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New Alien Movie From Don’t Breathe’s Fede Alvarez Will Star Cailee Spaeny 20th Century Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 16, 2022 3:07 pm EST In space, no one can hear you scream … but the newest installment in the classic horror franchise has just added its next would-be victim, anyway. We’ve known that the next “Alien” movie would take a pretty major pivot away from Ridley Scott’s (tragically still-incomplete) prequel series, which started with “Prometheus” and continued with “Alien: Covenant,” revolving around Michael Fassbender’s android with a god complex, David....

One Of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Best Episodes Led To Its Crossover With Lower Decks Paramount By Witney Seibold/Sept. 16, 2022 5:41 pm EST While the above headline refers specifically to “Spock Amok” (airdate: June 2, 2022), the fifth episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” the phrase “one of the show’s best episodes” could conceivably apply to any of the episodes to date. “Strange New Worlds” is a startlingly good show which started rather strong, a rarity for a franchise whose shows notoriously get off to rocky starts....

Watching those political differences melt away Lionsgate With most family gatherings, one typically hopes that the love within the family will be enough to overcome those political divisions. That’s sort of what happens in “Knives Out,” although it’s not the Thrombeys’ love for each other that does it. These characters may seem to hate each other for their liberal, conservative, or (in the case of Jaeden Martell’s Jacob) alt-right views, but those differences melt away the moment their wealth is at risk....

Sean Connery Left Alec Baldwin Shaken On The Hunt For Red October Set Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 7, 2022 3:04 pm EST Alec Baldwin just sort of happened all at once. For a long time, there were movies without Baldwin, and then suddenly, in 1988, there were five. He was an unfaithful slime of a husband in Jonathan Demme’s “Married to the Mob,” an unfaithful slime of a boyfriend in Mike Nichols “Working Girl,” a creepy slime of a best friend in John Hughes’ “She’s Having a Baby,” an ambitious slime of a radio executive in Oliver Stone’s “Talk Radio” and an absolute gem of a dead man in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving HBO Max In December 2022 Universal Pictures By Mike Shutt/Nov. 23, 2022 4:15 pm EST Well, we’ve got about another month left in 2022, and when many of us will be celebrating ringing in 2023 (not me, because I’m not into fun), some terrific movies and television programs will be shuffling off of HBO Max. Sure, they will probably be finding themselves on another streaming service in the near future, but there are a number of great works that you should not spend any more time putting off....

The Cast Of Christmas Vacation Wore Cue Cards For Chevy Chase To Nail His Holiday Meltdown Scene Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Dec. 4, 2022 11:00 am EST If you’re looking for any last-minute gift ideas for Clark Griswold, he has one suggestion. The rant that ensues is not only the highlight of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” but it’s one of the most memorable tirades to be associated with the holiday season....

Why it’s essential viewing HBO Outside of the magical performances, which I’ll get to in a second, the show has some incredible historical accuracy in terms of the music and the elaborate sets, costumes, and bits of culture. It’s probably what led to the crazy budget, but it’s worth every penny. I rewatched this after a trip to Rome, and I was blown away once again. More so because of what I’d learned....

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Lucasfilm After the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in 2015, there were many popular theories floating around the Internet about Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) heritage. A brief dream sequence in “The Force Awakens” seemingly suggested that Rey’s family is much more important than she initially realized. Some fans speculated that she could be Luke Skywalker’s daughter, making her the cousin of Kylo Ren (Adam Driver)....

‘Back in the day’ Netflix Cigarettes are everywhere in “Peaky Blinders,” and the lead character, Thomas “Tommy” Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy, burns through them as if it is the very air that he needs to breathe. It’s hard to find a scene with Murphy not smoking a cigarette, but he just shrugs off this particular routine of Tommy’s. “People did smoke all day [back then] and it just became a Tommy thing,” Cillian explained to Independent of his character’s habit....

The Simpsons’ Playdate With Destiny Short Was A Product Of Serendipity As one of the longest-running American sitcoms, there is no corner of the entertainment industry where “The Simpsons” hasn’t entrenched its mark. Even during the series’ early years, you would have a better chance of escaping a grizzly bear on its home turf than someone wearing an “eat my shorts” or “don’t have a cow, man” T-shirt. The dysfunctional animated family is an exemplary fixture of adult animation that has endured for well over three decades and 33 seasons of television....

We Blew It: They’re Remaking Easy Rider Columbia Pictures By Erin Brady/Nov. 29, 2022 4:55 pm EST When you think about Dennis Hopper’s 1969 classic “Easy Rider,” what comes to your mind? The disillusionment young people felt in the ’60s that created the counterculture movement? The fact that anyone with a story and a camera can theoretically make a hit movie? The idea that no matter what kinds of communities you create outside of the mainstream system, the horrors of conformity will always be hanging over your head?...

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Director Eric Appel On Not Copying Walk Hard And The ‘Yankovic Cut’ [Exclusive Interview] Roku By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 4, 2022 8:00 am EST As you might assume from the title, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” chronicles the rise of famed parody songwriter Weird Al Yankovic. In true Weird Al fashion, however, the movie isn’t a straightforward biopic like “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Walk the Line.” It certainly takes cues from those kinds of movies as it sends up the career of the accordion master, but director Eric Appel and Weird Al himself ensured that the movie wasn’t merely a copycat of the hilarious music biopic parody “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story....

Cigarette burns are a mark of a bygone era in projection Marvel Studios In an interview with Collider, Giacchino talked about how he and editor Jeffrey Ford saw the inclusion of cigarette burns as a way for them to pay tribute to the era in which this would have been seen: “As we were editing and stuff, my editor Jeff and I are such nerds for this kind of thing, and we were just like, ‘Oh, we got to put in those things too....

Acting Was The Last Career A Young Jeff Bridges Thought He Would Choose FX By Anya Stanley/July 21, 2022 1:11 pm EST “Crazy Heart.” “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.” “The Big Lebowski.” “True Grit.” “The Old Man” may be the latest chance to see Jeff Bridges’ perform, but the American actor has been working for over seven decades. Golden Globes, an Oscar, and a Cecil B. DeMille award later, Bridges reveals to Vanity Fair that he hadn’t always planned to follow in the family line of work:...

Anson Mount Wanted Pike To Take Star Trek Captains Where They’ve Never Gone Before Paramount By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 12, 2022 6:00 am EST Over the years, there have been many kinds of “Star Trek” captains represented onscreen, but one thing they all have in common was self-assured leadership. Whether it’s Captain Kirk (William Shatner) leading the charge to explore some hostile alien world or Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) helping bridge communication between the Prophets and beings stuck in linear time, Starfleet Captains always seem extremely sure about what they’re doing....

The way of Cameron 20th Century Studios When it comes to James Cameron movies, the usual box office pattern of peaking with the opening weekend, dropping off rapidly, and earning peanuts after a month or two does not apply. Cameron’s biggest hits so far were not front-loaded: “Avatar” only grossed $77 million of its eventual $2.92 billion box office in its domestic opening weekend (73% of that total came from overseas markets)....

Beekeeper: Release Date, Cast, And More For David Ayer’s New Jason Statham Action Movie MGM By Marcos Melendez/Oct. 17, 2022 3:45 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.) If you’re not tired of seeing middle-aged action stars play characters seeking vengeance under the guise of a clandestine organization, then I have the perfect film for you....

Miramax By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 21, 2022 7:28 am EST After reuniting onscreen last year in Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are ready to embark on a new entrepreneurial phase in their careers by heading up their own production company. Per The Wrap, Affleck and Damon will serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief creative officer (CCO) of the new independent film studio, Artists Equity....

Christmas With The Campbells Test Screenings Demanded More Hilarity From Julia Duffy And George Wendt [Exclusive] RLJE Films By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2022 1:28 pm EST “Christmas with the Campbells” is bringing some refreshingly raunchy comedy to the Hallmark holiday romance formula. For this new Christmas movie, producers Vince Vaughn and Peter Billingsley (star of “A Christmas Story” and its recent sequel), who have been friends since working on a CBS after-school special back in 1990, brought in bona fide Hallmark movie screenwriter Barbara Kymlicka to deliver your average holiday romance....

Damien Chazelle On Babylon’s Fantastic Jean Smart Speech And That Bravura Ending [Exclusive Interview] Paramount By Ben Pearson/Dec. 23, 2022 2:00 pm EST The following post contains spoilers for “Babylon.” In 2009, Damien Chazelle made his feature directorial debut with the little-seen indie “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.” That same year, he pitched a producer the idea for “Babylon,” a sprawling period piece which would show the darker side of Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies....