Here’s Where You Can Watch The 2022 Emmys ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 12, 2022 6:12 pm EST There’s something hilariously ironic about the fact that so much of the best TV isn’t actually on TV anymore. Many of this year’s Emmy nominees can be seen on Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and various other streaming platforms, yet award shows themselves usually air on network television, which only about half of all Americans have access to at this point....
Birth of the eclipse Prime Video Before there was “Black Sun,” there was “Kamen Rider Black.” Released in 1987, “Black” broke continuity with earlier “Kamen Rider” series that had aired since 1971. The Riders of the past were nowhere to be seen. The hero “Black,” Kotaro Minami, fights an evil cult called Gorgom. Kotaro is a straightforward hero, but the monsters he fights are genuinely scary. Even worse is his stepbrother Nobuhiko, who has been brainwashed to become the terrifying Shadow Moon....
Quiet Owen Sleater HBO Showrunner Terence Winter, knowing he was dealing with historical fiction, sought to differentiate “Boardwalk” from shows like “Deadwood” by emphasizing the unreal. The writers could mine a great deal of tension by incorporating fictional characters like Owen Sleater into the complex political drama the show depicted. On his arrival in the show, Sleater is a mostly enigmatic presence, quiet and haunted. For a show deeply invested in the suffering and political rise of Irish Catholic Americans, Owen was something new....
Rising to the challenge Marvel Studios Although Wright was originally surprised and taken aback by the request to play the new Black Panther, Moore explained that she was definitely onboard: “While I’m not sure that she ever envisioned herself donning the mantle and carrying this film, she was 100% game.” It was a tricky situation with no clear solution, but Wright gave it her all and delivered an exceptionally powerful performance....
She Said Review: The Harvey Weinstein Exposé Drama Talks A Lot But Unearths Little [NYFF] Universal Pictures By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 13, 2022 9:15 pm EST What is the proper amount of time for a scandal or traumatic event to let lie before it inevitably gets adapted by Hollywood? Recently, it feels like that window is getting smaller and smaller — within a few years we’ve gotten adaptations of the 2016 Trump election (“The Comey Rule”) and the Roger Ailes ousting (“Bombshell”), while HBO has enough political miniseries about controversial elections to make up a small army....
Taika Waititi’s Time Bandits TV Series Cast Includes Lisa Kudrow And More Embassy Pictures By Erin Brady/Sept. 28, 2022 5:25 pm EST The original “Time Bandits” was likely a pivotal movie for many of our readers growing up, as it helped bring the wackiness and chaos of Terry Gilliam movies to younger audiences. I know that it was certainly my introduction to the director. Now, a brand new generation will be able to experience “Time Bandits” thanks to Taika Waititi....
The 15 Best Robert De Niro Films, Ranked United Archives/Getty Images By Jack Hawkins/July 28, 2022 3:49 pm EST Back at the turn of the 21st century, “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” was the nadir of Robert De Niro’s career. Surely the great actor couldn’t fall any further? Well, teeth continued to grit as De Niro got caught in the proverbial middle of the road, appearing in the likes of “The Score,” “Meet the Fockers,” and “Hide and Seek....
The 15 Best Universal Monster Movies, Ranked Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 2, 2022 12:00 pm EST The horror genre owes a great debt to the success of Universal Monster movies, the series of nearly 50 films released throughout the 1920s to 1950s that solidified the company as one of the major studio players. The company hadn’t planned on becoming the go-to house of horrors, but once they realized in 1931 that there was marketing power in categorizing them together, legendary status was quickly achieved....
The Anthrax Attacks Review: The Post-9/11 Amerithrax Story Gets The Netflix Doc Treatment Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 31, 2022 6:00 pm EST After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States was, understandably, on edge. The sudden, terrible scenes of destruction and death rocked the country and made us all realize that no matter what we want to tell ourselves, we are not safe. Of course, that was always true — life is random and often quite cruel....
The Best Hulu Original Movies Of 2022, Ranked 20th Century Studios By Shania Russell/Dec. 27, 2022 10:00 am EST 2022 marked a very complex year for the ever-raging streaming wars. While consumers pondered which of their many subscriptions to finally cancel, HBO Max got busy purging its library, Netflix made preparations to crack down on password sharing, and Peacock tried bulking up to finally spark some interest. Meanwhile, the House of Mouse is still experimenting with the best of both worlds, uniting sister services Disney+ and Hulu with shared titles and bundle deals....
The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To HBO Max In November 2022 United Artists By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 24, 2022 5:31 pm EST It’s well and truly fall now: there’s a breeze in the air, pumpkins are all around, and within a matter of weeks, it’ll be time to turn the clocks back. But before that comes another ritual, one that in this era of endless streaming options has become a monthly event for many film buffs among us....
The Daily Stream: The Satire Of Blazing Saddles Still Has Bite Nearly 50 Years Later Warner Bros. Pictures By Eric Vespe/Aug. 6, 2022 6:15 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 Movie: “Blazing Saddles” (1974) Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Hollywood cinema of the 1970s was something of a miracle, thanks largely to a suffocatingly restrictive ratings system being dropped and audiences showing up for more challenging stories....
Why it’s essential viewing AVCO Embassy Pictures Unlike Disney’s “Bambi” and the works of Don Bluth, “Watership Down” makes no effort to soften the brutal side of nature, much less humanity’s wanton disregard for other living beings. (“Men have always hated us,” a rabbit says at one point. “No — they just destroyed the warren because we were in their way,” another replies.) The many animals in the movie still posses an element of stylization yet are otherwise realistic in their features, with distinctly inhuman facial expressions and physical builds....
Getting Into the Drug Game Columbia Pictures Richard Wershe Jr. grew up with his working-class family on the east side of Detroit during the height of the War on Drugs. At this point in time, Detroit was known as the “Murder Capital of America,” due almost exclusively to the heightened violence that accompanied the crack epidemic. Richard Wershe Sr. was an illegal arms dealer, and the movie claims that Wershe Jr....
Thor: Love and Thunder repeats at #1 with a near-record drop for the MCU Marvel Studios According to Box Office Mojo, “Thor: Love and Thunder” brought in $46 million in its second frame, more than good enough to take the top spot. Coming in a relatively distant second was “Minions: The Rise of Gru” with $26 million (now at $532 million worldwide). The big difference here is the drop though. “Thor” plunged 68....
Screaming goats and superhero catchphrases Marvel Studios Watching “Thor: Love and Thunder” feels like a fever dream — it’s too outlandish to be true. It’s like stepping into filmmaker Taika Waititi’s brain without permission and witnessing the many incredible ways in which his mind works. Only that it’s very real and delivers moments with both heart and riotous laughter. “Thor: Love and Thunder” is an example of how more Marvel movies (especially in phase four) should have fun because it’s a deeply rewarding experience to watch something that isn’t laboriously influenced by the culmination of phase three’s events....
Alfie’s death was never a certainty BBC Studios There was so much back-and-forth in the writers’ room before the 11th-hour decision to kill off Alfie Solomons was made that few knew what was actually going on. Paul Anderson, who plays the fantastically mustachioed Arthur Shelby, clued in Digital Spy on the details. “I didn’t know that was coming,” the actor said. “We were unsure … there was a whole thing about whether or not Alfie would live or die, or get shot or not....
What Andor Gets Right That Other Star Wars Shows Got Wrong Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Sept. 21, 2022 7:00 am EST One of the biggest, bold things Disney did after buying Lucasfilm was to expand the scope of the “Star Wars” franchise beyond the Skywalker saga. That kicked off in earnest with 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” a movie that managed to turn a few lines of text from the opening crawl of “A New Hope” into a $1 billion hit — and arguably one of the best “Star Wars” movies ever made....
10 Easter Eggs In Gremlins That Are Easy To Miss Warner Bros. Pictures By Simon Bland/Oct. 26, 2022 12:02 pm EST We all know the rules: don’t get them wet, keep them out of sunlight, and whatever you do never, ever, feed them after midnight. That’s the easy part, although you wouldn’t be able to tell by watching Joe Dante’s two excellent and much-loved monster movies “Gremlins” and its arguably better meta-sequel, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch....
10 Underrated Paul Newman Movies That You Should Check Out Warner Bros. By Eric Langberg/Oct. 18, 2022 1:03 pm EST Paul Newman had a storied career — spanning the ’50s-era studio films through New Hollywood and into the modern era. The man even appeared in a Pixar film! Toward the end of his life, Barbara Walters asked Newman what he imagined his epitaph would be. “That I was part of my times,” the actor replied....
