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Year Of The Vampire: Doctor Sleep Ties A True Knot Scarier Than Any Bloodsuckers Warner Bros. By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 10, 2022 12:23 pm EST (Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.) Let’s get this right out of the way: “Doctor Sleep” is most certainly a vampire movie. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences classifies it that way, and it’s there in-between the lines of dialogue, and in the blueprint of Stephen King’s book, the sequel to “The Shining....

A Personal Connection With Pierce Brosnan Landed Michael Madsen In Die Another Day Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) By Joe Roberts/Nov. 7, 2022 8:00 pm EST Poor Michael Madsen. Ever since cutting off that cop’s ear in “Reservoir Dogs,” the veteran actor has had to be content with playing the villain. Even a role in family favorite “Free Willy” couldn’t change the perception of the actor as a bad guy following his turn as Mr....

Not your average action movie 20th Century Studios Having finished the New York run of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” in 1987, a 41-year-old Rickman went to LA to take meetings for what would become his first movie. After just two days spent speaking to producers, he was offered the role of Gruber in “Die Hard,” though he said he was initially unimpressed: “I read it and I said ‘what the hell is this, I’m not doing an action movie....

Bridging the gap 20th Century Studios As “Futurama” co-creator David X. Cohen would say in an interview after the show’s most recent cancellation in 2013, “when you’re doing a comedy/science-fiction show the question arises: Are we making fun of science fiction, or are we doing funny science fiction?” The writers struggled with the question, eventually striking the perfect balance between comedy and sci-fi, but its early episodes lean more into a strictly comedic take on the material....

Embracing the comics’ edginess Prime Video “I had this crazy pre-viz reel that I’d done, and it was insane, like superheroes doing cocaine,” McKay said of his pitching process. In his talks with studios, he also stayed adamant that the movie would need to be rated R, regardless of any other necessary adaptation changes that might be made. “It doesn’t work unless it’s R,” he said, and went on to refer to the comics as a “current day ‘Watchmen....

Laughing and crying Courtesy of TIFF Let’s be clear though: “Bros” isn’t great because it has groundbreaking representation — it’s great because it has that and is genuinely hilarious. I laughed so hard I literally cried my makeup off. There are some very very funny gags here that people not in the know won’t get, but those who are will find hysterical. The meta jokes are simply fantastic. There’s a running gag about “Hallheart Channel” movies, a clear analogue for the Hallmark Channel — not only is the satire itself razor-sharp and brilliant but it’s all made so much funnier when you remember that co-star Macfarlane has starred in a bunch of those films....

Cool Stuff: We’re Giving Away An Awesome Thor: Love And Thunder Collectible Bust – Here’s How You Can Win Unruly Industries/Sideshow By Ryan Scott/July 6, 2022 11:50 am EST With the release of “Thor: Love and Thunder” days away, Marvel has already started the process of getting a great deal of cool tie-in merch on shelves and online for fans to scoop up. Sure, there will be plenty of action figures and shirts at big box chain stores, and some of those may very well be worth picking up … but wouldn’t it be much cooler to have a more original piece?...

Decision To Leave Trailer: Tang Wei And Park Hae-Il Play A Romantic Cat And Mouse Game MUBI By Erin Brady/Sept. 15, 2022 1:23 pm EST After buzzy screenings at Cannes and TIFF, Park Chan-wook’s latest film “Decision to Leave” is gearing up for release. And thank goodness that it is, because we are excited to see the tantalizing game teased between the film’s two main characters finally come to the screen....

Director James Cameron Believes The Events In The Terminator Could Happen In Real Life Orion Pictures By Witney Seibold/Dec. 20, 2022 3:38 pm EST James Cameron’s 1984 film “The Terminator” follows a grim timeline for humanity. At some point in the future, humans will unwittingly create a computerized artificial intelligence that will, upon its self-realization, immediately begin a years-long campaign to wipe out humanity. The machines will build a robotic skeleton army of Terminators, and dispatch laser tanks and flying mechanical behemoths to get the job done....

Doctor Who Spinoffs You Didn’t Know Existed BBC By Brent Furdyk/July 29, 2022 3:07 pm EST First making its debut back in 1963, “Doctor Who” has proven to be one of television’s most enduring science fiction franchises. Having evolved thanks to countless reinventions over the decades, the series continues to chronicle the time-traveling, interplanetary adventures of the eternal Time Lord known only as the Doctor. Meanwhile, “Doctor Who” continues to captivate its loyal fans while engaging new ones as 13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker is preparing to relinquish her role to Ncuti Gatwa, who will make Whovian history as the first Black actor to play the role (just as Whittaker did the same as the first female Doctor)....

Topping yourself is difficult HBO Had “House of the Dragon” decided to implement a brand new theme song, Ramin Djawadi would have been put in the unenviable task of creating a piece of music that would only exist to be compared with the “Game of Thrones” theme. That melody has been blasting into our ears since 2011. We know it like the back of our hands at this point. The sounds and notes within that music are as integral to the show’s success as Peter Dinklage....

Wong’s doomed romances Universal Pictures The Cuban standard “Quizás, Quizás, Quizás” plays repeatedly on the soundtrack. Steam billows. No one kisses. The audience is lulled into a somnambulist, romantic trance. This lack of romantic connection, despite sharing a common space, is a common theme in Wong’s films. One of the two shorts that make up his 1994 film “Chungking Express” is about a woman who insinuates herself into the apartment of a police officer and cleans the place up, hoping to improve his life....

James Caan’s Favorite James Caan Movie Is The Right Choice United Artists By Mike Shutt/July 7, 2022 4:23 pm EST When the news broke about the death of James Caan, everyone’s mind raced towards their favorite picture of his. For some, it was the abject terror of “Misery.” For others, it was Wes Anderson’s feature directorial debut, “Bottle Rocket.” Quite a view went for their nostalgic attachment to “Elf,” which brings them back to James Caan every single year....

Welcome back to the Continental Hotel Lionsgate Not much has been made public regarding the plot of “Ballerina” outside of the basic “young woman trained to be a killer uses her kill skills to enact a revenge plot,” which could also serve as the plot for any number of women-led martial arts movies. Fortunately, because this is the world of “John Wick” we’re talking about, there’s no way on Keanu Reeves’ green earth that “Ballerina” won’t have some surprises hidden beneath her pointe shoes....

Kindergarten Cop Was A Pivotal Moment In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Acting Career Universal Pictures By Demetra Nikolakakis/Oct. 7, 2022 1:21 pm EST “Kindergarten Cop” is a wild movie. You’ve got Arnold Schwarzenegger, the quintessential tough ’80s action star, walking around with muscles bulging through his shirt as he tries to wrangle a classroom of little kids, all while working undercover for the police. To his credit, the bodybuilder-turned-actor does a pretty good job of switching between teacher and cop in the movie, but it’s still a strange dichotomy....

Laurie Strode Might Have More To Worry About Than Michael Myers In Halloween Ends Blumhouse By Witney Seibold/Sept. 15, 2022 2:45 pm EST David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” — not to be confused with “Halloween,” “Halloween,” or Halloween — separated itself from all of the previous “Halloween” sequels, rebooting the franchise with only the 1978 film retained as canon. This ignore-the-sequels gambit had, incidentally, also been played by “Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later” in 1998, which ignored the events of “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,” “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,” and “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers....

The trials and tribulations of bringing Blade (back) to life Marvel Comics The film was set to begin production in Atlanta in November — and if the studio does end up tweaking the schedule due to Tariq’s departure, it wouldn’t be the first time the beginning of shooting has shifted. In fact, it’s happened at least twice, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, sources claim “Blade” has had several rounds of script rewrites in the interim....

Day for night HBO Max Over the course of movie history, filmmakers have found different ways of getting around the challenges of shooting at night. In the days of silent cinema, night scenes were shot the same as any others and merely tinted blue to indicate the time of day (as is the case in most restored versions of “Nosferatu”). In later decades, however, they would use a trick known as “day for night,” where the exposure on the camera is lowered to create the illusion of a scene being shot at night....

Richard Harris Brought A Dark Chapter Of British History To His Unforgiven Performance Warner Bros. Pictures By Devin Meenan/Oct. 15, 2022 7:00 pm EST You might think that the late actor Richard Harris was an Englishman. He certainly had the accent and his roles ranged from King Arthur to Dumbledore. He also studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and his sons Damian, Jared, and Jamie were all born in London....

Russell Crowe Shot Two Versions Of Every Thor: Love And Thunder Scene With Different Accents Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/July 11, 2022 3:15 pm EST Today brings us even more evidence of just how much of “Love and Thunder” Waititi was figuring out as he went along. According to star Russell Crowe, who plays the Greek god Zeus, he could’ve ended up with a much different accent. ‘Flick!’ (British accent) “But then I realized in post that it’s actually more offensive to the Greeks to have Zeus sound like he’s British....