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Interview: ‘The Edge Of Seventeen’ Director Kelly Fremon Craig & Producer James L. Brooks On Reinventing The Teen Movie By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2016 9:00 am EST The Edge of Seventeen is the kind of movie that could change someone’s life. Rarely has a “teen comedy” been so brutally honest and so agonizingly real, portraying the pain of being a young adult with empathy, immediacy, and a wicked sense of humor....

Kevin Smith Wants A ‘Superman Lives’ Animated Movie And To Direct A ‘Bedknobs And Broomsticks’ Remake By Jack Giroux/Nov. 28, 2016 2:00 pm EST The history of Tim Burton’s squashed Superman film, Superman Lives, has been well documented. Just last year there was Jon Schnepp’s documentary, The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?, which featured writer-director Kevin Smith discussing his time on the comic book movie. Now, Smith says he still wouldn’t mind seeing the script he wrote realized, at least in animation....

Movie Review: Year One Is A Lifeless, Laughless Throwback By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2009 12:00 pm EST In the wickedly underrated David Wain comedy Wet Hot American Summer, there is a sequence where Michael Showalter, in character as a stand-up comic geezer, entertains a bunch of kids at camp with awful jokes about the Stone Age. The joke isn’t his routine, but that the kids are laughing at these terrible, stale caveman gags....

Page 2: Star Wars, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Flintstones, Wreck-It Ralph, Game Of Thrones, Doctor Who, Battlestar By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2013 11:00 am EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Scott Lang Turns Into A Cap Fanboy In ‘Captain America: Civil War’ [D23 Expo 2015] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 15, 2015 11:45 am EST Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is currently shooting in Germany with one week of production left, and while Marvel Studios stayed home from San Diego Comic Con International 2015, they did show up to Disney’s fan convention D23 Expo 2015 with Captain America (Chris Evans, who got a standing ovation), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), and perhaps most importantly, footage from the 2016 release....

See The Movie Trailer For David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2008 12:30 pm EST Update: We’ve embedded the International version of the movie trailer in this posting. Want to see the movie trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? I’ve heard it’s playing in front of most prints of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And word has it that the trailer won’t show up online in official form until the end of next week....

Sequel Bits: 28 Months Later, Avatar 2, Catching Fire, Scary Movie 5, Expendables 3, Jack Reacher, Police Story By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2012 3:34 pm EST Franchises return, franchises go away and franchises start a new in today’s Sequel Bits. James Cameron might add Chinese Na’vi to Avatar 2. The said to be soon-retired Jackie Chan might make Police Story 2013. A major party scene in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will film in Atlanta....

Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, The Flash, Dark Knight Rises, Captain America, The Avengers, Green Hornet By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2011 12:00 pm EST Where and when will Iron Man 3 begin shooting? What does the Captain America: The First Avenger alternate Blu-ray cover look like? Which superheroes have really wimpy weaknesses? Besides the James Cameron one, how many Spider-Man movies never got made? Does Seth Rogen think a Green Hornet sequel is possible?...

The Chuck Klosterman Interview Part 2: 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Office, Arrested Development, And Why Movies And TV Have Made Us Less Human By Hunter Stephenson/Dec. 10, 2009 7:40 am EST In his new book of essays, Eating the Dinosaur, pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman posits that “as a species we have never been less human than we are right now.” Part of the reason why this has happened, he says, is that our growing consumption of media, movies, and entertainment has made it so that “we can’t really differentiate between real and unreal images....

This Week In Trailers: A Strange Love Affair With Ego, Viva, Trolls, River Of Grass, Instant Death, The Thing About Greece By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 10, 2016 11:30 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?...

Top 20 Stories Of The Week: Indiana Jones 5, X-Men: Apocalypse, Sausage Party & More By Ethan Anderton/March 20, 2016 8:00 am EST The Top 20 Stories of the Week are the stories we think you should check out on /Film from the previous week. This week we have updates on some TV shows getting renewed or canceled, trailers for the new seasons of Silicon Valley and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, divisive discussion on the hopeful new VOD service The Screening Room, an update on casting young Han Solo for a future Star Wars spin-off, confirmation of Indiana Jones 5, a new trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse and much more....

Will The Star Wars Saga Continue After Episode 9? Kathleen Kennedy Responds By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2016 1:00 pm EST When Disney acquired Lucasfilm from George Lucas, they announced they would be making three new Star Wars films continuing the Skywalker saga, as well as revealed plans to develop stand-alone anthology movies set outside of this overarching story. As we near the first “Star Wars Story” Rogue One, it occurs to us that Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars Episode IX isn’t that far off in the distance (currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 24th, 2019)....

‘A Quiet Place’ Sees John Krasinski Deliver A Majorly Effective Monster Movie [SXSW] By Meredith Borders/March 10, 2018 11:00 am EST When one sense goes, the others are more heightened. It’s the pretty simple foundation on which A Quiet Place is built, a largely dialogue-free film in which every sight, every texture, every movement lands harder than it would in a noisier picture. Director John Krasinski crafts a new and unusual monster movie, featuring creatures that are much gnarlier than you’re probably expecting from an intimate festival entry by the filmmaker behind Brief Interviews with Hideous Men....

/Film Interview: Joss Whedon, Writer And Director Of ‘The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST Among the fan community, Joss Whedon has long been a God. Creating Buffy, Angel and Firefly will have that effect. In the mainstream, though, Whedon is still something of an enigma who has yet to enjoy the success of a massive, signature calling card. That’s about to change. Marvel entrusted their most prized possession, The Avengers, to the writer/director and the results are nothing short of spectacular....

‘Jumanji’ Sequel’s Video Game-Centric Plot Details Surface As Four New Cast Members Join By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 25, 2016 2:00 pm EST The primary cast of the Jumanji sequel from Sony Pictures has already been confirmed with Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan taking the lead roles. In addition, a photo from the set recently showed us how they’ll all look in the jungles of the infamous board game....

‘Man Of Steel 2’ Would Have Shown A Less Murderous Superman, Henry Cavill Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 11, 2018 3:00 pm EST Ah, the DC Extended Universe: a shared cinematic universe filled with coulda, shoulda beens. It had a bright start with 2013’s Man of Steel, a polarizing but by no means terrible film. From there, the DCEU has been a series of major misfires and occasional bright spots, leading to a team-up film that didn’t exactly do (ahem) justice to the comic book characters that inspired them....

‘Terminator 2: 3D’ Set To Close At Universal Studios Florida By Jacob Hall/Sept. 7, 2017 12:30 pm EST After 21 years of operation, Terminator 2: 3D at Universal Studios Florida is set to close its doors forever. The attraction is a theme park landmark for a number of reasons and was, for years, one of the first stops for many guests entering the park. However, Universal Studios has proven itself to be unsentimental when it comes to its classic attractions....

‘The Master’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inquisitive, Maddening Vision Of Power And Friendship By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2012 5:00 pm EST An image recurs throughout The Master: a ship’s wake, white and blue water churning as the camera — really the mind’s eye of the dissolute Freddie Quell — stares not exactly into the past, but into the creation of the past. He fixates at the roil and the churn, staring at nothing rather than directly examine the choices and impulses that created him....

Adam Brody, Marley Shelton And Erik Knudsen Cast In Scream 4 By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 9:07 pm EST It’s been a tumultuous week for Scream 4, which recently began shooting. A few images and behind the scenes videos hit the internet — not earthshaking stuff, but probably not a good thing for a film that has tried very hard to remain mysterious. And Lake Bell and Lauren Graham both dropped out....

Can Christopher Nolan’s Inception Save The Movies? By David Chen/July 16, 2010 5:00 pm EST Today is the day that Christopher Nolan’s Inception is out in theaters. Over the past year or two, we’ve waited patiently for Nolan’s next work and written dozens and dozens of articles about it. Having seen it, I can’t help but feel that films like Inception are the reason why I love watching movies and covering them....