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How Broadway Made James Stewart And Henry Fonda Lifelong Friends Cinema Center Films By Devin Meenan/Aug. 6, 2022 7:46 pm EST Some friendships are so iconic that they can inspire a whole book’s worth of retelling. That’s the case with James Stewart and Henry Fonda: “Hank and Jim,” a 2017 book by Scott Eyman, chronicles the lifelong friendship of these two Hollywood legends. In some ways, the two were quite similar: despite their movie star status, they carried themselves with Midwestern modesty....

Watch the John Wick Chapter 4 trailer Yeah, you already know what we’re about to say — we’re thinking he’s back, baby. After the explosive events of “Parabellum” (which is a Latin term for, essentially, “prepare for war”) left John Wick on the run from his fellow assassins, the legendary High Table, and pretty much anyone else with a weapon handy, our favorite former-hitman-turned-boogeyman with an epic-sized grudge to settle has once again been left with few allies and an army of combatants looking to take him down....

Ke Huy Quan Took His Fanny-Pack Combat Training For Everything Everywhere All At Once Very Seriously A24 By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 31, 2022 3:46 pm EST One of the most rewarding things to come out of the phenomenal success of “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is witnessing the glorious renaissance of actor Ke Huy Quan (“The Goonies,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”). A24’s highest grossing film is an engrossing action fantasy that transports Quan’s character Waymond Wang and his family into a world-saving expedition spread across multiple dimensions....

Kevin Bacon Pulled Out A Real Tooth In Stir Of Echoes, It Just Wasn’t His Artisan Entertainment By Drew Tinnin/Dec. 4, 2022 1:02 pm EST Since 1999, the reputation of “Stir of Echoes” — based on the book by science-fiction writer Richard Matheson — has continued to improve with age. It remains a standout in the long line of gripping ghost stories that came before it, and it helped set the stage for more mainstream paranormal hits down the line like “The Conjuring,” in a time when meta-slasher films had taken over in a post-“Scream” horror landscape....

Moonrise Kingdom Needed Some Movie Magic To Get Edward Norton Carrying Harvey Keitel Focus Features By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 4, 2022 3:10 pm EST In moments of extreme duress, human beings are allegedly capable of amazing physical feats. This phenomenon is called “hysterical strength.” There can be no accurate study of the condition because the surge of adrenaline (or possibly norepinephrine) is highly situational and momentary. So all we’ve got to go on are unverified stories of, say, a woman lifting a car that had fallen off its jacks to save her baby — an incredible event comic-book legend Jack Kirby claimed to have witnessed, which led to the creation of the Hulk....

Mr. Harrigan’s Phone: Release Date, Cast, And More For The Netflix Stephen King Adaptation Warner Bros By Michael Boyle/Aug. 30, 2022 5:11 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) From the 1976 adaptation of “Carrie” to 2017’s “It,” Stephen King’s books have always shown great potential for a successful movie....

Only Murders In The Building Goes Dark In A Blackout Episode Hulu By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 9, 2022 12:00 pm EST Last week’s episode of “Only Murders in the Building,” “Flipping the Pieces,” kept our podcasting trio of Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin), and Oliver (Martin Short) separate while Mabel tried to reclaim her memory just a little bit. But right as they reunited at the conclusion, they were shocked to learn two things....

Paul Dano Insisted On Actually Carrying Daniel Radcliffe Throughout Swiss Army Man A24 By Matt Rainis/Oct. 28, 2022 3:33 pm EST As the great piece of philosophy “Office Space” once pondered, what would you do if you got a million dollars and never had to work again? While a million dollars would hardly ensure you a safe retirement in 2022 thanks to inflation, the question itself still holds some value. If you didn’t have to work a day in your life, what are you passionate enough about that you’d spend your time doing it?...

Severance Found Its Incredibly Uncomfortable Tone Via Editing [Comic-Con] Apple By Erin Brady/July 22, 2022 11:12 am EST If you’ve watched even a couple of minutes of any episode of “Severance,” you will know that there is a very uncomfortable atmosphere to all of its scenes. Whether its glances that linger just a bit too long or elongated hallways that look longer than they actually are, it is a very eerie show without being particularly scary....

Superman Lives, Dogma II, And 10 More Movies & TV Shows Kevin Smith Almost Made Saban Films By Erin Brady/Sept. 1, 2022 9:49 pm EST Every iconic filmmaker has a ton of projects they never got off the ground, and Kevin Smith is certainly no exception. Of course, there is a vast difference between him and directors like Orson Welles, specifically the fact that the majority of his projects are either low-budget comedies or superhero fare....

The Buffalo Bill Scene In Silence Of The Lambs That Was Totally Improvised Orion Pictures By Lee Adams/Oct. 23, 2022 9:30 pm EST At the 64th Academy Awards, it was all about “The Silence of the Lambs.” The host, Billy Crystal, was wheeled onto the stage wearing Hannibal Lecter’s famous muzzle, and by the end of the evening the film had swept the “Big Five” Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay, becoming only the third film in the Academy’s history to do so (after “It Happened One Night” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest....

The First Draft Of Lord Beerus Didn’t Fit The Dragon Ball ‘Spirit’ Toei Animation By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 7, 2022 4:29 pm EST In a Shonen anime, a protagonist is only as compelling as their opponent, and in the case of “Dragon Ball Super,” a worthy opponent makes or breaks the series. The sequel series to “Dragon Ball Z” sees Goku ascend to the level of gods in his never-ending journey to be the strongest....

Chris Redfield is ‘a boulder punching a-hole’ Capcom In one of the most heavily memed moments in “Resident Evil” franchise history, “Resident Evil 5” shows protagonist Chris Redfield and his partner Sheva trapped in a volcano with Albert Wesker. In order to get through the volcano, Chris needs to punch a boulder in order to turn it into a platform that he and Sheva can use to move to safety. Fans have turned this absurd moment into the go-to reference to mock Chris Redfield, as well as indicate where the “Resident Evil” franchise as a whole “jumped the shark,” before redeeming itself with impressive installments like “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard,” “Resident Evil: Village,” and some successful remakes of “Resident Evil 2 & 3....

Superheroes and Westerns Universal Pictures Hanks wanted to “unpack” the idea of a dominant genre. He asked if there was an era of film with a specific type of movie that “dominated the marketplace” and mentioned Westerns in the 1950s. To be fair, it’s not quite the same thing. I’d say that one could compare the superhero genre as a whole to the Western genre, but the connectivity of the MCU is sort of what defines it....

Why Jordan Peele Shifted His Storytelling Style With Nope Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/July 12, 2022 4:15 pm EST Jordan Peele may have broken onto the scene with his gifted comedic abilities, but in just five short years, Peele has also solidified himself as a contemporary master of horror. His debut feature “Get Out” was not only a brilliant enough movie to earn an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, it also completely changed the landscape of the horror genre and proved what so many had always known: That there was a massive market for Black horror storytelling....

William Shatner’s Star Trek Screentime Came At The Cost Of Nichelle Nichols’ Uhura Paramount By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Sept. 12, 2022 2:43 pm EST On July 30th of this year, Nichelle Nichols, the woman who brought the character of Lt. Nyota Uhura, died at 89 years old. Nichols’ presence on “Star Trek: The Original Series” was revolutionary for its time, portraying a Black woman as part of an elite crew in a futuristic sci-fi setting....

‘Fate’ Flipped Peter Jackson’s Plans For His Lord Of The Rings Films New Line By Jeremy Smith/Aug. 25, 2022 3:10 pm EST Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” is a singular filmmaking achievement. Greenlit by the smallish New Line Cinema in 1999, the trilogy was initially budgeted at $180 million. But after a footage presentation at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival wowed audiences, the studio, realizing it had something special in the works, loosened the purse strings....

Alan Grant, Legendary Comic Writer For Batman And Judge Dredd, Has Died At 73 DC Comics By Rafael Motamayor/July 21, 2022 11:19 am EST The world of comics just got a lot grimmer and sadder. Alan Grant, the legendary Scottish comic book writer known for his influential work on “Judge Dredd” and “Batman,” has passed away at 73 years old. The news was first shared by Grant’s wife Susan announced his passing on Facebook (via Comicbook....

An Uncredited Cameo In More American Graffiti Was The Perfect Chance For Harrison Ford Hijinks Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 17, 2022 1:01 pm EST Four years before he showed up as Han Solo in the original “Star Wars” movie, Harrison Ford had what Universal Pictures calls his “breakout role” with “American Graffiti” in 1973. Written and directed by George Lucas, “American Graffiti” saw Ford play a character named Bob Falfa who is out to make a name for himself as the fastest street racer in Modesto, California in the early 1960s....

David Harbour Teases A ‘Big Bomb’ In The Thunderbolts Movie, But What Could It Mean? [Exclusive] Marvel Studios By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 14, 2022 9:10 pm EST Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” movie is still over a year away, but that won’t stop Marvel fans — and the team here at /Film — from speculating about what the introduction of the “Suicide Squad”-like group of ragtag antiheroes will mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole....