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This Week In Trailers: Charlie Victor Romeo, For Those In Peril, The Lebanese Rocket Society, Shepard & Dark, If I Had A Heart By Christopher Stipp/Oct. 5, 2013 10:00 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?...

Watch Two Lengthy Interviews With The ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ VFX Geniuses By Jacob Hall/Jan. 16, 2016 10:00 am EST It’s been a pretty decent month for visual effects maestros Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould. You know, they only pulled off some seriously impressive practical and digital effects for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is only one the most spectacular successes in box office history....

‘American Crime Story’ Review: ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Is The Season’s Best Episode By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 15, 2018 8:00 am EST This week’s American Crime Story review takes a look at the latest episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” Spoilers follow. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell What makes The Assassination of Gianni Versace such an ultimately heartbreaking season of American Crime Story is the way it takes the time to introduce us to its victims....

‘Hellraiser: Judgment’ Trailer: Oh My God They Made 10 ‘Hellraiser’ Movies By Jacob Hall/Jan. 9, 2018 12:30 pm EST It seems like every horror series dies young or lives long enough to descend into the depths of direct-to-video trash. The Hellraiser movies, which began in 1987, achieved that transition in record time and have been disappointing horror buffs for several decades now. You know a horror franchise is in trouble when it sends its characters to outer space and Hellraiser did just that with its fourth film....

‘House Of Cards’ Production To Resume Next Month With Robin Wright In The Lead [Updated] By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2017 9:48 am EST Update: Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos has confirmed that House of Cards will end without Kevin Spacey, with the eight-episode final season officially placing Robin Wright in the spotlight. Sarandos added that the season will “bring closure of the show for fans.” Our original article follows below....

Where It All Began When most kids walk through the halls of their middle/high school, they tend to worry about the important things: drama within their social group, the high tensions of the end of the year dance, and where the heck to change into your gym shorts without turning all the shades of red. But for this particular writer, my concerns within my adolescence tended to be a bit more specific and related to the life-altering decision of whether or not I should become part of a majestic tribe: The Rocky Horror kids....

‘Silence’ First Look: Liam Neeson Stars In Martin Scorsese’s Passion Project By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2015 10:00 am EST Sadly, the 2015 awards season will be devoid of a film from iconic director Martin Scorsese. But the good news is that his next film is a long-gestating passion project, the adaptation of Shûsaku Endô’s book Silence, and it’s slated to arrive sometime late in 2016. We’ve already gotten a first look at The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield in the film, but now a new photo of co-star Liam Neeson has surfaced online as well....

‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Review: Sorcery And Sexual Power In A Faerie Forest By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2012 12:00 pm EST Snow White and the Huntsman leaves the most interesting character out of the title: Ravenna, the so-called evil queen who wants Snow White’s heart on a platter. In this telling, the queen is a black widow whose appetite for power is driven by a consuming fury towards all men....

‘Tag’ Director Jeff Tomsic On Jeremy Renner’s Broken Arms and Grounding Silliness In Friendship [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/June 20, 2018 2:00 pm EST The story behind the new film Tag is so simple and ridiculous, there’s no way it could be real, which of course it is. Based on a Wall Street Journal article about 10 men who have been friends since they were kids, the film concerns a game of tag that has been going on for decades among these folks (streamlined to five players for the movie, played by Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson), who dedicate a single month per year to actively playing....

‘The Man With The Iron Fists’ Review: RZA Pours A Lifetime Of Martial Arts Fandom Into A Bloody Mixtape Movie By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2012 2:31 pm EST In the runup to the opening of RZA’s The Man With the Iron Fists, some wondered whether Russell Crowe’s part in the film amounted to a glorified cameo. In fact, it’s RZA who’s barely in his own movie. That might be for the best....

‘The Terror’ Review: The Monster Is Ready For Its Close-Up In ‘First Shot A Winner, Lads’ By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2018 7:00 am EST Welcome to our weekly recaps of AMC’s new historical horror show The Terror. This The Terror review takes a look at the fifth monstrous episode, “First Shot a Winner, Lads.” Spoilers follow. In this week’s episode: The monster gets a close-up! Crozier needs to get his shit together!...

Cool Stuff: Insight Editions Launches Insight Collectibles At Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2015 2:00 pm EST Insight Editions is already one of the best book publishers in the realm of geekerific pop culture, but now they have announced they are teaming for a collaboration with Sideshow Collectibles to launch at San Diego Comic-Con International 2015: Insight Collectibles will be an exclusive line of collectible products which will “combine the quality and artistry that has become synonymous with Insight Editions’ award-winning legacy of publishing innovations with Sideshow Collectibles figures....

Crushingly Plausible ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Theory Unmasks Rey’s Parents By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2018 11:18 am EST After Star Wars: The Force Awakens took great pains to establish the mystery of Rey’s parentage, Rian Johnson came along with Star Wars: The Last Jedi and created one of the all-time best mic drop moments in the franchise’s history: Rey’s parents are nobodies. It was a reveal that clearly removed the film’s heroine from a famous family lineage, making it clear that heroes don’t need a specific last name to be one of the most important figures in a galaxy far, far away....

Four IFC Midnight Films To Simultaneously Play Fantastic Fest And On Demand By Germain Lussier/Sept. 14, 2010 11:55 am EST Fans who can’t make it to Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas from September 23-30 will be able to catch four of the movies playing there from the comfort of their own couch. IFC Midnight, a new genre label of IFC Films, will simultaneously premiere four films at the genre film festival and also on demand in about 40 million homes including those with Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and Bright House....

How Does ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Villain Kylo Ren Connect To The Original Trilogy? By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2015 8:30 am EST As excited as we are to see new Star Wars heroes Finn, Rey, and Poe Dameron in action, we’re equally intrigued by The Force Awakens’ new crop of baddies. Like Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, who first got the Internet buzzing when he unleashed that controversial crossguard lightsaber....

James McAvoy Compares ‘X-Men: First Class’ To ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2011 9:00 am EST James McAvoy, who plays Charles Xavier in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, just described the film to the LA Times as ‘kind of a love story,’ and because the love story would be between Xavier and Magneto, I’m afraid that’s going to be a tag that proves irresistible to many people....

Kevin Smith Publishes A Scene From ‘Hit Somebody’ By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 4:30 pm EST Kevin Smith and hockey go together like, well, Kevin Smith and New Jersey. The filmmaker is a huge fan of the sport and works it into his films whenever he can, such as in the first Clerks and in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Once Smith has finished promoting and showing off his latest film, Red State, he’ll write and direct one more movie before retiring and it’s fitting that his final film will be a hockey movie....

LOST Viral: Lost-Inspired Art Announced, Tim Doyle’s Hurley Art Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2009 11:41 pm EST Previously on the Lost Viral: Human Giant comedian Paul Scheer presented Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse with a velvet painting and announcing his new website DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com., where he planned to devote his life to making Lost-inspired paintings. Soon after we received a FEDEX’d letter from Ronie Midfew Arts, declaring that “Mr. Scheer is creating this LOST-inspired artwork without authorization....

MondoCon Programming Revealed; Includes ‘Iron Giant’ Gallery, ‘2001’ Score And ‘Godzilla 1983’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2014 9:55 am EST Movie heaven comes to Austin, Texas during the third week of September. Not only is that when Fantastic Fest is happening (much more on that in the coming days) but the fine folks at Mondo are simultaneously hosting their first convention, MondoCon. But no, this isn’t going to be just a place to buy posters....

Page 2: The Hobbit, Leonard Nimoy, Nightmare Before Christmas, Harrison Ford, Star Wars, Finding Nemo, Pee Wee Herman, Mulan, Cowboys & Aliens By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 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....