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Superhero Bits: Watchmen, Kick Ass 2, The Avengers, Hellboy, Batman: Arkham City By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2011 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How many IMAX theaters will be showing The Dark Knight Rises prologue in the United Kingdom? Has The Wolverine been delayed after all? What comic book did an Illinois man find in his attic? Does Jeremy Renner think a Hawkeye solo movie is possible?...

The ‘Last Jedi’ Backlash Is Another Example Of Fandom Gone Wrong By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 18, 2017 12:30 pm EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: addressing the toxic, dangerous fan backlash to Star Wars: The Last Jedi.) It’s okay to dislike Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Your opinion is your own and no one can take that away from you....

This Week In Trailers: Goodbye To Language, Head First: The Marty Livewire Story, The Broken Legacy, Here Comes The Night, The Green Prince By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 10, 2014 10:00 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Guardians, Chicken, Born In China, Troublemakers, Goldstone, Strike A Pose By Christopher Stipp/April 26, 2016 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Impulse, Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution, Eviction Notice, The Cleaners, Never Steady, Never Still, Belly By Christopher Stipp/March 24, 2018 8:00 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Southbound, 600 Miles, Elle, Darby Forever, Nuts! By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 24, 2016 8:00 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: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week’s ‘The 100’ Is A Very Special Episode [Wondercon] By Fred Topel/March 31, 2016 7:30 am EST The cast and creator of The CW’s The 100 were at WonderCon last weekend for a panel. After their panel, we caught up with creator Jason Rothenberg and stars Eliza Taylor and Lindsey Morgan in roundtables. The show has been on hiatus for a few weeks after a devastating episode in which (spoiler alert!...

Todd McFarlane Explains What He Wants From A Low-Budget, Dark ‘Spawn’ Film By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2011 3:30 pm EST Todd McFarlane is about to cross the two-hundred issue line with Spawn — hell of an achievement for a non-Marvel or DC book, no matter what you think of the title. That sort of longevity arguably affords him some indulgence to talk up another Spawn film. There’s obviously an audience for the book, and consequently there could be one for another film....

2018 Oscars Winners List: ‘The Shape Of Water’ Wins Best Picture Of The Year By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2018 9:30 pm EST The 90th Academy Awards aired Sunday night. It was Hollywood’s biggest night, at least until next year and we’ve got the full list of winners who went home with Oscar gold. In a tight race for Best Picture, The Shape of Water came home with Best Picture and Guillermo del Toro won Best Director....

Abomination – The Incredible Hulk Personality: 9/20 Plan: 1/20 Total: 10/40 You earn bonus points if you don’t have to Google the name of the guy who becomes Abomination. Tim Roth’s character might as well have been called “Third Act Fight Thing.” He’s desperate to get ‘roided out, then he does, and half the concrete in the city gets crushed. The plan is to punch stuff. Malekith – Thor: The Dark World Personality: 8/20...

Beyond The Infinite: Revisiting ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ On 70mm By Siddhant Adlakha/June 6, 2018 8:00 am EST Primitive humans, caressing a consummate altar, worshipping, perhaps for the first time. We worship with them. Manmade celestial bodies, waltzing to Johann Strauss II, a flawless union of past and future. We waltz with them. A chilling cyclops, made of ones and zeroes, who ought not to feel human. He does. His victims, flesh and blood, ought to, but feel distant....

Cannes: The Film Market, Monsters, The Housemaid By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2010 10:00 pm EST The Cannes Film Festival is more than just a festival. They also have a large film market where distributors try to market and sell their films to international territories. I started off my day on Thursday by attending a buyers screening. At Cannes, press are allowed admission to some of the buyers screenings, but only at the last minute with space permitting....

Director Joe Russo Calls ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ The ‘Nashville’ Of Superhero Movies By Jack Giroux/April 13, 2016 6:00 am EST The Russo brothers may or may not have been exaggerating when they said Avengers: Infinity War would feature a whopping 67 characters, but the fact is, there are a lot of characters in their two-part film. While that might concern some Marvel fans, after seeing Captain America: Civil War, a movie that manages to juggle an array of superheroes and side characters, it’s clear directors Anthony and Joe Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely know how to tell a large ensemble story....

Exclusive: ‘Cannonball Run’ Remake Will Blend ‘Fast And Furious’ With ‘Ocean’s 11’ Says Director Rawson Marshall Thurber By Fred Topel/Aug. 4, 2017 1:59 pm EST Writer/Director Rawson Marshall Thurber was on a Television Critics Association panel for his new YouTube comedy series Ryan Hanson Solves Crimes on Television. After the panel, he spoke with /Film about his upcoming film projects. He’ll make Skyscraper with Dwayne Johnson next, but he’s still attached to a remake of The Cannonball Run....

How To Shoot A Nightclub Scene Using Almost No Money By David Chen/Oct. 13, 2014 5:00 am EST This year at the Seattle International Film Festival, I saw a movie called Layover, which tells the story of how a young Parisian named Simone gets stuck in LA on an extended layover and ends up learning more about her hopes and dreams than she had anticipated. Not only was I impressed with the film, I also loved the story of how filmmaker Joshua Caldwell put it together for about $6,000....

How Was The ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Ending Conceived? By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2014 8:28 am EST If you leave a movie theater talking and thinking about a film, it was probably a good one. That certainly happened this weekend with Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In addition to all the crazy happenings early in the film, it leaves its characters in a jaw-dropping spot. A spot that not only has ramifications on Avengers: Age of Ultron and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but on ABC’s Agents of S....

Interview: ‘Lights Out’ Director David F. Sandberg On Subverting Expectations And Not Overstaying Your Welcome By Jack Giroux/July 26, 2016 7:15 am EST Director David F. Sandberg makes his feature directorial debut with the James Wan-produced horror movie Lights Out. Sandberg’s journey towards making his first film began in 2013 with a short film that cost nothing. The director and his wife, Lotta Losten, made the short together, and Sandberg and Losten submitted it to the Bloody Cuts Horror Challenge, where it was well received....

Interview: FX’s ‘Better Things’ Creator Pamela Adlon On Louis C.K. And Period Jokes By Fred Topel/Sept. 7, 2016 8:00 am EST Louie established Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon as a sort of dynamic duo of comedy. Bonus points if you saw them together even earlier on Lucky Louie. After five seasons of writing and producing Louie, Adlon developed her own show for FX. Better Things is her show, and C.K. still writes and produces with her....

Keri Russell Reunites With J.J. Abrams For ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ [Updated] By Ben Pearson/July 6, 2018 10:22 am EST Update: Variety has corrected their initial report about Lawrence Kasdan’s involvement. Find the update below. Breaking news from a galaxy far, far away: writer/director J.J. Abrams has cast his frequent collaborator Keri Russell in Star Wars: Episode 9. Read more about the Keri Russell Star Wars casting below. Variety reports that Abrams has cast Russell in a “role [that] calls for action-heavy fight scenes”, but it’s still unclear whether she’ll be fighting for the Resistance or the First Order....

Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Sounds Like A Giant Fake Celebrity Porn GIF By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2013 9:00 pm EST You’re on the internet, so you’ve probably seen the fake celebrity porn GIF. That’s where some enterprising kid (or whomever) uses a photo editor to graft a famous face onto porn action. You won’t see a Jennifer Aniston sex tape, for example, but you can probably find hundreds of fake images, GIFs and videos that approximate the effect....