Posts

‘Sorry To Bother You’ Is More Than A “WTF” Experience – It’s A Reflection Of Chilling Reality By Candice Frederick/Aug. 1, 2018 8:00 am EST It’s easy to get swept up into the sheer WTF-ness of Sorry to Bother You. A black male telemarketer (Lakeith Stanfield) becomes a white man over the phone in order to accelerate his professional success, subsequently gets swallowed up into the system, and tries to fight the power only after he becomes the mutant creature “the man” has always seen him as....

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: ‘Context Is For Kings’ Ties Michael Burnham To ‘Trek’ Lore By Monique Jones/Oct. 2, 2017 8:00 am EST (This review contains spoilers! If you haven’t seen the third episode, then live long and prosper and get out of here.) This week on Star Trek: Discovery, in an episode titled “Context is for Kings,” we learned that Michael is, in fact, Spock’s adopted sister. Some hardcore fans won’t consider this canon — from I’ve seen on Twitter, it seems it’s solely because Michael is a black woman....

Bass Ackwards To Be Released On Demand One Day After Sundance By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2010 3:00 pm EST Independent films usually screen at the Sundance Film Festival in hopes of gaining positive buzz and snapping up distribution. The process can be long, and some sales don’t happen until after the close of the festival. Some films picked up at the fest don’t arrive in theaters until sometimes two years later....

Christopher’s Top 10 Trailers Of 2012 By Christopher Stipp/Dec. 28, 2012 11:14 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? This week we look back at 2012 and take stock of what was a great year for coming attractions....

Conan O’Brien’s Work At TBS Is Evolving, Includes New Series And Potential ‘Conan’ Changes By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2017 10:30 am EST There was quite the brouhaha when Conan O’Brien was removed from his post as host of The Tonight Show following Jay Leno’s short-lived retirement from the long-running late night show. Fans were upset, Conan was understandably heartbroken, and it was quite the controversial time for late night television. But thankfully, Conan found a fantastic home at TBS, one that has allowed him to do so much more than NBC ever would have....

First Wave Of Fantastic Fest 2012 Films Includes ‘Dredd 3D,’ ‘Room 237,’ ‘Wrong’ And More By Germain Lussier/July 30, 2012 9:00 am EST I haven’t been to every film festival in the world, but I can’t imagine many being more fun than Fantastic Fest. For one week in Austin, TX the coolest genre films in the world screen along with some of the sickest, most inventive parties all for a passionate, excited audience....

How ‘Community’ Saved Christmas: A Love Note To One Of The Best Shows On Television By Adam Quigley/Dec. 13, 2010 6:00 pm EST Here’s some music to enjoy while reading this article. You know, for ambiance! (Note: This isn’t just a ploy to get you to listen to songs from the Community soundtrack. Honest.) There’s a kind of demented brilliance to Community. It’s something I’ve been accepting of since early in the show’s incarnation, but it wasn’t until the series’ wonderfully inventive, borderline disturbing, ultimately heartwarming stop-motion Christmas special—entitled Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas—that I found myself capable of fully elucidating why that is....

How ‘It’ Reinvents Pennywise The Clown For A New Generation By Jacob Hall/July 27, 2017 10:00 am EST Pennywise the Dancing Clown is an unlikely horror movie icon, mainly because he has yet to appear in a horror movie. Many people know him from Stephen King’s classic horror tome It. Many more know him from the 1990 TV miniseries adaptation, where he was played so memorably by the great Tim Curry....

Marvel Almost Had An Asian-American ‘Iron Fist,’ But They Blew It By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 21, 2017 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: why Marvel’s Iron Fist really blew it by not casting Lewis Tan in the lead role.) Could Iron Fist have been received better if it had cast an Asian-American as Danny Rand?...

Star Wars Bits: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Season 3 Details, Stunning Ralph McQuarrie Art, And An Announcement From David Prowse By Jacob Hall/Oct. 5, 2016 5:00 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: David Prowse is retiring from the international convention circuit. The designer behind many of Star Wars’ iconic ships shares some trivia. Star Wars Uprising is shutting down after a little over a year. An interview with the authors of that new Ralph McQuarrie art book… …and a look at some art from that book....

Star Wars Bits: Dave Filoni On ‘Rebels,’ BB-8 Gets A Girlfriend, And Yes, More Porgs By Allyson Gronowitz/Oct. 27, 2017 2:30 pm EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Dave Filoni dishes on the fourth season of Star Wars Rebels and #AhsokaLives Fans take to photoshop to poke fun at the Han Solo movie Kathleen Kennedy speaks out on Hollywood sexism BB-8 changes his relationship status on Facebook Porgs swarm the sidewalk at a Lucasfilm arts festival And more!...

Superhero Bits: Batman Live, The Avengers, WonderCon, Wonder Woman, Stan Lee, Silver Surfer By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2012 12:00 pm EST When will Batman Live make its way to the United States? Want to see a full infographic of every single Batsuit of all time? How about a new photo of Joss Whedon on the set of The Avengers? What does a stunning blonde model look like in Wonder Woman lingerie (with overly cautious NSFW warning?...

This Week In Trailers: The 4th, New York Asian Film Festival, Hotel Coolgardie, We Don’t Need A Map, To Stay Alive: A Method By Christopher Stipp/June 24, 2017 9:00 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: Samurai Jack, Black Panther, Batman V Superman & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2015 1:40 pm 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 got updates on the next season of Fargo, a Rambo TV series with Sylvester Stallone, the return of Samurai Jack, a director for Black Panther and a teaser for Game of Thrones....

TV Bits: ‘Community’ Showrunner Apologizes To Fans About Chevy Chase Feud, Plus: ‘Veep’, ‘Falling Skies’, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Ricky Gervais, Robert Redford By Angie Han/April 4, 2012 11:30 am EST Community’s Dan Harmon is very sorry you had to witness that nasty drama between him and Chevy Chase. Also after the jump: The first three minutes of Falling Skies’ second season Target’s “Little Avengers” ad is pretty cute, if you like kids HBO releases another trailer for its politica satire Veep Robert Redford will produce a Watergate doc for Discovery Christopher Mintz-Plasse, a....

USA Today Recreated Their ‘Back To The Future Part II’ Front Page And You Can Still Get One By Jacob Hall/Oct. 23, 2015 8:45 am EST UPDATE: If you weren’t able to pick up one of these commemorative USA Today issues at your local newsstand, gas station or wherever you buy newspapers, you can still get your hands on it. USA Today is selling the Back to the Future Part II edition of yesterday’s paper for $4....

Video Blog: The Future Of Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2009 9:08 pm EST Steve from Collider is a good friend of mine. At least a few times a week we talk about upcoming movies, TV shows, what gossip each of us have heard, and anything else we might find exciting. Since a number of our conversations cover things you also might find interesting, we’ve decided to start recording certain conversations as video blogs....

Video Blog Reaction: ‘Thor’ By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2011 2:00 pm EST Marvel’s latest film Thor won’t hit theaters in the US until May 6th, but it is gearing up to be released in the UK and other international territories on April 27th. So you can expect to see a flood of international reviews this coming week. But you won’t have to wait a couple weeks to learn what I thought of the movie, as I was part of a handful of domestic critics that screened the movie this week....

‘Django Unchained’ Trivia: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Excised Role; Walton Goggins Cut Scenes; Zoe Bell’s Secret By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2013 6:40 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained is a big beast, but it was once bigger. The original script, widely leaked last summer, is a 166-page monster that features characters and situations that didn’t make the final cut at all, and others that appear in significantly altered form. And then there’s stuff in the film that wasn’t in the script at all, but which was planned to be bigger or more detailed at one point....

‘Molly’s Game’ Early Buzz: Aaron Sorkin And Jessica Chastain Have Never Been Better By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 11, 2017 10:00 am EST The Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing, and one of the movies we were most excited to hear about was the directorial debut of The Social Network and A Few Good Men writer Aaron Sorkin. If the reviews from the festival are any indicator, not only does Sorkin have another fantastic movie to add to his career, but Jessica Chastain can add another acclaimed performance to her résumé....