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Aya Cash Had A Blast Filming Her Action-Packed Sex Scene For The Boys Prime Video By Sarah Musnicky/Oct. 16, 2022 6:30 pm EST Sex scenes can be awkward to shoot. It’s a lot like mastering a dance: There’s choreography to learn, and then the logistical challenge of marking and setting the scene pre-shoot. Then there’s the filming process itself. Already, the actors are in a vulnerable position and cameras are there to capture every angle, getting close-up shots of faces, limbs, and whatever else feels necessary for the scene to induce that feeling of intimacy....

Breaking Down All Of Groot’s Superpowers Marvel Entertainment By Ryan Leston/July 27, 2022 5:18 pm EST Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” is packed full of oddball aliens, but none are quite as weird or as wonderful as Groot. He’s a Flora Colossus from Planet X (also known as Taluhnia), an ancient race of sentient trees. That’s right: Groot is a walking, talking, plant-based lifeform, and with a variety of plant-based superpowers, he’s more than a bit handy in a fight — even if he’s not so good at the smack talk....

Emancipation Has A Story Too Important To Not Be Released, Acording To Director Antoine Fuqua Apple TV+ By Matt Rainis/Nov. 16, 2022 3:36 pm EST When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, it quickly became the most tedious topic of discussion on the internet. To even revisit the topic months later feels like beating a dead horse, but the reaction to the incident flabbergasts me to this day....

From Jo Bro to Spider-Bro HBO Joe Jonas may sound like an unlikely candidate for Peter Parker, but Marc Webb had auditioned a real who’s-who of young Hollywood talent when preparing for “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Joe Jonas told Variety that he never got far enough in the audition process to wear the Spidey suit, but it’s shocking how many phenomenal actors were in the running before Andrew Garfield inevitably snagged the role....

Matt Damon Used A Body Double Instead Of Going Christian Bale For The Martian 20th Century Studios By Matt Rainis/Nov. 14, 2022 1:25 pm EST It’s not uncommon for an actor to change their body for a role. If they’re portraying a professional athlete for instance, they may want to get into peak physical condition in order to better embody the character. The opposite may be true if they are playing a normal person in their next movie; they may shed all their newly sculpted muscles because a suburban dad in a family comedy doesn’t need to be ripped to the gills....

Mob Psycho 100 Delivers Stunning Action, But Also An Endearing Story Of Empathy And Compassion Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 11, 2022 2:00 pm EST Action anime, particularly shonen anime, tend to be very focused on delivering the coolest fights, the most dazzling visuals, and the biggest power-ups, while their stories follow true and tested formulas without much variation. It’s a formula even more established and recognizable than that of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it can get rather tiresome to see the same wide-eyed superpowered protagonist train to become the very best, like no one ever was....

RRR Will Not Be India’s Oscar Entry For Best International Feature, And That’s CRRRazy Variance Films By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 20, 2022 10:58 am EST The path to Oscars glory for everyone’s favorite Telugu-language blockbuster “RRR,” while not ruled out completely, just became that much more difficult. Who among us had “The bromance epic pitting anti-imperialist revolutionaries against Britain through the power of friendship, dance, and a stray apex predator or two (or dozens, but who’s keeping count?...

A formidable cat and mouse game Prime Video Balinska and Pilou Asbæk are a formidable cat and mouse, an alpha toying with his next meal who’s far more cunning than he’s willing to admit. Balinska’s exhaustion and resilience are a testament to many women’s experiences, playing against Asbæk’s Terminator-esque Business Bro abuser. There’s a confidence and snideness that Asbæk oozes because Ethan lives in a world catered to wealthy white men who can erase women like Cherie from existence — Asbæk is a terrifying manifestation of patriarchal demons....

Everybody’s A Suspect Paramount Pictures Because the Scream films function as both slashers and whodunits, it’s pertinent to list the who’s before getting to the dunits. Those reading this ending explainer already know the legacy characters Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, plus Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard) of the first film. The list of suspects and victims center around the following group of Woodsboro friends: Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera): Sam is Tara’s older half-sister and Billy Loomis’ daughter....

Building a hovercraft from the ground up Aviron Pictures In a lot of ways, the anecdote of a low-budget catalyzing special effects genius is a timeless one in Hollywood. The spirit of the early days of digital effects played out on “Serenity” in much the same way. One of the scenes that presented a major hurdle was the hovercraft chase scene in which the eponymous ship’s crew is chased by animalistic Reavers....

‘It was just the two of us sniping at each other’ Marvel Studios/Disney+ Funnily enough, for all the MCU discourse that goes on these days, there doesn’t seem to be all that much discussion about the ways any individual project is marketed. Perhaps it’s because many of us have come to accept we’re probably going to end up watching just about every single thing Marvel puts out into the world (if only so we can argue about it later), but it’s far from a trivial matter to the creatives eager to place their best foot forward....

Shirobako: The Movie Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Eleven Arts “Shirobako: The Movie” is coming to home media on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. It will be available via digital platforms or as a Blu-ray + DVD combo pack with bonus features. The film premiered in Japan in 2020 and had a limited theatrical engagement in the U.S. over the summer, but the home media release is the first time that this import will be available to Stateside viewers and anime lovers on a wide scale....

The Fugitive Went All Out For That Fiery Train Wreck Scene Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Sept. 20, 2022 11:57 am EST Sometimes, it’s quite easy to explain why a film is great. “John Wick” is great because of the action sequences. “The Muppets Christmas Carol” is great because of the unexpected pairing of Muppets and Michael Caine. But for some movies, it’s basically impossible to pin down a single reason they’re great....

The Good Nurse Review: Nurse Jessica Chastain Tries To Stop Serial Killer Eddie Redmayne In This Underwhelming True Crime Drama [TIFF] Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 12, 2022 4:59 pm EST Amy Loughren is a good nurse — she must be, since that’s the title of “The Good Nurse,” Tobias Lindholm’s disappointingly flat serial killer drama. Based on a true story and featuring a script by “1917” scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, “The Good Nurse” follows Amy (Jessica Chastain) as she comes to the horrific realization that one of her co-workers and friends is murdering patients....

The Son Trailer: Hugh Jackman Leads Florian Zeller’s Depression Drama Sony Pictures Classics By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 25, 2022 2:27 pm EST The full trailer for Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father” is here, and “The Son” looks about as emotionally devastating as we’ve come to expect from the playwright and novelist turned filmmaker. The second adaptation in a trio of thematically (but not narratively) connected plays about family, “The Son” focuses on the painful, numbing vacuum of clinical depression whereas Zeller’s previous film centered on the fragmented terror of dementia....

White Noise: Everything We Know So Far About The Next Noah Baumbach Film Netflix By Mike Shutt/July 25, 2022 2:57 pm EST Noah Baumbach is one of my favorite filmmakers working today. (Yes, I am a straight cis white man. Why do you ask?) Anyway, within the world of modestly budgeted, intellectual dramedies, Baumbach has crafted a place for himself in a cinematic space that continues to shrink year by year....

Could Killmonger be resurrected? Marvel Studios Let’s start with the least likely, but not impossible, candidate: Erik “Killmonger” Stevens. As you may recall, T’Challa’s cousin-turned-nemesis (played by Michael B. Jordan) briefly overthrew his relative as the king of Wakanda in the first “Black Panther” movie. He then ingested the Heart-Shaped Herb to gain the powers of the Black Panther and donned a super-suit that, notably, also had gold accents. The biggest obstacle to this theory, naturally, is that Killmonger died in “Black Panther,” and resurrecting him in “Wakanda Forever” risks under-mining the gravitas of his demise....

Why Quentin Tarantino Cut Tim Roth’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Scenes The Weinstein Company By Ernesto Valenzuela/Dec. 26, 2022 3:00 pm EST “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” may not be the longest Quentin Tarantino movie, but it definitely isn’t the shortest. Clocking in at 161 minutes, Tarantino’s most recent film, released in 2019, broke the mold of what’s expected from the filmmaker. The movie was less concerned about the plot and more interested in romanticizing late 1960s Hollywood, bathing in the atmosphere of the bygone era....

Why The Indian Forrest Gump Remake Had To Change The Bus Stop Setting Paramount By Mike Shutt/July 28, 2022 12:05 pm EST We often give a lot of grief to Hollywood when they decide to remake well-received films from around the world, but that ignores the fact that the rest of the world is just as willing to remake American films too. Case in point: “Laal Singh Chaddha,” the upcoming Hindi language remake of Robert Zemeckis’ Best Picture-winning “Forrest Gump....

15 Movies Like Kill Bill That You Need To See Miramax Films By Liam Gaughan/Nov. 9, 2022 5:13 pm EST When looking back at the most influential action movies of the 21st century, it’s impossible to not mention the “Kill Bill” films. Quentin Tarantino delivered a mesmerizing spectacle that paid tribute to classics within the genre. There aren’t many characters in the past few decades as iconic as The Bride (Uma Thurman)....