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‘Hounds Of Love’ Is Harrowing, Brutal Descent Into Horror [Overlook Film Festival] By Alex Riviello/May 6, 2017 10:00 am EST This is not an easy movie to get through. Hounds of Love depicts graphic scenes of sexual assault and torture. It’s the kind of movie that makes you question why you enjoy watching horror movies in the first place. Why subject yourself to something like this? Why sit through something that makes you feel like you need to take a shower afterwards?...

‘I Feel Pretty’ Reviews Round-Up: Critics Have An Ugly Reaction To Amy Schumer’s Body-Image Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 19, 2018 2:30 pm EST I Feel Pretty sparked all kinds of controversy when its trailer first debuted, with critics accusing the comedy of fat-shaming. But star Amy Schumer refuted the backlash. Wait until you see the movie, she insisted, promising that I Feel Pretty was actually an empowering movie about self-confidence....

‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’ Review: ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ Meets ‘Avatar’ Meets Liberace In A Movie You Have To See To Believe [Fantasia Film Festival] By Matt Donato/July 19, 2017 7:00 am EST I rarely start reviews with first-person prose, but for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, an exception must be made. Why? Because I’ve attended midnight screenings of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room with tamer audiences. Welcome to the Fantasia International Film Festival, where a Japanese manga adaptation can pack an auditorium full of French Canadian superfans....

‘Love Actually 2’ First Look: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson & More Are Back By Ethan Anderton/March 7, 2017 1:30 pm EST Last month, the day after Valentine’s Day, we learned that the ensemble romantic comedy Love Actually was getting a sequel. Sort of. Instead of being a feature film reunion, the cast of the film from director Richard Curtis was reuniting for a short film in honor of the charitable initiative by Comic Relief known as Red Nose Day....

‘Silicon Valley’ Review: The Most Awkward Moment In ‘Server Error’ By Alex Riviello/June 26, 2017 11:00 am EST (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion about Silicon Valley season 4 by answering one simple question: what was the most awkward moment of the week?)Do you remember that moment when you finally realized that Breaking Bad was following a villain’s origin story? We get almost the equivalent in this season finale of Silicon Valley, when we see Richard Hendricks breaking down over the prospect of losing everything he’s been working for....

‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Hires More Help, Has Competition In ‘Spider-Man Smackdown’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2011 5:30 pm EST After the critical bashing endured by the yet-to-open $65 million musical Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark, the changes began happening quickly. According to the New York Times Broadway vet Paul Bogaev has just been hired to “help improve the performance, vocal and orchestration arrangements,” Bono and the Edge are currently writing new music and producers are talking to, but have not yet hired, veteran Spider-Man writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to re-work some of the book (Broadway speak for “script”)....

‘Star Wars’ Fan Writes 108-Page Rebuttal To Red Letter Media’s ‘Phantom Menace’ Review By Germain Lussier/Jan. 13, 2011 6:52 pm EST Thanks to the Star Wars prequels, Star Wars fandom has divided itself down the middle almost like the Jedi and the Sith. There are people who vocally condemn the mere existence of the prequels and others who know the prequels aren’t as good as the originals, but still respect them because they’re Star Wars....

‘Super Troopers 2’ Review: A Perfectly Funny, “Fans Only” Sequel By Matt Donato/April 16, 2018 11:30 am EST Pinnacles of cinematic cult achievement are rarely surpassed by their long-gestating sequels, and – as Rodney “Rod” Farva might say – I’m not gonna tickle your taint over Super Troopers 2. Super Troopers remains king, a film that withstood my college years and still delights to this day, but numero dos is still a goofy state patrolman farce worth your time....

‘The Goldbergs’ Doing ‘Short Circuit’ And ‘Risky Business’ Episodes This Season By Fred Topel/Aug. 4, 2015 5:30 pm EST ABC presented a panel on The Goldbergs for the Television Critics Association today. The show is entering its third season and getting noticed for its parodies of classic ’80s movies. In particular, last year’s Ferris Bueller episode made waves with a guest appearance by Charlie Sheen. So series creator Adam F. Goldberg is not going to stop....

‘We Are Your Friends’ Trailer: Zac Efron Takes On The Future As A DJ By Germain Lussier/May 19, 2015 10:00 am EST You can tell a lot about a generation by their coming of age movies. Rebel Without A Cause, American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club, Clueless, Mean Girls; films like these have become symbols of their respective times. This current decade already has a few contenders for that title (Boyhood, for example) but writer/director Max Joseph is definitely hoping to capture that magic with We Are Your Friends....

11 Horror Movies That Actually Take Place On Halloween By Lindsey Romain/Oct. 23, 2017 10:30 am EST Family friendly movies set on Halloween are a dime a dozen, but it’s surprisingly difficult to find true horror films that take place on the holiday. Perhaps it’s an effort to avoid comparisons with John Carpenter’s eponymous Halloween masterpiece, or an attempt to escape cliché. Whatever the case, the few that do make use of the spooky iconography – jack-o-lanterns, costumes, fall colors – are all the more special....

30 Movies To Be Excited For Before The End Of 2015: Blockbuster And Studio Edition By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2015 10:00 am EST We’re well past the midpoint of the year, and we’ve already delivered our list of the Top 10 Films of 2015 So Far. And as we reach the end of the summer, the movie business starts slowing down, giving a little calm before the storm that is awards season....

Alicia Vikander Talks About ‘Tomb Raider’ Stunts, Clings To A Cliff In New Photo By Ben Pearson/July 13, 2017 1:00 pm EST It takes a lot of work to become famed adventurer Lara Croft, but Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) was up to the challenge of playing the character in Norwegian director Roar Uthaug’s upcoming adaptation of the beloved Tomb Raider video game. There’s a new photo of Lara in action, and in a new interview, Vikander talks about the stunts she performed for the movie – including one involving her hands being tied together as she plunged underwater....

Disney Trying To Downplay Record-Shattering Box Office Predictions For ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ By Angie Han/Nov. 24, 2015 3:30 pm EST Box office predictions can be tricky, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens is about as close to a sure-bet slam-dunk as we’ve ever going to see. Opinions vary only on exactly how huge it’s going to be. Today, distributors began tracking the film for its December 18 opening, and predictions run the range from “record-shattering” to “record-obliterating....

Edgar Wright On The Movies That Influenced ‘Baby Driver’ [Interview] By Angie Han/June 1, 2017 12:00 pm EST Edgar Wright has the kind of track record any director would envy. His Cornetto trilogy is well loved by fans and critics alike, and at least two-thirds of it has attained “instant classic” status. When he ventured outside his usual wheelhouse with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the result was a dizzying video game-inspired fantasia that felt like nothing we’d seen before or since....

Exclusive: Ken Taylor’s ‘Children Of Men’ Poster Announces Mondo Solo Show By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2014 2:00 pm EST Few artists in the poster world are as in demand as Ken Taylor. The Australian artist is not only one of the most popular names on the Mondo roster, he does posters for many of the biggest bands touring today. Taylor’s gorgeous, realistic, striking style has made instant collectibles of posters for Halloween, Alice in Wonderland, Man of Steel, Jurassic Park, and Breaking Bad....

First Look: Robert Downey Jr. Defends Robert Duvall In ‘The Judge’ By Angie Han/June 12, 2014 4:30 pm EST Thought Tony Stark had daddy issues? At least Howard Stark isn’t around to bother him anymore. That’s sadly not the case for Robert Downey Jr. in The Judge, the new drama by David Dobkin. Downey plays a Chicago defense attorney who returns home for his mom’s funeral, and then sticks around to defend his dad (Robert Duvall) in a murder trial....

HBO Is Showing Neutered Airplane Edits Of Movies And Filmmakers Aren’t Happy By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 28, 2017 3:30 pm EST When you watch a movie on an airplane, you’re not going to get the best quality version of the film. Airplane edits tend to remove scenes and squish the frame down into a letterbox-like format. This might all make sense for a flight, but when you sit down to watch a movie at home, you’d expect a higher level of quality....

Interview: Director Scott Derrickson Explains How Doctor Strange Is More Like ‘Winter Soldier’ Than ‘Guardians’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2016 9:30 am EST We continue our on-set Doctor Strange interviews with the director himself, Scott Derrickson. Between filming scenes, Derrickson talked to us briefly about the movie’s possible soundtrack, the adaptation process in a Marvel movie, what its like working in collaboration with Marvel Studios, the struggle to make magic feel different from Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, the film as a martial arts based supernatural action movie, the fantastical visual imagery, why Scott loves the character, how the film’s humor is like Captain America: Winter Soldier, how Benedict Cumberbatch brings the humor to the movie, why they chose Kaecilius to be the villain for this story, why they made the changes to Wong and The Ancient One, and more....

Jafar, The Evil Queen And Cruella De Vil Cast In Disney’s TV Film ‘Descendants’ By Germain Lussier/May 26, 2014 7:00 am EST Not to be confused with Oscar-winner The Descendants, Disney’s Descendants is the latest live-action Disney Channel movie that’s turning Disney tradition on its head. The film, directed by Kenny Ortega, is about the offspring of several imprisoned Disney villains. A new prince gives the children of Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent, Aladdin’s Jafar, Snow White’s Evil Queen and 101 Dalmatians’ Cruella de Vil a chance to choose a path different from their parents....