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Made in her image Paramount Pictures “Vertigo” was adapted from Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s story “From Amongst the Dead” and concerns retired San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson (Stewart), who suffers from the titled medical condition after a rooftop chase ends in the death of his partner. When an old schoolmate asks for help tracking his increasingly erratic wife Madeline (Novak), Scottie becomes pulled into a web of mystique and deception....

A lifetime of incredible performances Disney Regardless of whether or not you’d ever watched “Murder, She Wrote,” it was popular enough in the 1980s and has maintained an impressive status in reruns that almost everyone has at least heard of it. “Murder, She Wrote” was just one small part of Lansbury’s towering career, but it was definitely one of the most charming. After all, how could you hate a small town mystery writer who solves crimes?...

Bones And All Star Taylor Russell On Finding Love Within The Horror [Exclusive Interview] MGM By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 14, 2022 9:00 am EST In “Bones and All,” Taylor Russell plays Maren Yearly, a teen girl going through all the irresistible urges of puberty: lust, love, and, oh, cannibalism. After an incident with a fellow classmate, Maren is forced to go on the run, and in her travels across the U.S., she runs into and falls in love with fellow cannibal, Lee (Timothée Chalamet)....

Christian Bale Got Some ‘Worrying’ American Psycho Reactions From Real-Life Wall Street Traders Lionsgate By Devin Meenan/Oct. 23, 2022 10:30 am EST What’s Christian Bale’s best performance? For me, it’s still the American psycho himself, Patrick Bateman. Why does his acting in the 2000 horror-thriller stand above the rest of his filmography? Because Bale acted like he was in a comedy. Director Mary Harron said that she ultimately decided to cast Bale because she “sort of had the feeling a lot of the other actors kind of thought Bateman was cool....

Collateral Ending Explained: A Cab And Subway Ride Through 21st-Century Existence DreamWorks Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 7, 2022 11:05 am EST Forget everything you think you know about Michael Mann’s “Collateral,” and just think of it as a movie about work culture and 21st-century life, framed through the lens of cab driving and contract killing. Through this reading, the title can be understood as a reference to humans as collateral damage....

‘Drawn from real events’ Paramount Pictures In an interview with BlackTree TV for “Return of Xander Cage,” Diesel was asked about the thought process that goes into creating the high-octane action sequences that have characterized the “xXx” franchise. While he admits that, as a producer, they are there to break the rules (often gravity), the ideas are pulled from real-life stunts: “The irony is that every sequence – save for, you know, propelling a plane to a satellite – but all the action, extreme sports sequences, are drawn from real events....

The internet has Goncharov fever Warner Bros. While Twitter seems to be to imploding in slow motion and other social networks vie to become its successor, Tumblr, longtime home of the postmodern meme and weirdly enduring inside joke, is busy making up a classic movie — and its expansive accompanying lore — for the hell of it. If you log into Tumblr this week, the chances are you’ll not only see fake “Goncharov” posters and gifsets, but also fake Letterboxd reviews, totally made-up (but hilariously real-sounding) discourse about the film’s politics and queer theory readings, a “Goncharov” score (compiled by @thisisnotjuli), and a seemingly endless amount of meta-textual history about the making of the non-existent film....

Gone Girl’s Bloody Sex Scene Was Just As Meticulous As You’d Expect From David Fincher 20th Century Studios By J. Gabriel Ware/Sept. 3, 2022 12:39 pm EST David Fincher’s borderline obsessive strive for perfection has earned him a reputation for being one of Hollywood’s most meticulous directors. Michael Alan Kahn, who worked under Fincher as the assistant director during the 1995 crime-mystery “Se7en,” provided insight into Fincher’s mindset when he recalled to The Ringer a telling exchange the two had on set:...

The hits keep on coming Warner Bros. The additional disappointing details come courtesy of Rolling Stone, which reports that the future of the DC cinematic universe remains in greater flux than it already had been. Fans are no doubt overly familiar with the ongoing saga plaguing the long-delayed “The Flash” movie, much of which stems from the allegations of misconduct and disturbing behavior levied towards star Ezra Miller. It appears that one major casualty of both Miller’s alleged actions (a new report suggests that “Insiders have begun to speculate that Zaslav might pull the plug on the actor’s starring role in ‘The Flash’”) and Warner Bros....

Inspirations for They Live! Universal Pictures In 1963, a writer named Ray Nelson penned a short story for “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.” The story, “Eight O’Clock in the Morning,” is about a man who, upon awakening from hypnosis, realizes that aliens called “Fascinators” walk among men. Only he is able to see the aliens’ green-skinned true forms and their hidden messages of mass control. He has until 8:00 AM the next morning to expose them because after that, his heart will stop....

Jordan Peele Explains Why Nope Is A Different Kind Of ‘Flying Saucer Film’ Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/July 13, 2022 12:35 pm EST The jig is up! Recent marketing for Jordan Peele’s “Nope” has confirmed the director’s latest horror film is, as many people theorized after watching the first trailer, a movie involving aliens or, at the very last, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). This also means Peele is one step closer to fully modeling his directing career after that of M....

Let’s Talk About Mia Goth’s Most Disturbing Scene In Pearl A24 By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 23, 2022 5:57 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “Pearl.” Ti West blew audiences away with his 1970s-era slasher film “X,” which saw Mia Goth in a dual role as budding adult film starlet Maxine Minx, and donning extensive prosthetics to play the psycho-biddy hagsploitation villain of Pearl. Shortly after “X” was becoming an early contender for one of the best horror releases of the year, West and A24 announced that they had already shot a secret prequel film titled “Pearl,” which would again star Goth as the youthful version of her elderly character in “X....

Lupita Nyong’o Says This Horror Movie Was One Of Her Most Challenging Experiences On Set Hulu By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 10, 2022 12:42 pm EST Comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the famous advice for all performers to “never work with children or animals.” It’s sage wisdom if you’re an actor that’s lucky enough to be in a position to turn work down in the first place. When a certain horror movie was offered to Lupita Nyong’o, she had already won Best Supporting Actress for Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” appeared in two “Star Wars” films as the Yoda-esque Maz Kanata, and co-starred opposite Chadwick Boseman in the global phenomenon “Black Panther....

Leaving SNL was Villaseñor’s decision NBC Villaseñor confirmed that the decision to leave “SNL” was her own, and spent the majority of her summer contemplating whether or not she wanted to pull the plug. “At the end of the day, it was about my mental health,” she said. Villaseñor shared that she had experienced multiple panic attacks the previous season, which she saw as a sign that she needed to make some serious changes....

But first, the plot… Summit Entertainment/Team Todd/Newmarket “Memento” opens with a striking scene: a freshly developed polaroid photo of a man with his head blown off fades before our eyes, the photographer slips the photo back into the camera, a shell casing leaps back into a gun, and we briefly witness the slaying. Then we meet the killer — Leonard (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator on the trail of the man who raped and murdered his wife....

Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who Begins Filming In November, But We May See Him In Action Before Then Netflix By Erin Brady/Aug. 12, 2022 3:42 pm EST The Fourteenth Doctor is about to make his first appearance. The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Friday that Ncuti Gatwa, who was cast in May as the newest Doctor on “Doctor Who,” is expected to begin filming his season sometime this November. Due to the often long production process for filming such an effects-heavy show, Gatwa’s first full season is expected to arrive on BBC sometime in 2024....

Netflix Isn’t Going To Stop Making Jeffrey Dahmer Projects, Huh? Netflix By Erin Brady/Oct. 21, 2022 7:59 pm EST “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” was originally slated to be reviewed by /Film upon its September release. However, those plans were canceled after watching the first episode. It felt wrong to analyze and pick apart something that draws out the vicious murders of real-life individuals, especially when looking at it from an objective point of view....

Performance capture vs. motion capture New Line Cinema When Cameron talks about how good, high-level performance capture “hadn’t been done before,” it’s important to make a distinction between that and motion capture. Prior to “Avatar,” Andy Serkis, for instance, had already brought to life very convincing motion capture characters in “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” its sequel, “The Return of the King,” and Peter Jackson’s “King Kong.” Yet Gollum, the “Lord of the Rings” character Serkis played, had a face that was rendered through CGI....

Raging Bull Served As A Big Inspiration For Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash Blumhouse By Devin Meenan/Nov. 6, 2022 8:30 pm EST In Damien Chazelle’s youth, his aspirations flip-flopped from filmmaking to jazz drumming and back again. He combined his two passions for his debut “Whiplash,” a short he turned into a feature. Chazelle’s story follows Andrew Neimen (Miles Teller), a drumming student determined to be one of the greats. First, Andrew has to survive the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J....

Ralph Macchio Thinks Karate Kid III Is Bad, But Cobra Kai Has Helped Redeem It Columbia Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 27, 2022 2:42 pm EST There’s something truly heartwarming about the way Ralph Macchio has embraced his most memorable role as Daniel LaRusso in “Karate Kid.” Macchio has had quite a journey from his humble beginnings in New Jersey to becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the ’80s. Daniel’s transition from the bullied new kid living in Reseda to the undisputed All-Valley State Champion isn’t all that dissimilar....