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The House Of The Dragon Season Finale Is Summed Up In Two Close-Ups HBO By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 24, 2022 3:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the “House of the Dragon” season 1 finale. History is never as mythical as people make it out to be. Take “Fire & Blood,” the 2018 George R.R. Martin novel that inspired “House of the Dragon.” Within the “Game of Thrones” universe, “Fire & Blood” is a historical text that alleges to reveal the truth about the fall of House Targaryen, as written and researched by Archmaester Gyldayn....

The Rough Cut Of Scarface Was A Disaster In The Eyes Of Oliver Stone Universal By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 21, 2022 5:30 am EST Long before Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” became a pop cultural obsession for the hip-hop community, it was considered a commercial misfire and an artistic failure for its director. The modernized riff on Howard Hawks 1932 gangster classic was an epic of wretched excess. It was crass, bloated, and unremittingly gruesome....

A franchise for franchise’s sake Disney “John Carter” was directed by Andrew Stanton, who had previously made the Oscar-winning Pixar films “WALL-E” and “Finding Nemo.” But he had his sights set on a gigantic, live-action sci-fi franchise based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, seeking to adapt his “John Carter of Mars” series of novels for the big screen on the largest scale imaginable. These books date back to 1911, meaning that at the time of the movie’s release, the tales were more than 100 years old....

Why Kumail Nanjiani’s Welcome To Chippendales Homework Involved Watching A Bunch Of Classic Hollywood Movies [Exclusive] 20th Television By Witney Seibold/Nov. 14, 2022 4:30 pm EST In the upcoming miniseries “Welcome to Chippendales,” actor Kumail Nanjiani plays Somen “Steve” Banerjee, who founded the famous erotic all-male revue show in 1979. The story goes that Banerjee bought a disused nightclub and made it lucrative by featuring stripping and, as was novel at the time, mud wrestling....

YouTube Scores NFL Sunday Ticket Rights Beginning Next Season Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Dec. 22, 2022 11:23 am EST “We’re excited to bring NFL Sunday Ticket to YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels and usher in a new era of how fans across the United States access, watch, and follow the NFL. For a number of years we have been focused on increased digital distribution of our games and this strategic partnership is yet another example of us looking towards the future and building the next generation of NFL fans....

2008 Horror Hit The Strangers Is Getting A Remake Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 13, 2022 4:34 pm EST In horror news that makes you go “hmm,” apparently 2008’s terrifying home invasion movie “The Strangers” is getting a remake. Deadline is reporting (via Fangoria) that a new “Strangers” movie is not only going to happen but that it’s already in production. And while the idea of messing with such a heart-poundingly intense original film might raise a few eyebrows, plot details about the new film honestly don’t sound like a direct remake so much as a continuation of the film’s universe a la 2018’s “The Strangers: Prey at Night....

Bloopers That Snuck Their Way Into Sci-Fi Movies Paramount Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Sept. 8, 2022 4:37 pm EST Science fiction films require attention to detail from both the audience and the filmmakers. The best sci-fi movies of all time — such as “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Blade Runner,” or “The Matrix” — are so packed with details that you can rewatch them over and over again, discovering new things each time....

Creepy New Releases Coming To Netflix In October 2022 Netflix By Bee Delores/Sept. 28, 2022 1:28 pm EST Spooky season is about to pop off on Netflix! Throughout October, the streaming giant boasts a festive and haunted lineup, spanning original television series, films, and true-crime productions. Acclaimed animation filmmaker Henry Selick makes his impressive comeback with a new animated feature, “Wendell & Wild,” alongside “Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” — a chilling new anthology show....

Did You Catch This Firefly Easter Egg In Cabin In The Woods? Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/Aug. 18, 2022 3:42 pm EST Drew Goddard’s 2011 horror/comedy “The Cabin in the Woods” is a fun, self-aware deconstruction of cabin-in-the-woods horror movies, a subgenre that has been lampooned more often than it has been presented earnestly. The film has an incredibly elaborate setup: A group of college kids is preparing for a vacation in the titular cabin....

It’s A Purposeful Choice Warner Bros. When it comes to dialogue unintelligibility, one name looms above all others: Christopher Nolan. The director of “Tenet,” “Interstellar,” and “The Dark Knight Rises” is one of the most successful filmmakers of his generation, and he uses his power to make sure his films push the boundaries of sound design, often resulting in scenes in which audiences literally cannot understand what his characters say. And it’s not just audiences who have trouble with some Nolan films: the director has even revealed that other filmmakers have reached out to him to complain about this issue in his movies....

Welcome back to Westeros HBO “House of the Dragon” doesn’t roar to a start the way you might have expected from a show with “dragon” in the title. There’s plenty of fire and blood to go around in “The Heirs of The Dragon,” but it’s very telling that when we begin, it’s with a history lesson. Narrated by an older Rhaenyra Targaryen (a role shared by Milly Alcock and Emma D’Arcy), the series sets the table for conflict: before his death, the old King Jaehaerys (Michael Carter) called a council of 1000 lords to help determine his heir....

How Halloween Ends Pays Tribute To One Of Halloween’s Classic Posters Universal Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Oct. 17, 2022 5:18 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Halloween Ends.” In the span of just one weekend, it became clear that the conversation around whether “Halloween Ends” is an abysmal finale or a bold subversion of lofty expectations has no intentions of slowing down anytime soon. The moment those blue credits showed up, it sent a signal that this was going to be something different than more Michael Myers rampage, and it largely works....

How Rhaenyra’s Return To King’s Landing Was Changed From House Of The Dragon’s Script HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 11, 2022 5:52 pm EST Flexibility and adaptability are the names of the game for filmmakers who want to keep their head above water — especially while shooting a series as sprawling and epic as “House of the Dragon.” As much as the very highly-viewed season 1 relied on the strength of its scripts, certain aspects couldn’t always be translated perfectly from the page....

Humphrey Bogart Went Tit For Tat With John Huston On The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Set Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 23, 2022 2:07 pm EST There isn’t a finer film about the self-destructive power of greed than John Huston’s “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” It’s Huston at his rugged, fiercely unsentimental best. The tale of three down-on-their-luck Americans scrounging about a treacherous mountain region in search of gold features loads of quotable, hard-bitten dialogue and a boldly unflattering performance from Humphrey Bogart as the madly rapacious Fred C....

Indie Horror Skinamarink Is Getting A Theatrical And Streaming Release – Here’s Why That Matters Shudder By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 5, 2022 6:00 pm EST If you’ve been keeping up with Film Twitter drama or HorrorTok trends of late, this news is for you, and it’s some of the best we’ve gotten in the horror genre for some time. Microbudget horror sensation “Skinamarink” will receive a theatrical run through IFC Midnight beginning on January 13, 2023....

Is season 1 purely a prologue? HBO When the actors for Rhaenyra and Alicent changed from Milly Alcock to Emma D’Arcy and Emily Carey to Olivia Cooke, respectively, after episode 5, that seemed to signal the end of a half-season prologue for “House of the Dragon.” We get the childhood backstories of these two friends turned rivals, and then we’ll jump 10 years into the future to start the real story....

Censorship Kills Cinema Warner Bros. Entertainment Let’s start at the beginning, here. First, there was the book. William March’s 1954 American novel “The Bad Seed” focuses on a mother’s realization that her little girl is a cold-blooded killer — sort of the opposite of Lynne Ramsey’s “We Need To Talk About Kevin.” The book then became a stage play by Maxwell Anderson, and then John Lee Mahin adapted the play into a 1956 film....

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Wasn’t Clicking For George Clooney Until Joel Coen Stepped In Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By Matt Rainis/Nov. 15, 2022 1:07 pm EST Joel and Ethan Coen are some of the most consistent filmmakers around. Nearly every film they put out seems to be just as intelligent and well-written as the others, with tons of memorable characters. In 2000, coming off the great success of hits like “Fargo” and “Raising Arizona,” the Coen brothers were hot as they’d ever been....

Return To Seoul Review: A Restless, Roaming Reverie On Cultural Identity [NYFF] Sony Pictures Classics By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 17, 2022 10:00 am EST Cultural identity is a messy business. Its boundaries are undefined, its meaning is oft-debated, and yet it means so much and so little all at once. For transracial adoptees, that meaning is all the more muddled. Many children of Asian descent who are adopted by (usually white) parents from different countries find themselves perpetual outsiders — they look different than the friends and family they grow up alongside, but have a hard time finding a comfortable place in the cultures of their biological parents....

Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter Star And Beloved Character Actor, Has Died At 72 Warner Bros. By Erin Brady/Oct. 14, 2022 1:44 pm EST Robbie Coltrane, a character actor perhaps best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, has passed away at the age of 72. He is survived by his two children. Coltrane is a recognizable figure in British media, having gotten his start in small comedic roles and theatre performances....