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The Creators Of Godzilla Felt The Weight Of The Film’s Responsibility Following WWII Toho By Adam Wescott/Oct. 9, 2022 5:30 pm EST Once upon a time, “Gojira” was a creature of the atomic bomb. This is no longer the case. Through years of evolution, “Gojira” (or “Godzilla,” as western viewers know him) drifted from nuclear anxieties. Its successors developed their own iconography: moths, plants, three-headed dragons. In the process, these monsters became inhabitants of a fantasy world drifting further and further from our own....

The Daily Stream: The War Zone Proves The Potential For Extreme Cinema As Artistic Catharsis FilmFour Distributors By Erin Brady/Sept. 22, 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 following Daily Stream contains discussions of child sexual abuse and incest. Please proceed with caution....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Gets A Dose Of The Game Of Thrones Effect Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 23, 2022 4:00 pm EST Is it just me, or is “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” becoming more and more like “Game of Thrones”? From Galadriel’s (Morfydd Clark) epic sword training session, to the split-location narratives unfolding at different speeds, to the rising political tensions across Middle-earth, “The Rings of Power” quickly traded the idyllic and enchanting (if also ominous) tone of its first few episodes for something more familiar....

A tone-setting twist Adult Swim The sixth episode of “Rick and Morty” season 1, “Rick Potion #9,” is titled after the love potion that Morty asks his grandfather to make for him (the ingredients are Morty’s DNA and oxytocin extracted from a vole). Morty, the little perv that he is, uses the drug to make his crush Jessica fall for him. Unfortunately, because Jessica has the flu, the serum’s effects go airborne....

The School For Good And Evil Review: Paul Feig Works His Magic For A Frothy But Flawed Family Film Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 19, 2022 11:00 am EST Family movies tend to get a bad rap — they’re either too silly or too juvenile or too shallow for general audiences, or so adults like to proclaim. But there’s a lot more joy to be had in a family film apart from its ability to not annoy parents after their kids’ fourth or fifth rewatch....

The Super Mario Bros. Trailer Suggests Keegan-Michael Key Understands The Appeal Of Toad Illumination / Nintendo By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 6, 2022 6:49 pm EST After Illumination and Nintendo dropped the highly-anticipated trailer for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” we admittedly had some thoughts. Now, I could continue to spend hours screaming about why celebrity stunt casting in animated features needs to die a fiery death or hop on a soapbox about how I completely understand why so many people find Bowser irresistibly sexy, but I’d rather save those thoughts for a non-sober 3:00 a....

The Two Aspects Of Andor That Made Andy Serkis Decide To Return To Star Wars Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Dec. 21, 2022 7:34 pm EST The following post contains spoilers for season 1 of “Andor.” Andy Serkis is known as the go-to actor for his performance capture work. He famously played Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Caesar in the “Planet of the Apes” films, and Supreme Leader Snoke in the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy....

It’s not food that keeps Tommy going BBC Studios Ironically enough, fans were the first ones to notice back in season 4 that Tommy had a habit of neglecting his food. Digital Spy reported both Murphy’s acknowledgment of fan observations and also confirmed their intentionality. “It seems like he never sleeps or eats,” he said, calling his character “all-consuming.” During a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, the “Oppenheimer” actor went into more detail about how he and Knight stumbled upon such a quintessentially Tommy quirk....

Twitter may answer your lingering questions Netflix Season 1 of “The Midnight Club” ended with a cliffhanger and some lingering questions that were meant to be answered further down the line in the series. With season 2 now off the table at Netflix, fans may have to settle for Flanagan revealing the intended outcome of the show’s storylines on Twitter. “I promised everybody at Comic-Con yesterday that I’d put up all the answers to the central mysteries on Twitter, which I will honor,” Flanagan told The Wrap after the annual convention in New York this October....

Blue Thunder (1984) ABC John Badham’s 1983 movie “Blue Thunder” was a cautionary tale about the militarization of the police. Completely misunderstanding their own property, Columbia Pictures turned it into a kickass action show in which the good guys righteously use a super hi-tech military helicopter to take down the bad guys. Only the helicopter remained, piloted by James Farentino’s Chaney and a young Dana Carvey as the awkwardly named Clinton C....

A Quick Guide To Everything The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Sets Up For Vol. 3 Disney+ By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 26, 2022 7:14 pm EST Marvel dropped its second-ever Marvel Studios Special Presentation this week, and while “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” packs a lot of fun into its short runtime, the latest one-off is not exactly a standalone story like “Werewolf at Night.” In fact, the holiday special actually includes a surprising amount of connective tissue between “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

All About Eve Signaled The Beginning Of The End For Most Of The Cast’s Careers 20th Century Studios By Shae Sennett/Sept. 15, 2022 1:50 pm EST “All About Eve” was the peak of stardom for most of its main cast — save for one break-out star. While Marilyn Monroe’s career thrived deep into the ’50s, the Academy Award-winning drama from writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz was the pinnacle of success for all of the leads....

Blockbuster Series Creator Vanessa Ramos Knows It’s Funny The Show Is On Netflix Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 8, 2022 4:16 pm EST The new series “Blockbuster” just hit Netflix, and if that sentence sounds strange to you, you’re not alone. The new sitcom about the world’s last Blockbuster store certainly seems like an odd fit for the streaming giant that all but put it out of business, and the team behind the show was acutely aware of the dissonance....

The new kid in town NBC In a 2006 interview with the Director’s Guild of America, Spielberg talked about how television was his gateway to being a better filmmaker. “The fact that I was doing TV was going to be a postgraduate program on the way to making feature films; that’s how I regarded television. It was a learning process,” says Spielberg. When he was making his home movies, Spielberg only had to deal with a small number of people to wrangle....

Does Bruce Campbell Really Have A Three-Movie Deal At Marvel Studios? Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/July 25, 2022 6:32 pm EST When Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige took the stage at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, he made some monumental announcements regarding the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The architect of this massive franchise revealed that Phase Four will end with the highly anticipated “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” He then outlined the plans for Phase Five, which include projects featuring Nick Fury, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ms....

Frank Darabont Wanted The Mist’s Ending To Evoke A Twilight Zone Classic Dimension Films By Jeff Kelly/Nov. 21, 2022 4:15 pm EST Sometimes, the more disturbing and bleak the end of a film is, the more it stays with you. We all like a happy ending, but those are often a dime a dozen. Other times, an ending, however dark, can be very by-the-numbers, like when you get to the end of a horror film and — what a twist!...

How House Of The Dragon’s Alicent Mirrors A Classic Game Of Thrones Character HBO By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 11, 2022 6:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 8 and all of “Game of Thrones.” There are some interesting parallels between “House of the Dragons” and its predecessor, “Game of Thrones,” but one of the most compelling is the way Cersei Lannister’s arc has been mirrored by that of Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke)....

How Into The Spider-Verse Inspired Mindy Kaling’s Take On Velma HBO Max By Matt Rainis/Oct. 7, 2022 12:45 pm EST In a phenomenon that’s a bit unusual for a fictional character, Velma Dinkley has been in the news a lot lately. The cartoon crime-solver has been under fire from all sorts of subhuman internet dwellers since news broke that she’ll be portrayed as a lesbian in the upcoming “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo” movie....

How The Rings Of Power Foreshadowed The Sauron Reveal Throughout Season 1 Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 27, 2022 5:00 pm EST One secret identity to rule them all? Season 1 of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” came to an epic conclusion almost two weeks ago and viewers are still buzzing about the major, game-changing reveal about which of the main cast of characters had actually been the Dark Lord Sauron all along....

In The Heat Of The Night Had To Change A Scene If They Wanted Sidney Poitier United Artists By Joshua Meyer/July 15, 2022 10:03 am EST “In the Heat of the Night” features a scene that DGA Quarterly, the official magazine of the Directors Guild of America, once called “the slap heard round the world.” The phrase has taken on a different cultural connotation in the wake of the Will Smith–Chris Rock slapping incident at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was once applied to a movie that won five Oscars, including Best Picture....