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White House Plumbers Trailer: Woody Harrelson And Justin Theroux Do Dirty Deeds For Richard Nixon HBO By Erin Brady/Dec. 9, 2022 2:06 pm EST The story of Watergate is one that truly feels stranger than fiction. It contains every element that a good, fictional espionage story has, and yet, it was actually something that a standing U.S. president and his cronies concocted. It was a truly baffling time in this country’s history, which is probably why we are still making movies and television shows about it to this day....

Why Aemond’s Big Injury In House Of The Dragon Was Satisfying For Rhaenyra HBO By Michael Boyle/Dec. 20, 2022 1:33 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon.” Being a kid is hard, but it’s even harder when you live in a medieval-inspired fantasy world and you’re the only one in your incestuous family without a dragon. In the seventh episode of “House of the Dragon,” titled “Driftmark,” Aemond Targaryen (Leo Ashton) decides to take matters into his own hands....

Enter the Pink Room In “Twin Peaks,” Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is the enigmatic homecoming Queen found wrapped in plastic outside of the Martell residence, whereas in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,” she is presented with nuance and agency. Lee’s vulnerability makes you want to reach through the screen and pull her out of her disturbing life, but as spectators, we have no other choice but to empathize with the slow-motion tragedy playing out in front of us....

Why Mary Harron Added Willem Dafoe’s Detective To American Psycho’s Story Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/Dec. 10, 2022 8:30 am EST Mary Harron’s 2000 film “American Psycho,” based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis, is a twofold satire. On one level, both Harron and Ellis sought to deconstruct and dismantle the vapid, well-moneyed, utterly amoral world of empty-hearted, wealth-obsessed 1980s yuppie Reaganauts. And on the next, Harron added a sizable takedown of maledom’s pitiful macho bluster to the text....

Why So Many Sci-Fi Villains Have Such Bad Aim Lucasfilm, Ltd. By Witney Seibold/July 28, 2022 5:18 pm EST If a Stormtrooper in “Star Wars” managed to shoot and kill Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia, it would probably instigate an existential crisis for the Stormtrooper. It may take a while during the blaster fight for the attacking Stormtroopers to even acknowledge that no shots were being returned. After the smoke cleared, the Stormtroopers would cautiously approach their prey, making sure they were dead....

More than memory loss Disney DeGeneres’ voice didn’t just inform the mannerisms of the character, it brought a refreshing dynamic between male and female characters in a Disney film. Stanton began pondering why Marlin couldn’t have a female friend and why it couldn’t be a platonic relationship. Much like Stanton’s first Disney-Pixar film, “Toy Story,” this new twist would upend Disney tropes that often centered plot lines around romantic love....

Gilroy leaves the finer details to the experts Lucasfilm Tony Gilroy’s lack of reverence for “Star Wars” and its traditions has freed him up to work wonders with “Andor,” building on his experience as a co-writer who was heavily involved with the reshoots on the film that directly begat his show, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” It’s not that he believes Easter Eggs or small technical details don’t matter. But Gilroy clearly recognizes that’s not his area of expertise and leaves it to others to fill in the series’ world-building gaps....

Angela Lansbury’s Brilliant Acting Career Started With An Oscar Nomination For Gaslight Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Oct. 11, 2022 5:37 pm EST Patrick Hamilton’s play “Gas Light” debuted on the London stage in 1938. It was about Jack and Bella, characters who had recently married but whose relationship is immediately rocky. She hates his flirtatious ways and mishandling of money. Most frustratingly, he seems to disappear from their home for hours at a time without explanation....

Bringing The Addams Family To TV Took Some Quick Thinking With The Set Design MGM Television By Witney Seibold/Oct. 15, 2022 11:59 pm EST As detailed in Linda H. Davis’ 2021 biography “Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life,” the longtime illustrator for the New Yorker, famous for his ghastly, grim sense of humor, suffered a heart attack in 1988 while sitting in his own parked car. Addams’ widow, Marilyn “Tee” Miller, pointed out shortly thereafter that her husband had always been a car enthusiast and that the location of his death was perfectly fitting....

The metaphysical ending Netflix The ending in question involved Stefan “chatting” on a 1984-era computer with a mysterious artificial intelligence of some kind. He is baffled by the voice on the other end of the computer. The viewer gets to decide what information Stefan is allowed to have. Is he a computer programmer … or is he a fictional character in a movie? A viewer would be allowed to reveal to Stefan that he is in a Netflix special, having to explain to him what Netflix is and how modern TV works....

Christopher Nolan Had An Important Piece Of Advice For Nope Director Jordan Peele Universal Pictures By Michael Boyle/July 22, 2022 5:46 pm EST With “Nope” already set to earn back its production budget within its first week, Jordan Peele is a director who can get modern audiences interested in original films. “Nope” is not part of a franchise and it’s not based off a book, but it’s still the movie getting the most buzz at the moment, simply because Peele has already proven himself to mainstream audiences....

Surviving The Survivors Columbia Pictures The general public wasn’t as obsessed with box-office returns in June 1983, so no one realized that there was a battle of two-hander comedies looming between John Landis’ “Trading Places” and Michael Ritchie’s “The Survivors.” The former was a buzzy pairing of former (Dan Aykroyd) and current (Murphy) “SNL” stars, while the latter boasted the odd-couple clash of Williams and Walter Matthau. Landis’ film was first out of the gate on June 6, and built off the momentum of Murphy’s December 1982 smash, “48 Hrs....

Even James Caan Couldn’t Keep A Straight Face On The Set Of Elf New Line Cinema By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2022 2:27 pm EST When you think of James Caan, you might automatically remember the cinematic tough guy who roughed people up in “The Godfather” as Sonny Corleone or the reluctant criminal getting caught up in one last big score in “Thief.” But in the later stages of his career, Caan became a symbol of Christmas spirit in a Scrooge-like role for the modern holiday comedy favorite “Elf....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet Of Curiosities Trailer: The Maestro Of Monsters Curates A New Set Of Exciting Horrors Netflix By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 30, 2022 11:53 am EST When Guillermo Del Toro is at the helm of a horrific nightmare, you know it’s going to be peak cinema of the genre, which is exactly why the trailer for his new Netflix anthology event “Cabinet of Curiosities” looks so top-notch. In the sneak peek at the 4-day horror event coming to Netflix, we not only get glimpses of some truly terrible horror to come from this interesting anthology — including peeling skin and dead bodies reanimated, just to name a few — but we also got a taste of some really exciting cast members who will undoubtedly bring the heat in the eight stories to come....

Spin the wheel of fate HBO Max This little button is available right now on HBO Max’s desktop interface. Netflix’s Play Something button, Variety explains, is only available on connected TV devices and Android phones and tablets. Also, where Netflix’s shuffle option spans the entirety of their catalog, HBO opted for a more … selective approach. Rather than offer everything up for what could turn out to be a dangerous game of HBO Roullette with some not-so-family-friendly content, there is a limited selection of 45 TV shows on the service that might crop up....

Here’s Why The Dreaming In The Sandman Sounds So Otherworldly Netflix By Christian Gainey/Aug. 17, 2022 4:28 pm EST When “The Sandman” recently premiered on Netflix, audiences excitedly drifted off into the wacky world of The Dreaming. Based on Neil Gaiman’s comic book of the same name, the series focuses on Lord Morpheus, an ancient being who oversees the realm of dreams and nightmares, and the supernatural creatures that live there....

House Of The Dragon’s Had The Biggest Premiere Of Any Show In HBO History Ollie Upton / HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 22, 2022 6:33 pm EST HBO has another massive hit on its hands. Three years after “Game of Thrones” concluded, George R.R. Martin’s world of dragons came roaring back in a big way on Sunday. The company has shared via press release that “House of the Dragon” had the biggest premiere of any HBO series ever, a fantastic feat for the long-running pay cable network....

How Knowing There’d Be A Season 2 Impacted The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Writers Room By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 12, 2022 12:49 pm EST The great fantasy show face-off of 2022 ended weeks ago, with Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and HBO’s “House of the Dragon” each concluding their first season in October. However, we’re still talking about both shows and how their streaming numbers matched up, among other things....

Jenna Ortega choreographed her dance in Wednesday Netflix Ortega’s dance in “Wednesday” is a great moment that’s at once kooky and graceful, spooky and fun — basically everything you’d expect from the famous goth girl character. It’s memorable, it’s unique, and it’s easily one of the show’s standout moments. Now, a behind-the-scenes featurette shared via Netflix on Twitter, reveals that Ortega herself put together the moves for Wednesday’s dance. “I actually felt really insecure about this,” the actor admitted....

Let’s Talk About Kirstie Alley’s Most Underrated Role New Line Cinema By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 6, 2022 4:00 pm EST “I’d like to take you back 17 years when a peanut farmer was in the White House, a group-a boys callin’ themselves Queen topped the record charts and Gladys Leeman was Gladys Wood and she was Mount Rose American Teen Princess!” I wasn’t even old enough to tie my own shoes the first time I competed in a beauty pageant....