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Suncoast: Everything We Know So Far About The Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson Drama Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 20, 2022 2:51 pm EST Laura Chinn has written for projects like “The Mick,” “Children’s Hospital,” and “Florida Girls,” which she created and starred in. She’s also acted in projects like “Happy Endings,” and “Warrior.” If that wasn’t enough, Chinn had a script selected for 2020’s The Black List, a grouping of all the unproduced scripts of note from that year....

Marvel Comics releases a trailer for Secret X-Men Marvel Comics is doing an awful lot with the “X-Men” right now and for those who are looking to do some catching up, now might be the time. The entire recent “Hellfire Gala” event is currently available to read on Marvel Unlimited (which is essentially like Netflix for Marvel Comics), including what is being dubbed the “Secret X-Men” arc of “X-Men Unlimited.” For those who may be interested, the above trailer gives a much better idea of what that entails....

‘There are other plagues’ Oof, that’s pretty intense. Considering the power that Blanchett brings to the screen, I’m now dying to know more. Is Lydia Tár mad with power? Will it be a slow burn with her rise to great heights, and then crashing? Or is she going to slowly and silently plot her way past the gatekeepers to ultimately take over? We know the music is going to be amazing; Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, whose score for “Joker” won the Academy Award, will be responsible for the soundtrack....

Taika Waititi Put All Of His Thor Ideas Into Ragnarok Because He Didn’t Think Marvel Would Ask For A Sequel Marvel Studios By Michael Boyle/Dec. 22, 2022 4:21 pm EST When “Thor: Ragnorak” came out in 2017, it was a massive breath of fresh air for the star character. The lightning god’s first two solo movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe were widely agreed to be some of its weakest, most forgettable entries, so it was a nice surprise for his third film to turn out to be fun, exciting, and genuinely well-done....

The Defiant Ones Was A Decisive Moment For Sidney Poitier’s Career United Artists By Lyvie Scott/July 24, 2022 5:00 pm EST It’s impossible to deny that Sidney Poitier was born to be a star. From his first appearance onscreen in 1950, Poitier seemed poised to blaze an indelible trail in Hollywood — but the racial politics of the Jim Crow era forced him to rely just as much on his allies in the film industry as he did on his own merits....

The Handmaid’s Tale Actor Bradley Whitford Fooled The Show’s Writers In Season 5 [Exclusive] Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 13, 2022 3:34 pm EST Bradley Whitford is a funny guy. The actor’s comedic presence shines through in projects as varied as the meta-slasher film “The Cabin in the Woods,” the idealistic political drama “The West Wing,” and even Jordan Peele’s modern horror classic “Get Out.” But it takes a special kind of talent to wring laughs out of a world as bleak as that of “The Handmaid’s Tale....

The Mist’s Most Brutal Detail Wasn’t Even In The Script [Exclusive] Dimension Films By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 21, 2022 12:56 pm EST Some horror movies end with the cathartic survival of the protagonist(s), while others end with a brutal twist of the knife, which haunts you even after the credits roll. The latter is true in the case of the bone-chilling ending of Frank Darabont’s “The Mist,” an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella....

‘That scene had to deliver’ Paramount The impact of Kilmer’s performance wouldn’t have had the same resonance, perhaps, if every word of dialogue was spoken. /Film’s Jack Giroux spoke with “Top Gun: Maverick” editor Eddie Hamilton about retooling the emotional scene: “Though it was difficult, we trod very carefully and we refined it endlessly. Again, we felt the weight of expectation. That scene had to deliver. It had to thread this needle for the audience, who know that Val Kilmer has had health issues and can’t speak very well, so they’re like, ‘Well, how are they going to handle this?...

Whiplash Ending Explained: On Stage With The Monster Of Perfectionism Blumhouse Productions By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 17, 2022 9:51 am EST On one level, Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash” is a story of an abusive relationship between a driven young student and a music teacher from hell. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons in an Oscar-winning role) physically, verbally, and mentally abuses his students. It’s all right there on the surface and cannot be condoned. In a classroom about as far removed from a safe space as you can get, Fletcher throws a chair at drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), repeatedly slaps him in the face, and calls him the worst things imaginable....

Why Rob Zombie Made It A Point To Remove Humor From His Horror Lionsgate By Bill Bria/Aug. 24, 2022 8:47 pm EST Anyone who’s a fan of Rob Zombie’s music career knows the rocker has a playful approach to his material that can dive straight into the humorous and farcical. After all, anyone who entitles a song “Well, Everybody’s F***ing in a U.F.O.” (a song that features a lead vocal from Zombie performed in a faux-Southern drawl) isn’t taking themselves too seriously....

The Big Giant Head NBCUniversal The joke is as follows: The drunken Shatner stumbles off the plane, unused to having a human body. He complains that the flight was scary, as he saw something alive on the wing of the plane. This is a cute reference to the episode of “The Twilight Zone” called “Terror at 20,000 Feet” (October 11, 1963), wherein Shatner played a man who did indeed see a gremlin lurking on the wing of a plane in flight....

Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Wanted To Treat Coruscant Like ‘Any Other City’ [Exclusive] Disney+ By Marcos Melendez/Nov. 9, 2022 2:30 pm EST “Andor” may have a fan-favorite character in the title, but the series could not be any less enthusiastic about delivering the typical Star Wars fanfare. And to be frank, that’s why the show works so well. There is a certain freshness to that idea, especially in the current state of Star Wars media on Disney+, that is nothing short of exciting and reinvigorating....

Ang Lee Saw The Hulk As A Natural Evolution After Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sony Pictures Home Entertainment By Devin Meenan/Nov. 5, 2022 5:00 pm EST 2003’s “Hulk” is an anomaly. We haven’t had a filmmaker in Ang Lee’s mold direct a superhero movie since and probably won’t for a long time, if ever again. As /Film as argued before, “Hulk” doesn’t always work, but it grasps for heights the Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn’t dream of even trying to reach....

Watch the Bones And All teaser Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer It seems awfully brave of these two to embark on a press tour that will involve frequent discussions of cannibalism but if you thought the duo behind the infamous peach scene were going to shy away from awkwardness, then maybe you need to revisit that particular forbidden fruit. This time around, Chalamet is sinking his teeth into something bloody as an “intense drifter” with a very specific appetite....

Clerks III Review: Kevin Smith’s Deeply Personal Goodbye To The Past Lionsgate By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 8, 2022 10:00 am EST Twenty-eight years after Kevin Smith made his film debut with the foul-mouthed low-budget comedy “Clerks” and 16 years after the sweet and silly sequel, “Clerks II,” the director returns to the Quick Stop to bring the story full circle in “Clerks III.” Clerks Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) own the convenience store that brought them together, but they aren’t sure if they’ve achieved their dreams or just fallen into their same old routines....

Elisabeth Moss Reveals The Toughest Day On Set Of The Handmaid’s Tale Hulu By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 26, 2022 9:39 am EST Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel, is nothing short of a horror story. Set in the aftermath of a second civil war, the story follows a theonomic government’s establishment of a totalitarian hierarchical regime that is rooted in religious fanaticism. In the state of Gilead, women are stripped of their rights and are enslaved, with the patriarchal government forcing them to surrender to ritualized rape....

Elvis Presley Is Getting The Hollywood Treatment, Again, With Sofia Coppola’s New A24 Film Priscilla Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 12, 2022 3:41 pm EST If it’s good enough do try once, you might as well do it again, I suppose. Only a few months after the Baz Luhrman musical biopic “Elvis” dropped into theaters and essentially rewrote all of our preconceptions of “film editing,” yet another project based on the famous singer’s life and especially that of his wife, Priscilla....

Every Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Ranked Worst To Best ABC By Ben Begley/Aug. 31, 2022 8:53 pm EST Before Disney+ and Kevin Feige brought television series into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” was a fan-favorite network television underdog. Born out of 2012’s “The Avengers,” the show followed a team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents assembled by a newly not-dead Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). Thanks to a strong fanbase, “Agents of S....

Hanging Up (2000) Columbia Pictures Nora Ephron’s final film with actor Meg Ryan was one of her most personal and intimate, though sadly not her best. Another collaboration with her sister Delia (based on Delia’s novel of the same name), “Hanging Up” explores the fictionalized turmoil of their father Henry Ephron’s death. Eve (Ryan) is the middle sister left to deal with her dad’s declining health while her older sister, successful writer Georgia (Diane Keaton, who also directed), and younger sister, daytime actress Maddy (Lisa Kudrow), soak up the spotlight....

Having To Sing For Mamma Mia! ‘Terrified’ Pierce Brosnan Universal Pictures By Matt Rainis/Sept. 30, 2022 12:04 pm EST The cast of the film adaptation of “Mamma Mia!” has a few pretty impressive pieces in it. There’s the obvious presence of Meryl Streep, one of the greatest actresses of our time, who stepped out of her comfort zone to do a musical and had so much fun doing so that she hurt herself....