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Brendan Fraser Credits Matt Damon With Landing Him His First Leading Role Paramount By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 28, 2022 3:33 pm EST Over the years, there have been several launching-pad movies, where the casting edict is to find as many fresh young faces as possible rather than lean on established star power. In 1955, “Rebel Without a Cause” assembled a number of exciting performers in James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper....

Bullet Train Review: A Slick, Glib, Moderately Entertaining Adventure Sony By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 2, 2022 9:00 am EST When the end credits roll on “Bullet Train,” it’s almost a shock to not see Guy Ritchie listed as the director. Though it would be easy to sit through this two-plus-hour film in which a motley assortment of assassins swap lengthy monologues as well as bullets with ease as a lengthy post-post-modern riff on the works of Quentin Tarantino, “Bullet Train” seems much more heavily indebted to films like “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch,” which were, of course, themselves post-post-modern riffs on the works of Quentin Tarantino....

Chainsaw Man Episode 11 Declares The Future Rules Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 21, 2022 7:27 am EST “The Future Rules!” That’s the horror that awaits Aki when he enters the chambers of the devil he is asked to make a contract with, and in true “Chainsaw Man” fashion, the Future Devil is a character unto himself. Rather than a deep and sinister voice, he is a jolly good fellow with a high-pitch voice, a very cool and sinister Groot-like design, and an overly energetic attitude towards the future, which indeed rules....

Does The CW See A Future For The Winchesters Beyond Season 1? The CW By Shania Russell/Nov. 2, 2022 11:14 am EST Four episodes into its debut season, “The Winchesters” was starting to feel too good to be true. The idea of The CW’s 15-season behemoth “Supernatural” getting a spinoff was always a daunting prospect — after all, they’ve tried this many times before. While prior attempts never made it past their backdoor pilots, “The Winchesters” quickly got the go-ahead for a 13-episode season (plus the possibility of a full 22-episode order)....

First Time Emmy Winner Sheryl Lee Ralph Has A Legendary Broadway Background ABC By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 12, 2022 9:58 pm EST After Sheryl Lee Ralph was announced as the Emmy Award winner for her role as Barbara Howard on “Abbott Elementary,” she took to the stage and immediately began singing her face off — belting out the song “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves. As she held out a perfect note, completely enrapturing the audience, cheers erupted from the Emmy attendees, and probably everyone watching at home from their couches too....

Glass Onion Has Some Of The Best Cameos In Recent Memory Netflix By Mike Shutt/Nov. 23, 2022 4:00 pm EST Major spoilers for “Glass Onion” follow. After the success of “Knives Out,” you can imagine Rian Johnson had the ability to rope in just about anyone he wanted to be a part of the latest case for the brilliant detective Benoit Blanc, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” Just look at the people on the poster....

How Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch Heavily Inspired John Woo’s Hard Boiled Media Asia By Lyvie Scott/Aug. 22, 2022 3:00 pm EST No matter how action films evolve over the years, John Woo remains one of the most influential directors of his generation. The genre wouldn’t be what it is today without Woo’s elegiac, balletic action sequences, his inventive (not to mention bombastic) use of gunplay, and of course his penchant for slow motion....

Irving Berlin Won An Oscar For The Song ‘White Christmas’ And Presented The Award To Himself George Konig/Getty Images By William Bibbiani/Nov. 30, 2022 5:31 pm EST The Academy Awards are a lot of things. A celebration of cinema? Check. A surprisingly effective way to bust unions? Double check, sadly. But one thing they also are, and it’s hard to dispute this, is an opportunity for the people in the motion picture industry to pat themselves on the back....

James Cameron Believed Avatar: The Way Of Water Should Have ‘No Barrier’ In Its VFX 20th Century Studios Say what you will about “Avatar: The Way of Water,” but surely you’d agree that it looks beautiful. It’s also one of the most expensive movies ever made, to the point where James Cameron has claimed it needs to make $2 billion at the box office just to be considered a success. But regardless of what the actual box office results are, it seems like all that money put in was well-spent....

Kevin Conroy Channeled His Own Life Into One Of Batman’s Most Famous Lines Warner Bros. Animation By Devin Meenan/Nov. 11, 2022 5:28 pm EST Does Batman have a catchphrase? During the Silver Age era played memorably by Adam West, Batman called his sidekick Robin “chum,” and in Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns,” the aged Batman often considers, “This would be a good death … but not good enough …” However, since Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman,” the Caped Crusader’s go-to introduction has been simple: “I’m Batman....

‘I am Spartacus’ Universal Across Stanley Kubrick’s filmography, with the possible exception of several painfully unforgettable scenes in “A Clockwork Orange,” few moments are as memorable as “I am Spartacus,” when Spartacus’s followers each bravely claim to be the man himself in order to protect their leader. With a line like this, which has been repeated too many times to count, it is odd to consider that Stanley Kubrick would have preferred to leave it out of the movie....

The novels ’expanded the story in meaningful ways' Lucasfilm This isn’t the first time Kasdan has mentioned that the tie-in novels might not have been intended as “Willow” books from the beginning. At a Q&A and screening about the series attended by /Film, he shared that Claremont “just wanted to write some fantasy novels and they were looking for a publishing entity,” and that Claremont and Lucas decided changes could be made to “make them sequels to the movie....

Maile Flanagan Didn’t Know Anything About Anime Before Becoming The Voice Of Naruto Viz Media By Christian Gainey/Dec. 4, 2022 5:00 pm EST With over 250 million copies sold, Masashi Kishimoto’s “Naruto” is one of the most popular manga series in the world. Over the past 20 years, the famous story has been adapted from the popular manga into three equally popular anime series, “Naruto,” “Naruto Shippūden,” and “Boruto.” However, despite Kishimoto’s rich world, intricate storylines, and groundbreaking fights, the series wouldn’t be quite as popular without its knucklehead protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki, and there would be no Naruto without Maile Flanagan....

Machine gun-toting Rambo toys for kids Orion Pictures Because the musclebound Rambo had been transformed into an American heroic figure in “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” the character had major potential as a toy. Consequentially, a surge of Rambo action figures equipped with machine guns and other military-style weapons flooded the market. “I couldn’t control it,” Sylvester Stallone told the late Chicago Tribune movie critic Gene Siskel in ‘86. ”I tried to stop it, but I don’t own the licensing rights....

The ‘Whole Point’ Of Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam Is To Set Up A Fight With Superman Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Oct. 10, 2022 5:34 pm EST The DC/Warner Bros. Pictures film “Black Adam” has been in development for almost a decade, and it’s been a passion project since the beginning for star Dwayne Johnson. This character is powerful, and for quite some time, we’ve been hearing Johnson say that the “hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change....

The first kill Hulu In the opening of “Hellraiser,” a young man named Joey walks through a debauchery-filled party at a lavish mansion. He meets Serena (Hiam Abbass), who directs him to billionaire Roland Voight (Goran Visnjic), who he finds in a secluded room where several occult items are on display. Voight encourages Joey to solve a puzzle box so that he can collect his “prize.” Joey turns this demonic Rubik’s Cube until a blade stabs him in the hand....

13 Reasons Why Netflix What it’s about: After a teenage girl dies by suicide, she sends out tapes detailing the bullying and sexual assault that she experienced and witnessed before dying. Number of seasons: 4 Why you should watch it: “13 Reasons Why” had the cards stacked against it. Its premise, which draws from Jay Asher’s YA novel of the same name, is inherently problematic. The 1st season glorified death by suicide to the point that warnings had to be placed in front of certain episodes....

The Latest Rick And Morty Episode Raises The Question: Is There An Evil Summer? Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Sept. 27, 2022 2:42 pm EST For all the “Rick and Morty” haters out there, we’re devastated to report to you that the newest season is really good. While even the show’s writers will admit that season 5 was a bit of a weird period for the animated series, the first four episodes of this latest season have been some of the show’s best....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Required Zero Research, But It Does Contain Some Nuggets Of Truth The Roku Channel By Witney Seibold/Nov. 4, 2022 9:30 am EST Eric Appel’s “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” coming to the Roku Channel on November 4, 2022, tells the 20% true story of Alfred Matthew Yankovic, better known to the world as “Weird” Al Yankovic, as he rose to fame “inventing new lyrics for songs that already exist,” as characters repeat often....

Hit play, if you dare Waxwork Records The upcoming vinyl release, set to commemorate the 20th anniversary of “The Ring,” is a deluxe double LP, featuring a “Samara & The Well” green and black marbled vinyl, as well as a “Cursed VHS Tape” black and white splatter colored vinyl. The release also comes with heavyweight gatefold jackets and matte satin coating, some stunning art and design by Matt Needle that will make you just as scared of a record as you were of a VHS, exclusive liner notes by Gore Verbinski himself, and more....