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How Star Wars Set Ridley Scott On The Path To Alien By Walter Roberts/Oct. 7, 2022 7:06 pm EST The impact of “Star Wars” on popular culture and Hollywood filmmaking cannot be overstated. Many directors have commented on how George Lucas’ 1977 film personally influenced their lives and careers. For Ridley Scott, however, experiencing “Star Wars” would not only change his own direction, but would also result in one of the only films that comes close to rivaling the legacy of “Star Wars” itself....

Who is Ironheart? Marvel First, some background on the character. Ironheart made her debut in the pages of “Invincible Iron Man” back in 2016 and was created by a superstar lineup consisting of Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato, Eve Ewing, and Kevin Libranda. The person under the armor is a young woman by the name of Riri Williams. The short version of her backstory is that this young genius managed to get into MIT at just 11 years old....

Jonathan Majors On The Meaning Of Devotion And Watching Movies In Theaters [Interview] Sony Pictures Releasing By Jenna Busch/Nov. 16, 2022 3:35 pm EST In the upcoming film “Devotion,” directed by J.D. Dillard, we meet Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors), the first Black man to complete the U.S. Navy’s basic flight training program. During the Korean War, he proves himself to be an exceptional pilot, but the main story is about the friendship between Jesse and his wingman, Tom Hudner Jr....

Kaepernick & America Release Date, Trailer, And More Dark Star Pictures By Ryan Scott/Aug. 26, 2022 6:33 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Colin Kaepernick is one of few names in professional sports that many, many people who don’t otherwise much care about football (or sports at all for that matter) know....

Los Espookys Season 2 Trailer: More Fantastic, More Mysterious, More Espookier HBO Max By Rafael Motamayor/July 28, 2022 12:55 pm EST In the summer of 2019, HBO premiered what was arguably their most delightfully weird show in years — at least until perhaps Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” — “Los Espookys.” Created by Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and Julio Torres, the show was unique from the get-go: it was set in an unnamed Latin American country, and was mostly spoken in Spanish....

Matt Berry’s Path To Acting Was Perfectly Matt Berry FX By Andrew Housman/Sept. 28, 2022 12:05 pm EST Matt Berry, the Englishman known for his trademark epic, boomy voice, has always embraced a unique persona ever since his first start on stage. Despite and indeed because of his highly theatrical delivery, the actor mostly appears in comedic roles, such as title character Steven Toast on “Toast of London,” the incompetent CEO Douglas Reynholm in “The IT Crowd,” and most recently and perhaps famously, the horny vampire Laszlo on “What We Do in the Shadows....

Sci-Fi Movie Deaths We’re Still Recovering From Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 17, 2022 2:20 pm EST Every sci-fi movie buff knows the importance of staying off of the Internet for as long as possible after a major film comes out. The last thing that fans want is to have a significant death spoiled for them. Spoilers for movies like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” or “Avengers: Endgame” were up on the Internet days before the films were released....

Sean Connery Made Himself Hard To Ignore On The Untouchables Set Paramount By Mike Shutt/Sept. 11, 2022 8:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When we think about Oscar-winning performances, we usually refer to “transformations.” Actors go on these press tours talking about how much blood, sweat, and tears went into their work. It’s as if many of these people need to prove the part was difficult, arduous, and important to justify being given a golden statue for it....

Sick Review: The Strangers For The Covid Era Is Actually Really Good, And Far Too Real [Fantastic Fest] Fantastic Fest By Rafael Motamayor/Sept. 26, 2022 1:20 am EST “Sick” is a well-made, well-executed, and smarty-written pandemic home invasion slasher that plays like “The Strangers” for the COVID-19 era. The film features great and smart characters that make choices you don’t really see in the genre, with creative camera work that uses its one location in inventive ways....

Steven Spielberg Wasn’t The Only Influence On J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 15, 2022 3:01 pm EST Five years before “Stranger Things” opened the first of many portals to the Upside Down, J.J. Abrams directed his own love letter to 1980s pop culture in the form of 2011’s “Super 8.” Ironically, the film picks up not in the ’80s but 1979, as a teen boy named Joe (Joel Courtney of “The Kissing Booth” fame) and his father (Kyle Chandler) mourn the death of Joe’s mother in a workplace accident....

Superhero Bits: Gambit Movie Storyboards, The Green Lantern Show Is Not Canceled & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Dec. 27, 2022 4:08 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....

Tales From The Box Office: 15 Years Ago, Superbad Did R-Rated Comedy Super Good Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Aug. 20, 2022 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) Comedy occupies a pretty fascinating space within the movie world. Sure, comedies have been a part of mainstream cinema pretty much from the very start, dating back to some of the silent era’s biggest stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton....

The Daily Stream: Poltergeist Explores The Dark Side Of Spielberg’s Suburbia MGM/UA Entertainment Co. By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 4, 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: “Poltergeist” (1982) Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: The Freelings lead an unremarkable but contented life in the sunny, newly-built suburbs of Cuesta Verde, California....

The Day After Tomorrow Ending Explained: A Questionably-Delivered Message About Climate Change By Michael Boyle/Dec. 13, 2022 1:18 pm EST I’ve always enjoyed “The Day After Tomorrow,” and not just because I was a child when it first came out. Yes, the science behind what happens in the movie isn’t great, and yes, there is not a single three-dimensional character to be found here, but the movie is basically a slasher film where the killer is Mother Nature, and you must admit that’s kind of cool....

The Five Nights At Freddy’s Movie Is On The Move, Casts Matthew Lillard And Josh Hutcherson Clickteam By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Dec. 16, 2022 3:19 pm EST One, two, Freddy’s coming for you … no, not that Freddy. An adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s indie horror game sensation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” has been marinating in development hell since 2015, not long after the first video game in the now-expansive series was released. Now, according to Deadline, Freddy has found his stars: Matthew Lillard (“Scream,” “Scooby-Doo”) and Josh Hutcherson (known for “Bridge to Terabithia” and for turning himself into a rock in “The Hunger Games”)....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Reveals The Enemy’s Plan And Teases A New Threat By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 9, 2022 1:29 am EST It can be particularly tricky for a new series to burst out of the starting gate at full speed, especially when the first couple of table-setting hours tend to come with the crushing weight of mountains of exposition, a bevy of character introductions, and an overall mandate to establish the tone in a way that will hook viewers and keep them coming back....

The Old Guard Taught Gina Prince-Bythewood A Vital Lesson For The Woman King TriStar Pictures By Mike Shutt/Sept. 18, 2022 9:59 am EST Gina Prince-Bythewood made her name making tremendous dramas that I feel never got the proper respect that they deserved. Partly, this is due to the fact that she makes movies about women, which generally don’t get as much respect as they should. Partly, it’s because her best work were romances, such as “Love & Basketball” and “Beyond the Lights,” a genre that has rarely gotten its proper due since the turn of the 21st century....

The Orcs In The Latest Rings Of Power Might Have Made A Sly Nod To The Animated Return Of The King Movie Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Sept. 9, 2022 4:26 pm EST In the third episode of Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” we follow captured elf Arondir through the tunnels under the land where the orcs are digging. They’re not big fans of sunlight, which burns them, so they’ve taken humans and elves prisoner to dig for them....

They/Them Ending Explained: A Conversion Camp Killer Unmasked Peacock By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 7, 2022 6:05 pm EST John Logan’s conversion camp horror movie “They/Them” hit Peacock this week, and the divisive buzz around the movie has fizzled into a somewhat baffled discourse as viewers finally get to see what all the fuss is about. The latest queer horror offering makes some bold choices, but not the ones anyone was expecting. After all, who would’ve guessed this seemingly serious movie about the inhumanity of anti-LGBTQ+ conversion practices would feature a spontaneous “Glee”-like sing-a-long to P!...

Tony Kushner Says The Fabelmans Is ‘About The Power Of Art’ [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 12, 2022 6:06 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “The Fabelmans,” looks to be one of his most personal projects yet. Co-written by Spielberg (his first co-writing credit with Tony Kushner), the film gives insight into the iconic director’s childhood and the events that led him to become a filmmaker. In place of Spielberg is the fictional Fabelman family, making the coming-of-age drama film only semi-autobiographical....