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‘I’ve been blessed’ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Much like many of his directing peers, Jordan has long paid attention to how film sets operate. It helps that he’s worked with some great directors, including Ryan Coogler, Rahmin Bahrani, and Destin Daniel Cretton. During the press conference, he expressed gratitude for the opportunity to work with them and so many other artists. “I’ve been blessed to work with a lot of incredible directors and having a lot of guidance and mentors and people that I look up to and aspire to kind of be on that storytelling level,” he said, revealing he’s been keeping notes on the production and filming process during his projects, adding:...

5 Thor: Love And Thunder Moments That Are Pure, Undistilled Taika Waititi Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/July 9, 2022 10:00 am EST If you’ve seen any other films by writer-director Taika Waititi, you may notice pretty quickly that “Thor: Love and Thunder” is chock full of Taika-isms. The filmmaker makes movies that are entertaining and energetic, childlike in their spirit and subject matter, and endlessly imaginative. He co-wrote the latest Thor film with “Someone Great” writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and together the pair made a film that’s about as zany and fun-loving as a Marvel flick can get....

Andor Trailer Breakdown: This Is What The Revolution Looks Like Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/Aug. 1, 2022 12:32 pm EST With such an endless procession of shows premiering on Disney+, it’s easy to feel that pesky franchise fatigue setting in. That said, Lucasfilm’s latest series, “Andor,” is nearly here — and though the show won’t be premiering until September, die-hard lovers of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” are certainly eating good today....

Goodfellas (and other Mafia movies) Sony Pictures Television The first season of “Community” eased its way into working with parody and homage. As with any show, it needed to find its footing, its tone, and its character before it could really start messing with the form in a major way. It was not until the 21st episode until they were able to do a full-on, episode long riff on a specific film....

Charlie Cox Explains Why He Was All In On Playing Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 22, 2022 3:40 pm EST Of the Marvel Netflix series, “Daredevil” still holds my top spot. It was the first one on the streamer, and it pulled no punches. This series showed us a darker side of the life of a superhero, with powerful fight scenes and a whole lot of angst. Charlie Cox hasn’t yet signed on for the reboot of the series that is coming from Disney+, but it’s on the way....

Watch the Descendant trailer One of the interviewees in “Descendant” observes that the film’s subject has “never been in history books,” and unfortunately, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of an important piece of American history being buried as such. In recent years, everything from HBO’s “Watchmen” to Amir “Questlove” Thompson’s Oscar-winning documentary, “Summer of Soul” have brought attention to stories that almost passed out of knowledge. Another one of the interviewees in “Descendant” says, “I don’t want the momentum of the story” to just be focused on the ship, and as the trailer goes on, we see how the historic site of Africatown is now surrounded by “heavy industry” and threatened by factory chemicals....

House Of The Dragon Couldn’t Cut Corners With King Viserys’ Grueling Walk To The Throne HBO Max By Jamie Gerber/Oct. 28, 2022 5:51 pm EST Now that all we have left of “House of the Dragon” is the long wait between now and season 2, let’s talk about what was perhaps episode 8’s most necessary moment: King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) final walk to the Iron Throne. The scene comes amidst more challenges to the current line of succession — which the king himself further complicates by episode’s end....

House Of The Dragon’s First Major Battle Scene Is Fantasy Warfare Done Right HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 7, 2022 10:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for the third episode of “House of the Dragon.” Fantasy is the most imaginative genre there is. The ability to conjure and craft entire worlds with characters that call them home always makes for a larger-than-life setting. It also makes for great television. Fantasy novels and television shows have paved the way for epic otherworldly battles and wondrous warfare sequences that are exciting to read and witness....

From one FX show to another FX Though Wes isn’t the most memorable character on “Damages” — he’s a maybe-shady guy who meets Ellen in grief counseling in the second season and mostly disappears after that season’s finale — he certainly added new layers of drama to the series’ slow burn mystery. The character also, apparently, got Olyphant the gig on “Justified.” According to The Guardian, the relationship the actor built up with the network while working on “Damages” is what eventually landed him the pilot for Graham Yost’s Western series....

How The Mist Made Acting Opposite A CGI Monster Feel Believable MGM By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 17, 2022 2:19 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are two short stories by Stephen King that have probably resonated the most with me over the years, and they’re both contained in the same collection, “Skeleton Crew,” released in 1985. “The Jaunt” is a sci-fi horror tale where teleportation, or “jaunting,” has become the preferred method of travel in the future....

How Tobe Hooper’s Dinner Inspired One Of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Scariest Scenes MPI Media Group By Andrew Housman/Oct. 8, 2022 7:05 pm EST “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” is all about meat. The cannibalistic Sawyer family are butchers looking to sample the delicacy of human flesh as their victims find themselves in their own personal slaughterhouse. It’s almost a parody that the groundbreaking horror film takes place in beef and pork-obsessed Texas, a state known for its steaks, briskets, ribs, and all other sorts of grilled and barbecued chow....

J.J. Abrams Helped Add A Level Of Absurdity To Con Air’s Script Touchstone Pictures By Andrew Housman/July 28, 2022 4:23 pm EST “Con Air” is an outrageous movie, filled to the brim with aerial action set pieces that destroy the laws of physics, villains with names like Cyrus the Virus and Diamond Dog, and the majestic, flowing locks of one of the most iconic Nicolas Cage hairdos. The thing is, a sizable chunk of that ludicrousness was actually intentional, as producer Jerry Bruckheimer hired the up-and-coming J....

Jerry Stiller Caused A Crisis During The Sopranos’ Casting Process Columbia Pictures Television By Devin Meenan/Sept. 30, 2022 11:43 am EST The production of “The Sopranos” is littered with unrealized castings of characters. Imagine a world where Lorraine Bracco played Carmela Soprano instead of Dr. Jennifer Melfi or Robert Funaro (aka Eugene Pontecorvo) played Ralph Cifaretto and we didn’t get Joe Pantoliano’s Emmy winning two-season turn. Those are both worlds that came quite close to fruition....

Joseph Fiennes’ Time On The Handmaid’s Tale All Led Up To One Scene Hulu By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Aug. 7, 2022 11:00 pm EST Commander Fred Waterford is one of the many bad guys in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and the first to receive a well-deserved ending. English actor Joseph Fiennes, who has earned an Emmy nomination for his outstanding performance on the show, bid goodbye to the character after a four-season stint on the Hulu series last year....

Kevin Feige Nearly Killed Even More Heroes In Avengers: Endgame Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 4, 2022 11:11 am EST Marvel Studios finds itself at a fascinating crossroads for its flagship franchise. The MCU’s biggest stars ended up either killed off (RIP Natasha Romanoff and Tony Stark) or functionally retired (Old Man Steve Rogers, gone but never forgotten) in “Avengers: Endgame,” the crossover of all crossovers that effectively put a conclusive button on the main storyline of the movies....

Let’s Talk About James Caan’s Most Underrated Performance MGM By Jeremy Smith/July 7, 2022 8:52 pm EST James Caan was the epitome of American manliness in the 1970s. It all started with his tempestuous performance as the fiery, ill-fated Sonny Corleone Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather.” Before he gets shredded by bullets on the Jones Beach Causeway, Sonny is the walking-talking-socking motor of the movie; he’s his father’s worst impulses gone nuclear....

Next Saw Film Set For Halloween 2023 Release Lionsgate By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 15, 2022 4:48 pm EST Lionsgate seems to think we all want to play a game, because along with twisted Pictures, they have announced a brand new “Saw” movie is in the works. Not only that, but we already know when it will come out and who is directing it. Kevin Greutert is directing the next installment in the franchise set to come out next year already....

Noah Segan Brings Vampires On A Road Trip In Blood Relatives, His Directorial Debut [Exclusive Interview] Shudder By Ryan Scott/Nov. 22, 2022 4:28 pm EST Noah Segan is very much one of those, “Hey, I know that guy” actors. For years, he has been a staple of Rian Johnson’s filmography, appearing in everything from “Brick” to “Knives Out.” Heck, he even had a little cameo in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi....

Robin Williams Wasn’t Sure He Could Make Awakenings Work With Robert De Niro Columbia Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 14, 2022 2:35 pm EST Thanks to the one-two punch of 1987’s “Good Morning, Vietnam” and 1989’s “Dead Poets Society,” Robin Williams had proven he was not just a skilled character actor but could tackle roles far removed from the bouncing-off-the-walls persona he embodied in his stand-up comedy. Yet, each film came with an asterisk....

A speech that defined a life Littlefeather’s appearance on stage at the Oscars, where she declined Brando’s award for “The Godfather,” stirred controversy at the time, even though she addressed the audience in respectful terms as the president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee. Her 60-second speech, winnowed down from Brando’s eight-page written version and delivered on the threat of arrest, was met with a mixture of boos and applause....