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How The Rings Of Power Season Finale Sets Up The Black Númenóreans Matt Grace/Prime Video By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 15, 2022 4:45 pm EST Earlier this week, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” co-showrunner Patrick McKay spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, revealing that season 2 of the series is set to adapt a story about Sauron (Charlie Vickers) that comes straight from the Tolkien canon. While the writer-producer stayed mum on the details about which story he and J....

Hugo Weaving Wasn’t Totally Sold On The Matrix Resurrections Script, But That’s Not Why He Isn’t In The Movie Warner Bros. By Michael Boyle/Sept. 22, 2022 4:31 pm EST Hugo Weaving has played an almost absurd number of memorable characters in big-budget blockbusters over the years, but his role in the first three “Matrix” movies rises above them all. From the moment he steps on screen, Agent Smith is a force to be reckoned with....

Jack Harlow Gets Halloween Help From Tom Hanks And Bobby Moynihan In A Solid Saturday Night Live NBC By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 30, 2022 3:15 pm EST To celebrate Halloween, “Saturday Night Live” brought in rapper Jack Harlow to pull double duty as both host and musical guest. Much like Megan Thee Stallion, we didn’t really have a gauge for how good Harlow might be hosting “SNL” for the first time, and with the exception of a handful of roasts that he recounted from the internet, he didn’t inspire much confidence in his monologue....

Kate Mulgrew Looks Back On Mrs. Columbo, Her Short-Lived Columbo Spin-Off [Exclusive] NBCUniversal By Witney Seibold/Oct. 10, 2022 3:37 pm EST Actress Kate Mulgrew has had a long and storied career. Although perhaps best recognized as Captain Janeway on “Star Trek: Voyager” or Red on “Orange is the New Black,” Mulgrew’s TV career goes back to the 1970s when she appeared in 409 episodes of the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope.” But Mulgrew landed her first starring role in 1979 — when she was only 24 — playing the title character on the short-lived detective spinoff series “Mrs....

Love, death, and ‘Remember Me’ Netflix Now, we’re not going to rehash everything that Mike Flanagan posted on his Tumblr, because he provided a compelling breakdown complete with gifs and images to help emphasize his points. As the show deals with terminally-ill characters, it was only a matter of time before fans would have had to say goodbye. Flanagan revealed that season 2 would have seen the deaths, in order, of Amesh (Sauriyan Sapkota), Natsuki (Aya Furukawa), Kevin (Igby Rigney), and Ilonka (Iman Benson), with Spence (Chris Sumpter) leaving Brightcliffe Hospice following a positive reaction to HIV treatments....

Paul Dano’s Riddler Comic Was Born On The Set Of The Batman Warner Bros. By Ernesto Valenzuela/July 30, 2022 7:00 pm EST Following the critical and financial success of “The Batman,” the only logical next step for Warner Bros. was to expand the world Matt Reeves created. Following the announcement of a sequel to the film, there were also talks for multiple spinoffs set in the world of Reeves Gotham City....

Rocky IV Ending Explained: Everybody Can Change MGM/UA Entertainment Company By Lee Adams/Dec. 11, 2022 10:00 am EST There are generally two main schools of thought on “Rocky IV:” You can bemoan how ridiculous the franchise had become since the grittiness of the Oscar-winning original film, or celebrate it for finally shrugging off all semblance of reality to become such a glorious example of ’80s excess. I say life is too short for the former and, while it is the most thinly plotted of the series to that point, I still love “Rocky IV” for the bombastic sports cartoon that it is....

Stanley Kubrick Said Jack Nicholson Brought One ‘Unactable Quality’ To His Roles Warner Bros. By Joe Roberts/Nov. 18, 2022 10:06 pm EST Jack Nicholson is missing in action. The star’s last acting role was the 2010 rom com “How Do You Know,” and aside from showing up in news stories about his personal life, he’s seemingly done with the whole acting thing. Since his last role, he’s been heard to remark that his apparent retirement is down to the fact that he only wants to do “films that move people,” and that he has a feeling that “maybe people in their twenties and thirties don’t actually want to be moved anymore....

The Junji Ito Collection (Animated Series) Studio Deen Some of Junji Ito’s best work appears in his short story compilations. They’re exquisitely efficient bite-sized bits of horror, pulling you in with just enough detail to make you think you know what’s going on … before pulling the rug out from under you and leaving you disoriented, terrified, and with plenty of unanswered questions to keep you up at night. So, an anthology series adaptation of some of Ito’s best short stories seems like a great idea!...

American Psycho Lionsgate In “American Psycho,” Christian Bale plays serial killer Patrick Bateman, his major breakout role. Adapted from a cutting satire of 1980s Wall Street culture by novelist Bret Easton Ellis, Bateman is a Manhattan yuppie by day and a sadistic killer by night. He craves two things: fitting in with his fellow New York elite, and the thrill of killing. His day-to-day life revolves around a very elaborate skincare routine, making reservations at all the right restaurants, and random acts of horrifying violence....

The Avatar Franchise Is Built On Radical Acts Of Empathy 20th Century Studios By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 17, 2022 12:00 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Way of Water.” I am hardly the first writer to point this out, but the state of the “Avatar” franchise is strange. The original film, released in 2009, quickly became one of the biggest box office juggernauts of all time. There’s a Disney theme park land dedicated to it....

Diesel took a headfirst dive into the snow Sony Pictures/YouTube In the film’s second half, Xander is being chased by a group of goons on snowmobiles, all while a tremendous CG avalanche is quickly swallowing them up. According to a promotional interview, when Cohen was filming the sequence in Austria, Diesel wanted to keep pushing how far he could take the stunt, which ultimately led the “Riddick” star to take a bit of a tumble:...

Nielsen the the heavy Paramount One of the reasons the “Police Squad!” series — and by extension, “The Naked Gun” — functioned as well as it did was Nielsen’s performance. Perfectly deadpan, his Lt. Frank Drebin was nonplussed and unfazed by some of the wild strangeness that surrounded him. He could watch a clown explode and react like a hyper-serious Joe Friday, gruffly commenting that comedy is dead. It’s worth recalling that Nielsen’s first comedy film was the ZAZ’s 1980 slapstick classic “Airplane!...

The Russo Brothers Kept Arrested Development’s Camera Operators On Their Toes By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 2, 2022 9:59 am EST Though they helmed two of the five highest-grossing films of all time, “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War” directors Joe and Anthony Russo still serve as a punching bag for critics sometimes for their arthouse pretensions. They’ve cited François Truffaut and the French New Wave as their biggest inspirations, which might not be immediately apparent from their blockbuster work in the superhero genre — not to mention their 2022 Netflix action flick “The Gray Man....

Here’s the The Whale trailer According to A24, the film follows “the story of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.” It stars Fraser alongside Sadie Sink as his daughter Ellie, Hong Chau as his best friend and nurse Liz, Ty Simpkins as a religious missionary named Thomas, and Samantha Morton as Charlie’s ex-wife Mary. The film is directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Samuel D....

When Takashi Miike Heard He Could Do ‘Anything’ For Masters Of Horror, He Put That To The Test Anchor Bay Entertainment By Debopriyaa Dutta/Dec. 24, 2022 9:00 am EST Takashi Miike’s brand of horror can be described as visceral and deeply disturbing, often verging on lurid depictions of violence and gore. While the prolific Japanese director possesses the gift to tackle a wide range of genres, Miike’s horror offerings stand out for their transgressive and (subjectively) taboo subject-matters....

Why The Fabelmans And Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Make The Perfect Steven Spielberg Double Feature Paramount Pictures By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 3, 2022 9:00 am EST This post contains spoilers for “The Fabelmans” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” With his semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” our beloved master of the modern American blockbuster, Steven Spielberg, has reached the pinnacle of self-reflection over his career. Spielberg has always had a gift for capturing the most personal and intimate essences of his life in his films, from the fraught family dynamics portrayed in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E....

Zoe Saldaña’s First Avatar Meeting With James Cameron Was A Literal Out Of Body Experience 20th Century Studios By Lyvie Scott/Nov. 29, 2022 1:56 pm EST Even in a post-Marvel Hollywood, there are very few actors who can say they’ve starred in multiple record breaking blockbusters. It’s a rare feat — a mixture of blind luck and innate castability — but Zoe Saldaña is one of the few that’s pulled it off....

Angela Bassett Channeled Her Own Feelings Through Queen Ramonda For Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 9, 2022 5:07 pm EST “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” can be considered many things: a sequel to one of Marvel Studios’ most successful solo movies ever made, a continued and long overdue celebration of Black representation, and simply an emotionally hard-hitting movie that packs in as much pathos as thrills (read /Film’s review by Chris Evangelista for more insights into those aspects of the film)....

Billy Wilder Thanks TV For Making Movies Less Low-Brow United Artists By Shae Sennett/July 23, 2022 10:00 pm EST Billy Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers in Hollywood, but he was not always recognized for his creative genius. When Wilder first started making movies, cinema was looked down upon by other creatives. It was the newest artistic medium, which gave it a gritty and untraditional flavor. Older creative professions, like writing, were considered more respectable....