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Stanley Kubrick Used A Less-Than-Honest Contract Trick To Free His Schedule For The Shining Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Dec. 25, 2022 11:00 am EST Stanley Kubrick is remembered in many ways. He was a visionary genius — a pioneering auteur whose filmography stands as one of the finest in the history of filmmaking. He was also a bit weird. Very weird, at times. The notoriously eccentric director would often be the target of rumors, such as when the press claimed he wore a football helmet on his drive to the set of “Full Metal Jacket” and wouldn’t let his driver go over 30mph....

Star Trek: Lower Decks All Started With An Improvised Pitch Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 12, 2022 5:21 pm EST “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” currently in its third season, took its name from an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Originally airing on February 7, 1994, The NextGen “Lower Decks” introduced several lower-ranking officers, and depicted what life on the Enterprise-D would look like from their perspective. Trekkies could easily see what space adventures were like for Dr....

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Trailer: Cal Kestis Returns As The Empire’s Most Wanted Electronic Arts By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 9, 2022 7:18 am EST Are you ready to lock lightsabers with some “Star Wars” baddies? It’s that time of year again when the Video Game Awards bring with them a slew of news and trailers related to upcoming games, and anyone who inhabits the Venn diagram of “Star Wars” fans and gamers will want to pull up a chair for this particular trailer....

It looks like Marvel’s Spider-Man video game nearly had a multiplayer mode Marvel The 2018 video game “Marvel’s Spider-Man” recently made its way to PC, opening the experience up to a world of new players. As reported by PC Gamer, some fans have been digging into the game’s executable file. In doing so, it has been seemingly revealed that Insomniac Games was at least toying with a multiplayer mode of some kind....

The 12 Best Timothée Chalamet Movies, Ranked United Artists Releasing By Marshall Shaffer/Nov. 20, 2022 3:15 pm EST It’s been a while since Hollywood’s star factory cranked out a genuine, organic sensation quite like Timothée Chalamet. He’s the rare marquee name who can command attention off the screen with his vivacious personality as well as hold it on-screen with his acting talents. It’s possible to point to previous celebrities and thespians he recalls, but what’s most remarkable about the rise of Timothée Chalamet is that he feels like something entirely new and unexpected to behold....

The Overlook Hotel Warner Bros. Stephen King is known for a prolific career full of terrifying monsters. One of his most iconic and terrifying creations was The Overlook Hotel. The Overlook first graced the pages of King’s 1977 novel “The Shining” before its 1980 feature film debut. When troubled writer Jack Torrence moves his family into the Overlook as its winter caretaker, he soon discovers that the hotel is full of predatory spirits of deceased guests....

Why it’s essential viewing Paramount Pictures One of my absolute favorite cinephile niches is the movie that absolutely should not work but rules extremely hard. There are only a few films that qualify for inclusion in this very select group, and like half of them are Lord & Miller joints. We’re talking the “Jump Street” movies, “The Lego Movie,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and the film we’re talking about today, 1985’s “Clue....

The Midnight Club Review: A Rare Misfire From The Mike Flanagan Netflix Horror Machine Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 7, 2022 3:00 am EST Mike Flanagan is one of the most interesting and prolific horror filmmakers working right now, so much so that he’s developed his own brand. Especially on Netflix, where he continues to create horror series that usually go over like gangbusters. His most recent show, “Midnight Mass,” was one of his best yet....

Control isn’t always the answer HBO I had no previous experience with Fielder’s work before diving into “The Rehearsal,” after hearing that it was something extraordinary. In the first episode, Fielder sets up the rehearsal conceit and helps a middle-aged teacher named Kor Skeete rehearse an uncomfortable conversation he wants to have with his friend on a local trivia team. Skeete has let his friend believe that he had a master’s degree for years, but he really only has his bachelor’s....

The Rings Of Power Showrunners Reveal The Most Difficult VFX Scene From Season 1 Prime Video By Jenna Busch/Oct. 5, 2022 4:54 pm EST Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is an expensive show. That’s likely the first thing you heard about it. It makes sense, of course. An entire world imagined by author J.R.R. Tolkien was being created, and it had to compete with the Peter Jackson trilogies “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit....

The Whale release date and where you can watch it HBO Max “The Whale” will bow at this year’s Venice International Film Festival on Sunday, September 4, prior to hitting theaters three months later on December 9, 2022. The film is being backed by A24, which is clearly positioning “The Whale” to be its big contender in the next fall and winter movie awards season (it seems the studio isn’t counting on “Everything Everywhere All at Once” getting the awards attention it deserves, then)....

The White Lotus Season 2 Is Really About How Jennifer Coolidge And Aubrey Plaza Just Need To Kill The Men Already HBO By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 31, 2022 4:00 pm EST Mike White’s HBO limited series “The White Lotus” was one of the best new shows of 2021, a sharply satirical look at the most privileged elite and the employees that serve them during a week’s stay at an all-inclusive luxury resort....

Tulsa King Review: Mobster Sylvester Stallone Wanders Around Punching Everyone In This Dull Comedy-Drama Paramount+ By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 11, 2022 3:00 am EST Dads rejoice! There’s a new show where an older guy wanders around complaining about stuff and punching anyone who gets in his way! And that guy is played by none other than Sylvester Stallone. Stallone is the titular “Tulsa King,” a mobster who gets out of jail and gets relocated to Oklahoma....

Viggo Mortensen And Colin Farrell Made Their Thirteen Lives’ Stunt Doubles Obsolete Prime Video By Erin Brady/July 29, 2022 7:44 pm EST There have been countless stories about actors doing their own stunts, whether it’s for a simple fight scene or anything Tom Cruise wants to do during the “Mission: Impossible” films. However, perhaps no other movie required stunts as potentially dangerous as “Thirteen Lives,” Ron Howard’s biopic of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue mission in the Chiang Rai province of Thailand....

Why Jamie Lee Curtis Regrets Virus, One Of The Worst Science Fiction Movies Ever Made Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 3, 2022 10:02 am EST Jamie Lee Curtis might be one of the most entertainingly frank actors to ever deliver a sound bite, especially when it comes to discussing her own movies. Last fall, the “Halloween” star admitted that she detests the horror genre, telling the PA news agency in regards to the franchise that made her famous: “I don’t like these movies....

Andor Almost Featured The First-Ever Star Wars F-Bomb Disney+/Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 30, 2022 1:32 pm EST Rebellions are delicate things. They’re built on little more than hope and are as easily snuffed out as a spark. So, on occasion, it simply makes sense to spice things up with some shockingly course language to underline the seriousness of the moment. In other words, this ain’t your father’s “Star Wars,” folks....

David Lynch Thinks Laura Dern’s Inland Empire Performance Went Underappreciated Absurda By Debopriyaa Dutta/Nov. 28, 2022 1:30 pm EST David Lynch’s body of work cannot be described in words — one can try, but it is difficult to do justice to art that primarily revolves around dream states, evolving identities, and doomed central characters. In 2006, Lynch released the deeply experimental, nightmarish “Inland Empire,” which was the director’s first foray into digital filmmaking, shot almost entirely on a Sony camcorder....

Lighting up next to Dame Judi Dench Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In a 2015 interview with The A.V. Club, Michael Madsen talked about how he wasn’t sure if he would be able to light up in the scene. “I know not many people smoke cigarettes in movies anymore, especially not in a Bond film and the way they are nowadays,” he said. But while Madsen pulling out the cigarette sent the crew into panic mode, it was Dame Judi Dench who ultimately stuck up for the actor’s decision:...

Every Member Of The Addams Family Ranked From Normal To Creepiest MGM By Jessica Scott/Sept. 20, 2022 1:04 pm EST “Normal” and “creepy” are relative terms, especially when discussing the mysterious, spooky, and altogether ooky Addams Family. First introduced in the pages of The New Yorker in 1938, Charles Addams’ series of macabre and hilarious single-panel cartoons became the foundation for one of America’s most popular — and most enduring — fictional families....

Every Season Of Futurama Ranked Worst To Best 20th Television By Joe Garza/Aug. 25, 2022 12:00 pm EST “Futurama” tells the story of Fry, a loveably immature goofball who accidentally freezes himself in a cryogenic chamber in the year 2000, only to be reawakened in the year 2999 in a technologically advanced future. Fry manages to hunt down a descendent of his, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, the brilliant-yet-absent-minded mad scientist who started the interplanetary delivery service Planet Express Inc....