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The Menu Had Help From Four Michelin Star Chef Dominique Crenn Searchlight Pictures By Witney Seibold/Nov. 28, 2022 3:53 pm EST Mark Mylod’s new film “The Menu,” currently playing in theaters, is about a group of ultra-rich food snobs who have agreed to take part in one of the world’s most exclusive dining experiences. For $1,250 a head, they will dine at Hawthorne, a restaurant located on a private island, wholly devoted entirely to the preparation of its cuisine....

Thor: Love And Thunder Writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Clarifies Taika Waititi’s ‘Real Time’ Directing Style Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/July 20, 2022 6:59 pm EST Whatever you thought of “Thor: Love and Thunder,” there is no doubt that the film has director Taika Waititi’s stamp all over it. There are exceedingly silly moments, deeply heartfelt ones, and a feeling of improvisation throughout the narrative. If you’ve seen Waititi’s work in films like “JoJo Rabbit” or “What We Do in the Shadows,” you know what I mean....

What Happened To The Clandestines In Ms. Marvel Episode 5? The Veil Of Noor Explained Disney+ By Debopriyaa Dutta/July 8, 2022 11:00 am EST Warning: Major spoilers ahead for episode 5 of “Ms. Marvel.” Episode 5 of “Ms. Marvel,” “Time and Again,” took us back in time to 1947, wherein Kamala (Iman Vellani) helped her Nani get back to her father Hasan (Fawad Khan) after the latter got briefly separated from him at the train station....

Andor Shot In Real Locations And Didn’t Use The Mandalorian’s StageCraft Tech At All Disney+/Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 1, 2022 11:56 am EST It’s always the same story: Whenever there’s a technical breakthrough in the film and TV industry, it quickly becomes all the rage. As soon as it does, however, certain studios and directors inevitably use the tech to try and cut corners in the filmmaking process. This is how we went from ILM’s StageCraft (which generates virtual scenery using high-def LED video walls) being the hottest new thing when used in “The Mandalorian” season 1 to drawing criticisms after being unevenly implemented in “The Book of Boba Fett” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” just three years later....

Avatar: The Way Of Water Trailer Breakdown: A Family Affair 20th Century Studios By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 2, 2022 12:25 pm EST JC himself is back, baby! It’s been over a decade, but your Pandora depression is about to be over, because the new trailer for “Avatar: The Way of Water” not only reaffirms Pandora may be the most gorgeous fictional place to be put on film, but teases a complex and epic family drama with plenty of magic, emotion — and is that a “Titanic” reference?...

The downward spiral of Jimmy McGill AMC When viewing “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” as one big story, it’s clear that the story doesn’t start with Walter White. Instead, it begins with Jimmy, his brother Chuck, and a whole lot of resentment. At the start of the series, Jimmy is shown as an individual with the capacity for good but more inclined to use his scheming for his gain. The precedent is set with the skateboard twins in season 1 of the series....

Chris Redd Is The Latest Cast Member To Leave SNL Before Season 48 NBC By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 19, 2022 10:07 pm EST The cast overhauls of “Saturday Night Live” keep on coming. Earlier this year it was announced that longtime cast members Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Pete Davidson would not be returning for season 48, in addition to repertory players Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and featured player Aristotle Athari, who exited the show after just one season....

Daniel Day-Lewis Wasn’t All Doom And Gloom During The Last Of The Mohicans By Bill Bria/July 6, 2022 10:54 am EST Daniel Day-Lewis’ name has become nearly synonymous with the concept of Method acting, a concept that has a myriad of definitions. Essentially, it’s a derivation of Konstantin Stanislavsky’s idea of “The System,” a way of performing that encourages emotions and reactions in the actor to be “real” as opposed to performed....

Director Jason Eisener Is Ready To Return For Another VHS Movie [Exclusive] Magnet Releasing By Erin Brady/Sept. 23, 2022 4:19 pm EST Back in 2013, “Hobo with a Shotgun” director Jason Eisener contributed to the horror anthology “V/H/S/2” with the aptly-titled “Slumber Party Alien Abduction.” I think that title explains itself better than I could ever explain it, so let’s just say it was a memorable addition to the “V/H/S/” franchise....

Everything We Know About Ethan Coen’s First Solo Film Ricardo Hubbs / Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 9, 2022 5:20 pm EST For the first time in their feature filmmaking career, the Coen brothers are making separate projects. The esteemed filmmaking duo behind movies like “Fargo” and “Raising Arizona” has been working together since the 1980s, but last year, Joel Coen launched his solo career with “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” The Oscar-nominated black-and-white film starred Denzel Washington as the doomed hero and marked an interesting new chapter for the Coens as individuals....

What is Godzilla and the Titans about? Warner Bros. Pictures Here’s the official logline for the Godzilla and Titans series: Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the untitled Monsterverse series will explore one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch. Judging by this, it seems the Godzilla and Titans show is set between “Godzilla” (2014) and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” leaving the aftermath of “Godzilla vs....

Gundam’s Success Gave Cowboy Bebop The Room It Needed To Be Weird Studio Sunrise By Debopriyaa Dutta/Oct. 1, 2022 11:59 pm EST Shinichirō Watanabe’s “Cowboy Bebop” defies genre expectations. It is a sci-fi ballad and a space Western with noir elements, sporting themes that are hopelessly bleak and existentialist. The anime’s protagonist, Spike Spiegel, is not your conventional hero: he’s a green-haired space cowboy who puts his life on the line to put food on the table, with a “whatever happens, happens” attitude to help him stumble through life....

Afraid to close her eyes, afraid to open them Lionsgate Films Then something unexpected happened to interrupt the bathtub therapy. Donahue got a call from Lionsgate, who expressed a level of concern for her that the original marketing department never displayed. She writes in The Guardian: “Then Lionsgate called. The company that originally bought The Blair Witch Project was purchased by Lionsgate and they’re the ones behind this new sequel. They asked what they could do to show me how much they appreciated my work in the original....

Henry Cavill Sees Superman Stories As ‘10 Times’ Harder To Write Than Batman Warner Bros. Pictures By Matt Rainis/Oct. 19, 2022 12:04 pm EST There are few people who embody their characters quite like Henry Cavill as Superman. When you close your eyes and imagine the comic book version of the Man of Steel, it looks just like Cavill. The jet black hair, the jawline, the chin dimple. He was practically born to play the part....

J.J. Abrams Took An Unusual Approach To Super 8’s Creature Design Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 9, 2022 9:00 pm EST J.J. Abrams’ 2011 sci-fi film “Super 8” is an unabashed homage to co-producer Steven Spielberg’s own “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” as well as to the myriad “E.T.” knockoffs that followed it throughout the ’80s. Set in the very early 1980s, “Super 8” is about a quintet of 13-year-old Goonies who are busy making their own amateur zombie thriller on consumer-grade Super 8 cameras when they run afoul of a local military conspiracy hiding something from the public....

Candy Montgomery’s Affair Jeff Smith, Texas Monthly Known originally for her starring role on the TV show “7th Heaven” and in features like “The Illusionist,” and Marcus Nipel’s gnarly 2003 reboot of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Biel has been nominated for an Emmy in 2018 for her starring role in the USA Network crime drama “The Sinner.” The series’ success has earned it some longevity, with its fourth season set to premiere on October 13, 2021....

John Malkovich Is Shy And Doesn’t Want Attention, So What Keeps Him In Movies And TV? Focus Features By Demetra Nikolakakis/Sept. 16, 2022 1:50 pm EST It’s no secret that John Malkovich is willing to consider any kind of role, whether that leads to him playing an assassin, a Pope, or a weird, evil sci-fi doctor. Given how high-profile his roles can be, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the man loves the spotlight....

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Trailer: The Titillating Trilogy Comes To A Close Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 15, 2022 12:03 pm EST It’s here. It’s finally here. The trailer for “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third and final film in the “Magic Mike” trilogy, is ready to make everyone thirsty for some sweet, sexy male strippers. I’m a massive fan of the “Magic Mike” movies and think “Magic Mike XXL” is nothing short of a feminist masterpiece, so more “Mike” feels like, well, magic!...

New She-Hulk Clip Gives Us Our Best (And Quippiest) Look At Daredevil Yet Disney+ By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 5, 2022 4:45 pm EST “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” has been a pleasant surprise for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show is a more comedic, self-aware, light-hearted take on the Marvel formula (that nevertheless tackles some serious subjects, like the importance of therapy) and has done more to make the MCU feel like a lived-in place full of superheroes than most other movies and TV shows in the universe....

Nope Star Keke Palmer Will Host The Next Episode Of Saturday Night Live, With Musical Guest SZA Universal Pictures By Walter Roberts/Nov. 13, 2022 11:26 am EST Of all my reactions to Jordan Peele’s mind-bending “Nope,” the one I probably felt the strongest was that Keke Palmer needs to be in everything from this point forward. I have no trouble recalling the 2006 buzz circa “Akeelah and the Bee” that Palmer was one of our brightest young actors, and after she landed a starring role on Nickelodeon, it was easy for me to imagine a future where Palmer had ascended to international superstar status....