How Karl Urban Landed His Role In The Lord Of The Rings Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/July 14, 2022 10:14 pm EST Karl Urban has been a geek film and television staple for two decades now. He played the lead role in “Dredd,” Leonard McCoy in “Star Trek,” Skurge the Executioner in “Thor: Ragnarok,” and is now starring as William “Billy” Butcher on the comic book series adaptation “The Boys....
Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 1, 2022 8:49 pm EST Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming film “I Came By,” starring Hugh Bonneville (“Paddington,” “Downton Abbey”), George MacKay (“1917”), and Kelly Macdonald (“Boardwalk Empire”). It’s the story of a young graffiti artist (MacKay) who gets pulled into a dangerous situation when he sees the wrong thing at the home of a judge (Bonneville) while hiding in his basement after breaking in....
I Love You, You Hate Me Trailer: Barney The Dinosaur Gets A Docuseries In The Vein Of Feels Good Man PBS By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 28, 2022 9:35 pm EST As a kid of the 1990s, it is impossible to explain the impact Barney the Dinosaur had on my own upbringing and the childhoods of the generations of children that followed. The giant purple singing dinosaur quickly became a beloved hero for toddlers and elementary school-aged kiddos everywhere, with educational messages about emotions, friendship, compassion, and basic academics hidden through song and dance....
The MegaSlasher! Bloody Disgusting/Cinedigm Modern horror is always getting re-named something or other these days. Most horror fans have gotten used to rolling our eyes at the term ’elevated horror’ because God forbid we hold horror to any sort of esteem in these film-watching parts. It’s got to be ’elevated’ for anyone to take it seriously or give it the respect the genre rightfully deserves. Read this in a slightly sarcastic tone, folks....
Someone helps you get it Columbia Pictures O’Brien, as anyone might be, is effusive in talking to Freeman, pointing out that he has the best voice of any actor working, describing it as mellifluous. Surely that voice arose in Freeman sometime during puberty and armed him with the authority that would make him a movie star. O’Brien asked Freeman about his “gift,” and Freeman — not out of humility — rejected O’Brien’s praise....
New Tulsa King Behind-The-Scenes Featurette Shows Sylvester Stallone Acting It Up In Oklahoma Paramount+ By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 21, 2022 2:54 pm EST Taylor Sheridan is bringing yet another show to Paramount+, and this one features Sylvester Stallone in his first scripted television role. While we’ve already gotten a teaser trailer of Stallone looking properly flummoxed about being sent to Tulsa after serving 25 years in jail for the mob, we haven’t gotten much more than that....
The Best Movies And Shows Starring The Crown Season 5 Cast That You Need To See Netflix By Jenn Adams/Nov. 8, 2022 3:07 pm EST Season 5 of “The Crown” couldn’t premiere at a more peculiar time. New episodes arrive on Netflix on November 9, slightly over two months since the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the resulting months of turmoil in the British Parliament. According to Vanity Fair, this upcoming season will cover 1991-1997....
The Daily Stream: Night Of The Creeps Is A Halloween Favorite And Horror Comedy Classic Tri-Star Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 18, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Night of the Creeps” Where You Can Stream It: PlutoTV The Pitch: Back in 1959, a seemingly possessed alien launches a canister into space, but it crash lands on Earth....
The Latest Rings Of Power Episode Gave A Nod To All Those Sauron Fan Theories Prime Video By Marcos Melendez/Sept. 26, 2022 11:23 am EST Spoilers follow for the fifth episode of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” When it comes to the villain behind the overarching narrative, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is slowly cultivating a mystery to rule them all. Despite his presence lurking beneath the surface, the Dark Lord Sauron has yet to make his return to Middle-earth on the streaming series — well, maybe he has....
Somewhere out there Universal Pictures In an August 2022 interview with the Los Angles Times, Bluth singled out the one thing all the characters in his films have in common. Be they field mice, dinosaurs, or lost Russian princesses, each of them is searching for a place to call their home: “Every movie that I’ve ever made, if you look at it closely, is about going home. Those are thematic things that seem to push their way inevitably into all my movies....
Super Mario Bros. Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Illumination Entertainment Goombas, koopa troopas, and piranha plants, oh my! “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” was originally scheduled for a theatrical release on the (almost) very numerically-satisfying date of December 21, 2022. To the nation’s (and, indeed, the world’s) dismay, the animated film has since been pushed back to April 7, 2023, as we reported here. First announced during the Nintendo Direct event back in late September of 2021, the official Nintendo Twitter account subsequently broke the news (along with the internet, at large) with its post about the upcoming movie and its buzzy cast of voice actors....
The search for Jason Nesmith DreamWorks Pictures There’s no missing the parallels between the fictional actors played by the stars of “Galaxy Quest” and the cast of “Star Trek: TOS.” There’s Tim Allen as Jason Nesmith, whose egotism makes him the bane of his costars’ existence and the obvious stand-in for William Shatner; Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane, a hoity-toity thespian whose desire to pursue more “serious” roles brings to mind Leonard Nimoy’s early discomfort with his popularity as Spock; Sigourney Weaver as Gwen DeMarco, who’s frustrated by her insubstantial role as the token woman in the “Galaxy Quest” TV show’s cast (a la Nichelle Nichols in “TOS”); and so on....
Why Quentin Tarantino Never Made His Man From U.N.C.L.E. Movie Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Dec. 7, 2022 1:36 pm EST Whenever a director makes a well-regarded independent picture nowadays, the talk about what they do next almost immediately turns to Marvel. They are the commercial juggernaut of today’s cinematic landscape, and when one of these filmmakers signs up for a Marvel project, half the people are excited to have more Marvel in their lives, while the other half bemoans that another talented voice will get lost within the corporate machinery....
Zach Cregger Brought His Love Of Three Horror Legends Into Barbarian 20th Century Studios By Matthew Bilodeau/Sept. 14, 2022 1:39 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Barbarian.” We’ve barely entered the spooky movie season and Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian” has already blown the doors off in a big way. It’s rare that you come across a movie that keeps its deepest secrets close to its chest in the way that this unpredictable nightmare does....
‘Time Cut’ Will Reunite ‘Freaky’ Creative Team For Movie Described As ‘Back To The Future’ Meets ‘Scream’ By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2021 12:30 pm EST One of my favorite movies from last year was Freaky, a funny, gory horror-comedy that blended slasher movie thrills with body-swap humor. It worked incredibly well, and that makes me all the more excited about Time Cut, a new film coming from the Freaky team. Christopher Landon, who co-wrote and directed Freaky, is set to produce Time Cut, while Michael Kennedy, who co-wrote the Freaky screenplay, is handling the Time Cut script with Sono Patel (The Marvelous Mrs....
Hunter x Hunter Crunchyroll “Hunter x Hunter” might arguably be the best shōnen anime ever produced. While it’s a contentious claim, and there’s reasonable arguments to the contrary, there’s no denying it’s an enduring slice of anime history, a show (much like “Demon Slayer”) that has transcended niche circles to become a full-throttle pop culture phenomenon (just go to any BoxLunch or Hot Topic for proof). Ostensibly the story of young hunter Gon and his quest to find his father, the series unspools into something considerably more profound, with arcs such as the Chimera ant beats that are all but unrivaled in the anime sphere....
Adam Warlock, The Magus, And More: Your Study Guide For Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Marvel Studios By Cameron Roy Hall/Dec. 11, 2022 6:00 pm EST “The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” is the upcoming and final installment in James Gunn’s trilogy of space adventures for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Back in 2013, when the first official image from “Vol. 1” was released, it would not be unfair to say the general public expected very little from a movie starring a tree and a raccoon....
The DC universe gets more Black Adam-y Warner Bros. It’s looking more and more like this is The Rock’s world and DC fans are just living in it. Amid some more doom-and-gloom reporting on morale over at Warner Bros.’ DC films division (“pissed” is apparently the operative word to describe how most feel about CEO David Zaslav’s comments regarding, essentially, making DC movies great again), the THR article lets slip one intriguing detail ahead of the October release of “Black Adam....
Brian Tyree Henry Played The General In The Original Broadway Production Of Book Of Mormon, And It Changed His Life [Exclusive] Apple TV/YouTube By Cameron Roy Hall/Dec. 1, 2022 1:21 pm EST Brian Tyree Henry is an actor who carved his initials into some of Hollywood’s biggest stories, including an as yet brief stint in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as an inventive godlike figure in “Eternals.” In 2022 alone, he starred in two films that couldn’t be more different, Sony’s ensemble action comedy “Bullet Train” and the Apple TV+ drama “Causeway,” a traumatic story also starring Jennifer Lawrence....
Cool Stuff: Enjoy A Chocolately Pile Of Pasta With Buddy The Elf’s Spaghetti Meal Kit From Hello Fresh Warner Bros. Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2022 2:11 pm EST Anyone who has seen “Elf” with Will Ferrell can tell you that when it comes to sustenance, elves stick to four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup. However, one of Buddy the Elf’s most famous feasts in the movie only features a couple of those delights....
