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‘I wanted to know what I was capable of’ Warner Bros. “The Whale” sees Brendan Fraser playing a 600-pound man attempting to reconnect with his teenage daughter after the death of his partner. As dicey of a premise as that can be in the hands of someone as naturally provocative as Darren Aronofsky, it is the kind of role Fraser has never really been able to play over the course of his career, as his wheelhouse has been mostly light comedy....

Dwayne Johnson Dipping Between Black Adam And Krypto Sounds Like A Trip To Watch Warner Bros. Pictures By Marcos Melendez/Aug. 10, 2022 3:15 pm EST The hierarchy of the DC Extended Universe is set to change with the upcoming film “Black Adam,” but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who plays the titular anti-hero, already has one foot in the DC superhero world. With the release of “DC League of Super-Pets”, Johnson jumpstarted a hopeful animated franchise featuring himself and his bestie Kevin Hart as Krypto and Ace, aka Bat-Hound, respectively....

Executives Loved Everything About Rick And Morty’s Pilot Except Justin Roiland Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Nov. 14, 2022 1:49 pm EST The first episode of “Rick and Morty” is probably one of the most successful pilots of an animated sitcom ever made, at least from a creative standpoint. Whereas “The Simpsons” starts off with an episode that feels completely different from the version of the show we’d come to know and love, the first episode of “Rick and Morty” already feels like a regular episode....

Glass Onion’s Daniel Craig And Rian Johnson On Filming In A Pool And The Mystery Of Benoit Blanc [Exclusive Interview] John Wilson/Netflix By Vanessa Armstrong/Dec. 22, 2022 8:00 am EST Rian Johnson’s latest “Knives Out” movie, “Glass Onion,” had a week-long stint in movie theaters last month, but it’s hitting Netflix tomorrow. The film comes after 2019’s very popular first “Knives Out” feature, where we were all introduced to Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc, a famous detective who is extremely good at uncovering the truth in messy situations....

How Escape From New York Found The Perfect Location For Its Dystopian Version Of The City AVCO Embassy Pictures By Travis Yates/Oct. 9, 2022 11:30 pm EST The term “movie magic” exists for a reason. Hollywood has been creating impossible worlds for us to escape to for more than a hundred years. Although the film industry got its start in New York City, borrowing talent from the theater for early productions, the movie business quickly settled in Los Angeles....

Ignoring The Fans Was The Only Way The Russo Brothers Could Get Through Endgame Marvel Studios By Sarah Musnicky/July 25, 2022 5:58 pm EST Let’s travel back in time. It is the year 2019. Fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have invested over a decade investing in all the different characters, stressing over the stakes, and more with each new addition to the story. All of this was building up to “Avengers: Endgame....

In Better Call Saul, Jimmy’s Greatest Strength Becomes Saul’s Greatest Downfall AMC By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 12, 2022 4:00 pm EST This post contains major spoilers for all of “Better Call Saul” thus far. “Better Call Saul” is a truly miraculous series, a prequel to one of the best and most acclaimed shows of the century, centered around a seemingly two-dimensional supporting character. Yet the show pulled off one magic trick after another, and made us care about the characters, both returning and brand new....

A master at work Universal Pictures Hawks’ work has been cited as an inspiration by some of the most prolific directors of all time, including Martin Scorsese. It’s no wonder that his work also made an impact on John Carpenter, who believed him to be a true master of his craft, according to an interview. “Howard Hawks was the kind of ultimate hero, to me. And I saw his movies as a kid, but I wasn’t familiar with some of the older ones and the scope of his work until I went to film school at USC… …Howard Hawks is invisible....

Mean Girls Musical Movie: Everything We Know About The Paramount+ Film Adaptation Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 9, 2022 7:14 pm EST Get out your pink shirts and hide your burn books because we’ve got some pretty fetch news to share. The Broadway adaptation of the hit movie “Mean Girls” is getting the movie musical treatment, bringing Cady, Janis, Damian, and the Plastics to the streaming screen. This means that “Mean Girls” is now joining the ranks of other favorites like “The Producers,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” and “Hairspray” as a movie that became a musical that then became a movie musical....

Only Murders In The Building Reveals All In Its Big Finale Hulu By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 23, 2022 12:00 pm EST Well, folks, we’ve arrived at the season 2 finale of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” The second season’s final episode has a perfectly fitting title for one in which the mystery of the death of Bunny Folger will finally be revealed: “I Know Who Did It.” Now, as we enter the finale, just keep in mind where we left off: though we know that Detective Kreps (Michael Rapaport) is Glitter Guy, the black-clad person who was lured into an NYC park to grab some so-called evidence connected to Bunny’s death, he’s not the sole person involved and the previous episode implied heavily that he was in cahoots with A-list podcaster Cinda Canning (Tina Fey)....

Owain Arthur On Tolkien Liking Interpretation, His Rings Of Power Dwarf Makeup, And His Robert Aramayo Bromance [Exclusive Interview] Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Nov. 18, 2022 7:00 pm EST Major spoilers ahead for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is a sweeping epic fantasy story set thousands of years before the Peter Jackson film trilogies for “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit....

A Clockwork Orange (1971) Warner Bros. Pictures The legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is certainly one of the greatest directors of all-time, but he’s no stranger to controversy. Kubrick’s 1971 masterpiece “A Clockwork Orange” generated significant blowback during its initial release. It was one of the rare mainstream films to be released with an “X” rating from the MPAA. Before the NC-17 rating was created in 1990, the “X” rating was used for films that were too extreme to simply be rated “R....

Shawnee Smith Fought Through A ‘Brutal’ Audition To Land Her Role In Chuck Russell’s The Blob TriStar Pictures By Anya Stanley/Nov. 26, 2022 4:00 pm EST The current generation of horror fans might know Shawnee Smith as the unstable Jigsaw protege, Amanda Young, in the “Saw” movie franchise, but older moviegoers remember the time she battled a supersized man-eating slimeball. Chuck Russell’s “The Blob” is one of the great movie remakes, retaining the small-town thrills of the 1958 original while improving elements like the incredible special effects needed to pull off the monster of the title....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Finally Got Around To Referencing An Infamous Next Generation Easter Egg Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 27, 2022 7:00 am EST Warning: The following article contains spoilers for the “Star Trek: Lower Decks” season 3 finale. In “Star Trek,” there are two phenomena called the Picard Maneuver. Within Trek canon, the maneuver was a clever tactical strategy meant to be employed in close-up, ship-to-ship battle. The idea was that if a Starfleet vessel were to throw itself into warp speed for a split second, zipping toward their opponent, it would temporarily look like there were two ships....

Best: Psycho II Universal Pictures Though it’s rarely credited as such, “Psycho II” might be the first true legacy sequel, coming 22 years after Alfred Hitchcock’s original film and once again starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Time works in its favor, as a real-life Bates likely would have been in prison for at least that long. It also helps that the original “Psycho” has a simple story that almost everyone knows, without many extra characters or subplots....

Ed cheers Shaun up in Shaun of the Dead Universal Pictures Horror comedies are exactly the type of film that lend themselves to the possibility of unscripted moments, with comedic minds frequently finding new bits and funnier line deliveries while in the heat of the moment. Edgar Wright already had a Western comedy called “A Fistful of Fingers” and multiple television credits, including the cult hit “Spaced,” under his belt before he exploded in popularity with 2004’s “Shaun of the Dead....

The Biggest Challenge Contact Faced Was Coming Up With An Ending Warner Bros. By Christian Gainey/Sept. 16, 2022 10:52 am EST According to Vulture, Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan, spent the early ’80s writing a film treatment based on Sagan’s 1985 novel, “Contact.” After cycling through a few different production companies, a slew of screenwriters, and two directors, the film finally made it to the big screen in 1997....

The Daily Stream: Nine Perfect Strangers Reminds Us That We’re All Searching For Something Hulu By Jenna Busch/Nov. 16, 2022 8:08 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Nine Perfect Strangers” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: We’re all searching for something. We’re all battered and bruised, no matter what face we present to the world....

The Daily Stream: Six Decades Later, The Dick Van Dyke Show Is Still A Breath Of Comedic Fresh Air CBS By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 28, 2022 5:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “The Dick Van Dyke Show” Where You Can Stream It: Peacock, TubiTV, Freevee, Crackle The Pitch: Carl Reiner’s classic 1960s sitcom taps a comedy vein that’s still familiar today....

What goes into a season of The Crown? Netflix Each season of “The Crown” spans roughly a decade’s worth of history and almost every hour-long episode acts like a self-contained story. It’s like a series of mini-movies about different points in time, all connected by the common thread of Queen Elizabeth’s historic reign. While one episode might zero in on a specific historic event, another picks a theme and traces it over the course of months or even years....