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Squid Game’s Lee Jung-Jae Made History At The 2022 Emmys Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 12, 2022 11:42 pm EST “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-Jae accepted his Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Drama Series tonight, making the actor the first Korean performer to ever win in the category. It’s been a history-making evening in general for the Netflix mega-hit, as the 14-time-nominated series also took home an award for directing in a competition that has historically left non-English-language series out in the cold....

The Daily Stream: Elf Teaches Valuable Lessons Like Gum On The Street Isn’t Free Candy New Line Cinema By Jenna Busch/Nov. 12, 2022 11:00 am 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: “Elf” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Listen up, you cotton-headed ninny muggins!...

1718 — The Adolini Hunt Dark Horse Comics A small folio recovered in 1996 (the story “Predator 1718” from the comic “A Decade of Dark Horse” #1) written by Henry Gilroy with art by Igor Kordev) records a probable incident somewhere in the islands of Papua New Guinea in the year 1718. The Golden Age of Piracy is nearing its close, but small crews continue to resist capture by the Spanish and British navies among others....

The Eternal Daughter Review: Tilda Swinton Haunts Herself In Joanna Hogg’s Eerie Drama [TIFF] A24 By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2022 1:24 pm EST Joanna Hogg concludes the story she began with “The Souvenir,” and continued in “The Souvenir Part II”, with the spooky “The Eternal Daughter.” To be clear: this isn’t quite a sequel to those films. But at the same time, it is. “The Souvenir” films were autobiographical works in which Honor Swinton Byrne, daughter of Tilda Swinton, played Julie, a fictionalized version of Hogg, while Swinton played Rosalind, a version of Hogg’s mother....

The Eugenics Wars Paramount The first time audiences heard of The Eugenics Wars was the during the “Star Trek: The Original Series” episode “Space Seed,” which first aired on February 16, 1967. In it, the Enterprise discovers a seemingly deactivated “sleeper ship,” the S.S. Botany Bay, wherein a small group of human beings have been in cryogenic sleep for 200 years. Of the 84 people frozen, 72 are still alive. The Enterprise rescues and resurrects their leader, finding him to be none other than Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), the onetime dictator of Earth....

The Russo Brothers Won’t Direct The Phase 6 Avengers Movies, Kevin Feige Confirms Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Sarah Milner/July 24, 2022 7:28 pm EST This year marked the return of San Diego Comic-Con, and with it a number of very exciting, fan-enticing announcements from the major studios. Given the history of the con (“comic” is in the name after all), it seems fitting that Marvel would blow everyone out of the water with some major news about its comic-book-inspired cinematic universe: not only do we have the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 6 to look forward to now, we also know it will end with two big “Avengers” movies, with this newly minted Multiverse Saga repeating the pattern of the Infinity Saga....

1994’s The Fantastic Four was never released New Horizons Pictures The first Fantastic Four film is one that most Marvel fans probably haven’t seen. Back in the early 1990s, there wasn’t much excitement about films based on Marvel properties thanks largely to the failure of 1986’s “Howard the Duck.” German filmmaker Bernd Eichinger purchased the rights to “The Fantastic Four” from Stan Lee in 1983. Although a script was pitched to several studios, Eichinger was running out of time to make a film by 1992....

Why We May Never See A Young James Bond Eon Productions By Mike Shutt/Oct. 3, 2022 6:09 pm EST As Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 has come to an end, it is now time for people to wildly speculate on who the next James Bond will be. Most of the casting choices brought up by fans of the series will never come true, for a myriad of reasons. The actor could be too old, too famous, too sleight, or just doesn’t wear a suit well....

25 Years Later, Titanic’s Double-Sized VHS Remains A Cornerstone Of Popular Culture Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 19, 2022 4:53 pm EST Long before online streaming gave us the ability to upload videos of Barry Benson from “The Bee Movie” saying “Ya like jazz?” for 10 hours in high definition, we were beholden to the primitive storage accessibility of VHS tapes. At best, a VHS tape could hold roughly two and a half hours of footage, which meant films like “Gone With the Wind,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” and even “The Sound of Music” had to be split up across multiple tapes for home video release....

According To Ethan Hawke, Before Sunset Almost Had A Completely Different Ending Warner Bros. Pictures By Lyvie Scott/July 20, 2022 1:04 pm EST “Baby, you’re gonna miss that plane.” Has there ever been a more perfect way to close a film than the cheeky exchange in Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunset”? Without context, those six lines of dialogue might not mean much. But within the world of the film, and of Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, it means everything....

Brendan Fraser’s Transformation For George Of The Jungle Messed With His Brain Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 6, 2022 7:38 pm EST In a pairing that delighted ’90s kids the world over, Adam Sandler and Brendan Fraser recently sat down for an interview as part of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, serving as both an “Airheads” reunion for the pair and a conversation between two of the biggest and most bankable stars at the end of the 20th century....

The 3D effects in Part III were wonky for a reason Paramount Pictures The concept of three-dimensional images has been around since the 1800s, but the 1980s saw a revival of the concept in mainstream cinema. Unfortunately, this enthusiasm to offer a unique moviegoing experience was not backed by state-of-the-art 3D systems that could smoothly translate 2D action sequences into convincing 3D shots. Take “Amityville 3-D” as an example: moviegoers were given polarized lenses for an enhanced experience, but the lenses were a total mismatch for the film, as they made it look skewed and distorted on screen....

‘I always wanted Reed Richards in this thing’ Marvel Comics The plan wasn’t always to promptly kill off Reed Richards in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” but rather hint at Marvel’s First Family for a subsequent film. Waldron is a huge fan of the Fantastic Four patriarch and wanted to find a way to get him into the movie even if it was just for a post-credits scene. He told Empire in an issue that will hit stands September 1:...

Every Season Of 24 Ranked Worst To Best FOX By Ben Begley/July 28, 2022 8:01 pm EST Binging TV shows is the norm now, but it wasn’t always that way. For decades, network TV sustained itself on mostly self-contained dramatic episodes. Take “Law and Order” for example: Every episode, a new case is introduced, and by the end it’s solved. The main characters experience incremental growth, but not enough that you’d feel lost if you missed an episode....

Here’s What Happens If You Call Surfer Boy Pizza’s Number From Stranger Things 4 Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 12, 2022 8:42 am EST Spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 ahead. “Stranger Things” season 4 is out in its entirety on Netflix. Although everyone is talking about Eddie (Joseph Quinn) as the breakout star, we can’t forget about our new stoner buddy Argyle (Eduardo Franco). Not only is his hair fabulous, but he’s got a vibe that is so chill, I feel relaxed just hearing his voice....

How Peaky Blinders’ Costume Designer Brought Period Fashion Back To Life For The Show BBC By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Dec. 16, 2022 7:59 am EST Steven Knight’s six-season, critically-acclaimed “Peaky Blinders” has come to the end of its run. Still, the show’s popularity continues to live on, despite Cillian Murphy’s Tommy Shelby hanging up his overcoat and newsboy cap. “Peaky Blinders” is much loved for many reasons: it’s a world with gangsters who have under buzz-haircuts, wear woolen suits, have razor blades sewn into their newsboy caps, and walk with the kind of natural swagger that makes them look intimidating and yet very cool....

Yes, it’s THAT mountain New Line Cinema For the uninitiated, Mount Doom is the volcano used by Sauron to create the One Ring to rule them all. It’s also the same volcano that Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee use to destroy the ring in “The Return of the King.” The origin of the volcanic mountain is not overtly clear in the canon, but “The Rings of Power” elects to tell it through the emergence of Adar and his army....

Playing Vincent Van Gogh Earned Kirk Douglas A Dressing Down From John Wayne Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Matt Rainis/Oct. 13, 2022 2:11 pm EST Kirk Douglas was one of the most well-regarded actors of the 20th century, and for good reason. He starred in countless great films, such as “Spartacus,” “Paths of Glory,” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” bringing a unique mix of classical acting ability and charisma. He was such a great performer that he achieved movie stardom without that even being his intention....

The Rings Of Power Understands What Made The Lord Of The Rings Such A Singular Fantasy Story Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 9, 2022 6:00 pm EST With the benefit of hindsight and the full weight of history in our favor, it’s easy to forget that Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy was never considered a preordained success — until it landed in theaters and became a runaway sensation, naturally....

His costar pays tribute HBO The actor’s co-star on the series, Michael Imperioli, shared his own memories of the actor today in an Instagram post. “Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big-hearted as anyone I’ve ever known,” the actor shared. Imperioli played ambitious young mobster Christopher Moltisanti in the series, and his character and Sirico’s often ended up pushing one another to the brink....