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The Most Disgusting Scene In Barbarian Was Cut 20th Century Studios By Mike Shutt/Sept. 22, 2022 5:11 pm EST “Barbarian” spoilers follow. “Barbarian” features a number of scenes best described as “disturbing.” Whether it’s seeing Bill Skarsgård’s head getting smashed in by a giant, naked woman or something as quiet as a man flipping the latch on a woman’s window to break into her home later, the movie does not pull any punches when it comes to depicting distressing material....

The Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Trailer Reminds Us How Much We Love These Characters Sony Pictures Entertainment By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 13, 2022 3:00 pm EST The trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” is finally here. For the most part, despite all the hype about the film’s attempts to “push the medium of animation even further” and introduce a stacked cast of characters, the rhythm of the trailer’s first half is pleasantly subdued....

The True Story Behind The Blind Side Warner Bros. By Christian Gainey/Nov. 13, 2022 8:30 pm EST Everyone loves an uplifting story, especially one that features a protagonist who beats the odds and achieves greatness. “The Blind Side” is a perfect example of this — it follows the story of Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a neglected kid from a rough neighborhood who succeeds academically and discovers his talents as an offensive tackle after being adopted by the wealthy Tuohy family....

Unsolved Mysteries Vol. 3 Trailer: Let’s Solve Some Crimes Together Netflix By Jenna Busch/Oct. 4, 2022 6:39 pm EST Halloween season is in full swing now that we’ve entered October. Today, Netflix released a trailer for the third volume in their reboot of the “Unsolved Mysteries” series. As someone who used to watch the old ones hosted by Robert Stack, this new version has been a lot of … well, I guess “fun” isn’t the right word to use, since these are real stories and real people involved....

Wax on, wax off Netflix Oh how the mighty have fallen. If you’ve been following the martial arts misadventures of Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso from their cinematic debut in 1984’s “The Karate Kid” to the Netflix sequel series “Cobra Kai,” then you know that the unthinkable happened at the end of season 4. The former All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament Champions have been forced to shutter their dojo and the manipulative Terry Silver sits atop the mountain after leading his students to victory in the latest installment of the tournament that made Lawrence and LaRusso famous....

When He Wasn’t Working With George Romero, Tom Savini Was Making The Mysterious Kid’s Show Ghostwriter PBS By Andrew Housman/Dec. 2, 2022 5:59 pm EST Few makeup and special effects artists in the world of horror hold the same film pedigree and name recognition as Tom Savini, whose bloody prosthetics helped define a generation of gore and guts. Savini is most known for his collaborations with fellow horror legend George A....

William Shatner And Leonard Nimoy Threw Futurama’s Crew Into Chaos 20th Television By Witney Seibold/Aug. 15, 2022 1:31 pm EST In the future setting of Matt Groening’s and David X. Cohen’s “Futurama,” merely uttering the words “Star Trek” invites arrest. As explained in the fourth season episode “Where No Fan Has Gone Before” (April 21, 2002), Trekkies had grown from a mere fan group into adherents of a full-bore religion. The Trek-based religion grew and fractured, leading to a bellum sacrum nicknamed the Star Trek Wars (not to be confused with the vast off-world migration of “Star Wars” fans called the Star Wars Trek)....

‘Saw 10’ Is Already In Development, Because Not Even Death Can Stop Jigsaw By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2021 2:00 pm EST Spiral, the latest entry in the blood-drenched Saw franchise, isn’t here yet – but that’s not going to stop Jigsaw’s blades from buzzing. Saw X, the tenth entry in the series, is reportedly already in active development. It’s too soon to say what the movie is even about, or if it’ll be bringing back the characters introduced in the upcoming movie....

A Jazzman’s Blues Review: This Tyler Perry Film Is Stuck In The Past [TIFF] Jace Downs/NETFLIX By Sarah Milner/Sept. 12, 2022 3:28 pm EST Bold, beautiful, and bittersweet, Tyler Perry’s “A Jazzman’s Blues” is a larger-than-life love story set during the Jim Crow era. It’s an epic tale about love and loss with a strong musical component (hence the title); the core conflict is the star-crossed lovers, but the story is so grand, so encompassing, that it touches on various topics: Black culture, drug addiction, racism, identity, trauma … the list goes on....

A Technical Error Forced A Christmas Story’s Famous Flagpole Tongue Scene To Be Reshot MGM/UA By Jenna Busch/Dec. 10, 2022 8:00 am EST If you grew up anywhere around cold weather and snow, you might already know this, but if you’re new to icy conditions, here is a public service announcement: Do not touch your tongue to a flagpole when it drops below freezing. Even if someone triple-dog dares you. Of course, if you’ve seen the 1983 film “A Christmas Story,” you probably already know this....

Ant-Man 3 Star Kathryn Newton Would Love To Be A Young Avenger Warner Bros By Shania Russell/July 26, 2022 2:15 pm EST As usual, the fans in Hall H were not disappointed when Kevin Feige stepped on stage this weekend to announce the latest news from Marvel Studios: an exciting slate of both movies and shows set that will make up Phase Five and Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Christopher Reeve Had Some Stiff Competition For The Role Of Superman Warner Bros. / Columbia By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Sept. 4, 2022 6:30 pm EST Who doesn’t want to play Superman? The DC Comics character has been depicted numerous times on the big and small screen, with nearly a dozen actors donning the cape. It is a role that many covet — there’s nothing quite like the glory the character brings to you, so naturally, there has always been stiff competition surrounding the part....

David Chase’s Memory Was A ‘Miracle’ Behind The Scenes Of The Sopranos HBO By Anya Stanley/Sept. 16, 2022 12:35 pm EST For those who like some reading with their gabagool, “Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos” provides a comprehensive collection of memories and insights from the cast and crew of one of the greatest TV drama series of all time. The book was inspired by the robust success of their definitive and thorough re-visit podcast “Talking Sopranos,” the groundbreaking HBO series’ stars Michael Imperioli (who plays Christopher Moltisanti) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby Baccalieri) and brings incisive and often surprising behind-the-scenes history of the show’s 86 episodes....

Did Patton Oswalt Just Announce Eternals 2 With Chloe Zhao Returning? Marvel Studios By Shania Russell/Aug. 4, 2022 12:50 pm EST No matter how masterfully Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige dodges questions, his desire to keep the MCU’s future a secret will always be at the mercy of the million other people working on these movies. For every expert at vaguery, there will always be a Tom Holland in the room, who doesn’t even realize that he’s become a walking, talking, spoiling machine....

Every James Gunn Movie, Ranked Worst To Best Warner Bros. Pictures By Luke Y. Thompson/Nov. 7, 2022 2:44 pm EST From the low-budget gross-outs of Troma films to head of DC movies at Warner Bros. is a journey maybe only James Gunn could have made. Heavily versed in all the classics — Marvel, DC, and Shakespeare — the writer/director’s sensibility have always jelled with fans of his generation and beyond. In his younger years, he made cult films that college kids delighted in....

‘Celebrate that moment’ Disney When speaking to The Direct, “Werewolf by Night” executive producer Brian Gay explained the reasons for not including a post-credits scene in the special. He said: “[That final campfire scene is] in the [same] spirit [as a normal post-credits scene]. We wanted to put, you know, a nice, I guess, button on the end of the special in a way to have it. But with this, we want it to be a contained story....

James Cameron Thinks A Comparison Between Avatar And Marvel Is ‘Irrelevant’ 20th Century Studios By Matt Rainis/Dec. 5, 2022 4:33 pm EST James Cameron’s successor to “Avatar” is finally almost here, a mere thirteen years after the original movie set many box office records. The first film was extremely popular, with visuals so appealing that it caused depression in those longing to visit the beautiful, yet tragically fictional, planet of Pandora....

Lynch/Oz Review: Tracing The Populist Surrealism Of David Lynch And Movie Americana [Fantastic Fest] Fantastic Fest By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 25, 2022 2:08 pm EST During a New York Film Festival Q&A for “Mulholland Drive,” David Lynch was asked about the influence of “The Wizard of Oz” on his film. Lynch, who can often be hilariously evasive when it comes to questions, actually got earnest and replied: “There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about the ‘Wizard of Oz....

Wright And The Comic’s Creator Are Both On Board Oni Press Wright’s adaptation of “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” is a frenetic cult classic, a movie with video game trappings and a hilariously short attention span. Michael Cera starred as Scott, a 22-year-old member of a garage band whose life goes topsy-turvy when he learns his new love interest, Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winestead), has seven evil exes. Aside from its wide selection of quotable jokes (“Bread makes you fat?...

Nope Spoiler Review: A Thrilling Spectacle About The Horrors Of Exploitation Universal Pictures By Josh Spiegel/July 25, 2022 9:00 am EST The word “spectacle” has been bandied about a fair amount in the run-up to Jordan Peele’s third feature film, “Nope.” Peele has leaned into it in the marketing, too, so it comes as no surprise that “spectacle” is one of the first words in the film itself, appearing as part of a Biblical epigraph, before it crops in the film’s dialogue as part of a repeated theme-park show spiel....