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This Week In Trailers: You Said What?, The Names Of Love, Dam 999, How To Cheat, Rio Breaks By Christopher Stipp/June 10, 2011 5:00 pm 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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Samson’, ‘Barry’, ‘Victory Crowley’, ‘Pity’, ‘May It Last’, ‘The Female Brain’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 10, 2018 6:00 pm EST We cover so much stuff here at /Film, but sometimes a trailer slips through the cracks. That’s where a trailer round-up comes in handy! This latest trailer roundup features the biblical epic Samson, the new HBO series Barry, the horror sequel/reboot Victory Crowley, the Sundance film Pity, May It Last, a documentary about the Avett Brothers, and the comedy The Female Brain....

Universal’s Dark Universe May Still Be Alive, Aliiiiiiiiive By Chris Evangelista/May 17, 2018 2:30 pm EST Rejoice, fans of ill-conceived ideas! Universal’s Dark Universe might still be alive! We all thought the Dark Universe would crawl back into the grave after the disaster that was The Mummy, but it looks like Universal’s monster franchise might still have some life left in it. Don’t close the coffin lid on the Dark Universe yet, boils and ghouls....

‘Castle Rock’ Reaps A ‘Harvest’ Of Sorrow By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 8, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our spoiler-filled Castle Rock reviews, in which we explore Hulu’s new Stephen King-inspired series. (If you’re looking for a spoiler-free review of the show, click here). This week we look at episode five, “Harvest.” Harvest Things have turned melancholy in Castle Rock – not that they were very cheery to begin with. But this week’s episode, “Harvest”, seems awash in regret and sorrow....

‘Doctor Strange’ Trailer Breakdown: A Frame-By-Frame Look At Marvel’s Mystical Adventure By Jacob Hall/April 13, 2016 9:30 am EST Captain America: Civil War will probably be pretty great, but if I could only see one Marvel superhero movie this year, it would be Doctor Strange. Part of this is because I have an affinity for the character, who is one of my favorite comic book heroes of all time. However, it’s also hard to say no to a superhero movie that takes a hard left turn into the realm of the mystical and the magical, which sounds like a refreshing change of pace....

/Film Interview: James Wan Talks The Filmmaking & Truth Behind ‘The Conjuring’, ‘Fast 7’ Plans By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2013 12:00 pm EST I’m not a huge horror film guy, but I probably see more than your average film geek. I’ll be the first to admit that I had little interest in The Conjuring as I usually don’t like possession stories. The idea of someone becoming possessed by someone else has always been a movie storyline pet peeve for me, likely tainted for me by comic book storylines I read as a kid where the superhero somehow becomes controlled by the bad guy....

“I Am From The Future”: A Sometimes Contentious Conversation With ‘The Neon Demon’ Director Nicolas Winding Refn & Composer Cliff Martinez By Jacob Hall/June 22, 2016 7:30 am EST The Neon Demon won’t be for all tastes, but the latest film from Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn is a singular and memorable experience. It’s the kind of movie that lingers in the back of your brain for days after your screening, resurfacing every so often with a startling image or strange moment....

‘It’ Review: Come For The Evil Clown, Stay For The Incredible Kid Performances By Karen Han/Sept. 8, 2017 7:00 am EST There’s a level of artifice inherent in acting. A great performance lets us forget that. Generally speaking, it’s a more difficult task when it comes to child actors, which is what makes Andy Muschietti’s It so remarkable. The Losers’ Club he’s assembled is stellar across the board; there’s nothing about these kids that seems fake or affected, to the point that even when the film starts to fly off into more extreme flights of fancy, they manage to keep it firmly grounded....

‘The Predator’ Will Reveal Why Predators Come To Earth By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2017 11:00 am EST A source of horrifying mystery, the Predator franchise never really sought to understand the inner workings of those dangerous aliens. Plus, it seems like their motivation is telegraphed in their very name: Predator. They hunt humans because that’s what they do. But Shane Black’s The Predator will explore the greater details of why these extraterrestrial creatures came to Earth and what exactly they plan to do there....

‘Westworld’ Bits: The Maze, The Man In Black, Posters, A Featurette And More By Jack Giroux/Dec. 8, 2016 8:30 am EST In this edition of Westworld Bits: How many viewers watched season one and its finale. Actor Jimmi Simpson discusses the events of the series finale. Why HBO sees Westworld as one of their essential “building blocks.” Ed Harris’ reaction to the Maze. Fanmade Westworld posters and more. Across HBO’s multiple platforms each episode of Westworld was watched on average by 11....

Bruno Movie Review By Brendon Connelly/July 6, 2009 6:14 am EST Rather than outline Bruno for you or chew over too many of its finer formal qualities, I want to address the film in a slightly different fashion. When we get to December, Bruno might not still be the best comedy of the year, but I’ll eat Werner Herzog’s shoe if it isn’t the best documentary. Sacha Baron Cohen and team here paint a picture of our society that we really shouldn’t be looking away from, and share a point of view that we shouldn’t decry out of hand....

Christopher Nolan And Matthew McConaughey Discuss ‘Interstellar’ At Comic Con 2014; Watch Full Panel By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2014 5:47 pm EST Paramount brought two Comic Con newbies to Hall H today: Matthew McConaughey and Christopher Nolan, and the pair also brought along a new trailer for their upcoming film Interstellar. The film explores an Earth which has been decimated by climate change, and from which a small group adventures out into the universe, in search of answers to our problems....

Comic-Con ‘Person Of Interest’ Review: ‘The Dark Knight’ Meets ‘The Conversation’ Meets ‘24’ By Devindra Hardawar/July 22, 2011 12:04 am EST What if Batman was a former CIA operative who had the ability to predict crimes before they happened, and had no qualms about kneecapping baddies? That’s the basic premise of Person of Interest, the new Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams written/produced CBS series that will be hitting this fall....

Early Buzz: ‘Zootopia’ Is An Action-Packed Neo-Noir Comedy With A Surprisingly Political Message By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2016 12:30 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on a roll in recent years, with a list of films that includes Wreck-It Ralph, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Frozen and the short films Feast and Paperman. Many people would say that the Burbank-based animation studio has been turning out more consistently great films than their Emmerville brother Pixar....

If AMC Theatres Wants To Block MoviePass, They May Have To Stop Accepting MasterCard By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 17, 2017 4:00 pm EST Everyone is talking about MoviePass this week. The subscription service that allows users to check into an app and use a special credit card to buy one movie ticket every day for a flat fee each month was recently acquired by Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. and introduced a new low price of $9....

Interview: ‘Legends Of Tomorrow’ Producers On Fixing Season One Mistakes And Adding New Characters By Fred Topel/Oct. 13, 2016 7:30 am EST Over the summer, The CW had a lot of news about the DC superhero shows for the Television Critics Association. CW President Mark Pedowitz promised improvements to Legends of Tomorrow, correcting some of its first season mistakes, and announced casting, such as Lance Henriksen as Obsidian. After all the CW panels, we got to speak with Legends of Tomorrow creator/executive producers Phil Klemmer and Marc Guggenheim further....

Is Ridley And Tony Scott’s Blade Runner Spin-Off Actually Happening? By Brendon Connelly/March 26, 2010 5:53 pm EST Update: Henry Jenkins has told me via Twitter that he was referring to Purefold and had missed the update that the project was no longer happening. As well as being interesting in all the ways you’d think an interview with Steven Lisberger, creator of Tron, would be interesting, a new video chat conducted by Henry Jenkins has a very surprising twist thrown into the mix too....

Jared Hess To Direct Jack Black In ‘Micronations;’ Is He Out Of Running For ‘Spider-Man?’ By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2015 10:00 am EST One of the few directors on the Spider-Man short list has picked a new project. It’s Jared Hess, the director behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. Hess’s quirky filmmaking style seemed like an odd a match for the big budget superhero film; now he’s going to do a film that seems much more in his comfort zone....

Let’s Talk About That ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Credits Scene By Ethan Anderton/July 7, 2017 6:00 pm EST Spider-Man: Homecoming hits theaters this weekend, and like every other Marvel Studios movie, there are some bonus scenes both during and after the credits. It’s not quite as involved as the five credits scenes from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but there’s one after the animated closing credits sequence and one after the all the credits have scrolled by....

New Han Solo Movie Character Names Revealed: Let’s Guess Who They Are By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2017 12:00 pm EST When it comes to upcoming Star Wars movies, we’ll take whatever new details we can get. Normally we’d relegate something like this to our recurring Star Wars Bits, but since it’s Star Wars Day today, we thought we’d have some fun with some new information about the Han Solo movie that just came to light....