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The 15 Best Films Of The 1920s Decla-Film By Audrey Fox/Nov. 8, 2022 11:17 am EST A few decades after the first experiments with the new technology of film, cinema in the 1920s was beginning to come of age. Filmmakers mastered the essentials and embarked on ambitious storytelling projects with increased flair and sophistication, turning movies from novelty to art in just a few short years. The film industry began operating at full capacity in the 1920s, churning out feature-length productions on a scale and frequency that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier....

With 25 nominations, Succession leads the pack HBO If you think the Roy family is ruthless when they’re going up against each other, then watching them unite will shake you to your core. “Succession” has absolutely dominated the nominations tally, with 25 total nods and an apparent chokehold on all the acting categories. While no one’s denying how incredible the latest season of “Succession” was, its success in the acting categories probably has a lot to do with Emmy’s voting procedure....

Why it’s essential viewing Universal Pictures When it comes to werewolf movies, “The Wolf Man” is the alpha of the pack. This is the kind of black-and-white creature feature “Werewolf by Night” was homaging. It did much to establish the tropes of later films, such as the use of silver as a weapon. (In this case, it comes not from a bullet, but a wolf-headed cane.) The title monster doesn’t rear his furry head for the first two-thirds of the movie and his actual screen time thereafter is rather limited....

The Greatest Star Wars Moments Of 2022 Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 13, 2022 11:00 am EST 2022 was full of more surprises than a trash-talking son of Skywalker, and that’s just on the “Star Wars” side of things — to say nothing of the strangeness that unfolded in our own galaxy these last 12 months. Case in point? The long-awaited Boba Fett “solo” project didn’t really hit its stride until another character hijacked Boba’s turn to have the spotlight, the best “Star Wars” releases of the year were a prequel to a prequel and a sequel to a prequel, and Studio Ghibli casually dropped an animated Grogu short like it was no big deal....

The Ring At 20: Gore Verbinski’s Horror Hit Has Evolved Into A Masterpiece DreamWorks Pictures By Lex Briscuso/Oct. 18, 2022 2:00 pm EST Gore Verbinski’s 2002 re-imagining of “The Ring” was once the most terrifying film in the world to me. A friend brought the DVD over when I was in elementary school and the idea of watching a horror movie was nearly scarier than the act of actually watching one....

Tulsa King Teaser: Sylvester Stallone Is Taking Over The Tulsa Mafia For Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Sept. 7, 2022 2:56 pm EST Sylvester Stallone is a mafia capo who has just been released from prison after 25 years in the new Paramount+ series “Tulsa King.” The series, which marks Stallone’s first time working in scripted TV, comes to us from — let me give you a sec to think about this — Taylor Sheridan....

Why Splice Bombed At The Box Office, And What We Can Learn From It Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 12, 2022 3:49 pm EST American-born Canadian director Vincenzo Natali has shown a knack for being tuned into the zeitgeist of both the sci-fi and horror scenes. His 1997 feature film debut, “Cube,” preceded the “Saw” and “Escape Room” movies in pitting strangers up against sadistic traps meant to test their wits and will to live....

With Prisoner’s Daughter, Catherine Hardwicke Is Still Making Gritty Films About Independent Women [Exclusive Interview] Capstone Studios By Ryan Coleman/Sept. 19, 2022 12:02 pm EST Hearing Catherine Hardwicke’s name may make you think of the 2000s. Back when only one woman had ever won an Academy Award for Best Director and only two or three had ever been nominated, Hardwicke’s output of independent, idiosyncratic films put her in a rare category: female directors with household names....

All Quiet On The Western Front Teaser: Netflix’s New Take On The Wartime Classic Netflix By Ryan Scott/Sept. 6, 2022 11:20 am EST Author Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet On the Western Front” is undoubtedly a stone cold classic of the wartime genre, offering a gritty, zeroed in perspective on what it was like to be on the front lines during one of the most horrific wars in human history....

Andor Episode 8 Is One Bleak Hour Of Star Wars, But It Offers A Glimmer Of Hope Lucasfilm By Bryan Young/Oct. 26, 2022 9:52 am EST There will be spoilers for “Andor” Episode VIII – “Narkina 5.” As the middle chapter of an arc, it’s no surprise that the eighth episode of “Andor” — titled “Narkina 5” — takes characters down to dark places and makes the Empire seem impossible to stop....

Chevy Chase And Dan Aykroyd To Reunite For R.L. Stine Adaptation Zombie Town NBC By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 29, 2022 1:05 pm EST R.L. Stine fans, rejoice! We seem to be the middle of a renaissance for projects based on the writing of “The Stephen King of Kids Horror.” Thanks to the popularity of Leigh Janiak’s terrific “Fear Street” film trilogy, Netflix is reported to be cooking up even more movies based on Stine’s slasher-mystery property....

Cool Stuff: Appease Your Hungry Home With The Vinyl Soundtrack For 1977’s House Waxwork Records By Erin Brady/Oct. 21, 2022 12:00 pm EST Don’t you hate it when you have to go to your aunt’s house, only to get possessed by your aunt’s ghost and have her house eat your best friends? What a bummer! We do have to admit, though, that it makes one hell of a trippy and fun film....

George Harrison Thought Terry Gilliam Owed Him An Apology Over Time Bandits Avco Embassy Pictures By Mike Shutt/Oct. 23, 2022 3:27 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a director who has a seemingly boundless, whimsical imagination, you almost never hear stories about wonderful times making films directed by Terry Gilliam. He has a reputation as a hard-headed perfectionist and someone not particularly interested in compromising....

Heartbreak Feels Good For One More Year As Nicole Kidman Renews Contract With AMC AMC Theaters By Lex Briscuso/Aug. 5, 2022 11:00 am EST Nicole Kidman has long been one of the most popular actors of our time, but the popularity she’s seen surrounding her new role as the face of the AMC theaters chain is pretty much unprecedented. Her pre-show commercial has become a magical calling card to our love of movies, and it appears that she will continue to inspire us (and make us laugh) through further AMC spots....

Here: Everything We Know So Far About Robert Zemeckis’ Graphic Novel Adaptation Starring Tom Hanks 20th Century Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 30, 2022 12:53 pm EST Legendary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has always loved a good technical challenge. His early classics like “Back to the Future” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” balance their visual effects wizardry with precise storytelling. Even his infamous motion-capture animated movies are pretty seamless in terms of their narratives, once you look past their uncanny CG humans....

How No Country For Old Men Landed In The Coen Brothers’ Lap Miramax Films By Lee Adams/July 24, 2022 6:00 pm EST Throughout their career, the Coen Brothers have excelled at writing verbose characters and snappy dialogue. You have the screwball back-and-forth in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” John Goodman’s folksy salesman in “Barton Fink,” and Frances McDormand’s overbearing gossip in “Raising Arizona,” to name just a few examples. There are exceptions, of course....

Indiana Jones 5 Concept Art Teases Indy’s Final Globetrotting Adventure [D23] Disney By Ryan Scott/Sept. 9, 2022 1:42 pm EST It is almost time to go on one (presumably) last ride with Indiana Jones, as Harrison Ford is putting on the fedora once again for “Indiana Jones 5.” One can only hope that this will turn out to be a more fitting send-off for Ford’s iconic character than “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

Jonathan Frakes Thinks Picard’s Terry Matalas Adds Something To Star Trek That Gene Roddenberry Rarely Did Paramount By Witney Seibold/Dec. 1, 2022 2:41 pm EST Television writer Terry Matalas began his professional career in “Star Trek,” having worked as a production assistant and story writer for “Enterprise” in 2003. He would go on to be the story editor for the assassin show “Nikita,” and the developer for the TV series “12 Monkeys....

From Austria to Ohio Universal Pictures In a 2015 interview with Bloody Disgusting, Michael Dougherty spoke about needing to pick and choose specific aspects from Krampus’ centuries-old folklore to include in the PG-13 horror comedy. “We’ve definitely Americanized him a little bit, in that it takes place in an American suburb in Ohio,” Dougherty admitted. “And then we added the idea that he has helpers like Santa Claus does, so, Krampus basically has the diabolical version of everything that Santa Claus has, so elves, toys, and other things....

Luther: The Fallen Sun Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 21, 2022 5:28 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.) Detective dramas are a dime a dozen, but the BBC series “Luther” was possibly the most intense and sometimes shocking police procedural of all time....