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Roland Emmerich Had To Resort To Plan B For Moonfall’s Zero-Gravity Acting Classes Lionsgate By Witney Seibold/Sept. 19, 2022 5:54 pm EST Roland Emmerich’s “Moonfall,” released in theaters back in February, is an incredibly stupid film. That statement is not meant as a value judgment, but a mere descriptor. It could even be construed as a compliment. As overwrought, visually busy, dunderheaded disaster blockbusters go, they don’t get much more unabashedly fatuous as “Moonfall....

Russell T. Davies Had ‘Massive Doubts’ About Working On Doctor Who BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/July 30, 2022 9:00 pm EST Every modern-day Whovian knows Russell T. Davies was instrumental in helping revive “Doctor Who” after its 16-year hiatus in 2005. The BBC sci-fi series made a memorable return to television with Christopher Eccleston leading the series as the ninth incarnation of the Time Lord. It was an incredible moment for fans who had been denied new episodes for years, and it helped that “Doctor Who” had been reinvented for an entirely new audience....

Terror Train Review: Punch Your Ticket To Boredom [Brooklyn Horror Film Festival] Tubi By Matt Donato/Oct. 21, 2022 1:00 pm EST Remakes like Philippe Gagnon’s “Terror Train” will always face comparison complaints based on their existence, which is why I try my best in reviews to treat them as standalone. Critique the movie you’re given — like this bargain bin, zero momentum slasher. “Terror Train” is the latest in a string of Tubi originals taking the SYFY route of The Asylum-level productions, filled with shoddy effects and worse performances....

The Daily Stream: Emily The Criminal Is A Pulpy Dissection Of The Gig Economy Roadside Attractions By Devin Meenan/Dec. 21, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Emily The Criminal” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: When this film opens, Emily Benetto (Aubrey Plaza) is not a criminal....

The Simpsons Is Getting Two Treehouse Of Horror Episodes, Including A Full Special With Krusty As Pennywise (Sort Of) [D23] FOX The show will do not one but two Halloween episodes with four segments total, including a full-length parody of King’s horror classic “It.” Executive producer Matt Selman explained the idea for the first episode to the crowd at D23, saying, “Everyone loves Halloween so we thought we’d just do a terrific three-part Treehouse of Horror with three segments....

Val Kilmer’s Performance In The Original Willow Was A Guiding Light For The Sequel Series Lucasfilm By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 20, 2022 5:52 pm EST Val Kilmer may not have appeared in the new Disney+ continuation of “Willow”, but the spirit of his character, Madmartigan, is all over the delightful adventure series. The rapscallion’s cheeky attitude mostly comes through in a character named Boorman (Amar Chadha-Patel), a charming thief who joins Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) and the rest of his squad on an adventure early on in the season....

Why It Would Be Only Right For The Eternals To Never Return To The MCU Disney By Witney Seibold/Oct. 31, 2022 4:36 pm EST Warning: This post will contain spoilers for the 2021 film “Eternals.” Nate Moore, one of the producers of the upcoming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” recently gave an interview with Phase Zero, wherein he address the future of the characters from Chloé Zhao’s 2021 “Eternals.” In a winking fashion, Moore said that “we have not seen the last of those characters....

A Bidding War Has Erupted Over The Rights To The NeverEnding Story Warner Bros. By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 7, 2022 5:12 pm EST “It’s a never ending biiiiiiiiiding waaaaaaar! Ahahah Ahahah Ahahahhhhh…..” The fantasy classic and source of an entire generation’s childhood trauma, “The NeverEnding Story” might be the next major IP to see an onscreen reboot. Thanks to a report from Deadline, it appears as if studios across the globe are all vying for the rights to Michael Ende’s book, which became a beloved film by Wolfgang Petersen....

Alice, Darling Trailer: Anna Kendrick’s Emotional Thriller Is So Stressful That You’ll Tear Your Hair Out Lionsgate By Shania Russell/Dec. 7, 2022 10:31 am EST If I had a nickel for every 2022 psychological thriller with a main character named Alice, an Academy Award-nominated actress, a British boyfriend with something to hide, and a title that ends in “darling,” well, I’d only have two nickels but it’s weird that it happened twice....

Being John Malkovich’s Classic Status Wasn’t Something Charlie Kaufman Or Spike Jonze Expected 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/Sept. 17, 2022 11:30 pm EST “Being John Malkovich” was a huge success because it’s so bold and unique, but that’s exactly what made its success so unexpected. The writer, Charlie Kaufman, was new to feature screenwriting after cutting his teeth in television. The director, Spike Jonze, had only ever made commercials and music videos....

Clips Round-Up: When I Consume You Induces Panic, Into The Deep Does The Same & More [Exclusive] Lionsgate By Max Evry/Aug. 23, 2022 11:15 am EST (Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won’t see anywhere else!) In this edition: When I Consume You Into the Deep Mister Limbo When I Consume You First up, 1091 Pictures has provided us with an exclusive clip from the supernatural horror drama “When I Consume You,” the third feature from award-winning Brooklyn-based indie filmmaker Perry Blackshear (“They Look Like People,” “The Siren”)....

Daredevil’s Stunt Double Was Knocked Out While Filming Season 1’s Famous Hallway Fight [Exclusive] Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Oct. 25, 2022 12:38 pm EST We’ve been inundated with superhero adaptations in popular media for more than two decades now, going back to “X-Men” in 2000, which truly kicked that door wide open. But of anything that’s come along in that time, it was Netflix’s “Daredevil” that arguably gave us some of the greatest fight scenes in superhero history....

Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam Shares Something In Common With Vin Diesel’s Fast & Furious Character [Exclusive] Warner Bros. Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Oct. 19, 2022 2:00 pm EST Dwayne Johnson may be done with Vin Diesel and the mainline “Fast and the Furious” films, but that doesn’t mean he’s done portraying characters who fight for their family. Johnson’s latest film, the long in development “Black Adam” (which our own reviewer called “A Superhero Movie, But Worse”) is finally about to hit theaters so audiences can finally experience a change in the hierarchy of power in the DC Universe....

Eddie Redmayne Was Terrified To Play Stephen Hawking In The Theory Of Everything Focus Features By Witney Seibold/Nov. 13, 2022 4:00 pm EST James Marsh’s 2014 biopic “The Theory of Everything” might serve as the modern “baseline reading” for Hollywood biopics. It tells a rather straightforward story of the life of Professor Stephen Hawking, who was, when he passed away in 2018, the head of theoretical cosmology at Cambridge. When it came to astrophysics, no mind has yet surpassed Hawking’s, and the man had a passion for the way the universe fundamentally functioned....

Gene Wilder Accidentally Roped Mel Brooks Into Directing Young Frankenstein Which is Mel Brooks’s best movie: “Blazing Saddles” or “Young Frankenstein?” “Blazing Saddles” has social relevancy, fart jokes, and a truly bonkers final act. But “Young Frankenstein” has neighing horses, rolling in the hay, “Putting on the Ritz,” and the most excruciating meal of soup in the history of cinema. Every scene in “Young Frankenstein” is gangbusters, and every lowbrow gag sings....

A certain melancholy William Morrow “Heat 2” picks up in the immediate aftermath of the film, with Hanna and his men running down the remaining leads involving with McCauley and his crew. The killing of McCauley is clearly weighing heavily on Hanna, who still can’t help but relate to the man he shot to death. As Mann and Gardiner flashback to the now-famous diner conversation between Neil and Vincent, they write: “While revealing nothing that might compromise themselves, they talked with the intimacy sometimes occuring between strangers....

How A Conversation About Horse Butts Birthed Once Upon A Time In The West Paramount Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 9, 2022 1:56 pm EST When most people think of the filmmaking of Italian director Sergio Leone, many images could immediately come to mind. They could picture Clint Eastwood, draped in a poncho and looking tough, or they could picture a shoot-out shot from a low angle. The Leone staple that led to one of his best collaborations, however, was a little less romantic....

An experiment that was doomed to fail CBS Television Distribution In a review of “The Comedian,” an episode of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” reboot series, Paste Magazine explained why the reboot didn’t work, comparing it to the original show’s fourth season. Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” was effective when it followed its swift, frenetic 30-minute episodic structure that ended with a shocking twist or reveal. But when network executives insisted that the episodes be stretched to the 60-minute mark for the fourth season, the pay-off felt cheap and unearned....

The rhythm of the (werewolf by) night Disney+ Giacchino told Giroux that music was always at the forefront of his process. “I would tell the actors, ‘Okay, here’s the tempo. Very slow. This is the tempo of the music, here’s how we’re moving,’” he said. “We would do a first take and it would end up too fast …let’s just do it even slower, even slower …it was a real communication....

How The Past Influences Michael Giacchino’s Music Scores, From Rogue One To Star Trek [Exclusive] Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 13, 2022 2:42 pm EST For as prolific as he’s become over the last 20 years, composer Michael Giacchino has done a bang-up job of not repeating himself too much. Oh sure, some of his film and TV scores stand out more than others, but for the most part, he tends to embrace a fresh sound with each individual project....