” I cannot imagine the level of jealousy flaring up inside each of their brains. Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunit features an ensemble of talent, each given delicious characters to play, mixing and matching in scenes with some of the best actors working today....

Martin Scorsese Remembers Working With The ‘Irreplaceable’ Paul Sorvino On Goodfellas Warner Bros. By Lex Briscuso/July 27, 2022 9:20 am EST Paul Sorvino, the accomplished actor behind crucial parts in “Goodfellas” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet,” died on July 25 at age 83, but director Martin Scorsese was quick to share his memories of the performer in the wake of his heartbreaking passing. In a statement (via The Wrap), Scorsese penned:...

Matt Damon Wasn’t Very Interested In The Science Behind The Martian By Matt Rainis/Nov. 12, 2022 8:00 pm EST A lot of Hollywood’s greatest actors are willing to do almost anything to get into character. From method thespians like Daniel Day-Lewis willing to alienate everyone they work with, to folks like Christian Bale going through dangerous body transformations, some actors are willing to go to some wild lengths for the sake of their craft....

A retro Ocean’s reboot Warner Bros. This “Ocean’s Eleven” movie will actually be the third team-up between the “La La Land” actor and the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” star: they also both appeared in 2015’s financial crisis retelling “The Big Short,” though they didn’t share screen time. Gosling recently starred in Netflix’s wildly expensive action comedy “The Gray Man,” his first on-screen role in four years. Robbie, meanwhile, was last seen in 2012’s “The Sucide Squad,” but has several projects in the works, including Gosling collaborator Damien Chazelle’s new film “Babylon....

One Of Michael Mann’s Favorite Moments In Heat Highlights What Makes Robert De Niro’s Performance Great Warner Bros. Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 23, 2022 9:30 am EST When thinking about Michael Mann’s classic film “Heat,” plenty of “best movie moments” come to mind. Whether it be the diner conversation between Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) or the enthralling chase sequence at the end of the film, “Heat” has plenty of memorable moments that help define the characters and move the story along....

Prey For The Devil Fails To Scare Up Big Business At The Box Office As Black Adam Reigns Supreme Lionsgate By Ryan Scott/Oct. 31, 2022 11:25 am EST Happy Halloween, fellow box office aficionados. Famously, Halloween weekend has not been a huge one for the movie business, but a horror movie or two can slip in and make some solid dough. This past weekend, Lionsgate tried to slip the exorcism flick “Prey for the Devil” through the cracks as the spooky season offering....

Reboot Star Keegan-Michael Key Talks Edgy Comedy, Emulating 90s Sitcoms, And More [Exclusive Interview] Hulu By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2022 8:00 am EST There have been endless reboots and revivals of various sitcoms from television history, but Hulu’s “Reboot” is bringing back a 2000s sitcom you’ve never seen. The new comedy series from “Modern Family” creator Steve Levitan puts a meta spin on the sitcom revival trend by following the cast of a fictional but familiar sitcom called “Step Right Up” as they embark on bringing back the series for today’s audience....

We already live in a Blade Runner world (well, sort of) Warner Bros. I know what you’re thinking. We are a long, long way from practically-functional flying cars, and despite advancements in artificial intelligence, AI singularity is still an arena of scientific debate. However, “Blade Runner” correctly predicted a near-future (which is our present, unfortunately) shaped by cold-blooded capitalist interests that have adverse effects on the environment and its resources. Per a 2019 BBC article that talks about the film’s prescience, the socio-political degradation and environmental collapse in “Blade Runner” “is not too far off from where we are today” — a world where the marginalized suffer due to the whims of those in power....

School Ties Shot Three Alternate Endings To Replace The Original Ending Audiences Didn’t Like Paramount By Jeff Kelly/Dec. 13, 2022 4:04 pm EST Brendan Fraser is experiencing something of a career renaissance, and really, we couldn’t be happier. While he’s getting critical acclaim — and a probable Oscar nomination — for “The Whale,” he has put in outstanding work throughout his career. Yes, we’re even including “Encino Man,” in which he performed some genuinely terrific physical comedy....

Season 1 Of The Quantum Leap Reboot Will Be Walking A ‘Tightrope’ With Its Writing NBC By Christian Gainey/Sept. 23, 2022 2:20 pm EST A large part of my childhood was spent in front of our living room television, absorbing whatever show my mom was engrossed in at the time. Luckily for me, she had pretty awesome taste, so I grew up on shows like “The X-Files,” “Twin Peaks,” and “Quantum Leap....

Shows Like Invincible You’ll Want To Binge Right Now Prime Video By Liam Gaughan/July 19, 2022 3:33 pm EST If you think that all cartoons about caped crusaders are for audiences of all ages, Prime Video’s “Invincible” will shock you with its violence and cynicism. Based on the Image Comics series by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, “Invincible” is similar to other projects by “The Walking Dead” co-creator Kirkman....

Skeptics Are Eli Roth’s Favorite Subjects For A Ghost Ruined My Life Blue Ant Media By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 18, 2022 2:31 pm EST It’s not surprising that Eli Roth (“Hostel,” “The House With a Clock in its Walls”) has transitioned somewhat into the role of TV host. Roth is a veritable encyclopedia of genre film and loves just talking movies. As far as movie geeks go, he’s also a little more presentable and “TV ready” than the average horror fan (I know, I’ve been to A LOT of horror conventions)....

The Better Call Saul Finale Features The Most Powerful Saul Goodman Transformation Yet AMC By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 16, 2022 1:00 pm EST Over the course of “Better Call Saul,” we’ve watched with equal parts fascination and horror as Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) has fought a losing battle against his own worst inclinations, inching ever so closely towards becoming the heartless criminal lawyer we all know he’ll inevitably become. It’s in the name, after all....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Cut A Hilarious Dating Montage Between Weird Al And Madonna [Exclusive] The Roku Channel By Mike Shutt/Nov. 4, 2022 3:30 pm EST One of the funniest inventions of “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is the notion of Madonna, played wonderfully by Evan Rachel Wood, romantically glomming onto Daniel Radcliffe’s Weird Al to try and get him to parody one of her songs, thus raising her level of fame to the stratosphere....

Why Netflix Canceled The Midnight Club, According To Mike Flanagan Netflix Of course, after so much critical and commercial success, it sounded like a no-brainer to expand the “Flanaverse” by serving as a producer and writer on smaller projects while working towards his main courses. “The Midnight Club,” loosely adapted from the Christopher Pike novel of the same name, was Flanagan’s attempt at exactly that. The series followed a group of teenagers living in the Brightcliffe Home hospice care in the Pacific Northwest....

Why Raymond Lee Thinks Of Quantum Leap As An ‘Actor’s Dream’ NBC By Ben F. Silverio/Sept. 22, 2022 8:32 am EST There are a number of reasons to become an actor. Sure, there’s always the possibility of fame and fortune, but most actors are probably (hopefully) in it because they love storytelling. Or maybe they love embodying different characters. They might even look at acting as an escape into other worlds when the real world gets to be too much sometimes....

Why The Munsters Still Matter, Especially To Horror Fans, According To Jeff Daniel Phillips [Exclusive] Universal Pictures Home Entertainment By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 27, 2022 9:30 am EST In a real blast from the past, the ’60s sitcom about a family made up of vampires, werewolves, and a Frankenstein’s Monster gets a modern update in director Rob Zombie’s adaptation of “The Munsters.” While not nearly as popular as its macabre counterpart in “The Addams Family,” the charm emanating from the CBS series has developed a cult following of its own in the five-plus decades since it went off the air....

What might have been Paramount Pictures So what was the Tarantino “Star Trek” film going to be about? While it didn’t get particularly far along in development, we do have some tantalizing bits of information about the plot. Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant”) was set to pen the script from an idea of Tarantino’s, according to Variety, and spoke in 2021 to Bulletproof Screenwriting podcast (via TrekMovie.com) about what they’d been working on....

Zach Galligan Knew Just How To Act Opposite Gremlins’ Gizmo Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Oct. 31, 2022 4:09 pm EST The old showbiz maxim goes, “Never work with children or animals,” but what about mogwai? That was Zach Galligan’s challenge on the set of Joe Dante’s 1984 creature feature “Gremlins.” Part black comedy and part family adventure, the Chris Columbus-penned story follows a young man who receives a mythic furry creature as a pet and, once that pet multiplies, the havoc that ensues....