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The Rom-Com Bites Back Sundance Film Festival Told from a distinctly female perspective, “Fresh” spotlights the fears simmering beneath each step of the dating process. Not just the dread of walking home in the dead of night — though the tangible woes certainly don’t go ignored — I’m talking about the phantom fears that never cease to linger. Who is that person sitting across from you at the table? How much of them is real?...

Giving Clint Eastwood Complete Control Kept Him In The Bridges Of Madison County Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/July 22, 2022 3:52 pm EST Clint Eastwood’s quiet romance “The Bridges of Madison County” was released in June of 1995, right into the middle of a busy summer blockbuster season that included “Casper,” “Braveheart,” “Johnny Mnemonic,” and would soon go up against “Congo” and “Batman Forever.” Eastwood’s film, made for a modest $22 million, was counterprogramming for every one of those films, offering a calm, mature romance among the typical summer movie thrills and violence....

‘Our film’s a story about a boy who can’t bear to be at fault.’ Prime Video This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and content. What drew you towards remaking this particular film or tackling this particular project? Actually, it was not my idea to remake it. And the first thing that happened is I passed on it. But yeah, I was an appreciator of the original film. I saw it when it came out....

Gremlins Was Far More ‘Gruesome’ Before Steven Spielberg Stepped In Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 28, 2022 6:28 pm EST There are few PG horror movies that have managed to balance genuine horror with the family-friendly nature required of that rating quite as well as “Gremlins.” Director Joe Dante’s 1984 creature feature is a bonafide classic the likes of which any director would be thrilled to have on their resume. And its sequel, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch,” is one of the most insane follow-ups in mainstream cinema history....

Jack Quaid can play bad guys too Prime Video Quaid went on to star in the latest “Scream” movie — I’ll keep the details about his role under wraps to avoid spoilers. In the same interview, the film’s co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin confirmed that not many people believed Quaid was a fit for the “Scream” role he auditioned for, and they dealt with some pushback. It wasn’t until they asked the performer to do an audition that could prove Quaid could be “full-tilt evil” if he wanted to be that it worked out....

How House Of The Dragon’s Biggest Change From The Book Improves The Show HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 24, 2022 2:39 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the “House of the Dragon” finale. “House of the Dragon” has made quite a few changes from its source material, “Fire & Blood.” George R.R. Martin’s book lacks singular character perspectives and only reveals an outsider’s experience of events that led to the division and eventual fall of House Targaryen....

A Cleansing Shower Paramount Pictures Most people immediately think of a single thing when “Psycho” is mentioned: that shower scene. In a moment punctuated by Bernard Herrmann’s terrifying score, Marion is stabbed to death in the shower by someone who certainly appears to be an elderly woman. Marion’s demise was unexpected, to say the least. Women’s World rediscovered a 1984 interview with Leigh in which she explained: “Here’s a woman who had come to terms with what she had done....

Making Jaws feel bigger Universal Pictures Despite being one of the biggest box office hits ever, this is actually the first time that the film has been released in 3D. It’s certainly not the first time one of Spielberg’s classics has been presented in the format, with “Jurassic Park” getting that treatment for its 20th anniversary back in 2013. But the fact that Universal hadn’t done this until now is kind of amazing....

It Took Some Convincing To Snag Javier Bardem For Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Sony Pictures Releasing By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 7, 2022 2:28 pm EST When you think of Javier Bardem, you likely picture him killing people with a captive bolt pistol as the laconic Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men” or tormenting James Bond (while at the same time flirting with him) as the sadistic Raoul Silva in “Skyfall.” Heck, if you prefer your Bardem films on the weirder side, you might even envision him as the nameless self-absorbed poet who hosts a house party from Hell in “mother!...

‘The Atlantis of Middle-earth’ Prime Video Avery said two elements informed the look of Númenor. The first is one from Tolkien himself. Avery explained: “One was this letter that Tolkien wrote where he says, ‘Gee, I just got back from Númenor. Oh, I mean Venice.’ Venice evokes a certain sensibility in our heads that there’s a sense of wealth, a sense of beauty, a sense of lots of history, that it’s been built up over time....

Being Cameron Diaz Universal Pictures When speaking to Filmmaker about “Being John Malkovich,” Spike Jonze was asked about Diaz’s casting in the film. The interviewer brought up Wong Kar-wai and his penchant for dramatically altering the appearances of extremely famous actresses in his films and asked if Jonze was doing something similar. The director explained: “No. It’s funny, because people are writing about this ‘stunt’—disguising Cameron. Cameron was the last one to come on the movie....

Terence Stamp Thought Superman 2 Was ‘Beneath’ Director Richard Lester Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 5, 2022 1:58 pm EST “Kneel before Zod!” With these memorable words, Terrence Stamp established his “Superman II” character, the imperious General Zod, as one of the great comic book movie villains of all time. Zod made his first appearance in “Superman: The Movie” as one of three criminals on the planet Krypton who are banished to the Phantom Zone....

The disappointment Universal Pictures On first watch, most viewers probably thought these scenes would end up mattering a bit more to the main plot. Maybe Gordy was being controlled by the aliens. Maybe the upright shoe was some sort of clue about the nature of the aliens, something that would lead up to a really cool, mind-blowing reveal. And the mysterious opening scene with Gordy does seem to carry the implication that it will tie in more sensibly to the plot....

There’s A Matchbox Cars Movie In The Works, Because Why Not Mattel By Jenna Busch/July 19, 2022 3:35 pm EST There is a Matchbox car movie on the way from Mattel Films and Skydance Media, according to Variety. Do not confuse this upcoming tiny toy car movie with the other upcoming tiny toy car movie about Hot Wheels, which is also a Mattel brand. Feel free to take a second to let your eyes roll back down from the top of your skull....

True Grit Became The Blueprint For The Rest Of John Wayne’s Career Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 26, 2022 3:12 pm EST As the 1960s drew to a close, John Wayne’s macho, man-of-few-words act was wearing thin. Though some of the movies were pretty good (namely “The Sons of Katie Elder” and “El Dorado”), they were tonally and aesthetically indistinguishable from his ’50s work. And this was a problem because the Western was undergoing a metamorphosis via the Spaghetti antics of Sergio Leone’s “Man with No Name” and the bloody revisionism of Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch....

Get Funky with the Time Loops Netflix When Snyder refers to “time loops, portals, doorways to other realms,” that makes it sound like the skeleton scene outside the casino vault in “Army of the Dead” wasn’t just a throwaway gag. It’s a surreal moment when the camera fixates on the familiar clothes these skeletons are wearing, and Dieter’s reluctant pal, Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), starts suggesting that the skeletons are them and they’re caught in a time loop....

Man-Thing’s origin involves a tragic and isolating transformation Marvel Comics When Jack first explains to Elsa (Laura Donnelly) how to communicate with Man-Thing, he warns her that in order to establish herself as a non-threat, she needs to refer to him by his real name, Ted. While it might seem like a quirky little joke at first, it’s actually a nod to Man-Thing’s comic book origins. Like most Marvel heroes and villains, Man-Thing’s form was born from an accidental transformation....

Ant-Man 3 Director Peyton Reed Teases Kang’s ‘Profound Impact’ On The MCU Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 21, 2022 10:54 am EST The hierarchy of power in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to — wait, wait, wrong superhero franchise. Even so, Dwayne Johnson’s personal motto might just prove fitting for the MCU, if the creative team behind “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is to be believed. The pint-sized threequel promises to up the ante significantly more than the previous two Peyton Reed-directed films, which told relatively small-scale (see what I did there?...

She should do it AMC After a melancholy prologue in which we see Howard’s car parked by some sort of shoreline, his wallet and wedding ring on the dashboard, one shoe bobbing up and down in the surf, we cut right back to the moments after Howard’s murder. Kim and Jimmy are both in shock, and things are about to get much, much worse. Lalo wants Jimmy to drive to Gus Fring’s house and shoot him....

‘I think every movie I make stands for itself somehow’ MGM You cast Michael Stuhlbarg in “Bones and All” in a very different role from his acclaimed performance in “Call Me by Your Name.” This time he plays a much less refined character, who is a fellow cannibal on the road. Once again, he delivers a monologue that feels of a piece with his monologue in “Call Me by Your Name,” at least in the way that it makes such an impact on our protagonist....