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The Black Panther Movies Gave Wakanda’s Architecture The ‘Voluptuous’ Curves Of A Woman Marvel Studios By Witney Seibold/Nov. 14, 2022 5:56 pm EST Hannah Beachler is, as fans of her work may recall, the Academy Award-winning production designer for Ryan Coogler’s 2018 film “Black Panther.” Beachler has worked with Coogler on all of his films to date, starting with “Fruitvale Station,” as well as the Beyoncé music video films “Lemonade” and “Black is King....

How this works Universal Pictures The rigged camera contraption was set up during the nighttime shoots of “Nope” in order to capture a mystique of illusion and eerieness. You might think everything looks normal at first glance, but looking at the sky a bit closer reveals that something strange is lurking unseen in the clouds. “What Hoyte was able to pull off here is illusion that is truly remarkable and complete,” director Jordan Peele told IndieWire....

Let there be light Prime Video In a welcome change of pace, the trailer doesn’t waste any time in delivering some of the most stunning imagery we’ve yet seen from “The Rings of Power.” Those who know their Tolkien lore know that the devoutly Catholic novelist borrowed heavily from the Biblical creation myth when it came time to building out his own fictional world of Middle-earth. For our purposes here, the prolific author’s equivalent of the Garden of Eden and its forbidden trees took the form of a pair of light-giving trees known as the Trees of the Valar....

The Most Dangerous MCU Monsters Ranked Marvel Studios By Liam Gaughan/July 15, 2022 3:50 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a unique crossover saga that incorporates many different genres. While all of the films in the MCU are bound together by canon, the individual films and shows take wildly different approaches to the original source material. “Ant-Man” feels like a classic caper adventure, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” feels like a political thriller from the 1970s, “Spider-Man: Homecoming” feels like a John Hughes-era coming-of-age high school comedy, and both “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” feel like epic space satires....

The Santa Clauses Trailer: Tim Allen Is Back As A Troubled St. Nick On Disney+ Disney+ By Ryan Scott/Oct. 27, 2022 12:38 pm EST Holiday movies are a lot like holiday music in many ways. For the most part, so many of us end up going back to the well of films and songs that have endured for decades at this point, such as “A Christmas Story.” One of the films that managed to break through and become a true classic in the ’90s was Disney’s “The Santa Clause....

The She-Hulk Finale Directly Confronts Every Little (And Big) Problem With The MCU Disney+/Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 13, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the “She-Hulk” finale. Over the course of its nine-episode season, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” has emerged as one of the highlights (if not the highlight) of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. More than any other Disney+ MCU show this side of “WandaVision,” creator Jessica Gao’s meta-legal comedy series has effectively utilized the episodic format of its medium to serve its storytelling....

The Son Teaser: The Director Of The Father Is Back For More Harrowing Family Drama Sony Pictures Classics By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 30, 2022 5:47 pm EST If there’s one movie that holds a special place in my pandemic memory, it’s “The Father.” Florian Zeller’s film about the fractured and frightening day-to-day experiences of a man living with dementia was the first film I saw in theaters after getting my COVID-19 vaccine, and since I got mine quite early, theaters were still completely empty....

The Three Rules Sam Mendes Says Every James Bond Film Should Follow MGM By Witney Seibold/Aug. 3, 2022 10:33 am EST To date, there have been 25 official James Bond movies, enough for the character to have attained a seemingly permanent fixture in the pop cinema lexicon. Although invented as an adjunct of the Cold War, James Bond has returned to theaters every few years — even after the end of the Cold War — to enact an amusing collection of well-worn spy shenanigans....

Adding a framework Netflix In “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” Jaskier serves as a conduit for the story of seven warriors who came together to try and stop the potentially world-ending event known as the convergence of the spheres. This event caused the worlds of elves and humans (and monsters) to get mixed up together, which created the world of “The Witcher” that fans have come to know and love. Jaskier learns the story as the audience does, creating a frame narrative around the main story that follows Éile (Sophia Brown), Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain), and Scian (Michelle Yeoh)....

Will There Be Dr. Death Season 2? Peacock By BJ Colangelo/July 14, 2022 10:01 pm EST When the streaming service Peacock launched in April of 2020, the initial roll-out was based heavily on access to existing NBC favorites like “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation,” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” As time has gone on, however, the streamer has proven to be a source of quality original programming, with one of their best being the series “Dr....

Leone puts together his epic for an epically long time The Ladd Company According to Shawn Levy’s 2014 biography of De Niro entitled “De Niro: A Life,” Leone became enraptured by the material that would become “Once Upon a Time in America” to the point of near-possession. Reading a book by real-life gangster Harry Gray entitled “The Hoods” sometime in the mid-’60s, Leone found the story haunting him “like the malediction of the Mummy in the old movie with Boris Karloff....

Angela Lansbury Left Los Angeles To Save Her Children From Charles Manson’s Influence Walt Disney Productions By Erin Brady/Oct. 12, 2022 9:03 pm EST Cults are a difficult subject to broach, because there are a lot of factors to take into consideration. Who is at the center of the cult? What type of people does this organization seek out? How is the cultural landscape at the time? It’s questions like these that have oversimplified the case of Charles Manson and his followers for decades –- the hard truth is that there is no simple answer to explain how he was able to convince his followers to kill innocent people....

Apocalypse Now: Redux Made Quentin Tarantino Reconsider An Entire Chapter Of Kill Bill Miramax By Eric Vespe/Oct. 26, 2022 9:17 pm EST It’s hard to think of now after many huge, epic movies from Quentin Tarantino, but “Kill Bill” was a wild swing for the writer-director at that time in his career. He was known mostly as the guy who could write great dialogue, and most of his work up until “Kill Bill” was more about people sitting down and talking with each other and less about visual spectacle....

Barry Keoghan Has A Fresh Approach To The Joker Up His Sleeve Warner Bros. Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 4, 2022 9:39 pm EST “The Batman” was one of the more refreshing comic book movie releases in 2022, with director Matt Reeves’ take on the caped crusader considered by Chris Evangelista to be a “sprawling, ominous, dreamy epic.” With a sequel to the film on the way, anticipation is high to see what adversary Robert Pattinson’s Batman will go up against next....

Clerks’ Black-And-White Style Had Nothing To Do With Kevin Smith’s Creative Vision Miramax Films By Matt Rainis/Sept. 29, 2022 11:20 am EST Those only familiar with Kevin Smith’s more recent films, like “Clerks III” or “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot,” which are pretty intensely absurdist and lined with in-jokes, may be surprised to see the kind of film Smith’s career started with. “Clerks” is an extremely low-key film: A black and white picture that simply focuses on two buddies spending the day working at a convenience store....

Cliffhanger Brought In John Lithgow To Replace Christopher Walken The Day Before Shooting Began TriStar Pictures By Lee Adams/July 25, 2022 10:54 am EST In the opening sequence of “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” our intrepid pet detective is scaling a daunting cliff face to rescue a raccoon stranded on a mountaintop in a plane crash. He almost succeeds in bringing the cuddly critter home via a high wire when disaster strikes: A harness breaks and Ace can’t stop the raccoon plummeting to its death....

Cooler: Everything We Know So Far About The Dave Bautista Action Thriller Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 29, 2022 1:25 pm EST I sincerely admire Dave Bautista’s dedication to being a legit character actor. It would’ve been hard to blame him, had the former WWE star elected to turn himself into a “brand” (à la Dwayne Johnson or Ryan Reynolds) after breaking out with “Guardians of the Galaxy,” given his dire financial situation heading into that film....

Danny Boyle Spent A Lot Of Sunshine’s Budget On Avoiding CGI’s Biggest Pitfalls By Lyvie Scott/Sept. 14, 2022 3:36 pm EST Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine” got a lot of flack back in 2007. While it may start as a promising sci-fi slow burn about a group of astronauts on a mission to reignite the sun, it takes a sharp turn into much wackier territory by its end. That said, there are still those of us who can appreciate “Sunshine” — and Boyle — for taking such big swings, especially when a lot of the film is rooted in some really interesting science....

Dune Part Two Has Wrapped Principal Photography Warner Bros. By Eric Vespe/Dec. 12, 2022 6:20 pm EST Good news, spice-lovers! The much-anticipated sequel to 2021’s reboot/remake/just-all-around-awesome-adaptation of “Dune” has just wrapped production, according to its very own Paul Atreides, Mr. Timothée Chalamet. That means the movie is one step closer to actually coming out next November! Hooray! Chalamet made the big announcement via an Instagram post which is little more than a shirtless selfie in the desert with the short but sweet proclamation that “DUNE 2 WRAPPED” (his use of all-caps, not mine)....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Will Return To Theaters With A New Introduction And Outtakes A24 By Ben F. Silverio/July 20, 2022 4:50 pm EST Without a doubt, one of the best movies of 2022 has been “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Our own Jacob Hall gave the film a rare 10 out of 10 in his review from SXSW, but no need to take his word for it. After six weeks in theaters, the multiversal film from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert AKA Daniels dropped an unprecedented 0% at the box office....