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The Daily Stream: Dr. Stone Is The Science-Loving Adventure You Need To Catch Up On Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor/July 11, 2022 5:00 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 Series: “Dr. Stone” Where You Can Stream It: Crunchyroll The Pitch: When a mysterious beam of light covers the world, every human becomes petrified....

The Legacy Of ‘Dear Zachary:’ Zachary’s Bill Becomes Law In Canada By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 11:00 am EST One of the most gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching and emotional documentaries to be released in past few years is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the film begins as a portrait of Kuenne’s murdered best friend Andrew Bagby so that Bagby’s newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he’s older....

The Most Brutal Moments In Nope, Ranked Universal Pictures/YouTube By Gino Orlandini/July 26, 2022 2:26 pm EST Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Jordan Peele’s “Nope.” Jordan Peele’s third film “Nope” is a slow-burn UFO suspense-thriller. There are brutal moments for sure, but Peele’s coy camera has much in common with the methodical M. Night Shyamalan. Coincidentally, Shyamalan followed his first two hits with a similarly suspenseful alien creature feature in “Signs....

Top Gun: Maverick’s Editor Was ‘Desperate’ For The Movie ‘Not To Suck’ [Exclusive] Paramount Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 10, 2022 10:04 pm EST Despite their massive earnings this year, not even dinosaurs (“Jurassic World: Dominion”), Marvel superheroes (“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”), or the wrath of yellow henchmen (“Minions: The Rise of Gru”) could have staved over the sheer force that is Tom Cruise piloting a fighter jet. As of this moment, “Top Gun: Maverick” has raked in over $1....

Watch An Apocalyptic Blooper Reel For The Umbrella Academy Season 3 Netflix By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 24, 2022 2:29 pm EST This article contains spoilers for season 3 of “The Umbrella Academy.” The best thing about “The Umbrella Academy” is the cast. The series has a lot of fun things going on, from its killer soundtrack to wild world-building, but nothing can top the clear camaraderie and chemistry of this cast. I might have had some serious issues with the end of season 3 of the Netflix series, but I love the cast and characters they play too much to ever give up on being a Brellie....

My kingdom for a horse United Artists “Romeo + Juliet” was the film that broke the bank, but it was actually beaten to the Cool Shakespeare craze a year earlier, with Richard Loncraine’s uber-stylish take on “Richard III,” starring a deliciously wicked Ian McKellan as Richard (leading a swell cast that includes Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, and Maggie Smith). McKellen, who co-wrote the adaptation with Loncraine, reconfigures the story of the mad king to a fascist Nazi Germany-like England in the 1930s....

Why Christopher Reeve Preferred Director Richard Lester’s Vision For Superman Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Oct. 20, 2022 3:04 pm EST Director Richard Lester, prior to his work on “Superman II” (1980) and “Superman III” (1983), was better known as a director of musical films. His first feature, 1962’s “It’s Trad, Dad!” was a youthsploitation picture about hip British teens getting into the underground Dixieland jazz scene and featured 27 songs. He followed that with a sequel to the Peter Sellers comedy “The Mouse That Roared” (about the world’s smallest nation unwittingly conquering the United States in war), a space race farce called “The Mouse on the Moon....

Why House Of The Dragon’s Nighttime Scenes Look Like Crap HBO By Mike Shutt/Oct. 3, 2022 4:21 pm EST If you threw on the seventh episode of “House of the Dragon” last night to watch your weekly dose of Westerosi power plays and incest, you may have had trouble actually seeing what was happening on screen for about half of the episode. Twitter was home to countless comments about needing to turn up your TV’s brightness or just images of people squinting, struggling to see things directly in front of them....

You Can Watch Four Minutes Of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One In IMAX Theaters This Weekend Paramount Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 12, 2022 4:17 pm EST Your mission? Very possible. Paramount has officially confirmed to /Film that moviegoers will be able to see a four-minute behind-the-scenes look at “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” in IMAX beginning this Thursday, December 15. The latest installment in the Tom Cruise-led action franchise is still seven months away, but IMAX theater-goers will be treated to a sneak peek at the saga starting this weekend....

2016’s Holiday Horror Film Better Watch Out Almost Ended Very Differently Well Go USA By Sarah Musnicky/Dec. 5, 2022 4:45 pm EST With the arrival of December comes embracing the Christmas horror subgenre. When it’s good, it’s good. When it’s bad, you still can’t turn away. There’s just something about the holidays going absolutely wrong that serves as both nightmare fuel and brilliant catharsis depending on the execution. It’s why holiday horror film classics like “Black Christmas” and “Gremlins” still reign supreme on many of the Best Christmas horror lists to this day....

A battle for the ages Warner Bros. Pictures It’s very hard to avoid spoilers these days, especially once things get out on the internet. The information ends up in titles or images on news aggregator sites. Friends say things around water coolers. Plus, when the star himself implies the possibility in interviews, and you hear about a leak, you draw conclusions. Still, this is one of those things — this specific mid-credits scene — where it’s something fans were hoping for (and likely expecting) in the first place....

Disney’s Pinocchio Review: Re-Watch The Original Instead Of This Wooden Remake Disney By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 8, 2022 3:00 am EST “Pinocchio” is the latest Disney animated film to get an updated “live-action” remake in our contemporary times. The 1940 original is rightfully a classic — a film that pushed the boundary of what animation can bring to the screen and a story about a boy’s earnest search to find out who he is....

Eddie Redmayne Filmed A Desperate Audition Video To Land His Role Les Misérables Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/Nov. 3, 2022 9:00 pm EST After a film has come out, it’s always nice to look at how the performers got their roles. You often hear about actors who don’t actually have to audition for the part, but when they do, it tends to be a fun story. Eddie Redmayne recently broke down his career in a new video for Vanity Fair, and spoke about the role of Marius in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the musical “Les Misérables....

Sara Lance CW The Arrowverse’s penchant for recasting goes all the way back to its earliest days. Before Sara Lance became White Canary, a mainstay in the DC small-screen universe who appeared across multiple shows and timelines, she was Oliver Queen’s long-lost love interest. In the 2012 pilot of “Arrow,” Sara is played by “The Bold and the Beautiful” star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. But when Sara returns from the dead in season 2 as The Canary, it’s with actor Caity Lotz under the cowl....

The Mist’s redemption was a long time coming Dimension Pictures In terms of marketability, “The Mist” had less going against it than “The Shawshank Redemption.” It was a Stephen King adaptation with monsters and scares, and while Frank Darabont had taken a commercial/critical stumble with 2001’s “The Majestic,” both of his previous King movies had been nominated for multiple Oscars including Best Picture. He didn’t have an A-list movie star in the lead, but the cast was stocked with highly respected character actors....

Two movies at once Disney Because they were filming two movies at once and time was of the essence, they went through each location with both movies in mind. For a location like the Caribbean island St. Vincent, which is where every scene in Tortuga and Port Royal was filmed, they could only afford to stay there once. As Verbinski explained: “We came to St. Vincent, just shot a few days....

Star Wars Bits: Andor, Grand Admiral Thrawn, StageCraft, Path Of Deceit, R5-D4, Boba Fett, Halloween Were-Wookiee, And More! By Adam Frazier/Oct. 14, 2022 9:47 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “Andor” Breakdowns & Reviews Is Lars Mikkelsen Playing Thrawn in “Ahsoka?” Actors on ILM StageCraft Marvel’s Upcoming “Star Wars” Comics And More! Andor breakdowns & reviews Above, Nerdist’s Dan Casey breaks down everything you might have missed in this week’s episode of “Andor....

Stardust Borrowed Its Structure From A Very Different Robert De Niro Film Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 9, 2022 1:08 pm EST Neil Gaiman’s writing (be it his short stories, novels, or comic books) is often as weird and whimsical as it is scary and melancholy. It’s the multi-hyphenate’s ability to effortlessly blur the lines between genres and tones that makes his work tricky to adapt, even in the cases where all involved parties are on the same page creatively....

Tales From The Box Office: Happy Feet, Not Fury Road, Is George Miller’s Biggest Movie Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Aug. 27, 2022 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.) The career of George Miller is undoubtedly a fascinating one. The man directed one of the most profitable films ever made in the form of “Mad Max” back in 1980, which launched the franchise that has defined much of his career....

A series of illustrations, part one: monstrum alatum New Line Cinema In its first moments, “Werewolf by Night” delivers some Easter eggs for fans to sift through. The special presentation opens with a black-and-white etching of the Avengers team circa 2012, when the lineup consisted of Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor. It pans down to reveal another sketch of a monstrous creature with long, gleaming teeth and pitch-black eyes....