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10 Underrated Cary Grant Movies That You Should Check Out RKO Radio Pictures By Fiona Underhill/Nov. 9, 2022 12:50 pm EST Cary Grant was famously born in Bristol, England as Archibald Leach, but became known as a suave and debonair leading man with the Mid-Atlantic accent of America’s upper crust. Despite his impeccable appearance, he is one of cinema’s greatest-ever comedians, which he proved in countless romantic and screwball comedies that were frequently physical and farcical....

12 Things We’d Like To See In HBO’s The Last Of Us Naughty Dog By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Sept. 26, 2022 5:54 pm EST HBO has finally released its first trailer for its adaptation of “The Last of Us,” and there’s lots to unpack for fans of the 2013 game. “The Last of Us” is one of the most influential video games of the 21st century, a swan song farewell to the PlayStation 3, and a reminder to the industry of what games are capable of as a medium for storytelling....

Adapting Let The Right One In For TV Called For A Major Change In Setting Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 4, 2022 2:36 pm EST When you think of the acclaimed vampire story “Let the Right One In,” what do you remember? Body parts strewn across a swimming pool? A kid vampire’s tummy growling with thirst — not for juice boxes, but for blood? Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 coming-of-age horror film calls to mind a lot of evocative images and feelings, but the most indelible one might be snow....

There’s Always Vanilla (1971) Cambist Films “There’s Always Vanilla” is a bit of an oddity in Romero’s filmography. It’s the only romantic comedy in his oeuvre. Well, it’s billed as a romantic comedy, but it plays more like a satirical drama. It even has occasional horror elements. One chase scene, in particular, would fit perfectly in Romero’s zombie films. Horror and suspense were home to Romero, and his style shines through regardless of the film’s purported genre....

A roll of the dice Warner Bros. Pictures In the Vanity Fair piece, Walken speaks a bit about his surprisingly aimless life philosophy. “The truth is, I’ve never made choices. I more or less just do what comes next. I don’t have kids. I don’t like to play golf or tennis. I don’t like to travel. I mostly just go to work. So the choices that I make have more to do with the opportunities that are in front of me....

Chucky’s Classic Design Came Together For A Very Unique Reason MGM By Witney Seibold/Sept. 15, 2022 10:03 pm EST Tom Holland’s 1988 film “Child’s Play” was, at its heart, an indictment of an ever-bloating Christmastime consumption frenzy. Between 1983 and 1986, Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids were the most in-demand toy of the season, and stories were regularly written about the dolls’ success and the riots caused by parents trying to buy them....

Copenhagen Cowboy Trailer: Nicolas Winding Refn Brings Neon And Noir To Netflix Magnus Jønk and Christian Geisnæs / Netflix By Mike Shutt/Sept. 4, 2022 11:58 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn has brought his neon-soaked, egotistical self back to his native Denmark for the first time in over a decade. The man behind “Drive” has not directed a project there since 2009’s “Valhalla Rising,” and it has been even longer since he made something in Danish....

Could The Better Call Saul Finale Give Jimmy A Happy Ending? AMC By Jeremy Mathai/July 13, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Better Call Saul.” It’s the ultimate question about storytelling: Is it about the journey, or the destination? “Breaking Bad” made a compelling argument in support of the former, taking viewers through five incredibly patient seasons and carefully documenting the epic fall of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) along with all the unfortunates caught in his wake....

Do You Like UHD Movies? Scream 2 Is Getting A 4K Release Dimension Films By Joshua Meyer/Sept. 27, 2022 8:58 am EST It’s been 25 years since “Scream 2” slashed its way into U.S. movie theaters with an opening scene set in a movie theater. And just in time for its silver anniversary and Halloween, the film is finally receiving the 4K Ultra HD treatment for the first time. Paramount Pictures has announced via an official press release that a newly remastered version of “Scream 2” will be released on digital and in a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray set in October....

Dishonorable Mention: Captain America (1990) 21st Century Film Corporation Quite possibly the worst-ever version of a Marvel Comics superhero suit — if not in the history of comic book movies — the Captain America costume from this schlocky 1990 direct-to-video film is truly atrocious. You’d find better-looking threads at any Spirit Halloween pop-up store. While technically taken straight from the pages of the comics, this Cap (as played by Matt Salinger, son of renowned author J....

Henry Fonda’s First-Ever Love Scene Got Once Upon A Time In The West Off To An Awkward Start Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 27, 2022 5:30 pm EST In Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West,” Henry Fonda played against type as the black-hatted gunslinger, Frank, a villain who subverted Fonda’s all-American screen image in classic films like “The Grapes of Wrath” and “12 Angry Men.” Yet the film also marked another sort of departure for Fonda in that it saw him taking part in a love scene....

Enter the Crabfeeder HBO After a pretty good premiere made the world realize they will always be suckers for more Westeros, the second episode doubles down on everything people liked about the original show. That means more Small Council meetings and political scheming, showing the cost of playing the game of thrones and how it usually means marrying off literal children for political gain. Then there’s the standout of the episode: the introduction of one Craghas Drahar, also known by the much better and surprisingly accurate name, Craghas Crabfeeder....

How A Scrapped Steve Carrell Sketch Idea Became The 40-Year-Old Virgin Universal Pictures By J. Gabriel Ware/Nov. 14, 2022 10:54 am EST “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” along with “Wedding Crashers,” is credited for the string of successful bromantic comedy flicks that flooded theaters in the late 2000s. Judd Apatow produced, directed, and co-wrote the 2005 comedy farce with Steve Carell, who stars as Andy Stitzer, a middle-aged virgin and sales rep at a electronic store who is pressured by his co-workers to have sex for the first time....

How Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Created An Original Villain For Its First Episode Funimation By Devin Meenan/Aug. 1, 2022 11:48 am EST Rule of thumb: if a manga is moderately successful, odds are it’ll get an anime adaptation. Some mangas are even lucky enough to be adapted more than once; one such series is Hiromu Arakawa’s “Fullmetal Alchemist.” The story, in all its variations, is about Edward Elric, aka the Fullmetal Alchemist, and his brother Alphonse....

How Jean-Luc Godard Went From Playful Critic To Film School Staple Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie By Witney Seibold/Sept. 13, 2022 3:00 pm EST Jean-Luc Godard passed away on September 13, 2022 at the age of 91. In a vast and prolific career that spanned seven decades (Godard directed his first feature in 1955, his most recent in 2018) Godard never once shied away from confrontation. Godard was a film brat of the highest order, who used his early New Wave films as a playful, somewhat bitter commentary on the insidious infiltration of cinematic images into our minds....

Repo! The Genetic Opera Lionsgate In 2008, Darren Lynn Bousman delivered a gift to the emo/scene/goth musical theater kids of the world, myself included. “Repo! The Genetic Opera” is a rock opera set in the not-so-near future, where systemic organ failure has lead to an increase in drug addictions and legalized murder for those who fail to make their payments on organ transplants. Despite the dystopian existence, the wealthy still continue on as usual, hosting lavish operas and reveling in their status....

Insidious 5 release date and where you can watch it Gramercy Pictures “Insidious 5” is hopping into the spot originally reserved for “Madame Web,” and will hit theaters on July 7, 2023. During the 2020 BlumFest announcement, producer Jason Blum said, “One of the primary reasons the interest and appetite from fans has lasted for ‘Insidious’ is because the people involved in the first film have stayed involved and kept it vital, interesting and good....

It’s Waxin’ Time: Power Rangers And Cobra Kai Crossover Action Figures Show No Mercy Hasbro By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 27, 2022 2:19 pm EST If the revival of “The Karate Kid” franchise in the form of “Cobra Kai” wasn’t enough for your martial arts cravings, then Hasbro has a next-level crossover that will both blow your mind and confound your senses. After a collection of action figure two-packs teamed up characters from “Cobra Kai” with the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” Daniel LaRusso has been imbued with the might of the “Power Rangers....

Jason David Frank Turned A 10-Episode Contract Into A Nearly 30-Year Career Saban By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 22, 2022 6:00 pm EST “Power Rangers” was one of the biggest franchises of the ’90s — it brought tokusatsu to the West, it was a franchise with some of the coolest theme songs, and it also introduced superheroes to a whole generation. Despite its cheap look and extremely corny dialogue and storylines, “Power Rangers” always offered big excitement, lots of cool costumes and robots, and a (sadly) rare superhero team with diversity....

A pivotal scene MGM Now, as for the scene set at the house. According to Mendes, the interior of M’s house is in fact not Barry’s, but a sound stage. The shooting of the scene still has a fascinating story behind it, though. Let’s set the scene. M enters her home; it’s well-tended but the liquor tray says the stress is getting to her. Bond, presumed dead, makes his return to life skulking in the shadows....