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An Original Top Gun Editor Helped Sift Through Top Gun: Maverick’s Overwhelming Amount Of Footage [Exclusive] Paramount By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 10, 2022 3:16 pm EST Making a massive action film like “Top Gun: Maverick” requires a meticulous amount of planning and attention to detail. One of the reasons that the blockbuster legacy sequel works so well is the commitment to not have an overreliance on the intrusive digital effects and CGI that dominate most of the big-budget landscape....

Andor Is Like Les Miserables In Space, And That’s A Beautiful Thing Lucasfilm By Lyvie Scott/Sept. 21, 2022 5:00 pm EST It’s not an exaggeration to say that “Andor” has been a project years in the making. The series was first announced back in 2018 — which feels like a lifetime ago — and the intervening years have been filled with enough hype, anticipation, and Vanity Fair features to excite even the most skeptical “Star Wars” fans....

Fear PHarm 2 Leading today’s column is an exclusive clip from Indican Pictures’ “Fear PHarm 2,” arriving on DVD and on demand October 19, 2021. The follow-up to last year’s horror entry reunites the original film’s creative team, including writer/director Dante Yore and producers Mark S. Allen (“616 Wilford Lane”) and Howard Burd (“Apparition”). In the clip Melanie (Tiana Tuttle) is chased through a cornfield by Gemma (Aimee Stolte), channeling her inner Clint Barton, as well as Hershel (John Littlefield)....

What is the plot of Dangerous Liaisons? Starz Described as a “prelude” to the novel, “Dangerous Liaisons” follows the story of a scheming young couple who reach the heights of French aristocracy by seducing, manipulating, and betraying everyone they know, from each other to the highest members of French nobility. At its heart, it’s also a love story about a couple who find it easier to wreck the lives of others than to admit they love each other....

Dota: Dragon’s Blood Book 3 Review: Despite Shortcomings, This Video Game Adaptation Is Full Of Existential Tension Netflix By Caroline Cao/Aug. 10, 2022 6:00 pm EST “Dota: Dragon’s Blood” didn’t seem to rake significant traction upon its release. Yet another Netflix video game-adapted cartoon riding the fantasy adult animation steam trail left by the “Castlevania” animated adaptation, “Dota: Dragon’s Blood” (created by Ashley Edward Miller) pitifully does not duel well against the agile contemporary canon of video game cartoons like the groundbreaking “Arcane....

Big bad murder daddies NBC “Hannibal,” created by Bryan Fuller, follows troubled empath Will Graham, who works with the FBI as a criminal profiling instructor. Graham is based loosely on FBI profiler John E. Douglas, the same guy Holden Ford on “Mindhunter” is based on, and he’s brilliant at understanding the criminal mind, but isn’t all that great at being a person. His overabundance of empathy allows him to feel what murderers feel in order to determine their next move and catch them, but it also makes him extra susceptible to the manipulations of his therapist, Dr....

Here’s When You Can Watch Nearly Every A24 Film On HBO Max A24 By Sandy Schaefer/July 29, 2022 4:59 pm EST If you’ve read /Film’s rundown of the best movies and TV shows coming to HBO Max in August 2022 (which, yes, okay, I wrote), you might have noticed there are a whole lot of A24 titles headed to the streamer that month. This is no accident, either: August will mark the indie studio’s 10-year anniversary, with no less than 28 (!...

Kevin Costner Thinks A Simple Change Might Have Saved The Postman Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Sept. 16, 2022 10:26 am EST The mid 1990s were a wild ride for fans of Kevin Costner. Lawrence Kasdan’s 1994 film “Wyatt Earp,” often seen as the longer, more turgid version of “Tombstone,” was not entirely well-received and lost a boatload of money. A down! He followed it that same year with an intimate veteran drama called “The War,” opposite a young Elijah Wood, who received a good deal of praise for his performance....

Luca Guadagnino Shares A Certain Interest With His Bones And All Star Timothée Chalamet Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Nov. 17, 2022 4:41 pm EST Timothée Chalamet skipped the 2022 Met Gala, but in 2021, he co-chaired the event. That year, he attended wearing Converse sneakers and a satin tuxedo jacket with black lapels, paired with white sweatpants, all designed by Haider Ackermann. Chalamet has a history of wearing striking, bleeding-edge, high-end fashion at public functions, clothing himself in enviably expensive suits from some of the fashion world’s hottest designers....

Lucasfilm’s Executive Vice President Agrees That VFX Artists ‘Don’t Get The Credit They Deserve’ [Exclusive] Disney+ By Joshua Meyer/July 26, 2022 8:39 am EST Visual effects in movies and TV shows are often taken for granted unless something looks off about them, in which case, it’s all too easy to criticize them without even knowing the names of the artists who brought them to life (or the less-than-ideal conditions under which those artists were perhaps working)....

Quentin Tarantino Confirms The Bear Jew From Inglourious Basterds Was Originally Written For Adam Sandler Universal By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 16, 2022 7:06 pm EST When Quentin Tarantino first announced he was working on a “men on a mission” World War II movie called “Inglorious Bastards” (no one knew he would intentionally misspell the title at the time), the internet went into fan casting overdrive. What would a 2000s version of Robert Aldrich’s “The Dirty Dozen” directed by Tarantino look like?...

Robert Redford Corrected A Major Casting Mistake On Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid By Jeff Kelly/Nov. 27, 2022 2:00 pm EST There are certain roles that just seemed to be crafted for certain actors. Sometimes that’s intentional, like when Wes Anderson wrote the role of Royal Tenenbaum specifically for Gene Hackman (much to Hackman’s initial chagrin). Other times, things just fall into place, and it becomes hard to see anyone else in the role....

Rogen read with a hundred different actors Universal Pictures In a piece for Vanity Fair, Apatow breaks down his entire career, including a little-known pilot starring Amy Poehler and Kevin Hart which wound up going nowhere. With “Knocked Up” being such a significant movie in establishing Apatow as an industry powerhouse, he of course gives some insight into the film and even elaborates on how Rogen found his character during pre-production....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Reveals The Bizarre Future Of A Key Trek Location Paramount By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 25, 2022 8:00 am EST This article contains spoilers for the season 3 premiere of “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” What a time to be alive as a “Star Trek” fan. Just when it seemed as if nothing could fill the gap left by the extraordinary first season of “Strange New Worlds” — one of the most universally adored installments of the franchise in recent memory — “Star Trek: Lower Decks” returns to make it all better....

The 14 Best Tony Soprano Moments On The Sopranos HBO By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 23, 2022 10:56 am EST Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) is hardly the first gangster to appear on television. When HBO’s “The Sopranos” introduced Tony into our homes, it was clear he was no ordinary gangster. He was a family man, a history buff, a cinephile, a jokester, and an anti-hero. Tony likened himself to Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) from Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” trilogy and reminded audiences that mobster movies have been popular since the 1930s....

Heat 4K Warner Bros. “Heat” has never gone out of fashion, but Michael Mann’s epic feels like it’s having a moment right now. Not only did a sequel-in-novel-form, “Heat 2,” just come out, but Mann’s film is now on 4K for the first time ever. And really, what more can one say about “Heat” at this point? The film was heavily marketed as being the long-awaited instance of legendary actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino sharing the screen for the first time (the two had previously both appeared in “The Godfather Part II,” but did not share a scene since their stories took place in different timelines)....

Elvis Warner Bros. Are you ready to hear Elvis sing the Santa Claus song again? We sure are, and thank goodness we’ll now be able to stream those wonderful performances on HBO Max. While “Elvis” certainly isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, you can’t deny that it has an infectious energy to it that can’t be easily matched anymore. Sure, the musician biopic subgenre of film seems a bit crowded right now, and if “Bohemian Rhapsody” taught us anything, it’s that not all of these movies are of the highest quality....

The Story So Far Strong Heart Productions/Orion Pictures “The Silence of the Lambs” stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is chosen by her mentor, Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), to interview the incarcerated serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a former psychiatrist who got his rhyming nickname, “Hannibal the Cannibal,” from his penchant for eating parts of his victims. Sometimes paired with a nice drop of wine....

The Unmade Man Of Steel 2 Would Have Featured Brainiac As The Villain DC Comics By Erin Brady/Dec. 16, 2022 5:38 pm EST Remember when it was revealed that a sequel to “Man of Steel” was actually being kicked around at DC Studios? Well, as it turns out, it featured a very prominent Superman villain that fans have been asking for years — at least, it would have featured him if James Gunn and Peter Safran didn’t want an entire reboot of the DC Universe....

Val Kilmer’s Favorite Part Of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Was Improvising Insults At Robert Downey Jr. Warner Bros. By Matthew Bilodeau/Dec. 2, 2022 1:46 pm EST In the world of a Shane Black project, smartasses, abrupt violence, and the spirit of Christmas all go hand in hand, especially in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” Keeping with noir tradition, what starts out as an inquiry into a murder case blossoms into an investigation rabbit hole that reveals so many other parties at play....