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Tom Hardy’s Warrior Training Was Built On Broccoli And Beatings Lionsgate By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 11, 2022 12:33 pm EST There’s just something inherently engaging about Tom Hardy. He’s an actor who can spend an entire film wearing a mask in the cockpit of a plane (or talking to people on his car’s speaker phone) and still be compelling. Even on the rare occasions where his face isn’t obstructed by some kind of covering, Hardy tends to mumble and grunt his lines in ways that are curiously fascinating....

What We Want To See In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Paramount By Devin Meenan/July 8, 2022 3:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the first season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” The first season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has wrapped, and I can safely say it’s the franchise’s best TV outing since season 4 of “Enterprise,” and maybe even the best years of “Deep Space Nine....

10 Movies That Don’t Worry Darling Fans Should Watch Next Warner Bros. By Eric Langberg/Sept. 26, 2022 11:30 am EST After months of buildup and frenzied tabloid gossip, Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature, “Don’t Worry Darling,” hit theaters on September 23, 2022. The movie is about a woman named Alice (Florence Pugh), who comes to suspect that the idyllic community where she lives with her husband Jack (Harry Styles) is anything but....

The hierearchy of VOD power Warner Bros. The silver lining for “Black Adam” is that it has been doing well on demand. A month after its theatrical release, on November 22, 2022, the movie hit premium VOD platforms like iTunes, where it can currently be rented for $19.99. Since then, “Black Adam” has, as Forbes reports, been leading the VOD charts, despite its underwhelming theatrical numbers. The availability of it on demand may have even contributed some to it falling off at the box office, though reviews for it were also not great, with /Film’s own Witney Seibold calling it “a superhero movie, but worse” in his review....

Director Kat Coiro Made Sure The She-Hulk Finale Shot At The Real Marvel Studios Offices [Exclusive] Disney+ By Ben F. Silverio/Oct. 17, 2022 5:44 pm EST Throughout the course of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters constantly broke the fourth wall to address her adoring public, just as her comic book counterpart did in the pages of Marvel Comics many years ago. But in the season 1 finale of the latest Marvel Studios series on Disney+, Jen wasn’t just yelling at her writers for the decisions they were making in her story....

Heartstopper Season 2: Everything We Know So Far About The Next Season Of The Netflix Teen Hit Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 4, 2022 9:56 pm EST When “Heartstopper” hit Netflix earlier this year, it was nothing short of a phenomenon. The adorable, emotional teen romance was the title on everyone’s lips for weeks after its first season debuted, so it was no surprise when it was renewed for more episodes just a month after it aired....

How Don Siegel Soothed Clint Eastwood’s Doubts About Starring In The Beguiled Universal By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 13, 2022 5:38 pm EST Clint Eastwood entered the 1970s at a transitional point in his career. He was for certain a movie star, but, despite hits like the crime-thriller “Coogan’s Bluff” and the World War II flick “Where Eagles Dare,” he was still primarily associated with Westerns. This was hardly a precarious place to be....

Jack Nicholson Was Pulling Double Duty During Easy Rider’s Production Columbia Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 27, 2022 6:00 pm EST Jack Nicholson received the first of his 12 Academy Award nominations for his supporting role in “Easy Rider,” a film that tapped into the ’60s counterculture to become a watershed for the New Hollywood era. Yet despite its cultural significance and impact on Nicholson’s career, “Easy Rider” had a notoriously troubled production, much of which was documented in Peter Biskind’s book, “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood....

Lost Highway Ending Explained: The Utter Failure Of Masculinity October Films By Witney Seibold/Oct. 23, 2022 8:00 pm EST An interesting piece of trivia: Peter Deming, the cinematographer on David Lynch’s “Lost Highway,” shot Lynch’s film, “Scream 2,” and “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” all in the same year. Immediately prior to “Lost Highway,” he shot the cockroach comedy “Joe’s Apartment.” The man is nothing if not diverse. “Lost Highway” is an oblique nightmare that swirls haphazardly around themes of identity and sexual insecurity....

M3GAN release date and where to watch it Universal Pictures Initially scheduled for release on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, “M3GAN” will continue the lineage of killer doll movies a week earlier, and is now slated for a January 6, 2023, theatrical release date. This puts “M3GAN” against Sony’s currently untitled “true haunting” film, but takes it out of the opening weekend competition against “House Party” and “A Man Called Otto....

Mike Flanagan Meets Edgar Allan Poe Netflix I’ve been a fan of Mike Flanagan’s work since his feature debut “Absentia,” so it’s been neat to watch his rise to become one of the best horror filmmakers working today. And Flanagan shows no signs of slowing down. His most recent Netflix horror series “Midnight Mass” recently debuted to rave reviews, and now he already has a new series on the way: “The Fall of the House of Usher....

Mike Flanagan Went To The Mat To Keep One Of His Favorite Haunting Of Hill House Moments Intact Netflix By Anya Stanley/Sept. 18, 2022 10:00 pm EST Approaching “The Haunting of Hill House” like a marathon feature film, writer-director Mike Flanagan aimed to retain as much of Shirley Jackson’s bestselling story as much as possible, while expanding material — the queer identity of Theodora, for example, could be more explicit than it could in 1959....

Monty Norman, Composer Of The James Bond Theme, Has Died At 94 MGM By Ryan Scott/July 11, 2022 1:49 pm EST Monty Norman, the man who composed the iconic “James Bond” theme music, has died. Norman was 94 years old. The news was initially shared by the BBC, and a notice on his personal website has also confirmed his passing. The message on his website reads, “It is with sadness we share the news that Monty Norman died on 11th July 2022 after a short illness....

Prey Director Dan Trachtenberg Has Sequel Ideas, And No, You Haven’t Guessed Them Yet Hulu By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 6, 2022 7:13 pm EST “Prey” breathed new life into a decades-old franchise this summer with a chapter of the “Predator” saga that saw the alien species face off against a resilient Comanche warrior (Amber Midthunder). The movie was an immediate hit, wowing critics, and, according to Hulu, breaking their all-time record for original movie viewership....

Strong thematic threads Annapurna Pictures In a 2016 interview with the Daily Beast, Richard Linklater reflected on how long it took for him to make “Everybody Wants Some!!” as well as how the film’s ability to capture experiencing college for the first time gave the movie an unexpected connection to his previous film “Boyhood:” “I’ve been trying to make this one for about ten years. I had that idea in ‘02 and ‘03....

Saturday Night Live Exposes Amy Schumer’s Weird Alone Time Habits In The Watcher Parody NBC By Michael Boyle/Nov. 6, 2022 1:04 pm EST Fans of “Saturday Night Live” know at this point that the show loves doing parodies of horror movies in particular. “SNL” made headlines with its 2018 sketch mixing the premise of “A Quiet Place” with Kanye’s pro-Trump turn, and when it reimagined a slasher movie as if it were directed by Wes Anderson....

Spirit Halloween Teaser: The Film Specifically Designed To Pop Up For A Couple Weeks, Take Your Money, And Vanish Strike Back Studios By Shania Russell/Aug. 1, 2022 10:27 am EST Most kids dream of being locked in a toy store overnight. Others think it might be fun to race through the empty halls of a school building or spend a few hours in the aisles of a candy shop. More daring young folk, however, fantasize about spending time in a true-blue haunted house....

A New Attitude (Season 4, Episode 11) Netflix G.O.B. carried the show’s fourth season. A longstanding side player, G.O.B.’s early caricature was never enough to sustain an entire episode. Yet, in the wildly uneven Season 4 — and, yes, that includes the remixed version — G.O.B emerges as one of the sole players capable of sustaining an entire episode by himself. While his first solo outing in “Colony Collapse” was one of the series’ best ever, “A New Attitude” does endeavor to bring a few more Bluths into the fold....

The Answers: Everything We Know So Far About Darren Aronofsky’s Upcoming FX Show Facebook Watch By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 3, 2022 10:22 pm EST Darren Aronofsky may be more well-known as a movie director, but with “The Answers,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Black Swan,” “The Wrestler,” and “Requiem for a Dream” will be working on a new television series in the capacity of an executive producer. This won’t be the first time Aronofsky has dabbled in the TV arena, as he’s also got the Octavia Butler miniseries “Kindred” in the pipeline, and has done some documentary work on the small screen....

The Daily Stream: Professor Marston And The Wonder Women Is A Tender And Vital Polyamorous Love Story Annapurna Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 22, 2022 6:16 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Where You Can Stream It: Tubi, Kanopy, and Freevee The Pitch: This hidden gem from 2017 is billed as the true story of the invention of Wonder Woman, and indeed, it is a partly fictionalized biographical film about William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), who created the character....