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Don’t Worry Darling Costume Designer Arianne Phillips Is A People Detective [Interview] Warner Bros. By Jack Giroux/Sept. 23, 2022 2:00 pm EST Arianne Phillips describes herself as a people detective. It’s an especially cool alternate title for a costume designer. She wants to understand the soul of the story, the characters, and the actors, and how to help best present all three for a filmmaker. For director Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” she had quite a visual feast to cook up in this ’50s world where everything isn’t what it seems....

Emancipation Review: Will Smith’s New Drama Has An Identity Crisis Apple Studios By Mike Shutt/Dec. 8, 2022 5:00 pm EST Nearly every film directed by Antoine Fuqua feels like it should have been released in 1996. His popcorn sensibilities and penchant for hard-edged, muscular action all come from a time where R-rated, adult oriented genre fare made at a mid-sized budget could get a lot of people to head out to the theater....

The hunt is on…? Marvel Studios While appearing at CineEurope to promote some other projects, Taylor-Johnson also spoke about his experience on “Kraven the Hunter” so far. According to Variety, the actor says that “Spider-Man’s number one rival” has been interesting to play because the notorious big game hunter is “not an alien, or a wizard. He’s just a hunter, a human with conviction.” That sounds about right. Although, in addition, Taylor-Johnson says Kraven is also “an animal lover and a protector of the natural world....

What Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon will be about, and its exciting cast In the Home of Mentally Insane Adolescents (it’s what the movie calls it, not us), a young woman named Mona Lisa Lee uses her mysterious superpowers to escape. As she wanders the overwhelming streets of New Orleans, she encounters some colorful characters, the most colorful of which is an exotic dancer named Bonnie Belle. While she takes pity on the young girl, she also sees her abilities as a way to make some fast cash....

New Seasons Of Doctor Who To Premiere Globally On Disney+ In 2023 BBC By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 25, 2022 10:42 am EST Throughout each and every one of the good Doctor’s regenerations — including this last one that brought Jodie Whittaker’s run to an end, as reviewed by /Film’s Hoai-Tran Bui — longtime “Doctor Who” fans have seen their favorite time-traveling protagonist crossing paths and making strange bedfellows with a whole assortment of odd characters over the decades....

One Piece Film Red Showcases Luffy’s New Transformation For The First Time Toei Animation By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 4, 2022 12:30 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “One Piece Film Red.” “One Piece Film Red” is finally in theaters in the U.S., and it came just in time as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the manga, and this past October marks the 23rd anniversary of the anime as well....

Over 30 Years After Release, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Is Still A Merchandise Monster Warner Bros. By Christian Gainey/Dec. 3, 2022 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over the past six years, it feels like the world has been tackling one crisis after another. Immediately following the 2016 election of the most controversial president in American history, the world was slammed by a pandemic, lockdowns, and shortages....

Film junkie Miramax Films In acting school, Tarantino could not leave his obsession with cinema at the door. While the rest of the class was reenacting a reading from “Hamlet,” Tarantino would bring in scripts of his favorite movie scenes, which he had memorized by heart and written out by hand. What really honed his writing chops, however, were the small revisions he would make to the scripts after transcribing each scene and assessing its effectiveness:...

Romper Stomper Village Roadshow It’s remarkable that Crowe found success as a charismatic lead given that his breakout role was as an absolutely unlikeable character. The 1992 Aussie drama “Romper Stomper” saw Crowe play a ruthless neo-Nazi who leads a violent skinhead group into skirmishes with rival gangs. Crowe is unsettling in this film, prone to psychopathic behavior and sudden bursts of aggression. Crowe plays Hando as an insecure brute who’s taken aback by the growth in diversity in his community....

Superhero Bits: More Mutants In Phase 5 Of The MCU, The Legacy Of Ant-Man & More Marvel By Ryan Scott/Dec. 2, 2022 3:40 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Terrence Malick Was Battling Constant Pressure Behind The Scenes Of Badlands Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Sept. 16, 2022 10:00 am EST Terrence Malick was fresh out of American Film Institute at the outset of the 1970s — along with Paul Schrader and Caleb Deschanel, he was one of its very first graduates — when he made a splash as a screenwriter, albeit uncredited, with drafts for “Dirty Harry” and Jack Nicholson’s “Drive, He Said....

The Actor Who Played A Christmas Story’s Whiny Brother Randy Was Genuinely Terrified Of The Santa Claus Slide MGM/UA Entertainment Co. By Ben F. Silverio/Dec. 9, 2022 4:52 pm EST It’s hard to predict what little kids will be afraid of. Even when something is tailor-made for them, it could just as easily be perceived as Freddy Krueger coming to get haut their dreams. For instance, my cousin took her very first steps running away from Goofy at Walt Disney World....

The cost of exposing government crimes Universal Pictures “Missing,” tells the story of the search to find leftist journalist Charles Horman (John Shea), by his father (Jack Lemmon) and wife (Sissy Spacek), who was kidnapped and executed in Chile during the 1973 coup. The movie supposes the United States government not only knew about Horman’s killing but perhaps even approved of it, as the coup itself was backed by the US....

The Creators Of Harley Quinn Never Expected Her To Become So Popular Warner Bros. By Jamie Gerber/Aug. 15, 2022 4:33 pm EST All comic characters evolve with the times, but few have grown from such humble beginnings to become an icon in quite the same way as Harley Quinn. Initially created for “Batman: The Animated Series” simply to add a female henchperson to Joker’s minions, Harley has since not only grown increasingly popular, but has also become quite a symbol of hope....

The Daily Stream: The Secret Garden Taught A Generation How To Self-Soothe Warner Bros. By Ariel Fisher/Aug. 17, 2022 9:12 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: “The Secret Garden” (1993) Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Young Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is an orphan....

Back in 1987 Hulu Bruckner, born in the late 1970s, admits to being taken with the 1987 original when he first saw it as a teen. Because of the film’s intense subject matter and extreme visuals, Brucker, as any nascent horror-loving teen would, fell under its spell. The story’s sexual frankness certainly take it a long way in terms of its impact on a young memory. Eschewing an all-too-common impulse toward flippant machismo, Brucker openly admits that “Hellraiser” actually frightened him....

The Most Frustrating Plot Holes In The DCEU Warner Bros. By Luke Y. Thompson/Aug. 10, 2022 6:34 pm EST Love is rarely, truly unconditional. Despite what the social media discourse may have us believe, it is entirely possible to both love a thing and also be entirely aware of its flaws — or maybe, in the best of cases, even be amused by them. In the world of cinema, that’s never been truer than when it comes to the DC Extended Universe, or — depending which parts of the franchise one considers canon — the Snyder-verse....

‘I shot it as much as I could like a little movie’ HBO The making of “The Sopranos” has been meticulously documented, and one of the best resources for learning about it is the book “Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos,” which is mostly transcribed from an accompanying podcast series hosted by “Sopranos” stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa. When the two discussed “College” with the episode’s director, Allen Coulter, they learned that a big part of the series’ style came from Coulter’s lack of television experience....

The Watcher Ending Explained: A Culture Of Paranoia, Revealed Eric Liebowitz/Netflix By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 18, 2022 3:11 pm EST Netflix’s “The Watcher” is the kind of show that makes you want to talk to your TV screen. The endlessly twisty, perpetually borderline nonsensical series that’s loosely based on a true story necessitates more than the occasional “WHAT?!” response. It’s a show that keeps viewers guessing right up until the moment it ends, and indeed, at some points seems designed more as a guessing game than an actual narrative....

Thor 4 scores more Marvel Despite the higher box office numbers, “Thor: Love and Thunder” isn’t raking quote in as much adoration as its predecessor. “Thor: Ragnarok” held steady with a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics, while “Thor: Love and Thunder” has already fallen to 67%. Along with the most recent “Doctor Strange” film, it’s also received a CinemaScore in the B range, which is low for a Marvel film....