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Rian Johnson Loves Star Wars Even More After Making The Last Jedi Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 21, 2022 1:59 pm EST It might sound silly to claim that a filmmaker has moved on to bigger and better things after having played in the “Star Wars” sandbox, but that’s exactly what Rian Johnson has done. After guiding “The Last Jedi” to box office success and critical acclaim, the writer/director didn’t miss a step as he moved on to his own original story with the 2019 murder mystery “Knives Out....

Sean Connery Saved Terry Gilliam From An Over-Ambitious Time Bandits Script Avco Embassy Pictures By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 7, 2022 4:34 pm EST Since its release in 1981, Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits” has become a bonafide modern classic that functions as a rite of passage for British youths whose parents grew up on the surrealist comedy of Monty Python. The magic of the film is still very much alive today, with Taika Waititi bringing a “Time Bandit” TV series to Apple TV+....

The Bear Season 1 Ending Explained: Time To Let It Rip Hulu By BJ Colangelo/July 10, 2022 3:38 pm EST Spoiler alert for “The Bear” season 1, but you should know that from the headline so don’t cry to me when you’ve been spoiled, Chef. As a kid who grew up in the Chicagoland area, I am an easy mark for anything that gives me a taste of home. When I die, cover me in Giardiniera peppers like the Italian beef I am....

The Conjuring 2’s Original Valak Looked Nothing Like The Nun Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Sept. 7, 2022 5:56 pm EST James Wan is unquestionably one of our true modern horror masters, as the man behind “Saw,” “Insidious,” and the shepherd of “The Conjuring” universe. The man has several huge franchises under his belt and, not for nothing, is probably responsible for the most reliable cinematic universe outside of Marvel. One of his biggest hits to date is “The Conjuring 2,” a rare sequel that lived up to its predecessor....

The Daily Stream: Andor’s Prison Scenes Put THX 1138 And Clerks In A Dystopian Work Blender Lucasfilm By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 7, 2022 11:00 am 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 Series: “Andor” Where You Can Stream It: Disney+ The Pitch: You’ve seen “Star Wars” as a space opera, founded on “A New Hope....

The Daily Stream: Heck Is A Criminally Underseen Horror Short That Will Ruin Your Night And Then Your Life Kyle Edward Ball By Lex Briscuso/Nov. 3, 2022 1:00 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: “Heck” Where You Can Stream It: YouTube The Pitch: Two years and some months ago, a filmmaker named Kyle Edward Ball uploaded a short film called “Heck” to YouTube, a mostly silent yet utterly terror-filled 30-minute trip into the depths of a darkness you simply cannot trust — even though this darkness exists right within your very own home....

The Gray Man Review: An Aggressively Mediocre Action Flick Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 14, 2022 9:00 am EST The Russo brothers must be stopped. First, they threw a wrench in a Tom Holland’s promising career by delivering his first clunker with the abysmal “Cherry,” and now they’ve done to Ryan Gosling what he’s managed to avoid his entire career: turn him into a generic leading man. Gosling is one of the finest actors of his generation, and he’s managed to become so by mostly avoiding the typical stunt casting that comes with his devastatingly good looks....

A slice of animation history Columbia Pictures Believe it or not, rotoscoping has been around for over a century! The technique was invented in 1915 by Max Fleischer, who used film taken of his brother dancing on the roof in a clown costume to create cartoons of a character called “Koko the Clown.” Appreciation for the technique seems to happen in waves, with a heyday in the early days of Disney with films like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves....

The Joy Luck Club Is Getting A Sequel, Writers Amy Tan And Ron Bass Returning Buena Vista Pictures By Erin Brady/Oct. 12, 2022 12:52 pm EST Decades after revolutionizing how we see Asian American women on screen, “The Joy Luck Club” will be meeting up once again. Deadline reports that the 1993 film, originally directed by Wayne Wang, will be getting a sequel that is sure to continue the themes of intergenerational struggles portrayed in the original....

The Pale Blue Eye: Release Date, Cast, And More For The Christian Bale Netflix Movie Waypoint Entertainment By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 30, 2022 1:53 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.) Hot off his rather surprising appearance as the main villain Gorr the God Butcher in “Thor: Love and Thunder” (making him the latest actor to have dipped his toes into both ends of the DC and Marvel swimming pool), Christian Bale is about to venture back into much more familiar territory....

The Push For A Superstore Musical Started With The Pilot NBC By Kathleen McHale/July 13, 2022 11:11 am EST NBC’s “Superstore,” the working class masterpiece sitcom following a lovable oddball staff of a big-box store, left us with a tornado-blown-through-a-warehouse-size hole in our hearts when it ended in 2021. As an immunocompromised person who has isolated pretty much the entirety of the pandemic, my own 2020 binge of the show offered practical, wholesome nostalgia for The Before Times, in the context of seeing activities like work friends hanging out with each other face to face and people safely shopping at retail establishments, before the series introduced COVID-19 into important plotlines encompassing challenges across class, race, and gender....

There’s A Long List Of Directors Who Owe Their Start (In Part) To Harvey Keitel Miramax By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 8, 2022 9:49 pm EST If you are a first-time filmmaker keen to have a long career in the motion picture industry, write a part for Harvey Keitel and get it to him ASAP. Over his magnificent 55-year career, Keitel has been a good luck charm for some of the greatest directors in the industry....

Why Michael Mann Doesn’t Consider Heat A ‘Crime Movie’ Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/July 6, 2022 9:53 am EST If you consider Michael Mann’s “Heat” to be one of the greatest crime films ever made, you are wrong. Care to disagree? Take it up with Mann. In a 2018 interview with Empire, the esteemed auteur of such crime classics as “Thief,” “Manhunter,” and “Miami Vice” bristled at the notion that his 1995 masterpiece could be categorized so blithely:...

Will Scott Bakula Make A Cameo In The Quantum Leap Reboot? NBC By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 23, 2022 1:33 pm EST “Quantum Leap” has leaped it’s way back onto television with a brand new NBC reboot that follows a new leaper, physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee), but what about the original? Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett was the heart and soul of the original series, so is there any chance that he’ll appear in the reboot, even for just a little cameo?...

A Wasted Opportunity Twisted Pictures/Lionsgate Flipping the premise and making the cops the victims of the killer’s ghoulish traps is neat, and Chris Rock brings some welcome humor to the franchise. It’s refreshing because there were approximately one and a half jokes in the previous eight films. There’s not enough of it, though; we get a few flashes early on when Rock is riffing on “Forrest Gump” before an undercover bust, but then he gets all serious on us....

30 Minutes Had To Be Cut From The Opening Sequence Of Up Pixar By Rafael Motamayor/July 12, 2022 11:08 am EST Pixar has been pulling at the heartstrings of moviegoers around the world since it was founded. From their early short films to their feature work, the studio always infuses their projects with deep emotions alongside stunning animation. A toy discovering he is not a real person. A monster saying goodbye to a child....

Alfred Molina Had To Drown Out The Noise Around His Spider-Man 2 Casting Sony Pictures By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 28, 2022 9:36 am EST Alfred Molina might be best known for his work in the “Spider-Man” franchise as the tentacled terror Doc Ock, but the actor has had a career spanning over 40 years. Molina’s acting credits include a range of complicated characters, from antiheroes to larger-than-life painters and comic book supervillains....

The real people’s champion All Elite Wrestling Throughout the movie, the citizens of Kahndaq hold their hands up to form a diamond as a sign of solidarity against their oppressors. As everybody (and by everybody, I mean wrestling fans) knows, that’s the universal sign for the Diamond Cutter, DDP’s finishing maneuver. Even back in 2600 BC, the people have been feeling the bang from the three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and demanded that he save them from the tyrannical King Ahk-Ton....

Chucky Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More USA and Syfy By BJ Colangelo/July 14, 2022 4:33 pm EST Our favorite pint-sized killer is coming back with more bloodshed, body counts, and bad words for season 2 of “Chucky.” The series is a direct and canonical continuation of the events in the “Child’s Play” franchise, with Chucky now terrorizing the citizens of Hackensack, New Jersey as heroes new and old try to stop him....

Benoit Blanc is gay (and coupled up) Courtesy of Netflix © 2022. The scene in question is a brief but delightful window into Benoit Blanc’s domestic life, which he shares with a man who seems accustomed to the odd behavior that comes with Blanc’s brand of genius. We won’t spoil the actor who plays Benoit Blanc’s partner, but it’s a great cameo. There is some ambiguity as to their relationship in “Glass Onion” itself, mainly due to Benoit’s beau referring to him as “Blanc” rather than by his first name....