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‘Skull Island’ Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts On Poor Storytelling In The Social Media Age By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2016 12:30 pm EST Last night, filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts went off on a Twitter rant about his worries that content and quality might be the losers in our modern society when it’s the easiest it’s ever been to create and share filmed stories and content. I thought this rant was worth sharing, not just because it comes from a filmmaker whom I admire (this Sundance breakout The Kings of Summer was great) or because he’s currently finishing a big blockbuster franchise film (Kong: Skull Island), but because his point is interesting to consider....

‘The Crown’ Producers Apologize For The Claire Foy, Matt Smith Pay Gap Controversy By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 20, 2018 10:00 am EST The Crown is worth its weight in gold. Except, perhaps, when it comes to its lead star.The Crown may be Netflix’s most expensive TV production, but it seemed that some expense was spared when it came to star Claire Foy’s paycheck. Earlier this month, it was revealed that the actress playing the young Queen Elizabeth II was paid less than her co-star Matt Smith, a pay gap that inspired more outrage than usual....

A (Partial) Defense Of ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’ By Angie Han/Feb. 16, 2015 8:00 am EST Let’s get this out of the way: Fifty Shades of Grey* has some massively problematic aspects. Its pathologization of dominant sexual behavior is deeply hypocritical, considering that the movie delights in that exact same behavior. And it’s especially distasteful to portray Christian Grey’s taste for BDSM sex as unhealthy while glossing over his borderline abusive behavior outside of the bedroom, like his habit of showing up at Anastasia’s house uninvited or selling off her possessions without asking....

Early Buzz: Bong Joon-Ho’s Dark, Ambitious ‘Snowpiercer’ Wows By Angie Han/July 22, 2013 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After much anticipation, neither Kim Ji-woon’s The Last Stand nor Park Chan-wook’s Stoker set Western audiences on fire when they opened earlier this year. But the third English-language debut by a South Korean director this year, Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, seems poised to blow the other two out of the water....

Exploring The Sights And Fun-Filled Easter Eggs Of ‘Toy Story’ Land At Disney’s Hollywood Studios By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 24, 2018 10:00 am EST Summer is almost over and for Disney fans, it’s been an eventful theme park season. While California has been caught up in the pageantry of Pixar Pier’s opening at Disneyland Resort, Florida has been having an “Incredible Summer” at Walt Disney World. The bigger ongoing gala at Disney World, however, has been the opening summer of Toy Story Land, a brand new area of the park at Disney’s Hollywood Studios....

Interview: Olivia Wilde Talks ‘Tron: Legacy’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2010 8:00 am EST On November 19th, I had the opportunity to participate in a day of roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of Tron Legacy. I also conducted a couple of one-on-one discussions with the filmmakers and screenwriters (but that will come later). The plan is to post one of the interviews every day up until release. The first interview is with Olivia Wilde, who plays Quorra in the movie....

Jordan Vogt-Roberts On How ‘Skull Island’ Helps Set-Up ‘Godzilla’ And The Monsterverse By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2017 10:00 am EST In the third part of my interview with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the filmmaker talks about how Kong: Skull Island might set-up the upcoming Godzilla: King of Monsters, the 2020 event showdown film Godzilla vs. Kong, and the future of Warner Bros’ Monsterverse. Parts one and two can be found at those links....

Movie Review: Land Of The Lost Rocks (Peter Travers Can Suck It!) By Hunter Stephenson/June 7, 2009 9:54 am EST It was a little before the half-way mark to Land of the Lost when a little kid started crying in the theater as the Sleestaks opened their reptilian beaks, revealing row after row of neat, razor-sharp teeth. We hadn’t even reached the scene in which Danny McBride’s misogynist, would-be casino maven, Will Stanton, stared directly into the camera while sitting in a swimming pool, tripping his fucking mind out on “narcotic” alien fruit-juice....

Oscars So Empty: Will Smith And Mark Ruffalo May Join The Boycott By Jacob Hall/Jan. 21, 2016 12:00 pm EST If you read about movies on the internet, you’re surely familiar with the recent controversy surrounding this year’s Academy Awards nominations. But here’s the short version: for the second year in a row, every single acting nominee and four of the five directing nominees were white. This lack of representation, a symptom of an industry that is still dominated by white men, was the finally straw for many actors, filmmakers, writers, and movie fans....

Page 2: Goonies, Howard Stern, Star Wars, Darkwing Duck, Ghostbusters, Tintin, Lord Of The Rings, Super 8, JAWS, Up, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Potter, Attack The Block, World War Z By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2011 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Spring Breakers, DuckTales, GOT, Pacific Rim, Breaking Bad, He-Man, Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2013 2:00 pm EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Page 2: Star Wars, Johnny Depp, Big Hero 6, John Carpenter, Ghostbusters, Dead Rising, Star Trek, RoboCop By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2014 4:00 pm EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Star Wars Bits: John Williams Talks ‘Episode VII;’ Plus Edgar Wright And Geeky Lawyers By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2013 3:00 pm EST In today’s trip to a galaxy far, far away, read about how one law firm sought out Star Wars fans to help solidify the deal between Disney and Lucasfilm, as well as the following: John Williams confirms he’s spoken to J.J. Abrams about scoring Star Wars Episode VII. Edgar Wright doesn’t think he’ll ever direct a Star Wars movie....

The Best Movies Of Summer 2014: Aliens, Apes, Heroes, Monsters And Families By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2014 9:01 am EST With Summer 2014 approaching its conclusion, its time to look back and inventory the blockbuster season. For the last few years, the Summer movie season has been filled with a lot of disappointment. This year, however, a lot of great films hit theaters. My top twelve best movies of Summer 2014 list is comprised of a mix of big Hollywood blockbusters and some smaller independent films which played Sundance and other film festivals earlier in the year....

TV Bits: Anthony Bourdain, ‘Rick And Morty’, ‘The Good Place’, ‘Barry’, ‘Dirty John’, And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 26, 2018 9:00 am EST In this edition of TV Bits: Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty gets an anime-style teaser The Good Place gets a poster for its upcoming third season Two guest stars of the new Magnum P.I. reboot have been announced The two-hour finale of NBC’s Timeless is coming soon CNN is making a full-length documentary about chef/TV personality Anthony Bourdain Eric Bana and Connie Britton appear in the first look photo of Dirty John And more!...

Watch New Trailers For ‘24: Legacy’, ‘Prison Break’ & Two More FOX TV Shows By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 12, 2017 4:00 pm EST Now that we’re into the year 2017, shows are coming back from their midseason hiatus to finish out the rest of their season. In addition, there are some new shows arriving on TV for the first time. And following their panel at the Television Critics Association winter press tour this week, FOX has released some new trailers for the shows coming to their network over the next few months....

/Answers: Our Favorite Movie Teams By /Film Staff/Nov. 15, 2017 1:00 pm EST Every week in /Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture-related question. With Justice League about to hit theaters, this week’s edition asks “What is your favorite movie team?” Hoai-Tran Bui: The Trio in Harry Potter There’s a reason that Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Harry Potter movies were nicknamed “The Golden Trio.” They were the gold standard for kid heroes forced to grow up too soon, facing down evil wizards, killer snakes, and convicted murderers at the end of every school year until the dangers actually became deadly....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Movie Mixtape: 5 Films To Watch After Disney’s Live-Action Remake By Scott Beggs/March 17, 2017 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as well as the favorites on our shelf. In this edition: Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast.)Bill Condon was nervous to make the live-action Beauty and the Beast....

‘Bloodshot’ Gets A New Director With An Interesting ‘Deadpool’ Connection By Jacob Hall/March 6, 2017 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a few years now, Valiant Comics has been circling Hollywood, looking for a way to bring its collection of characters to the big screen. Unlike Marvel and DC, their heroes and villains aren’t household names who are instantly recognizable to anyone with a pulse....

‘Cloak And Dagger’ Is A Perfect Example Of A Comic Adaptation Improving Upon The Source Material By Monique Jones/June 8, 2018 11:00 am EST The two-hour premiere of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger on Freeform, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, is an extraordinary lesson in how to make a superhero show have substance beyond its source material. Instead of focusing solely on the strange and mysterious powers Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) have, there’s more focus put on who they are as people and how those powers are informed by their life experiences....