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‘Gook’ Trailer: Korean-American Film Takes A Fresh Look At The ’90s L.A. Riots By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 28, 2017 4:00 pm EST After making a buzzy premiere at Sundance and picking up the film festival’s Next Audience Award, Gook finally has a trailer. And it looks powerful. Following a day in the lives of two Korean-American brothers living in Los Angeles in the 1990s, Korean-American actor-turned-filmmaker Justin Chon’s Gook (which is a derogatory slur for East or Southeast Asian foreigners) explores the Korean perspective of the 1992 Rodney King race riots, sparked by the brutal police beating of a black man caught on camera, but also partly by the 1991 shooting of a black girl by a Korean storekeeper....

‘Hereditary’ Spoiler Review: Family Is Horror By Meredith Borders/June 12, 2018 7:00 am EST (In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Ari Aster’s Hereditary.) In its opening days, Hereditary has sailed past tracking expectations and earned A24 its biggest weekend release yet. Ari Aster’s indie horror film has been generating conversation since its January Sundance screening, and now that it’s on nearly three thousand screens, that conversation has gotten a lot louder....

‘Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times’ And ‘These Amazing Shadows’ – Great Documentaries With A Similar Flaw [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 25, 2011 8:00 am EST Monday at the Sundance Film Festival I spent a year at the New York Times and 100 years at the movies. Two documentaries, Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times and These Amazing Shadows, both impressed with their poignancy and entertainment value....

‘Slice’ Director And Cast On Their Wild And Weird Horror Comedy [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Sept. 14, 2018 4:00 pm EST One of the most talked about streaming releases of the week was dropped on the unsuspecting public on Monday like a new album by Beyonce, Radiohead or Kanye West, with nearly identical fanfare, due in large part to it being the big-screen acting debut of Chance the Rapper (or as he’s credited in the film, Chance Bennett)....

‘Solo’ Novelization Reveals What Happened To L3 After She Was Uploaded To The Falcon By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 22, 2018 1:30 pm EST Remember Solo: A Star Wars Story? While the latest Star Wars spin-off film underwhelmed the box office, it was (mostly) fun and breezy. But there was one particular plot-point featured in the film that was a bit disturbing: the fate of droid L3-37. The upcoming Solo novelization delves into this, and tries to put a positive spin on it all....

‘Thor: The Dark World’ Review: Laughs And Character Make For One Of Marvel’s Best By Germain Lussier/Oct. 22, 2013 1:01 pm EST While Kenneth Branagh struggled to define a world in the original Thor, Alan Taylor has the gift of audience familiarly with its sequel Thor: The Dark World. Branagh’s original film took a long time to find its footing and never quite explored how great the characters of Thor and Loki could be....

41 Songs Eligible For Best Original Song Oscar By Germain Lussier/Dec. 15, 2010 5:00 pm EST Anyone who has read The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy looks at that headline and thinks, “They couldn’t pick one more?” Nope, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced there are 41 songs officially eligible for the Best Original Song Academy Award that will be given at the Oscars, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, on February 27....

Embracing The Illusion: How I Auditioned For The Magic Castle By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2017 7:00 am EST Ever since I was a little kid, I was fascinated by magic and dreamed of visiting The Magic Castle. But I would never imagine as a kid that I’d have the opportunity to become a member or perform magic inside the prestigious palace of wizardry. Here’s the story of what happened when I did a little more than imagine....

Exclusive: Colin Trevorrow Explains The ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Ending, Teases Where ‘Jurassic World 3’ Will Go By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2018 9:00 am EST A couple weeks ago, I met up with co-writer and producer Colin Trevorrow in an empty hotel lobby to talk about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I had planned a traditional interview, but it being the night after the film’s Hollywood premiere, Trevorrow seemed excited to finally dive into spoilers....

Growing Up ‘Gotham’: The Bizarre, Frustrating Inconsistencies Of Fox’s Batman Prequel By Karen Han/April 24, 2017 9:00 am EST As Gotham returns for the rest of its third season, it’s still full of mixed blessings. Since the pilot, the good has gotten better and the bad has gotten worse, making it a bit of a hard sell to anybody who isn’t a Batman nut already. And even then, the liberties that the show takes might be enough to turn the biggest Bat-fans off....

How The ‘Big Bang Theory’ Prequel ‘Young Sheldon’ is Like ‘The Wonder Years’ [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 1, 2017 10:45 am EST CBS presented a panel on their Big Bang Theory prequel, Young Sheldon, to the Television Critics Association today. Iain Armitage plays Sheldon Cooper at age nine in the year 1989, with Jim Parsons providing voiceover. It is creator Chuck Lorre’s first show that is not filmed in front of a studio audience, and speaking about the new format, Lorre compared it to the classic ’60s nostalgia show The Wonder Years....

Hugo Weaving And Ben Whishaw Join The Wachowski/Tykwer Adaptation Of ‘Cloud Atlas;’ We Speculate On Their Roles By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2011 9:02 pm EST There’s some major movement on Cloud Atlas, the adaptation of David Mitchell’s ambitious novel that Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski are writing and planning to direct together. The project has been crawling forward for some time, and was recently announced as a definite ‘go’ with Tom Hanks in one of the key roles....

Marvel Hires ‘XXX’ Screenwriter For ‘Iron Fist’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 11:17 am EST Marvel Studios has just hired a screenwriter for Iron Fist, a film featuring the long-running Marvel second-stringer hero who fights with a combination of martial arts and supernatural power. Rich Wilkes will pen the first draft of the script. Deadline says that hiring Wilkes, who also wrote XXX, marks the latest stage in an attempt to bring Iron Fist to the screen....

Michael Moore Will Appeal ‘Where To Invade Next’ R Rating By Jack Giroux/Nov. 3, 2015 6:30 am EST Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine) is not happy with the MPAA. The filmmaker’s first film in over six years, Where to Invade Next, has been branded with an R rating from the ratings board. The MPAA has never been the biggest fan of logic, and, like plenty of other filmmakers have in the past, Moore is taking them to task for it....

On The ‘Skyfall’ Set Bond And Bardem Engage In A Catacomb Confrontation By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2012 5:00 pm EST The twenty-third James Bond film, which once again stars Daniel Craig and is directed by Sam Mendes, is called Skyfall. As it turns out, in one sense, the title has a very nearly literal implication. In the culmination of a chase scene that winds through and beneath London, the villain Silva, played by Javier Bardem, causes an explosion in a catacomb chamber underneath a London tube station....

Relativity Media To Stream Movies On Netflix Instead Of Premium Cable By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2010 5:00 am EST Relativity Media has announced a deal with Netflix, to stream upcoming theatrical movie releases to Netflix subscribers instead of being released on premium television channels like HBO, Cinemax Showtime and Starz. The company claims this is the first time this has been done, and marks a “big shift in the film distribution model....

Remake Bits: ‘Poltergeist’ Writer Speaks; Plus, ‘Oldboy,’ ‘The Intouchables,’ ‘Mona Lisa,’ ‘Starship Troopers’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 26, 2012 4:12 pm EST Remakes live, die and get defended in this edition of Remake Bits. After the jump, read about the following: David Lindsay-Abaire gives an update of the Poltergiest remake. Sharlto Copley eases fan misconceptions about Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy. Chris Tucker is in talks for the remake of the French smash The Intouchables....

Sequel Bits: First Look At Amber Heard In ‘Machete Kills,’ Plus More ‘Alex Cross,’ Trouble On ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ And ‘Pirates 5,’ ‘Sex And The City 3’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2012 11:00 am EST The image you see above is the first look at Amber Heard as she appears in the Robert Rodriguez film Machete Kills. The movie is, as you likely know, the sequel to 2009’s Machete, which was itself an expansion of the very entertaining “fake” trailer that appeared in the Rodriguez/Tarantino effort Grindhouse....

Star Wars: Rebellion Board Game Will Put You In The Epic Galactic Civil War By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2015 12:00 pm EST Over the last few years I’ve become obsessed with tabletop gaming, and I’ve been trying to slowly bring tabletop coverage to /Film when it seemed appropriate: be it my feature on which board game movies Hollywood should make next, to Jacob Hall’s Cardboard Cinema features (his first two-part article was on the board games Star Wars fans would love)....

Superhero Bits: Bisexual Wonder Woman, Green Arrow Goatee, Thor: Ragnarok Posters & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2017 5:00 pm EST Will we ever see the iconic Green Arrow goatee appear in an episode of Arrow? Would you like to see Wonder Woman be bisexual in the DC Extended Universe? How much is Justice League projected to make in its opening weekend this fall? Which major Hollywood franchise star might have a little cameo in Thor: Ragnarok?...