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Why Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski Should Be Nominated For Best Director Paramount By Kayleigh Donaldson/Dec. 9, 2022 2:00 pm EST “Top Gun: Maverick” is the biggest film of 2022 and on its way to Oscar glory, so why isn’t the man who directed it, Joseph Kosinski, at the forefront of that buzz? If you’d asked critics at the beginning of 2022 what would be not only the most commercially successful film of the year but one of its most unanimously adored, it’s unlikely that “Top Gun: Maverick” would have been many people’s first choice....

The BFG Disney You’d think a Steven Spielberg movie could never bomb at the box office, yet here we are. Spielberg’s 2016 children’s movie “The BFG,” based on Roald Dahl’s classic novel of the same name, was meant to be a summer blockbuster, but failed to bring audiences into the theater, where it was overshadowed by Pixar’s “Finding Dory.” While it’s certainly not Spielberg’s best movie, “The BFG” is still a charming, whimsical film that’s sure to entertain families on movie night....

Anya Taylor-Joy Went Off-Script While Filming The Menu To Give Nicholas Hoult A Slap In The Face Searchlight Pictures By Witney Seibold/Nov. 18, 2022 2:50 pm EST Warning: This post will contain mild spoilers for the movie “The Menu” Mark Mylod’s new film “The Menu” is about an exclusive, ultra-high-end restaurant that rests alone on a distant island. Rich patrons are boated in for an exorbitant amount of money, given a tour of the island’s elaborate and near-incomprehensible food preparation facilities, and then served an hours-long multi-course meal constructed by the stern and distant celebrity chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes)....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Reveals A Surprising MCU Connection For Everett Ross Marvel Studios By Jenna Busch/Nov. 14, 2022 11:00 am EST Major spoilers ahead for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a story about grief and loss, high stakes, and the discovery that not every society on earth lives on land. It looks at the effects of colonization and of vibranium envy on the world stage. It also gives us a little bit of backstory about a certain CIA agent and his romantic connections....

Meant to fly Hasbro Hasbro has really been stepping their game up with the Marvel Legends line of figures lately and this Ironheart is yet another great example of that. This 6-inch-scale figure retails for around $33.99 and comes with a number of accessories such as a set of alternate hands, various blasters and boosters, and FX to enhance those attachments for your play time or your display time. She also comes with two heads: One that features the hero’s trademark helmet and another sans helmet that sports an uncanny likeness to actor Dominique Thorne....

Cool Stuff: Try Not To Lose Your Head Over Danny Elfman’s New Sleepy Hollow Vinyl Soundtrack Paramount Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 14, 2022 12:00 pm EST A man of science. A woman of mystery. A legend that will never die. With the spooky season in full swing, you might find yourself revisiting Tim Burton’s horror fantasy romance “Sleepy Hollow.” When Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, he learns the seemingly impossible truth that the culprit behind these deaths is none other than the legendary apparition known as The Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken)....

Light Goes Dark Via: LiveWire Light Yagami’s death at the end of “Death Note” shocked many fans. When Light’s rival, the renowned detective L Lawliet is defeated in “Silence” (the 25th episode), it made viewers wonder if Light will get out alive from the chaos he has created. Yet, in the finale “New World,” Light’s identity as Kira (a god-like alias he takes on during the criminal killing spree) is exposed by Near at the warehouse....

Day 1: Down Hall Hotel Matthew Bilodeau After a small delay at Boston Logan, I was on my way to London to start my adventure. The long flight, coupled with the disorienting adjustment to the time difference, meant that I was about ready to pass out the moment I got to my home base. But let’s just say the moment I laid eyes on where I’d be staying, I woke up very quickly....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Put A Russo Brothers Theory To The Test A24 By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 26, 2022 2:22 pm EST With their time in the MCU at an end (for now), the Russo Brothers have kept busy with their ABGO production company. Not only had they released their films through ABGO, like their smaller scale “Cherry” and the globe-trotting action thriller “The Gray Man,” but they also helped get lesser-known projects off the ground....

What is Euphoria About? HBO From the mind of Sam Levinson (“Assassination Nation,” “Malcom & Marie”), “Euphoria” is loosely based on the Israeli television miniseries of the same name exploring a group of high school students navigating the pressures of teen existence, identity, romantic relationships, family life, sex, drugs, and friendship. The show is narrated unreliably by protagonist Rue Bennett. Rue is played by Zendaya, who historically became the youngest actress to win the Emmy Award for lead actress in a drama series following her performance in “Euphoria” season 1....

He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe Season 3: Release Date, Cast, And More Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 23, 2022 2:38 pm EST “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” has finally released a new trailer for the third season of the series. If you recall, there was a major traitor revealed at the end of the second season, which was heartbreaking for Prince Adam/He-Man on a very personal level. (There are spoilers ahead, so be warned....

Himesh Patel Had To ‘Dig Deep’ For One Of Station Eleven’s Most Intense Scenes HBO By Walter Roberts/Oct. 17, 2022 4:11 pm EST The non-linear storytelling in “Station Eleven” makes for even more uneasy moments than your average story about a catastrophic global pandemic. Any scenes that take place before most of the world’s population dies out carry an ominous weight to them. “Station Eleven,” post-apocalyptic fiction, and recent world events all remind us that while the disease is scary, it is often our fellow humans who pose the greatest threat in these situations....

How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Water Scenes Came Together Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Nov. 16, 2022 11:59 am EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is caught between two worlds. That’s nothing new for a movie set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where audiences are frequently whisked off into space or transported to separate dimensions a la the multiverse — but this movie does things a little differently. No wizard portals or futuristic ships are required because we never actually leave the planet Earth....

How Paddy Considine’s Parents Influenced His Performance In House Of The Dragon HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 29, 2022 10:06 am EST Of all the characters and performances on display in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” perhaps none left quite as memorable of a mark as Paddy Considine as King Viserys Targaryen. As one of the only roles unaffected by the frequent time-jumps sprinkled throughout the first season of the “Game of Thrones” prequel/spin-off (or, at least, one of the only roles that didn’t necessitate recasting), viewers got to sit with Considine’s performance from the opening moments of the premiere until the character met his untimely end that kickstarted the Dance of the Dragons in earnest....

Jordan Peele Reveals The Opening Credits For The Retro Fictional Sitcom From Nope Universal Pictures By Joshua Meyer/July 25, 2022 10:06 am EST In the tradition of “Too Many Cooks” — the viral Adult Swim video where the parody of an old sitcom opening takes a sinister turn — Jordan Peele has released the full intro to “Gordy’s Home,” the fictional sitcom seen in his new film “Nope.” In “Nope,” Steven Yeun’s carnival owner, Ricky “Jupe” Park, has a background as a child actor on a network show named after an astronaut chimpanzee, who is part of a human family like Alf....

Grogu, meet dust bunnies Studio Ghibli When he first appeared alongside Pedro Pascal’s space Western hero Mando, Grogu quickly became a squeal-inducing fixture not just in “Star Wars” canon but pop culture as a whole. Now, it’s only right that he gets his own adventure with some equally cute Ghibli critters. A poster for the short was released alongside the title announcement, and it features a group of gray, spikey dust bunnies with big eyes that are reminiscent of the Susuwatari, or soot sprites, that appear in “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away....

Matthew Modine’s Birdy Casting ‘Flabbergasted’ Even Him TriStar Pictures By Caroline Madden/Dec. 17, 2022 9:00 am EST In 2014, Matthew Modine appeared at the 9th Annual Macon Film Festival to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Birdy.” He told CW69 Atlanta, “It was a film that just about every young actor in Hollywood wanted to be in. A lot of young actors wanted the parts of Birdy and Al.” He originally auditioned for the role of Al, but was surprised to hear that he won the title role instead: “I said ‘Well, that’s great!...

The 14 Best Robert Downey Jr. Movies, Ranked Marvel Studios By Liam Gaughan/Oct. 11, 2022 5:14 pm EST Robert Downey Jr. has had one of the most amazing careers of any actor working in Hollywood today. Once a heartthrob in teen movies, Downey Jr. completely revitalized his career when he was cast as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau’s 2008 comic book movie “Iron Man.” The role nearly wasn’t his, as it had previously been offered to Tom Cruise....

A million little things HBO Having previously worked with “Lost” co-showrunner Carlton Cuse on the short-lived USA Network series “Colony,” Condal is not completely inexperienced at heading up a television program. Still, “House of the Dragon” is by far the biggest production Condal (or almost anyone, for that matter) has been a part of, with the eyes of millions focused on his work. According to Condal in the Hollywood Reporter piece, the lessons learned during his first season at the helm of this Westerosi vessel have been countless:...

The Hours Review: An Ambitious Movie-Adapted Opera With Sweeping Emotions Across Time Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera By Caroline Cao/Dec. 14, 2022 8:00 am EST “Someone will die at the end of the day.” A fictionalized Virginia Woolf (Joyce DiDonato) announces this as she sullenly stares at a dead bird. She’s referring to the plot development of her 1925 novel, “Mrs. Dalloway,” and she hasn’t decided who will die yet in her novel, which would be considered a modernist masterpiece long after her 1941 suicide....