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Putting C-list villains in the spotlight Marvel Studios Ahead of the series premiere, if you had asked me to guess which comic character would make a suitable addition to Jen’s story, never in a million years would I have guessed Leap-Frog (Brandon Stanley) or Man-Bull (Nathan Hurd), neither of which sound like real villains. But digging into the back catalog turned out to be a wonderful choice because not one of the C-list villains managed to disappoint....

She Said Trailer: Carey Mulligan And Zoe Kazan Expose Harvey Weinstein’s Crimes Universal Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 14, 2022 12:54 pm EST The latest trailer for “She Said” depicts a dramatization of the events that led to two journalists breaking the story of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct allegations back in 2017. “She Said” follows the story of The New York Times journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (played by Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan respectively), pursuing an investigation of the Weinstein case, attempting to speak to everyone, from industry gatekeepers to abuse survivors, in the process....

Shin Ultraman Director Shinji Higuchi On Reinventing The Iconic Superhero [Fantastic Fest Interview] Toho By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 26, 2022 6:41 pm EST Shinji Higuchi is a storyboard artist, VFX artist, and director who has worked on plenty of iconic projects, from “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” to “Gamera” and “Attack on Titan” (the live-action movies). He has often collaborated with Hideaki Anno, with the two co-directing the fantastic “Shin Godzilla,” a reinvention of the iconic character....

‘Imagine you discovered that you’re living on the back of a living thing and what you’re doing is harming that’ Disney It turns out, that their entire world sits on the back of a living, turtle-like creature, and their energy source is killing it. /Film’s own Vanessa Armstrong recently spoke to director Don Hall and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen about the ending of “Strange World” and how the endings for “The Matrix” and “Men in Black” helped them keep their own ending on track....

The Greatest Show on Earth Universal Penned by Spielberg and his best screenplay collaborator, Tony Kushner, “The Fabelmans” gets off to a rather rocky start. After a lovely scene where a young Sammy, our Spielberg avatar (played as a younger child by Mateo Zoryna Francis-Deford), sees his first movie on the big screen — “The Greatest Show on Earth” — and comes away awed and afraid, the film grows rather abrasive....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Soundtrack Is Now Available To Stream Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 19, 2022 12:04 pm EST After two decades, the “Lord of the Rings” movies remain as magical as when they first premiered. Beyond the massive amount of money they made, beyond the Academy Award wins, beyond the behind-the-scenes drama, they still remain impressive today. Before Peter Jackson came along, J. R....

There’s Something Wrong With The Children Trailer: The Creepy Kid Genre Intensifies Paramount By Shania Russell/Dec. 20, 2022 11:59 am EST A cabin in the woods, a struggling marriage, and two giggling children who are ominously covered in blood? The upcoming Blumhouse and EPIX collaboration has all the elements for disaster, so it’s no wonder that it slots firmly into the horror/psychological thriller genres. It certainly doesn’t help that the title alludes to one of horror’s most reliable sources of dread, “There’s Something Wrong with the Children....

Things get wild Jensen Farley Pictures Even the opening credits of “The Last Unicorn” are quite unique. The theme song plays over that sequence, which mirrors the famed “Unicorn Tapestries,” also known as “The Hunt of the Unicorn.” Did I mention this movie is kind of a musical? The score was composed by Jimmy Webb and performed by ’70s band America along with the London Symphony Orchestra. Aside from Webb’s score, there are several tunes sung by America, but that’s not all the music....

Tim Roth Almost Returned To The MCU Far Earlier Than She-Hulk Marvel Studios By Devin Meenan/Aug. 12, 2022 6:35 pm EST Tim Roth will be part of the supporting cast of “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” as Emil Blonsky/The Abomination. Blonsky appears as one of Jennifer Walters’ supervillain clients, with her trying to get him paroled; the “She-Hulk” trailers show the two meeting while he’s imprisoned. Considering Walters is a cousin of Blonsky’s nemesis, Bruce Banner, their attorney/client relationship probably isn’t going to be the smoothest....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story: Everything We Know So Far Roku By Christian Gainey/July 19, 2022 1:57 pm EST Weird Al, a five-time Grammy Award winning musician, burst onto the music scene back in ‘79 with “My Bologna,” a parody of The Knack’s hit “My Sharona.” Over the past 40 years, he’s put his own comedic spin on hits by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Coolio, Miley Cyrus, and countless other billboard topping hits....

Where The Crawdads Sing Author Delia Owens Is Still Wanted For Questioning In A 1996 Murder Case Sony Pictures By Shania Russell/July 14, 2022 1:34 pm EST Sometimes, fiction parallels reality in the strangest ways. There are dozens of terrifying instances where sci-fi hits a little too close to home by accidentally predicting the future, though when it comes to speculative fiction and our basically dystopian reality, what else is new?...

Why Viggo Mortensen Fought Fiercely To Get A Can Of Coca-Cola Into The Road Dimension Films By Matt Rainis/Nov. 22, 2022 7:08 pm EST Adapting a movie from a novel can be a monumentally difficult task. While in the print medium, an author has almost complete freedom to write what they want, films are far more collaborative efforts, filtering the vision of one person into the work of many. This challenge is only amplified when you’re handling the works of Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest living authors....

Why Diesel didn’t return Universal Pictures Despite “xXx” being a box office hit that would usually suggest a sequel was imminent, Diesel opted to not return for the first sequel as the daredevil Xander Cage. Every franchise carries the risk that one of the main characters may not return, whether it’s Robert Duvall in “The Godfather Part III” or Matt Damon in the “Bourne” franchise (though he had a Diesel-like return in 2016’s “Jason Bourne”)....

Will The Eternals Return To The MCU? Here’s What We Know Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Oct. 31, 2022 6:29 pm EST We have not, it seems, seen the last of Sersi and the gang, as the Eternals are going to appear again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The question is, when will they show up? And, perhaps more importantly, where are they going to show up? We will get into some speculation and analysis but first, let’s go over precisely what we know....

Year Of The Vampire: In Nosferatu The Vampyre, Werner Herzog Made Dracula A Spiritual Blight Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) Civilization is a tenuous notion in “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” Werner Herzog’s 1979 remake of the original “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.” The movie begins with footage of mummies in a cave, their faces frozen in ghastly, Edward Munch-like expressions....

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed Review: An Important Film About Outcasts And Activists Neon By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 23, 2022 9:30 am EST Life reveals itself to us in ways we would never expect when our worlds are just beginning to form. Childhood lessons often do not come into perspective until we have the wisdom to see them clearly, many years down the road. It is with this in mind that I reflect on the exquisite new documentary, “All The Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which is at the same time a portrait of an artist on the fringes, an analysis of her early family life, and a biting indictment of everything the infamous Sackler family has destroyed in their quest to make opioids the number one pain treatment in America....

An uneganging mystery Miramax The poster for “Confess, Fletch” promises a grand Italian murder mystery, depicting a dead woman lying in front of the Roman Coliseum. While there is a dead woman, she actually is found lying in the basement of a townhouse in Boston upon the arrival of Jon Hamm’s Fletch, who is currently renting the place. Naturally, Inspector Munroe (Roy Wood Jr.) and his trainee Griz (Ayden Mayeri) have Fletch as the prime suspect....

Every Main Character In Halloween Ends, Ranked Worst To Best Universal By Bee Delores/Oct. 14, 2022 6:33 pm EST According to Laurie Strode, there are two kinds of evil: external forces and internal infections. “Halloween Ends” explores these evils by constructing a deep character study about the transference of pain and violence from one tortured soul to another. Taking place four years after the previous two movies in the series, the film also offers plenty of slashing, and finally closes the door on the Michael Myers saga, at least as we know it....

Every Major Event That Occurred During House Of The Dragon’s 10-Year Time Jump Ollie Upton/HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 27, 2022 8:00 am EST This post contains major spoilers for the latest episode of “House of the Dragon.” We knew the “House of the Dragon” time jump was coming, but did that make it sting any less? Definitely not. It was still jarring to see the show’s talented young leads, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey, suddenly replaced by the (also-talented!...

Jurassic World Dominion’s Biggest Challenge For Its Chase Sequence Had Nothing To Do With Dinosaurs Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Aug. 17, 2022 4:13 pm EST The “Jurassic Park” films have been a consistent showcase of how practical and digital effects can work together in perfect harmony to transport audiences into the fantastical worlds of living dinosaurs. The first film was a groundbreaking demonstration of dinosaurs walking, roaring, and wreaking havoc across Isla Nublar, but five movies later, the dinosaur action has been kicked up a few notches....