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Minimalism Turns To Sinister Repetition From here, “The Girl Before” unfolds like a slow-burn Hitchcock homage by way of “Black Mirror.” Unlike most adaptations of buzzy mystery books, the series seems uninterested in hitting well-trod story beats. Instead, the psychodrama soaks its audience in heavy atmosphere, until we can feel the cold chill of the house for ourselves. The story contains significant shades of both “Vertigo” and “Rebecca.” The home’s history seems to echo itself, drawing in women who share common traits despite having different, equally distinctive personalities....

Ian McDiarmid — Return of the Jedi Lucasfilm Limited “Return of the Jedi” marked the culmination of the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the final confrontation between Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and his father, Darth Vader (David Prowse). Although Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) hadn’t yet appeared on screen in full, his influence was strong in the first two films. Palpatine only briefly appears as a holographic projection in “The Empire Strike Back,” but it’s clear that he is the one character that holds power over Vader....

The history of Soughton Hall Henrykc/Shutterstock Soughton Hall was built in Flintshire, Wales, in the early 1700s, and was completely overhauled nearly 100 years later. The architect on the building project was Sir Charles Barry, whose work may be familiar to period drama enthusiasts: Not only was he responsible for redesigning the Houses of Parliament after they were destroyed in a devastating 1834 fire, but he was also the mastermind behind Highclere Castle, the famous filming location of “Downton Abbey....

Thor: Ragnarok Cut A Heart-Wrenching Karl Urban Scene Marvel Studios By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 15, 2022 5:47 pm EST As a director, Taika Waititi is capable of handling major shifts in tone, switching gears from irreverent to tragic or silly to serious in the blink of an eye (when he’s on his A-game, at least). His fondness for balancing darkness with light has made some of his movies polarizing, whereas others have enjoyed almost universal praise....

Sacrifices Lucasfilm Every main character in this episode is forced to weigh their own sense of worth and sacrifice, and its fascinating to watch. Even the ISB double agent goes through this reckoning, no longer willing to remain in the demanding double life he’s in. But for Cassian, in the prison, he’s forced to look at his life on a balance sheet. Does he risk his life to escape and taste freedom once again?...

‘Such little sweetheart troopers’ FX The rest of the cast echoed the sentiments with Rotten Tomatoes TV, discussing what it was like to “parent” the kids who played Colin Robinson in his many forms. Natasia Demetriou, who plays Nadja, called the actors “little sweetheart troopers,” and called out their bravery for being able to act on the dark set surrounded by vampires. “Even though it wasn’t Baby Colin Robinson and they did all that in post — it was like, ‘Wow, it’s so funny having a child around,’” she said....

Christopher Nolan Had One Goal For The Audience While Making Interstellar Paramount Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Nov. 5, 2022 4:30 pm EST Some science fiction movies not only transcend time — but they also transcend genres. Spike Jonze’s 2013 film “Her” explored technology’s impact on human relationships. A24’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” underneath its mind-boggling visuals, remains a story about familial discords and the power of love and reconciliation. And then there is Christopher Nolan’s emotional masterpiece “Interstellar,” a tale deeply entrenched in the science of the future, and yet, proves if there’s anything with the power to transcend dimensions of time and space, it’s love....

There are heroes, and there are villains Warner Bros. The fact that Black Adam won’t be a marquee character of the DC Universe as of yet isn’t that surprising. The film underperformed at the box office, only racking up $391 million globally against an estimated budget of $195 million. It also didn’t help that it didn’t receive particularly stellar reviews, with /Film’s Witney Seibold calling it “a jumbled mess of a movie that grabs great fistfuls of all-too-familiar blockbuster beats and throws them into a whirling, noisy centrifuge, hoping something cogent separates out....

Emily The Criminal Director John Patton Ford On Making A Throwback Crime Film [Interview] Roadside Attractions By Jack Giroux/Aug. 11, 2022 5:55 pm EST “Emily the Criminal” isn’t about a glamorous life of crime. It’s not about the rocking highs, the one last job, or the score to end all scores. It’s a crime story about survival, with its characters just trying to make it through another crummy week. As Chris Evangelista wrote in his review, “Coupled with the prevailing sense of economic hopelessness, ‘Emily the Criminal’ often feels like a crime saga for the gig economy; a ‘Scarface’ for people who work at DoorDash, with capitalism as the film’s Big Bad....

Evil Season 3 Ending Explained: Welcome To The Book Of Angels Paramount+ By Rafael Motamayor/Aug. 14, 2022 3:00 am EST Warning: Spoilers ahead for season 3 of “Evil.” In its third season, “Evil” continued to be TV’s best horror show, and one of the best overall TV shows, period. Despite a relatively slow start, the season quickly picked up steam and delivered a long streak of the best episodes the show has ever done....

Galaxy Quest’s Director And Writer Knew Their Mission Was A Difficult One Dreamworks Pictures By Devin Meenan/Nov. 19, 2022 8:00 am EST What’s the best “Star Trek” movie? Is it “The Wrath of Khan”? “The Voyage Home”? “First Contact”? Many a Trekkie have said, half or fully seriously, that the answer is the loving parody film, “Galaxy Quest.” “High concept” doesn’t even begin to cover the film: aliens (the Thermians) who believe that a short-lived sci-fi series was a documentary recruit the cast to help them battle a galactic tyrant....

How Akira Kurosawa Revived The Career Of The Director Of Godzilla Toho By Witney Seibold/Oct. 2, 2022 12:19 pm EST Ishiro Honda’s 1968 classic “Destroy All Monsters” was the ninth film in the Godzilla film series, and, in a way, marked the end of an era. Since 1954 — when Honda’s “Gojira” debuted the monster — Godzilla films had been pretty successful, and over the course of 14 years, the monsters had become increasingly elaborate and plentiful....

How Star Trek: Discovery’s Design Team Handled Hopping Into The Future Paramount By Witney Seibold/July 6, 2022 5:20 pm EST The first two seasons of “Star Trek: Discovery” felt a little bit adrift. The first season took place largely during a war between the Federation and the Klingons, and was about the Starfleet officer, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), who found herself in the center of it all. In what could have been an interesting “Star Trek” wrinkle, the titular ship had the ability to teleport anywhere in the galaxy using a previously undiscovered galaxy-wide network of microscopic interdimensional spores....

How Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Will Follow In The Footsteps Of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Paramount Pictures By Ernesto Valenzuela/Dec. 8, 2022 1:53 pm EST After Michael Bay’s series of “Transformers” films awkwardly ended with “Transformers: The Last Knight,” the last thing everyone expected was for the franchise to suddenly be revitalized with the 2018 spin-off “Bumblebee.” The movie is a prequel film set in the ’80s led by Hailee Seinfeld, and it received much better reviews than any of Bay’s more recent “Transformers” movies....

Keep Cowboy Bebop Weird Netflix Besides the “weirder and darker” comment, which we’re clearly delighted with, what’s fun about Cho’s comment is the fact that he’s interested in coming back. Netflix hasn’t announced their plans to make “Cowboy Bebop” season 2 and reviews of the first season have been pretty mixed, but it would be fun to see what Netflix could do with the story when they’ve finally adapted the entire arc of the original anime and are officially in uncharted waters....

Landscapers Release Date and Where to Watch It HBO “Landscapers” is an HBO production, so it will premiere exclusively on the cable channel, and it will be available to stream on HBO Max as well. The first episode will premiere on Monday, December 6 at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT, and the three subsequent episodes will air at the same time on Mondays in the three weeks that follow. It’s not clear if the episodes will be available on HBO Max at the same time they premiere on HBO Max or if they will be available the next day....

Martin Scorsese To Direct Leonardo DiCaprio In Historical Drama The Wager For Apple TV+ YouTube By Jeremy Mathai/July 29, 2022 1:21 pm EST One of Hollywood’s best and most productive partnerships has shown no signs of slowing down anytime soon, which should be music to the ears of all movie fans everywhere. In terms of present and ongoing associations between filmmaker and actor, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are the current title-holders for most amount of collaborations together with a whopping 10 feature films — soon to be 11 with the (recently delayed) release of the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon....

So what happens in Pink Flamingos again? New Line Cinema Divine, aka Babs Johnson, is a wanted criminal crowned the “filthiest person alive” by the tabloids. She’s hiding out in a battered trailer somewhere in the Maryland boondocks with her egg-obsessed mother Edie (Edith Massey), chicken-loving son Crackers (Danny Mills), and her relatively normal girlfriend Cotton (Mary Vivian Pierce). All is well until a wealthy pair of “jealous perverts,” Raymond and Connie Marble (David Lochary and Mink Stole), become enraged by Divine’s media attention and decide to challenge for her title....

Rian Johnson Would Prefer Glass Onion Not Be Called ‘A Knives Out Mystery’ John Wilson/Netflix By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 27, 2022 12:14 pm EST Welcome to your new holiday tradition! No, it’s not the biannual release of a new “Avatar” movie every December until everyone, fans and cynics of James Cameron alike, have become well and truly Pandora-pilled. Rather, it’s a new Benoit Blanc murder-mystery from the internet’s new favorite lightning rod: Rian Johnson....

No ticket, no pants, no problem! Lucasfilm/Paramount The scene in question occurs near the middle of the film, when Indiana Jones (Ford) and his estranged father Henry Jones, Sr. (Connery) are attempting to escape Berlin and return to their quest: to recover the Holy Grail from its ancient resting place. After eluding the Nazis by posing as a rather gruff ticket taker aboard a Zeppelin, Indy sits down with his father to bask in their brief victory and use the time to catch up after decades apart....