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George Miller Talks ‘Mad Max,’ His Canceled ‘Justice League’ Movie, And His Friendship With Stanley Kubrick In A Must-Read Interview By Jacob Hall/Feb. 3, 2016 2:00 pm EST George Miller is a fascinating man. Decades before directing one of the best movies of 2015 and earning an Oscar nomination for his efforts, he was a doctor working in Sydney, Australia who practically stumbled into filmmaking with the original Mad Max. Between now and then, he’s written, produced and directed mainstream successes and cult favorites alike, experimenting in various mediums and never settling on a single genre....

Giant Robots, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose: A ‘Power Rangers’ Spoiler Review By Jacob Hall/March 27, 2017 9:30 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: Dean Israelite’s Power Rangers.) When we revisited the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers last week, I thought we would be engaging in an act of pop culture masochism....

Kick-Ass Casting Begins By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2008 10:34 pm EST Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin from Superbad) is in negotiations and Chloe Moretz (Dirty Sexy Money) has been cast in Mathew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass. Based on the creator-owned comic from Marvel’s Icon imprint, the story follows a a 15-year-old boy named Dave Lizewski who attempts to become a real-life superhero. The catch is that he has no powers or any of the stereotypical reasons for choosing to fight crime....

King(s) Of The Monsters: Everything You Need To Know About Godzilla’s Greatest Allies And Adversaries By Joshua Meyer/July 31, 2018 7:00 am EST It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for Godzilla fans. Though it got a bit lost in the shuffle thanks to all the news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con, the second installment in Netflix’s anime Godzilla trilogy is now available to stream. Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle continues the story — and the thread of Planet of the Apes homages — from Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, as protagonist Haruo Sakaki and the remnants of humanity encounter a tribe of telepathic, underground-dwelling humanoids, who worship a glowing egg instead of a nuclear bomb like the mutants in Beneath the Planet of the Apes....

Mad Men Collects Emmys And Delivers The Season’s Most Shocking And Horrific Episode By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 22, 2009 2:11 pm EST As the acclaim, status, and ratings coalesce for Mad Men, the series’ ambitious characters continue to encounter myriad divides—cultural, familial, and geographic—that attempt to emotionally pull them apart bit by bit. On Sunday, the AMC original series put two W’s on the board at The Emmys, for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing – Drama, in addition to 16 noms....

Mike Birbiglia And Judd Apatow Are Not Happy With ‘Suicide Squad’s PG-13 Rating By Jacob Hall/Aug. 5, 2016 9:00 am EST Let’s get real for a second here. Yes, there should be a movie rating system that informs audiences of the basic content of a movie, allowing parents and those with certain tastes to make the proper judgment call before they pull the trigger on buying movie tickets. It’s hard to imagine any decent person thinking that MPAA ratings are a bad idea on paper....

Small-Screen Stream: ‘Castle Rock,’ ‘American Horror Story,’ And More Television Horror Streaming Now By Lindsey Romain/Aug. 7, 2018 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Small-Screen Stream, a feature where we share the best television shows streaming and where you can watch them.) For this week’s column, I’m sticking to a theme once again. I plan to ditch the hyper-specific lists and get a little more random with my pickings going forward – so as not to limit my selections – but I couldn’t resist another one-genre list this time around....

Star Wars Bits: Set Photos Reveal New X-Wing; Plus Simon Pegg, Luke Skywalker Spoilers And Football By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2014 11:00 am EST Some very cool Star Wars Episode VII set photos have been taken, and some very interesting rumors and lots of cool trivia have all shown up online. Below, read about the following. A new kind of X-Wing Fighter was spotted by drones flying over the Star Wars Episode VII set....

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, Man Of Steel, Hellboy, Avengers 2, Amazing Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/July 9, 2012 11:00 am EST Why did Ron Perlman recently dress up like Hellboy? Want to see behind the scenes photos of Christopher Nolan on the set of The Dark Knight Rises? Is there a way to get your phone synced up with Man of Steel content right now? Which problem occurred during the first Dark Knight Rises press screening?...

The Directors Guild Of America Selects The 80 Best-Directed Movies By Jacob Hall/May 3, 2016 12:00 pm EST The Directors Guild of America is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year and it has decided to commemorate this event in a manner most befitting of the internet age: by making a list. More specifically, by polling DGA members and assembling a list of the 80 best-directed movies made since 1936, when the guild was founded....

The Dude Abides: Revisiting The Peculiar Charms Of ‘The Big Lebowski’ 20 Years Later By Joshua Meyer/March 6, 2018 11:00 am EST The writing-directing duo of Joel and Ethan Coen have surpassed themselves time and again with Academy Award-winning films like Fargo and No Country for Old Men (the latter of which we revisited in a 10th-anniversary feature last October). On Sunday night, their longtime collaborator, Roger Deakins, finally won a long overdue Oscar for his cinematography....

Theme Park Bits: Disneyland Blockout Rumors, Hello Kitty Comes To California, Batman’s Gotham City Ride Details By Joshua Meyer/March 5, 2018 5:30 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Get egg-cited about the egg-cellent Easter egg hunts coming to Disneyland Resort and Epcot. The Annual Pass program for Disneyland Resort may be about to undergo a major revamp. Hello Kitty fans, your prayers have been answered: the character is now at Universal Hollywood....

‘Christopher Robin’ Review: A Captivating Blend Of Whimsy And Melancholy By Karen Han/Aug. 2, 2018 7:00 pm EST When I first saw Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, I cried through almost the entire film. That said, the mixed reception it received didn’t surprise me. Its intended audience — to my mind, at least — didn’t dovetail with the market it was being sold to; despite being based on a children’s book, it wasn’t a movie meant for kids....

‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny’ Buzz: The Sequel Is Basically What You Expected By Jack Giroux/Feb. 27, 2016 12:00 pm EST Fans of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon weren’t thrilled when they got their first look at its sequel, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. Like Ang Lee’s picture, the sequel is based on a five-part series, written by Wang Dulu. Despite going back to the source material, plenty of fans labeled the sequel a cheap cash grab....

‘Donnie Darko’ Director Richard Kelly Reviews David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2014 2:00 pm EST I’ve always loved hearing filmmakers discuss movies. We’ve often printed interviews where we ask filmmakers about their favorite films and the /Filmcast has tried to bring on directors to review the latest big screen movies. That hasn’t been as constant of a feature as David Chen and I originally planned, because as it turns out, people in the movie industry generally don’t like to publicly bas other filmmaker’s projects and we generally only got yeses from those directors who had a positive take on the film at hand....

‘Legion’ Season 2 Will Feature A Big Time Jump [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 5, 2018 12:20 pm EST FX introduced their TCA panel for Legion season 2 with a clip from the season’s second episode. David (Dan Stevens) awakens in a wheat field and finds a fortune teller booth. He quickly figures out that this is Amahl Farouk, who has previously appeared as The Shadow King in season one....

‘Magic Mike XXL’ Review: Channing Tatum Serves Up The Perfect Summer Movie By Angie Han/June 29, 2015 6:00 am EST The first Magic Mike was billed as an over-the-top stripper comedy, but underneath those gold lamé thongs it turned out to be something far more surprising: a sober examination of the American dream. We watched Mike Lane try to pull himself up by the bootstraps, only to find himself judged, used, discarded, and creatively constrained....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: “The Wolf Inside” Is A Thrilling, Stressful Hour Of ‘Trek’ By Monique Jones/Jan. 15, 2018 10:30 am EST The mirror verse is so stressful! I sweated throughout the entirety of the latest Star Trek: Discovery episode, “The Wolf Inside.” I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s just start with the best part of the episode, which was also, wildly enough, the least stressful. Captain Georgiou is back!...

‘Stoker’ Review: A Warped And Hollow Family Portrait From The Director Of ‘Oldboy’ [Sundance 2013] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2013 9:48 pm EST The title Stoker suggests vampirism, as a play on the name of Dracula creator Bram Stoker. But the monsters in this film are purely human — people warped into terrible shapes by neglect and jealousy. For his English-language debut, Oldboy direcotor Park Chan-Wook chose Stoker, a script by actor Wentworth Miller that revolves around a family suffering the pain of change after a significant death....

By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 15, 2017 3:00 pm EST The LEGO Movie was an incredible and imaginative movie, and a big part of that came from the surprising journey from the animated world of the building blocks to the real world that was the source of the LEGO city known as Bricksburg. But as we saw at the end of The LEGO Movie, that city is about to get shaken up by the arrival of characters from the planet Duplo....