The Best & Worst Sketches From Emily Blunt’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 16, 2016 1:54 pm EST With her film The Girl on the Train in theaters right now, Emily Blunt hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time last night. Despite a strong start with a presidential debate sketch that topped the season premiere, the rest of the night was chock full of some of the clumsiest, awkward sketches in recent memory....
Theme Park Bits: Star Wars Land, Harry Potter, Haunted Mansion, Disneyland FastPass+, Captain America And More By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2015 10:30 am EST It’s been a while since the last Theme Park Bits, and I have a lot of bits saved up to discuss, including the following: Universal Studios Hollywood launches a virtual tour of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. FastPass+-style tests being conducted at Space Mountain in Disneyland....
This Week In Trailers: Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel, Garbo: The Spy, House Of Pleasures, Aurora, Planes, Trains & Automobiles By Christopher Stipp/Nov. 18, 2011 5:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...
‘22 Jump Street’ Set Visit: Chris Miller And Phil Lord Talk Expectations, Cameos, Sequels And Bromances By Germain Lussier/April 4, 2014 9:00 am EST This is part two of our coverage from the set of 22 Jump Street. Read our full report here and check back soon for an interview with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. November 2013 might not seem like a long time ago, but for directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller the months between then and now are like a lifetime....
‘American Gods’ Review: ‘Git Gone’ Worships At The Altar Of Laura Moon By Vanessa Bogart/May 22, 2017 9:30 am EST (Each week, we’ll kick off our discussion of American Gods by answering one simple question: which character do we worship this week?) Bone orchards, man-eaters, fire genies, oh my! The first three episodes of American Gods gave us a lot to swallow, but episode four, “Git Gone,” following Laura Moon’s journey to and from the grave, showed us that things aren’t just not what they seem when it comes to gods, but also when it comes to (seemingly) boring, uninteresting humanity....
/Answers: The Greatest Coats And Jackets In Movie History By /Film Staff/Oct. 4, 2017 10:30 am EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. Tying in with the release of Blade Runner 2049, this week’s edition asks the question that is on everyone’s mind: “What is your favorite coat or jacket in movie history?” What? Did you think we were going to go with “favorite sci-fi dystopia”?...
‘Black Panther’ Takes The Crown At 19th Annual Golden Trailer Awards By Ben Pearson/June 1, 2018 12:30 pm EST Last night, the 19th annual Golden Trailer Awards were held at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, celebrating the best movie marketing of the year. And while Wonder Woman reigned supreme at last year’s ceremony, a trailer for Disney and Marvel Studios’ Black Panther ended up taking home the top prize last night....
‘Child’s Play’ Remake Won’t Have Supernatural Elements, But Will Be Similar To ‘Small Soldiers’ For Some Reason By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 28, 2018 11:00 am EST The Child’s Play remake that no one wants continues to move forward, and some newly surfaced plot details reaffirm that this whole endeavor is ill-advised. The new take on the old story will allegedly remove all traces of the supernatural, and boil the plot down to something akin to Small Soldiers rather than Child’s Play....
/Film Interview: ‘A Field In England’ Director Ben Wheatley By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2014 3:00 pm EST I think Ben Wheatley, together with partner/writer/editor Amy Jump, is one of the most interesting directors working now. He makes genre films that are, thanks to Jump’s scripts, very sharp and perceptive, but also very weird, and not at all afraid to push audiences out of their comfort zones. A Field in England is emblematic of the films they make together....
/Film Visited VFX House Digital Domain And Found Out How They Created Thanos In ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ By Ben Pearson/Aug. 14, 2018 9:00 am EST Update: This piece has been updated in an attempt to clarify the work done by Digital Domain and Weta Digital. You can find out more below, and our original article follows. 13 visual effects vendors collaborated to make 18 digital characters for Avengers: Infinity War, and Josh Brolin’s villainous Thanos is the most important of them all....
‘Summer Of ‘84 Directors On Crafting Their Nostalgic Horror Throwback And The Status Of ‘Turbo Kid 2’ [Fantasia Film Festival Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Aug. 10, 2018 12:00 pm EST What is about the image kids on bicycles, having an adventure, that just screams “This is a story set in the 1980s”? The trio of Montreal-based filmmaking team, known collectively as RKSS (and individually as François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell), decided to find out when they got their hands on the Summer of ‘84 script from first-time screenwriters Matt Leslie and Stephen J....
‘The Art Of Flight’ And 7.1 Surround Sound: A Trip To Dolby By Germain Lussier/Nov. 8, 2011 3:00 pm EST The moral of this story is two fold. First, sound totally makes a movie. And second, always do your best, you never know where it might take you. That second point applies because, a few weeks ago, I wrote a story about how Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was the first film ever released to a streaming site encoded with Dolby 7....
‘The Crown’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s Royal Drama Is Better Than Ever By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 8, 2017 7:30 am EST The Crown returns to Netflix for season 2 today, bringing with it a whole new era of scandal, romance, and royal intrigue. While it may not be the most action-packed shows to grace the streaming platform, it is one of the best: an old fashioned, admirably episodic costume drama with superb performances, intricate direction, and enough simmering, bottled-up righteous fury to keep you hooked from beginning to end (give or take an episode or two)....
‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Takes Nurturing Education To A New, Unsettling Level [Sundance] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 20, 2018 11:00 am EST At one point in the beguiling remake of the 2014 Israeli of the same name, a character in The Kindergarten Teacher evokes the name of Mozart as being a prime example of a child prodigy who was nurtured and otherwise taken care of by those who appreciated his unprecedented talent to the point where the young composer only had to focus on creating....
‘The Mummy’ Airplane Sequence Was Shot In Zero G Using The Vomit Comet By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2016 7:00 am EST Now that you’ve seen the trailer for The Mummy, you might be surprised to learn that they shot that intense plane sequence partially in the Weightless Wonders reduced-gravity aircraft. Learn more about how Tom Cruise convinced director Alex Kurtzman to film The Mummy airplane sequence in real zero-g weightlessness, after the jump....
‘The X-Files’ Revival Review: The Quality Is Out There…Somewhere By Jacob Hall/Jan. 27, 2016 11:00 am EST Once upon a time, The X-Files was my thing. Years before Lost and Battlestar Galactica, I had FBI Agents Mulder and Scully and their increasingly bizarre caseload full of aliens and monsters and supernatural occurrences. This is one of the the great genre shows of my life, a vital cornerstone in my taste that sits right alongside the likes of Star Trek....
Best Stories Of The Week: Terminator, Heroes Reborn, Spider-Man, Independence Day And More By Ethan Anderton/June 27, 2015 1:00 pm EST It’s time to catch up on the big news from this last full week in June with the Best Stories of the Week. Below we recap the biggest stories from the past seven days including our set visit from Ant-Man, new information about Independence Day 2, the cancellation of Hannibal on NBC, our new Spider-Man revealed, rumors swirling about Green Lantern and Ben Affleck’s Batman and more....
Comparing The BBFC And The MPAA, And How Antichrist Illustrates The Differences By Brendon Connelly/June 14, 2009 9:00 am EST On Friday, the BBFC announced their classification for Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and it became an instant news story that the film was to be released fully uncut in the UK. Indeed, Russ Fischer wrote /Film’s report on the matter. For greater context, however, I want to provide a discussion of how the BBFC work, how this is different (and to my mind, better) than the MPAA, and some very specific details of the Antichrist ruling....
HDTGM: A Conversation With Simon Wincer, Director Of THE PHANTOM By Blake Harris/Aug. 12, 2016 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. On February 17, 1936, Lee Falk’s comic strip hero The Phantom was introduced to the world. Over the following years—as the character reached millions of fans through an unparalleled-for-that-era level of worldwide syndication—The Phantom became an international sensation. The comic strip (clearly) excelled in many countries around the world, but perhaps none more so than Australia....
How ‘Force Awakens’ Changed During Development: Jedi Killers, Force Ghosts And The Doom Star By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2015 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How did Star Wars: the Force Awakens evolve during the development process? What were some of the early ideas they were playing with that didn’t end up in the final film? The new book The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens gives us a peek inside the development of Episode 7, from the earliest concepts to post production....
