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The Full Monty At 25: The Underdog Story That Took On Titanic At The Oscars By Lee Adams/Aug. 15, 2022 9:00 am EST When “The Full Monty” came out in the UK in 1997, it surprised just about everybody. There wasn’t much buzz around my way, and most people seemed to think it was some kind of raunchy comedy for women. In those less enlightened times, I fielded several questions regarding my sexual orientation when I told friends I was going to see it....

Hannibal the conqueror Tubi TV According to historians of his time, Hannibal was made to swear an oath to his father at a young age so that he would always work against Rome and its aims. He grew to become the commander in chief of the army of Carthage at the age of twenty-six. In the following years, an attack on the Iberian city of Sagantum stoked Roman fears and led to the Second Punic War....

The Magnificent Seven Wasn’t Working Until It Added That Unforgettable Score United Artists By Anya Stanley/Nov. 19, 2022 2:00 pm EST This writer remembers Easter Sunday mornings of childhood when all the candy-filled eggs were collected, sitting before the TV and devouring Cadbury treats as the sweeping fanfare of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” filled the family room. Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner made big impressions with their booming voices, but what I remembered most was the swell of strings that would arise anytime Yvonne De Carlo’s saintly Sephora would grace the screen....

The Mind-Bending Inspiration Behind The Night House’s Twisting Architecture Searchlight Pictures By Debopriyaa Dutta/Sept. 29, 2022 10:20 pm EST A woman grieving her husband’s death, an eerie, identical house in the woods with a reversed floor plan, and an entity hellbent on dragging a living person to the realm of death. These are the essential ingredients in David Bruckner’s psychological horror, “The Night House,” which, when combined, leads to a terrifying tale about grief, loss, and emotional trauma....

Stone saw the sport going corporate Warner Bros. From 1989 to 1999, eight NFL franchises changed ownership, mostly sold to wealthy millionaires like Robert Kraft (New England Patriots) and Jeffrey Lurie (Philadelphia Eagles). The league was transitioning from family-owned franchises to a corporate structure, and Stone took notice. The director saw a parallel to what was happening in his own industry. He told EW: “In the ’90s, Hollywood was becoming more and more corporate, and so was football; sports just became a giant and almost ridiculously outsized industry....

The Real Person Who Inspired Stephen Fry’s The Sandman Character Netflix By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 1, 2022 1:35 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s been a long, long time coming, but Neil Gaiman’s deliriously inventive comic book fantasy, “The Sandman,” has at last received a live-action adaptation. The 10-episode first season, which debuts August 5 on Netflix, has its work cut out for it. Not only must it satisfy the intensely dedicated fans of the book, who’ve been dreaming of Morpheus’ richly beautiful odyssey leaping from the page since 1989, it also has to hook viewers who’ve never flipped through a single issue....

White Noise Trailer: Noah Baumbach’s Airborne Toxic Event Finally Hits The Screen Netflix By Erin Brady/Aug. 25, 2022 11:04 am EST Don DeLillo’s 1985 postmodern opus, “White Noise,” was considered for decades to be unfilmable and not without good reason. Much of the book’s events, especially the ones surrounding what is called the “Airborne Toxic Event,” are extremely abstract, making the task of adapting these scenes to the screen an uphill task....

Baby’s not back, yet United Archives/Getty Images The 1938 screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby” looked like a departure from her recent roles playing tough women like Mary Queen of Scots. The playful film followed a madcap romance between Hepburn’s dizzy heiress and a straight man paleontologist played by a bespectacled Cary Grant, who showed off his acrobatics with hilarious pratfalls. Hepburn was deemed “box office poison” by the trade group while the movie was still in production, which led RKO to shelve the film before spending more money on advertising (via AFI)....

A quick recap of the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut mess Warner Bros. If you’re somehow unaware of this chaos, the short version is that Zack Snyder’s star lost some shine at Warner Bros. after “Batman V Superman” underperformed and was difficult to get finished, and by the time they started seeing what he was doing on “Justice League” they were looking for an out. They took the movie away from him, hired Joss Whedon to first help shape what was already shot and then ultimately reshoot a whole bunch of it, which resulted in a messy hodgepodge of Zack Snyder’s dourness and Whedon’s goofy humor....

Andor Review: The Latest Star Wars Series Goes To A Gritty, Grounded Place And Is Better For It Lucasfilm/Disney+ By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 20, 2022 12:00 pm EST When I saw the first teaser trailer for “Rogue One” another lifetime ago in April 2016, the line that made my skin tingle came from Jyn Erso: “This is a rebellion. I rebel.” The line wasn’t in the final version of the film we saw in theaters that December, a change that most likely came after Tony Gilroy came in and, by many accounts, saved the film with extensive rewrites and, among other things, reportedly made it more tonally in line with the Skywalker Saga films....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Doesn’t Redeem Jake Sully And That’s The Point 20th Century Studios By Witney Seibold/Dec. 16, 2022 10:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” While James Cameron’s 2009 film “Avatar” was visually dazzling, and pushed movie special effects to new highs, one can find many, many flaws in its story. Most notably, “Avatar” can serve as a tired a trite “White man goes native” narrative, left over from the days of American colonialist fantasies by James Fenimore Cooper....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Trailer: It’s Time To Return To Pandora 20th Century Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 2, 2022 8:23 am EST “Avatar: The Way of Water” is almost here. That’s a strange sentence to type given the fact that it’s been thirteen years since the last “Avatar” film hit theaters, and at some point the long-in-the-works sequels became an “I’ll believe it when I see” it sort of movie....

Best Buds: Everything We Know So Far About The Mike Judge Animated Comedy At Peacock FOX By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 4, 2022 11:30 pm EST Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, the duo who brought us “King of the Hill,” are collaborating on a brand new adult animated series that will be developed by Peacock (via The Hollywood Reporter). Judge and Daniels have significant comedy credits to their name — while Daniels is recognized for the U....

Black Adam Actor Aldis Hodge Has Been Preparing For His Superhero Role Since He Was 3 Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo AND Ryan Scott/July 23, 2022 7:19 pm EST Little kids often have big dreams of what they’ll be when they grow up, like an astronaut, the president, or for today’s kids, a Twitch streamer. For the then pint-sized Aldis Hodge, it was all about becoming a superhero. Known for his roles in projects like “The Invisible Man” and the series “Leverage,” Hodge has been acting for most of his life....

Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Success Planted The Seeds For Batman Beyond Warner Bros. By Devin Meenan/Nov. 26, 2022 5:45 pm EST “Batman Beyond” is the most out-there project of the DC Animated Universe. It’s not based on an existing comic and is instead an original take on Batman’s future. Set in 2039, a long-retired, eighty-year-old Bruce Wayne trains the teenage Terry McGinnis to be the new Dark Knight. An older Batman who’d hung up the cape and cowl wasn’t a new idea; that was the whole idea behind Frank Miller’s classic “The Dark Knight Returns....

Clint Eastwood Copied A Secret Service Trick To Keep His Crew Calm On Set Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Sept. 12, 2022 2:51 pm EST Clint Eastwood’s first film as a director was “Play Misty for Me” in 1971, in which he also starred. Eastwood would direct 12 additional features in which he also played the lead prior to “Bird” in 1988, his first film as a director in which he did not appear....

Cynthia Addai-Robinson Goes Deep Into Rings Of Power And The People We Hate At The Wedding [Interview] Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Nov. 11, 2022 3:24 pm EST Spoilers ahead for season 1 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Cynthia Addai-Robinson has spent a lot of time in the fantasy realm. She played Naevia in “Spartacus,” Amanda Waller in “Arrow,” and now Tar-Míriel in Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which just completed its first season....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Almost Cut Its Best Character Marvel Studios By Erin Brady/July 21, 2022 1:52 pm EST “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is a film filled to the brim with colorful characters. You’ve got the titular sorcerer (Benedict Cumberbatch), the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Sorcerer Supreme Wong (Benedict Wong), and Michael Stuhlbarg wearing one of the crustiest wigs you’ve ever seen....

Fast Times At Ridgemont High Dared To Ask, ‘Why Couldn’t You See A Naked Man?’ Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/Aug. 10, 2022 1:41 pm EST To say Americans have complicated feelings about nudity and sexuality would be a massive understatement. The human body is an object of fascination, shame, embarrassment, allure, and fear. We want to embrace our sexuality to the fullest but want to keep as much in private as we possibly can....

Forget About Jigsaw: Let’s Talk About The True Champion Of The Saw Franchise Lionsgate Films By William Bibbiani/Dec. 9, 2022 10:00 am EST Hello. I want to play a game. For eighteen years you have been watching the “Saw” movies and reveling in their distinct blend of gory death traps and labyrinthine storytelling. You have watched in awe while the series villain, John Kramer a.k.a. “Jigsaw,” played by Tobin Bell, subjected his many victims to unthinkable scenarios, in an attempt to teach them that life is worth living, even if it means enduring horrific pain in the process....