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Review: Paul Rudd Wipes Craig Roberts’ Ass In Hammy, Charming ‘Fundamentals Of Caring’ By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2016 9:30 am EST Note: With The Fundamentals of Caring out this weekend, we’re re-running our review from the Sundance Film Festival. Often times at Sundance you see the same stories played out with different characters. This year alone, for example, there are two movies about an estranged New York man returning home when his mother comes down with a debilitating ailment....

Sequel Bits, Everyone Returns Edition: Shawn Levy And Hugh Jackman For ‘Real Steel 2’, Michelle Rodriguez In ‘Resident Evil’, Karl Urban In ‘Riddick’ By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2011 4:00 pm EST Real Steel 2, Resident Evil: Retribution, and Riddick are in completely different stages of development at this point, but they all have one thing in common: Everyone wants to return for them. (Well, that and the fact that they all start with the letter R....

Star Wars Bits: Thrawn Returns, A Skywalker Family Reunion Planned, And A New Sith Lord Revealed By Rosie Knight/June 17, 2018 8:30 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Disney patents some new tech to make Galaxy’s Edge out of this world A new Sith Lord and a… haunted lightsaber? Mark Hamill and Natalie Portman plan a Skywalker family reunion The plot of the newest Thrawn novel is revealed and much much more…....

The ‘Flatliners’ Remake Buckled Under Millennial Confusion And Removed A Reference To The Original By Ben Pearson/Oct. 4, 2017 4:30 pm EST Sony’s remake of Joel Schumacher’s 1990 psychological horror thriller Flatliners stumbled at the box office this past weekend, and limped its way from a 0% up to a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s an abysmal score – even worse than The Emoji Movie – and it’s clear that the film’s premise and stars including Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, and Kiersey Clemons just weren’t enough to convince audiences that this story was worth telling again....

The Original Ending Of ‘Lost’ Involved A Battle Atop A Volcano By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 11, 2017 9:30 am EST LOST has always been an exercise in “what could have been” — both in the story of the hit ABC show itself, and in the fans’ ultimate reaction to the show’s legacy. What could have been if the show had answered all our questions, if every bit of foreshadowing and world-building had paid off?...

This Week In Trailers: The Infidel, The Mouse That Soared, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, The Human Centipede, Year Of The Carnivore By Christopher Stipp/April 16, 2010 1:00 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?...

TV Bits: ‘Arrow’ Season 6 Trailer, ‘Young Sheldon’ Is (Somehow) A Hit, Watch The First 6 Minutes Of ‘The Gifted’, And More By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2017 3:00 pm EST In this edition of TV Bits: Arrow gets a trailer hyping its sixth season The creator of Veep is heading to space in a brand new HBO series The CBS prequel Young Sheldon has, regrettably, earned a full series order Watch the first six minutes of Fox’s new X-Men TV series The Gifted Zachary Levi still wants to make a Chuck movie And more!...

Watch The First 12 Minutes Of The ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Documentary ‘The Director And The Jedi’ Right Now By Ethan Anderton/March 12, 2018 11:10 am EST If you’re not lucky enough to be at South by Southwest film festival this week, then you’re missing out on the world premiere of the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi production documentary The Director and the Jedi. Directed by Anthony Wonke, the feature-length film gives fans an extensive and in-depth look behind the scenes of the latest entry in the Star Wars saga, and you can watch the first 12 minutes of the movie right now....

We’ve Seen The First 10 Minutes Of ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2014 8:48 pm EST Marvel loves to leave fans wanting more. Thats the reason the credits of every satisfying-on-it’s-own movie from the company contains a tease of what’s next. In that grand tradition, during a fan screening of the new Marvel One Shot: All Hail the King in Los Angeles, CA Monday night, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige thanked attendees by screening the first 10 minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier....

WonderCon: Get Smart By Mel Valentin/Feb. 23, 2008 9:21 pm EST Wonder-Con premiered the newly minted trailer for Get Smart, the big screen adaptation of the 1960s television series created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry that starred Don Adams and Barbara Feldman. It looked good, better than good. Now this is how you make you a trailer: mixing verbal humor, physical comedy, and large-scale action, along with callbacks to the original series, including multiple callbacks (e....

WonderCon Schedule Adds ‘Amazing Spider-Man,’ ‘Looper,’ ‘21 Jump Street’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 3:00 pm EST Just a day after WonderCon revealed their full schedule of panels, three additions have been made. And they’re awesome. Not surprisingly, the hilarious 21 Jump Street is celebrating its opening weekend at the event and Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man has been added to line up. Very surprisingly, though, WonderCon audiences will also get their first look at Rian Johnson’s Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and others....

‘Boogie Nights’ Turns 20: Revisiting Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Family’ Masterpiece By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 10, 2017 2:00 pm EST “I got a dream of making a film that’s true. True and right and dramatic.” This line of dialogue comes courtesy of porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) early in the sprawling 1997 epic Boogie Nights, from then-upstart writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson. In the intervening period, Anderson has lived up to that dialogue, maturing into his generation’s best filmmaker, the spiky and unique auteur behind Punch-Drunk Love, Inherent Vice, and the new century’s best film, There Will Be Blood....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: Is That Monster The Thessalhydra? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2017 1:30 pm EST Last night during the Super Bowl, Netflix debuted a Stranger Things season 2 teaser trailer which broke the internet. While the TV spot for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was apparently the most talked-about big game television advertisement, my social feeds seemed filled with shock, surprise, and excitement over the first look at the next season of Stranger Things....

‘The Crow’ Creator James O’Barr Makes A Case For The New ‘The Crow’ Movie By Angie Han/Oct. 31, 2014 10:30 am EST From the very moment it was announced, The Crow remake had some fans up in arms — including James O’Barr himself, creator of the original The Crow comics. But he’s since come around on the film, and in a new interview he explains why. Gotta say, his case is fairly convincing....

‘Venom’ Movie Rumors Suggest The Film May Adapt A Famous Comic Storyline By Ben Pearson/Oct. 19, 2017 11:02 am EST On paper, a Venom movie that doesn’t feature Spider-Man and doesn’t have any oversight from the people at Marvel Studios seems like an awful idea, something brazenly devised by the folks at Sony to draft off the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the excellent casting – which so far includes Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, and Veep star Reid Scott – has made me raise an eyebrow and be more willing to give this film the benefit of the doubt....

2009 Academy Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2009 5:28 pm EST The 81st Academy Awards are now broadcasting live. Read our live blog of the award ceremony after the jump. For now, please leave your predictions in the comments below! The show is about to begin. The band is playing, and host Hugh Jackman has been introduced. Jackman made a joke about the recession saying that next year he’s doing a movie called New Zealand....

2009 SXSW Film Festival Announces Complete Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2009 8:24 pm EST Austin, Texas – February 2, 2008 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the complete lineup for this year’s Festival, March 13 – 21, 2009 in Austin, Texas. Over the course of nine days, 108 features will screen at the festival, with 54 of those having their world premieres at SXSW 2009....

Early Buzz: Is ‘Man Of Steel’ This Summer’s Best Blockbuster? By Angie Han/June 3, 2013 4:11 pm EST Between a small handful of very good, very early reviews and a strong marketing campaign, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been getting pretty great buzz for some time now. And as the release date creeps closer, the positive word-of-mouth is only getting louder. While there aren’t any official reviews up yet, a vague but promising consensus so far is that Man of Steel is an action-packed epic worthy of the world’s most iconic superhero....

Even Sean Penn Did Not Care For Sean Penn’s Role In ‘The Tree Of Life’ By David Chen/Aug. 23, 2011 10:00 am EST Not only is Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life one of the most beautiful films of the year, it’s also sparked some of the most fascinating online discourse. Critics are fairly divided, with some arguing that “The Tree Of Life has a vision that makes most movies look like crude stick drawings,” while others opine, “Tree of Life?...

Fund It: Charlie Kaufman’s Stop-Motion ‘Anomalisa’, From ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon And Adult Swim Veteran Dino Stamatopoulos By Adam Quigley/July 11, 2012 5:00 pm EST Some projects sound too good to be true. Lucky for us, we live in an age where they don’t have to be. Of course, such optimism does little to counter the realities of the modern film industry model, which is currently taking its toll on Charlie Kaufman’s sophomore directorial effort Frank or Francis (currently stuck in development limbo), just as it did At the Mountains of Madness before it, and hundreds of other please-let-this-happen endeavors that failed to scrounge up the financing necessary to be brought to fruition....