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Mondo’s Mothra: Tokyo SOS Statue Takes Flight [Exclusive] Max Evry By Max Evry/July 15, 2022 9:11 am EST Last year we reviewed Mondo’s super cool Godzilla 89 statue, based on the big guy’s appearance from the 1989 Heisei era film “Godzilla vs. Biollante.” Now we’ve gotten our hands on the next big item in Mondo’s Kaiju line: the Mothra: Tokyo SOS premium scale statue, based on the winged one’s appearance in the 2003 film “Godzilla: Tokyo S....

Nope Has An Unlikely Connection To War Of The Worlds Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 22, 2022 5:38 pm EST The following article contains spoilers for “Nope.” Exactly one year after Jordan Peele released an inscrutable first poster image for “Nope” into the world, the world finally knows what “Nope” is all about. The filmmaker’s third directorial feature hits theaters today, and by now, trailers have revealed that there’s definitely something out of this world about the plot of the new movie....

‘It was beyond anything I’ve ever experienced’ Toho I don’t know about you, but when I think of “Puss in Boots,” the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark 1988 cyberpunk anime film about brutal military forces battling motorbike rebel gangs and kids with almost God-level telekinetic powers in a dystopian Japanese setting. All wise-guy antics aside, Joel Crawford explained it wasn’t so much the subject matter of “Akira” that shaped “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” as it was the film’s richly-detailed 2D animated visuals:...

Shotgun Wedding Trailer: Well, That Took An Unexpected Turn Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Oct. 4, 2022 2:00 pm EST Today Prime Video has released a new trailer for the upcoming Jennifer Lopez film “Shotgun Wedding.” Yes, JLo is in a wedding dress yet again, as she was in the recent movie “Marry Me,” as well as her real-life wedding to Ben Affleck. Lopez plays a woman named Darcy engaged to Josh Duhamel’s Tom, dealing with his mother, played by Jennifer Coolidge....

Slumberland Review: You’re Better Off In Your Own Dream World Netflix By Mike Shutt/Nov. 10, 2022 8:00 pm EST The state of live-action family movies right now is dire. Outside of Paul King’s masterful “Paddington” duology, you can hardly find great films aimed at children and families that are not animated. I posed the question to some of the other /Film writers about what they thought the best live-action family films were from the last decade, and I got answers like “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” and “Finding ‘Ohana....

Superhero Bits: Black Adam HBO Max Viewership Numbers, A Bigger Look At Across The Spider-Verse & More Lazy Droid Studio By Ryan Scott/Dec. 21, 2022 2:40 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Superhero Bits: Idris Elba’s New DC Project, A Planet Hulk Sequel & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 8, 2022 5:25 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Why it’s essential viewing AMC What do you want from a vampire series? Angst? Camp? Gorgeous aesthetics? Queerness that goes beyond subtext? Terrifying exertions of Vampire strength? A magnificent mansion for eternal sulking? Well, consider this your lucky day, because “Interview With The Vampire” checks all of those boxes and then some. It’s vampire angst with a healthy dose of comedy, but it also has a lot on the brain. It’s parsing through the treasure trove of depth offered in Rice’s novels and adding a welcome sprinkle of modernity....

An alternate timeline Warner Bros. Pictures This is a very different timeline, where instead of the Kubrick masterpiece that “A Clockwork Orange” was, we got a film headed up by The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger certainly has charisma and stage presence, but you have to imagine that he wouldn’t have lived up to the pristine acting standard set by McDowell. The Rolling Stones weren’t the only British rock band considered to work on the film....

The Nightmare Before Christmas Wasn’t Exactly The Film Disney Expected Buena Vista Pictures Distribution By Shae Sennett/Dec. 3, 2022 6:00 pm EST “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has become a holiday classic over the years, but it definitely wasn’t a hit that Disney saw coming. Director Henry Selick’s creepy animation style paired with producer and co-writer Tim Burton’s creative input and Danny Elfman’s spooky compositions was not the type of comfy and colorful family-friendly film that Disney was releasing at the time....

Finding Eleven’s autonomy Of course, while Brenner’s dying words may profess fatherly love, he’s also the guy who used Eleven as a human guinea pig and kept her with that collar around her neck like a dog on a leash. He does help reactivate her powers at the Nina Project facility in Nevada, but they share a complicated history, and as Eleven leaves him there to die, there’s a feeling that she’s finally self-sufficient, free of him and able to stand on her own two feet....

Tony Stark’s Final Line In Avengers: Endgame Wasn’t In The Original Cut Marvel Studios By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 29, 2022 12:02 pm EST “Avengers: Endgame” eventually led to the death of Thanos (Josh Brolin in all his motion-capture glory) and saved Earth-616 from total annihilation. However, this victory came at a massive cost: the ultimate sacrifice by Iron Man aka Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who chose to transfer all six Infinity Stones into his armor, leading to the death of the beloved MCU character....

When did Ahsoka get her white lightsabers? Lucasfilm The lightsaber is an important possession for any Force wielder. As Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi emphasizes in “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones,” it’s a weapon that should be as important to a Jedi as their own life. That said, not every Jedi manages to hold onto their original lightsaber for their entire lives. Things happen, especially during battles, so a few characters have been known to replace their weapons as needed....

What It Was Like For Kate Winslet To Reunite With James Cameron For Avatar: The Way Of Water 20th Century Studios By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 7, 2022 12:15 pm EST Kate Winslet became a star right before our eyes when she sailed the open seas, wrapped in the arms of Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron’s monster hit “Titanic” back in December of 1997. Winslet reportedly beat out Winona Ryder, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Claire Danes (who had just co-starred with DiCaprio in “Romeo + Juliet”) to earn the now iconic role of Rose....

Why Fred Astaire Never Enjoyed Watching His Own Movies RKO Radio Pictures By Witney Seibold/Aug. 3, 2022 8:38 pm EST In the December 12, 1936 issue of The Literary Digest (reprinted on the Reel Classics website), Fred Astaire’s infamous rehearsal process for the upcoming film “Shall We Dance?” was recorded in all its difficult glory. Astaire, Hollywood legend has it, was a perfectionist when it came to dancing, and he and his co-stars — Ginger Rogers in the case of “Shall We Dance?...

Why Mike Flanagan Gets ‘Constant Pushback’ For His Signature Monologues Netflix By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Oct. 24, 2022 6:09 pm EST Ever since his passion project/victory lap with his 2021 miniseries, “Midnight Mass,” Mike Flanagan has quickly become one of our most beloved horror auteurs working today. Emphasis on “working!” Flanagan never stops working. He has written, directed, produced, or edited numerous projects every year since 2016, during which time he directed three different feature films....

Artistic integrity Tri-Star Pictures In the interview with Diabolique magazine, Kotcheff explains why not making “First Blood” an action movie was more than just a creative choice. “What I’m really trying to say is that all my family were surrounded by violence: rebellion against the Turks, or they were being tortured by the Turks, or the Communists were torturing them. And so I grew up hating violence — all kinds of violence — and that’s why the character of Rambo in ‘First Blood’ doesn’t want to kill anyone when he comes back from Vietnam....

Andor’s Faye Marsay Didn’t Feel As Much Pressure On Game Of Thrones As She Did With Star Wars [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Nov. 2, 2022 2:12 pm EST Spoilers ahead through episode 9 of “Andor.” In this week’s episode of “Andor,” we got some new information about Aldhani Rebel leader Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay). When we first met this no-nonsense woman as Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) joined her mission, it seemed like living simply in the mountains was something she’d done her entire life....

Batgirl Directors Share Image Of Barbara Gordon Meeting Michael Keaton’s Batman Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 5, 2022 10:43 am EST Hollywood is still reeling from the news that the live-action “Batgirl” movie starring “In the Heights” star Leslie Grace, national treasure Brendan Fraser, and Michael Keaton in his triumphant return as Batman, was canceled and shelved at HBO Max. The news came from the new Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav in an effort to streamline the studio’s output....

Caleb McLaughlin Opens Up About Racism From Stranger Things Fans: ‘It Took A Toll’ Netflix By Erin Brady/Sept. 28, 2022 5:00 pm EST Nobody deserves to be harassed, bullied, or intimidated by others for any reason, least of all for their skin color. This is especially true for younger people, as these experiences can potentially take a serious toll on their mental health and sense of safety. It is also, unfortunately, a problem for many prominent Black and brown actors, as their positioning in the public eye can open them up as targets for hate....