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Robert Wise was not a Trekkie Paramount Kirk yells a lot in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” largely, it seems, as a storytelling device. Fein admitted that director Robert Wise was an effective storyteller and an excellent filmmaker, but that he wasn’t familiar with Kirk’s history as a character. Wise, according to Fine, made Kirk angry in order to keep certain cinematic rhythms alive; a curt word or two, and Kirk could be silent for a beat after....

The Latest Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Trailer Nails The Key To A Good Middle-Earth Adaptation Prime Video By Rafael Motamayor/July 22, 2022 5:12 pm EST J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is arguably the most influential fantasy story ever, inventing most of the tropes of the genre that have gone from innovative to cliché, and back to innovative several times over across the decades....

The Martian Ending Explained: A Thrilling Survival Tale About Human Perseverance And Ingenuity By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 26, 2022 6:00 pm EST Everyone loves a good survival story. There is something innately satisfying about watching a protagonist push themselves toward the finish line despite all the odds stacked against them, and emerge stronger in the end. Ridley Scott encapsulates this exact feeling in his 2015 science-fiction thriller “The Martian,” in which a lone astronaut stranded on Mars must rely on his scientific ingenuity to make it back to Earth....

The Menu’s Writers Wanted Ralph Fiennes To Combine His Grand Budapest Hotel And Schindler’s List Skills [Exclusive] Eric Zachanowich/Searchlight Pictures By Witney Seibold/Nov. 18, 2022 5:10 pm EST Recently, /Film’s own Jack Giroux had the opportunity to talk about “The Menu” with the movie’s screenwriters, Will Tracy and Seth Reiss. The pair had previously mentioned that they envisioned Ralph Fiennes in the role of Julian Slowik. In “The Menu,” Julian is the celebrity chef whose multi-course, theatrically-presented, ultra-expensive meal will — on this particular night — involve multiple human deaths....

The Other Stephen King Adaptation Tim Curry Wished He Worked On Warner Bros. By Anya Stanley/Aug. 26, 2022 11:42 am EST “I tend to play very over-the-top people.” That’s what beloved actor Tim Curry told Fangoria Magazine in 1990, and it would only be confirmed over the following decades. He’s played professional pirates and sinister clergymen, calculating butlers, and the sexiest mound of crooning toxic sludge in cinema history. He would gain fame playing a transvestite scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in 1975, reprising the role of Dr....

Why Clint Eastwood Can’t Buy Into The Idea Of An ‘Auteur’ Director Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 7, 2022 1:05 pm EST “Auteur” is one of those words that get thrown around a lot, yet its meaning seems to vary depending on who you ask. It’s a term that is most often afforded to directors whose work is held in high regard, but it can just as easily be applied to a filmmaker whose movies are rarely the bee’s knees in the eyes of critics....

So what happens in The Snowman again? TVC London/Channel 4 A young boy wakes up one morning to discover there has been a heavy snowfall overnight. In delight, he throws on some clothes and runs outside to play, building a snowman in the garden. That night he sneaks downstairs to check on it while his parents are in bed and, at the stroke of midnight, the snowman magically comes to life....

Why Tim Curry Got Thrown Out Of An After Dark Showing Of The Rocky Horror Picture Show After beginning his career in stage plays around London’s West End and earning short-lived roles on random television shows, Tim Curry sashayed into stardom when he portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult classic film “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Originally debuting as a stage play in London, “The Rocky Horror Picture show” is a unique blend of old-school horror, campy sci-fi, and dramatic musical that no one expected to remain popular for nearly 50 years....

10 Most Badass Fight Sequences From Bullet Train, Ranked Sony Pictures By Cass Clarke/Aug. 5, 2022 1:17 pm EST Warning: The below article contains spoilers for “Bullet Train.” Imagine the dangerous worlds of “Seven Psychopaths,” “Kill Bill,” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” colliding, and that’ll give you a taste of what’s in store with Sony Pictures’ “Bullet Train.” Starring Brad Pitt in the role of Ladybug, the action-packed neo-noir film fuses situational and quippy comedy with plenty of hand-to-hand combat....

Agatha: Coven Of Chaos: Everything We Know About Marvel’s WandaVision Spin-Off Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Nov. 3, 2022 10:04 pm EST We all know it was Agatha all along behind the scenes of the Marvel series “WandaVision.” That’s true, even though Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) proved herself to be quite a formidable force in the little town she and Vision (Paul Bettany) settled in. It was all her warping of reality through her grief that changed things, not that Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) helped matters....

Marvel Studios Whether he’s crafting a sense of melancholic grandeur for the Caped Crusader or the retro spy theme of a superhero family, Michael Giacchino is one of the most prolific composers working today. Given how much we know him for his musical acumen, it came as quite the surprise when it was announced that he would be stepping into the director’s seat for a Marvel Halloween special. Giacchino is the last person I expected to helm a project for the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Andrew Stanton Had To Fight For Buzz To Go Into Spanish Mode In Toy Story 3 [Comic-Con] Pixar By Joshua Meyer/July 23, 2022 9:26 am EST The “Toy Story” franchise is known for its Randy Newman theme song, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” but apparently, the Spanish Buzz Lightyear who appears in “Toy Story 3” did not have a friend in everyone as the movie was being made. Lucky for him, he had Andrew Stanton in his corner....

Annabelle Wallis Saw Peaky Blinders As A Personal Challenge BBC/Netflix By Jeff Ewing/Aug. 15, 2022 3:06 pm EST Adeptly played by “Malignant” alum Annabelle Wallis, Grace Burgess (later, Grace Shelby) is one of the key figures in “Peaky Blinders” history. Ever since her season 1 appearance as an undercover barmaid/plant-turned-love interest for Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), the character’s complex arc saw her betray and then fall for the ambitious gangster, marry another man, carry Thomas’ child, then eventually become Thomas’ wife before her tragic death in series 3, breaking Thomas Shelby’s heart and hastening his mental downfall for the rest of the series....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Trailer: Mount Your Banshees For Another Trip To Pandora 20th Century Studios By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 21, 2022 9:59 pm EST “Avatar: The Way of Water” is only the third non-documentary film James Cameron has made in the last 25 years, but the first two — “Titanic” and the original “Avatar” — happen to rank as the #1 and #3 highest-grossing movies of all time. So, there’s that....

Avengers Moments That Took Things Too Far Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By Eric Pierce/Sept. 1, 2022 2:58 pm EST Debuting in 2008 with “Iron Man,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has grown into a 29-film, interconnected saga and the highest-grossing film franchise of all time. Unlike the more grounded aesthetic of Christoper Nolan’s Batman trilogy, the MCU has fully embraced the full-color insanity of its comic book heritage. Its stories unfold across space and time, and therefore, often bypass plausibility to pursue the rule of cool....

Bardo Trailer: Alejandro G. Iñarritu’s Dreamy New Movie Is Now 22 Minutes Shorter Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 22, 2022 11:12 am EST You’re never going to believe it, but Alejandro G. Iñárritu has made an elaborately-titled, darkly comedic drama exploring the messy personal and professional lives of an artist who, in one of the film’s many surreal moments, flies around through the air in a flowing single take. Titled “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the film is the latest from the director of “The Revenant” and “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” and the first he’s shot in his native Mexico since 2000’s “Amores perros....

DC Finally Confirms That Tim Burton’s Batman Shares A Universe With Richard Donner’s Superman Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Dec. 14, 2022 6:21 pm EST When Richard Donner and Warner Bros. released “Superman” in 1978, interconnected cinematic comic book universes were but a twinkle in a geek’s eye. Donner and his screenwriters were keen on Superman and Superman alone, placing the character in a world where no other superheroes exist. This made for a certain amount of narrative clarity, as mainstream film audiences weren’t yet trained to accept kid-friendly crossovers and team-ups....

I give death to those deserving AMC The promo below gives a look at the final seasons of “Better Call Saul” and “Killing Eve,” as well as several new shows coming to AMC+. There’s a new legal drama called “61st Street,” created by Peter Moffat and starring Courtney B. Vance, and there’s a psychological thriller called “Dark Winds” about two Navajo cops, played by Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon. There’s also a Western called “That Dirty Black Bag,” which gives “Preacher” star Dominic Cooper a new home, and a science fiction show called “Moonhaven,” starring Joe Manganiello and Dominic Monaghan....

Getting Cast On Boardwalk Empire Came With A Whole Lot Of Homework HBO By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 19, 2022 8:40 am EST Over the course of five seasons, HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” interwove the fictional plot lines of a Prohibition-set crime drama with figures and events from real American history. Though it was based on a non-fiction book, “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City,” series creator Terence Winter took a page from the show’s premium channel cousin “Deadwood” about what not to do in that he wanted to keep it from being easily spoiled by reading up on the history behind it....

Halloween Ends release date and where you can watch it Universal Pictures The title of the movie is a big hint at the release date: “Halloween Ends” is slated to arrive just in time for the haunted holiday season, on October 14, 2022. Most of the movies in the franchise have followed the Halloween release tradition, starting with the original “Halloween” in 1978. The sequels from the ’90s through the ’00s went for blockbuster-style summer releases, but the 2018 reboot set things back on track....