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Quentin Tarantino Just Called Once Upon A Time In Hollywood His Best Movie Sony By Jeremy Smith/Nov. 15, 2022 9:22 pm EST Asking a filmmaker to name their favorite movie tends to be a dead-end line of inquiry. Directors don’t see their films the same way we do. They can’t. They spent months to a year or more piecing the work together. They’ve seen it in fragments, as a rough assemblage, and in various other incarnations....

Quentin Tarantino Put Uma Thurman’s Life On The Line With A Reckless Kill Bill Stunt Miramax Films By Matt Rainis/Sept. 18, 2022 11:59 pm EST Film directors tend to be control freaks. It makes sense. They want their exact vision to be put onto the screen, the exact pictures and sounds that pop up when they close their eyes and envision their movie. They have something in mind, and anything less than that simply won’t be good enough....

Run Sweetheart Run Star Ella Balinska On Making ‘A Really Awesome Horror Movie’ [Exclusive Interview] Prime Video By Erin Brady/Oct. 28, 2022 9:00 am EST When you hear the premise to the new Prime Video and Blumhouse film “Run Sweetheart Run,” you probably don’t think of romance. However, that is apparently what sparked on its set during filming back in 2019 — at least, according to star Ella Balinska. We recently spoke to her about her new horror film, which is now streaming, and she revealed that her best friend being on set helped her prepare for the exhaustive role....

Spirit Halloween: The Movie Review: This Halloween Adventure Is Not Very Good, But Still Charming Strike Back Studios By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 26, 2022 5:58 pm EST Growing up, Halloween was a big deal. I mean, I still consider it a big deal. But there was something extra special about it as a kid, where everything seemed so magically spooky and fun. Where there was one night a year when I could wander around in the dark (yes, when I was a kid, we only went trick or treating at night, unlike now, when kids only show up at my house for candy before the sun sets) dressed as someone else....

The 10 Scariest Moments In The Midnight Club Ranked Netflix By Jenn Adams/Oct. 7, 2022 2:41 pm EST Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the Netflix series “The Midnight Club.” Mike Flanagan has made a name for himself by adapting horror novels for the big and small screen. From more modern tales like “Gerald’s Game” and “Doctor Sleep” to classics like “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Turn of the Screw,” Flanagan has practically perfected the art of transforming the bones of someone else’s story into his own brand of sentimental horror....

The 15 Greatest Humphrey Bogart Movie Moments Warner Brothers Pictures By Nick Bartlett/Dec. 25, 2022 12:46 am EST Is there a classic Hollywood actor more iconic than Humphrey Bogart? Perhaps James Cagney or John Wayne, but neither of them had the versatility of Bogart. He’s a genuine star, someone whose career you can track from studio bit player to leading man. Bogart is simultaneously one of the most distinctive, easily imitable actors of the Hollywood era and one of the most natural, subtle performers of the era, whether he is playing heroes, villains, or something in between....

The Duffer Brothers Don’t Want To Get Careless With The Massive Budget Of Stranger Things Netflix By Jenna Busch/Oct. 24, 2022 6:49 pm EST Spoilers ahead for “Stranger Things” through season 4. The Netflix series “Stranger Things” gave us a pretty powerful fourth season, with the gang going up against Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) in the Upside Down, and a look at how friendships morph and twist as kids become teenagers and beyond....

The Evolution Of Pinhead From 1986 To 2022 Hulu By Jenn Adams/Oct. 14, 2022 5:16 pm EST In 1987, Clive Barker’s demented love story “Hellraiser” hit theaters and forever changed the horror landscape. Adapted from his novella “The Hellbound Heart,” Barker’s film is a horrifying tale of hellish temptations and forbidden pleasures. Despite being a minor character in the books, “Hellraiser” and its 10 subsequent sequels are best known for introducing the world to the extra-dimensional being known as Pinhead....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power: 5 Things We Learned From The Comic-Con Panel Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/July 22, 2022 5:40 pm EST Almost five years in the making and with fifty total hours of story set to arrive on our television screens in the years ahead, the pressure was on for Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” to deliver on its highly-anticipated panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con....

‘It isn’t the thing that is most dangerous that you do in visual effects’ Prime Video So there are a lot of battle scenes in the latest episode, I think the biggest battle scenes we’ve seen to date in the show. How do you approach creating a battle scene like the one we saw at the beginning with the orcs attacking the stronghold in the Southlands, and decide where and how to use VFX?...

This Was King Viserys’ Biggest Mistake On House Of The Dragon, According To Paddy Considine HBO By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 10, 2022 2:28 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the first eight episodes of “House of the Dragon.” Paddy Considine is a wonderful actor, and he has turned a character that, on paper, could be incredibly stupid and dumb into one of the most tragic and nuanced in the entire “Game of Thrones” franchise....

Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? NBC Titled “Tales From The Territories,” this new show will be similar to “Dark Side of the Ring” in the sense that they will present stories from a bygone era with reenactments and interviews with some of the people that lived through them. But instead of one-on-one interviews, the spinoff will feature a roundtable of wrestlers telling stories. And rather than covering one unbelievable tale per episode, Eisener says that we’ll get 5 or 6....

The silly horror of Attack on Titan Crunchyroll From the very first episode, when we first see the walls that protect the remnants of humanity be destroyed by the Colossal Titan, we saw wave after wave of Titans rush in, all naked and with morphed, exaggerated expressions. The more Titans we see, the more ridiculous they get. Just take the scene where protagonist Eren Yeager watches his mom get brutally devoured by a Titan....

Nobody’s Listening! Lucasfilm In the first arc of “Andor,” Cassian tells Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) that the Empire can’t believe that anyone would be able to just walk into their facilities, spit in their food, and take their belongings. They’re too fat and arrogant to think it’s possible. And that’s exactly the attitude Cassian tries to exploit and make Kino Loy aware of in prison as he’s trying to convince him to help with the escape attempt....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Ludwig Göransson On Blending The Soundtrack And The Score [Exclusive Interview] Marvel Studios By Vanessa Armstrong/Nov. 3, 2022 11:00 am EST Composer Ludwig Göransson has worked with “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” writer-director Ryan Coogler for over a decade. Göransson’s work on the first “Black Panther” film earned him an Oscar and a Grammy, and if you’ve watched “The Mandalorian,” you’ve heard his work as well. Coogler also credits Göransson with getting Rihanna on board for the song “Lift Me Up,” which he co-wrote and produced....

How the TIFF premiere changed everything Universal Pictures A lot of the conversation around “Bros” has been how historic it is to bring this cast together. Did it feel that way when you were making it? Was that part of what drew you to it? Or was that something that came later? Miss Lawrence: We knew, but for me, it didn’t hit me until I went to…. Ts Madison: Toronto. Lawrence: Until we went to Toronto, and we saw the overwhelmingly great response at the premiere....

True Directions Lionsgate Babbit appears keen on exposing a practical fallacy of gay conversion camps. If the point is to discourage queer teens from forming relationships with other queer teens, then why gather them together in one location where they can flirt and make out and fall in love? Babbit — eschewing the real-life abuse of such places — satirizes conversion camps by pointing out that they could easily function as a catalyst for queer romance....

Cary Grant Landed His Arsenic And Old Lace Role In An Unusual Way Warner Bros. Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 15, 2022 12:10 pm EST I came to know playwright Joseph Kesselring’s deliciously dark “Arsenic and Old Lace” quite well on accident, much like how its hero, Mortimer Brewster, accidentally stumbles upon his family’s homicidal activities. My first exposure came in the form of my sister’s high school production of the 1941 play, which was thoroughly entertaining....

A Disturbing Case and Possible Mistaken Identities Warner Bros. The movie will be written and directed by Matt Ruskin, whose previous films are the crime dramas “Booster” and “Crown Heights.” Based on Boston Strangler murders, which took the lives of at least 11 women between 1962 and 1964, the film centers on one of the reporters who broke the story, Loretta McLaughlin (Knightley). Female reporters were a rarity in the 1960s, and ones who dug into complicated criminal cases weren’t usually tolerated....

Elijah Wood loves horror IFC Midnight Even before “The Lord of the Rings,” Elijah Wood was never one to repeat himself in his work. Besides appearing in family-friendly films like the Disney-backed “The Adventures of Huck Finn,” as a kid actor, Wood starred in movies as varied as the romantic sci-fi drama “Forever Young” (which, fun fact, was penned by a then lesser-known J.J. Abrams) and Rob Reiner’s notorious burlesque “North....