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‘This is not the beginning of the party’ Paramount It turns out that De Lancie is as wryly funny as Q. When I asked him if he had any trouble playing Q again 28 years later, he deadpanned, “I got a trainer, Jack Daniels, my acting teacher, and it was not a problem.” To him, playing Q again was a simple process, one that sounds fairly pain-free. “I know everybody probably wants to think I flagellated myself and hung myself upside down and stuff like that,” he told me....

Tenoch Huerta’s Hopes For Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Go Beyond Box Office Success By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 3, 2022 11:35 am EST The first “Black Panther” remains one of the best Marvel movies — a film with fantastic direction, stunning action, a climax that looks straight out of “The Phantom Menace,” a spectacular soundtrack full of banger after banger, a great script with relatable characters, one of the best Marvel antagonists ever, and a lived-in world rich in detail....

The 12 Best Tilda Swinton Movies, Ranked A24 By Marshall Shaffer/Nov. 11, 2022 2:29 pm EST No performer today is as chameleonic as Tilda Swinton. Her versatility seemingly knows no bounds. Swinton’s filmography spans from the metaphysical worlds of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul to the Marvel Cinematic Universe — not to mention partnerships as disparate as collaborations with avant-garde artist Derek Jarman to a one-off appearance doing broad comedy in a Judd Apatow movie....

The 21 Best Denzel Washington Movies, Ranked Warner Bros. By Fiona Underhill/Aug. 25, 2022 8:57 pm EST Denzel Washington has a reputation as one of the best American actors of all time, and it’s easy to understand why. First, there’s the nine Oscar nominations for acting including two wins, but even if he hadn’t been lauded so, his career speaks for itself. It began in earnest in the mid-1980s, when he started to make the transition from television drama “St....

The Daily Stream: The Great Food Truck Race Is A Whole Different Flavor Of Cooking Competition Food Network By Jenna Busch/Aug. 26, 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 Series: “The Great Food Truck Race” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu with the Live TV add-on/Discovery+ The Pitch: Cooking shows have become a good way to unwind in the midst of whatever the heck is going on with our world....

The search for Kevin Bacon Marvel It’s the holiday season, and Star-Lord/Peter Quill is feeling down. Mantis and Drax decide to save Christmas by getting their friend a very special gift: Kevin Bacon. Thanks to Quill’s enthusiastic recountings of the films of his youth, Mantis and Drax believe Kevin Bacon is an amazing hero, and not just an actor playing pretend. So they head to Earth to find Mr. Bacon. And … that’s really it....

The New Doctor Who Logo Is A Callback To The Tom Baker Era BBC By Jenna Busch/Oct. 25, 2022 3:11 pm EST Spoilers ahead for the recent “The Power of the Doctor” “Doctor Who” special and the regeneration reveal. Attention Whovians! Change is in the air! A brand new regeneration is coming with Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, and David Tennant’s recent reveal as the Fourteenth Doctor because things are all wibbly wobbly timey wimey....

The Original Pitch For Curb Your Enthusiasm Didn’t Do Much For Larry David HBO By Andrew Housman/Aug. 30, 2022 3:46 pm EST “Curb Your Enthusiasm” may be one of television’s longest-running sitcoms, but Larry David originally just intended the show’s de facto pilot, an hour-long HBO special, as a joke about his return to stand-up comedy. Structured as a mockumentary, “Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm” followed a similar metanarrative as season 4 of “Seinfeld” (the one in which George tries to sell his concept of “a show about nothing” to NBC) and traced Larry’s attempts at creating a — you guessed it — an hour-long special for HBO....

The Wachowskis Wanted The Matrix Trilogy To Change The Way We Watch Movies Warner Bros. By Michael Boyle/July 6, 2022 9:13 pm EST Say what you will about the Wachowskis, but you can never accuse them of being timid. From “The Matrix” films to their groundbreaking TV series “Sense8,” these are two filmmakers who’ve always stuck to their visions and created art on their own terms. Nothing they’ve created has been as universally beloved as first “Matrix” film, but that’s because that was the last time in their careers where they’ve needed to cater to general audience expectations....

The Woman King trailer “The Woman King” is being directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (“Love & Basketball,” “The Secret Life of Bees,” “The Old Guard”) who co-wrote the script with Dana Stevens (“City of Angels,” “Fatherhood”). In an interview with Vanity Fair, Davis acknowledged the importance not only of her role in the story but of the film’s place in the world of film: “I’ve never had a role like this before....

Trevor Noah Is Leaving The Daily Show After Seven Years As Host Comedy Central By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 29, 2022 11:00 pm EST After seven years as the face of “The Daily Show,” host Trevor Noah is ready to step down. Noah announced his plans to depart the Comedy Central series at Thursday night’s live taping of the show in New York, saying, “My time is up,” to audible gasps from the audience (see below, via Variety)....

Why Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 was great ABC When I pitch people on “Don’t Trust the B—– in Apartment 23,” I always think of a few plotlines that demonstrate how joltingly funny this off-the-wall sitcom could be. There’s the time when stylish and vaguely sociopathic party girl Chloe (Ritter) tricks her sweet midwestern roommate June into falling for a hot friend of hers, only for June to later learn he’s actually Chloe’s not-very-single dad....

Who Sings The Song In The Rings Of Power Finale’s Closing Credits? Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 14, 2022 1:49 pm EST (Warning: Spoilers ahead for “The Rings of Power” finale.) “The Lord of the Rings” franchise continues to deliver songs that slap. The original trilogy of films by Peter Jackson includes a score by Howard Shore that’s still in heavy rotation among fans two decades later. “The Hobbit” movies, despite their inconsistent quality, delivered a haunting rendition of “Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold,” plus an Ed Sheeran song that had no reason to go as hard as it did, “I See Fire....

Andor Episode 12 Skips Showing Us A Pivotal Battle, And The Finale Is All The Better For It Lucasfilm By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 26, 2022 12:30 pm EST “Andor” has concluded its first season with a climactic and emotional finale, and with it came another set of unconventional choices (for a “Star Wars” series) that ended up making the show even better. Filled with key character moments and eerie parallels to the current political climate, episode 12 of “Andor” has no wasted space....

Scarif and the Death Star (c) Lucasfilm In the Imperial Security Bureau briefing, it’s mentioned that they’re tracking a massive shipment of construction materials headed toward Scarif. At this point in the timeline, the Death Star is under construction there at Scarif, and those materials are likely destined for the Emperor’s super weapon. According to the books that give background on the construction of the Death Star in the canon, James Luceno’s “Tarkin” and “Catalyst”, the Death Star project was moved from Geonosis to Scarif in a bid to keep it secret....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Is At Its Best When It’s Just About The Alien Fish 20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/Dec. 16, 2022 12:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” James Cameron spent as much time making “Avatar: The Way of Water” as Axl Rose took to make “Chinese Democracy.” Cameron was so keen to make his film in a very particular way, that he waited 13 years for film technology to catch up to his way of thinking....

The value of secondary revenue streams Lionsgate It is worth pointing out that Saban Films had theatrical distribution of the film, so Lionsgate was basing its decision purely on what they saw from home video sales. It is also worth mentioning that Kevin Smith tends to make relatively cheap films, which certainly helps. Still, in an era when Blu-ray sales are said to be drying up and the industry at large is looking for other revenue streams to help make up the difference, this is a fascinating story....

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Trailer: A Lot Of Flashing Lights And Cybercrime Netflix By Jenna Busch/Aug. 1, 2022 3:40 pm EST Netflix has released the full trailer for their upcoming anime series “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.” The show is a standalone spin-off of the 2020 video game “Cyberpunk 2077.” In that game, you played as the mysterious V, a cyber-enhanced mercenary whose implants are overwriting his personality with that of a dead celebrity. The game was praised for world building but was notoriously buggy....

Danny Elfman Has Defended The Nightmare Before Christmas As A Film For All Ages Since Its Premiere Buena Vista Pictures By Anya Stanley/Dec. 26, 2022 12:00 pm EST “Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to see something strange?” The opening lines of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” are simple, beckoning its audience as a grinning carnival barker might entreat passers-by to enter the big tent and see the grand show....

HBO Max’s The Penguin Casts Cristin Milioti As Sofia Falcone Peacock By Jenna Busch/Oct. 31, 2022 1:52 pm EST Spoilers ahead for “The Batman.” It’s time to delve even deeper into Gotham City’s crime-ridden underbelly. As you may have heard, we’re getting a Penguin-based limited series from HBO Max as a spin-off of the Warner Bros. film “The Batman.” Colin Farrell will reprise the role of Oswald Cobblepot in the series that will begin about a week after the film ended....