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Why Lower Decks’ Showrunner Wanted To Bring The Breen Back To Star Trek CBS By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 7, 2022 1:40 pm EST “Star Trek: Lower Decks” has done a great job in making itself a part of the collective “Star Trek” canon by weaving in bits from other shows, including drawing from their massive casts of characters and enemies. While cameos from franchise favorites Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) or Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) are an absolute delight, there’s also something really fun about seeing some of the alien adversaries from live-action “Trek” brought back to cause more trouble....

Actor vs. director Warner Bros. The truth is, Nicholson doesn’t have one acting philosophy and never did. His philosophy was actually multiple different philosophies picked up over years of reading about, discussing, and practicing his craft. From Strasberg to Stanislavski, Nicholson knew his stuff but he was more than ready to adapt his approach when working with the great Kubrick. During Vivian Kubrick’s making-of documentary (now infamous for showcasing the emotional abuse endured by Shelley Duvall at the hands of her director), Nicholson was open about his willingness to be “out of control as an actor....

Aaron Sorkin Had One Rule When It Came To Casting The West Wing NBC By Marcos Melendez/Dec. 2, 2022 10:50 am EST Hailing from Aaron Sorkin, “The West Wing” more than solidified itself as the benchmark for on-screen representation of life in the White House. From its snappy dialogue scenes to the culturally relevant themes, the series handled the volatile sociopolitical landscape with grace. A big part of what made “The West Wing” work so well is the ensemble cast that filled it out....

Alfred Hitchcock Went Way Off Script While Filming The Ending Of The Birds Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions By Joshua Meyer/July 14, 2022 9:49 pm EST “The Birds” is a classic movie, but if you go back and watch it in the context of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography, it’s also somewhat bizarre, even by his standards. Most of Hitchcock’s best-known films are tales of murder and madness that could be classified as crime thrillers or works of psychological horror....

Andor’s Adria Arjona On Bix Caleen, The Thrill Of Making Big-Scale Star Wars & More [Exclusive Interview] Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Aug. 24, 2022 12:00 pm EST Adria Arjona is very much a star on the rise right now. The actress got her major break in HBO’s “True Detective” back in 2015, but in recent years, she’s been working with some of the biggest directors and in the biggest franchises around. Arjona starred in Michael Bay’s “6 Underground,” joined the fight against the Kaiju in “Pacific Rim Uprising,” and recently dipped her toe into the Marvel universe in “Morbius....

Andor Showrunner Tony Gilroy Had A Hard Time Finding Directors For Season 2 Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Nov. 25, 2022 11:15 am EST With “Andor” season 1 in the bag, it’s fair to say showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy and his fellow creatives have exceeded expectations with their “Rogue One” prequel series. What might have been little more than another log to add to the fire that is Disney+ and its never-ending supply of exclusive films and shows has emerged as perhaps the greatest “Star Wars” project released by the Mouse House to date....

Hannah’s death in the book Paramount Pictures In the novella, Louise’s daughter (who’s never given a name here) dies at 25 in a rock-climbing accident. This raises a big question: why doesn’t Louise just tell her daughter to stay away from rock climbing? The answer is that she can’t, not really. Her experience of knowing the future has fundamentally changed her, making it so that most of what she says and does is more like a performance in a play; by the end of the story she’s saying things because she knows what she’s supposed to say for things to continue going along as she’s seen them....

Bones And All Review: A Bloody Brilliant Tale Of Young Love On The Run [Venice] United Artists Releasing By Marshall Shaffer/Sept. 3, 2022 11:28 am EST The most revealing moment in Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal romance “Bones and All” occurs in a “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” instant. The two young lovers, Taylor Russell’s impressionable Maren and Timothée Chalamet’s loose cannon Lee, pull closer to kiss for the first time. They come ever nearer, and at the very instant their lips graze on another, Chalamet cheats out toward the camera and betrays a slight grimace....

Dan Harmon Doesn’t Have An Answer To Community’s Biggest Question NBC By Michael Boyle/Aug. 3, 2022 11:09 am EST One of the best episodes of “Community” is season 5’s “Basic Intergluteal Numismatics,” a mystery episode parodying detective shows and David Fincher films. It’s a spiritual sequel to season 3’s “Law and Order” parody episode, except this time the study group isn’t trying to figure out who killed their yam; they’re trying to figure out the identity of the infamous Ass Crack Bandit....

Evil Eye Review: Grandmotherly Horror Is Like Mother Goose Gone Mad [Fantastic Fest] Fantastic Fest By Matt Donato/Sept. 28, 2022 3:00 pm EST Isaac Ezban’s “Evil Eye” (“Mal de Ojo”) welcomes and reassures audiences with grandmotherly comforts like a folkloric horror tale before nap time. Co-writers Junior Rosario and Edgar San Juan help Ezban summon brujas (basically witches) and terrify infirm children with witchy production value fit for the grimmest fairy tale books....

John Cleese Sees A Major Limitation To The Art Of Improv Comedy EMI Films By Demetra Nikolakakis/Dec. 11, 2022 3:00 pm EST Even if comedy doesn’t always get the respect it deserves, it’s one of the most important pillars of entertainment. Sure, there’s something to be said about how compelling a subtle film can be, or how fiercely defensive we can be of our favorite “serious” classics (just look at any Sight and Sound-related Twitter thread right now)....

John Lithgow Purposefully Bombed His Joker Audition For Tim Burton’s Batman Warner Bros. By Jeff Kelly/Dec. 19, 2022 7:00 am EST There’s a pretty easy argument to be made that the Joker is the most iconic comic book villain of all time. Certainly, he’s one of the most easily recognizable, especially after an Oscar win for the late Heath Ledger and a nomination for Joaquin Phoenix for their respective performances in the role....

Man Who Inspired Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal Dies At The Airport Where He Lived DreamWorks By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 12, 2022 6:47 pm EST Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian man whose life story inspired Steven Spielberg’s film “The Terminal,” died Saturday at the airport he had previously called home, according to NBC News. Nasseri, who was also known as Sir Alfred Mehran, lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for eighteen years before leaving in 2006, and reportedly had taken up residence there again in the weeks before his passing....

A return to Japanese-language filmmaking Madman Films Kore-eda hasn’t been idle since 2018 when “Shoplifters” took Cannes by storm. The film later picked up an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and was the last movie from Kore-eda’s home country to do so before Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” became the first-ever Japanese film to score a Best Picture nomination this year. Since then, Kore-eda has been working in other languages....

Peaky Blinders’ Sam Claflin Sees A Lot In Common Between Tommy Shelby And Oswald Mosley Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 8, 2022 12:10 pm EST Up until its recently-completed final season, each and every installment of “Peaky Blinders” has featured a big name actor in the role of the main antagonist. While Finn Cole’s Michael Gray took the centerstage in season 6, throwing the Shelby family into turmoil as he finally came to blows with his estranged cousin Tommy (Cillian Murphy) in an epic power struggle, prior seasons carefully built up each standalone threat as a new headache for Tommy and his gang of Peaky Blinders to deal with....

Resurrection Star Rebecca Hall On Performing A Monologue In A Stunning Eight-Minute Long Take [Interview] IFC Films By Jack Giroux/July 28, 2022 4:00 pm EST Rebecca Hall is in every scene of “Resurrection.” Andrew Semans’ film revolves around Margaret, played by Hall, whose past haunts her. The less said about her experience before and during the course of the movie, the better, but in one scene, Margaret lays bare her trauma in a take that lasts around eight minutes long in which Hall commands the frame....

Secret Invasion trailer As fans saw back at San Diego Comic-Con, the series based on the acclaimed 2008 Marvel Comics crossover event by Brian Michael Bendis and Leinil Francis Yu is shaping up to be a paranoid and foreboding political thriller. In addition to Jackson reprising his role as Fury, the legendary actor will be joined in this six-episode event by his “Captain Marvel” co-star Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Cobie Smulders as Fury’s right hand woman Maria Hill, Martin Freeman as Everett K....

The 10 Best Wednesday Addams Moments, Ranked Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 11, 2022 10:00 am EST Netflix recently announced their lineup for their 2022 “Netflix and Chills” annual Halloween celebration, and noticeably absent from the list was the anticipated “Wednesday” series from Tim Burton, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. The series is expected to debut sometime in the fall of 2022, but without it on the schedule, it seems as if audiences will have to wait just a little while longer to see the newest live-action interpretation of Charles Addams’ beloved creation....

Body Snatchers (1994) Warner Bros. Abel Ferrara’s “Body Snatchers” is a curious beast. A neo-noir maestro and longtime independent filmmaker, Ferrara seemed an odd choice to helm a mid-budget horror remake. Warner Bros. likely realized this, releasing “Body Snatchers” in just dozens of theaters in January 1994, a few months after its 1993 Cannes premiere. Simultaneously austere and conventional, it’s a movie at odds with itself, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something there worth seeing....

Public Enemies (2009) Universal Pictures “Public Enemies” features one of Bale’s more understated performances. Although Bale is known for his ability to steal scenes, he had to let Johnny Depp take center stage in this 2009 biographical crime thriller. “Public Enemies” tells the true story of John Dillinger (Depp), the infamous 1930s outlaw. Bale co-stars as Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who was assigned to track Dillinger down and eliminate his operation....