Posts

Star Wars: First Details Of What Happened Between Return Of The Jedi And The Force Awakens By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2015 12:32 pm EST What happened in the thirty years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens? In March, Disney announced they would release a series of books called Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which would fill in that gap through a mix of novels, comics, children’s books and young adult stories (all considered official Star Wars canon)....

Star Wars Bits: New Andy Fairhurst Posters, Charity Auctions, And A Terrific Carrie Fisher Q&A By Jacob Hall/Aug. 25, 2016 3:00 pm EST Artist Andy Fairhurst has created a new series of posters for Bottleneck Gallery featuring Padme Amidala, Leia Organa, and Rey with each Star Wars heroine standing before an army of Clone Troopers/Imperial Stormtroopers/First Order Stormtroopers while something round and significant hovers in the air. This set comes in a limited edition of only 325, costs $100, and is on sale right now....

This Week In Trailers: Love Life, The Other Side Of Paradise, Wolf At The Door, The Be All And End All, Red Princess Blues By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 3, 2010 6:00 pm EST A few weeks ago I talked about a trailer called New Kids Turbo. I received a good amount of e-mail letting me know what it was about these nitwits that looked so damn odd, albeit hilarious, to those who lived in the Netherlands....

TV Bits: ‘American Horror Story’ Season 7 Tease, ‘Preacher’ Posters, BBC’s ‘War Of The Worlds’, & More By Ben Pearson/May 8, 2017 3:35 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Ryan Murphy’s terrifying tease of American Horror Story season 7 Bold new Preacher posters point to a different direction for season 2 A slew of new shows are on the way from the BBC The CW cancels Frequency and No Tomorrow Benicio Del Toro and Patricia Arquette are joining Ben Stiller’s Showtime series and more!...

TV Bits: Frank Darabont’s ‘L.A. Noir’ Gets Guest Star Simon Pegg, Plus: ‘The Killing’, ‘Mad Men’, ‘Community’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, And More By Angie Han/March 14, 2012 4:45 pm EST We’ve got a ton of small screen-centric odds and ends today, and there’s good news for just about everyone. Unless, that is, you’re Mike Tyson, Spike Lee, John Boyega, or Lord Eddard Stark. After the jump: Simon Pegg enters talks for Frank Darabont’s L....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Finale Images Tease A Major Meeting By Ben Pearson/Aug. 24, 2017 2:30 pm EST It feels like HBO’s Game of Thrones is just getting revved up again, but this year’s shorter season of only seven episodes means that we’re already only a few days away from the season finale, which airs this Sunday night. The premium network has released a batch of Game of Thrones season 7 finale images, so let’s take a closer look and see what they might tell us about what to expect in the 80-minute episode, the longest of the series thus far....

‘Get Out’ Is Not A Comedy, It’s A Documentary Says Jordan Peele By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2017 12:30 pm EST What began as an amusing piece of awards season news has blown into a much larger conversation. Jordan Peele’s Get Out, one of the best and most financially successful movies of 2017, has been categorized as a comedy by Hollywood Foreign Press Association. That means that it will qualify in the “Best Comedy or Musical” category at next year’s Golden Globes, should it earn the nomination....

‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Will Be A Book; Plus A New Look At Universal Studios’ Wizarding World By Angie Han/Feb. 10, 2016 1:00 pm EST J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter book series ended in 2007, and the Harry Potter film series followed not too long after in 2011. But the Harry Potter franchise is as robust and productive as ever. In fact, 2016 is already shaping up to be a huge year for Potterheads....

‘Justice League’ Review: A Safer (And Far Less Interesting) DC Superhero Movie By Karen Han/Nov. 17, 2017 8:00 am EST Each movie in the DCEU can be parsed by its sound. Man of Steel remains — to me, at least — the best of the DC films so far; the theme at its core is simplistic, but it aches and it soars, and speaking on a broader level, it also comes closest to synthesizing the superhero with the present climate in the way that Christopher Nolan’s Batman films did....

‘Preacher’ Review: ‘Sokosha’ May Be The Best Episode Of The Series To Date By Alex Riviello/July 25, 2017 1:00 pm EST (Each week, we’re going to discussion Preacher’s season 2 by examining the differences between the original comics and AMC’s television adaptation.) This week’s review is going to be a little different, because for once, the Preacher comics are directly represented in the TV show. In fact, they’re shown on screen!...

By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2012 12:00 pm EST Drew Goddard’s long delayed deconstructive horror film, The Cabin in the Woods, is so good it deserves a massive coming out party. That’s exactly what it’s going to get this March.The Cabin in the Woods was just announced as the opening night film of the 2012 South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival which will take place in Austin, Texas from March 9-17....

Batman, Robert De Niro, Bros Before Hos - Nicholas Stoller Tells Us About The Best Jokes In ‘Neighbors’ By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2014 7:00 am EST Neighbors is now in theaters, and based on the box office receipts, it could end up being one of the biggest surprises of the summer. It’s not that big of a surprise after you see it, though, because the movie is just so damn funny....

David O. Russell Circling ‘Maleficent’, Working On Action-Drama ‘The Mission’ With Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura By Angie Han/June 15, 2011 8:20 am EST David O. Russell may have left behind the video game adaptation Uncharted, but the director’s not exactly wanting for new projects to work on. The latest potential additions to his slate are a Lorenzo di Bonaventura-produced action film titled The Mission, and Disney’s Sleeping Beauty retelling Maleficent. (In fact, the latter is likely the reason Russell was allegedly meeting with star Angelina Jolie last week — Russ called it when he expressed his skepticism that Jolie would be interested in the Silver Linings female lead....

Diagon Alley Food And Drinks: The Best New Eatables In The Wizarding World By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2014 10:00 am EST When The Wizarding World of Harry Potter first opened at Universal Orlando, fans went nuts over the real-life beverage adaptation of Butterbeer, and loved candy treats that had only previously been seen in the movies and books. (As invented, in fiction, by JK Rowling herself.) So what does the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley expansion hold in terms of fun food and drink options?...

Discuss The 10 Greatest Movies Of All Time, According To The Internet By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2012 3:30 pm EST We’re reached a point in the evolution of film criticism where a shift is occurring. Critics who’ve been in the game for decades and decades are slowly beginning to give way to a younger, more vocal audience, many of whom are online. The beautiful thing about that is, though they all share a love of cinema, everyone has their own opinions of how and why we got there....

By Ben Pearson/Sept. 20, 2017 3:26 pm EST Update: George R.R. Martin has provided a few more updates about this series on his blog, and you can read the relevant portions at the bottom of this article. Current Game of Thrones writer and producer Bryan Cogman has a live-action movie adaptation of The Sword in the Stone in the works and a film based on Magic: The Gathering on his plate, but it looks like he’s not finished with the world of ice and fire quite yet....

First Look: The ‘Descendants’ Of Maleficent, Cruella & Other Disney Villains By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2014 12:45 pm EST The upcoming Disney Channel Original movie, Descendants, has a fantastic idea. We know all the heroes of Disney movies live happily ever after, but the villains don’t die. So what happens to them? In Descendants, we learn all the villains have been exiled to the Isle of the Lost. When the new King of the Kingdom, the son of Belle and the Beast, takes the throne, he offers the kids of the villains a chance to redeem themselves....

Help Preserve World’s Largest Home Video Collection By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2014 10:30 am EST In December 2013, David Chen released a short documentary on /Film titled Scarecrow Video: An Inside Look at the World’s Biggest Independent Video Store (watch that video here). Scarecrow Video in Seattle is the largest independent video store on the planet. The store is not just a collection of movies trapped in old physical media, but many of the films available at Scarcrow are rare and not elsewhere....

Ingrid Goes West Review: Aubrey Plaza’s Hilarious Stalker Dark Comedy Set In The Instagram Era [Sundance] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST It is only two days into the 2017 Sundance Film Festival but Ingrid Goes West is already my favorite of the seven films I’ve screened thus far. A hilarious dark comedy version of Single White Female, it stars Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen and is set in the age of social media idolatry....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Movies To Watch With ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ By Scott Beggs/June 21, 2018 10:00 am EST We never got a Jaws 5. Not really. There’s the Italian knockoff Cruel Jaws that wanted people to think it was part of the franchise, but it’s a million nautical miles from counting. So we stalled out at Jaws: The Revenge. Way to go, humanity. It’s easy to forget how wild it is that, decades after the initial adventure, the other Steven Spielberg franchise about prehistoric beasts transforming family dramas into horror films has made it to a fifth entry....